I have to say "TH-camrs making videos about things they're deeply passionate about even though it's different than their channel genre" is becoming (if not already) my favorite type of video
Agreed. I kind of miss this from before the algorithm started punishing content creators for going off brand. Absolutely love it when a creator can do passon videos like and not have to make some second channel or something.
same energy as internet shaquille's various videos on worms and pottery and whatever other neat hobby he gets up to. it's super refreshing to watch this type of stuff
I knew he wrote music but I guess didn’t realize he was an actual composer? 😂 there’s a big difference in skill set between someone who just writes music and someone who understands engraving, orchestration and “classical” tonality/modality, I was impressed with his score!
Let's go! I think you'll find moving to a larger setup to be even more stable/easy to maintain, especially with more plants doing the brunt of the filtration.
Adam, as a long time fan of yours, this might be my favorite video you've ever done, and that's saying something. At the risk of feeding the parasocial thing you've said very recently makes you incredibly anxious, I love the vulnerability and enthusiasm in this video. It's so nice to see a nerdy person getting to make reality a small dream they've had for a while. Remembering that grown ups like I am now often have the means to achieve those dreams is honestly going to inspire me to try to achieve a few of my own.
I wonder what about it he's worried about? Not a regular channel viewer, but Parasocial relationships are like, 50% of our attachment to most forms of media in some way shape or form, and especially after youtube. The only difference is people without boundaries can actually find you if you're a real person -- which was the real reason we lost jenna marbles. I wouldn't have thought adam's videos would do that to people.
@@woIf Listen to the last 20 minutes or so of his latest podcast, if you want to be clued in. Dudes been dealing with some issues, you wouldn't necessarily expect, just from watching his cooking videos.
One important thing about goldfish is that you need to make sure not to release them into the wild or add them to a natural pond. They are extremely invasive and harmful to many ecosystems.
Long body goldfish are absolutely an invasive nightmare. Those fancy round body goldfish like the Ranchu in the video would be murdered in minutes by larger fish, or birds, outcompeted, or straight up die because they’re the pugs of carp
Last time I introduced a goldfish to my house he took over and I'm now living on the street. It is a serious issue that often doesn't have the media coverage it should. I would say more but the guy's laptop I'm posting this from in Starbucks is coming out of the bathroom and I should leave now.
It's gonna sound weird but Adam saying long term he might be doing videos on aquaponics is a dream come true. This video is compositionally as well such a magnificent piece. Thanks Adam.
This is incredible. I’ve been in the aquarium hobby for over 10 years now and I’ve been in the cooking hobby for about five. It’s awesome to see them come together and someone I’ve respected and watched for so long. I would love if you made a second channel about your fish, or at least just keep us updated on this one please!!!
I think my favorite genre of youtube video is “Happy and excited person talks about what they’re happy and excited about.” I love to see you happy and excited, Adam! Thank you for sharing this with us!
i clicked this to watch the goldfish trough build process but was definitely pleasantly surprised by the storytelling behind the love for goldfishes and 100% would love to listen to the full goldfish oboe performance
Adam being an Aquarist feels like two worlds collided. Man i love him even more now. Their home looks fantastic. Good filltration and an oval trough with no corners to needlessly bump into!
THANK YOU for not contributing to the "Here's a .5 gal bowl with 12 fish and one pothos stem. The water is clean because that's how nature works!" shit that most non aquarists imagine when they think about plant-filtered tanks. This is a really nice setup for them.
This was such a delightful video. After watching this, I feel like I should start calling this my favourite channel. You cover such a broad spectrum of topics in such an easily digestible but thorough manner. I've probably watched about 90% of your catalogue at this point and both the quality and my enjoyment levels have never dropped.
It really shows how you needed something different. I enjoyed every second of this video (except Immi not being available in Europe, but whatever), as a curious being who knows nothing about the subject. Also they're so cute! You have my support, do whatever you need to get through these hard times :) Hugs, because hugs are good.
Adam - my folks had a working aquaponics system in NC where we stocked a little over 100 tilapia, which fed into our greenhouse grow beds to feed plant rafts. They live in Farragut now, which I think is not far from you, but will be moving to Maryville shortly and setting up a similar system with off-grid power. I can tell you from first hand experience that aquaponics rigs are EXTREMELY power hungry if your power goes out in the winter time. The issue is tilapia need to be kept in a very specific temperature range or they will die, and if your power goes out and you can't heat/cool them, you can run into some issues. For reference we had around 100 solar panels generating enough power to fully power their home (~6k sqft), with battery backup using Telco batteries that were enough to last 3 days without grid power and minimal recharge from overcast skies. That aquaponics rig tho, when there was no power, consumed 95% of our available electricity during the winter time. If you want pointers setting up a more energy efficient setup, we'd be happy to help. We learned a LOT from making a bunch of mistakes on that rig. Overall it's MAYBE worth it if you're really serious about growing your own food, but a stocked pond is probably better at actually helping you grow a large number of fish for consumption.
