Sadly apple snails are prohibited now where I live. But yea, Pomacea diffusa (the species bred in colorful variants), usually a carrion eater that can't even crunch healthy plants, would munch on duckweed like it's potato chips. 🤤 They ate it all! They collect it in the funniest way, by sitting on the glass at the surface and pulling in whatever biofilms or duckweed that are on the surface, by forming a funnel with the front part of their foot and making an undulating motion (presumably the same as when moving). They collect whatever is there in a bunch of their own mucus, kinda holding on to it. Then, when the food pack is large enough, they let go and drop to the bottom, and will munch down on it while looking like playing air guitar. 💚 Pomacea canaliculata, bigger and very much a plant eater, do the same, just faster...
I found a Beta in a shop so depressed they were going to through him out. They gave him to me and after a few days in a planted 80 Gal square tall tank with a good population of shrimp he is so healthy and funny. With a tap on the glass he flies over for a feed and if I'm taking a photo of the shrimp he is always getting in the way. He does not seem to be eating any shrimp either.
Yes I never new that they have such big personalities. I always thought they were nice to look at but my fighter fish will tickle my fingers if I need to trim plants ect in HIS tank and so much more. As you can guess first time fish mum.@@sefy5082
Its not hard, they automatically do it. Only problem is transfering the larvea to salt water and feeding the larvea. The eggs already hatch in freshwater, so that is the easy part.
@@kayak6591 I have shrimp that were sold to me from a LFS as amano shrimp. They LOOK like amano shrimp. Everything I try to research say the larvae won't survive past a few days, but I have multiple new shrimp that have been alive for multiple weeks, if not a couple months. There were a couple that turned very distinctive, dark black with a brown stripe down the back, and I've been keeping tabs on them. I've heard hard water helps. I do live in a place with hard water. Maybe they were never amano shrimp, but they're definitely not ghost shrimp. Maybe my heavily-planted, under-stocked, 30 gallon tank is keeping the water quality just right. Maybe they are all going to die before they get as big as the three adults, and it's just taking longer (right now they're about half the size). Maybe hundreds of larva have died, and the dozens of small shrimp I still have just lucked out somehow. Every once in a while, I'm reminded the mystery exists, and I dig around a little out of curiosity, but I haven't found my answer yet...
I actually built most of my hobby off market place and free sites. I think the craziest thing I received was a 10gal with two Cory's, two synodontis, a male opaline gourami, and a male betta in it. Of course the first thing I did was relocate everyone. The betta got the original tank for himself, the corys and gourami are in a 30gal, and the bigger cats are in my pond. Most of the tanks I find that come with fish have some unwise pairings. It's not unusual for me to get a free tank and have to use two more to get everyone sorted. 😂
Dude, I've got 8 tanks.......I had ONE......ONE, single piece of ducked that was a hitch hiker like it usually travels...lol.....Over three years, I can say from that one single piece of duckweed turned into GALLONS and GALLONS and GALLONS of duck weed over the last three years pulled from my tanks. I've never seen such an invasive species thrive like duck weed. 😂😂
Thanks for the 4.5 rating. And yes the piece of wood I have is actually a small tree stump that had 1 of its main roots still attached. I have added 3 angel fish and have about 10 cherry bards plus 15 or so neon tetra now and can't forget about my 6 cory gang catfish.
My rat used to eat duck weed, I had also forgot that i had some outside of the tank and she found it and gobbled it up so fast. After some panic googling, I started giving a little bit to her regularly.
Amano shrimp are not that hard to breed and we've known for ages how they breed. The adults lay eggs in freshwater which are swept downstream into brackish water where the shrimp grow up, they then make their way back upstream into freshwater and the cycle repeats. All you need is salt, some filters, some buckets and to keep an eye on things.
@@QuintenPollo Ive always heard that the eggs get swept downstream and hatch when they get into brackish water, but I havent actually looked into breeding amines much, my current shrimp obsessions are the Palaemonetes and machrobrachium genera
OMG THATS MY SAND DOLLAR VIDEO! I added in few more holes to distribute air better still though be wary, this will crush up the internals of the sandollar which at this point in its life dry shell. the air and friction within breaks this down contributing to higher mineral levels in your water like calcium and the shells add to basic ph. Works well in my guppy tank
I tore down my 40 breeder yesterday. I’ve been in a financial and marital rut lately. I haven’t had more than 20 gallons of water in it for the last 6 months. I would add 5 gallons of water a week and feed them. It was a jungle of beautiful plants before. It was overtaken by BBA and string algae and there wasn’t a single living plant. All of my tetras were likely eaten by my gouramis. At one point I had over 200 red cherries too. All that was left was one of the 2 3 spot gouramis, the other one got cooked the week before because I let the thermostat go above water level. I cleaned up my 15 gallon cube that has a school of green tiger barbs that haven’t been fed for a month and are actually thriving and breeding just from the algae. And moved the gourami there. I fear for his fins, but I just couldn’t with the other tank. Hopefully dropping down to just the one small tank will be a little area of relaxation for me again instead of something that I lament looking at.
