Every Aquarium NEEDS a Food Web
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excellent, This needs to be made clear.
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@FatherFish Thanks Lou
🫶🏽 love you @FatherFish
When I started watching your videos i had just started learning about the walstad method, no one knew who Father Fish was. Now there's people using your videos as references everywhere! Definitely left an impression on the aquarium community FF. Thanks for inspiring all of us and passing on your knowledge.
the best part of have a food web is that you get to travel without worries.
Yes sir
Yes indeed, so nice not having to rely on other people to over feed them while your not there
100%
That is true to the extent your climate controls don't lose power.
Yes!
100% since father fish I've gone completely natural been in tje hobby 20+ years and father fish method has made me enjoy the hobby 100000times more great video spread the knowledge
I agree. One thing I didn't expect was the fish are superb hunters and I can't keep the plankton ahead of the fish's skills. The quest goes on...
Thanks for giving Diane credit. Her method is fantastic.
That documentary was on Yellowstone and it made me rethink so many things and after a million other documentaries I have watched that one stands out. I always think on it all these years later. Thank you. You got a new subscriber.
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Me too. It shows very clearly why apex predators are needed in the nature and the effects if they are erased.
When I was about 10 years old, I got a microscope for Christmas. It's amazing what all lives in a single drop of pond water!
Yes sir. I’m planning to get one, but I haven’t yet
We humans take that for granted at our own peril. There is great fish food (plankton) in the mud puddle on my city street! Visible to the naked eye.
About getting the amphipods, if you visit a relatively natural area with plenty of tree litter and puddles or pools of shallow water (ie especially without fish), you are likely to find plenty of amphipods living in that rotting leaf litter that's in the water (if you look carefully!).
There are a massive number of microorganisms including amphipods and other invertebrates in most natural environments that have sitting water. It's just a matter of looking carefully and with patience so as not to scare them out of view. I have been cultivating amphipods in northern Japan where I live for a few years now after discovering masses of them feeding on fallen leaves sitting in muddy puddles near a small creek nearby. If you put larger layers of rough materials like pebbles over your substrate of sand etc, it will allow the amphipods to survive predation from your fish. They will shelter under the pebbles etc where the fish can't reach.
I would like to collect amphipods, but worry about how many harbor parasites- and that I’d be introducing the parasites into my aquarium. Any thoughts or suggestions? Or any websites/videos you’d suggest?
@Parasox the risk of introducing unwanted parasites or other biologicals is always going to be there. I feel this risk exists even with commercially obtained species of amphipods unless the seller has taken quite a range of steps to eradicate each type of potential risk. Even if this was done, use of medications in the form of unnatural chemicals etc presents its own set of risks.
I acknowledged this risk and started by raising scuds, shrimp and amphipods together in large jars for extended periods to ensure that any parasites, diseases or whatever that each might be harbouring is not going to knock out the host or spread to the other cohabitants.
Despite the risk of parasites, one can make the car that on some level wild creatures may actually be stronger and less disease prone in some ways - precisely because they are surrounded by abundant natural microflora, microfauna and pathogens in a way that is absent in almost any aquarium. This is a double edged sword though because most aquarium fish, kept in relatively sterile environments, aren't always going to have an immune system that is sufficiently "hardened in action" to respond to some of those potential risks. OTOH, if you're already building aquariums that ARE rich in microorganisms etc, your fish are also more likely to have battle hardened immune systems capable of shrugging off such threats.
Finally, I suggest collecting amphipods or other invertebrates etc from puddles etc that don't have fish but have a lot of leaf matter and tannins - for two reasons. First is the absence of fish presumably reduces the likelihood that those creatures are harbouring parasites or diseases that can also infect fish. Keep in mind that some (but not all) fish parasites need fish hosts to proliferate. Preferably hosts with weak immune systems in some cases. So absence of fish hosts in such isolated pools or shallow puddles likely eliminates that risk to some extent. Second, the target microorganisms are growing (possibly from eggs spread by birds?) in relative isolation and in a high tannin environment. The strong tannins also will act as a safeguard against many potential pathogens.
