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Was excited I actually had a Sunday off to watch and interact with the livestream but was exhausted and fell asleep. Still like that I can watch later and at least leave a comment.
Can't wait for the new light - I'll be sure to get one for the 20 long I'm setting up.
THANK YOU for saying you can't OD the tank on root tabs! I have a new 40 breeder and wasn't sure how often to add them - just added a second 60 pack to my cart. Will you offer larger quantities in the future? I went with a pool filter sand for substrate because I wanted to enjoy watching Khuli Loaches sifting through it.
Thanks again for sharing your vast knowledge and experience with us Cory - and to Candi for moderating 🙂
First of all I’ll just say I love easy green and use it every few days and all of my 12 tanks. However I just wanted to give a little plug for using actual soil ( potting, aquatic, active etc) for a ( highly) planted tank. The minute I switched to using regular potting soil as the middle layer between rocks / gravel on the bottom and sand / gravel on top, my plants grew 10 times faster. It’s true that at first you have a larger ammonia Spike, but with the sand cap, that goes away pretty quickly and the soil and nutrients are sealed in. I still use root tabs here and there and easy green fertilizer for water column fertilization. If you think about it, at the end of the year time, if you’re using the equivalent to hundreds of fertilizer tabs, that probably equals half an inch of actual soil.
Another great thing about using potting soil is that the mulm will eventually go down through the gravel /sand and add nutrients back into the substrate. This creates a self-sustaining system in which you never get old tank syndrome and create a more closed loop system. I highly recommend trying a .5-2” middle layer of potting soil in addition to east green and root tabs ;) will save you hundreds of dollars and so much time!
I couldn't watch live but I needed this video for my Saturday night entertainment. I just realized I have been smiling for 50 min straight and will still be smiling at the end. Thanks for the great info. I always learn something while watching your videos. Cory your voice is so soothing as well. A great stress reliever. I loved you nerding out on the light and it's fabulous packing and box. Blinding yourself and me too. So much fun! Who needs to go out on a Saturday night? Not me.
I'm not having problems with plants anymore. Once I started using your fertilizer my plants been growing like a champ. The only problem I have now is amonia.. keep getting high levels after a few days after a water change.
Are you cleaning your filter also when you do water change? Could be killing the bacteria
@@vesawuoristo4162 yes I'm cleaning my filter with tank water
You might be cleaning your filter too well it shouldn’t be clean just less gunky
@@babsvr4089 understood I will give that a shot. Thank you 👍
@@mo8245 clean my filter once every like six months I just let the bacteria go crazy and do water changes! Good luck
The knowledge i get from a single love chat video is crazy and its all stuff i can use. You cant find this on any other channel thank you for this. Its made me stick with and im so glad i didn't get rid of my tank i almost gave up
All of my plants (mostly anubias) are putting on pretty new leaves but still battling that brown and green spot algae. It is super helpful to hear all of your suggestions!
Great info and really helpful. I recently found your channel and have been watching lots, though hard to " like and comment" on my echo show device in the kitchen where I spend a lot of time and my fish are also there. Just pulled up my desktop to add a comment that I appreciate your dedication to your business and the order I received from your company was excellent. You've helped me get inspired again with my 2 tanks ( keeping fish for 50 years now)
Thanks for taking the time to get onto another device to leave a comment ;) Appreciate the support.
It was great to meet another aquarium co-op fan this weekend and trade some fish and talk about Cory for an hour in a parking lot in Colorado! Thanks for all you videos and community you've created around the world!
I love the way you explain things. Your approach fits well with my learning style.
Thanks to Cory for giving his advise on my question. Much appreciated
I just found this video AFTER I bought some plant's off your site
so HOPEFULLY I'll have better luck than what I've been having
by listening to your video about how plant's grow & what to do.
I'm a hr into the video & haven't heard anything about
having heaters in cold water tanks for plants do the plant's
need heaters like amazon swords jungle Val java ferns ext?
Plants typically do well in cool water tanks. Anything above 65 or so.
