Aquarium Co-Op

06/28/2024

Easy Potassium is back in stock. Far outsold our estimates on our initial order. Larger quantities will be kept on hand now. https://www.aquariumcoop.com/collections/plant-supplies/products/easy-potassium

06/18/2024

New retail partner appreciation post! Welcome new 🐟 stores. The following stores will now be carrying Aquarium Co-Op products. If you don't see your LFS, tag them!

Just Fish
Jordyns Pets Plants, LLC
J Squared Aquatics
Farmers Feed Co.
Hell Creek Aquatics
Exotic Pets OKC
The Aquatic Critter (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61555189411075)

If your fish store is on this list, be sure to stop by and check out their selection.

To find out if there is a retail partner store near you, check out our finder here: https://www.aquariumcoop.com/pages/retail-partner-store-finder.

If you are a physical retail fish store and would like to carry Aquarium Co-Op branded products too, visit https://www.aquariumcoop.com/pages/rpp and fill out the form to apply.

06/18/2024

Did you know the first fish food that Cory from Aquarium Co-Op ever developed was the Easy Fry and Small Fish Food? After many years of breeding fish and running a large fish rooms and fish stores, he wanted a high-protein, nutritious food that be fed quickly and easily. With the unique squeeze bottle, you can open aquarium lids with one hand and squeeze out the food with the other hand. This small-sized floating food contains a high concentration of 55% protein with the first ingredient being salmon fish — which leads to much faster growing fish, more intense coloration, and more babies. Watch as master breeder Dean feeds all his tanks with Easy Fry Food (and shows an ancient container of the first version of this food).

▶️ Get the Easy Fry and Small Fish Food today: https://www.aquariumcoop.com/products/easy-fry-and-small-fish-foodDid you know the first fish food that Cory f...

06/17/2024

Cory is downsizing his fish room and gave Zenzo (our Director of Company Culture & Teams) his rare Cyprichromis sardine cichlids. Watch how Zenzo packed them as a carry-on, took them through TSA security check, and brought them on his flight from Washington to California. They are now living in his 125-gallon Lake Tanganyika community aquarium. To help them start spawning, he's been feeding them live baby brine shrimp, which can be eaten by both very small nano fish and African cichlids.

▶️ Get the Aquarium Co-Op brine shrimp eggs to hatch nutritious live foods for both small and medium-sized fish: https://www.aquariumcoop.com/products/aquari...

06/15/2024

Got some new photos for our lithium-ion battery back up air pump. Quiet, automatically stays running when the power is out, features a power saver mode to run 16 hours, can adjust the output of air as well. https://www.aquariumcoop.com/collections/air-pumps/products/aquarium-co-op-air-pump

06/10/2024

Cory is renovating his "offish" or fish office by downsizing to 10-11 tanks. There's a desk in place, a couch for visitors and naps, and a new wall of Aquarium Co-Op products in the background... unfortunately, there's also a mysterious neon green goo that is taking over his wall of 40-gallon aquariums!

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06/07/2024

Have you used Easy Green? I'd love to see our reviews on it to break 5,000. We only need 27 more! If you have a spare minute or two, if you can login and leave a review with your experience, that would make my weekend. https://www.aquariumcoop.com/collections/plant-supplies/products/easy-green-all-in-one-fertilizer

06/04/2024

Master breeder Dean runs his entire fish room on a linear piston air pump, but he has a special use case where he needs the two-outlet Aquarium Co-Op air pump. Try to guess with Cory why you might want to run our air pump in a fish room. And if you don't have a fish room, it's all the more reason to get the Aquarium Co-Op air pump for your sponge filters because of the amazing battery backup that will save your fish during power outages.

▶️ Get the Aquarium Co-Op Air Pump with Battery Backup: https://www.aquariumcoop.com/products/aquarium-co-op-air-pump🌱 Visit https://aquariumcoop.com/ to bu...

06/01/2024

I've been bad at promoting our catch catch cup. I think I literally use it every day. Whether it's for brine shrimp, frozen foods, moving fish, plant trimmings. Collecting snails, scooping substrate, hatching turtle eggs, hatching our corydoras eggs. It's like it has 101 uses. Ours is ultra clear and unbreakable. Having used every type over the last 20 years in the store, we wanted the best. If you have never had a good catch cup, I highly recommend it. I actually use 2-3 each day in my own fish room. https://www.aquariumcoop.com/collections/cleaning-supplies/products/aquarium-co-op-catch-cup

05/29/2024

Another new product today. Easy Potassium. This has been requested for many years. While Easy Green already has a lot of potassium in it, some tap waters or tanks with lots of java fern and anubias could need more. If you have pinholes in your leaves, this could be a sign you need more potassium.

