Fish Tank Ideas are getting CRAZY | Fish Tank Review 250
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EPISODE 250!!!!! We've come a long way since the very first episode y'all. Go check it out if you're curious. I came back from a long hiatus after hitting 10k subs at the time, I was so burnt out and knew I needed to do something new. I remembered I used to watch Meme Review by Pewdiepie all the time when I was younger, so I wanted to combine the 2 things. Episode 1 didn't get much traction, but I decided to do a clutch 2nd episode which took off and exploded. Now we're 250 episodes in. Thank you Cory Gang!
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Quarter to a thousand
I have watched them all probably
Well deserved! I love every single video you post and your 'fishy' humor :)
It happened!! I subbed to FTR hoping to see a large, planted turtle tank one day...and it finally happened!!👏🥳 Fr? Is Dan on FTR Discord? Cuz I will fr pull out my 💰and join up if he is. No lie. I wanna know about those tank toppers!
first video was still great tho
Turf idea is interesting but I would be nervous because A) if it isn't designed for aquariums it might leech chemicals into the water and B) loose bits of turf could be ingested by the fish.
That’s what my concerns were
Well i think it is the same as you are worrying about plastic plant that are in Costco or pet stores leeching chemicals.
I was thinking the same thing
its absolutely not safe to use in fish tank, from obviously both reasons, i wouldn't recommend anyone even trying this, if you care at least a little bit about your pet fish stay away from experiments like this one.
@@fauzanheikal3821 I think the concern comes from the fact that one is _made_ to be put into aquariums and one isn't
My crazy fish tank idea is to have several tanks around my house connected with a series of transparent pipes from one to the next so my fish can see the entire house and I can have the same fish in multiple scapes. I think it would be cool to have the tanks at different heights so some can be full aquariums while others can be paludariums, all this needs me to have my own house and lots of disposable income so it isn't likely to happen soon.
I believe in you
I mean yeah but who wants pipes going around their house
@@leonidasbeeny1335 People who want to live in a fish tank... like me.
And maybe start taking some irrigation or plumbing classes so you can master plumbing all those tanks together. Go for it!! Wouldn't life be super boring if we didn't have dreams, especially crazy dreams!!
😆 reminds me of those Leafcutter Ant Colonies that fill entire Rooms
QOTW:
I took a bunch of black lava pebbles, smoothed them out in a ball mill with sand until they were soft to the touch, glued them together with black glue (I used glue from jbl so it's tank safe), and made a sculpture out of it that resembles some kind of petrified lava tree/castle ruin with large holes in the trunk, branches, and a crown. because of the irregular shapes of the pebbles, there are many tiny holes and crevices in it.
so i planted the hole thing with loads of anubias plants of different kind from very tiny to medium to large. it turned out to kind of resemble the tree from the first avatar movie.
Being made from lava rock and with all the anubias, it acts as a giant filter for the water column, which is great. crystal clear water with no algea, ammonia, nitrite, or nitrate levels since the setup 2 years ago. the plants even cover the parts where the glue would otherwise be visible.
was a very fun project and I would definitely recommend it.
That sounds beautiful and so unique.
That's awesome!
great idea
This is... this is genius. I really, REALLY want to do this. I have a 55 with a big ugly resin root decor piece taking up half of one side... That could be a really excellent replacement right there.
@@dragonwithamonocle Certainly! And your only boundary is your imagination. Fortunately you can get a 55lb bag of lava rock for dirt cheap. I’d recommend walnut size pebbles and smaller, depending on the size of your tank, for more detail in the sculpture. You can do many different designs, and even mess up a few when you try it out first. It’ll be a looker for sure 👍
every time I see a photo of a corydoras sp, they always look like they were unaware that they were a fish and someone just informed them.
lkmao
perfect summary. gonna use that when showing off my cories
6:14 Are we just ignoring all the sweet crystals in there? *chef's kiss* this tank speaks to my soul
I'd recommend to be very wary of chucking random crystals in your tanks to anyone that wants to replicate it since they might release heavy metals that might poison your fish and shrimps. Definitely something I'd research before attempting. They obviously did and used clear quartz and an amethyst which are generally harmless.