So if you keep all this in mind and breed successive generations of the target species in quarantine before adding the subsequent offspring to your dirted or otherwise natural setup fish tank, I feel it is a relatively safe undertaking.
There is likely far more risk involved with transferring such creatures to your tank from a third party (even well established) aquarium that contains commercially obtained fish because of the reasons stated above.
@@Parasoxsir, for that case, then I highly suggest you to search for professional breeders of amphipod, sure the nearest is the best or anyone who have good rating for selling it as live food
Sometimes you may discover an alarming critter like a leech or dragonfly nymph. Do not be alarmed! The tiny water boatman in my 5-gallon is a unique treasure. Fish can't catch it and don't even try. Get into microfishing. Husband local species of concern. Save the planet.
@@erickborling1302I have tried to cultivate water boatmen in my tanks for my top water predators to chase. I see puddles of water on asphalt in summer that have swarms of boatmen breeding in just a centimetre depth, so I figured it would be easy to make a continuous colony. However the adults are actually an airborne fly! So they're a bit complicated to rear in captivity. There are two types BTW: one that feeds on algae and the other type (backswimmers?) will actually eat very small fish fry etc if the opportunity arises!
Loved that yellow stone natural park story on the wolves and their impact on park and impact without them 🥰😻🙌
This is very exciting. I just found your channel. I absolutely love Alexander Williamson in Fishstory. He is my favourite. I like father fish too. You are also a very good channel. Keep up the good work. I’ve seen a few others that I really like as well. It’s fun to be part of the fish fam. & I do appreciate your channel with I personally feel the best way to keep Aquarium’s.
Thanks. Those guys are great. I watch Fishtory as well
Also, I like the term "Myco-organisms" to describe this size under shrimp above too small top see. Cheers!
Thanks for checking in. I’ve spent way, way too many hours watching your videos.
@uncommonaquatics I'm honored my friend! Awesome to see you working on similar passions!
To be clear, primeval slime is "mycorhiizae" and often in the fungus family, which also live underwater as a... nutrient-broker between decaying material and plants / critters that use it. Don't be afraid of unknown gunk growing in there. After several battles of microbes you may accomplish some stability. It'll never be totally free of interventions, though. Have fun. Do tell, thankx
don't you just mean micro-organisms? myco would mean related to fungi.
@@thehypercasual385i mean type "macroorganisms" as in small but visible without magnification . But autocorrect has failed me again lol
Never in my life I put those scary creatures in my tank 😂
Your fish would like it if you did
Very nicely said, my guy! Love seeing more of this
fantastic concept.
do you worry that if you ever need to medicate the tank for some reason, the food web could be at risk?
My big thought is that this type of aquarium set up is not gonna have as many problems that require medication.
If you do have a sick fish, maybe you can use a hospital tank and still avoid it.
If you have to medicate the tank then it’s going to depend on the medication. There are multiple types of micro fauna and I don’t know how they are all affected.
I do know that shrimp and scuds can survive the medicine used to kill planeria
I saw that wolf video too. It was excellent and everyone should watch it. It’s makes so much sense, that we should be ashamed of ourselves for forgetting a truth that is so obvious.
I took a sample of my aquarium water to see what i can find. I was ashtonished by the sheer amount of diffrent kind of organisms that i found in my house aquarium. I knew there was life bc i try to keep it as natural as possible but i didnt think there would be so much diversity.
You're fortunate to the extent it came without effort! It's not easy to actually manage!
