Moving Tons of Fish & Adding New Rare Species - Fish Room Update Ep. 129

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[@AquariumCoop]

*Did you catch our latest update on the Aquarium Co-Op store renovation? We drilled a hole in the massive 1,500-gallon acrylic tank that our mascot Murphy the Mbu puffer will be moving to!* kzbin.info/www/bejne/kGLWhH-mYrepgq8

[@lisasparkman2924]

I did, and I don't think I took a breath till that hole went through and the tank didn't break 😅😅

[@lakeshiamills1454]

Yep I caught the Reno, you and Dean had me in edge the entire time 😅. By chance could you share more info on that home Depot bulb? Thinking about changing some lighting on my racks

[@AquariumCoop]

It was these guys, they have some different sizes too. www.homedepot.com/p/EcoSmart-75-Watt-Equivalent-PAR30-Dimmable-CEC-Adjustable-Beam-Flood-LED-Light-Bulb-with-Selectable-Color-Temperature-1-Pack-G19P30AD5DUO/315868460

[@t3dwards13]

​@@AquariumCoop Could you guys possibly explain what to do if a fish gets stuck in a decoration or cave? I just had to push my goldfish backwards out of one. She's missing scales and has a wonky pectoral fin. I quickly set up a quarantine bucket, cause cause the cory smelled the injury and wouldn't leave her alone.

[@TheSalient1]

I watched the whole video!, just joined the club sir, hoping to save that 5% on my.next order of easy green, I sent candy an email with a question about your sponge filters

[@Joel_G_NZ]

This video captured the essence of what made me fall in love with this channel all those years ago

[@ameliaskyye]

don’t worry about it being repetitive or anything negative people say. I personally love update videos on what your doing ! Gives me inspiration for my personal tanks and also getting into aquarium plants

[@basildestiny]

I love the videos where you change around your tanks. Especially these long form messing around in the fish room videos.

[@Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

Elmer chillin in the spotlight reminds me of Linus on stage telling Charlie Brown the true meaning of Christmas

[@martinwesson655]

Hi Cory, and greetings from the UK . Really enjoy having you impart your wisdom playing away on my tablet whilst sitting at the computer working. Regarding your really hot water at the sink. I'm no plumber, but we have a mixer tap with shower attachment running off it over our bathtub. On the hot and cold supply pipes under the bath there is an additional thermostatic valve fitted ( I guess to prevent scalding ) sounds like this is what you might need. Keep up the good work and all the best

[@carybritton4178]

People can complain about dirty tanks man. In the wild the sources are full of bacteria and all sorts of life. Don’t be ashamed to be real and show tanks as they are. It’s part of the hobby man. Tanks and fish look great boss

[@cyriacalappat3337]

This channel ran out of content quick

[@cherellzandell6139]

I had a very rare (for me) opportunity to make it to the brick and mortar Co-op and was able to pick up 3 of your 4 gallon tanks for nieces and a nephew who all asked for their first tank for Christmas! The tanks are awesome and I'm so excited to see what each of them decide to do! My first little tank was a Christmas gift when I was a kid and I've loved the hobby ever since - I'm hoping to maybe spark that same love for them 😊

[@kathrynthomas6390]

I absolutely love how open you are about all of this! I love that you change things and talk about it! I'm pretty stable about my tanks right now, but that's because I have too much else going on!

[@jacksommer5481]

I love these types of videos. They are just nice, chill and relaxing. They also in some way remind me of Sam Sulek´s videos since you both like to rant and go more in depth. Keep up the good work. Btw I really wanted to see the store expansion but i am living in Denmark and i can´t afford plane tickets to go there since i an 14. Have you thought about live streaming the opening? Just a thought.

[@sandygk53]

Ah Cory! Thank you for explaining the dark layer in my substrate! I've always worried that it was detrimental to my fish and now I'm happy to see it. As always great advice!

[@Rockfish37]

Mulm is the best! Lots of micro organisms thrive in mulm.

