chris help i recently got a pea puffer and i put him in a 10 gallon with 4 common guppy's and a kuil loche and he won't stop nipping all the other fishes fins i fed him black and blood worms (live) and no use he still dose it what should i do
Simple answer : 10 you can keep at least 3 pea puffers (solo), this species is should be kept in a exclusive tank for them or share it with small peace true nano fish
Thing is fish don't normally come under animal welfare laws (depends where you live), same with invertebrates. But, at the very least he could take her to court for property damages (possibly claim emotional fines as well) and get some money to replace the fish
Gonna stop you there. Bad advice about the "she killed my fish" ABSOLUTELY file a police report in situations like that. Even if she can't be charged, that police report showing a history of violent actions is enough to ensure she has a record building. Someone that kills things just to make themselves feel something different would be classified as mentally ill and NOT reporting these kind of things is how someone ends up with a girlfriend killing them in their sleep and getting off with no charges because they cried in the trial. As someone that has lived through and survived domestic abuse a couple times, if you don't report it when it happens, no one will believe it later.
@@altalbot1686exactly right, who says she wont kill the next ex's dog or cat after this? To kill creatures youve seen your partner loving and caring for is def a different type of sick, she knew OP loved the fish and still did this
Agreed. And this may be enough for him to get a domestic violence protection order against her, especially if she admitted to it in writing via text. She retaliated to the breakup by killing his pets. He’d be very much justified in being afraid for his own safety. And usually if there’s an active protection order it would bar her from having certain jobs around vulnerable people, and serve as a warning sign for anyone wanting to date her in the future. He could probably also recoup the cost of the dead fish in small claims court but it might not be worth the stress.
Anyone that cruel to any living creature is not someone anyone needs in their life. And yes, he should think about reporting it as this behavior can in fact progress to people. If it were a cat or dog no one would think twice about calling law enforcement!
My dad had an old girlfriend that had recently broke up with him at the time and did the same thing, except it wasn’t intentional. She basically put some rocks in his tank when they broke up first decor or smthn idk she just found them right after they broke up and decided to put them in my dads 25 gallon. Well the rocks kinda dissolved in the tank and killed all his fish. I wouldn’t say it was her fault just cuz she had never had fish and thought “oh he would like the rocks probably” idk I wasn’t alive when this happened so I don’t have all the details.
Hi! Woman fishkeeper here. Although I live in France, I encounter the same issue. Is not so much that you're told you're worse at fishkeeping, but it's about the attitude. Men, especially older men, will always look down on you, explaining basic stuff because they can't fathom how you could possibly know anything. And if you disagree, you're told that they have 50 years of experience with fish, and you should keep quiet. Being 25, I cannot have that much experience, but I've been keeping fish all my life. Plus I am an engineer in biology. And I breed uncommon species of wild bettas, which are a bit delicate. I know I don't know everything, but I am not a beginner, and I don't like being treated like one. As a result, I have completely isolated myself from the community. Best decision I have ever made.
shout out to Chris for recognizing it was his fault when he got bit by a chihuahua. most people get mad at the dogs when they ignored the warnings from the dog (or the owner). the worst dog bite I've ever had was from my chihuahua when I literally saved his life from a large aggressive dog that was trying to kill him. I'd do it again in a heartbeat, but damn it hurt.
success-ish story: I was keeping my betta in a bowl "until I found it a new home" The "home" I was looking at was 3 gallons which I now realize is not enough. Randomly my neighbor was dropping something off and my mom and dad somehow got the topic over to how I was keeping a fish. She then told us about how she had a 6.5-gallon tank that she was trying to get rid of. I got the tank and a month later put in the betta and some neon tetras (I know that's not big enough). I am now saving up money to switch all my fish over to a 20-gallon and this time I'm going to make this one a planted tank and not overstock it this time.
Make sure the neon tetras aren’t nipping the betta’s fins. It’s a pretty common issue with neons which is why most people recommend various rasboras as tankmakes instead
A 1 gallon bowl is just fine for bettas. I kept them happy & healthy in the same one (one after another, not at the same time...) for 2-5 years. They had a soft, plastic plant at the bottom on top of smooth pebbles & a peace lily at the top to keep the lil buggers from jumping out. They got stimulation from toys & mirrors that I played with them every couple of days. I'd change out 2/3 of the water every week or 2 (more in the summer, less in the winter) & they were perfectly happy.
QOTW; This took place when I was 5yrs and both of my parents were avid fishkeepers. My Mom had a 100gl for Mr.Oscar who she taught to ring a bell for food! My Dad had different fish until he went overboard with Discus fish...F those fish they're total jerks. Anyways I was 5yrs and it was time to get fish for the 20gl that had been in my room for what felt like an eternity with everything but fish. Pick your favorite fish. Any fish you want and we'll base the rest off of that one. To everyone's surprise I picked a goldfish, it must have been in the feeder tank, but a goldfish. Now this wasn't just any goldfish...it was swimming sideways fighting not to flip upside down. It had not two but only one eye. Fins and tail were just fractions and memories. That one! Umm...the store employee looked at my Mom painfully aware of state of the goldfish, I don't know she said again looking to my Mom. Try as she might to get me interested in any other fish nothing else would do and at 5 not understanding the weight of my Mother's words she gave in and said "You're going to learn a valuable lesson out of this". With a sad face the employee didn't charge for the now almost completely upside down fish I carefully held in it's bag of somehow rapidly becoming slimmey water. "Just come back tomorrow and we'll try again. Remember the tank was in my room and my Mom said like birds sometimes you need to cover the tank over night, clearly not wanting me to wake up first to see the aftermath of my 5yr old little girl decision. Next morning he was alive, and the next, and then again!! That one eyed goldfish grew back fin's and a tail, not his eye that wasn't coming back. I had him for over 12yrs and moved 3 states with him. I used to think it was the love of my 5yr old heart that magically kept him alive and nursed him to health but I think we all know it was my Mom who wanted my little 5yr self to stay in a place ignorant bliss a little bit longer...not sure how she did it but she was the one who saved him.
That’s awesome! Glad you got your lil buddy ❤ my bf’s mom has a tank and she used to have oscars and 3 feeder goldfish survived and i love them. I named them pickle(m? Orange), pineapple(f? White), and peach(f? Orange)
@alexmic3577 it had nothing to do with the tank itself. Rather my own stupidity lol Basically, I had my goldies in a big round 10-15 gallon bucket with their filters, heater, plants, and driftwood. It was just a temporary setup for them to keep everything working and alive while I emptied my 60 gallon (I was preparing to transfer everything to my 75 gallon). Well, the first mistake I made was putting HOB filters along the rim of a ROUND bucket. Keep in mind the entire time I was working on emptying my 60 gallon aquarium, the filters hadn't leaked onto the floor or anything. So I thought the filters would be fine. Now, my second mistake. I left to go take a 2-3 hour final exam on my college campus. I thought that because nothing had gone wrong while I was there, everything would be fine while I was gone. I had pressed the bucket with the filters against the wall to make sure the filters didn't tip or fall out while I was gone. This inadvertently created a "path" for the water to pump out the back of the filter and onto the carpet the entire time I was gone. My dad only noticed when water started coming down from the ceiling. My goldies are now in their brand new 75 gallon tank! And they couldn't be happier! If you check out reddit, I made an update!
I didn’t even know you could keep them in a tank. When I was in high school we had one that lived in a burrow in our backyard. Whenever we had fruit or vegetables that were leftover or just a little too ripe, I’d chop them up and leave them near her burrow. If we went too many days without feeding her, then around dusk we’d hear this tapping on the sliding door, and she would be there banging on the door with her claws. They’re really cool animals.
QOTW; SUCCESS! Bought my 70 year old, lonely mother a tank for her birthday. Set it up while she wasn't paying attention. Got some plants for it and a little tunnel. Told her once it cycles, I'll let her pick out a betta. A little while later, she's picking out the perfect little buddy and a companion snail like an excited kid. She hasn't owned a pet in 60 years. She took 3 days to name it so it was perfect too. Finley O'Gill and Paddy McSnail O'Two. A week later, she's buying every toy she could find and fussing over feeding time and tasty snacks. Just hit month 3 and she decided to upgrade them both. Finley and Paddy will soon find themselves the sole residents of a FIFTEEN GALLON TANK! Spoiled a$$ fish! 😂 I told Mom I was happy that she took to her new friend so well. She responds: We he's my responsibility. ❤
We definitely get some misogyny from customers in my store, but when I'm introduced with "Her parent's have kept fish for a long time and she's been keeping fish for over 20 years" they usually shut up. Like. I'm 32. This is basically my lifeblood.