I love isopods, coming from keeping frogs in bioactive setups & needing clean up crews I got into the more exotic types of isopods & now I house/display them as their own setups. You can get some amazing looking ones. Makes sense to do this in aquarium as well so glad you are highlighting the benefits.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts
I have a planted 20 gallon shrimp tank and purchased some plants online and didn't know until I put them in my tank that there were a bunch of scuds in with them. They quickly reproduced in a shrimp only tank and grew fond of a few of my favorite plants and ate them till there was nothing left. I have tried a few times tearing the tank apart to get rid of them and they are like a bad disease. I've watched them over power baby shrimp and kill them and also attack shrimp right after they molt when they can't defend themselves. My cherry shrimp population has gone from over 100 to maybe 30 or so. I've recently added some fish hoping they will eat them and knock down their numbers but I'm sure whatever will eat scuds will eat baby shrimp. what I learned from this is to always clean your new plants before adding them to your tank and never put scuds in a shrimp tank! I'm pretty sure the only way I'm going to get rid of the scuds is by tearing down the tank completely and replace everything. Also since they appeared in my shrimp tank I have found them in 3 other of my tanks and have no clue how they got there but those all are full of fish so their numbers won't grow out of control like they did in my shrimp tank.
If scuds are eating your plants, and your baby shrimp then you probably don’t have enough biofilm and leaf litter in there.
Scuds would much rather eat leaf litter than live plant. Give them a preferred food source and you will have less problems with them.
For a lot of people, they coexist with shrimp, even if the shrimp population doesn’t explode as quickly
I have scuds and daphnia in my tank. And I love to watch them.
How to cultivate daphnia in tank any pointers please.
@theblitzkriegboy I have a shrimp tank. It is a walstad tank. And I use green water in it, thus the daphnia population is thriving.
It is a no flow tank. 30 gallons.
And I also have a 1.5 gallon tank (still water, no filter) with fine gravel as substrate, leaf litter to provide organic substances, and duck weed. It is kept outside. The daphnia population in this small tank is also blooming. Of course not as much as in summer.
I started it with green water and never do water changes.
I hope this helps. And do not hesitate in contacting me if you need more informations.
I really like how you are looking at this.
Thanks.
I collect a few earthworms, clean them out or not, depending on the size. Chop them up freeze them for storage. My fish love them! Free food.
Not suitable for small fish. Most use with care as that's a lot of meat.
Howdy Brock! Looking good. I'm enjoying learning more about the food web. Of note... back in, must have been late 90s or early 2000s I flew out to Montana and spent a week volunteering for the winter wolf research project in Yellowstone (I have relatives in Billings). Wasn't anything you applied for... ya just showed up with your spotting scope and a desire to stand around in single digit temps in FEB and March lol. The people running the project would come around and help us get on the wolves with collars... Most days it was pretty easy to track them. We recorded who mated with who, and when, what their movements were... etc. It was pretty cool (no pun intended). The reintroduction of the wolves was not without its controversies. Won't get into that here... lol. Well done and thanks for sharing 🤠
Cool story
Thanks a lot of this vid man. I used to be aquarium hobbyist and wanted to do everything properly the natural way. I had an Amazon biotype aquarium but with shrimps. Never thought about isopods or daphnea. I just started to want continuing the hobby again 🤩
Good luck to you. It’s a great hobby
You and Father fish are saviors of the fish keeping hobby. ❤❤
I have some of these, but they are in a side aquarium right now. Hoping they multiply before I add some to the tank with actual fish in it. I have a nice scud culture going with them too.
I'm largely retired & I've kept betta bowls off & on for many years, as well as have moved around all my life as well, so I didn't have the stability to really get into the hobby.
Then last year I decided to do a ton of research & went with a natural method that largely mimics my approach to gardening - front-load the effort & leave it the hell alone to do its thing once it's set up & interfere only when necessary. Now I've got 5 tanks & a 6th project on standby (building the stand for a 75g).
It's all plants, nanos, shrimp & snails. All of it's been started with water from the neighbor's pond & everything's been going well for nearly a year now.
Thanks for sharing
i totally agree food web is the foundation for that perfect ecosystem
LIke your presentation and channel btw...keep up the good work.
Thank you
Who you yelling at? ... lol Good information!
Glad i found your channel. I've been following FF for months now, and you just added more amazing info. Watching from Perth Australia 🇦🇺 New Subbie.
Thanks
Stumbled onto the video and I keep terrestrial isopods, mainly to supplement soil health in my plants and specifically for my naturalistic chameleon enclosure they do a world of wonder as a clean up crew and soil health, and had not considered adding them to my nano tank with shrimp and Rasbora 😅 thanks for the inspiration.