@psy_99 a rule of thumb I've seen is avoid anything with -ite (selenite, etc), try to stick with quartz, and Google anything else 😂
My favorite hack, go to the garden center or landscape store for rocks for aquarium hardware. Less than $1/lb. Or even better, hunt for rocks along the river for free!
I get mine from store parking lots also. Walgreens for example 😂
5:25 - if you are creating a syphon, fill the hose with water and cap it with your thumb. Put one end in the tank, then point the other end down and release the thumb.
QOTW: not much of a hack perhaps, but a really B I G rubber stock tank (for farms/horses) of about 100 gallons, with a bag of river rock on the bottom, some elodea canadensis, American lotus, and fathead minnows makes a neat outdoor pond (unless you've got a big basement). I threw in a few cheap goldfish (in case herons or mink come to visit the snack bar, I don't mind them eating a 20 cent goldfish). A small pond filter, and a small stock tank heater/de-icer for winter. It runs itself; the plants balance things. You can dig it into the ground or leave it sit above ground like a raised bed garden.
aw yeeea that sounds crazy cool
My brother turned a un-used bulk milk tank into a fish tank for his extra minnows, the bulk tank was the type you can open from the top, the minnows were happy/healthy and we always had fishing bate 😂
A hearty gutentag to all this clear and cold morning. Don't forget to spoil your pets this week!! And you, hey you, you're awesome and wonderful! Have a radical week!
QotW:
Can't think of any good hacks as I'm busy feeding dogs and fish... and cats I guess😮💨 but my best friends in the hobby for maintenance are a magnetic silicone vase cleaner from Amazon or temu for jar, bowl and vase water gardens. It works just like the little magnetic glass cleaner gadgets but for containers that aren't straight walled. And turkey basters and toothbrushes, the humble turkey baster is the "gravel vac" for planted tanks when you need to get in crevices and corners to get out some debris or clean a sandy pathway. And toothbrushes of course for twirling algae, scrubbing assorted hardscape and getting in the corners and along silicone lines where scrapers don't reach. ✌️
ah yes turkey baster gravel vaccing is so clutch!
QOTD: Clams and Mussels to help filter out any stuff floating in the water column. The only problem with it is that they eventually poop it back out again, adding more nitrate to the water. Great for floating plants though. For my Mississippi River tank (which I didn't put anything alive in) it would have to be the broken pipe which belches out polluted water ever now and then so that the filthiness doesn't all sink to the bottom. It's more or less a protest tank which has a lid solidly attached to it so that the horrible stench doesn't escape. If it ever breaks I'm in a world of hurt. The rusty old gun I put in there as part of the scape has rusted even further, and is hardly recognizable anymore. The old tire is getting silted in nicely, as are the assorted bottles, cans, sunglasses, and old cell phone. The old cell phone is leaking something. I took the battery out so God knows what it is. The slick of motor oil on the surface is still holding it's integrity, though a few balls have congealed and sunk to the bottom where they have covered a small patch with a tar like look. There is a good bloom of cyanobacteria and who knows else starting to grow around the water line. That's what I can see around the edges of the aquarium. the water has such a heavy silt load that you can't see more than an inch or two into it. There are two impellers which are located far enough in that you can't see them through the silt. They run and stir up the muck and silt 24/7. There are no filters or air pumps on the tank because I don't want to filter out anything. It's supposed to look terrible, and it's meant to be anoxic as well as toxic. I'm sure that when I get rid of it, the EPA is going to declare it a Super Fund site. I haven't put anything radioactive in it, and I won't because it's not led lined and I don't want anyone (including me) to get cancer from the monster. It also has a tangle of fishing line and rusty hooks which I collected from a local reservoir while they had it drained. It's also where I got the mud and silt for the aquarium. It was already pretty horrific smelling when I dug it out, and it probably already had some sort of horrific evil in it when I collected it.