I've never had a tank leak or break, or need any kind of repairs, and my youngest tank is 48 years old. My oldest tank is 68 years old. Most of my 28 tanks are between 68-60 years old. They are my dads tanks he bought when he lived in Florida. Since then the tanks have traveled to Texas, New York, Chicago, Washington, and have spent 45 years in southeast Alaska. My dad was in the Military and when he was transferred, he packed up his fish and tanks, and transferred them with the family! When he decided to get out of fish, he gave all his tanks to me, and I took up where he left off. I was 13 I think. He got me started by buying me a matched pair of stunning 3" Black mollies, and a beautiful pair of blood red platties. I branched out to breeding angels, albino cory cats, Firemouth Ciclids, Every color of Mollie available, I can't help it, Sailfin Mollies will always be my sentimental favorites. Black Sharks, and stunning Gold Butterfly Koi.
The stick is a shrimp pop, you can buy them with shrimp food like spinach or pumpkin attached to it. They tend not to be cheap but they are very fun to see all your shrimp flock it.
My biggest success in the hobby is to breed otocinclus. I had them for over two years in a tank and a couple of weeks ago i setup a new one. After two weeks of cycling the tank, i moved the otocinclus to the new tank to get rid of some algea. Yeah the cange in water temperature and pressure broutht them to breeding. Now i have about 30 baby otocincles in my new tank. Note: its extremely hard and rare to breed otos in captivity because they only breed when rainseason starts. Here in Germany most of the otos in stores are caught in nature. So im a very proud fish dad now XD
Saturday my wife and I went to a petco near us. Unfortunately we don’t have a good independently owned fish store so it’s our only option. There was a 10-12 year old girl and her dad that were shopping for fish. They told the employee (he introduced himself as the petco aquatic specialist) and they told him they wanted two plecos and a gourami. When he asked what size tank they have they told him a 5 gallon. He then proceeded to say, “you probably need to consider something different for a tank that size, but I’ve done my due diligence so I’ll still sell them to you” Even my wife, who isn’t really in the hobby, thought it was wild
QOTW I met my future wife at the LFS. She had been working there since she was 18, grew up surrounded by aquariums as her father was a very passionate fish keeper. I would come in to buy fish and equipment, and admittedly would only come in the days I knew she was working. At one point she had to take leave for medical reasons, and my frequenting of the store led to the owner offering me a position. Sadly I didn't realize it was her position. I had been looking forward to working with her. Thankfully she still came in to shop, and one thing led to another, we wound up tying the knot! Now we happily have a serious case of MTS, and our son has inherited it too. Not technically a fish success story, but definitely the fish gave us our success story! Love your channel, can't wait for next Monday!
Just found your channel! Even though it’s an incredibly sad situation about the dead fish, the Naraku reference made me subscribe. An anime fan and fish protector? Sign me up for a three hour binge.
Thanks for posting! I’m moving my betta to a 10 gallon with a big driftwood piece,a couple of big rocks, and live plants 🌱and also a lot of people are crazy in this generation it sounds like the girlfriend was coo coo like who would do that to a fish???
Hi, female fishkeeper here. First, that's Howie the crab. She's famous on tiktok. Love her. Second, yes there are good female fishkeepers , men have just saturated the hobby and some of them have harsh critiques on women in the hobby. When I first started I had a 40 gallon breeder beautifully aquascaped and planted. The fluval aquaclear 50 HOB filter on it got cogged and I has 20 gallons of water on the floor overnight. That's how I learned pre-filter spomges/mesh screens were a must , way before I started shrimp keeping.
Biggest success was accidental. Added hornwort thinking it'll be a cool looking plant that will grow up from the substrate. Turned into a huge floating plant. Probably 6 feet to 7 feet long at one point with multiple branches. It has been the best buffer for nitrate and nitrite!
7 minutes ago my Monday was made a better and brighter day!! Wishing the FTR crew and cory gang a super productive and peaceful week full of fishy fun!! ✌️ The shrimp covered stick is definitely food 😂 a few companies have shrimp sticks or shrimp lollipop type food and yes, you need to have a lot of shrimp for the shrimp to eat all of the food before it sours and mucks up your water. QotW; my best success in fishkeeping is just the community I think. I hadn't had a tank since my son was a baby (he's 19 now) after the baby wipe incident (he, as a toddler, thought he was helping me clean the tank... By wiping the interior glass with baby wipes he left in the tank. Lost all the fish☠️) I quit fish. But a couple years ago he found the old 20g in the garage and asked if I'd help him set it up. We went straight to you tube and found this wonderful community, set up his tank as a biotope and joined our local fish club. Now he has 3 tanks and I have two 10g and half a dozen nano tanks spread throughout the house😅. But the communities both here and irl for me, being a lifelong introvert are awesome! So much better than going it alone in the 90's when I was 14 and got my first tank and only had the library and a local fish store for support. So thanks Chris and this channel's fellow fish nerds and the wider fish yt community for being so amazing, helpful, informative and quick to call out animal abuse. Keep being your awesome selves!! 🙏💙✌️
So am feeling those aquarium leaks. I was fortunately home when my 75 gallon show tank sprang a leak, so I was able to hurriedly get my fish into alternate accommodations (yes, they're only swordtails and cory cats, but they're still my sweet little babies). Just got a replacement 75 gallon acrylic tank with a lifetime leak warrantee, got it set back up (fighting black beard algae right now, but all my java ferns and anubias are still merrily growing and sending up new leaves and shoots so I'm not worried about their health, just about the aesthetics of the tank).
QOTW: my best success was definitely my second betta, Rayla. I went to the pet store with my mom for cat food, saw him on the shelf. He wasn't moving, super pale, just floating on his side. I thought he was dead at first. I spent my last $100 on a 3gal kit and a heater, not really expecting much but wanting him to be comfy in his final moments. Three days later he was getting red on his fins, six months later his fins had totally regrown and his body was fully blue with red fins. He was gorgeous. He only lived two years, but he was my favourite boy
Happy Monday! My success was when I rescued a rose-tailed betta that had almost half it's tail rotted off and it grew back in 6 months or so and looked beautiful
My Greatest aquarium accomplishment. One of my corydoras jumped out of the tank and dried up on the floor. Miraculously she was still alive (she was crunchy levels of dry). I nursed her back to health and she showed no signs of her ordeal except a small scar on her forehead. She was my queen. my big mama. She was my favorite... Until my mother ended her but that's a different story.
@@woofawoof7616 I had to move to protect my mental health. The apartment I moved to only allowed one 10 gallon tank. I took my betta fish but I felt bad about putting big mama in a 10 gallon. The tank at home was quite overcrowded and even though I tried to convince my mother to surrender them to a Petco to thin their numbers she refused. She put all of the fish in a unused black hard plastic pond outside in direct sunlight. By the time I came to their rescue hoping to at least find Big Mama over 80% of them were dead. I was so distressed that I couldn't make look for her. I knew the fish were suffering so I killed the rest of them and tried to just move on. I didn't want to overcrowd my tank but I really wish I had taken my three original female corys and put them in my 10 gallon anyway. I moved because my parents don't understand that the actions they do are wrong. They do things without considering anyone else's feelings. I'm autistic and was mocked for it my entire life. Even after my diagnosis, even after my parents said they accepted my disability, they still mocked me multiple times a day. I couldn't handle it and I had to leave. I just wish my fish didn't have to be harmed for my freedom.(my parents are literally insane they locked me up in a psych ward because I threw gallon of water at the ground and tipped a chair over.... They acted like I tried to destroy the house or hurt them ... There are other things,worse things, that my parents have done but I'd rather not talk about it. They are emotionally stunted because of their personal childhood trauma and for the most part I do not blame them for their issues but it is unhealthy for me to be around them.)