Also get you some isopods for your plants they are awesome and easy
Here in Brazil, any healthy garden - by healthy I mean "organic" - have isopods. We call them "tatuzinho", something like "little armadillo". They are really lovely. But to know there are aquatic species of isopods is a cool novelty for me! Thanks!
Thanks for sharing. The food web definitely exists in the soil as well
I agree lots of critters is good
well done my freind 👊🙏
Those balls are a seed pod from a tree. Theyre spiky and sharp when they dry out and drop the seeds. I forget the name of the tree but i can remember having to run across those in socks with a broken arm.
Excellent video on explaining this! This is fun!
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Those "cones" in your little tank are from Alder and Liquidambar trees. The big thing is the receptacle of Lotus seeds. Peace from Fr
4:11 water testing never stop... no matter how safe you think your tank is.
12:23 Those spiked balls are frum a gum tree. Aside from the cool pods and things that come from foreign trees that you buy online, there are plenty of things from native tree species here in the U.S. that you can find for free and collect in the fall for your tank, like oak leaves and magnolia leaves.
Excellent video, learnt something new today. Will add almond leaves and then later on these.
Thanks for watching
Huge Latin geek here
@7:50
Isopod literally translated means equal legs
Iso- means equal.
Homo-/homeo- means same.
Scuds ARE AMPHIPODS!
Scientific name: Amphipoda
Class: Malacostraca
Subclass: Eumalacostraca
Phylum: Arthropoda
Great video yeah I have to 10 gallon tanks one with hundreds of scuds and all different little microfauna and i have been feeding them to my fish. Also the other 10 gallon has shrimp and snails and maybe a few scuds as well but I had to do some changes to it,, also I bought the starter culture for my green water for daphnia. After my 1 gallon jug of green water is fully green im gonna start my 5 gallon buckets started with green water. See my mistake I did with the daphnia is I ordered them and just threw them in the to 10 gallon microfauna tanks and they didn't survive. After I have 3 different green water cultures I will order them again cause your right it's definitely beneficial to the ecosystem. Another great video bro
11:00 right 100%
The wolves were largely hunted to death. It destroyed the ecosystem because they remixed the apex predators. It was a very difficult thing politically, partly due to the mythology around wolves which came over with immigrants that wolves find people very tasty, which isn’t the case and partly due to opposition from ranchers who feared the wolves would prey on cattle and sheep. Great presentation on the importance of understanding what it takes to build a successful ecosystem for captive critters, specifically fish.
Great episode, Brock, totally up my street as I’ve been breeding lsopods , snails etc,etc all year n only just set up a dirted fish tank including the whole ‘food web’. I did mention alder cones (from deciduous trees) in a previous comment but you seemed unimpressed 🤷🏼♀️God bless your endeavours 👍🙏. ✌️🇷🇺☮️🇺🇦✌️. 🙋♀️🤍🇮🇱✌️
My memory for details isn’t the best.
I couldn’t remember what they were called
question i have 6 tetra and 7 corey , what do you recommend to add
Well, that depends on the tank size. Angelfish are a good choice in a lot of community tanks.
Subscribed, supporting your channel from mine in NY. “Joy of fish keeping”
I love this, just pumping out thr videos!
Thanks
Great video Brock! I love building an aquarium from the bottom up. And I’ve utilized Phillips fish works several times. He has some great products. Thanks for the video and Happy Thanksgiving!
I added my ressurection jars one day after setting up my new tank. They thrived in there.
Sadly almost all of them were eaten by the time i added fish to it. Or they are hifing very well.
For me its the best thing to enjoy a tank right away. Seeing all the Copepods, daphnia and little bugs is sometimes more interesting then seeing fish swim around. I really need isopods though. I never managed to find them in the wild. 😮
I think it will take a lot if patience to build colonies and spread them into other aquariums
Isopods: think "rollie pollies." :) I have a couple species of the terrestrial version for my terraria; might need to get some aquatics for my tanks and outdoor tubs now.
