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The sale is back on again until October 15th!

Looks like they extended the sale until August 3rd!

Sale has started again for June 2024!

Wow, I haven’t updated this journal in a LONG TIME.

Some major changes:

I mixed up the driftwood appearance a tad as before I felt it was too empty, then way too much wood, and now it feels about right with spaces for the cichlids to hide while also providing support to the basking area that got wobbly after a while (screws were tightened but some weren't screwed in correctly and had to have a new hole or attachment point added).

The turtle has grown and is doing well. Sadly, every single Chinese algae eater would hunt down until they were fully consumed and eaten. The same is true for any Malaysian Trumpet Snail I would add in, so they all disappeared.

I've added in Pink Convict Cichlids to help with coloring and mixing things up from the current normal Convict Cichlids that are in here. Additionally, there is now a smaller (temporarily added) Pleco in order to help remove all traces of BBA that I had (which worked, sadly the hydrogen peroxide treatments daily helped keep it in check but it would always come back as I missed spots).

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Looks like Petco has a smaller 50% sale, that I did not get notified in time. March 10 - 16 2024, so still active for 2 days as of this post.

Looks like they extended it until the first week of April, so time to go grab some tanks!

Looks like Petco has a smaller 50% sale, that I did not get notified in time. March 10 - 16 2024, so still active for 2 days as of this post.

Hey Finaddict!

As far as keeping them healthy, normally a good diet along with feeding them variety and having water temperatures warmer than normal (80 degrees Fahrenheit) really helps out. The shaking is from either stress, poor water quality, or lower-than-ideal temperatures (it's called Shimmies) and normally can be solved rather easily.

Let me know if that helps you out!

Looks like I was a little late at getting the information, but there is currently a 50% sale going on right now.

When it comes down to making sure that your substrate and tanks are designed as cleanly as possible, do you tend to go with tank designs that allow for you to be more minimalistic and have just rock and substrate with a lot more swimming/open space - or do you tend to go all out and make sure that everything is decorated like a reef would be where there isn't too much open space or free room?

With bigger tanks comes a bigger issue when it comes to having multiple pieces of equipment running to ensure there is a backup if one fails suddenly. With tanks bigger than 75 gallons, do you have it somewhere in the filter, near the intake filter area, or somewhere else to ensure the temperature is steady throughout the whole tank?

Sale is back on until November 25th! I’m sure we’ll see some killer Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals as well!

I took out the Amazon sword from this tank since it was getting way too large. Additionally, I just noticed my filter died (or was dying) since the GPH flow was extremely slow and caused a huge bacterial bloom. Just replaced the whole filter unit with a bigger one (rated for 20 gallons with adjustable flow). Once this bacterial bloom goes away I’ll take some updated photos to show, as I have a nice green algae growing on parts of the fake tree root which has a very nice appeal.

It seems they have been doing this this past year every other month, or sometimes a week or two off, before another sale. Not sure if they have a bunch of inventory left to sell, or if they are seeing good results from people purchasing other aquarium-related items during these event dates.

No problem! We try to help all of our fellow aquarium owners out with the bigger sales (like I know there is a smaller one right now on some tanks, but not the 50% off sale yet).

It's known to be an issue for some animals (specifically, those who may drink or eat it directly or indirectly), but it's not really known to be an issue when it comes to harming fish - but it will cover your plants if you have any in the tank and kill them off completely (by preventing them from being able to capture any light from its leaves).

It's highly recommended to remove it either through a natural treatment (for example; getting more powerheads or water movement where it seems to be more centered on/at), or use an algae treatment to remove it from the tank.

Have you ever adjusted or tried to optimize your protein skimmer to ensure it was running more effectively for the way you have it set up in your tank?

Did you ever find anything that worked just right, and what were some of the lessons that didn't work out nicely that you would want to share for others to learn from?

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Well, in rare news, looks like Petco extended the sale for another month after the last one ended on July 4th.

I would say no. If only 1 line is being used, then the excess air that is spread across the other 3 lines would end up being forced through the only open line. A caveat to this is if the pump has internal piping to avoid this situation and would just let the excess air out beneath the unit (for example).

I’d just recommend connecting the 3 closed lines to a single tube and then using that, or more ideally, downsizing the unit to just have the number of open ports you would need to use in your setup.

Do you have a specific budget in mind? I’m assuming that you currently run a canister filter since you noted not wanting to run with any HOB filters or HOB-like skimmers, so you'd for sure have to stay with something that can be added as an in-line unit to your canister filter flow. The only reason I ask is that some of the protein skimmers depend on the flow rate of your canister filter to function properly and have enough flow in general.