Im so sorry for your loss. This is horrible. I don't know full story, but your parents don't look like good people from an outside perspective... I hope you're ok now. @blackfalconotaku4392
@@vickypedia1308 not really? The staff didn't really do much but hand out meds and offer to play cards. I only met with the phycologist once. Honestly I needed a break anyway. I was exhausted from all the fighting going on at home so I mostly slept and read books and looked at the pencil and marker graffiti left from previous occupants. I don't really remember how long I was there? I don't know I was kind of distressed my parents treated me like I was a psycho and I was pretty hurt by that but at the same time their house was not good for my mental health at all so yeah I mostly just rested until my parents decided they wanted me back.
hey chris happy monday!!! my best success in this hobby would be when I was a child, I had a 20 gallon probably an produced an ARMY of guppies. my dad had 10 pond tubs for pond plants to sell and I filled them ALL up with just my little tank lol. hope you have a great day and can't wait for you to review my tank!!
QOTW: my biggest fish success story is pushing through my executive function issues and setting up a planted tank for my false siamese algae eater! It's at least 12 years old at this point (expected lifespan is 10 years) and was housed in a too-small aquarium completely covered in algae that I only topped off once in a while. I feel so bad for neglecting the poor guy for so long. It's is so much more confident in its new tank, and I'm so glad it'll live out its final years in a healthy environment. :)
QOTW: I had just started keeping shrimp in a 5 gallon tank and i found a bunch of pests in my tank (Planaria, Hydra, Scuds etc). I didn’t know what to do so i looked online and found out that using dog de-wormer could be an option, so i dosed the tank with it and all the worms and hydra were gone. But there were still scud so i did a full clean up of the tank but somehow the scud came back. So i did a full full clean up too set it up as a dirtied tank. It has been running now for over a week and shows no signs of scud. (Im only 12 i should not have to be going through this suffering).
The stick is either a “shrimp Lollie” (food stuck to the stick) or it’s a wood skewer being used to grow some extra bio-film and algae’s for the shrimp (still food but more of a DIY thing)
About the beliefs of "women are bad at fish keeping": actually, anything that usually men do, they claim women are bad at. That is why most don't like to claim their gender or post anonimously in groups etc. Video games, aquarist groups, technical groups, fishing sports etc. The moment others learn they are talking to a woman, their whole attitude changes, and start to A) talk like they are dealing with an idiot, B) come up with pick-up lines, C) try to change their own behiavor stating "ladies here, behave". Annoying. Last week I went to pick up a secondhand speaker set and the guy looked at me like "how the hell am I going to talk about specifics with this one", and visibly looked relieved when my dad showed up behind me. No matter that I knew just as much about the topic.
My success story would be when I was trimming moss in my celestial pearl danio tank and found 2 newborn fry a week later. I have kept the moss in a bowl of water to make sure any ramshorn I accidentally removed, would be returned to the aquarium. So i see 2 ‘eyelashes’ swimming in the bowl and i freak out since I had never seen fish fry before! Against all odds, they survived for 3 months, got big enough and a couple of weeks ago I reunited them with their fish-folk! I was in a state of constant anxiety to not mess it up and I’m so glad for all the information on the internet. Their names are Crunchy and Max!
The first thing I always do when I see your Monday instalment of Fish Tank Review is like it. Nope, haven't watched it yet but gave it a like to make sure I am doing my part. And now I need to add commenting to that. Because it pleases the algorithm gods.
The stick with shrimp on it is called a shrimp lolly! It's got powdered food on it. I like to use it as a vacation feeder too because it doesn't really dissolve in the water so fish/shrimp will slowly pick at it. Comes in different flavours like spirulina, brine shrimp, etc. QOTW: Always feels good when my fish breed. Makes me feel like I'm doing something right if they're comfortable enough to do it. My pair of Kribs are raising fry that are about 3 weeks old now and I just pulled two panda cory eggs from a community tank.
One of my best successes was finding this channel before getting a fish. I’m getting a betta soon and I almost got a 1 gallon tank, but now I have a 5 gallon and a 10. Buying a betta later this month
I'm fairly new to the fish tank hobby, but I suppose my success story this far is moving my 20 gal betta tank (one female crowntail) to only top offs with an abundance of happy, healthy plants that have kept the water within excellent parameters for the last 4 months. My girl Calypso is a very happy little girl 🥰
My greatest accomplishment is moving a rescued goldfish from a bowl into a planted 30 gallon and him being still alive 5 years later. My baby boy is 7 and stunted but has grown since I've moved him into the 30
The thing about tanks silicone failing and leaking out...its pretty rare, but also very hard to predict and detect before it happens. Unless there is a visible hole in the silicone, tanks can really fail without warning even after holding water for years. It's a silent risk we ALL take by keeping many gallons of water in glued together glass boxes. Always have homeowners insurance because the damage from anything over a 20 gallon is going to be akin to a plumbing failure in your house. New floors and new walls.
Oh wow that scape looks amazing! I’m trying to do better with mine lol 😂qotw: probably learning from my mistakes or realizing that I’m better at Fish keeping then I was lol 😂❤
Best success in fishkeeping, getting my 5yr old nephew into it, he was fascinated by mine so I set him up with a 6 gallon shrimp tank over the weekend. Also left his parents with detailed care instructions and told them to call me if they needed help lol
QOTW success story: I bought a betta for my son for Christmas since he's been begging for a fish for a long time. He's always loved aquariums, and I haven't had the motivation/room for a proper aquarium. I started with a 6 gallon tank, obsessively watched all your videos, realized I gave my poor betta fin rot, and was doing everything wrong in a planted tank. So I upgraded to a 20 gallon, got nutrient rich substrate, more plants and wood to scape it with. We even added some shrimp and snails! Betta's doing fantastic and honestly probably getting fat. It's tough to teach a 7 year old that fish don't need to eat so much. Especially since I'm sure the betta's ate a few of the shrimp in the new tank. Maybe not too successful for the shrimp, but the betta is living his best life! 😅
Hello from Germany: The stick in the shrimp / Oto tank is actually shrimp food. It's quite common here for shrimp keepers (it's called "lolly" here) - you can both buy it (I recommend Schmitt Aquaristik) as find a lot DIY recipes for this. It is soooooo much fun to watch the shrimp feeding on the stick. Especially when you want to get an overview of your shrimp. Also some Otos love them. And the tank brand is Dennerle - a great German brand with beautiful tanks, especially for nano tanks / shrimp tanks / small scapes.
QOTW: My fish successes are average, nothing particularly stands out. But I was most proud of a female betta I had. Her name was Maria and while she was a common dark blue betta, she was enormous! Body length of about 7cm and chonky. I've never seen another betta her size, she outweighed even the biggest males I've seen. She was so large, I thought she was possibly male for a while.
This one helped me feel less alone. Thank you. …I have a fish box where all my supplies are kept but at some point ig someone took the net out and through it under the sink where we store chemicals, I’m assuming one of the kids in the family. Anyway had an old fish pass and my mom scooped it out and later allllll of my fish were dead. I have been heartbroken and feeling guilty for not searching for the net when I realized it was missing. I assumed in the kids room, but my mom said it was under the sink, I assume the kids slipped it through the crack bc the child lock allows a small gap of the door to open. Idk… just wish I would’ve found the net and cleaned it. The slow leak guy must be feeling the exact same way.
The stick that all the shrimp are feasting on is called a "shrip lollie". It's shrimp food baked(?) onto a wooden skewer. My shimps (also the snails and ottos) go wild for these things. It's a great treat!
Chirs, your videos got me into aquascaping. I made a planted tank and my dad got absolutely hooked with it. Now whenever he goes on buisness trips and has a day off from work, he collects unique shaped hardscaping rocks and bring em home. I love explaining various aspects of the tank to him :) . Thankyou!
QOTW: I'm still excited over getting my betta, Captain Black Sparrow, to survive 3 years. He nearly died during Covid when I had to move back in with my parents during quarantine, and the hard water nearly killed him, but I started using distilled water to balance things out. I think the fact I got him from a local pet store and not Petsmart may have helped too.
My biggest success in fishkeeping is the ongoing process of knocking myself out of depression and getting my life in order thanks to starting this hobby. I just got my first car in 20 years, so I can cruise around recruiting members for my cory gang.
Hiii I'm a pretty new fish keeper and I've had my tank setup for about 9 months and I'm also a student. I really enjoy your content and find it educational and also very entertaining. I have a 20 gallon with 6 black skirt tetras and a pleco. I used to have 6 guppies as well but they all passed away early because of aggression with my tetras. My tetras hadn't shown aggression when I first got them but unfortunately about 6 months later started attacking my guppies :( . I had done a ton of research and most of my sources said they'd be great tank mates. But they were not. I also have 4 nerite snails and do a water change every 1-2 weeks depending on how dirty the tank is. I feed them fish flakes and occasionally boiled vegetables and my pleco usually eats algae patties with a bunch of other healthy ingredients. I only have one live plant in the tank and it's a golden pot god and it seems to be doing well in there. If you guys have any advice for my husbandry I would appreciate it!!