[@peteriverson4682]

Love the Vienna guppy male chasing the sunset platy around . He’s in love and she’s probably just annoyed 😅 30:29

[@HAL-cp4mt]

That fountain is a masterpiece.

[@pamelak819]

Love the vlog style video. Hope the coop aquariums can be in retail partner stores soon!!

[@Thomas.Saunders]

I agree, that 13 gallon tank looks amazing!

[@sal9842]

I truly love these kind of videos. I just enjoy watching you change up your fish room or improving your fish room or just like what you did today show us about the algae and what you’re doing with it it’s just fun to watch and fun to watch you change things and fix things and I just really really enjoy these and I just wanted you to know that, thank you for this kind of video content

[@growclipbonsaiforseniors1951]

Wow! You are a wealth of information. At 75, I am still learning.

[@NYGFRANK87]

Shout out from New Jersey! I have been enjoying your channel for about a year now! God bless you and your family !

[@taylorblake5867]

That’s a cool foundation thing if you put in a misting system over it you could put a bunch of moss on it too

[@ScottSpecial]

I’ve been watching every Aquarium Coop video for years now, I appreciate the intent of the latest fish room, two suggestions: 1. Bring in Tanner for Serpa Design pay him to come for a week and scape/fix everything for you, build the turtle pond, plant your new giant stone fountain 2. Giveaway away one new Aquarium Coop tank a month

[@terrymartins2552]

Really enjoyed watching the content of this video such as the testing of the lights and new products, keep up the great work!!!

[@jenniferramos5217]

cool update; do you think you or store manager will do unboxing vids again? used to love those, got me more familiar with all different types of fish6

[@dalfonzowilliams4792]

I actually like the look of those rocks at the 6 minute mark with the algae. Looks kinda like green mountains in there.

[@LevisShellsTailsFinsandmore]

really excited to see the indoor pond!!!!!

[@carlosaguilera2959]

highlight of the video was "mold cam" lol love it.

[@dbenn5199]

Love the carved fountain😊

[@ChaosAquatics]

I have been wanting and looking locally for some of those goodeids but haven't had luck yet getting any, but one day. I also really like the look of that fountain! the sounds that will come from it will be awesome.

[@SurprisedPikacheesecake]

So excited to see that fountain and pond set up! Thanks as always for sharing the good and the messy✌️&💖

[@lester3836]

I added a mixer under my sink from home depot, it's around $100. It allows you to set the water to exact temp 77 degrees. Great for cleaning tanks, filters, and brine shrimp.

[@littleblackdogsb706]

I reaally want one of those sweet little tanks.

[@leafjelly4615]

danggggg i love those co-op tanks!!! they look great and super functional

[@madmax300z]

I'm really enjoying this style of video. It's cool to see the day to day real life of the fish room and watching you cory tinkering and enjoying the hobby once again .

[@jacksommer5481]

I also love the day in the life style videos

[@cosmoplakat9549]

Wow, I love the look of your new AC aquariums!

[@hejbeautiful5488]

Thanks for sharing. I would love min. Bristlenose.😊

[@turmel3689]

I honestly think a good school (8-10) of Red Rainbow fish would go perfectly with lady bird. adds a great red pop

[@candioverhuls1003]

Happy Thanksgiving! Love the Cory in the fish room video. I’m really liking the trout goodieds may have to find some. Have a wonderful day, it’s beautiful in the PNW today!

[@alejandrocarmona9202]

Nice!!! Maybe you need a better substrate for the aquariums

[@staceyhart7827]

Thanks for the great update 😊

[@jimmyjames2022]

Thanks Cory for an interesting fish room catchup! For info, Feit also makes a smaller 60W LED bulb that has 2700, 4000, 5000K switching, I used successfully. (Feit A800/CCT/LEDI/4)

[@garykeith4295]

Was happy to see an updated video on store expansion . Can’t wait to se it all done ! Happy Thanksgiving Everyone !

[@Adam7FishTanks]

Another great video, watching your videos over the past 5 years of fish keeping has inspired me to make my own fish related content thank you 🙏

[@majormorkiss]

Loving these long form fish room videos again Cory! 🎉🎉

[@jaxxonfishroom]

Great video 😊 I'm getting new fish soon

[@AquariumCoop]

awesome! exciting times.

