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    This topic sent me off to research ice harvesting in the Northeast. I found this great old photo of the Burlington waterfront: I found several good articles, but this one is nice and compact: Ice Harvesting at Billings Farm
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    I found the video I was thinking of linked in a Co-Op Care Guide: Care Guide for Cory Catfish – The Perfect Community Bottom Dweller WWW.AQUARIUMCOOP.COM Looking for a peaceful beginner fish with tons of personality? Look no further! The cory catfish, or Corydoras catfish, is one of the most popular community fish because they’re so happy-go-lucky, easy to breed, and...
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    I am starting to think that the variation I saw in mine was just luck of the batch, especially when buying locally in small numbers, since I have no idea where they came from. My most recent try with some blues is doing a little better. I think I need to start buying larger quantities when starting new colonies. Nerms, how many shrimp do you like to buy at once when starting a colony?
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    @ChrisD, Vermont winters are a right of passage, and a source of much confusion!
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    I bet a large Co-Op plant bag would also fit.
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    I have heard that the fact that ice expands and floats is one of the reasons that we enjoy life on Earth.
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    I found this on StackExchange: "As water freezes, zones of ice and zones of water form. On the scale of a bubble, the interface might well be a plane. As the water cools, dissolved gasses form bubbles. A bubble can be engulfed as the interface advances past it. As ice freezes more gas comes out of solution. The bubble grows. The part that has been engulfed cannot expand. So the bubble becomes elongated. The spherical bubbles were likely engulfed late, after all the gas had moved into bubbles."
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    I have experimented with Easy Green, but I think it just helped the algae, since my tanks have so many nutrients already. I tried root tabs once, but my Yoyo Loach dug them all up. My soil is also capped with a bit of sand and a bit of gravel, with slightly different layerings depending on when I set them up. I created some issues early on, when I was going too deep with soil, and/or too deep with cap, and making anaerobic conditions for the roots, which was particularly noticeable with Amazon Swords. I had to remove a lot of material to get things back in balance. I think adding more plants also helped. I would suggest that you let the mulm accumulate and get absorbed back into the substrate. If you want to check for anaerobic conditions, you can probe your soil with a skewer or chopstick. I have done that with new tanks to release gas a few times until the plant roots got established. I am also very picky about hardscape, so I try to avoid using big rocks that would cover a big section of substrate, and I try to use my wood so that it is not sitting with a flat section down, but instead like a tripod, where only points are touching. I can grow stem plants, but I don't have more than one or two anymore, because I would run out of space to trim and replant. Cheers
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    In Diana Walstad's book, The Ecology of the Planted Aquarium, Section VIII, G, 5, she says, Later, she adds: I don't have any tanks that old yet, but I never gravel vacuum, and I rarely change water.
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    I should have said, how small a scoop of eggs would be right for 45 gallons of tanks?
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    One or more of Cory's videos shows how hardy they are with all sorts of substrate. It might be part of the South American video series.
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    I will try to take a test of the hard water in my organic soil tanks, but my quick response is that I don't heat my Neo-only tanks, and I only keep Neos in lower-temperature community tanks and tubs. I am not a shrimp expert, but I love keeping them.
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    Email shipping@aquariumcoop.com for excellent customer service. Forum members may have additional maintenance tips.
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    I have a pair of identical Neocaridina-only aquariums, and the reds seem to do better than the blues. I have yellows in a community tank, and they are also strong. I have mixed Neos in other tanks that do very well, but I haven’t counted the numbers of each color variant that went in, or are there now. My sample size is small.
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    This is how I set mine up, with a Betta heater, and some tubing over the spout: I could use help downsizing the recipe, as I only need to feed about 45 gallons of aquariums. Any suggestions?
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    Thank you for sharing this journey. It is so interesting to see the history, and how it relates to the modern hobby.
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    One of our schools participates in a Cooperative Nursery Program with the State of Vermont to grow out Brook Trout, Brown Trout, and Rainbow Trout. They have a large aquarium, and it is running a chiller system, which looks like the guts of an air conditioner, except with piping going in and out of the tank. I'll try to take a photo when I'm back at work.
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    Welcome to the forum! It looks like you have the planted tank bug!
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    Your tank looks amazing! Those foreground plants should fill in nicely.
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    You could consider adding a UPS to help with outages and brownouts. Cheers from exit 10.
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    You could probably use a Nano pump with a splitter, but I just use one pump per sponge for simplicity. There are lots of options here.
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    I use the Small units on my really short tanks (sometimes without the uplift), where the low height is the key factor. I use the Medium size in tubs and utility buckets.
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    I would go with one or two of the Nanos, which are are a little easier to hide behind plants and wood. I have a pair each in a 16, and the same for each of my 20s.
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