I had once bred amanos by sheer accident, three times in the same enclosure. the tank was a 10 gallon established for a betta, not specifically for the shrimp; I had them as cleaners. The betta died before the shrimp did, so then it became their home, and they SOMEHOW managed to survive a sudden cyanobacteria bloom. I felt like the Adam Wesker of shrimp.
Been working out consistently for the past 3 months. used to hate going to the gym but now I enjoy it and the feeling of getting stronger and the progress makes it worth it.
I save salvinia, frogbit, hydrilla trimmings, and jungle val trimmings in a bag in the freezer, then chop and boil to add to green beans and crushed plain chalk powder to mix up into a horriffic aspic with plain gelatin for my mystery snails. They love it.
Hi Chris, remember when I commented I had gotten my Bandit Cory Gang? Well, while they were chilling in my quarantine tank, they also did, you know, T-position and stuff. Two weeks ago I moved them to the community tank, but today I've found at least 2 fry in my quarantine tank! The fry seem to do great. So I'll also feed some fine food. I reckon the loads and loads of blue baby shrimp will also appreciate that.
Keep "Welcome back to the end of the video" it's your thing Chris. I really enjoy walking and sit-ups along with a healthy diet it's all I really need to stay fit. 😊
I use to dry duckweed, on a plastic take out lid (wide and flexible) , then stuff it into capsules and they were an okay root tab. Also crushed it into a powder for fish and snails.
Dude, what’s so amazing about breeding Amano shrimp in captivity. All you need is brackish water. every Amano shrimp you buy in America is bread here in America or by the time they got to us they’d all be an inch instead of the little specs that we get
I’ve got a 30 gallon backyard pond with I think 8 or 9 baby goldfish and a adolescent pleco, I know they will outgrow it so we’re planning on getting a bigger one next year(we thought the pond liner was bigger when we bought it) and we have a water lily and a bunch of water hyacinths, I also put some rocks in for structure because I can’t find wood for it so I built a small dock out of popsicle sticks.
Air fryers are excellent dehydrators. I use those cheap adorable little "betta" cubes for sea monkeys, mangrove propagules, a trumpet snail, and for hatching tadpole shrimp. My betta has a ten-gallon. QotW: No, thank you. IDK probably temper tantrum.
most exercise for me is physical therapy, so I couldn't think of any I both enjoy and participate in. But I couldn't deny what Trevor Noah said about gettin' recreationally flabbergasted.
I love the deadlift. I’m a disabled veteran but I find it seriously helps out my back and I have far less back pain when I do leg day twice a week and deadlifts are a staple for me. I got up a little over 700lbs the last time I was in the gym consistently.
I watched a video about duckweed about a week ago that lists all this and more. Apparently people in Asia(specifically China) have been using various species of duckweed for thousands of years as medicine because of the vitamin and mineral contents(and some have antibacterial properties), as well as food for humans and livestock. And in our current age they are using it to make biofuels because it has a super high starch content.
Pigs thrive on duckweed, but it's not just the plant. It's the snails, bugs, and grubs that are munching on the duckweed. When you put it all together, it's the perfect pig feed. If I had the ability to keep a pond, I'd 100% keep pigs for this reason alone.
8:16 Amano shrimp breeding is actually Turing into a thing now. With the right setup and patience (it’s a bit tricky and hard) everyone can breed those shrimp
Floating plants in general are so good because they capture so much nutrients. Personally, I use my excess salvinia as compost. It’s been really good for my plants in top of the old tank water I use to water them.
Amano shrimp breed easily - they berry and release their zoea (larvae) all the time. Put a berried female in a tank with no filtration/current and you get this. The problem is getting from this point (zoea in fresh water) to juvenile shrimp (via transition to salt water and successful feeding until they have gone through multiple metamorphoses) and then back to maturation (transition back to fresh water). There are people who do it, and there are some who claim to have the magic touch and do it easily, but I tried and failed enough times to know that its not trivial.
QOTW: I rock climb, with yoga and swimming as a rest in between sessions. It’s just like how you said, an activity doesn’t feel like exercise, just fun. Climbing is a full body workout, training functional movement, and it’s weight bearing so it helps strengthen bones and joints. Yoga is the same but helps with mobility. Swimming is great too. Same full body, functional movement, but it’s not weight bearing but resistance work. Easier on joints but better for the heart. Used to dance but don’t have the time 😅.
All my fish and snails eat the duckweed that has completely covered the top of my tank. I don't give them food every day since i prefer them to be eating all the food that has grown from my planted tank. I do supplement them of course for a little extra protein through flake food and a small pinch of gel food for the fry that my live bearing Platys crank out like no other. It also gives my betta its protein along with the bristlenose pleco as well. The need a bit more protein than people expect especially when they are growing. Either way the duckweed will never be removed since it is one of the most important plants in the tank.
