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    I have drilled many tanks over my years of fish keeping, and by far, the smaller tanks are the most difficult to drill because of the thickness of the glass. If you drill, I would recommend a good bit and possibly rent a drill press from a place like Jehmco, so that the bit stays nice and straight and level so that it doesn't drill uneven and grab and cause a crack. There are many ways to do a PVC overflow without having to drill the tanks, Greg Sage has one on his Select Aquatics YouTube channel that a couple of guys in my local fish club have used and appears to work good.
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    I would bet that they would go fo it. You may have to blanch it for a few seconds before putting in the tank to soften.
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    the swords, vallisneria and crypts will definitely benefit from the root tabs. Anubias, java fern and pogostemon tend to be more water column feeder unless you have them planted into the substrate, and will use the easy green liquid.
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    @dasaltemelosguyI have had some of the same thoughts that you laid out there as far as the seltzer water being pressurized and the darn snails being able to survive pretty much anything. I think that MTS would survive a nuclear attack. I am not sure that I want to buy enough bottles of seltzer to fill a 40 gallon tank to try to eradicate the snails. I had the thought of covering the tank tightly with plastic wrap and even taping it along the edges so that it would hopefully hold in any co2 that didn't dissipate into the tank, and ended up making it to the surface and going into the air. That way, if the snails made their way up to the surface to try to breathe air, instead they would be breathing in co2.
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    Good point about the darkness vs light.
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    I have built many stands and racks out of common 2x4 lumber to hold tanks from 10 gallons up to 180 gallon and racks with many rows and number of tanks. As for the easiest, I would say that for me would be the cinder block and 2x4 or 2x6 stands that someone linked a video of earlier. If you have basic tools, saw, drill, screwdriver, hammer, you can build your own stand, there are plenty of videos and tutorials online of many different ways to build your own stands, so watch several and decide which method/ design you would like to use.
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    Thanks for the reply, I was wondering if they would go to surface to try to breathe the air directly, and had not thought about killing off BB in the filters. I wonder if I would seal off the top of the tank with saran wrap and tape it good as well if then any co2 that didn't dissipate in the water would then get trapped in between the water surface and the plastic wrap so if the snails did go to the surface they would then be breathing co2. I might have to try this out next week when I am off for vacation.
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    This is cool to read about! Congrats on the successful hatch of these BNP.
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    I have not been following this topic until just recently and have not had time to read through all 15 pages yet, but thanks to those who have run the experiments trying this out. I have a couple of tanks that are just over run with Malaysian trumpet snails, I have cut back feeding, and there are still a ton of them. I had a thought of removing the fish that are in the tank and putting them into one of my QT tanks for a bit and turning my co2 way up, to try to kill them off. Does anyone think that this would work, or would I not be able to get enough co2 to absorb into the water?
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    If my suggestion would be using a plant substrate and cap with something light like pool filter sand, or put the plant substrate in mesh bags and then cover with the sand.
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    Congrats to the winners, its always cool to see what everyone gets!
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    The only way I see to drain is to put a bucket or something to catch the water underneath and crack the union loose. I have never seen that style check valve before, is what looks like a cap on the side removeable? If it is, it makes me wonder if it is designed to be installed so that you can remove it and drain the line above.
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    If you are going planted tank, I will suggest a layer of a planted substrate such as Fluval stratum topped with some pool filter sand. What I have started doing is putting the stratum or whatever plant substrate that you want to use in mesh bags, learned this trick from MD fish tanks, and placing them wherever you plan to have plants and then covering with sand. the plant roots can still get into the mesh bag to reach the nutrients, but you wont have the two substrates mixing, and if you ever decide to change things up, you can just pull the mesh bags out.