Interesting stuff... pleco's, snails and shrimp have made a big difference in my tanks...have you tried elodea in your severum tank ? Mine don't touch it.cheers.
So, when using yard things like sweet gum balls or plants, what is the procedure for disinfecting them first?
There is none. Whatever bacteria and microorganisms are on them, this is what you want in your water.
A lot of people set up a resurrection jar and fill it full of leaves and let it settle for a while and then see what comes up before adding it to a tank
@@uncommonaquatics So if I do that, then what exactly am I looking for? Avoiding snails and dragonfly larvae but anything else? So hard to know what eggs or whatever that you are bringing in isn't it? I really want to stay as natural and economical while still being safe and sustainable. Sorry, new to your channel and returning to the hobby after 40 years.
Humans have isolated themselves from nature for such a long time that we don’t know how to live within it anymore. I’m not only a fish keeper but an avid gardener as well. In gardening people confuse the application of organic fertiliser as plant food but it’s not. It is food but for the bacteria in the soil not the plants. They in turn, they break the course components of the organic fertiliser downs into its constituent parts converting it into a form more readily available to plants.
If you keep lots of course dried leaves and sticks in your tank, it will thrive, pond muck is also beneficial and that’s where you get all the beneficial bacteria from. The leaves are broken down by the bacteria and the imperceptibly small creature in your tank into fertiliser for your plants.
If you have to do water changes on a regular bases clearly your filtration system doesn’t work, after all, water is water and it hasn’t changed for millions of years. Just place plants in your tank and if you think you have enough plants in it, put more in. It may not be an aquascaped piece of perfection but at least you’ll have a healthy environment for your fish.
Every time I look at a pristinely clean tank, I think poor fish. A pristinely clean tank is a sick tank.
Most of your fish were originally collected from the wild, and in some cases fish like Empire Gudgeons and Pacific Blue Eye Rainbows still are. Taking a fish from the wild and sticking it into a sterile tank of water will introduce disease and parasites to the fish as there is nothing in the tank which combats these pathogen, this just stresses your fish, reducing it’s mucus layer allowing more pathogens and parasites too attack them.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on it. I agree with you.
Informative. I still have a few scuds, etc living in a resurrection jar from Summer and wondering how to catch the little buggers (not the snails) to put in my planted natural 10 gallon tank. I have 18 nano fish in there now.
I’m thinking about getting a bigger shrimp net
What I did recently was scoop out some of of the substrate, and the scuds went with it
That plan would mean you’re replacing substrate though
Right! I've seen a large planeria in the mud which I DON'T want! Think I might empty the jar into a large container and try fishing out the scuds. Its full of snails and other micro fauna I can't identify bc I'm still new to the hobby..but the smaller creatures are definitely there also. Thanks for advice.
Not sure if it was covered, would it be ok to have microorganisms with an external filter? Im worried theyd get sucked up into the filter
Daphnia and free floating species will be sucked up, but a lot of animals mentioned here will live on surfaces, so the filter isnt much of a problem
When I cycled my bigger tank with a canister filter initially, i had copepods swim throughout the tank and over all surfaces until i added fish
I have a 95 gallon cold water heavily planted tank with 2 axolotls and mountain minnows set at 68 degrees.How many of those do ya think I need ?
Cool tank setup. I don’t really know an answer to your question. I have not kept axolotls
I think building a food web would still be a good idea
@ same I’m thinking scuds might be too much .I might try the arthropod rolly poly looking ones. Scud infestation looks nasty on the glass lol.
Nice tank,do you have soil substrate under sand in tank behind you,some catfish can be hard on your plants,with plant prices varying,adds up, Anubis,and baby tears,work well with some catfish,cool video.
Not in the 210 gallon because there several fish in there that like to eat plants. The planted tank that I show later in the video has a soil substrate with the sand cap.
It is a father fish aquarium
@uncommonaquatics yes many fish don't appreciate aqua scaping, mainly neon tetra size fish for planted tanks,father fish substrate way too go,I have many tanks with this substrate,cheers.