I got an Amano shrimp that was berried, now I that 20+ of them. I thought they needed a salt water phase when they are larva but they are all an inch long now and getting better. My tank is fully planted the water is RO with Satly Shrimp GH+/K+. I was stunned
Quick question! I have a half-moon betta in a filtered, heated, planted 3-gallon that gets weekly, 50% water changes. I plan to move him to a 10-gallon tank soon (my first aquascape!) but am waiting for some house remodeling to be finished before I will have anywhere to put the tank. Will my fishy be okay for a few months in a 3-gallon? I would appreciate an answer! 😄
@@gamerscove7426 in kerala there are foxtails and anubias in local ponds We can also find find a lot of moss in the walls for closed terrariums (But my area is a hill station )
My favourite exercise is dance, it’s so fun and you can focus on perfecting the choreography so it’s great if you find regular exercise mentally boring, there’s a lot of thinking to do as well
I bred quite a few Amano shrimp- it's not particularly hard, when compared to some other aquacultures. Getting larval Amanos is not hard at all. Female Amanos will release fry in freshwater if the nitrites are low enough and the conditions are correct. The larvae will live about 4-6 days in freshwater before dying, or until they are eaten by their parents or other residents of the tank. You then have to transfer them to full seawater as soon as after release as possible, into a Kressil-syle tank- they can get stuck and dye on the meniscus if the tank current isn't correct. Metamorphosis is tricky- where they go from larvae to shrimp- because once they are shrimp they no longer tolerate saltwater, and the stress of the change can cause massive die-offs. Green water, phyto, is fed similar to a rotifer culture. Next biggest risk is at metamorphosis, where massive die offs can happen as the larvae require salt to change to shrimp, but their new shrimp selves will quickly die in the saltwater. It takes some tricky timing! You do have to make sure they ARE Amano shrimp, though- if they breed in freshwater, they aren't Amanos. There are a few species of Amano look-alikes that will breed in freshwater under the right conditions, the only way you can really ID them is under microscope.
It’s pretty therapeutic making your own fish food, I like to use algae and duck weed/other floaters I grow as well as other ingredients like dehydrated alfalfa meal, soybean meal and fish meal/krill and other meal sometimes its interesting to experiment a little
I've been feeding the extra duckweed and salvinia from. My tanks to my bearded dragon, she pigs out on the stuff. Also seen some papers on its utility in poultry feed back when I was working ag research. It has pretty similar macro content to ideal poultry feed, there strat substituting up past 50% of the diet of meat qual and chicken with duckweed and seeing no reduction in growth or meat quality. This is where aquaponics could actually work, bog filter or refugium on fish a grow out tank that are full of duckweed and maybe watercress.
10:08 just a heads up, multiple personality disorder is not only an outdated term, but its also inaccurate. Please refer to it as Disassociative Identity Disorder instead. Ik you were making a joke, but i just wanted to make sure you were aware. have a nice day!
QOTW... I've been hoop dancing for 6 years and it's the best full body workout for me. Also when i do gravel vacs I use the full 5G bucket as a weight and do 10 lifts, also began doing planks while waiting on a water test strip. Don't at me over the words test strips 😂
How do you run out of duckweed? By having a very fat swordtail that is! There is a ton of plants in my tank so the little floating plants didn't divide fast because of the lack of nutrients, and Surprise the swordtail took care of the rest.
Went to my local river here on guam the other day for some amanos to help my neocaridinas clean up. When i was dumping the amanos in my tanks i noticed the water around them was full of millions of amano fry. Wish i had a brackish setup to raise them in but instead i just fed them to my ember tetras and rasboras
qotw: I practice shotokan karate and I play ice hockey (both goalie and defense). I don't like gym workouts, they don't appeal to the "want to do a thing" place in my mind! ... but honestly the other good workout is changing the water in my household aquariums 😂
QotW: Of all the exercises I did in my life, hoe wa'a, or paddling canoe (not kayaking, not rowing a boat), was probably the best exercise. But if I were to do that now I'd probably die lol. For now, I'm enjoying mobility exercises so I can stop being so crunchy.
great vid this week! it turns out my 20 gals heater was not plugged in for a couple of weeks without me noticing 😬😬i was wondering why all me fish seemed more skittish than normal already my kuhli loaches are swimming around like normal. as for QOTW: i kayak so i get a workout from that but i like running and core stuff too:)
I recently bought new betta for myself and my mom. She got red one and for myself i got blue. I was really debating which one should go in which aquarium bc i didnt have red one before. He probably felt this because right now he has more and more red on him. My fav exercise is breathing, i am super lazy...
If you boil duckweed to neutralize the bad stuff you can eat it too. Would not reckommend unless youre in a pinch. Also, seachem prime deals with symptoms and not problems. For example, if you shed a fishes slimecoat they are still going to be sick regardless of your new inability to tell. If you never learn how to deal with ammonia you instead develop a dependency on seachem youre doing it wrong.
Qotw: I do muay thai which is a Thai combat sport. it is also called the sport of eight limbs because you use your fists, elbows, shins, knees, and feet!( eight lines because you have 2 of each)
I have duckweed infested tub, until I put goldfish in them. Last week i bought new pot to turn into mini pond for small fish but also to grow duckweed for my goldfish. Infinite snacks!
