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    Besides the stuff about promotion, those are just my suggestions from being involved in forums for many years. I have edited the text a bit. Your catfish is cute! On a previous audio/music production forum, we would list our computer, OS and version, music software in use, audio plugins, hardware, and style. With technical questions, it eliminated the back and forth phase of figuring out what someone's basic setup was.
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    Signatures can help provide context for posts. The right words can go a long way to helping others understand your perspective, and hobby focus. You can edit your signature in Account Settings/Signature, and create a nice minimal signature. https://forum.aquariumcoop.com/settings/signature/ Effective hobby signatures should be short, and not distracting. Please do not promote your brand, channel, site, store, etc. Try to avoid large images, long quotes, or memes. I personally prefer to just use text. Remember that many forum members check-in on their phones! If you link to your forum journal, please embed the link. Check the URL to make sure that you are linking to your journal, and not a specific comment in your journal. The vertical bar character ( | ), also known as the pipe, can be useful to separate items, such as journal links. It should be shift-backslash on most keyboards. Here are some signature examples: Young betta keeper, learning about plants in small tanks | Tank Journals Old-school hobbyist returning after time-off with a 120 gallon Angelfish community | Tank Journals Veteran hobbyist building 16-tank fish room for breeding | Fishroom Journals Chasing every color of Neocaridina | Shrimp Journals Keeper of this, that, and the other thing, with a focus on a specific technique | Tank Journals List of hobby things you value | Tank Journals All about ponds and outdoor life | Pond Journals Aspiring Nerm, ready to learn | Tank Journals
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    If you read a lot of threads on the forum, you can see how various members share their knowledge, and get an idea of their hobby experiences. For example, I have very limited experience with treating illness, but I'm very comfortable with organic soil. Cheers Edit: I use my signature to provide context for anyone who reads a post of mine.
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    @Isaac M, that is a terrific idea. I have thought about measuring the height of the overflow tube that you see in the distance and burying my tubs below that level. However, I would like to just give away those tubs, and see what I can achieve with woodsy cover. I would like to try to have some Neocaridina and WCMM thrive at the perimeter, and survive under ice.
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    I hope by carp, they meant Koi! I will still have to think about how to let the White Clouds and Neocaridina survive with larger fish, even though I trust these species for the cold. I may be dropping in large pieces of wood to shallow parts of the pond.
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    @Cory, I noticed that your pond inflow sluiceway has more cutouts, besides the pair for the current grate. Have you thought about adding more pre-filter layers to your pond intake? You could potentially host specific plants or inhabitants in a slice of this high-flow intake.
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    “I have found that it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love." - Gandalf (J.R.R Tolkien)
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    I found out that their now-adult kids put carp in the pond years ago. I’m going to evaluate the pond edges for cover and hiding spots, and perhaps add some wood that carp can’t get into. This will be a big experiment!
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    @Keeg, for best advice, please clarify your aquarium inhabitants. I only heat my Betta tank, and otherwise stick to cool-tolerant inhabitants.
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    I have a new reason to be excited about this summer! I watched @Bob's recent video of @Cory's outdoor pond, and got really inspired. My cousin and her family live in a really cool spot near Camel's Hump in Vermont. About 15-20 years ago, they put in an artificial pond with an overflow system, so they could swim and enjoy nature. I'm not sure of the size, but it is 20 feet deep in the center! I've been having a hard week (year), and I texted my cousin with a long-shot idea. They agreed to let me add Neocaridina shrimp and White Cloud Mountain Minnows to the pond! I hope to film and photograph some cool stuff for the forum. Cheers!
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    I throw orphan socks back in the laundry. Sometimes a pair comes back.
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    The outdoor pond looks amazing!
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    I have somewhat hard water, and use tannins from wood to drive the pH down a bit. Wood also provides a nice surface for biofilm and algae. My organic soil also provides tannins. My Neocaridina are happy, but I might have to do more work if I were to try Carinidina. I also make sure that algae is growing as a constant food source, and I leave all the mulm.
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    Well done, @Beardedbillygoat1975! Do you mind if I break up your post into paragraphs? We can also split it into a journal thread.
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    I will try to share some photos of the hood. I have run it periodically, just for fun, even after my upgrades. With 3D printing, anyone could experiment with similar concepts. I like the idea of aquarium tape, even on rimmed tanks. It could provide a nice way to hide the waterline and protect potential jumpers, by keeping a lower water level. In a bedroom environment, it could also shield LEDs from direct line-of-sight.
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    It looks like they took an HOB, sliced it into horizontal sections, and found a way to hide it in a recessed hood that is just proud of the rim, with most of the business within that top layer of striped tape. They even provided a chamber for an optional auto-feeder, if I remember correctly. I think I have previous photos in this thread that show more of the original setup. Even after choosing my own lights and filters, I still like having the tape layer to hide the waterline, and my Apex probe mounts, while enjoying the aesthetics of a rimless tank.
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    @Isaac M, that is an Askoll Pure L LED kit with stand, 68 liters or about 18 gallons. It is like a European 20H. I found it massively-discounted a few years ago at a tiny pet store in Berlin, Vermont, gathering dust on a shelf, and It was my gateway back into the hobby. I think it is an Italian brand, but it may have been bought by Fluval at some point, because some of the components are from Fluval. The original setup has all the lighting and filtration hidden in the hood, which is really cool, but centers the light on the front half of the tank, which I outgrew. The tank is flawless, and the leveling screws on the stand are very useful in my old apartment. What is really interesting to me is that I have never seen another Askoll tank in-person, or on any forum. I have a theory about potential marketing. If you say the name out-loud in English, you might be misunderstood. Cheers from mulm and tannins!
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    I changed the lights for fun. I setup the 15” units in the other orientation, and changed a Nano from tall mode to long mode: Valcour wanted in on a shot of the 16:
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    Every bit of surface area can host beneficial bacteria.
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    There are many substrate strategies. If you restart a tank with a new approach, I recommend saving all the leftovers in buckets or tanks. You might have some really cool inhabitants.
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    If you choose not to gravel vac, I’ve got your back.
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    Aesthetically, I love using symmetrical Nano sponge filters in the back corners of tanks that size. With some nice plants, they just disappear into the background.
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