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If you have the material sizes and overall dimensions a structural engineer could tell you for certain. I am not an engineer but I have welded and built a lot. Without seeing it in person and looking at the welds it is hard to say. The legs look pretty thin though. Are the 1/2"? Typically you want to plan for a load at least twice the total weight. Water is 8 lbs / gallon and the rule of thumb is to add 2 lbs to that so that's 10lbs x 75g = 750 lbs x 2 for 1500 lbs. The tank, substrate and wood are a dead load since the don't move but the water is considered a live load. The only way to really know I guess is to put a bunch of weight on it, something like cinder blocks, to simulate the load and see what happens.

I am really tempted to move to Seattle just so I can buy your old house with in ground koi pond and the current fish room! Especially if the 800 is staying! 😁

Looking forward to seeing fishroom 3.0 getting built. Exciting times and congrats.

I added a doser to my 55 display. Pump 1 is Easy Green, pump 2 is Easy Iron and right now pump 3 is just water. It is a Jebao DP-4 and was easy to calibrate and program but not app based which is fine with me. Plus way cheaper than other systems. I use Voss glass water bottles for reservoirs.

You can always get 2 sided transfer paper to put them on the inside of the glass.

Welcome aboard!

Got a good hatch this morning. 1000ml+

That's good to know, I had mixed a batch up since they don't sell it anymore. I'll keep an eye on it and keep it sealed.

Not exactly "fish" news but I thought is pretty awesome. Watch a diver swim right next to a 12-foot giant squid in Japan

Welcome brother. You are already in the second stage of MTS (Multiple Tank Syndrome). You actually skipped stage 1 where you just have one aquarium with fish running for awhile before getting a second. I am impressed. I had to live in stage 1 for years on end due to living in a small apartment and having three young kids but it was pretty big at 55g so the kids really enjoyed it with me. Finally I got a small container pond for the back porch too. Last year we got a new house and I confess I had a secret agenda of looking for one where I could have lots of tanks and we got it! Right now I still have the 55g plus a 3.5 desktop with cherry shrimp, 2 container ponds (40g & 15g) a 20g and 2 10g.

That's good info to know. I've used Equilibrium in the past and I think I'm going to start again, at least in mu display tank, as NYC tap wayer is almost RO right out of the tap.

Saw this on youtube earlier too. Which tumblers are you testing?

I love Aquarium Coop fry food and feed it all the time. Sera Micron and Hikari First Bites are even smaller however, essentially dust powder. So it depends on the fry size. Most fry can take AC fry food pretty quick as can lots of nano fish. So its great if you have a mix of fry and small adults. I feed it alot to my Endler colonies.

Took the family camping this weekend. Not the greatest state park but better than another weekend in the livingroom.

I only poped into the live stream now and again but I'm on the east coast and was usually still working.

Nice. Just like the good old fashion minnow traps we used to make to use them for fishing.

Looks great, what are your stocking plans? Did the landlord say how many 5g are allowed? Might be another loop hole there and you could get into killifish for instance.

Anyone else freeze their left over baby brine? I rinse mine in fresh water and sometimes I feed the left over to the display tank or goldfish but I also got on of these ice cube trays with soft silicone bottoms and a lid that work perfectly for freezing the baby brine. They come out as little gum drop shapes. The trick is to have them pretty concentrated without too much water. They work great for feeding later or to my non-fry tanks.

I am a professional designer so have trained myself to distinguish even the slightest variation in shade/color but what it has really taught me is everyone truly sees color differently. I can even tell the difference between how my two eyes see color. So it is not surprising some people have difficulty with these chemistry charts. Asking for a second opinion is a smart move. I have found the line between green and blue is especially open to interpretation. I once had a blue-green truck and more than once I actually found people standing in front of it in a parking lot arguing if it was blue or green.

Anyway to modify it to per week instead of per day? Same number total.

Thanks Bill. I searched before posting but missed that. I'd give your comment a like but...

I'm not really complaining. Its just I tend to have fewer but longer sessions to look at the forum and not everyday so it just means I can support fewer posts/members with a like/thanks/haha than I could otherwise. More than anything I am just curious as to why the policy.

Question for the moderators: I tend to read the forum infrequently but when I do I like to catch up on a number of threads and leave positive feedback via the "like" response. I keep getting told I have reached the max number for the day. Is there a reason for that? That is different from other forums I have used. I am not objecting or complaining just confused as to the logic. Since I only have time to read in the occasional spurt then once I hit my limit I'll probably never go back to support posts I read the previous session to give them a like. Thanks in advance!

I have been experimenting with Daphnia in different containers and feeding different recipes this summer. To jump to the end my conclusions are basically keep them cool and keep it simple. Nothing really new or profound there for experienced live food aquarists. I am on a live food for aquariums group on FB which gave a lot of good advice on recipes in particular. The consensus in that group was primarily to feed green water or there are some very specific precipices involving spirulina and different organic flours that work. The issue is the successful recipes are more complex (meaning 4-6 ingredients) and you have to be very precise and consistent in your feeding and cleaning. My own experiments with these recipes has born this out. With green water you can be much more imprecise and the chance of crashing your culture is much lower than with the other recipes. Especially yeast which is the easiest way to crash your culture. My most successful culture was in a 15g outdoor container pond that only had frogbit whose shade helped cool the water. The pond had gone super green water when I put the starter culture in and they exploded. I was feeding them to my goldfish almost everyday. Then of course I put in an Endler trio and eventually they and their progeny ate all the Daphnia. However that took a long time and was good for them so still win-win. I don't have room for more containers in our very small backyard here in Brooklyn so now I am raising a couple of batches in the basement and feeding only green water. In another experiment I have taken two 1 gallon glass jars, added rigid airline tubes for aeration, filled them with green water (grown outside with grass clippings) and added just a few Daphnia to only one jar. Below is a photo of the two jars after a week. I put a sheet of white paper behind them to help see the color. In real life the color is greener than this BUT the contrast in lightness of color is accurate. Interestingly the darker color jar on the right is the one with Daphnia who have now reproduced. The lighter color jar on the left has no Daphnia. This may be due in part to the jar with no Daphnia not having enough light to fuel algae growth, it may be there were fewer nutrients in the water to start or something else. I am now going to try adding EasyGreen to the empty jar to see if that helps grow some more free floating algae. I am also going to rig up another setup using 2L bottles on the SF Bay Brine Shrimp Hatchery Kits (these from the Coop: https://www.aquariumcoop.com/products/brine-shrimp-hatchery-kit) with extra light to see how that does. In one bottle I will add regular green water and in the other I am going to try a freshwater phytoplankton culture, probably Chlorella, to see how those do. I will also feed these. More to come including an idea for a drip feed system I am working on. My 15g container on top that grew the Daphnia so well and my 40g goldfish container pond below.

I've been upgrading my hatchery area above the laundry sink and know have my nets hanging and color coded by use, paper towels rack and a shelf for food and hatching supplies. With the shelf I can now place my 1000ml pitcher right below the hatchery to drain it hands free. that container of salt is about 12 years old and ran out o salt about 11 years ago, I just refill it with new salt.