8:49 all my local fish stores that actually stock them usually sell them for $8-10 each, same with blue velvets :'( way too much imo. Also, I'll need to do that duckweed trick from the beginning... I've been trying to rid of the stuff for months in my 28gal planted tank, it's a nightmare lol
I randomly found ftr a few days ago and have been watching the videos, non stop, for so long. It's quite addicting if I do say so myself. So much so, that I had a dream last night where a fish store employee was pressuring me into getting a fish bowl for a gold fish. Let's just say, some fists were thrown...
All these duckweed videos have been making me hungry. Next year once it's growing strong (we're going into winter here) I think I want to try it cooked with rice.
7:49. i was able to breed and raise one amano shrimp successfully once with my poor setup of a five gallon. If i had a better setup i think it would be possible.
DUDE! I can't eat mine, since I keep snails, the snails love it, and I can't eat snails, not even their eggs, and duckweed is too small to wash all the snails off, etc. But the snails would add some awesome protein for my fish! 😂 ❤ Thank you so much for finding this!
Happy FTR day everyone!! Wishing all a super productive, super positive and perfectly stress free week! I'm setting up my first over 20g tank this week with my son. Huge for me and my many nano tanks so wish me luck please on scaping a big boy tank! 🤣 Edit; the tank we'll be scaping is a mix of manzanita and cholla branches picked up in our local mountains and Chris just knocked a submitted tank that had a piece of cholla...😢 Intro person is literally hacking repashy fish food! I've read about Amanos breeding in tanks, seems it does happen but I've heard the larva rarely make it. I wonder if we're watching evolution and someday Amanos will be as easy to breed as Neocaridina. QotW; fav exercise for sure is gardening and hiking w/ the dogs. ✌️
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Look up the water lentils they harvest to make protein powder from. It's duckweed
Dude!!!! That’s me 😁 thanks for showing my duckweed vid!! I also made a spinach, kale, and a carrot version as well!
Really cool. I dry duckweed for my goldfish but never thought to go as far as you did. Gonna try it. Thanks 😊
dude that's so cool, i might check out the carrot one
Nice work you really look like you put effort into making that. You could probably sell it
Wow that’s stuff I wanna try good job!
Agreed, it's very cool! It's one of the best ideas I've seen in a while.
People say duck weed is unkillable
Me and goldfish : allow us to introduce ourselves
After several years of ignoring it, my siamese fish are eating my duckweed like its candy. They are doing me a great service these days.
hahaha u r the akatsuki
I killed mine, i had a bout of depression, neglected my tanks, went back.....they were all gone.
I feel like I need to borrow a goldfish so I can get rid of the duckweed 😩😭
Sadly apple snails are prohibited now where I live. But yea, Pomacea diffusa (the species bred in colorful variants), usually a carrion eater that can't even crunch healthy plants, would munch on duckweed like it's potato chips. 🤤 They ate it all!
They collect it in the funniest way, by sitting on the glass at the surface and pulling in whatever biofilms or duckweed that are on the surface, by forming a funnel with the front part of their foot and making an undulating motion (presumably the same as when moving). They collect whatever is there in a bunch of their own mucus, kinda holding on to it. Then, when the food pack is large enough, they let go and drop to the bottom, and will munch down on it while looking like playing air guitar. 💚
Pomacea canaliculata, bigger and very much a plant eater, do the same, just faster...
I found a Beta in a shop so depressed they were going to through him out. They gave him to me and after a few days in a planted 80 Gal square tall tank with a good population of shrimp he is so healthy and funny. With a tap on the glass he flies over for a feed and if I'm taking a photo of the shrimp he is always getting in the way. He does not seem to be eating any shrimp either.
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Aww how sweet.
Fish are so cool to interact with when they get used to you giving them food.
Yes I never new that they have such big personalities. I always thought they were nice to look at but my fighter fish will tickle my fingers if I need to trim plants ect in HIS tank and so much more. As you can guess first time fish mum.@@sefy5082
8:25 Amano shrimp are so hard to breed as the adults require freshwater but the fry require brackish water.
From what I've seen it's not actually this hard but it's annoying 😂
Its not hard, they automatically do it. Only problem is transfering the larvea to salt water and feeding the larvea. The eggs already hatch in freshwater, so that is the easy part.
I heard also that if you somehow keep nitrites and co at 0, non existing at all. Some larva will survive and reach adulthood.
sounds kinda tricky for sure
@@kayak6591 I have shrimp that were sold to me from a LFS as amano shrimp. They LOOK like amano shrimp. Everything I try to research say the larvae won't survive past a few days, but I have multiple new shrimp that have been alive for multiple weeks, if not a couple months. There were a couple that turned very distinctive, dark black with a brown stripe down the back, and I've been keeping tabs on them. I've heard hard water helps. I do live in a place with hard water. Maybe they were never amano shrimp, but they're definitely not ghost shrimp. Maybe my heavily-planted, under-stocked, 30 gallon tank is keeping the water quality just right. Maybe they are all going to die before they get as big as the three adults, and it's just taking longer (right now they're about half the size). Maybe hundreds of larva have died, and the dozens of small shrimp I still have just lucked out somehow. Every once in a while, I'm reminded the mystery exists, and I dig around a little out of curiosity, but I haven't found my answer yet...