The stick is a shrimp lolly. I recently got some at a small fair last week. Shrimp like it and these lollies come in various flavours of everything good for shrimp. The tank is a Dennerle NanoCube. These Dennerle scaper tanks are very pretty, with rounded corners in front.
I made a natural 3 gallon bowl on my patio. The eastern gambusia ( mosquito fish) have had babies a few times and the ones that are living in it now are the fourth generation of the original. Also have one least killi fish I caught. The plants are growing well. I have an elephant ear plant that grows in a vine like pathos and a mini pond lilly. The vine wines around half of my patio. Thinking about breeding the killi fish next, need more.
QOTW response: I don't have fish yet as I am waiting for the big 3 Nitrogens to chill. I am fully planted now! My biggest success was me letting my property management know about the tank thinking I was fine (I had already scaped and started cycling it, so I couldn't return nothing). Turns out they did not put "aquariums" under the lease, but as "fish tanks". And the answer to having fish tanks initially was no. Fortunately they talked with the owner and just had to make sure my renters insurance covered a spill. 12 bucks a year more on the insurance and I was cleared to keep fish!
Chihuahuas - and little dogs in general - just get no respect, they're constantly touched, picked up and treated like a stuffed animal. Honestly, I would bite too if people behaved like that towards me. QOTW: I nursed a snakehead back to health that got ripped up by his tank mates because he was a lot smaller (it happens with snakeheads, groups of usually siblings are fine together for a while until they aren't and then the smallest really gets it). I didn't think he'd survive, he had no caudal fin anymore and looked like half a fish at most. But he made it and I had him for 9 years after that.
to Women With fish Where Are You I say, the only salt water fishkeeper I know is a woman (who has since moved to FL and rehomed her tanks). I keep freshwater fish and shrimp (and snails, and the odd damselfly that sneaks in) ... but I don't follow any of THOSE chats, cause Chris here is The Best. You just need to find the right habitat. 😃
I worked at a dog daycare. The only dogs who but me were the ones people would never worry about- grumpy little Shih Tzus, Labs (treat grabbing typically), a Newfoundland, and one rambunctious Great Dane.
I was just rewatching some old videos of yours and I found a trend. The trend being: "Oh I wanna keep these someday" or "I wanna have this kind of tank" so Im excited to see whats going in there. I hope splash tetras (one of your listings) but still would love to see anything Also some plants are in, gonna get more tomorrow and then I just have to wait like 3 weeks more sooooo Im almost there
Success story: my Murray River rainbow fish are 5.5 years old and i was able to successfully breed them and raise 10 fry... Which took 6 whole months to grow to an inch. BTW, i am a woman who's been keeping fish for 19 years now and do run into misogynist behavior from time to time. Men are mostly patronizing, they think it's cute that a woman wants to keep fish, not that she could be entirely serious about it. I love it when they start "man-splaining" I'll lean into for a bit, you know, with the dumb look and ask, and then start asking progressively harder/technical questions. Some realize, some don't, lol
The cockatoo statement is so true 😅 have owned cockatiels, blue & golds, scarlet macaws, green wing macaws an African Gray and a common umbrella and Only the cockatoo would never be nice and bond with a family member like the others. I've seen other people with nice ones but it was not my experience 😅
Qotw when I first started the hobbie and was starting out I had bought a few platties and a pleco but I failed in seasoning the tank prior to adding my fish so one by one everything was going belly up with only my one male plattie and a mystery snail but I was able to medicate the fish back to health after he came down with ick add a bunch of plants correct the biology of the tank and later breed both the plattie and the snail and I will have happily homed the plattie now for two years so my advice to new fish owners is learn the basics and plants are awesome 😎
QOTW: My biggest success in the hobby is pretty small. I consider it a big win though. We had an ice storm that knocked out our power for 3 days. I was really underprepared and overwhelmed. I had a small battery that was going to be used for charging phones in case of emergencies. Instead I used it to keep my filters running in my 3 tanks. Used some other helpful tips to keep them warm and didn’t sleep much. BUT everybody lived!
I agree that there should be background checks. At the pet store where I live, they ask you what fish your tank is currently stocked with, and ask the tank size so that they know that the fish will be compatible with the other fish and tank you plan to keep them in.
The goldfish come back because the water is cold in a deep lake, fish tend to come the shore where the water is warmer and slowly adapt to it. That kid just happened to stand in the way... and the fish probably don't fear him or her.
Once saw a fish some kind of black algea eater at a pet store that literally looked like a black blob with fins and sometimes had to go understuff to not float up
My best fish keeping experience so far was the time I successfully saved 3 cherry shrimp eggs that were dropped prematurely with a homemade egg tumbler I made in about 10 mins. The shrimp all survived and I have since lost track of which ones they were out of all the shrimp I have haha
Had someone tell me with full confidence, refusing to hear otherwise, that my betta female betta would only live a week… she is healthy and thriving in a planted 10 gallon with chili rasboras 2 years later
Best success was probably accidentally setting up a breeding habit for sparkling gouramis in a 10gal community tank. Started with 4, lost 2 and somehow had a breeding pair. The babies are cute
The best success story for me is my first tank, my 55 gallon. It was leaning forward a good 3 inches the whole time it was up (year and a half), and never burst. It was a great learning experience when I posted it online and asked about the leaning. People were screaming at me to take it down and readjust lol
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chris help i recently got a pea puffer and i put him in a 10 gallon with 4 common guppy's and a kuil loche and he won't stop nipping all the other fishes fins i fed him black and blood worms (live) and no use he still dose it what should i do
Yo I have a nitrite snail invasion help 🙃
Simple answer : 10 you can keep at least 3 pea puffers (solo), this species is should be kept in a exclusive tank for them or share it with small peace true nano fish
Asian mom fried beta fish to make chips (super cute story)
I’m pretty sure you can call animal control on her, because that is considered a crime to deliberately kill pets
You can definitely press charges.
It's animal cruelty so definitely a crime
Thing is fish don't normally come under animal welfare laws (depends where you live), same with invertebrates. But, at the very least he could take her to court for property damages (possibly claim emotional fines as well) and get some money to replace the fish
you can get them for vandalism of your property. that's about it. She'd owe money to him for sure.
Especially if it's rare or more expensive breed, then it's also a financial issue
Gonna stop you there. Bad advice about the "she killed my fish" ABSOLUTELY file a police report in situations like that. Even if she can't be charged, that police report showing a history of violent actions is enough to ensure she has a record building. Someone that kills things just to make themselves feel something different would be classified as mentally ill and NOT reporting these kind of things is how someone ends up with a girlfriend killing them in their sleep and getting off with no charges because they cried in the trial.
As someone that has lived through and survived domestic abuse a couple times, if you don't report it when it happens, no one will believe it later.
Very good advice, that paper trail might not help him but it could very well help the next person.
That and this person is a danger to society. If she gets away with it, who knows what she'll try next.
@@altalbot1686exactly right, who says she wont kill the next ex's dog or cat after this? To kill creatures youve seen your partner loving and caring for is def a different type of sick, she knew OP loved the fish and still did this
Yes always report. I also didn't report when things happened and now I have to live with the consequences of that.
Agreed. And this may be enough for him to get a domestic violence protection order against her, especially if she admitted to it in writing via text. She retaliated to the breakup by killing his pets. He’d be very much justified in being afraid for his own safety. And usually if there’s an active protection order it would bar her from having certain jobs around vulnerable people, and serve as a warning sign for anyone wanting to date her in the future.
He could probably also recoup the cost of the dead fish in small claims court but it might not be worth the stress.
Anyone that cruel to any living creature is not someone anyone needs in their life. And yes, he should think about reporting it as this behavior can in fact progress to people. If it were a cat or dog no one would think twice about calling law enforcement!
they do say psycopaths start with animals before moving onto people
Exactly. She also sounds like a potential stalker. Best to have everything she does to him on record.
