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Oh great! One more species of fish I now want to keep but can't! HAHA. Absolutely beautiful fish, @Pigeonduck. Thank you for sharing and looking forward to more updates and photos.

I love @Joseph Ferdenzi. I should just have him as a recurring guest every 2 weeks. Although we would probably get tired of me soon enough, haha.

Glad you enjoyed the episodes! An episode with @Dorkula would be pure chaos. Prepare to hear about different names for potato wedges for 1 hour. 🤣

Sound like a new way for @JimmyGimbal to get his daily dose of BBS.

Whoa! Awesome.

+1 on @Irene's comment.

Hey Fam, Would you be sad if this was the kraft tape used on your box?

I thought the angels were taking a break for the winter now that I let my fish room get a little cooler these days. Nope, angel babies inbound!

More racking going up today.

Fry rejoice! BBS eggs back in stock. 🥳🎉 Anddd a sweet new can.

@Fish Folk thank for listening and thanks for the suggestions. Not sure if you caught it, but I did interview George Farmer a while back, he should be due for a return trip to the podcast to discuss his new book.

@Aubreythese floating candle holders are so cool. I really like your setup.

Whoever gets this banana plant needs to post it on the forum. It's going to take up quite a footprint in someones aquarium. 😄

+1 for white clouds. Such an underrated fish.

@Robert want to throw your two cents in on the sex of these apistos?

HAHA. No worries at all, @Kriskm. I had a great time talking with Erik and Kathy. I hope you enjoy the episode.

Hmm, these Olsons you speak of sound familiar... 🙂

Give this man a prize!

I use these. bolts inserted with shrink tubing over the threads to act as a "lip" and stay on the aquarium frame. Also have coarse sponge material acting as a block for the hand hold overflows. Lastly, bottoms painted white to allow for better fry visibility.

I don't have experience with angels breeding on plants but I have seen plenty of videos and pictures of them laying on Amazon Swords. That being said, it doesn't sound like you are looking for plants for them to breed on, just more for line of sight blocking? If that is the case, I would go with Dwarf Sag. All the Dwarf Sag in my tanks have done very well, reaching the waterline and extending out. Java fern could be good too, but perhaps those wider leaves would invite the angels to breed on them??

Hi @Cpd3! Welcome to the forum and glad my endless droning got at least 1 person to come and join this awesome community! 😄 I hope you plan and sharing your CPD breeding exploits as that sounds great.

I am doing some winter cleaning of the office and came across an item that was intended to improve our plant picking / preparation process. When prepping plants for shipments you have three mains goals: 1) ship the plant with minimal moisture, you don't want it to dry out, but you also don't want to ship 1 liter of water with every plant, 2) protect the plant, and 3) ensure the water stays in the bag with the plant and not in the shipping box. Some equally important goals that we strive for are to prep the plants in such a way as to reduce picking and packing errors and also have a product that still presents very well to the customer. So in our old process we would take a plant, place it (ever so gingerly) into our patented plant liner bag (not really patented), then put that into a plastic, open-top fish bag, which we would then close off with a rubber band. This was fine for a while but we wanted to have our plants barcoded with the species contained within to cut down on pick/pack errors. Also, I really was not a fan of the repeated motion on the team of tying off hundreds of bags with rubber bands. I have prepped a good number of plants in my time here and your fingers can get a little tender after a while. So my goal was to 1) introduce species specific barcodes and 2) eliminate rubber bands while still maintaining a water tight seal. In my search for ideas I came across zip-tie like asset tags that can be printed/engraved with whatever you want. One common application for this is asset tagging or security tagging of high value / high theft items. Well, my use case was a little outside the norm, but the supplier could put anything on these tags I wanted and at a somewhat reasonable price. Below are the sample tags that were tested for durability, barcode scanning, ease of application, and ability to maintain a water tight seal. In the end, these tags were able to accomplish our goals, but the ability to scale with growth was problematic. It would've become an entire purchasing commodity unto itself that we would have to manage as each plant species would sell would have it's own unique tag Alas, these tags were mothballed to my office bookcase. If you are curious what we do today for plants ordered from the site, just order up like 30 and see for yourself. LOL. jk. Not sure how many of you all will like this glimpse into a failed operations item, but it was an interesting thing for me to explore and reflect upon a year later.

This thread it so awesome. I know that having these stickers designed and made makes me happy and I certainly love slapping them all over my laptop, but seeing the community's enthusiasm for these stickers makes me even happier! Maybe I should get a few more in the works for us! 😄

@Justin Campbell your fish room build looks great! I like your planned out diagrams. Looking forward to more iupdates.

I have 3 Gladiator racks and 1 Husky from Home Depot. The Husky was the only one that came in the 90" long option. The first 90" Husky rack that I purchased had a busted weld on the upright upon opening the box. This really didn't give me much confidence in Husky vs Gladiator. That being said, Husky 90" #2 was installed without incident and has not come crashing down.