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  1. I worked 22 years in the restaurant industry, starting when I was 15 washing dishes working my way up to being a chef, running the kitchen and eventually managing the back of the house in two different restaurants. I have always enjoyed baking, and with it being the Christmas season, I am baking a lot now. I started last weekend, and I am hoping to be done baking this next weekend, and when I am done I will have made 16-18 different cookies totaling close to 150 dozen cookies. Sprinkle in some fudge, chocolates and other candies, there will be a lot of sweets in my house, 95% of them will be given away, we make plates and trays up for neighbors, friends, co-workers and others.
  2. Every time that I have gotten blackworms I have had some leeches in with them. I put my blackworms in a shallow plastic container to store in fridge, and I just take a pair of aquascaping tongs nd pick the leeches out of the worms. I then take them and hold them in either my angelfish or discus tank and let one of the fish grab them to have a snack. I have not had any issues of them becoming established in a tank, but I do basically hand feed them to a fish so they don't even have a chance to settle into substrate.
  3. I run CO2 on one of my 40 breeders and use sponge filters in all of my tanks. In the tank with co2 I have the filter in the left rear corner of the tank, and the co2 diffuser is in the right front corner of the tank. It is probably the area in the tank with the least amount of flow so that the co2 bubbles have plenty of time to dissolve into the water column before reaching the surface.
  4. On a 125, depending upon how many cross braces you have on the tank, I would go with either 3x 24" or 2x 36" lights, no matter what brand light you use. that way you can just set the lights on the top of the tank if you like, and I think it would help limit shadows from the cross braces.
  5. A friend of mine years ago had a fish room in his basement and the basement did not have a sump pump or floor drain in as the house sat up very high and never had flooding issues. Anyways, for water changes he had a 50 or 55 gallon Brute type trash can plumbed in one corner of the fish room. Inside was a sump pump, he would drain water into the trash can and the sump pump would automatically pump the water out when the float switch was activated. IHe had it plumbed into the main sewer drain of his house so that it would just drain out into the sewers.
  6. As others have said, I would leave it alone. I have several older tanks in my fish room that have silicone that looks like that and they are all fine. To repair correctly would entail draining the tank down, removing all the silicone well and putting new down. New silicone won't bond to old, so you have to remove all the old. I wouldn't worry about it unless it starts to leak.
  7. I got on the website on both desktop and phone now and tried, it was flashing as well. Both using chrome browsers. I logged out of both and then reset password and it works like it should now, able to see order history.
  8. Be sure to keep a lid on the tank. I had one jump out one day when I forgot to slide the lid back in place after feeding. If you have enough guppy grass and other floating plants, you may notice fry in the tank occasionally. I always kept moss and hornwort in the tank with mine, and I'd find a fry once in a while. When I wanted to be able to collect eggs, I would put a floating mop in for a week and pull it out and put in some water to hatch the fry.
  9. You guys do realize that you didn't have to use air stones in the sponge filters to start? As far as I know, the only reason to would be to get smaller finer bubbles. I have only used an air stone in one or two sponge filters through the years, and usually after a bit of time, they get to the point where you need to put a new piece of airline on them to keep them from falling off when you're putting the top back on after cleaning the sponge.
  10. Look up Tidal Gardens on YouTube. He is saltwater guy, but in the last few years he has built an entire new coral farm, and the stands he has use casters very similar to this. They don't move the tanks around regularly, but with the size of the tanks he wanted a way to be able to move them when initially setting up the place and if they need to in an emergency.
  11. I have kept praecox rainbows from 1" fry to adult and spawned those fish in a 40 breeder, and I would say that there have o been any issues because it is a three foot tank. All my tanks except a couple with Tanganyikan cichlids have plants, ands I think that it helps rainbows with plants, they're more secure and show better colors in a planted tank.
  12. By using a sponge filter from an established tank, the tank most likely cycled very quickly, or there wasn't even one. I keep extra sponge filters in several tanks so that I can quickly set up a tank for quarantine, or some other reason, and never have had problems with losing fish due to ammonia or nitrite.
  13. I've done it with killifish, corydoras, and rainbow fish eggs, If I ever spawn angels again and decide to pull the eggs I'd put a couple in with them as well.
  14. When I am hatching eggs, I will put a single neocaridina shrimp in the container with the eggs, I don't know if it helps much, but I do see them picking stuff off the eggs from time to time. Once the eggs hatch and are free swimming, and I put the fry either into a hang on breeder box or a small tank, I have pick a ramshorn snail or two out of a tank and put in to help with uneaten food.
  15. From what I can tell from the pictures, they look good, I would not worry. As long as you see them scooting around the tank and nose down checking out the substrate, they are good. It sounds like you feed them enough. the only thing I would suggest if you aren't doing it already, put some sinking food in the tank after the lights go out for the night. that way, the upper level swimming fish are not in feed mode and the food will sink down to the bottom and the sterbai will be hunting and find it. The smaller ones most likely are males, I have a group of sterbai in my discus tank that spawn for me regularly, and a few of the males are quite a bit smaller than the females, and they were all bought around the same time and size.
  16. Both of those paintings look great!
  17. I have a planted 75 gallon discus tank, I keep it at 84*. the plants I have in there are jungle val, red rubin sword, and a couple other sword species, crypt wendtii (both green and bronze), java fern windelov, aubias bartei 'nana'. A few plants I have not been able to keep in the warmer waters of discus, but in my "normal" temp tanks pink flamingo crypt, crytp retrospiralis and usterina, anubias nana petite, and ludwigia
  18. I have been buying from Bulk Reef Supply for probably close to 20 years since I had my reef tanks. They have great customer service, great prices, great quality products and just like the co-op, they get orders packed and sent out quickly. I don't think that I have ever had an order take more than two days to get to me.
  19. All of my racks are made out of 2x4 and I use the dado type, racks. Here is one from Dan's Fish YouTube channel, and I think he has more as well. Mine are made the same way.
  20. I have not worked in a LFS for close to ten years, but I can tell you that tanks, lights, stands and the all inclusive kits have a very low mark up. For instance, at the time I worked there, a 10 gallon tank retail was $12.99, our cost was in the $8-9 range. Where the stores make money is the live fish and plants, and foods. Our fish, plants and frozen foods had the highest markup from wholesale to retail.
  21. All of the fish that you have listed as living in your tank will do fine in water temps of what most people keep their homes at. When you say that you normally keep the house fairly warm, then I would just go without the heater. If you are worried about it, and for peace of mind, you could get a low wattage heater, something around 50-75 watt and have it set at at the higher end of what the water normally runs, just so that if your house temp dips a degree or two in the evening or during a longer cold snap, it will keep the tank at the proper temp.
  22. If I'm not mistaken, that sign decoration has been in the tank for years. The co-op used to sell them, maybe they still do, you'd have to check the website. They're modeled after aquarium decorations from probably the 60s or 70s.
  23. 3/16 is the standard air line hose size. I have used and seen several people use zip ties to hold them onto barb fittings.
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