My dad had an old girlfriend that had recently broke up with him at the time and did the same thing, except it wasn’t intentional. She basically put some rocks in his tank when they broke up first decor or smthn idk she just found them right after they broke up and decided to put them in my dads 25 gallon. Well the rocks kinda dissolved in the tank and killed all his fish. I wouldn’t say it was her fault just cuz she had never had fish and thought “oh he would like the rocks probably” idk I wasn’t alive when this happened so I don’t have all the details.
Hi! Woman fishkeeper here. Although I live in France, I encounter the same issue. Is not so much that you're told you're worse at fishkeeping, but it's about the attitude. Men, especially older men, will always look down on you, explaining basic stuff because they can't fathom how you could possibly know anything. And if you disagree, you're told that they have 50 years of experience with fish, and you should keep quiet. Being 25, I cannot have that much experience, but I've been keeping fish all my life. Plus I am an engineer in biology. And I breed uncommon species of wild bettas, which are a bit delicate. I know I don't know everything, but I am not a beginner, and I don't like being treated like one. As a result, I have completely isolated myself from the community. Best decision I have ever made.
shout out to Chris for recognizing it was his fault when he got bit by a chihuahua. most people get mad at the dogs when they ignored the warnings from the dog (or the owner). the worst dog bite I've ever had was from my chihuahua when I literally saved his life from a large aggressive dog that was trying to kill him. I'd do it again in a heartbeat, but damn it hurt.
Yes he must be an amazing person who is level headed and in love with animals of all sorts.
Hope you have a great day 😊
It’s so terrible when people blame the animals for acting when dogs usually only do that when they perceive a threat
Glad Chris was able to understand
success-ish story: I was keeping my betta in a bowl "until I found it a new home" The "home" I was looking at was 3 gallons which I now realize is not enough. Randomly my neighbor was dropping something off and my mom and dad somehow got the topic over to how I was keeping a fish. She then told us about how she had a 6.5-gallon tank that she was trying to get rid of. I got the tank and a month later put in the betta and some neon tetras (I know that's not big enough). I am now saving up money to switch all my fish over to a 20-gallon and this time I'm going to make this one a planted tank and not overstock it this time.
Make sure the neon tetras aren’t nipping the betta’s fins. It’s a pretty common issue with neons which is why most people recommend various rasboras as tankmakes instead
@@rainbowstalkerthe2nd587 Thanks!
A 1 gallon bowl is just fine for bettas. I kept them happy & healthy in the same one (one after another, not at the same time...) for 2-5 years.
They had a soft, plastic plant at the bottom on top of smooth pebbles & a peace lily at the top to keep the lil buggers from jumping out.
They got stimulation from toys & mirrors that I played with them every couple of days. I'd change out 2/3 of the water every week or 2 (more in the summer, less in the winter) & they were perfectly happy.
QOTW; This took place when I was 5yrs and both of my parents were avid fishkeepers. My Mom had a 100gl for Mr.Oscar who she taught to ring a bell for food! My Dad had different fish until he went overboard with Discus fish...F those fish they're total jerks. Anyways I was 5yrs and it was time to get fish for the 20gl that had been in my room for what felt like an eternity with everything but fish. Pick your favorite fish. Any fish you want and we'll base the rest off of that one. To everyone's surprise I picked a goldfish, it must have been in the feeder tank, but a goldfish. Now this wasn't just any goldfish...it was swimming sideways fighting not to flip upside down. It had not two but only one eye. Fins and tail were just fractions and memories. That one! Umm...the store employee looked at my Mom painfully aware of state of the goldfish, I don't know she said again looking to my Mom. Try as she might to get me interested in any other fish nothing else would do and at 5 not understanding the weight of my Mother's words she gave in and said "You're going to learn a valuable lesson out of this". With a sad face the employee didn't charge for the now almost completely upside down fish I carefully held in it's bag of somehow rapidly becoming slimmey water. "Just come back tomorrow and we'll try again. Remember the tank was in my room and my Mom said like birds sometimes you need to cover the tank over night, clearly not wanting me to wake up first to see the aftermath of my 5yr old little girl decision. Next morning he was alive, and the next, and then again!! That one eyed goldfish grew back fin's and a tail, not his eye that wasn't coming back. I had him for over 12yrs and moved 3 states with him. I used to think it was the love of my 5yr old heart that magically kept him alive and nursed him to health but I think we all know it was my Mom who wanted my little 5yr self to stay in a place ignorant bliss a little bit longer...not sure how she did it but she was the one who saved him.
thanks for sharing!
Mom MVP
That’s awesome! Glad you got your lil buddy ❤ my bf’s mom has a tank and she used to have oscars and 3 feeder goldfish survived and i love them. I named them pickle(m? Orange), pineapple(f? White), and peach(f? Orange)
14:25 hey! That's my post! Unfortunately the total cost came to almost $9k....That being said, all of the renovation is done! And I'm back in my room.
was it a leak? or did a stand fail? how big was the tank?
@alexmic3577 it had nothing to do with the tank itself. Rather my own stupidity lol
Basically, I had my goldies in a big round 10-15 gallon bucket with their filters, heater, plants, and driftwood. It was just a temporary setup for them to keep everything working and alive while I emptied my 60 gallon (I was preparing to transfer everything to my 75 gallon). Well, the first mistake I made was putting HOB filters along the rim of a ROUND bucket. Keep in mind the entire time I was working on emptying my 60 gallon aquarium, the filters hadn't leaked onto the floor or anything. So I thought the filters would be fine. Now, my second mistake. I left to go take a 2-3 hour final exam on my college campus. I thought that because nothing had gone wrong while I was there, everything would be fine while I was gone. I had pressed the bucket with the filters against the wall to make sure the filters didn't tip or fall out while I was gone. This inadvertently created a "path" for the water to pump out the back of the filter and onto the carpet the entire time I was gone. My dad only noticed when water started coming down from the ceiling.
My goldies are now in their brand new 75 gallon tank! And they couldn't be happier! If you check out reddit, I made an update!
Just so y’all know that cute crab at the end is a blue land crab. They require a tank of about 40 gallons.
I didn’t even know you could keep them in a tank.
When I was in high school we had one that lived in a burrow in our backyard.
Whenever we had fruit or vegetables that were leftover or just a little too ripe, I’d chop them up and leave them near her burrow.
If we went too many days without feeding her, then around dusk we’d hear this tapping on the sliding door, and she would be there banging on the door with her claws.
They’re really cool animals.
If u let her off the hook, u allow her to victimize others. I understand the fear. I applaud your courage
QOTW; SUCCESS! Bought my 70 year old, lonely mother a tank for her birthday. Set it up while she wasn't paying attention. Got some plants for it and a little tunnel. Told her once it cycles, I'll let her pick out a betta.
A little while later, she's picking out the perfect little buddy and a companion snail like an excited kid. She hasn't owned a pet in 60 years. She took 3 days to name it so it was perfect too. Finley O'Gill and Paddy McSnail O'Two.
A week later, she's buying every toy she could find and fussing over feeding time and tasty snacks.
Just hit month 3 and she decided to upgrade them both. Finley and Paddy will soon find themselves the sole residents of a FIFTEEN GALLON TANK!
Spoiled a$$ fish! 😂
I told Mom I was happy that she took to her new friend so well. She responds: We he's my responsibility.
❤
We definitely get some misogyny from customers in my store, but when I'm introduced with "Her parent's have kept fish for a long time and she's been keeping fish for over 20 years" they usually shut up. Like. I'm 32. This is basically my lifeblood.
I've never had a tank leak or break, or need any kind of repairs, and my youngest tank is 48 years old. My oldest tank is 68 years old. Most of my 28 tanks are between 68-60 years old. They are my dads tanks he bought when he lived in Florida. Since then the tanks have traveled to Texas, New York, Chicago, Washington, and have spent 45 years in southeast Alaska. My dad was in the Military and when he was transferred, he packed up his fish and tanks, and transferred them with the family! When he decided to get out of fish, he gave all his tanks to me, and I took up where he left off. I was 13 I think. He got me started by buying me a matched pair of stunning 3" Black mollies, and a beautiful pair of blood red platties. I branched out to breeding angels, albino cory cats, Firemouth Ciclids, Every color of Mollie available, I can't help it, Sailfin Mollies will always be my sentimental favorites. Black Sharks, and stunning Gold Butterfly Koi.