The tank is meant to be a protest against water pollution, and therefore it is the first thing you see when you come into my abode, along with the sign above it which reads, "End Water Pollution Now!" It might be the sign which is my favourite hack for this tank. I'm hopeful that it gets the point across.
I have thought about going out to one of the reservoirs either in the spring or late summer to collect one of the many dead fish to put in there. The ones which float to the surface are coming there due to the bloom of cyanobacteria which grows in thick mats because farmers in the area are pouring way too much fertilizer onto their fields, and it runs right into the lake, causing it to become anoxic. A lot of fish get caught in the ice in the winter time, and as the ice thaws in the spring, they come floating in. The problem with those is that there are entire air forces of eagles, both bald and golden feeding on them and squabbling over each one. I have to ask myself, "Do I really want to fight grumpy hungry eagles over a fish? Comment below, and let me know if you think this is a good idea for the tank or not, and if you think it is a good idea, should I go during the summer and struggle against the stinking green slime, or whether I should risk a run-in with eagles and their sharp talons in the early spring.
Ok I'm morbidly curious, where can I see this tank if you have images of it anywhere? Hard to believe some of the details but if what you say is true it's a masterpiece for sure.
My vote is battling the nasty green slime i wouldnt want to take food out of the eagles' "pantry"
7:13 Double Dragon Tank owners. Chris thanks for showing our tank and saying that you love it!!! No it is not one of those giant Bullfrogs. It is Lithobates pipiens formerly Rana pipiens (commonly known as the northern leopard frog). Frogs are about the size of a silver dollar fully grown. These frogs spend 95% of their time out of the water in the upside down rimless tank that is on the right side. To feed them we have to put crickets in water tight container submarine them from the left side of the tank to the right and release the crickets. FX6 is in the cabinet to the right, and remember there are two large sponge filters in the tank as well. We are keeping Aquarium Coop in buisness by using their water test strips very often. I love that it is Unrated = Unbelievable so we are going to self claim a 5 out of 5. 😂Bucket list checked. Keep up the great channel.
Also here is the original post for those not on discord.
FISH. TANK……….REVIEW of My 9 and 11 year old sons yell this randomly throughout the day. This is code in our house for everyone to the couch new FFT video. Well here is our 125 gallon. “Double Dragon”. Dragon wood on left and dragon stone on right. Various types of anubious, and Amazon swords. We had tank going for three years. We have all of Noah’s ark going on in there. Before you hate to much on the over stock the bio load is well balanced with the plants to fish ration. I do have FX6 and two sponge filters to keep water perfect. Here is our Aquatic zoo: Australian NW side neck turtle, red ear slider, rope fish, tire eels, Mollies, sword tails, bull frogs on top right and basking for turtles on left. Orange Venezuelan corydoras, panda corydoras, Julii corydoras, royal farlowella, 12 Pygmy corydoras, banjo catfish hillstream loach, Kuhli loach, yo-yo loach Clown Pleco, leopard sailing pleco, bushy nose pleco, dwarf gourami and African butterfly fish. Chris thanks for the amazing content and witty jokes. I share your love for “the office.” “I love inside jokes. I’d love to be a part of one someday”. Michael Scott
I was wondering how tf a bullfrog shares a tank with those other animals without eating them. Also they arent even fully aquatic.
The frogs stay up in the right enclosure above the water 95% of the time. The humidity of the enclosed tank on top right is perfect for the frogs.
thanks for sending it in and enjoying the show! glad to have ur tank on here and good day to u and ur fam
Thanks for the input. We went back and now have watched 100% of the videos. Congrads on living the dream.
Discus tank is so beautiful and natural. We love planted tanks because of how “natural” they look, but that’s not how waterways look in nature. Instead we have something like that, plants growing out of the water with tree roots reaching into the water. Just, chefs kiss for that. Only thing missing is the tannins and leaf litter
Stump tank is picturesque and looks like shrimp heaven to me, definitely gotta stock it with some
For African bullfrogs I’m pretty sure they’re the big ones. Like… *big*
stump tank with shrimp army is killer
QOTW: This was for my pond: I got a large pot that I previously used to hold water lilies before, put it on its side, weighed it down with a few river rocks, and piled a lot *more* river rocks on top of it, making an almost-natural looking fish cave. I also wedged a few java ferns and water wisteria between the rocks on the sides and the top.
