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  1. Andy's Fish Den
    Congrats to the newest recipients of a care package form the co-op! It is so great to see @Coryand the rest of the Aquarium Co-op team giving back to the hobby so much.
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    Hello from the other side of the state, I am over near Bowling Green, but I have family in the Cleveland area and visit that way quite often. If you haven't found it already, there is a great local fish club in the area, NEO-fish. They have a Facebook page as well as a website, I am a member of their club and make the drive to meetings several times a year. As @Lizzie Blockmentioned, you guys have some great LFS over that way, the go to ones I stop at whenever I am in the area is definitely Agnoquatics, Something Fishy, as well as one called Aquatica in Valley City. Good luck with your tanks!
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    I have a 93 gallon tank in our bedroom, I'll tell the wife and kids I have a headache and need to lay down for a little bit just so I can lie on the bed and watch the fish!
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    I like the looks of that tank.
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    I took this picture yesterday when I was mowing at work of the trees changing color
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    Your discus tank is beautiful! the green of the plants with the bright colors of the discus makes for a beautiful display. What plants do you have in there and do you run CO2 ?
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    I used a garden hose for a long time, no problem. The only thing that is that if you happen to suck up a snail or something and it would cause a clog, you can't see where it is at.
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    I keep cories on pretty much every type of substrate available, sand, gravel, eco complete, flourite, bare bottom and not had any problems with their barbels.
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    If they were still cool but thawed, I would throw in fridge and use over the next couple days. If it was warm/ room temp I'd toss or throw in the pest snail tank if there isn't any fish in there
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    I've used one of these for the last several years in my basement fish room, and it has worked great. I have a small box fan I set to one side of it on low speed to blow air across to help circulate the air.
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    Figure out what kind of fishroom and fish you want to keep. Are you going to have mainly display aquariums, or are you wanting to do a lot of breeding? If you are wanting to breed a lot of fish, you'll want tanks for growing the out to sellable size, if mainly a display tank room, pick what size tanks you'll need based upon what fish you want to keep. Plan out the layout, figuring out how best to lay the racks and tanks out. The items that @Dean’s Fishroom listed above are all things you'll want to consider for the room., I have all but the auto water change in my room and want to add that one day.
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    I ahve used salt with ancistrus many times and not had any ill effects on them,. I'm not sure how much salt is used in a level 1 treatment, but I have used 1 tablespoons per 5 gallons.
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    I am going to be following along as you put this tank together. I have planted tanks, but am going to be doing my first with co2 here soon, and I want to see how all the equipment works out for you.
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    I do not know if they were German or Asian bred. It has been a while since I have kept discus, and it's been quite some time since I had domestics. I am sure that even wild discus, it will depend upon who you get them from, if they have not been handled well and treated good they will not do good for you. I found that once they acclimated, they didn't seem as skittish and they ate really well for me, also seemed to tolerate it better when I went on vacation and the tank didn't get a water change for a week.
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    Answers: 1. Discus do school or shoal together, I was recommending the four based on you saying you wanted to keep them in a 40 gal tank. 2. From my experience I would say one discus per 10 gallons, which also led me to the four fish in a 40 gallon tank. More gallons per fish is obviously better. When I kept them before and had a pair and was breeding them, I kept a pair in a 20 high tank. If I had a choice for tank size and there is room for a four foot long tank, I will choose a 75, because I like the extra width and more gallons. 3. yes, a 50% water change can be a lot on a large tank. That is where you have to decide whether it will be worth it for you. As @Jessica.stated above, she noticed, as I did as well, that their health can start to go downhill if the water conditions are not kept up. If you are currently doing water changes using a siphon and buckets, you may want to invest in a Python system, or even set up an auto water change system. As I stated above, I found that the domestic strains of discus seemed to be a lot more touchy when it came to water conditions. The wild discus would be fine if I missed doing a water change, or the filter didn't get cleaned for a couple weeks, whereas the domestics would start to show signs of stress. I'm guessing that it has something to do with being so domesticated and line bred for years that the natural hardiness has been lost to some extent.
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    I would buy at a minimum a group of four discus, unless I was buying a breeding pair. They do a lot better when kept in groups, if they are by themselves, they will be shy and reclusive. When I've bought them, I have gotten a group of at least six, if not more. I have kept discus for quite a while, I don't have any currently, and have kept both wild and domestic discus. I have found over the years that the domestic colorful discus seem to be a lot more "needy" as far as care. If you keep up the water changes, you can do daily, but I have never done the huge water changes that you hear everyone on discus forums saying you need to, and have never had any issues with raising them. I would do 50% two or three times a week, along with having a good filter, either a HOB or canister.
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    As long as the first two that you got are doing good, no signs of illness, I would say you should be good to add a few more of them.
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    I would not keep a discus by itself, they do a lot better with other discus. In a 40 breeder, you could keep maybe three or four if you keep up on water changes, otherwise I would go a minimum 55 gallon for a group of more than the three or four.
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    I have not heard of anyone boiling driftwood in salt water. I know that a lot of people boil in plain water to help it sink and to try and leech tannins out before putting in a tank. Most of the driftwood I've used in my tanks has been "wild collected" and to be honest all I've ever done is wash it really good, I usually just use my hose outside and a scrub brush. I know a lot of people will say that I could introduce pests etc, but when I collect the wood, its all dried up and washed on the shores or banks of the lakes, rivers etc. The stuff that I have bought in a store, I have done just the same thing, rinse it off, and put in my tank. If it floats, I either let it float until it becomes water logged or use a couple larger rocks to hold down.
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    I am not sure about the rate of flow, I'm sure that since it will clog up faster that it would slow down some.
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    This is my concern and why I haven't gotten any of these wifi timers yet. they seem awesome, and would love to get them, but I live out in the country and only have one option for internet service, and it sucks. My internet will go out for hours, and sometimes even a day or two at a time, which really sucked when my kids were doing the virtual learning this past spring, we would had to go into town several times and sit in a parking lot so they could take a test.
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    Rachel O'leary did a video years ago on scaping and showed how they create large hills etc by using if I remember right, foam and rock like lava rock that is then covered with a layer of aqua soil. Maybe @Lizzie Blockcan help more, since she has done competitive aquascaping.
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    There are pros and cons for both. I like the fine pore ones because they get more of the fine particles in the water out, but they can be really hard to get clean. where the large pore ones that the Co-op sells are extremely easy to clean. The fine ones sometime can be hard to get to stay down, especially when new, you have to squeeze air out of them. I use both, and I prefer the larger pore filters, because they are a lot easier to clean, a couple squeezes under the faucet (before anybody says you can't do that, I have well water, no chlorine), where a fine one, I will squeeze and squeeze them out and will still get a cloud of dirty water when putting back in the tank. If I have a tank that has a lot of fine floating particles, I will either throw in a sponge filter with fine pores or use a hang on back with a fine poly pad in it, which is also available from the co-op.
  24. Andy's Fish Den
    When I was going through some boxes a couple weeks ago, I found a couple knives that I had been given for wood carving when I was a young lad about 10. I packed them back up, but I see things that people carve all the time and I think I want to try it again, and especially with the Dremel tool and attachments, which I have a couple of now. I just might have to pull them out and give carving another go ahead soon.
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    It's nice to see all this coming along. You are getting it done pretty quick.
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