The stick is a shrimp pop, you can buy them with shrimp food like spinach or pumpkin attached to it. They tend not to be cheap but they are very fun to see all your shrimp flock it.
My biggest success in the hobby is to breed otocinclus. I had them for over two years in a tank and a couple of weeks ago i setup a new one. After two weeks of cycling the tank, i moved the otocinclus to the new tank to get rid of some algea. Yeah the cange in water temperature and pressure broutht them to breeding. Now i have about 30 baby otocincles in my new tank. Note: its extremely hard and rare to breed otos in captivity because they only breed when rainseason starts. Here in Germany most of the otos in stores are caught in nature. So im a very proud fish dad now XD
That's awesome! Congrats papa ❤
Saturday my wife and I went to a petco near us. Unfortunately we don’t have a good independently owned fish store so it’s our only option.
There was a 10-12 year old girl and her dad that were shopping for fish. They told the employee (he introduced himself as the petco aquatic specialist) and they told him they wanted two plecos and a gourami. When he asked what size tank they have they told him a 5 gallon. He then proceeded to say, “you probably need to consider something different for a tank that size, but I’ve done my due diligence so I’ll still sell them to you”
Even my wife, who isn’t really in the hobby, thought it was wild
thats what you're taught to do in retail, otherwise you can get fired if you're losing sales. Don't blame the underpaid workers, blame the company
5:35 they are called shrimp lollies they are often coated with dried vegetables and essential minerals for the shrimp
thx
QOTW I met my future wife at the LFS. She had been working there since she was 18, grew up surrounded by aquariums as her father was a very passionate fish keeper. I would come in to buy fish and equipment, and admittedly would only come in the days I knew she was working. At one point she had to take leave for medical reasons, and my frequenting of the store led to the owner offering me a position. Sadly I didn't realize it was her position. I had been looking forward to working with her. Thankfully she still came in to shop, and one thing led to another, we wound up tying the knot! Now we happily have a serious case of MTS, and our son has inherited it too. Not technically a fish success story, but definitely the fish gave us our success story! Love your channel, can't wait for next Monday!
Just found your channel! Even though it’s an incredibly sad situation about the dead fish, the Naraku reference made me subscribe. An anime fan and fish protector? Sign me up for a three hour binge.
Thanks for posting! I’m moving my betta to a 10 gallon with a big driftwood piece,a couple of big rocks, and live plants 🌱and also a lot of people are crazy in this generation it sounds like the girlfriend was coo coo like who would do that to a fish???
coo coo indeed :(((
Hi, female fishkeeper here. First, that's Howie the crab. She's famous on tiktok. Love her. Second, yes there are good female fishkeepers , men have just saturated the hobby and some of them have harsh critiques on women in the hobby. When I first started I had a 40 gallon breeder beautifully aquascaped and planted. The fluval aquaclear 50 HOB filter on it got cogged and I has 20 gallons of water on the floor overnight. That's how I learned pre-filter spomges/mesh screens were a must , way before I started shrimp keeping.
Biggest success was accidental. Added hornwort thinking it'll be a cool looking plant that will grow up from the substrate. Turned into a huge floating plant. Probably 6 feet to 7 feet long at one point with multiple branches. It has been the best buffer for nitrate and nitrite!
Always put something that animals can climb out of when you have a body of water outside, even pet water bowls
7 minutes ago my Monday was made a better and brighter day!! Wishing the FTR crew and cory gang a super productive and peaceful week full of fishy fun!! ✌️
The shrimp covered stick is definitely food 😂 a few companies have shrimp sticks or shrimp lollipop type food and yes, you need to have a lot of shrimp for the shrimp to eat all of the food before it sours and mucks up your water.
QotW; my best success in fishkeeping is just the community I think. I hadn't had a tank since my son was a baby (he's 19 now) after the baby wipe incident (he, as a toddler, thought he was helping me clean the tank... By wiping the interior glass with baby wipes he left in the tank. Lost all the fish☠️) I quit fish. But a couple years ago he found the old 20g in the garage and asked if I'd help him set it up. We went straight to you tube and found this wonderful community, set up his tank as a biotope and joined our local fish club. Now he has 3 tanks and I have two 10g and half a dozen nano tanks spread throughout the house😅. But the communities both here and irl for me, being a lifelong introvert are awesome! So much better than going it alone in the 90's when I was 14 and got my first tank and only had the library and a local fish store for support. So thanks Chris and this channel's fellow fish nerds and the wider fish yt community for being so amazing, helpful, informative and quick to call out animal abuse. Keep being your awesome selves!! 🙏💙✌️
super cool idea, the shrimp foodstick haha
@@FishForThought Really easy to do with a stick, egg white and paprika. Help with color. You can add nettle powder too.
So am feeling those aquarium leaks. I was fortunately home when my 75 gallon show tank sprang a leak, so I was able to hurriedly get my fish into alternate accommodations (yes, they're only swordtails and cory cats, but they're still my sweet little babies). Just got a replacement 75 gallon acrylic tank with a lifetime leak warrantee, got it set back up (fighting black beard algae right now, but all my java ferns and anubias are still merrily growing and sending up new leaves and shoots so I'm not worried about their health, just about the aesthetics of the tank).
QOTW: my best success was definitely my second betta, Rayla. I went to the pet store with my mom for cat food, saw him on the shelf. He wasn't moving, super pale, just floating on his side. I thought he was dead at first. I spent my last $100 on a 3gal kit and a heater, not really expecting much but wanting him to be comfy in his final moments. Three days later he was getting red on his fins, six months later his fins had totally regrown and his body was fully blue with red fins. He was gorgeous. He only lived two years, but he was my favourite boy
Happy Monday! My success was when I rescued a rose-tailed betta that had almost half it's tail rotted off and it grew back in 6 months or so and looked beautiful
My Greatest aquarium accomplishment.
One of my corydoras jumped out of the tank and dried up on the floor. Miraculously she was still alive (she was crunchy levels of dry). I nursed her back to health and she showed no signs of her ordeal except a small scar on her forehead. She was my queen. my big mama. She was my favorite... Until my mother ended her but that's a different story.
Sorry, what?
@@woofawoof7616 I had to move to protect my mental health. The apartment I moved to only allowed one 10 gallon tank. I took my betta fish but I felt bad about putting big mama in a 10 gallon. The tank at home was quite overcrowded and even though I tried to convince my mother to surrender them to a Petco to thin their numbers she refused. She put all of the fish in a unused black hard plastic pond outside in direct sunlight. By the time I came to their rescue hoping to at least find Big Mama over 80% of them were dead. I was so distressed that I couldn't make look for her. I knew the fish were suffering so I killed the rest of them and tried to just move on. I didn't want to overcrowd my tank but I really wish I had taken my three original female corys and put them in my 10 gallon anyway. I moved because my parents don't understand that the actions they do are wrong. They do things without considering anyone else's feelings. I'm autistic and was mocked for it my entire life. Even after my diagnosis, even after my parents said they accepted my disability, they still mocked me multiple times a day. I couldn't handle it and I had to leave. I just wish my fish didn't have to be harmed for my freedom.(my parents are literally insane they locked me up in a psych ward because I threw gallon of water at the ground and tipped a chair over.... They acted like I tried to destroy the house or hurt them ... There are other things,worse things, that my parents have done but I'd rather not talk about it. They are emotionally stunted because of their personal childhood trauma and for the most part I do not blame them for their issues but it is unhealthy for me to be around them.)
Im so sorry for your loss. This is horrible. I don't know full story, but your parents don't look like good people from an outside perspective... I hope you're ok now. @blackfalconotaku4392
@@blackfalconotaku4392 that's insane. Did the psych ward at least realize you didn't need to be there?
@@vickypedia1308 not really? The staff didn't really do much but hand out meds and offer to play cards. I only met with the phycologist once. Honestly I needed a break anyway. I was exhausted from all the fighting going on at home so I mostly slept and read books and looked at the pencil and marker graffiti left from previous occupants. I don't really remember how long I was there? I don't know I was kind of distressed my parents treated me like I was a psycho and I was pretty hurt by that but at the same time their house was not good for my mental health at all so yeah I mostly just rested until my parents decided they wanted me back.
hey chris happy monday!!! my best success in this hobby would be when I was a child, I had a 20 gallon probably an produced an ARMY of guppies. my dad had 10 pond tubs for pond plants to sell and I filled them ALL up with just my little tank lol. hope you have a great day and can't wait for you to review my tank!!
