SJ fishing

Hard to tell the size but it may be to big for plecos? I think they like a fairly confined opening and cave

All of that was same cost as the tank?

Yeah the truck was a mess. True, with care it could be shipped as it was, just not something I would risk if it were me. I got a smaller rimless from amazon and it packed so well it took me an hour to get it out of the crate lol

I’m sure it will get sorted out, just frustrating doing so. I’m just going to go with the good old Aqueon 75 gallon instead. I have some smaller rimless tanks, and they are cool but I’ve found I don’t look at them vs a standard tank and feel it’s way better. Especially not at 10x the cost. I can put that money to my next rack of stacked 75’s lol planning on a planted tank, with some house plants growing out of the top. I have a piece of driftwood I’m going to use to attach the lights to. Fish wise probably boesmani rainbows, preacox rainbows, school of Cory’s, maybe smudge spot. Possibly an electric blue acara, and SAE That was on top of the $200 I paid at time of purchase! For that much money I thought they were going to carry it in the house lol. Turns out that was only to get a lift gate. I won’t even go on about the delivery being 2 hours past the 4 hour window I got, having to take off work early to be there as long as someone to help me unload it. The truck getting stuck in my yard, needing my tractor and truck to pull it out, the 3 hours fixing the ruts in the yard

Just wanted to vent abut a recent experience since I figure most here can relate, but mostly so I can feel better lol I decided to splurge at the end of December and ordered a 80 gallon rimless aquarium from company I shall not name. They emailed back in 2 days and told me it would take 1-2 months, longer than I expected as its not a custom aquarium but ok. End of February they emailed and said my aquarium would be in that week and would get shipped. 2 weeks later I hadn’t received any updates so I emailed with no response, another week goes by so I text the number per directions on their website voicing my frustration. I get a text back stating they emailed me an update earlier that morning, the email came several hours after that text. An invoice for an additional $200 shipping followed a few days later, now almost the end of March. Frustrated to get an additional charge I almost cancelled the order but figured I waited this long I would just go ahead and pay it. The trucking company called me last week to schedule delivery, which I did for last Friday…..below is pictures of the tank in the truck, completely broken. I sent pictures via text and email to the company I ordered from along with the claim number from the trucking company that day asking for a refund. It took another email on Tuesday before I got a response on Wednesday, telling me as soon as they process the claim with the trucking company they will issue the refund. I am not pleased about that as I feel I paid for goods and services almost 4 months ago that I haven’t received through no fault of mine, to me this should be between the company the trucking company. Not me. Especially since in my mind that was a terrible way to prep a glass box for shipping across the country Anyway, thanks for reading my whining lol. And a message for Cory that I hope he gets to read. I understand the frustration he expressed about people comments in his Live Stream and I have no doubt how difficult that it is. I just want him to know that there are many of us that truly appreciate the education, the business integrity to try to provide products that perform as intended, the quick shipping, communication and customer support. I dont hesitate to order any product from the Co-Op as I believe Cory has spent many hours to find the best product, for the best value that functions easily. Although I imagine many people that feel this same way are the silent majority it is greatly appreciated!

I got 6 platys in October, now have around 300. I find they are hard to get rid of as fast as they breed

I don’t strain or rinse

I have several rimless aquariums made by Landis that I purchased from Amazon. The smaller sizes are somewhat reasonably priced

I feed bbs daily and get hydra every 2 weeks or so. I just stop feeding the bbs for a couple days and they die off or get eaten by the snails. for those days I use frozen bbs and just feed the fry in the breeder boxes

I use it for peacock gudgeon eggs and it works well

Fun projects!

Beautiful fish

It is fun with the shrimp. I started with 15 in a 29gal platy tank noticed a few babies at some point couple months later “oh wow there’s around 300 of them now” lol

I have played around with a few different ways that worked fine, then by accident found the way I am going with now. 3 deli cups with aquarium water and java moss in them, seems to culture all on its own and restocks by rotating cups 1 per day. I keep the lids on the cups and just stick on a bottom shelf beside an aquarium so it gets some ambient light. I dont have a ton of fry I am feeding so might not be enough for some one with a lot of fry

Welcome! It is an addictive hobby

I agree with lefty, give it time to make sure all the fish are healthy and doing well

I have 4 of those lights, they will grow plants fine but the programming sucks on them…only 1 of the 4 will the diy mode work properly on mine. One of the lights just turns off at 9pm no matter what time it’s programmed to run til. I have sent 3 back and the replacements have all come with issues, so I just use the preprogrammed mode for around 10 hours. Also have found raising them about 6” above the tank cuts down on algae. The Coop lights can’t come out soon enough for me

If she ate them all in 5 minutes it may not have been too much. Mine usually spend and hour or more chasing them all down

Has anyone had success culturing the 2 together? I have a 20Long for my daphnia and considering adding the black worms

I have 3 tanks going, all with shrimp. 1 tank with platys and the other 2 have guppy’s, it’s fun to watch the population grow! Although I’m getting over run with around 200 platy babies so had to pull the males out lol

Welcome!

Aquashella was a blast, made me so excited to get home and play in my tanks lol. @Corywas outstanding, kind and really did amazing job as always! Was happy to meet the Coop team even though it was brief

The light can’t come soon enough for me! Wish I could buy the prototype even…..kinda fed up with some lights on the market now

Welcome to the forum! Another Marylander as well

I don’t, I just stir things up a little before a water change and siphon out that way