I actually built most of my hobby off market place and free sites. I think the craziest thing I received was a 10gal with two Cory's, two synodontis, a male opaline gourami, and a male betta in it. Of course the first thing I did was relocate everyone. The betta got the original tank for himself, the corys and gourami are in a 30gal, and the bigger cats are in my pond. Most of the tanks I find that come with fish have some unwise pairings. It's not unusual for me to get a free tank and have to use two more to get everyone sorted. 😂
very satisfying
Wow, I can't believe my amano shrimp army got on the FFT! We will conquer the world with this tempo
What are your secrets?
The aquarium hobby world most know!
I have watched directions on how to breed amaros on the U- tube. It looks painstaking. Congratulations on your success. 🎉
Speak to us, wise one, and give us your shrimpy secrets!
your shrimp army will indeed be the new world rulers
When hobbyists are told some thing can't be done and you pull it off with out trying..
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My go to exercise is carry buckets of water to the fish tank. You are an inspiration to fish keepers. I want a bigger tank...
so real🤣
very real, that's every fishkeepers exercise!
Dude, I've got 8 tanks.......I had ONE......ONE, single piece of ducked that was a hitch hiker like it usually travels...lol.....Over three years, I can say from that one single piece of duckweed turned into GALLONS and GALLONS and GALLONS of duck weed over the last three years pulled from my tanks. I've never seen such an invasive species thrive like duck weed. 😂😂
a single goldfish would rid you of your woes in a matter of weeks
Thanks for the 4.5 rating. And yes the piece of wood I have is actually a small tree stump that had 1 of its main roots still attached. I have added 3 angel fish and have about 10 cherry bards plus 15 or so neon tetra now and can't forget about my 6 cory gang catfish.
great job man!
My rat used to eat duck weed, I had also forgot that i had some outside of the tank and she found it and gobbled it up so fast. After some panic googling, I started giving a little bit to her regularly.
I give duckweed to my turtles. They love it and it’s so adorable seeing them swim around and chomp on it
When you realize you have killed even duckweed the unkillable plant
if you have a lot of flow that's only to be expected
flow easily sinks most of the duckweed unless it anchors on to something
No.... it becomes fish poo which fertilizes more duckweed, it.... never..... dies.
Lol my duckweed probably gotten eaten by my shrimp and snails
Lies. Duckweed is immortal.
@@techgirl1337 tell that to the free duckweed I got with stocking that died of nutrient deficiency
Amano shrimp are not that hard to breed and we've known for ages how they breed. The adults lay eggs in freshwater which are swept downstream into brackish water where the shrimp grow up, they then make their way back upstream into freshwater and the cycle repeats. All you need is salt, some filters, some buckets and to keep an eye on things.
The eggs hatch in freshwater actually, only the larvea need salt water
@@QuintenPollo Ive always heard that the eggs get swept downstream and hatch when they get into brackish water, but I havent actually looked into breeding amines much, my current shrimp obsessions are the Palaemonetes and machrobrachium genera
OMG THATS MY SAND DOLLAR VIDEO! I added in few more holes to distribute air better still though be wary, this will crush up the internals of the sandollar which at this point in its life dry shell. the air and friction within breaks this down contributing to higher mineral levels in your water like calcium and the shells add to basic ph.
Works well in my guppy tank
I tore down my 40 breeder yesterday. I’ve been in a financial and marital rut lately. I haven’t had more than 20 gallons of water in it for the last 6 months. I would add 5 gallons of water a week and feed them.
It was a jungle of beautiful plants before. It was overtaken by BBA and string algae and there wasn’t a single living plant. All of my tetras were likely eaten by my gouramis. At one point I had over 200 red cherries too. All that was left was one of the 2 3 spot gouramis, the other one got cooked the week before because I let the thermostat go above water level.
I cleaned up my 15 gallon cube that has a school of green tiger barbs that haven’t been fed for a month and are actually thriving and breeding just from the algae. And moved the gourami there. I fear for his fins, but I just couldn’t with the other tank.
Hopefully dropping down to just the one small tank will be a little area of relaxation for me again instead of something that I lament looking at.
I had once bred amanos by sheer accident, three times in the same enclosure. the tank was a 10 gallon established for a betta, not specifically for the shrimp; I had them as cleaners. The betta died before the shrimp did, so then it became their home, and they SOMEHOW managed to survive a sudden cyanobacteria bloom. I felt like the Adam Wesker of shrimp.
Thanks!
thank you so much!!
I love the welcome back to the end of the video! Unique, simple, consistent. It would be disappointing if you ever ended it!
thanks!
Been working out consistently for the past 3 months. used to hate going to the gym but now I enjoy it and the feeling of getting stronger and the progress makes it worth it.