Your water may have nitrates, phosphates, irons, potassium and other nutrients in it at varied ratios out of the tap. This could lead to a point where you are better off dosing a few individual nutrients than the All In One Easy Green.

Similarly if you have a tank overflowing with java ferns, anubias and other plants. You could be low on potassium. Look for pinholes in your leaves as a sign. Most common in anubias and java fern, but can present in stem plants and others as well less often.

90% of people will only need Easy Green. Those with a love for anubias, java ferns, well water, high tech tanks, odd tap water and a weird plant mix may need to supplement Potassium.
https://www.aquariumcoop.com/collections/plant-supplies/products/easy-potassium

05/28/2024

With the bigger warehouse in Kentucky. We are able to stock more products. 5 new ones for today. More photos and products to come over the next month or so ;) These products are ready to ship TODAY.

Mythylene Blue: Used for rearing eggs or a fish med.
Xtreme: So- Fly Flake: Soldier Fly Larvae Based flake food.
Xtreme Beef Heart Flake: Loved by Discus and Angelfish
Xtreme Wrigglers: Great for medium sized community Fish
Xtreme Turtle and Aquatic Reptile Sticks.
https://www.aquariumcoop.com/collections/fish-food

05/28/2024

Dean Tweeddale and I cooking up trouble!

▶️ Aquarium Co-Op brine shrimp eggs: https://www.aquariumcoop.com/products/aquarium-co-op-brine-shrimp-eggs▶️ Ziss brine shrimp hatchery: https://www.aquariu...

05/27/2024

Master breeder Dean has been hatching baby brine shrimp (BBS) for more than 60 years because it's the BEST food for growing strong and healthy baby fish. Every day he hatches 1 Tbsp of Aquarium Co-Op brine shrimp eggs in a 2 liter Ziss brine shrimp hatchery with 2 Tbsp of Easy Brine Shrimp Salt. The temperature is 78°F, and he harvests them after 36 hours. With two hatcheries running at a time, he's able to feed the fish some BBS and fish food twice a day, but if you're not breeding tons of fish like he is, he recommends hatching them out 2 times a week.

▶️ Aquarium Co-Op brine shrimp eggs: https://www.aquariumcoop.com/products/aquarium-co-op-brine-shrimp-eggs▶️ Ziss brine shrimp hatchery: https://www.aquariu...

05/24/2024

In today's Q&A, Cory was asked, "What is the most interesting aquarium setup you've ever seen in the whole world that you want to try at home?" For Cory, the answer is twofold. First, he loves the way fish look in the wild under natural sunlight and has found a way to emulate that by using skylights in the fish room. The second setup he got inspired by was from Facebook. He's now working to make his fish room now into a "fish room office" or "offish" where it has a desk off camera for him to work at, good lighting to make it easier to film, and lots of comfy couches for guests to hangout.

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05/19/2024

Are you storm ready? So many people are experiencing power outages due to high winds. Likely you have family members, others pets and of course your fish. You can make a power outage 1 step easier by having a battery back up air pump. Our air pumps run normally and then when the power goes out, continue to run. We also have a power saver mode button to make the battery last twice as long. They are also USB so you can recharge in your car, a laptop, a cell phone battery bank etc.

I know there is always so much going on when the power goes out for me, that even though I own a generator, I prefer having my air systems with sponge filters on battery back up. We have this both in the retail store and my person fish tanks. Makes sleeping a lot quieter as well.

A battery air pump with sponge filter combo is easy to implement into each aquarium and can be your main filtration anyway.

Run this quiet, rechargeable USB air pump from a wall outlet or without power for 8 hours. Perfect for power outages or portable transportation of fish.

05/18/2024

Going live. Come hang out.

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05/18/2024

Brine Shrimp eggs in the 100 gram are 25% off while supplies last. Fun project for your fish if you've never done it before. Or stock up if you're breeding a bunch of fish. Orange bellies all around! https://www.aquariumcoop.com/products/aquarium-co-op-brine-shrimp-eggs

05/17/2024

Cory plans to massively downsize his fish room from 36 aquariums to 10 tanks. After 20 years in the freshwater aquarium hobby, he has come to realize why "more is NOT better." This can apply to filtration, water changes, number of tanks, number of fish, and more.