Ive been thinking about the categorization issue for a while. What applies to high-tech knife edge systems doesn't necessarily apply to Walstad/Natural systems. This complicates things when beginners have questions or people pitching in without knowing the system they're running first.
I’m intrigued by your comment, but I’m not sure. I understand what you actually mean.
What is the particular model name of the devices in your aquarium at 11:30? I have 30L aquarium and I would like to get some O2 into the water, but I don't want to make it go whirlpool mode like with casual pumps
Do these little isopods get sucked up by the aquarium filter?
Everything I’m reading online says daphnia won’t survive in an aquarium.
Should I not invest in them? I was restarting an established tank that has no fish except snails and shrimp atm. Was adding guppy grass and java fens for bottom coverage and thought I’d add dapnhia to the tank bc at least they stay small. Would they survive once I add fish or would they overtake the tank before I even add the fish ?
I would ask those questions to Phillips fish works
He is an expert and I’m just trying out his methods and products
Your example is called ecological food web where all organism who occupy that environment play an important role within the ecosystem to keep it balanced and thriving. I’m not sure but the wolf could be considered a keystone specie.
Wolf is a keystone species lol they're the predators.
The wolfs were brought back and it destroyed good deer hunting in northern Wisconsin. We could fill the freezer in the 90s. Now its the 3rd and last week of deer gun season in 2024. We are still looking for our first deer.
Love this method
I saw the same documentary on wolves! :D
I love the aquarium too
Thanks
Can you get isopods if you don't have plants?
Sure. Isopods implants are part of a complete ecosystem. They are better together.
If you have fish, but no hiding spots, then your isopods will be eaten.
My mom got me a microscope when i was 7years old and ive used it
What's the most important forest resource? Clean water! Interdependence is the law of life. Every person is downstream, so please advise your family to act accordingly.
8:18 Aquatic isopods seem nearly impossible to get in Canada. Anyone know where I can find them or how I can catch some?
Are the graphics delayed or is it just my phone?
The biggest problem is the common consumer not being able to get them readily available at an affordable price in sufficient numbers! What the hell am I gonna do with a couple for $20 plus shipping and handling?!
You can get them for free by doing resurrection jars. I’ll be covering that in a future video.
As far as the cost, I think of it is being cheap because you buy them once and you set up an environment where they reproduce and you can get an unlimited number of them. You are growing your own food source.
I have been seeing small fresh water clams, and micro crabs.
Think about how nature does is. You'd need a much larger forest above the fish tank AND some turbid life-sustaining detritus AND you want that in a few cubic feet of aquarium? Think about the water qualities in lakes and rivers you observe. Are they crystal clear everywhere? Expect algae! Be patient. Try to create that nature in a tiny space. We love it!
Would like some tips please. I just posted my latest video on my aquarium terrarium. I am working on getting a ton more plants as soon as possible. The tank is a 125 gallon tank with an addition built on the top as a terrarium. It is set up for frogs and fish currently. Planing on adding geckos salamanders and such creatures.
I really enjoyed your video. Thanks for reading my comment.
Be careful keeping a scud aquarium next to any other aquarium. The chances that a drop of water containing a scud falls into one of your other tanks is almost a certainty. You definitely don’t want a scud falling into your shrimp tank (and if it does hope it is male and not a female with eggs). One female scud can have up to 2,000 babies a month and the average female shrimp can have 25-50 babies a month. The shrimp cannot compete. The scuds will eat freshly molted shrimp and baby shrimp molt often as they grow. So first you will notice that you don’t see as many babies. Then you’ll notice a bunch of empty ramshorn snail shells and wonder what the heck, the water is fine. Then you’ll notice the adult shrimp population shrinking. It might take 2 years before you get to this point, but I’m trying to save you the problem. Don’t put scuds in with shrimp. In a fish tank they’re great. You can skip feeding your fish a couple of times a week and not feel guilty. I’ve got 5 cultures of amphipods going separately here and I like to drop them in with a turkey baster and watch my fish go after them. I have one culture going in my basement aquarium with a few dozen nano fishes, a couple of glass cats, a mahachaensis betta, a Siamese algae eater and 4 cories. They keep the population in check and I always pull scuds out when I vacuum the gravel. I used to worry about that, but I don’t any more. The amphipods continue to do their job in my aquarium. Keep it clean and give my fish something nutritious and healthy to do when they’re bored or hungry.
