RUMMYNOSE tetras in nature, blue rams and green NEONS in their natural habitat
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ก.พ. 2020
- Second edition of this video with narration. See rummy nose tetras, blue rams, pencil fish, green neons, checkerboard cichlids and others in their natural habitat.
Hemigrammus bleheri, Microgeophagus ramirezi, Hemigrammus rhodostomus, Petitella georgiae, Hemigrammus stictus, Hyphessobrycon simulans, Dicrossus filamentosus
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I've been keeping these fish for decades, but seeing them in their natural environment is a blast. Thank you so much. I was always so proud of having 20 or so Cardinals in a school, but wow, look at these massive schools!
came here from girls talk fish
definitely added to subscription
Man I love watching rummy nose tetras. Make me wanna have them. But i hardly have time to maintain them. Love the video!
Beautiful. I always think there must be a lot more demand for videos like this if people only thought to look them up. I'm sure people in the aquarium hobby would like to see how their fish live in the wild. I'll do my best to spread the word and try to make them more popular.
Years ago I had a 150 gallon with ALL different kinds of Tetras. It had lots of Amazon Swords and other plants a few rocks and cool Drift Wood, it looked Really Cool.
Cool footage you have here ...
They show their true colour in their natural habitat
Seeing our beloved fish in their native home is inspiring. Thanks for sharing.
wow this was amazing! This is like a whole documentary! cool!
who the hell would give this a down vote this is a very good video
it was probably an accident
probably people that have pink gravel and plastic plants
People that have a problem with us keeping fish in tanks. People who think they never harm any animals and believe that fish, birds, clams, and cows are all sentient beings.
Interesting! The "Hemigrammus stictus" in those lagoons look very nice!
Thanks a lot for the very informative video! Makes me want to go to the Llanos as soon as possible!
Amazing footage! Thanks so much for sharing!!
Очень интересное видео. Спасибо Вам за подарок.
I would love to see aquarium fish in there natural habitat.
Beautiful futage 🙂
Subscribed. Very informative and I love the overhead shots to go back and forth with the underwater shots. Total habitat!
Very very useful,
now I am on stage of increased demand on knowledge about neons simulans, especially their bahaviours. It is so eye-opening to see natural habitat of fish that I mostly know from ordinary tanks.
Thanks for that video!
Awesome footage
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This is crazy cool
Its so intresting too learn from the biotop if the fish, its like the best teacher you can get
Great footage! Thanks!
Thanks for watching
Thats really cool. I didnt know GBRs were not as colorful in the wild. I guess it makes sense.
Video meraviglioso :)
Interesting video 👌🏼
Great vid!
Amazing
THANK YOU
Wow great video. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
I love your videos! Thank you so much and wishing you all the best!
Thank you so much!
Great info tio
Very nice, thank you!
Thank you too!
Nice 😊👍
Thank you for the informative video to help hobbyists!
Thank you!
nice!
I really enjoy the educational content of your videos and your respect for the environment
Merci!
Cool cool
Very interesting
I have been in the hobby for fifty years and I just discovered your channel which is helping me learn more. Keep up the great work.
thank you!
Hope i can copy those natural habitat into my pond so that they will breed naturally
I've always thought that we keep our tanks too clean.
well, visually they are cleaner than this habitat, but if you look at the pathogenic load and nutrient load our tanks are far "dirtier" than these habitats. With this much water flow, and the roots of the lowland balsa wood forest this water is exceptionally clean.
@@belowwater makes me want to drink it..
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Just found your channel, iv got a question...
What is that thin stringy plant at the 0:35 second mark?
Thanks!!
Probably naja or guppy grass.
amazing footage mate
Many thanks!
Lindos tetras, e ótimo vídeo, parabéns!
obrigado!
Those half red fish are stunning, they would sell like hotcakes!
they are too remote to collect on a regular basis, but I agree it is a very nice fish!
I have got to get me some of them brown pencilfish or "diptails".
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just like my tanks...
minus the whole 'sharing space with 23 other things that want to eat you' stress.
like you look in some aquascape tanks
Subscribed. Very interesting video.
Thanks for subbing!
Hey Oliver, just found your channel and the content is awesome! Do you know where can i get true rhodostomus? I want to include some individuals into my DNA barcoding analyses but i'm still trying to find anyone who has samples, seems to be really hard to find them out there. Anyway, very cool video! Keep the good work!
I am not sure which country you are in... but anyone that imports/exports Colombian fish should have these around.
@@belowwater i live in Manaus, Brazil! Please let me know If you have any contact in Belém who might sent some individuals to me. I've got some samples from Puerto Inirida but they nest within bleheri, so i really need these individuals from the lower Amazon
@@pedrobittencourt_ I am not sure who could send them to Brazil, the university in Iquitos should be the best way.
wow
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Hey I love your videos they are really good what plant are you using in the tank in the introduction of the video
We used a _Najas_ spp.