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    Check out Bulk Reef Supply, they are probably one of the best companies to work with for RO/Di systems for aquariums. I have had a unit of theirs for years, since my saltwater reef keeping days and still use it. With the low water pressure from the well, you will want to have a booster pump, otherwise you are going to make so much waste water. I have the same issue with having a well, and at first tried to get by without, and it took almost three hours to get five gallons of useable water, once I put the booster pump kit on, it takes maybe half an hour. I know a lot of people will collect the waste water and use it for house plants and tehir gardens so that it doesn't get wasted.
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    I have first hand experience with these racks, not in a fish room, but in the shop at work. I would not use them for aquariums. the wood is a particle board, and it will warp and bulge from just the moisture in the air. Instead, I know a lot of people have used these husky racks for their fish rooms with great results. I just bought a couple of these to store heavy parts on at work and I like them a lot. I think next time I want to add more tanks to my fish room that I am going to get one or more of these. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Husky-4-Tier-Heavy-Duty-Industrial-Welded-Steel-Garage-Storage-Shelving-Unit-in-Black-77-in-W-x-78-in-H-x-24-in-D-HBR782478W4/310651468
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    I would love to have your water for my tap water. I have hard well water, usually tests around 300 TDS 7.8-8.2 pH. I would just use tap, and if you're itching to put that RO/DI unit to work, use it to get the 0TDS water to remineralize for the caridina shrimp.
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    I've used the Python, Lee's and Aqueon ones and I would say hands down, the python one is the best, the tubing they use is nice and flexible, doesn't kink. You used to be able to buy just the tubing and I bought a long piece like 50 foot or something so that I could reach a tank I had in a bedroom upstairs so I wouldn't have to do the bucket method for water changes
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    My fishroom in my basement stays in the 72-76 degree range year round due to a dehumidifier running 24/7 and the only tanks that I have heaters in are tanks with discus, L333 plecos and rams in. I have a wide variety of fish, goodeids, shrimp, Lake Tanganyika cichlids, angelfish, corydoras. My tanks are stacked either double or triple stacked so the bottom one will be cooler, top ones warmer so I use that to determine which tanks to put fish in.
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    If you can keep the parameters in check in this small tank, you will have no problem with a larger tank. I had a gorgeous 75 gallon reef along with a 30 breeder frag tank set up about 15 years ago. Then one day I decided to set up a pico reef in a 5.5 gallon on my desk and I could not get that thing to stabilize. The parameters would shift so much so quickly and I ended up taking it down after a couple of months.
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    None of my shrimp tanks have a heater in them, they stay in the 70-72* range all year, and they produce lots of babies.
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    These guys are very similar in care to the L333 king tiger pleco. They like warmer water, I keep mine in the low 80s, and some current in the tank. They are mainly carnivorous, but I have seen them munch on some zucchini or cucumber occasionally. I feed mine bloodworms, brine shrimp and even will cut up a cocktail shrimp and throw in and it will be gone by morning.
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    Nope, I don't live out in the PNW, I'm in Ohio. I wish I could say I've been there from the very beginning, but I found Cory and the co-op videos about five or six years ago, back when he was first starting to build the fish room at the house before the one he's at now.
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    Started in the hobby when I was 11 years old, and now I'm 47, and have had at least one tank going during that time except for about a year when I was going through a divorce and not really sure where I was going to end up. My favorite fish are angelfish and discus, angels were the first fish I kept and spawned. I always have at least a few in one tank in my fish room.
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    I was told years ago to stay away from maple leaves, to use oak and beech were the safest. I have a bunch of oak tree so I collect some every fall to use in my tanks throughout the year. If you want to collect some maple and try out, I'd just make sure that they are nice and dry and not from an area that there is a possibility of having any kind of pesticide or fertilizer sprayed on them.
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    Most co2 diffusers require a good bit of pressure to pass air through. I had tried it one time with the ceramic ones I was using and my air system couldn't make any bubbles through it. If you are looking for the fine air bubbles like the ceramic diffusers make, look for a wooden airstone in a store that carries saltwater supplies, they were used in the old school protein skimmers to make the fine bubbles needed for them to operate.
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