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    I used to not have lids on my tanks, but now most of them do. I didn't have them because I hate cleaning the glass as mineral deposits build up and cut down the light. I ended up making DIY lids from the twin wall polycarbonate and wish I had done it sooner. Yes I have to wipe them down every so often, but it has helped a ton with evaporation issues and humidity in my fish room. My fishroom used to always run in the upper 40s percent humidity, now that I have lids on all but two tanks I am down to almost 30%. I would always cover tanks that had fish that were known jumpers such as killies and bettas, but I never really had much of an issue with jumping.
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    I saw this on YouTube the other day and thought this is crazy, then I saw it was an acrylic tank, so not as heavy. What a way to figure things out.
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    I am also guilty of not cycling a tank, I'll set up a tank, fill with water, throw in a sponge that's been in another tank and add the fish. I don't quarantine much, depends on who and how the fish came to me, as well as what the other fish are in the tank they are destined for. Acclimation is usually just floating bag then I dump water and fish in, unless the water is just plain nasty looking and stinks horribly. Which would also mean those fish would be getting put through a round of meds in quarantine. I also don't rinse baby brine shrimp. I figure the small amount of salts that goes into a tank isn't going to hurt, I just use a pipette, maybe 1.5-2ml of water and brine in a tank. When I'm moving fish between tanks in the fishroom I'll just net them and put them directly into new tank. When doing water changes, I just use my hands to get water to close enough temp. I use the same net between tanks of fish if they have been in the fishroom for a while. New fish, I still use a different net in each tank. I rinse my sponge filters in tap water.
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    I am pretty sure that I have seen them unbox multies and similis shell dwellers before. It sounds like they will also special order fish in for customers, because I've heard Robert say in unboxing videos that something is a special order for a customer
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    I think if I was going to attempt any repair I would do the two strips of glass technique. I have had tanks with chips on the corner that have been fine for years without leaking.
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    If you don't have social media, local fish stores, not sure how far Tacoma is from Seattle, but I hear there's a nice selection out there, including the one hosting this forum. Also, down in Portland there is several. Otherwise, online, there is a lot of sellers online, I could recommend some but I think it goes against forum policy. But you can also check out places like aquabid.
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    I use bottom scratcher, grub pie, and community one. I make a huge batch with a mixture of a couple different mixed together to feed different fish at once
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    I will have to keep that seller name written down as one to look for. I have some gardneri and gold australe killi right now, so I know what you guys mean with having a lid. I bought the gardneri at an auction last fall three pairs and didnt have a lid and I lost two femals and a male overnight because they jumped!
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    This is a fish that I have been wanting to acquire for a long time. the problem has been that when I have tank space for a pair or two I can't seem to be able to find any. I had always been afraid to buy form aquabid, but I see so many people buying from there and getting nice fish, so I may just have to search on there and get some fish or the eggs to hatch
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    I'm not sure what ingredients are in those foods other than the bug bites which is soldier fly larvae, they are mainly a carnivorous fish, I would mix in some frozen or freeze dried bloodworms, blackworms, or anything like that.
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    subscriber since when you first started building the fish room at the house you're moving out of. member of the #nerm team as well
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    from what I have read and heard about the zebras, the less you mess with their tank as far and rearranging and changing things the better, especially when they get older and to breeding size, plenty of flow and oxygenation going on in the tank. what are you feeding these guys?
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    That's cool! This plant is on my list of ones I want to get
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    I enjoy the peace and tranquility I get when sitting down in front of my tanks and watching the fish swim around, and the plants as they move and sway in there. I also enjoy the challenge of breeding the fish, figuring out the quirks that will cause them to spawn, and also the friendships that I have got with fellow hobbyists when I attend local club meetings, swap meets, auctions or whatever.
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    I won something similar to this in a raffle on a plants and shrimp page, I like the idea and concept but the inside must not be even or something as water barely comes out of a couple of the holes. I also got some shrimp hides that a fellow member of my local fish club has been making.
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    I have kept fish since I was 12 years old, I got bit by the fish keeping bug when I had two angelfish pair off in their community tank and lay eggs. The first time, they ate all the eggs, then I started reading up on how to raise them (this was late 80s, no internet) and was bound and determined to raise the fry. I finally succeeded, and I was overjoyed when the LFS owner paid me for the youngsters when I took them in. Keeping fish tanks I think at times has kept me sane at times. When I have been down, I can go stare into an underwater world and escape, at least for a short time, the real world that is going on around me. @DanielI know what you mean, hiding fishroom spending from the spouse. I do sell shrimp, plants and fry to help with some of my spending.
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    When I have had this same dilemma, I got as many as I felt was safe for the quarantine tank, which was a 10 gallon. I kept them for a few weeks, treating, making sure they ate good etc. put them in display tank. Then get next batch of fish and do the same.
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    Ive built the three racks I have out of 2x4. I've seen a couple YouTube videos of people making them the same way. Dan's fish and Ted's fish room have made them the same way.
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    Do I get a prize since I suggested Bob? LOL I'm sure you had this recorded even before you asked for suggestions, though.
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    Working trying to get my leopoldi angels to spawn, have a few species of corydoras: weitzmani, melanotaenia, venezuelanus, panda that I am working with, my blue tailed goodeid group is just starting to produce fry. I also have pure red line and pure black line caridina shrimp that I hope to get going soon.
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    I just recently lost a couple angelfish that I had for six years, I got them as adults from someone who told me they had them for a couple years. Currently I have a clownfish that is between 6-8 years old, I don't remember exactly when I got her, I just know I first set the tank up in between the times my two kids were born and I got her not long after setting tank up.
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    Depending on how your heating system is set up, you could set your main thermostat to whatever temp is comfortable for you to live at, then if you want to keep the room with fish and reptiles, keep the door closed and get a small electric heater for the room, one of the Radiator style ones shown above would work fine. That way, that room will stay warm but the rest of the apartment will be at whatever temp you prefer.
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    I just got an email that the newest issue is available online, so you can check out the article. It starts on page 30. Home | Aquarium Hobbyist Magazine WWW.AQUARIUMHOBBYISTMAGAZINE.COM
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    I vote to do the auto water change system, if you don't you will wish you did down the road. I know I do every time I pull my python hose out and go to draining tanks and refilling. I would recommend drilling tanks, I have drilled quite a few when I kept saltwater so I could put a sump and not have an overflow box that would lose siphon and flood. My tips for drilling, but a good quality diamond glass drill bit. get one form someplace like Jehmco, not eBay. the eBay ones will only last a few holes. Start out with at last 20 gallon or larger tanks, the smaller the tank, the thinned the glass and the easier it is to crack the glass. Ten gallon tanks can be difficult to drill. Use a template you cut out of wood as suggested above, also, either take some duck tape and put on the inside of the glass where you'll be drilling, or set a towel in the tank, I have broken tanks from when the hole saw gets through and the circle that's being cut out falls and hits the pane of glass underneath. Good luck with building out your fishroom, be sure to documents and share, I'm sure there are others who can learn from anything you can pass on.
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    I buy a basic tropical flake in bulk through my local club when we have fish food buys a few times a year. I have a couple old food containers that I fill to feed from regularly and then I keep the extra in an airtight container in the freezer until I need to refill the containers. I also feed the Aquarium co-op fry food regularly as well. Foods that I feed occasionally (a few times a week) frozen blood worms, frozen brine, frozen daphnia, live blackworms, repashy soilent green and bottom scratcher. I have a lot of corydoras and plecos so I have foods that sink for them, along with peeled and deveined shrimp I cube up for the plecos that are more carnivorous.
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