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    30mm extrusion is more than enough. From some napkin math, you've got at least a factor of safety of 5 for the extrusion. The only thing I would change in the design is put the columns on the outside of the horizontal pieces, and make the horizontal pieces 1 long extrusion. It will make putting plywood down a lot easier, as you wont need to cut slots for the columns.
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    I have a couple nerites in my 20g and they are great algae eaters, but they will leave eggs everywhere. It is especially annoying on the glass. Personally, because of that I would go with a different snail like mystery snails. On how many, my 2 nerites couldn't keep up with the algae in my tank (slightly planted, lots of driftwood, and it does get direct sunlight as well as a nicrew light, so I might have an outlier tank). Currently I have 4 mystery snails in addition to the 2 nerites and they seem to keep all the algae at bay. You could try adding 4-6 snails at a time, see how they are doing and reevaluate every couple weeks to see if you want more.
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    The Ultimate Guide to the Celestial Pearl Danio (Galaxy Rasbora) WWW.FISHKEEPINGWORLD.COM The Celestial Pearl Danio is a freshwater fish found in small, vegetated ponds in South East Asia. These fish boast plenty of color from the white pearl like... http://www.tfhmagazine.com//Areas/TFH2NA/img/TFH_Favicon.png The Celestial Pearl Danio: A Cautionary Tale | TFH Magazine WWW.TFHMAGAZINE.COM This article seeks to separate fact from fiction regarding the relatively new celestial pearl danio (Celestichthys margaritatus). Celestichthys margaritatus – Celestial Pearl ‘Danio’ (Danio margaritatus) — Seriously Fish WWW.SERIOUSLYFISH.COM Here's a couple articles I found. It says that it is normal behavior for the chasing to occur, and having hiding spaces for the non-dominant males will make sure they aren't picked on to death. That could either be in the form of live plants for them to hide in or decorations. For the videos, I would imagine that posting a link to tiktok is fine.
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    I'm going to preface this with I have no experience with building aquarium racks, but have done my fair share of woodworking projects. With that out of the way, my gut feeling is to go with the metal racks made for storing stuff. The wood might be cheaper, but its going to require more work to assemble and will take more work to get the wood to look good. The wood rack could also have some personal customizations like net hooks or oddball size constraints.
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    I saw a Vanilla Lobster at the local Petco and want it so bad. Maybe that'll be my next aquarium's centerpiece.
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    Just got some purple mystery snails from my LFS.
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    I have an green lantern platy, 6 bumblebee platies, 2 nerite snails and a powder blue dwarf gourami. I got it 3 weeks ago and have already had 2 spawns of the bumblebee platies! It's kept me busy during online classes.
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    My thinking was to put air into an air tank and have the air tank hooked up to the fish tanks, making the compressor only run to fill up the air tank. On the power use point, experimentation or math would be needed to determine if the constantly running air pumps or the intermittently running air compressor.
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    Thanks for the insightful response! Pardon me if these are some dumb questions. I've seen oxy-acetylene tanks use regulators that take the gas at several hundred or thousand psi to low psi(10ish). I wouldn't think stepping that down again would be excessive for a regulator, but I'm not sure. For the water in the air tank, I knew this would be a maintenance issue, but from my experience with consumer tanks I have only emptied water in the tanks once in the three years at my old job. For the rusty water, I would think that only the water would evaporate into the air, not anything in the water. I'm not sure if that theory applies to the real world. And finally companies make oil-less compressors and seem to be the most common type at hardware stores. I should note this isn't something I plan on doing anytime soon. I was just daydreaming about how I would do a fish room. I only have a 20g tank and currently in college.
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    I was thinking about how to do large fish rooms and was thinking using a large air compressor with a tank (Like this) to aerate the tanks would work. I can't find anything in a 5 min google search, and all the fishroom/farm tours that I have watched either use the water from the water change system to aerate the aquariums through drip towers or venturis except a discus farm using sponge filters in addition to venturis. I think that having one central air supply with regulators and running airline would be easier to manage than having a bunch of air pumps, but I'm not sure if there is some factor with air compressors + air tank that causes them not to be used. Thanks
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