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I’ve heard on the podcasts that Cory does that he and many others prefer the aquaclear over the tidal HOB filters. It’s seems as though there’s some secret joke on why not to use the tidal from SeaChem. I have never run a Fluval aquaclear, I currently have two tidals that have been doing the job well for me. However I’m fairly new to the hobby and have limited first hand experience. I’ve seen Cory’s analogy of the filter being a trash can to be very accurate and I’m fully bought in to that theory. If Fluval is a better product I’d like to know why so I can buy one for my next set up. thanks for the wisdom!

Thank you, all these plants are responding great to the Easy line. So much new growth

@DansFish Thanks, I’m pretty happy with them, they love the baby brine.

My new 40B is now approx 2 months in and I could not be happier with the progress. Easy Green Easy Potassium Easy Root Tabs All of my plants are blowing up! Cardinals are loving Coop baby brine and Xtream food, vibrant color and happy Coop light used with Kasa time, set to 50% Coop Sponge Filter with Coop Air pump. Looking at my next 40B set up because of the great results I’ve had with all these great products that really do make this hobby “Easy”!

This would be easy if I were needing a light for a tank, I’d just buy a Coop light strip! I want to buy a square/rectangular led strip to hang over the center chamber in my sump. The sump is a 75 gal, that supports a 150 gal. Does anyone have experience with those type lights? There are SO many different options and I don’t want to buy the wrong one.

Thank you, makes sense. This is controsoil the finest size. It’s kind of boyant so yeah, I think cories would push it all over and upset newly planted plants.

My new 40B has been up and running for 2 weeks now. I still have a few plants I want to add, but then I was thinking about adding shrimp first and then once the tank becomes more seasoned add fish. Any wisdom on this would be very helpful, thank you

I’m kinda new to this and people here have been very helpful with advise and wisdom they’ve passed along. So I thought I’d share this experiment should anyone else want to grow out their baby brine shrimp to adult hood. I’m using a 10 gallon tank, air stone, cheap light and a heater. Maintaining water temp at about 78. Added a batch of babies hatched in the Ziss Hatcher I got from the Coop. Then filled the tank up about half way with salt water made with Coop brine shrimp salt. I used 1-TBSP per liter of water. To mix the salt/water I used my VitaMix blender and added Extrems Spirulina flakes for them to eat. After blending, the water had a green tint to it. They must be loving the food because they are growing pretty fast. I’m wondering if they’ll have babies? I’ve also not changed the water, just added as it has evaporated. All this was just a trial run to see how it would go, but it’s proven to pan out so I thought I’d pass it along.

Thank you, I have a planted 150 that I have some algae issues with currently. Many different types of plants. Fast growing and a few slow growing. I use the easy green, liquid and root tabs. It has AI lights. The 40B has a Coop 36” light strip and I was thinking about getting the fish first so there’s plenty of nutrients for the plants to grow.

Thank you, I do like those corys Have you ordered from any of those you recommend ?

So I’m in the process of setting up a new 40B. Planted, no co2, black controsoil, dragon stone is all I know as of now. My wife and I want some small colorful nano fish larger school 15-20 ( cardinal tetra) medium to larger schooling fish 6-8(rainbow), shrimp and a couple bottom dwellers. Any experienced advice would be greatly appreciated. Fish type, quantity, where to buy them, etc. would all be welcomed.

Very cool! Ok, here’s another question. Best way to store BBS until they’ve been consumed and what to feed them. Also can you grow them to a larger size for larger fish?

Ok…. so I just looked now with a light and it does appear that we do have quite a few baby brine shrimp hatchlings!!! also many I hatched eggs too. Should I wait for more to hatch and will the babies get bigger? I do have all the items you mentioned for harvesting

So here we are again, 36 hours into the third attempt to hatch and still no success. I’m not sure what to do from here. The heater has maintained the water temp in the high 70’s/low 80’s, and I’ve done everything else I’ve seen and read to do. The only common denominator at this point is the tap water.

Yes, good catch guys, that was a typo, I’m using tablespoon i just went to Petco and bought an adhesive strip thermometer and a small heater. It’s suppose to stabilize temp at 78. we shall see how it goes this time thanks for the help!