[@jaxxonfishroom]

@@AquariumCoop yeah lol

[@pencilpauli9442]

Great stuff thanks Cory!

[@nathanhoveyaquatics]

I'm so jealous of the Trout Goodieds you have, they are on my wishlist of fish to have.

[@windowlicker532]

Hi…thx for sharing…hopefully you have time to go live…that fountain looks dope…pls keep us updated…Happy U.S. Thanksgiving to you and the family 😎✌️

[@adatewithnature8333]

25:17 that could be the coolest aquascape ever with that lighting! you could have it look kinda like its a cave with rocks stacked up in the edges where the light doesn't get to, then in the middle of the light beams you could have a carpet and low light plants planted on the dark stone walls reaching for the light! between the two lights you could have a cave wall looking thing with a very wide "tunnel" linking them up. not sure if that turtle can go on land but if it could then the rock thats stacked up to make the cave could support a terrestrial area above for him!

[@leam89]

The only constant in your fish rooms is change lol

[@stoneysscapes7544]

I swear the best vlog content on KZbin , and I'm looking forward to being able to have a huge smile on my face when all of the systems in your care are up to the high standards that you have to have had climbing the hobby latter's from your Arowana monster fish keeping days to all the ups and downs your always dealing with running the business while expanding the future .

[@AquariumCoop]

Spoiler alert, the tanks look amazing now. You'll be seeing videos from my fishroom weekly for quite a while to see it all.

[@errk25]

Love these updates about the fish room and what you're up to. The realness of we all get busy and our tanks might not always be pristine or simply works in progress is so true. Those new curved corner glass tanks look very nice. Just got an order from the Coop this week and it included my 5 year membership Yeti bottle and coin gifts. Love those little perks you do for us. Happy Thanksgiving.

[@jacksommer5481]

Can´t wait for the five year mark

[@AquariumCoop]

Thanks for sticking with me so long :)

[@EsteGlez]

Kinda of a cool idea for the big fountain! Try rooting a top of a pineapple!

[@Whathowwhenforwhomwhatpurpose]

Thank you!

[@audrameyer9558]

Happy Thanksgiving!! 🦃🥧🤗

[@mattlangworthy8131]

Loving the vid and some wicked fish... Also wheres the live stream Playlist at? I havnt been able to listen to them in my way to work 😂 I can't find them anywhere

[@korybookman8774]

Always love the walk throughs I just wanna know what those rocks are in the scapes need some

[@Josh_Rickard]

That fountain is gonna be epic!!!

[@RoggyGrog]

Love my Xenotoca Daodrioi very active fish that are all over the tank. And the iridescence makes up for them only being half colorful. I’m keeping mine with shrimp and they leave the adults alone. I find they don’t prefer to eat harder hair algae but they do graze on it.

[@walkshe]

I run a matten filter with an Aquarium Co-op cartridge air pump on my 20 gallon tall. It's been set up for 3 years and holds 4 neons, 3 harlequin raspboras, 4 rummy nose tetras, 2 guppies, 1 ember tetra, 4 kuli loaches, 1 otto, 2 mystery snails, 6 cherry shrimp and a plethora of red ramshorn and pond snails. It's planted with jungle Val, pogostemon Stella's octopus, Nana petite, dwarf chain sword, Java fern.and a melin sword. A pothos has rooted all the way into the gravel, and duckweed floats the top. I've never done water changes nor cleaned the gravel. Plants are growing like crazy and my fish have never been healthier.

[@peteriverson4682]

Do you have medaka in with the Vienna guppies? 14:12

[@legionaquatics]

love the fish room updates.

[@catherinesanchez1185]

I love seeing real tanks and how you’re working with them . We all love tanks that look perfect but when we’re trying to figure things out , these are helpful . Just ignore the negative nellies .