The fish love it! They swim in and out of it often.
Also love seeing Bettas in a large aquarium! Have a betta in 3ft 23 gallon. And another one in 30 gallon high. Want to get another 4ft 38 gallon and put a betta in there. They look amazing swimming across 3ft +. It’s like watching a bald eagle 🦅 sore in the sky.
yeah!!! small fish big world
6:05 Animals will use the space you give them, the more the better (to a certain extent, some animals might not like too much space. Like some snakes might stop eating due to feeling stressed because of the amount of space they have). Fish are no exception to that, they will explore and move around if you give them the option. Animals will utilize horizontal and vertical space, they might prefer one over the other but if they have more they'll use it. Just because there's a minimum of space they need doesn't mean there's a maximum of space they'll use (obviously in a tank/ enclosure, not in the wild)
Snakes get stressed at "too much" space because they aren't given enough places to hide.
Gotta love understocked tanks 💪. Keep up the good work!
my favorite type of tank!
My hack is known for many but here goes anyways.
Put aquasoil in plastic washingbags like the ones ladies use for lingeri. That way you can pour sand over it and the subtrates won't mix. All the style from a sand substrate, all the benefits of aquasoil.
……… thank you 👏🏻
AOTW: My crazy fish tank hack is hanging breeding tanks on my shrimp/guppy grass aquarium
The breeding tank flows into the shrimp tank, and they clean whatever flows over
I feed the cory fry raised in the breeding tanks, and when I clean the tank, I use a turkey baster and release what I pick up into the shrimp tank.
Long story short, i think I have raised about 40 corydoras (proper sized juveniles go from the breed tank to a Cory aquarium) and now have about 300 red cherry shrimp
I also sold a full tank of Guppy Grass for $40 per batch to my local fishstore 3x.
It's a future multi payout tank that now also houses 2 pairs of Red Ear Koi Guppies
Your two pair of guppies will quickly become 8 million! 🤣 I hadn't had guppies for a few years, besides my last old male who is so old he's infertile in the retirement tank, and then picked up a trio of green Moscow guppies at an auction. They were just so cool I couldn't not get them. The day after I brought them home there were already 4 fry, then 15 from one female and more from the other. A month later and I have over 45 lil fry scooting all over... 🤯 I forgot just how frisky they are!! 🤣✌️
dang!!
Love the ripples the little fan makes
casts very nice shadowy movements on the substrate too
My friends mom ordered some living rocks for her salt water tank and got a baby mantis shrimp with it on accident. He couldn’t have chosen a better person tho she was so excited and immediately got him his own tank and he’s doing great 😅😊
I remember the 50th ftr-
Chris, you’d be proud to know my biology teacher teaches every class he has how to take care of fish properly. He has fully cycled, filtered tanks with live plants in the room and the tanks are big! He’s a wonderful teacher.
Jeez 250 episodes, that's amazing. Congrats on your dedication! Appreciate the videos :)
thanks so much! see you next monday :)
Michael's regularly has terracotta decor that *isn't a pot* and it is *always* on sale. It is my go-to store for fish tank decor because it's always 1) very high quality 2) completely safe and 3) very cheap.
Terracotta houses look so cute next to terracotta vases ;-;
Wish there was an aquarium safe fake grass mat like this. Imagine putting under gravel filter under that. Easy to maintain, visible poop free, and easy to clean
Lettsssss gooooo.. Monday just got better.
yessir
Congrats on hitting 400k!!! 🎉
I'm a relatively new FFT fan and I forgot FTR was today and I saw it just now and it made my day
lets gooo!