QOTW: my biggest fish success story is pushing through my executive function issues and setting up a planted tank for my false siamese algae eater! It's at least 12 years old at this point (expected lifespan is 10 years) and was housed in a too-small aquarium completely covered in algae that I only topped off once in a while. I feel so bad for neglecting the poor guy for so long.
It's is so much more confident in its new tank, and I'm so glad it'll live out its final years in a healthy environment. :)
QOTW:
I had just started keeping shrimp in a 5 gallon tank and i found a bunch of pests in my tank (Planaria, Hydra, Scuds etc). I didn’t know what to do so i looked online and found out that using dog de-wormer could be an option, so i dosed the tank with it and all the worms and hydra were gone. But there were still scud so i did a full clean up of the tank but somehow the scud came back. So i did a full full clean up too set it up as a dirtied tank. It has been running now for over a week and shows no signs of scud. (Im only 12 i should not have to be going through this suffering).
Find I get critters ant time I buy plants that aren't in a tube. Not worth doing a planted tank in my opinion if you don't feel like dealing with it.
How's it going with the tank? You're doing great!
@@woofawoof7616 it’s doing good thanks. Although i did find a little ramshorn snail so hopefully it just came on one of the plants.
The stick is either a “shrimp Lollie” (food stuck to the stick) or it’s a wood skewer being used to grow some extra bio-film and algae’s for the shrimp (still food but more of a DIY thing)
Absolutely love your closing music!
About the beliefs of "women are bad at fish keeping": actually, anything that usually men do, they claim women are bad at. That is why most don't like to claim their gender or post anonimously in groups etc. Video games, aquarist groups, technical groups, fishing sports etc. The moment others learn they are talking to a woman, their whole attitude changes, and start to A) talk like they are dealing with an idiot, B) come up with pick-up lines, C) try to change their own behiavor stating "ladies here, behave". Annoying. Last week I went to pick up a secondhand speaker set and the guy looked at me like "how the hell am I going to talk about specifics with this one", and visibly looked relieved when my dad showed up behind me. No matter that I knew just as much about the topic.
I don't even know why some guys do this, its not like thats going to increase their chances at getting a girlfriend or even just a female friend
So much projection
@@brockg6194 ?
@@brockg6194We will when they do, Brock.
My success story would be when I was trimming moss in my celestial pearl danio tank and found 2 newborn fry a week later. I have kept the moss in a bowl of water to make sure any ramshorn I accidentally removed, would be returned to the aquarium. So i see 2 ‘eyelashes’ swimming in the bowl and i freak out since I had never seen fish fry before! Against all odds, they survived for 3 months, got big enough and a couple of weeks ago I reunited them with their fish-folk! I was in a state of constant anxiety to not mess it up and I’m so glad for all the information on the internet. Their names are Crunchy and Max!
The first thing I always do when I see your Monday instalment of Fish Tank Review is like it. Nope, haven't watched it yet but gave it a like to make sure I am doing my part. And now I need to add commenting to that. Because it pleases the algorithm gods.
The stick with shrimp on it is called a shrimp lolly! It's got powdered food on it. I like to use it as a vacation feeder too because it doesn't really dissolve in the water so fish/shrimp will slowly pick at it. Comes in different flavours like spirulina, brine shrimp, etc.
QOTW: Always feels good when my fish breed. Makes me feel like I'm doing something right if they're comfortable enough to do it. My pair of Kribs are raising fry that are about 3 weeks old now and I just pulled two panda cory eggs from a community tank.
QOTW: Convincing my Mom to let me fix her terrible 20 gallon tank that had ridiculous amounts of ammonia, nitrites, and nitrates.
One of my best successes was finding this channel before getting a fish. I’m getting a betta soon and I almost got a 1 gallon tank, but now I have a 5 gallon and a 10. Buying a betta later this month
I'm fairly new to the fish tank hobby, but I suppose my success story this far is moving my 20 gal betta tank (one female crowntail) to only top offs with an abundance of happy, healthy plants that have kept the water within excellent parameters for the last 4 months. My girl Calypso is a very happy little girl 🥰
My best success is definitely my plants, can't believe how well they,very grown, makes the fish love the tank
Been awake for a while now waiting for fish for thought
My greatest accomplishment is moving a rescued goldfish from a bowl into a planted 30 gallon and him being still alive 5 years later. My baby boy is 7 and stunted but has grown since I've moved him into the 30
I can not believe someone would want to kill peoples fish. People can be so terrible:( my mom used to threaten to do that when I was younger.
I'm sorry she said that to you. I hope you had other adults in your life that weren't that cruel to you.
Thanks for brightening my Monday
setting up my 10 gall today :)
Wishing you tons of success and fun times!!
thanks my 20 gall is doing very well i am setting 10 gal up because my guppy's just had kids @@laurabustos6560
The thing about tanks silicone failing and leaking out...its pretty rare, but also very hard to predict and detect before it happens. Unless there is a visible hole in the silicone, tanks can really fail without warning even after holding water for years. It's a silent risk we ALL take by keeping many gallons of water in glued together glass boxes. Always have homeowners insurance because the damage from anything over a 20 gallon is going to be akin to a plumbing failure in your house. New floors and new walls.
Please Chris do a tour it has been so long and I don't know what tanks you have anymore ❤❤❤❤
Oh wow that scape looks amazing! I’m trying to do better with mine lol 😂qotw: probably learning from my mistakes or realizing that I’m better at Fish keeping then I was lol 😂❤
That was a ride !
Stay safe out there !
Best success in fishkeeping, getting my 5yr old nephew into it, he was fascinated by mine so I set him up with a 6 gallon shrimp tank over the weekend. Also left his parents with detailed care instructions and told them to call me if they needed help lol
The crab with the knife just lives in a bad neighbourhood but he never hurt anyone
QOTW success story: I bought a betta for my son for Christmas since he's been begging for a fish for a long time. He's always loved aquariums, and I haven't had the motivation/room for a proper aquarium. I started with a 6 gallon tank, obsessively watched all your videos, realized I gave my poor betta fin rot, and was doing everything wrong in a planted tank. So I upgraded to a 20 gallon, got nutrient rich substrate, more plants and wood to scape it with. We even added some shrimp and snails! Betta's doing fantastic and honestly probably getting fat. It's tough to teach a 7 year old that fish don't need to eat so much. Especially since I'm sure the betta's ate a few of the shrimp in the new tank. Maybe not too successful for the shrimp, but the betta is living his best life! 😅
Hello from Germany: The stick in the shrimp / Oto tank is actually shrimp food. It's quite common here for shrimp keepers (it's called "lolly" here) - you can both buy it (I recommend Schmitt Aquaristik) as find a lot DIY recipes for this. It is soooooo much fun to watch the shrimp feeding on the stick. Especially when you want to get an overview of your shrimp. Also some Otos love them. And the tank brand is Dennerle - a great German brand with beautiful tanks, especially for nano tanks / shrimp tanks / small scapes.
Hey the store at 7:18 is my LFS! They're in Daytona Beach, FL and recently moved into a bigger shopping center! Love The Fish Tank.
QOTW:
My fish successes are average, nothing particularly stands out. But I was most proud of a female betta I had. Her name was Maria and while she was a common dark blue betta, she was enormous! Body length of about 7cm and chonky. I've never seen another betta her size, she outweighed even the biggest males I've seen. She was so large, I thought she was possibly male for a while.
I believe u can file charges. I would .... use criminal mischief ....add up all cost damage
This one helped me feel less alone. Thank you.
…I have a fish box where all my supplies are kept but at some point ig someone took the net out and through it under the sink where we store chemicals, I’m assuming one of the kids in the family. Anyway had an old fish pass and my mom scooped it out and later allllll of my fish were dead. I have been heartbroken and feeling guilty for not searching for the net when I realized it was missing. I assumed in the kids room, but my mom said it was under the sink, I assume the kids slipped it through the crack bc the child lock allows a small gap of the door to open. Idk… just wish I would’ve found the net and cleaned it. The slow leak guy must be feeling the exact same way.
The stick that all the shrimp are feasting on is called a "shrip lollie". It's shrimp food baked(?) onto a wooden skewer. My shimps (also the snails and ottos) go wild for these things. It's a great treat!