[@nat-xs2fs]

I'd love to see some easy stem plants just going wild

[@XxDevilettexX]

What an awful experience man. I'm so glad your on the mend now ! I got a really bad nail bed infection after cleaning my tank. I was calling it aquarium finger lol it took two rounds of antibiotics. I wonder if this was a similar infection ? Anyhow it was horribly painful but it seems it could have been worse ! Thank you for the informative videos

[@pattys_aquatics]

Love your videos in the fish room Cory, always informative and entertaining. Ps I like the algae so I don’t think they look crappy 😁

[@ritenour12]

It’s a good day when Cory uploads

[@jeffmcdaniel8058]

So glad to see that your aquariums sometimes look as bad as mine. Makes me feel less guilt.

[@frankdegroot1451]

Wat is eigenlijk de functie van zo.n wavemaker? Je filter moet toch voor voldoende stroming zorgen?

[@zeuslea1]

Happy Thanksgiving Cory.

[@tiffanysullivan3655]

Just wondering... why were the Easy plant aquarium lights increased in price by as much as $20? The 12in used to be $59.99 and all of a sudden it's $79. And I'm pretty sure the 16in was $79 and now it's 89. I was saving up for a couple and now I have to save up even more 😅

[@feliciaheater5548]

I also have super super super hard water and my crypts take FOREVER to spread. They get huge and beautiful but don’t spread for YEARS

[@Shadow_Arbor]

I dont think you're not destined for cardinal shrimp... Don't take this the wrong way, it just sounds like they don't interest you enough. If you were to use RO water and some Sulawesi salt from Denerle or another company I doubt you'd have issues. I've been raising them for years, albeit not in the States, on RO water + Sulawesi mineral and bringing up the parameters to exactly those of the breeder I purchased them from. I've even gotten them down temperature wise over the years to around 25 degrees Celsius when originally they died on me at 27. I know you're not a fan of RODI and adjusting your water, which is understandable especially at your scale, but if you really want to, you should have no problem raising them. You could even, over a few generations, get them breeding in your tap water. Breed the first gen in RO+minerals, then each generation add like 10% of your tap water, eventually there's a good chance you succeed especially since your water is hard.

[@MJW173]

if i had an 800 gallon, i would put 8 mollies in it. a pair pf white, a pair of yellow, pair of orange and a pair of black. In a year you'll see all the genetic mixing and you'd end up with some beautiful and unique looking mollies!

[@everythingfishCl]

That looks like a T&S brass faucet just need to replace the cartridges or replace it commercial grade doesn't always mean better quality.

[@ErikWhyRock]

Absolutely loving these vlogs!!!! Happy Thanksgiving!!!! I'll be rewatching your thanksgiving stream from years past while doing maintenance since everyone will be in a food coma!!! 🦃♥️🦃♥️🦃

[@PeteHoleman]

Great video. I put it up on my big screen 🤩

[@georgeballentine1045]

I did watch it on the TV

[@j.l.c526]

Curious if Cody could post a link to the overhead pendant lamps and bulbs. Especially liked the adjustable bulbs.

[@darrylmoore5847]

That was great.

[@jacksommer5481]

I agree

[@yourboyrelapse2839]

I would love a couple dwarf Claro pleco I breed an sell locally. I’m am located about an hour an a half south of you guy iv been to the store a few times. Would love to know if you do ever decide to sell them in the store, I would be right up.

[@Starship007]

I stick with faucets that offer easily replaceable cartridges like MOEN. Essentially 2 different cartridges for most of their products. Plus I can change myself. Crap in plumbing and faucets themselves wear out as moving parts. Some areas of the country have more hard water and minerals causing issues. Some metals have better corrosion resistance. I moved from Arizona to Hawaii. Mother Nature with salt, humidity, mold, vog, and rain laugh at just about anything. Steel, powder coat, stainless steel, glass windows, etc., are eaten alive.

[@danl1483]

Your faucets are malfunctioning due to an unbalanced back pressure event. Back and forth pressure is being caused by the numbers of faucets in series with each other. This is causing the faucet washers to unseat. Your plumber may need to provide a separate H2O supply to at least one of the odd faucets. Or sorce a set of faucets that can handle the massive pressure jolts without the washers being affected.