Just got a job at a fancy salt water fish store! 🔥🔥😎 Thank you for getting me into the hobby!!
awesome!
I save salvinia, frogbit, hydrilla trimmings, and jungle val trimmings in a bag in the freezer, then chop and boil to add to green beans and crushed plain chalk powder to mix up into a horriffic aspic with plain gelatin for my mystery snails. They love it.
The snails eat all the duckweed. Anybody want some mystery snails? They keep hatching out, and have taken over my 75 gallon jungle tank.
Hi Chris, remember when I commented I had gotten my Bandit Cory Gang? Well, while they were chilling in my quarantine tank, they also did, you know, T-position and stuff. Two weeks ago I moved them to the community tank, but today I've found at least 2 fry in my quarantine tank! The fry seem to do great. So I'll also feed some fine food. I reckon the loads and loads of blue baby shrimp will also appreciate that.
Keep "Welcome back to the end of the video" it's your thing Chris.
I really enjoy walking and sit-ups along with a healthy diet it's all I really need to stay fit. 😊
Chirs missing out on naming his fish food "Wang's Chum!"
These videos really cheer up the monday blues
Holy nuts that duckweed hack is incredible!
I use to dry duckweed, on a plastic take out lid (wide and flexible) , then stuff it into capsules and they were an okay root tab. Also crushed it into a powder for fish and snails.
Dude, what’s so amazing about breeding Amano shrimp in captivity. All you need is brackish water. every Amano shrimp you buy in America is bread here in America or by the time they got to us they’d all be an inch instead of the little specs that we get
the duckweed side hustle might be something to look into or just dehydrating as a whole lol i didn't know it was that simple
I did 15000 steps today. Made dinner and watched FTR. The perfect day off. Now I am ready to face the week.
holy cow!
I’ve got a 30 gallon backyard pond with I think 8 or 9 baby goldfish and a adolescent pleco, I know they will outgrow it so we’re planning on getting a bigger one next year(we thought the pond liner was bigger when we bought it) and we have a water lily and a bunch of water hyacinths, I also put some rocks in for structure because I can’t find wood for it so I built a small dock out of popsicle sticks.
Air fryers are excellent dehydrators.
I use those cheap adorable little "betta" cubes for sea monkeys, mangrove propagules, a trumpet snail, and for hatching tadpole shrimp. My betta has a ten-gallon.
QotW: No, thank you. IDK probably temper tantrum.
🧐 Temper tantrums take a lot of energy and raise the heart rate - OK, that works! 😊
most exercise for me is physical therapy, so I couldn't think of any I both enjoy and participate in.
But I couldn't deny what Trevor Noah said about gettin' recreationally flabbergasted.
6:10 of the many many pet stores I've been to, only two have Betta setups like this. I hope more stores will start to catch on soon.
i used to throw a grocery bag of floaters away every week. even after drying my duckweed for food haha
4:18 I would try flipping the wood to stand on the roots/branches and adding some plants around/on it
I love the deadlift. I’m a disabled veteran but I find it seriously helps out my back and I have far less back pain when I do leg day twice a week and deadlifts are a staple for me. I got up a little over 700lbs the last time I was in the gym consistently.
wow!!
I watched a video about duckweed about a week ago that lists all this and more. Apparently people in Asia(specifically China) have been using various species of duckweed for thousands of years as medicine because of the vitamin and mineral contents(and some have antibacterial properties), as well as food for humans and livestock. And in our current age they are using it to make biofuels because it has a super high starch content.
daaaang and i'm chinese!
Pigs thrive on duckweed, but it's not just the plant. It's the snails, bugs, and grubs that are munching on the duckweed. When you put it all together, it's the perfect pig feed. If I had the ability to keep a pond, I'd 100% keep pigs for this reason alone.
Dammit Chris, now the price of duckweed is going to go up because you revealed the superfood secret! 😂
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Amano shrimp breeding is actually Turing into a thing now. With the right setup and patience (it’s a bit tricky and hard) everyone can breed those shrimp
awesome
The duckweed is carrying some fish poop
Floating plants in general are so good because they capture so much nutrients.
Personally, I use my excess salvinia as compost. It’s been really good for my plants in top of the old tank water I use to water them.
Amano shrimp breed easily - they berry and release their zoea (larvae) all the time. Put a berried female in a tank with no filtration/current and you get this. The problem is getting from this point (zoea in fresh water) to juvenile shrimp (via transition to salt water and successful feeding until they have gone through multiple metamorphoses) and then back to maturation (transition back to fresh water). There are people who do it, and there are some who claim to have the magic touch and do it easily, but I tried and failed enough times to know that its not trivial.
QOTW: I rock climb, with yoga and swimming as a rest in between sessions. It’s just like how you said, an activity doesn’t feel like exercise, just fun. Climbing is a full body workout, training functional movement, and it’s weight bearing so it helps strengthen bones and joints. Yoga is the same but helps with mobility. Swimming is great too. Same full body, functional movement, but it’s not weight bearing but resistance work. Easier on joints but better for the heart. Used to dance but don’t have the time 😅.