Love easy green but my bottle broke some time ago I just kinda drip some out it don’t pump out but I’ve had the bottle for a year atleast! Stuff inside the bottle works amazing
If you reach out to our customer service, we will get you a new pump sent out.
Watching how happy Cory is with this new Aquarium Co-Op light brought me joy :)
It was fun to listen in! Thanks for the stream!
Great plant talk thank you
Awesome information and extremely interesting and enthralling . Do you raise Neo caridina shrimp ? Do you raise dwarf Cory Doras ?? I am a gardener and nature lover and new to the planted, dirted tank aquarium. It is exciting though I don't like to learn the hard way by shrimp or fish or plants dying. I would love a ten gallon easy plant light!! FUN !!
My favorite part of this video is when Cory said something along the lines of, "Holding a poop question for later."
I always enjoy these on a relaxing Sunday
Love your products and your videos!
All my 50+ tanks are jungles... some are newer jungles than others, but all are thanks to Aquarium Co-op's Easy Green and Root tabs...! Thanks for another GREAT one...! Keep up your awesomeness...!
Watched after the fact and great content as always. Just help me calm down after work and learn a few new things everytime :)
Glad to see aquarium coop products now in Canada at April’s aquarium. I love that store and now can try your products! Win win!
Thanks for all you do man! The new light looks amazing. Can't wait to get my hands on one.
36:08 add a static reminder sticker for the root tabs? Easy green root tab static sticker that they can date or put a month on?
I really enjoy your live streams. The aquarium hobby in South Africa is really expensive and wish we could have a local company like yourself here that could make it more affordable.
Not sure if it's happening across the country... But in southern California, I can't find snails for sale.
An employee told me it's because too many people have returned items because of snails.
So I'm curious what the stores are doing with the snails, and what those who return are using as an alternative.
I'm going to rob snails from one of my other tanks. But I'm sure we could all benefit from this issue being addressed.
My difficulty with plants is growing moss and stem plants at the same time - I can either grow one or the other, but can't seem to find the light/nutrients balance to maintain both at a healthy state.
The brackets on them lights is like a Cadillac of the lights
Love the light, you said that night time mode grows too much algae right? This has been my theory for quit a while, I’m so glad you mentioned it. Thanks Cory it’s amazing how much we agree on.
Thank you for mentioning April's Aquarium, already have my order in. YEA!!!! Hope you send up some merch as well.
Funnily enough, my Glossostigma elatinoides is actually the healthiest species of plant in my aquarium. Which sounds odd considering my tank is very low tech.
It's actually my myriophyllum and Crassula Helmsii that are struggling. I think that being higher in the water column is encouraging algae growth on the plants, which is suffocating the stem plants.
They are coming back, I think the Glosso are finally outcompeting the algae for phosphorous and iron.
EDIT: I should add that the tank was previously EXTREMELY overfed for both phosphorous and iron. I misunderstood how algae and plants compete for nutrients
I've never had warm pumpkin pie, but I do like it cold and chilled
No one has lived to tell the tale of warm pumpkin pie. It’s deadly.
Have you found that in order to balance a tank that has 0 nitrates, you need to add a lot of easy green at first to get the nitrate levels to the 20-30ppm that we aim to maintain
So I live in MN maybe I can schedule buying a home around a time you might visit here again, then you can help move all my planted tanks. Haha I joke. Your knowledge on planted tanks has helped me immensely. Struggled for about a year when a great tank started failing. I was running T5's then and bought so many bulbs, looking for the perfect mix of spectrums. Finally got LED's, your videos helped realize it was NOT a light issue. (Well maybe a mix of things, but focused only on lights) thanks Cory for all you do
Love this episode Cory! Such good information ❤
So much info. Great stream.
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I hope one day you open up a warehouse in Europe. Love what you do for the aquarium community. I have over 30 years of fish keeping experience and still learning. fish hobbyist from Cyprus
April's Aquarium is my LFS and they are amazing!
Big Fan of Aquarium Co-op
Cold pumpkin pie is where it's at!
Thanks for another great stream Cory
A very informative livestream video.
Warm pumpkin pie is amazing!
Great info,thanks Cory !!!
