mikehurley

Maybe this would be something for your business channel, but some behind the scenes info about using your personal property for your (I assume incorporated) business would be interesting. Does Aquarium Co-op pay you rent? How annoying is it to track personal vs business expenses, etc. How do the costs compare vs traditional storage or warehouse space? Looks awesome!

In the homebrewing hobby there's the acronym RDWHAHB which means "Relax, Don't Worry, Have A Homebrew." It's used to reassure that a homebrewer's mistakes aren't that big of a deal or that something they're worrying about possibly messing up won't likely matter. Plus whenever it's seen, even by people it wasn't specifically meant for, it helps serve as an amusing and fun reminder that homebrewing is a pretty forgiving hobby and to enjoy it. Is there a similar acronym or phrase for fishkeeping? If there isn't already a well known phrase, what would you propose?

Once I get my bluegreen algae under control and I've built my cherry barb population back up, I'm thinking of trying odessa barbs again. A few years ago I had added to my odessa barbs and it included a male that was probably 50-100% bigger than my other odessas. He killed all my new odessas, all of my existing odessas, and some of my cherry barbs I had at the time. I really like how odessa barbs look. Before I got that batch they had behaved very well in my tank. I'd really like to try them again but not have a murder spree happen again. Any ideas as to what was the likely cause of my problems? I'm thinking my mistake was adding an odessa that was so much bigger than the others and my other fish. That if that new group were all the same size that the problem wouldn't have happened. I don't remember exactly, but the new group was 3-5 fish and I was probably replacing since I had them a while. The existing group was probably 4-6 fish. The cherry barbs were about 6-10 in number. It's a 38 gallon Aqueon tank. I don't remember if it was fake or real plants at that point. If fake, I had a lot of cover available. If early in my real plant journey, probably kind of sparse.