All my fish and snails eat the duckweed that has completely covered the top of my tank. I don't give them food every day since i prefer them to be eating all the food that has grown from my planted tank. I do supplement them of course for a little extra protein through flake food and a small pinch of gel food for the fry that my live bearing Platys crank out like no other. It also gives my betta its protein along with the bristlenose pleco as well. The need a bit more protein than people expect especially when they are growing. Either way the duckweed will never be removed since it is one of the most important plants in the tank.
I got an Amano shrimp that was berried, now I that 20+ of them. I thought they needed a salt water phase when they are larva but they are all an inch long now and getting better. My tank is fully planted the water is RO with Satly Shrimp GH+/K+. I was stunned
Running and Rick climbing are my happy places.
Quick question! I have a half-moon betta in a filtered, heated, planted 3-gallon that gets weekly, 50% water changes. I plan to move him to a 10-gallon tank soon (my first aquascape!) but am waiting for some house remodeling to be finished before I will have anywhere to put the tank. Will my fishy be okay for a few months in a 3-gallon? I would appreciate an answer! 😄
The duckweed coming back to life is real 😂 That is one supernatural plant
As a fish keeper from India I get a lot of plants from my neighborhood for my tanks ❤
Can you give some examples..I am also from India
@@gamerscove7426 in kerala there are foxtails and anubias in local ponds
We can also find find a lot of moss in the walls for closed terrariums
(But my area is a hill station )
@@alanedits07as a fishkeeper in America I am jealous of your local plant life 😂
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so cool
My favourite exercise is dance, it’s so fun and you can focus on perfecting the choreography so it’s great if you find regular exercise mentally boring, there’s a lot of thinking to do as well
Freezing it also works... I never thought of dehydrating it...! Thanks for sharing...
I bred quite a few Amano shrimp- it's not particularly hard, when compared to some other aquacultures. Getting larval Amanos is not hard at all. Female Amanos will release fry in freshwater if the nitrites are low enough and the conditions are correct. The larvae will live about 4-6 days in freshwater before dying, or until they are eaten by their parents or other residents of the tank. You then have to transfer them to full seawater as soon as after release as possible, into a Kressil-syle tank- they can get stuck and dye on the meniscus if the tank current isn't correct. Metamorphosis is tricky- where they go from larvae to shrimp- because once they are shrimp they no longer tolerate saltwater, and the stress of the change can cause massive die-offs. Green water, phyto, is fed similar to a rotifer culture. Next biggest risk is at metamorphosis, where massive die offs can happen as the larvae require salt to change to shrimp, but their new shrimp selves will quickly die in the saltwater. It takes some tricky timing! You do have to make sure they ARE Amano shrimp, though- if they breed in freshwater, they aren't Amanos. There are a few species of Amano look-alikes that will breed in freshwater under the right conditions, the only way you can really ID them is under microscope.
I just LOVE your video's no doubt. You make Monday's so much better. Exercise? You speak a funny language. HA-HA.
Pullups , by far the best and most fun excersize
Thank you for making another Monday absolutely fantastic!
good to hear it!
It’s pretty therapeutic making your own fish food, I like to use algae and duck weed/other floaters I grow as well as other ingredients like dehydrated alfalfa meal, soybean meal and fish meal/krill and other meal sometimes its interesting to experiment a little
very cool to hear, might rly give it a whirl
4:25 I literally just bought this exact same thing yesterday to upgrade what I have currently, which is a cat treat container lmao 😹😹
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I've been feeding the extra duckweed and salvinia from. My tanks to my bearded dragon, she pigs out on the stuff.
Also seen some papers on its utility in poultry feed back when I was working ag research. It has pretty similar macro content to ideal poultry feed, there strat substituting up past 50% of the diet of meat qual and chicken with duckweed and seeing no reduction in growth or meat quality.
This is where aquaponics could actually work, bog filter or refugium on fish a grow out tank that are full of duckweed and maybe watercress.
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just a heads up, multiple personality disorder is not only an outdated term, but its also inaccurate. Please refer to it as Disassociative Identity Disorder instead.
Ik you were making a joke, but i just wanted to make sure you were aware.
have a nice day!
My first betta was multicolored, fed it bloodworms and a few weeks it became all blue and never changed again.
QOTW... I've been hoop dancing for 6 years and it's the best full body workout for me.
Also when i do gravel vacs I use the full 5G bucket as a weight and do 10 lifts, also began doing planks while waiting on a water test strip. Don't at me over the words test strips 😂
How do you run out of duckweed?
By having a very fat swordtail that is! There is a ton of plants in my tank so the little floating plants didn't divide fast because of the lack of nutrients, and Surprise the swordtail took care of the rest.
The betta and the multiverse of madness😂
Went to my local river here on guam the other day for some amanos to help my neocaridinas clean up. When i was dumping the amanos in my tanks i noticed the water around them was full of millions of amano fry. Wish i had a brackish setup to raise them in but instead i just fed them to my ember tetras and rasboras
5:51 you missed out on the chance to say "clearly betta" 😂
There is a shutter in your phone camera, so when you take a pic it briefly flashes which startles fish.
qotw: I practice shotokan karate and I play ice hockey (both goalie and defense). I don't like gym workouts, they don't appeal to the "want to do a thing" place in my mind!