Totally agree that the mark up just so you you can reduce prices for Black Friday sale tactic is bad for most customers. It's tough to retrain the shopper though. I enjoyed the karaoke anecdote.
Why not run the power cord off the back of the light for a cleaner display? The cord hanging down off the side of tank or bending it back to hide it is a bit of a bummer.
The cord hides in the cutout notch at the end in the bracket.
Another great, useful vid for my Sunday routine
Love it, but not in UK yet
Will the new light be able to work with 240 volt as well?
Hello I am a new member
love your videos thank you
The memberships will be mineeee
Thanks for this, it was quite interesting.
The fireplace isn't centered.
You should def give away a plant grow set up! Cause that’s what I’ve been thinking of and I want to win! Almost just so I can show you I can’t grow plants…challenge extended…
If you could get a 220 volt version of this light and have a distribution centre anywhere in Europe you would make a fortune. Looking at the specs and the price these things would fly off the shelf. You're missing a great opportunity now.
Good video
Is that light for a 10 gallon tank ?, how much $$?
99.99 for the 20 inch which fits a 10 gallon.
www.aquariumcoop.com/products/aquarium-co-op-easy-plant-led?variant=40242906300485
I have two Fluval Aquasky lights that are 10 inches above the acrylic tank. How much do I have to increase the intensity of the lights to compensate for the increased distance? The tank is 20 inches deep.
The base rule is, every 4 inches of depth is half the light. So 10 inches is roughly 2.5x less powerful than directly over the tank.
Hello! I’ve been trying to find out if using well water that has been through a water softener is ok to use in an aquarium. Usually it has some salt due to the ion exchange process. I can’t seem to find any information on this.
Best thing I can think of for you,, is to take a sample to your local fish store and have them analyze it for you,, Most good shops do this for free
Lets say I buy some of your plants can I put the plastic plantwes in asmall clay pot?
@aquarium co-op😂🙃😊 Will petco or petsmart every carry Aquarium Co-Op products?
I don't plan on it. It would further erode the independent stores.
No live this week!!!!
Package EZ Green like boxed wine? May ship well?
Yeah, we had considered some alternative packaging. The problem is we wanted to visit a trade show to see the packages available and the machines. Covid has prevented that for 3 years now :(
I've been using Aquarium root tabs for about six months. My only problem is that my nitrates spike crazy high when I use the root tabs! I have Amazon swords. They love the root tabs. But my fish do not!
That's odd as that isn't my experience. You doing any other fertilizers? Or undergravel filter?
Does underground filter effect with the fertilizer
@@AquariumCoop nope. Only two root tabs in my 13 gal tank. Nitrates spike to 40-80 every single time. I just recently switched to your liquid fert but I my plants aren't doing so hot!
I can’t sign up for the newsletter. I have over 16,000 emails and can no longer deal with it. I know the answer to no but can it be text to me?
Currently we don't have text for the newsletters, but possibly in the future.
Awesome
Will that fit a 29 gallon tank
www.aquariumcoop.com/collections/lights/products/aquarium-co-op-easy-plant-led
If sand is bad (less good) for plants, but cory's needs sand.. so.. hmmm..
Hw much those run
What a concept. Leaving a comment when you really have nothing to say, just to appease/feed the UA-cam Algorithm. Can't just enjoy the stream quietly. Must prove I'm engaged. Ugh. I do appreciate the Co-op. I'm going to have to think on this. I want you to get the UA-cam Gods' recognition you deserve for reaching me. I'm not too fond of having to prove you did.
Me too buddy. I’m against the overlords knowing what we want more than we do. If I like to lurk, let me lurk.
I have to just say Cory has the best plants of anyone. Large, many can be made into two separate plants. I woIld not buy my plants from anyone else now
Bring back the free stickers :(
Thick bodies are great
Only.rime my mind is clear. Saturday morning water changes and live streams
It's ironic that Cory hates on plants growing in sand. I grew crypts and vallisneria for over 5 years in sand only with occasion root tabs. Grew better than when I had it in gravel
I have the light like that one and love it. Do i need to take my plants out of the baskets?. I haven't and they are doing OK, but what is the process?