They come with the pipes (shown in the video)

Thanks man, I’m hoping to start making videos on here again soon. I saw in a comment of yours on an ACO post that you’re in Florida and I’m based out of Tampa now so figured I’d drop a follow!

@julianaquascaped Very cool... about an hour north of me... I'm in Sarasota, just off of 75 on Bee Ridge rd... I can be found on Google as well under "my business-fish & plants"...

Hey! The metal pipes are connected to an external canister filter underneath the tank. I am not using HOB anymore because it wasn’t really necessary. And yes I do have a heater in the aquarium.

:( weird. I’ve only seen parts of the top of leaves come off.

@@julianaquascaped i think it’s my light honestly, I didn’t do enough research before I bought a 30 inch tall tank.

@@YungRekless ah, 30 inches tall? So not enough light? Mine is actually fairly tall too with a pretty basic light, but maybe the Val variety you have requires more light? Are you dosing any fertilizers? Vallisneria grows very fast, which means it takes up a lot of nutrients. That makes them good indicator plants for the rest of the plants, because fast growers start showing signs of nutrient deficiency like yellowing first. I got them because most of my plants are slow growers and I needed a fast grower to keep the algae at bay.

@@julianaquascaped I’m having issues. My tap water is zero kh and zero gh, so I thought that was the problem so I’ve been adding equilibrium and it hasn’t helped. I dose aquarium co op easy green, seachem advanced, seachem iron. And use seachem root tabs, and nothing will grow.

Thanks for watching!

Unfortunately this exact model isn't available anymore (seems the company stopped selling them), but I linked to similar ones in the description!

Ha! I think it was spinning because of the surface agitation from the HOB filter, because I've since removed it and I don't think it spins anymore.

Ah, probably should have mentioned in the video. They’re called bioAquatiX and they usually have some sales going.

Thanks for watching :)

Ha yeah can definitely just spend a ton of time staring at them doing their thing! It’s relaxing.

Unfortunately it seems Aqualexs has stopped selling them on their website, but I linked to a Dymax model that is very similar in the video description (Dymax is highly reviewed by others and probably of better quality but I’ve not used it myself yet.)

@@julianaquascaped hoping the dymax model is as good. Thank you for the heads-up.

@@bibo8655 Let me know what you think! I was bummed to see the Aqualexs ones disappear and I’ll need new ones for another tank eventually!

Aw, thanks, Geri! Unfortunately, I got very busy with work over the last few months and found it hard to motivate myself to do much more on off hours, hence the lack of posting. I actually filmed a lot of footage, though, I just need to edit it!

I've definitely found shrimp (alive) in my filter since getting the skimmer. I've seen people place some filter floss or sponge in the skimmer to keep the shrimp out. I haven't tried that yet, though.

Hi, thank you! I have a big backlog of videos to edit and more things to record but unfortunately work has kept me too busy. I definitely prefer the stainless steel to the glass ones for one major reason: the glass ones only look nice and clean for a day or two tops after cleaning before they start getting brown/green gunk in them that looks terrible and defeats the purpose of the “blending in to the aquascape” look folks want from glass. Plus the steel ones won’t shatter all over your floor and potentially in your tank if you apply too much pressure to them. As for rust, that is something I was wary of, especially in buying the not highest end brand, but I haven’t notice any rusting on them so far!

Not that I've noticed! But, maybe.

I do not, sorry. I’m not near the tank right now or I would measure them.

Thank you! The glass ones definitely blend in more in the tank, but only when they're freshly cleaned. They got dirty very quickly and ended up only looking nice right after I was done cleaning. Plus, I was always afraid of breaking them until eventually one of them did break.

Thanks Jenna!

Thank you for watching and subscribing! Yes they are beautiful fish and doing their job of staying mostly in the top part of the tank ... now I just need to get some healthy new ones to complete the school in the tank.

Thank you so much, I'm glad you enjoy my approach! And I likely won't have one tank only for too long ;) I have several videos that have already been shot, just need to find the time to edit them.

I have before and it grew back really quickly. I’m actually getting rid of it (well, I’m probably keeping some in a bowl) and replacing it with some epiphytes. Little pieces of moss just end up everywhere since they sink unlike other plants so it’s hard to keep the tank clean of moss strands.

Ah yeah it was actually super sad. I filmed that last part a couple of weeks after it happened, but it was rough the first couple of days. I do have a video coming up where I add some fish that are all doing great!

@@julianaquascaped that is awesome news!

Thank you! Will definitely check your channel out.

very cool we should support each other

Oh wow, that’s a weird coincidence!

Thank you 🙏

Haha thank you! I’ve found *some* since then.

Hi Diane! I've mainly shied away from ordering fish online because of the shipping cost to Montana, to be honest. But I actually have recently had a good experience ordering from someone on AquaBid (will be in a future video). Thanks for the recommendation, I'll check out Aqua Huna! I also really want to drive the 8 hours or so to Aquarium Co-Op one of these days and record the experience.

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Thank you for watching and subscribing, Mark! Will definitely check out your channel.

Oh hey, thank you so much for subscribing :)

Hey!! Thank you, Geri! :)