... but honestly the other good workout is changing the water in my household aquariums 😂
What is your favorite schooling fish to put with a betta in a 40 gallon
Ftr is why Mondays are the best days lol... keep it up ...
QotW: Of all the exercises I did in my life, hoe wa'a, or paddling canoe (not kayaking, not rowing a boat), was probably the best exercise. But if I were to do that now I'd probably die lol. For now, I'm enjoying mobility exercises so I can stop being so crunchy.
bro was a duck weed salesman in the beginning
I love your videos!!Always make the week feel soft
I smashed like when you said Wang's Fish Food!! 😂
I love your videos man, makes your monday better
great vid this week! it turns out my 20 gals heater was not plugged in for a couple of weeks without me noticing 😬😬i was wondering why all me fish seemed more skittish than normal already my kuhli loaches are swimming around like normal. as for QOTW: i kayak so i get a workout from that but i like running and core stuff too:)
I recently bought new betta for myself and my mom. She got red one and for myself i got blue. I was really debating which one should go in which aquarium bc i didnt have red one before. He probably felt this because right now he has more and more red on him. My fav exercise is breathing, i am super lazy...
If you boil duckweed to neutralize the bad stuff you can eat it too. Would not reckommend unless youre in a pinch. Also, seachem prime deals with symptoms and not problems. For example, if you shed a fishes slimecoat they are still going to be sick regardless of your new inability to tell. If you never learn how to deal with ammonia you instead develop a dependency on seachem youre doing it wrong.
13:05 it can go on forever. Just stream it. 👍
I have craft mesh over my outdoor ponds for shade it grows a lot of nice green carpet algae and my shrimps love it .
Qotw: I do muay thai which is a Thai combat sport. it is also called the sport of eight limbs because you use your fists, elbows, shins, knees, and feet!( eight lines because you have 2 of each)
I have duckweed infested tub, until I put goldfish in them. Last week i bought new pot to turn into mini pond for small fish but also to grow duckweed for my goldfish. Infinite snacks!
Is a fish bowl big enough for shrimp?
8:49 all my local fish stores that actually stock them usually sell them for $8-10 each, same with blue velvets :'( way too much imo. Also, I'll need to do that duckweed trick from the beginning... I've been trying to rid of the stuff for months in my 28gal planted tank, it's a nightmare lol
Qotw: all the little forearm curl and twist exercises. It's fun to absolutely blast such a small muscle and get a crazy pump.
I eliminated black beard algae with it.Yes youcan eat it, feed it to fish or use it as fertilizer for all your indoor and outdoor plants.
The 1" per gallon rule is one square inch per gallon. You could easily do 4-6 nano fish per gallon
I randomly found ftr a few days ago and have been watching the videos, non stop, for so long. It's quite addicting if I do say so myself. So much so, that I had a dream last night where a fish store employee was pressuring me into getting a fish bowl for a gold fish. Let's just say, some fists were thrown...
for the workout qotw I'd have to say getting the waterchange bucket onto the rack.
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That duckweed thing was sick. I need to try that. Also favorite workout is uuuh abs or something lol. Idk I just do whatever is around
I love the duckweed hack!
Thanks for reminding me to like your videos. I get so focused on them that I forget to interact lol.
Good idea for the duckweed, but agar agar although plant based isn't actually digestible by most your regular fish
All these duckweed videos have been making me hungry. Next year once it's growing strong (we're going into winter here) I think I want to try it cooked with rice.
Man that mondstadt theme got me checking if i left my game open like 3 times
7:49. i was able to breed and raise one amano shrimp successfully once with my poor setup of a five gallon. If i had a better setup i think it would be possible.
DUDE! I can't eat mine, since I keep snails, the snails love it, and I can't eat snails, not even their eggs, and duckweed is too small to wash all the snails off, etc. But the snails would add some awesome protein for my fish! 😂 ❤ Thank you so much for finding this!
Happy FTR day everyone!! Wishing all a super productive, super positive and perfectly stress free week!
I'm setting up my first over 20g tank this week with my son. Huge for me and my many nano tanks so wish me luck please on scaping a big boy tank! 🤣
Edit; the tank we'll be scaping is a mix of manzanita and cholla branches picked up in our local mountains and Chris just knocked a submitted tank that had a piece of cholla...😢
Intro person is literally hacking repashy fish food!
I've read about Amanos breeding in tanks, seems it does happen but I've heard the larva rarely make it. I wonder if we're watching evolution and someday Amanos will be as easy to breed as Neocaridina.
QotW; fav exercise for sure is gardening and hiking w/ the dogs. ✌️
gardening is surprisingly tough! I think I got a big butt from it
@@FishForThought 🤣✌️
I bring all my duckweed to my friend’s ducks…they love it 😁