Something I've been really wanting to do for a while is make a "patio pond" style aquarium, using a stock tub instead of a glass tank for fancy goldfish. Since glass tanks are so heavy, fragile, and expensive, using the stock tub instead would be a great way to provide ample room for fish that I've always wanted to keep but never had the tank size for. Patio ponds aren't too crazy, but this idea might be: I want to cut out a window or porthole in one or multiple sides of the tub and silicone in some glass, plexiglass, or acrylic. I have been toying with how limiting the viewing angles of an aquarium affects the perceived size, and smaller viewports really do make the tanks feel larger and more private. I have a six gallon tank that feels bigger than the ten gallon it's right next to because of some of this experimentation.
I have bettas in a few of my community tanks...! All the way up to one of my 125Gs and they love all the space compared to the cup they came from...!!! Thanks for sharing...
Love your vids! My betta Leo passed 3 days ago so now my female betta Shady gets his (5 gallons) tank bc his is glass I moved half of her rocks half of her water and her cartridge in to the tank and every thing in his was cleaned! Basically like a water change. But now she has 2 floating logs and and lots of other things SPOILED😎 (dw she has silk plants)
Happy 250th Episode!
Love your videos
tyty!
yay another Monday another FTR CONGRATS ON 250 EPISODEs
My tip? Understock! Always understock when possible!
Also set water outside, get a fry net, feed fish almost unlimited larvae for months out of the year.
yessss!
In February, I bought a couple of fake grass samples for 99p each to start doing this... I ended up using mostly play sand, so I could have real plants. but the part of the tank that does have fake grass looks great. The baby fish love it. 😊
Going to my aquarium society tonight for the first time in 5 months 💪🏻 thanks for warming me up Chris
lets gooo! have fun!!
QOTW
Have 1 or 2 black ghost fish living in 150-200 gallon loooong tank and have something in the very center (like a stump or a very big stone) and make it in a way that the fishes can go move around in a circle. That way the fishes don’t have to move back and forth and move so much in reverse. (Just imagine you drive a car but you can only move back and forth because your planet has only one street and it’s straight between your house and the only grocery store and gas station. So a circle makes more sense and at least more pleasant)
It would be cool to see a tank lit from below with seaglass or small frosted glass pebbles as substrate.
Watching FFT in Spain (on vacation) is a whole other experience knowing I can experience this greatness six hours early! QOTW: If you have a bamboo shrimp and a hang on the back filter watch out! My bamboo shrimp (affectionately named momo) would crawl UP the water flow and INTO THE FILTER! He was having the time of his life grazing off of the particles cause I only had a coarse filter sponge and some biomedia but I never saw him in the tank! So I guess the hack here is to opt for a sponge or canister filter with these guys. Peace ❤
Edit: I realized that I’m not actually seeing it earlier but I like to think of it that way haha 😂
Also congrats on 250 FTRs making it happen! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
happy vacationing, it's an honor to make it into your vacation day routine!
That ad was as long as your wink and now I’m a fan for life ;)
5:27 oddly satisfying wtf 🫢🥴🫡
FFT, this was one of your best. tanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
add a 6" raised eggcrate base to the bottom of a turtle tank, (basically frag rock stand) let hillstream loaches, shrimp, snails and self cloning crayfish breed in the bottom section you NEVER have to clean your turtle tank again :D this sounds crazy, but trust me, mines doing amazing
Nice video bro! I just put my first fish into my 29 gallon it was Two albino Cory's and they are so cute swimming around.
awesome!
you can load that school of corys up by a lot more!
@FishForThought thanks man for the suggestion! I will definitely get like 3 or 4 more with a couple platys.
Best QOTW ever! My crazy aquarium idea, which I have had for years, is a shower, or even a complete bathroom, with the walls made entirely of aquariums. It would be an absolute nightmare to maintain, but how cool would it be to feel like you were getting cleaned up underwater, completely immersed in nature?
Good news! I am now apart of the Cory Crew! 7 Glo corys 3 green 4 yellow! I think i'm going to get 4 orange and 1 more green for 12! Bad news! 1 of my 2 gold dojo loaches jumped out of my 60 gallon long and I didn't notice till way too late. Rip Yam you were a bull in a china shop, but a fun noodle to watch!
