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  1. Cool! I enjoy seeing some marine stuff for variety. Someday, I will run a marine tank again.
  2. It is silent and awesome. We have a massive thread covering it and the other Fluval lights:
  3. When it comes to fish and aquarium health, photos really help.
  4. I love shrimp. Vermont has a lot of limestone, so I have focused on neocaridina, but I really want to try more. Perhaps cardinal will be my next attempt.
  5. “It puts the lotion in the fish tank, or it gets the Python hose again!”
  6. I have merged your threads again. Did you not like the answers that folks have already given you? I’m not sure what is going on here.
  7. I think the ultimate surprise YouTube flex would be for a popular aquarist to actually park in their garage. @Cory, this could be your video drop for the first day of April, with outsized hype and hyperbole preceding it. ”You will never believe what I did with my garage!”
  8. I first learned about this topic in terms of deciduous trees in northeastern North America, where the leaves dropped in the fall bias the soil chemistry for new trees in the spring.
  9. I would move the fifth tank on the bottom row, so that the door could swing 180°. To be fair, there is space for that tank outside the Yarn room.
  10. I relate to melancholy; persevering through struggle is good. Please continue.
  11. My current feelings are the definition of melancholy. I am so sorry for your loss; I celebrate your survival fish, and I hope that your efforts pay off for you and the hobby.
  12. Cheers @Fish Folk! @Sandra the fish rookie, I currently have shrimp in three community tanks, and a pair of 2.5 shrimp-only tanks. I only heat my Betta tank, and Neocaridina can survive under ice, so I don’t worry about them getting cold. My 2.5s had filters while getting established, but they are no-tech now. I am not the right person to compare substrates, since I almost exclusively run organic topsoil tanks. I let the mess and window algae persist, and I don’t have to worry about daily feeding. As far as colors, I do like the wild-type camouflage, but I tend to stick to single colors in smaller tanks. Red and yellow seem especially hardy, more than blue, but I can’t draw any conclusions from my limited sample size. I have somewhat hard water, coming through limestone, so I haven’t thought about adding crushed coral. Soft water folks seem to benefit more from that addition.
  13. Go for it @Ken! I have some ideas about certain grass-type plants, and I have re-read multiple chapters from Diana Walstad, but I am still a student on this topic.
  14. One way to slow down is to keep wet houseplants: aquatic tanks with plants, but no fish.
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