[@AquariumCoop]

Interesting, we ran our own lines from the water heater to this sink, but T here to supply the temperature control valve. I've got the new faucet and will see how it goes. I haven't had this problem at the warehouse, store or previous fish rooms all doing the same thing.

[@mauricioramozjr8478]

Are many of your tanks stocked from Select Aquatics? I continue to recognize the breeds 6:44

[@tristanconnolly3428]

How many gallons are those line of tanks? They look like 40 breeders but I’m not sure.

[@johnVidBozo]

Thanks for the lighting talk. It's almost impossible to convey the true colors without a high end camera and some knowledge and skill with white balance. I'm so used to the 10,000K+ of my reef tanks the lights for FW look so brown unless they are up to 6,500K. Those lower K bulbs also don't really show the green properly in a planted tank. Nothing like spotlights to show off EVERY little particle in the water!

[@zerokind5839]

“Now…” 😂

[@jerryhigg]

❤ cool 😊

[@toomanyhobbies8351]

What plant is on the driftwood at 1:23?

[@bobjvet23]

I was wondering if the"crypt tank" was the tank that when you planted, you kept the plants in the pots and buried them? Could this be why they are not spreading well?

[@AquariumCoop]

Unfortunately not, removed them from the pots like 4 months ago.

[@Yankees73]

I have a white substance on my substrate it looks like fungus what can I use to get rid of it they won't hurt my shrimp fish or snails. Tank has been up and running for about a year I've never had this issue before.

[@scottbrigner6950]

You were mentioning water changes, I have a 75 gallon cichlid tank with roughly 25 cichlids ranging from 2-5 inches and I change the water 25% once a month roughly. I top it off usually once a week. I use 2 large hang on filters, a wave maker and a skimmer and have no trouble usually. It's full of live plants, in water and pothos out of water. Is it better to do small water changes more often or large ones less frequently? I don't ever get any kind of spikes in my water and I guess Im just asking if one way is better than the other?

[@AquariumCoop]

I think you could argue either way with big vs small water changes. Pros and cons. I do frequent small ones with an auto system, or larger ones when I'm doing it manually.

[@scottbrigner6950]

@@AquariumCoop I appreciate your feedback. Do you have a video on how your automatic water changing system works? That would be awesome!

[@AquariumCoop]

This one should get you there. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qp2Vf6VtgbVrrsk

[@elvinsworld11]

Nice

[@erick6102]

God bless you Cory. Thanks for continuing your videos after so many years.

[@amayanut]

Interesting that you believe the hard water is slowing plant growth. I just moved from texas (with hard water) to Southern California (with SUPER hard water) and I am having a horrible time with my plants. I had luscious growth (in established tanks) back in texas, so I think I know how to grow plants. However, almost every plant I have tried is suffering. My bacopa caroliniana (sp?) essentially disintegrated. I’m close to getting an RO system 😢

[@wobblysauce]

Nothing wrong with a cant see to the back glass tank

[@Shernan83]

Nice Aquariums and Videos and Shop make more in Germany please 👍🏿✌️🏿

[@AquariumCoop]

I'll be back in Germany in January.

[@josephrlv4453]

Why not make an auto doser for fertilizers?

[@AquariumCoop]

Haven't found the exact right one yet ;) Been testing and have one we like, going to start modifications soon.

[@MrVedderman]

How much are those Co-Op tanks?? I want them.

[@gardenheiress1990]

Okay but where did you find the carved stone?!

[@AquariumCoop]

We sell them at our retail store. Brought it in from one of our stone suppliers when I visited China this year.

[@austinp9348]

What’s the secret to Brazilian pennywort? I plant mine and the stem rots and then the rest of the plant winds up floating?

[@AquariumCoop]

I'm not entirely sure. At the retail store it always thrive, in my home aquariums it's 50/50. I think when I just try harder, it grows out of control, more fertz mostly.

[@taRmYg]

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[@shesellsfish]

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