Incredible! If I may ask, what sort of habitat are Otocinclus found in?
that depends a bit, they can be in those pools when water is low, but more likely if it is shaded, because they would get too hot quick. In the clear water river you saw (with the rummy nose) you would see Acestridium sp. and Oxyropsis sp. instead.
@@belowwater Thank you.
And oh how I wish Oxyropsis would make their way into the hobby.
easy to get, had them here many times. outside of Japan nobody buys them
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Hello, which plant ist that at 0:37?
And where do you recommend ordering good rummynose tetras or cardinals wild caught
most countries will have them wild caught, as long as they have been kept a couple of weeks after arrival they will do great.
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I have a school of 10 in a 210 ltr planted community tank. I noticed some fin nipping to other inhabitants. Is there anything I am doing wrong i.e. feeding or something else?
no, it is normal, i don't think there is much that you can do about it
At 5:34 I think I see some hemigrammus rodwayi (gold tetra) and neon tetra (paracheirodon innesi). Is this correct?
yes on the neons, the gold tetras are tricky , many species that have the gold colour...
No wonder why my wild caught "false neon's" that are being sold to as "green neon's" keep dying on me. I've probably killed 150 in the last year or so and have 5 alive in my display tank doing well. If someone wants to give me a few pointers on how to acclimate them to your tank I'm all ears. I am captivated by this fish that so easily eludes me. But, part of the fun of this hobby is conquering a new challenge.
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All of these fish have tons of videos of them in the wild but loaches are few in far between ..clown loaches are almost unheard of as far as videos of them in wild habitat especially yasuhatakia species and syncrossus ..... I love videos of our aquarium fish as they are in the wild but I think because of the remoteness of the loach- species they are just impossible to find videos of them in the wild
clown loaches occur in large turbid rivers, there is not much to show. there are some videos of other loaches from Asian and Indian you-tubers.
I'll take 20!
What are the little silver with red tail tetras?
Hemigrammus cf.stictus
I have six rummies in my 20 gallon tank with 5 guppies! My water temp is 78c Is my tank too small? Also do rummies hate bright led? They freeze when I turn on the light... :( Please advise!!
they don't like the sudden light change, get a small LED that has a function to turn on and off slowly, or turn on a room light first
What are the tetra-looking fish with the green/yellow stripe that enter the frame @1:55?
a Hemigrammus species, a bit difficult to tell which one...
Why there is no video on TH-cam of encountering wild neons(true neons)? I'm curious to watch
the normal neon (P.innesi) is more of a white water fish you would not see much of them under water - P.axelrodi and P.simulans are in clear and at times black water, so you can film them easily.
Are rummynose tetras found naturally with Laetacara curviceps by any chance?
no, L.curviceps occur far more south, but could occur with rummy nose in the Amazon, but this Orinoco basin habitat has the very similar Laetacara fulvipinnis
Excellent video! Many thanks! Great job!
6:25 Why are there no normal plants? How is water cleaned? Can I keep these fish in dirty water without weekly water changes?
This isn't a tank, it's in the wild, so the amount of fish in there is likely balanced to how much the volume of water and bacteria can handle, probably including some other processes not found in aquariums (this is just a guess). So unless you stock very lightly, you will still have to change the water
You can decrease water changes by having a larger water volume. By planting heavily. By using chemicals like seachem purigen and by stocking lightly.
Water changes though are still important
@@gustavohopkins242 here in the video we don't see any plants! Nothing! Only many dirt! :)
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@@DEXTER-TV-series haha that's because we can't come close to the amount of water volume mother earth gives. In a river it's always a water change. But what you can't see is the emergent growth of plants in these videos. That's plants with roots in the water but growing above the water. The plants condition the water by removing ammonia and nitrogen but also heavy metals and toxins depending on the plant. We don't see the crazy amount of plants like you see in planted aquariums, because plants that have access to the air get all the CO2 they need. Aquatic plants are limited by c02 in water so you usually don't see more aquatic plants then plants above the water. Plants with no c02 shortages will use more of the nutrients accessible and grow faster, out competing plants that don't get as much c02
Because we can't replicate the amount of water, we need to compensate by including many aquatic or riparium plants.
Or you just get rock, sand, gravel and strong filter. You ll have to do more water changes then having a tank filled with plants
I see a ton of plants here: 3:45. Even if plants are above the water, if they are connected with roots they count.
5:25 time a half-body red tetra arrives, what's their name?