That tattoo was gorgeous!!! ❤😊
I love putting aquarium safe bangles in my tank as hoops or tunnels. . Also I've had betta & gouramis, they love exploring each n every corner of the tank. Very curious fish
yeah their lil feelers
Congrats 400k subs🎉
I feel ya! I never get good hitchhikers either. Just bladder or ramshorn snails. I just bought some live plants that were advertised as being in a tank with cherry shrimp, i got excited bc i thought maybe i would get a few hitchhikers...nope...lol
I have a large African cichlid tank with a 3D background and I have tons of pathos behind the background so I don’t see any roots but I get the benefits of the plants for the heavy bio load
Qotw: Pothos. pothos, pothos, pothos. I've gotten my tank to only water top ups with just a ton of floaters and a decent bunch of pothos. Plus, the roots give smaller fish and fry some great little hiding spots!
yes! pothos is crazy good
Okay.....I have a story with the tube method. I used one of the tubes from my dad's garage since I ended up using my tube for a fountain. After I got the air out flawlessly an earwig popped out of it. I am traumatized.
Love your vids ❤
9:35 ayyo didn't knew you were chill like that bro 😩
ahahaha
Love your videos so much!!! Keep up the great work 😄😄😄
tysm!
@@FishForThought OMG YOU REPLIED 😆😄
Love your vids chris
2:02 Hallucigenia, my beloved
ahahaha
You really don't need to suck on the hose to start a siphon. You need a longer hose to start with. Once you get better at it, you can do it with a shorter hose. Just get a bit of water in, then lift it up so it drops down the hose. While it's dropping, quickly put the hose back in the tank. The water going down the hose will start the siphon for you. If you fail to start the siphon, So long as there's still water in the hose, you can coax it out and that will start the siphon. It's a bit difficult at first but once you get the idea, it's pretty convenient and intuitive.
If you have a gravel vacuum then it's much easier. Just bob it up and down the water and the siphon will start.
6:20 same with my betta she has 2 or 3 spots she loves and will defend from the others but she's always on the move from corner to corner in the 20 gallon long. I may need a 40 breeder for her to endlessly explore more🤔😅, she's such a curious little girl I leave for work late because I'm just watching her and the roommates living life😊
I would do fake grass and you probably don’t like my aesthetic, but I like actually experimenting such as I used this blue sand mixed in with all natural decor for my Scud tank. I think it looks great. My emergency tank has of course neon fake plants in it and then I actually put some real Plants in there that are potted in fake rock pots that can be taken out when I need to medicate the tank. It’s a lot of fun when you start broadening your horizons.
That wink got me! 🫣
lol - "What is there to lose?" "Respect."
Honestly I’m just so happy my tank can be planted now and my turtle is moved to a stock tank pond with his goldfish friend
I have tried turf as deco, turned out bad. Afterwards i realized that its bad for gold and kois. I think it could be fine with small fishes, if you somehow stick turf to glass that the poop would not go underneath.
QTW a really cool I deal I have is using an aquarium that is super long that runs around the walls of your house I would stock it with endless there would also be a 30 gallon tank in one spot if they want to chill out.
“It’s like an instagram post within an instagram post” 😂dead
Turf/ fake grass is sometimes used if you are breeding egg scattering fish. Take danios for example. They spread the eggs, eggs falls into turf. Fish can't reach them to eat them, then you remove the adults after they are done doing their thing. Doesn't look half bad either!
I have a giant feta and a 50 gallon and he is so curious I really think they just love to explore
the into was my favorite part 😂😂
Fantastic!
I've been growing potatoes in my axolotl tank because the roots grow really fast and they are okay with the cold water and help with all the nitrates she makes.
Making my Monday again chris!
Run the biggest canister filter you can and just put a smaller impeller in it to reduce the flow. Saw it in a master class but haven't tried it yet.