Thanks for the feedback. I’m going to populate scuds into all of my aquariums. If I lose my shrimp over them, then so be it
Plenty of people have kept shrimp and scuds together though
As long as you have fish in the aquarium hunting the scuds, you should be fine. If you have a shrimp only aquarium and you are trying to maintain a colony of shrimp, don’t try putting scuds in the shrimp only tank. I’ve kept scuds for over 30 yrs. If you have fish, all will be well. They will decimate your shrimp. It might take a couple of years but you will find out the hard way, just like me. I’ve kept fish a long time but I am “new” to shrimp (less than 5 years). I thought, cool, the scuds are shrimp-like, might be good tank mates for my neocaridina. WRONG. But that is Ok. Some people need to learn the hard way and their own and you might be one of those people. Just don’t say nobody warned you.
I appreciate the information. I was just saying I’m OK with taking that risk that it may hurt my shrimp population.
You could have started by explaining what a food web is...I honestly don't know past any guess.
I would say that the video was 18 minutes of me defining what a food web is.
Father Fish has an entire channel with 1000 videos that are basically all a definition of a food web.
It’s having layers of organisms living in the aquarium that feed off of each other. There should be about five or six layers between bacteria and fish.
This video could have been so much shorter. Love the info given but it was hard to stay focused due to feeling like it was dragged out.
Everybody likes different things
Father Fish has a TH-cam channel where he talks about this topic and not much else. He has done over 1500 videos talking about this subject.
I also like to watch a channel called Fishtory. He routinely does hour long videos talking about micro fauna.
7:45 to get to the unboxing.
Well, luckily, you weren’t watching an unboxing. Aren’t unboxing about the worst kind of videos out there. Even after 7:45 I barely showed them.
I’m just having a conversation with the viewer. Thanks for watching.
@@uncommonaquatics It's more about burying the lede. If someone knows some/all of the stuff said before you reveal what you're adding to the tank, they're going to get very bored waiting through the lengthy intro. You'll increase viewer retention if you reveal the animal/plant/whatever else in question within the first two minutes and use that as a jumping board to have a discussion about how they're beneficial.
In this specific example, I was mostly interested to see what critters you were going to be adding, since I'm already aware of the benefits of having a diverse food web. If the video would have started with a brief explanation of food webs, the reveal of the isopods, and then reasoning behind why you chose isopods over something else, or how you only recently discovered them, it would have been a much more interesting video. That also serves as a hook for people who DON'T know about the food webs to get their initial interest and will likely keep them watching longer to learn more about the fine details.
Not trying to be a smartass, I just value my time, and I think the info you've got could be packaged in a way to better suit the audience.
noting is perfect!! but you got the basic idea
I want this too
Will they eat baby shrimp 🤷🏼♂️✌️🇨🇦
It’s possible, but I don’t really think it’s a problem. There are plenty of people out there who have shrimp, scuds, and isopod all thriving in the same tank.
I think the documentary on wolves is from some part of Canada. I could be 99% wrong.
I had a great foodweb and I bought two freshwater puffer fish. In a matter of two week they killed or ate every single creature.
Thank you for the valuable info 🙏
Scuds destroyed my shrimp tanks. I hate them
how do you change water without sucking these guys out?
Filter sock over the vacuum tube
POND BACTERIA IS GREAT FOR FISH TANK
First tank, I set up in this building was seeded with rocks from my Koi pond
Scuds are great idea but it can outcompete cherry shrimps
i leave all my aquarium tops open the water evaporates i just add more water i have not changed my water in years just add.. this also removes a lot of Dust from your home as it falls into the aquarium bye bye dust mites!!! Clean your filter every 6 months the plants get their food from waste no need to feed plants, im now experimenting with mixing pond water with organisms from the pond