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  1. I am a member. Joined a couple months before the speaker events started just for those talks. There have been some great ones, and I recommend membership to all my fish friends. The video yesterday was one of my favorites so far. I definitely understand how busy your employee's are. It's always a treat when they find time to be on the channel. Something that I accidentally deleted when I made this post was that the spotlight video would be a good way to get more people to join the membership so they could see a full talk. Interesting you say some of those people will never get a platform. To my knowledge, they all align with the coops values. I didn't mention any of the obviously controversial channels (*cough* OFR *cough*), at least I thought. haha
  2. I agree that the hobby always needs new blood, and made a point of saying so in the post. Also made a point that there is some stuff for advanced keepers. Neither of those were my point, and if I did a poor job of expressing that, that's on me. I have no criticism of the channel here, only an idea.
  3. tldr; Spotlight guest speakers would be a cool addition to the channel. There are some obvious hurdles, but it would be a win win win for everyone. So, don't get me wrong, the Aquarium coop channel is great. However, most of the videos are geared towards new or newish aquarists (again its great -we need new blood in the hobby and I realize that's the majority of the coops target demographic.) As a 30 year vet fish keeper, a lot if not most of the videos just aren't for me. I usually watch, like, and occasionally comment or reply to anyone with questions to help the channel with the algorithm. I understand that the coop has limited resources and time and that those resources must be used for the videos they already produce. I also know that focusing on new aquarists is less time consuming and more beneficial for the company to get new business. But, It would be really cool if maybe once a month there were an "advanced" or "deep dive" video for some of not-so-green aquarists. About once a month or so we do get a video about Cory or Dean's fish rooms which are good examples for what new aquarists to strive for and for old timers to compare, contrast and glean ideas from. There also used to be fish room tours (pre-COVID) every so often that also filled that niche. But I think there's an opportunity to better the channel with minimal resources being diverted from the current channel's programming. Now that the coop brand has more clout than ever in the hobby, I was wondering if aquarist spotlight videos would be a viable idea. This could be a monthly video in addition to the normal videos that would be posted to the channel, but not produced by it. Perhaps club speakers for that month could shoot a short introduction video to their fish room or some aspect of their hobby. EDIT: This could be a great way to get more people to join the membership so they could see the speakers talk after seeing their spotlight video/introduction. I realize this would put more work on speakers and many would not want to do it, but for those that did it could be a good way to get people to their channels if they have one. They may even want to share something that is adjacent or not related to the specific topic of their video talk for it. If speakers don't have the time or desire to make a video, guest videos from other channels or people without channels, but still want to show what they're up to, would be great too. Imagine someone like Alex from The Secret History Living in Your Aquarium doing a guest spot. (He would be a great speaker too, btw) or someone doing something really cool from here on the forum could share. The channel gets something fresh for more advanced aquarist with minimum resources put into it, and the guest gets use of a larger platform. While a lot of us would probably be directed to these types of video by youtube, I believe there are still a lot of people out there doing incredible things that aren't getting the views they deserve or don't have the platform to share. This is especially true for people doing unique or more advanced things that aren't going to going to show up without fairly specific search keys. With a little curation from the coop team, there's a win win situation for everyone here. I realize the biggest issue here would be quality control and finding these guests. I don't necessarily have any ideas about how to solve both issues. However, with modern smart phones, basically everyone has a good video camera in their pocket these days -- Audio and presentation skills are more challenging issues. In terms of finding guests, well a good place to start is here on the forum and some of the middle sized channels a lot of us fishtubers already know about - Secret History, Bob, Ryo Watanabe, Rachel O'Leary (God willing, when she's recovered and if she's feeling up to it), sheesh what the heck are Robert and Randy up to? Sorry for the long post. I don't know why I thought this was a good use of my or anyone else's time, but here we are. Happy fishkeeping everyone! Enjoy nature daily!
  4. It depends on the tank. If its a new tank that isn't established, I would remove a dead fish. In this case, where the tank is very established with a lot of plants and a hefty amount of biological filtration, I'd prefer to not let the death of an old fish go to waste for no reason.
  5. I bred guppies before as a teenager (20ish years ago), but only for a few years before I moved to other species. I decided about a year ago to keep one of the designer strands of guppies (Red Dragon, Dumbo Ear). They've been thriving, as guppies do. This morning, I found one of my oldest females dead. I saw the body in a big bolbitis heudelotii that my amanos always hang out in. I decided to leave it in for half a day or so just in case anyone wanted a little extra protein in their diet. Tank is heavy planted, established, balanced. It can easily handle a small dead fishs' bioload. Anyway, long story short, one of my younger, just fully matured male guppies became territorial around the body of the dead female. I watched over the course of a few hours, as I worked on my computer next to the tank, as he chased off any other guppy that came near the corpse while he continuously nibbled on it. I've never seen territorial "food aggression" in guppies before. I've seen them be voracious eaters in large groups, but never territorial in this way. THE KICKER: it was conspecific aggression; he was only aggressive towards other guppies. I have a school of coryadoras in there, and he was fine with them to cruise by in their derpy little way, with no aggression towards them at all. Anyway, I know this is a bit of a long post --just curious if anyone has experienced behavior like this before. I found it fascinating.
  6. @GameCzar Awesome! Don’t submerge the vine/leaves, though — only the base. As far as I know it can’t grow submersed. Good luck! Hope to see some awesome ivy growth over your tank soon!
  7. It’s Pothos and it’s just rooted into the water column. Get a clipping and throw it in, it’ll grow roots and get going. Super easy.
  8. Putting a chair in front of the tank is the only way to keep him off the lid swiping at fish. Lol he cries every day until we give him a chair in front of the cat tv.
  9. Hey everyone, Ive been in the hobby for ~25 years and am very excited about what the coop is doing for the hobby. Not only with this forum, but also the international fish club which is looong overdue. Great foresight on their part. Anyway look forward to hanging with everyone! Here’s a pic of my cat/boy, Zeus, enjoying my 20L
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