🌱 Visit https://aquariumcoop.com/ to buy aquarium plants, lights, fish food, and more from Aquarium Co-Op🐟 Buy fish at https://geni.us/LiveFish from our pr...

05/16/2024

Use our online Store Locator to find a retail partner near you. You can get Aquarium Co-Op products like Easy Green in more than 140 fish stores all over the United States. Tag your local store if you want to see them carry Aquarium Co-Op products!

https://www.aquariumcoop.com/pages/retail-partner-store-finder

05/10/2024

Wish you could boost the water circulation from your sponge filter? By using a curved uplift tube, you can improve the flow, increase oxygen levels, and even reduce noise levels. https://www.aquariumcoop.com/blogs/aquarium/easy-flow

05/10/2024

Cory is preparing to reduce his fish room from 36 tanks to 10, and he starting thinking about which fish he wants to keep. Here is his list of must-have fish that he almost always has in his fish room because of their distinct characteristics and fun factor.

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05/09/2024

If you're using hang on backs or canister filters, I love using a coarse pre filter sponge.

🌱 Visit https://aquariumcoop.com/ to buy aquarium plants, lights, fish food, and more from Aquarium Co-Op🐟 Buy fish at https://geni.us/LiveFish from our pr...

05/07/2024

We're selling off used 37 gallon acrylic tanks at our retail store. These are the same tanks you've seen in my fish room and store expansion. The tanks for sale are the ones seen in my fish room here, and the ones we were using at the warehouse.

They are $30 each or if you purchase 5 or more they are $25 each. No holds, ready for pick up at the retail store in Edmonds, Washington. 50+ still left of them.

The dimensions are 24 wide, 30 inches front to back and 12 inches tall. All of them have a hole in the back for a 2 inch bulk head and all sides and bottom are black.

05/07/2024

Since moving the warehouse, we had to double up on some inventory. Brine Shrimp was one of them! Save 25% on the 100 gram cans until we get back to our normal range of inventory. Depending on how fast people buy, that could be a couple days or a week! Get while the getting is good! https://www.aquariumcoop.com/products/aquarium-co-op-brine-shrimp-eggs

05/07/2024

Brine shrimp, aka liquid gold is amazing for your fish. Even in small batches.

🌱 Visit https://aquariumcoop.com/ to buy aquarium plants, lights, fish food, and more from Aquarium Co-Op🐟 Buy fish at https://geni.us/LiveFish from our pr...

05/06/2024

Dreaming of setting up your own fish room some day? Follow along step-by-step as we teach you how to set up a DIY central air system using a linear piston air pump, and comment below if you have any good tips and tricks. https://www.aquariumcoop.com/blogs/aquarium/fish-room-central-air-system

05/03/2024

We have a new, 35,000 sq-ft warehouse in Lexington, Kentucky! Cory was onsite for 5 days, helping to set up more than 100 plant tanks. Not all of the inventory has arrived yet, so get a sneak peek of what our new place looks like. We've got packing stations, a conveyor belt, giant commercial freezers for brine shrimp, rows of racks and palettes, and Randy puttering around on a forklift in the background.

🌱 Visit https://aquariumcoop.com/ to buy aquarium plants, lights, fish food, and more from Aquarium Co-Op🐟 Buy fish at https://geni.us/LiveFish from our pr...

05/02/2024

Bob did a great job in this video explaining sponge filters and a few other tips for filtration. He is an affiliate of ours but the information presented is useful for anyone using or thinking about using sponge filters.

Today we talk sponge filters. Do you need one?Easy Flow Sponge Filter: https://geni.us/YpDYDFsBattery Backup Air Pump: https://geni.us/PjyFDISCOUNT CODES:The...

05/02/2024

Weather around the country is looking great to purchase plants. We include free thermal liners to keep them temperature controlled during their journey. We now ship out of Kentucky, the majority of our customers will experience faster shipping times than in the past. https://www.aquariumcoop.com/collections/live-plants

05/01/2024

I believe one of the best things we can do for our shrimp buddies is keeping a catappa leaf in the aquarium. After about a day, it turns into a buffet for the shrimp. Bacteria will start breaking down the leaf, and shrimp love to eat that bacteria. If you place it up front you can watch the buffet. Or you can hide it behind your plants. Really helps kept them fed when you're on vacation or get busy. https://www.aquariumcoop.com/collections/breeding-supplies/products/catappa-leaves