BRO I HAVE BEEN WATCHING SINCE EPISODE 42 of FTR BACK IN LIKE MAY OR JUNE OF 2020and I have leveled up my aqua scape game so much because of this….AND I JUST REALISED HOW FKING LONG ITS BEEN MAN (still didn’t get my ftr comment shoutout😢) CONGRATULATIONS CHIRS !!!!!
lets gooo!!! thanks man!!!
Hey! Sup Chris. Love ur content! You inspired me to start fishkeeping.❤❤🎉🎉🎉
ayy glad to hear it brotha
YO episode 250 let’s go
QOTW: When I do something dumb like replace the sponge filters in my turtle tank canister and toss all that good bacteria, I sometimes set up a temporary bog filter using a bucket with an overflow drain pipe and a cheap $5 water pump to help carry the load for a while. Usually a bunch of pothos and whatever else I may have rooting at the moment. Maybe some water lettuce from the porch pond. With controlled lighting, you can even farm algae to do the same job in this way while keeping your main tank space largely clear of it. With a little work to conceal the bucket, it can even be made to not look completely stupid, lol!
I’ve had to use fans on mine in the summer heatwaves works a treat
9:56 I think they sometimes get those Spots when they get older
I was about to put aquasoil and dwarf hairgrass in my quarantine tank. Honestly I might just go for plastic grass instead it looks good and won't need maintenance or fertilizer.
I'm growing morning glories out of a couple plastic cups suspended in my cycling shrimp tank. Couple more weeks and I can add the shrimp
So 👏🏾 happy 👏🏾 it’s 👏🏾 Monday 👏🏾 ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
ayyy
I am in this moment attempting a turf substrate. I live in a country where we cannot import any live plants. My idea is to put a thin dirt substrate with a sand cap,then the turf. Then and island of driftwood, real dirt/ sand substrate with as many live plants as I can cram in there. I’m thinking it will be much easier to maintain. Thoughts?
I feel like the Turf would be a super effective nutrient trap. It is absorbant and spongy but does not have the benefit of removing nitrates that plants do.
I have an 80 gal tank and I'm going to use deer horns on one back panel draped with Java moss next time I redesign it.
3:08 I absolutely love Tanks like this. Would love to have one someday. Not in a Room to which my Birds have Access for Security Reasons of course 😊
yaaa!
AOTW: I gathered local lake water and raised like water "bugs" (idk exactly what they are) that my fish love to eat. They multiply like crazy, so I never run out.
so satisfying :)
Ive been saving up my money to buy two fancy female guppies, Ive been doing research about them and I think that a 10 gallon tank will fit them with a small heat lamp and filter, also decor anything else I should have (I will have rocks and food dw)
One hitchhiker I got was a tiger dario baby in my plants, it was probably a fish egg and grew up in my cycling tank somehow.
that so cool
Goddamn I can't believe it's been 250 weeks
haha ikr
I love the time lapse, I want to set up a live feed to my tank so I can watch my tank when I'm somewhere I don't want to be 😂
I think that fake grass could actually be usable in a flowerhorn tank or any other fish that ruin the substrate. It didn't look bad until the rocks came into the picture.
Actually mostly good aquariums in this one !
ikr
My hack is, get a snail eating lizard/ other creature along with your fishtanks. Now snails are just yummy snacks for them!
I got an Apistogramma that I never bought in my tank, poor fella probably passed because yeah, he was small and there are some larger fish in there. Could still be alive and surprise me soon though.
QOTD: this idea is more for a paludarium but i plan on having an acuatic section whenever i get the to make it, anyway i bought a uv flashligth from wish and found out some of my backyard plants shine under it ( only one i know the name of is the purple roach)so my plan is to create a paludarium iluminated by uv leds that shine during the nigth i know about some frogs native to My country that also glow and of course glow fish for the acuatic part
Just realized purple roach migth not be it's common name in english and thats a pain to find out so i'm leaving it's scientific name: Tradescantia zebrina
Qotw:
I have a passive Co² bell that's filled up with a soda stream. Just ran airline tubing from the stem and I can fill the bell with a button press
Use mosquito net over the top of the aquarium during the summer to avoid fish jumping when not using a lid
The Kerning City theme goin hard. This man is based af.