Posts by Avery

What makes you the most afraid of owning any type of amphibian, and do you think that will change if you had the proper time to setup their tank, get the right equipment, and learn all of the right care for them?

We have released a few different styles of dark themes, all with their name containing the color that it will focus on (ex; “Dark Green” means the style will be dark and focus on the color Green).

You can toggle under “Control Panel > General” and changing the “Style” option from Default to one that you want. Let us know how you like them, and we’ll try to add in more over time. Thanks!

With a bunch of tanks that can have fish or just corals in them, but still having issues with the sand/substrate collecting algae (commonly green, purple, and brown), how do you prevent it in your tank?

Do you commonly stir the substrate to make sure that it turns over as debris collects to prevent algae? Do you have any other method at all to take care of it?

Although many of us try to make sure we provide the corals we buy with all of the love and care possible, sometimes they sadly end up dying and turned bleached (white in color). When this happens, do you take it out of the tank and toss them, or do you keep them in there still?

To keep an update, the new themes have been set. We’re just going through them now to match the footer and header items from our current default theme, to those as well.

I’ll post an update once they have been all released for everyone to pick their own in their user profile.

I’d probably say that my favorite is Auratus Cichlids, since in a species only tank man are they beautiful in terms of their coloration but also based on the way that they interact with each other (given enough space).

With the females (or not dominant males) being a lovely yellow, with white and thin blue stripe - and males being a lovely blue, black, with a white/yellow stripe.

What is even stranger is that Petco’s social media team seems to still be talking about it as if it’s 50% off, so not sure if the 30% was some type of one time test or an off sale but labeled as such?

Also to update there is a new confirmed event starting February 27th (the ad is placed on March 1st, so might start then instead going forward) for the whole month of March 2022.

Do you mean this photo that I’ve attached to this post? I’ve seen a huge bunch of different photos on the subject that go over the general look with a realistic photo, but some species of plants may not share the symptoms the same due to their leaf structure.

Since every single coral grows differently due to its species, conditions that it lives in, and other environmental factors in the tank; how often do you forcefully propagate your corals in order to optimize their growth (and allow for your reef to become more and more covered with actual corals)?

With all of the different types of materials used for tanks stands, which is the most common (if you have more than one tank setup) that you use, and why do you think it’s your specific most common compared to others?

I’ve seen them, and they appear to work extremely well if placed correctly. I wouldn’t worry too much about any spots being extremely colder (since with a heater in the actual tank the same can be said the further away you get from the heater itself). The only downfall is that in-line heaters tend to be more expensive when compared to traditional drop in heaters.

I normally keep them as long as their expiration date, as in many cases, it can cause for false positives or negatives (for testing), and medicine can either become too weak or too strong in specific aspects.

When you have done any type of creating an aquascape using live plants inside of an aquarium, what materials did you use and how did they pan out in terms of reliability and visually once underwater and over time being underwater?

I've personally used the common egg crates for ceiling tiles/lights, aquatic safe foam (that expands over time when first sprayed out), some aquatic safe paint, and then using items like river rocks/substrate to create a mountain/rockwall appearance. In terms of its ease to use, all was easy, although the lifespan was honestly really determined by if I added enough coats of paint and silicone to the whole thing since when the fish would peck at it randomly if it was too thin, they could actually create small holes in the foam.

I personally tend to make the tank appear more of a match for the fish's natural habitat, adding in things such as driftwood, or lace rock to simulate a rocky shore if that is where they are from. Ideally, if you do it right, it can really make the fish behave in a way that you would never see inside of any tank since they feel more secure.

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I was ironically going to reply to here regarding them changing it at least in my market. I was hoping it isn’t a permanent change but guessing by the new marketing changing online even I sadly think it’s going to be this way going forward from now on.

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As you said, only time will tell, however with them moving from $1/gal to 50% off the retail price, and now 30% off the retail price, I think that this move is permanent in order to save costs from inflation overall.

I haven't personally, but I have seen on bigger tanks where people have added LEDs in the tank's rim to add that extra light to view (but not to provide excess light for corals, etc.). I'm sure that you could even find one that could help grow some types of algae in a refugium compared to using saltwater lights which are mostly for corals, but in a display tank I think it's primarily used in large tank setups (someone please correct me if I'm wrong, I'd love to see smaller setups without corals using freshwater lights!).

Gilbert took the answer right from my mouth - it really depends on if you got the aquatic/aquarium safe superglue or not, otherwise I’d avoid it since it won’t work and head towards using silicone (aquatic/aquarium safe must be checked as well).

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I’m not sure if they have an article in the works (since I know that they noted saltwater and freshwater would be completed before brackish), but might make sense to pull one together since it should be a mixture of both already there.

Maybe Avery could answer better on that.

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Good point, I’ll get started on writing up an article on this as like you said the setup is a mixture between the two. From there once I’m done writing more of the basic information content for freshwater and saltwater, I can write up brackish (this will for now appear under saltwater since it’s in that realm). Dependent on how popular it is, we may break it out into its own sections.

I've ironically purchased a few of these, and they at just normal brine shrimp. They are definitely cool little shrimp (mostly used as food to bigger fish, or fry as they age) to watch and require very little care outside of the right salinity in their water, oxygen, and algae (that green powder they give you) which they eat and grow. The cool part is that their eggs can stay inside of the water without hatching if conditions aren't right, and once they are, they will hatch over a span of a few hours.

Sadly, I can confirm that the 50% off sale is no longer (at least for the upcoming few events they have listed out). It is replaced by the 30% off sale on these tanks. I have updated the event details on here to reflect that, as well as note that the current event has been ongoing since January 9th, 2022 (we weren't tracking it because it was below the 50% threshold).