YO CHRIS TODAY IS MY FIRST DAY OF HIGH SCHOOL I WOKE UP AT 4 AM TO WATCH THIS !!!!🔥
Way to go chirs I can’t wait to se you post that I have been waiting for a long time
Chirs, your videos got me into aquascaping. I made a planted tank and my dad got absolutely hooked with it. Now whenever he goes on buisness trips and has a day off from work, he collects unique shaped hardscaping rocks and bring em home. I love explaining various aspects of the tank to him :) . Thankyou!
That's adorable ❤
QOTW: I'm still excited over getting my betta, Captain Black Sparrow, to survive 3 years. He nearly died during Covid when I had to move back in with my parents during quarantine, and the hard water nearly killed him, but I started using distilled water to balance things out. I think the fact I got him from a local pet store and not Petsmart may have helped too.
My biggest success in fishkeeping is the ongoing process of knocking myself out of depression and getting my life in order thanks to starting this hobby.
I just got my first car in 20 years, so I can cruise around recruiting members for my cory gang.
Hiii I'm a pretty new fish keeper and I've had my tank setup for about 9 months and I'm also a student. I really enjoy your content and find it educational and also very entertaining. I have a 20 gallon with 6 black skirt tetras and a pleco. I used to have 6 guppies as well but they all passed away early because of aggression with my tetras. My tetras hadn't shown aggression when I first got them but unfortunately about 6 months later started attacking my guppies :( . I had done a ton of research and most of my sources said they'd be great tank mates. But they were not. I also have 4 nerite snails and do a water change every 1-2 weeks depending on how dirty the tank is. I feed them fish flakes and occasionally boiled vegetables and my pleco usually eats algae patties with a bunch of other healthy ingredients. I only have one live plant in the tank and it's a golden pot god and it seems to be doing well in there. If you guys have any advice for my husbandry I would appreciate it!!
The stick is a shrimp lolly. I recently got some at a small fair last week. Shrimp like it and these lollies come in various flavours of everything good for shrimp. The tank is a Dennerle NanoCube. These Dennerle scaper tanks are very pretty, with rounded corners in front.
Here in Spain, that person can go to jail for up to 2 years for doing something like that
I have been told by my wife when she was mad "You give your fish more attention then you give me"
I hate that 1
OMG can we talk about that goldfish in the beginning? Such a gorgeous and healthy fancy
I made a natural 3 gallon bowl on my patio. The eastern gambusia ( mosquito fish) have had babies a few times and the ones that are living in it now are the fourth generation of the original. Also have one least killi fish I caught. The plants are growing well. I have an elephant ear plant that grows in a vine like pathos and a mini pond lilly. The vine wines around half of my patio. Thinking about breeding the killi fish next, need more.
The "going to be responsible with my money" is me but with terrestrial inverts. 😅
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I don't have fish yet as I am waiting for the big 3 Nitrogens to chill. I am fully planted now! My biggest success was me letting my property management know about the tank thinking I was fine (I had already scaped and started cycling it, so I couldn't return nothing). Turns out they did not put "aquariums" under the lease, but as "fish tanks". And the answer to having fish tanks initially was no. Fortunately they talked with the owner and just had to make sure my renters insurance covered a spill. 12 bucks a year more on the insurance and I was cleared to keep fish!
That stick is a shrimp stick. 🙂 It's a tasty treat that shrimp find irresistible, so I've heard!
I prefer to feed them nettles as a treat!
Chihuahuas - and little dogs in general - just get no respect, they're constantly touched, picked up and treated like a stuffed animal. Honestly, I would bite too if people behaved like that towards me.
QOTW: I nursed a snakehead back to health that got ripped up by his tank mates because he was a lot smaller (it happens with snakeheads, groups of usually siblings are fine together for a while until they aren't and then the smallest really gets it). I didn't think he'd survive, he had no caudal fin anymore and looked like half a fish at most. But he made it and I had him for 9 years after that.
to Women With fish Where Are You I say, the only salt water fishkeeper I know is a woman (who has since moved to FL and rehomed her tanks). I keep freshwater fish and shrimp (and snails, and the odd damselfly that sneaks in) ... but I don't follow any of THOSE chats, cause Chris here is The Best.
You just need to find the right habitat. 😃
5:31 that’s a alage stick. Basically you put spirulina algae around the stick and let it dry out then put it in the tang and let them shrimps feast
0:08 bro what that is so cute
"and that crab with the knife" LMAO
I worked at a dog daycare. The only dogs who but me were the ones people would never worry about- grumpy little Shih Tzus, Labs (treat grabbing typically), a Newfoundland, and one rambunctious Great Dane.
At 5:30 those are called shrimp lollies! Lollipops for shrimp, they love it..
I was just rewatching some old videos of yours and I found a trend. The trend being: "Oh I wanna keep these someday" or "I wanna have this kind of tank" so Im excited to see whats going in there. I hope splash tetras (one of your listings) but still would love to see anything
Also some plants are in, gonna get more tomorrow and then I just have to wait like 3 weeks more sooooo Im almost there
Success story: my Murray River rainbow fish are 5.5 years old and i was able to successfully breed them and raise 10 fry... Which took 6 whole months to grow to an inch. BTW, i am a woman who's been keeping fish for 19 years now and do run into misogynist behavior from time to time. Men are mostly patronizing, they think it's cute that a woman wants to keep fish, not that she could be entirely serious about it.
I love it when they start "man-splaining" I'll lean into for a bit, you know, with the dumb look and ask, and then start asking progressively harder/technical questions. Some realize, some don't, lol
The cockatoo statement is so true 😅 have owned cockatiels, blue & golds, scarlet macaws, green wing macaws an African Gray and a common umbrella and Only the cockatoo would never be nice and bond with a family member like the others. I've seen other people with nice ones but it was not my experience 😅
Qotw when I first started the hobbie and was starting out I had bought a few platties and a pleco but I failed in seasoning the tank prior to adding my fish so one by one everything was going belly up with only my one male plattie and a mystery snail but I was able to medicate the fish back to health after he came down with ick add a bunch of plants correct the biology of the tank and later breed both the plattie and the snail and I will have happily homed the plattie now for two years so my advice to new fish owners is learn the basics and plants are awesome 😎
I feed rapashy on a chopstick to my shrimps, like dipped in it lol
QOTW: My biggest success in the hobby is pretty small. I consider it a big win though. We had an ice storm that knocked out our power for 3 days. I was really underprepared and overwhelmed. I had a small battery that was going to be used for charging phones in case of emergencies. Instead I used it to keep my filters running in my 3 tanks. Used some other helpful tips to keep them warm and didn’t sleep much. BUT everybody lived!
I agree that there should be background checks. At the pet store where I live, they ask you what fish your tank is currently stocked with, and ask the tank size so that they know that the fish will be compatible with the other fish and tank you plan to keep them in.
That stick is a shrimp lollypop! They are so fun
The goldfish come back because the water is cold in a deep lake, fish tend to come the shore where the water is warmer and slowly adapt to it.
That kid just happened to stand in the way... and the fish probably don't fear him or her.
Once saw a fish some kind of black algea eater at a pet store that literally looked like a black blob with fins and sometimes had to go understuff to not float up
My best fish keeping experience so far was the time I successfully saved 3 cherry shrimp eggs that were dropped prematurely with a homemade egg tumbler I made in about 10 mins. The shrimp all survived and I have since lost track of which ones they were out of all the shrimp I have haha
Had someone tell me with full confidence, refusing to hear otherwise, that my betta female betta would only live a week… she is healthy and thriving in a planted 10 gallon with chili rasboras 2 years later
This is the only good part of Monday
Best success was probably accidentally setting up a breeding habit for sparkling gouramis in a 10gal community tank. Started with 4, lost 2 and somehow had a breeding pair. The babies are cute
5:31 shrimp lollies!! They're fun ways to feed shrimp and even otos. You can buy or diy them.
Pygmy cories will eat algae and any other plant matter that sheds from your live plants. They also clean up leftover carnivorous food.
The crab's name is Howie! I love her. She's such a queen.
The best success story for me is my first tank, my 55 gallon. It was leaning forward a good 3 inches the whole time it was up (year and a half), and never burst. It was a great learning experience when I posted it online and asked about the leaning. People were screaming at me to take it down and readjust lol
Yea what that guy said (he is me)
@@loganhollowell9565 yea what that guy said (he is me)
Anyone willing to kill your animals to get back at you is fully willing to harm or at least harass the people you associate with.