Hemigrammus cf.stictus, but they have this colour only in some areas, most of the time there is just a bit of red
so is it a stretch to keep them at 28.5 C with discus, or are they also at this temperature in nature?
rummynose are a widespread, they do occur in those warm temperatures also. I would think that Moenkhausia lepidura or something like that would be more accurate with discus (frequently seen together).
@@belowwater thanks u. ❤️ unfortunately I don't think it is very easy to find on the market.😞 What other tetra fish have you seen together in the wild? (Beyond the classic Paracheirodon axelrodi)
@@Gim-oe6rn i have never seen discus and cardinals together in the wild, nor do their habitats looks similar, or their ranges overlap by much. Discus are also in deeper water in general, you don't see small tetras in huge numbers, i think Moenkhausia lepidura, Jupiaba, sometimes juvenile Brycon etc. think more about fish in the upper part of the water column. I often see Schizodon and Pseudanos etc in those places. They should work nicely with discus. I think Moenkhausia lepidura/dichroura etc should be easy to find - there are several similar species.
Where can I buy wild caught Neons and Rummy Nose Tetras?
likely your local store will have wild caught fish, depending which country you are in, most are still wild.
This in German🙈 😍
What is name of fish with red half back part of body at 5:42 ?
Hemigrammus stictus, but they have that much red only in some locations
@@belowwater Perhaps some genetic subspecie.
We want Cardinal n Rummy nose tank raised, because they are hardier.
So wouldn't the false neon and the green neon make better aquarium fish as they don't seem to need acid waters let alone tea stained water? I've watched too many Neon and Cardinals die in my very soft(1) but 7-8ph waters over the years. What do you think?
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cardinals are usually in clear water also, you can see some cardinals in the rummy nose tetra habitat. What usually kills these fish in the aquarium is higher pathogenic load (more bacteria) and stress, not the water chemistry.
I've kept all my fish with high ph at around 8-8.5 without issues over the years. In my experience ph isn't nearly as crucial as some claim it to be and a properly acclimated fish will typically do just fine.
@@Kazeteiru I've tried for decades..community to neon or cardinal only tanks. Nothing more impressive than to see a 2" female cardinal.Cool water,warm water. Nothing lasts, then the wasting starts with one..and no saving the rest.
@@StanTheObserver-lo8rx That is super weird. What species do well in your water?
@@Kazeteiru Everything else. Neons and Discus I give up on..even then,I've had Discus grow,spawn,live for 3 or 4 years. Neons and Cards? weeks. Never had a single one live past six months if that.
I always had undergravel filters. Maybe the cause.
How do fish know which other fish to school with?
In the case of the rummynose likely the pattern on the tail, there is safety in numbers, and you don't want to stand out.
@@belowwater But how does a fish know what it looks like? There are no mirrors. We ourselves would not know what we look like without a mirror. Or a photo I guess.
why is that the fake neon? what differs it from the "original". live in brazil and those are the neons i most see
the cardinal tetra you know is Paracheirodon axelrodi (the famous Brazilian fish from Barcelos), it is found in the Rio Negro and up to the middle Rio Orinoco, the same place, you can find Paracheirodon simulans, the false neon. It is smaller and the red is distributed differently. The neon tetra that is bred by fish farms in the one from the Amazon, Paracheirodon innesi. If you google the 3 scientific names you can see they are similar to each other.
thank you for aswering !
what are the water parameters for this?
temprature
TDS/hardness
pH
Ammonia
Nitrite
Nitrate
anything else
pH 6.3, GH 1, T 25C, the other things not measurable. I think those values are typical but also they are taken in the peak dry season.
@@belowwater My water tap water parameter is 7.6 ph and 1 GH. I am considering getting the fish most suited to this and building a biotope aquarium. Should I try getting cardinals? I know that the ph will drop over time so would be the ideal environment for them? 55 gallons
@@albinjose7464 the pH is a bit high, but no problem for cardinals if they are acclimated to it. Make sure you don't get them from water with pH6.
@@belowwater I will definitely take care and will only get them from the local fish store. I wanted to ask, if my only concern is the well being of the fish, is the Cardinals still the best way to go for my water condition? I thought I would do Cardinals because I read that their natural habitat has very low GH just like my tap water
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Im no expert but i think those look like regualr neon tetras the red is quite bright (prove me wrong if im wrong thanks)
P. innesi (blue neon) does not occur in the Orinoco basin at all (it is restricted to the upper Amazon lowland some 1000km south of here). Those are just very nice P.simulans (green neons), you can see also the H.stictus in this place have a lot of very intense red.
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stealing Mikolji's video?
edit : I am truly sorry.
I first published the photos from this day in 2004. Maybe you should ask him....
if that is the the case then I owe you an apology. I am truly sorry. Please accept my apology. Great stuffs btw.