Same here! We had a koi pond that my dad and I built out of scraps, plus a tank of African Cichlids. The koi all got to be around 20 years old, but we never could keep the cichlids from murdering each other.
of course I never thought I'd watch an entire video about a fish tank, but when Adam does something I must watch until the last second. I guess I'm just very impressed in the way he manage to convey information in a dynamic (dare I say "cinematic") way. That and also his voice is kind of soothing. But mostly the fact that his way of filming is deeply cinematic in a literal sense: as in using movement (kinē) to convey meaning.
George and Gracie the goldfish are precious little fish and i love how you made their home! It's such a cute little pond. If you blanch veggies like zucchini or carrot and offer a small piece they can nibble on it, it's good for their digestion 👍
As someone who has always wanted a pond with cool fish and a greenhouse I am envious! Also at the risk of being the internet pedant that tank looks more like galvanized steel than an anodized aluminum but I could be wrong.
The most wholesome and adorable thing on earth is watching Adam geek out about his fish. This made my kinda rotten day ever so much better. I don't think I'll ever quite understand fancy goldfish, but it's pretty damn cool that they really are so domesticated. Never really thought about that before! My stepfather kept several fish tanks once upon a time - but I think they were all tropical or something. Certainly some of them were big ol' bullies too, but I think cichlids are just...like that? They are VERY cute, and I hope that your experiment does well!!
Reminds me of the time I was in the big school and rented a house with my girlfriend . The guy that owned the house was a slumlord type of guy and hired me to take care of his rentals while I went to college. There was a HUGE ice maker with stainless steel tank to hold the ice in the back yard. Well nothing worked but it seemed a shame to just let it waste away so I decided to use it as a fish tank. My buddy worked at a pet shop so we got great deals on guppies. We pitched about twenty in the "Tank". Added tropical plants etc. After much hanky panky they had multiplied into hundreds. About a year later we just couldn't give them away fast enough. It was fun, lots of fun until the night of the "Great Fish Massacre". You see one of the gang was netting fish in a local canal and caught a baby catfish about 5" long. He was a perfect addition to the tank for about a year. THEN IT HAPPENED !!! One night he went wacko and ate ALL of the guppies. End of story.
I'd love to hear a full podcast episode doing a deep dive on aquarium keeping (pun intended). I know you touched on it a bit in the comfy content episode but I found myself yearning for more!
while i can't imagine myself having enough gumption to properly care for fancy fish, i do have a soft spot for watching aquarium enthusiasts share their hobby with anyone who will listen. looking forward to more of this topic!
!!!If the power goes out that air pump will syphon all the water out as it’s lower than the tank.. hope there’s a check valve I cant see from the video but even they aren’t 100%
I've been watching you for years Adam and I cannot say I have ever been more delighted to accidently cross into food youtube during a fish youtube rabbithole. Im a marine Biologist myself working on farmed mussels with a little shrimp tank of my own. Its honestly a delight to see you talk about your hobbies of Music and weightlifting, this is the fist time I've heard of your aquarium passion and I'm all here for it!
A cooking channel, discussing fish…and Snazzy Labs a Tech channel discussing food, all within the same week? I love this new… “TH-camrs doing what makes them actually happy” vibe we have starting.
I deeply appreciate the myriad little looks into your world you've shared with us here, even how you integrated the sponsorship with just the right amount of whiplash.
Ranchu are my favourite goldfish too. Aquaponics with really nice fancies like this doesn't work. Fancies need extremely good water conditions to thrive (zero ammonia and nitrites and very low nitrates). Aquaponics needs ammonia, nitrites and nitrates to produce food. There's a big difference between growing some pretty aquatic plants and growing food and for the latter the fish will suffer. (I was experimenting with 'aquaponics' almost 50 years ago before I'd even heard the term. It only works with hardy fish species - which is why the fish chosen are often 'food fish'. As in 'don't get attached to them, they're disposable and simply a nutrient source for the crop'.)
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So I come here trying to learn about fish, and the first thing I hear is you saying you won't eat your goldfish? This seems a bit odd; if anything, this makes it feel like you would eat your goldfish, but I assume you somehow attracted an odd audience.
Initially, I was going to mention the intrigue of the *shrimp cube* ~ but I just listened to the full four movements of Types of Goldfish. So cool that you composed these!!! My favorite movement was Jikin -- felt like it could be part of a Ghibli film score. The beginning of Celestial was magical, as well. The main oboe line in Ranchu sounded like a ton of fun to play (albeit I've never played oboe...it made me miss playing flute!) Thank you for sharing your passions with us, Adam! Brilliant description, by the way. "...Hopelessly domesticated... just kinda friendly, and soft, and dumb." 😅
As a manager of a pet store and aquatic enthusiast, you did a great job doing the fish justice and informing parts of TH-cam that may otherwise have not have learned more about fish. You would be amazed at just how little effort the vast majority of adults care to learn, well, anything about the animals they are about to be responsible for. Edit: also your vessel of water is not too small at all for two ranchus. And if anyone thinks it is, another funny thing I run into is people who take info from some place on the Internet and treat it like gospel. They will say anyone who puts a Betta in anything smaller than a 150 gallon is a horrible abuser. What I find curious is these people never ask a very essential question, what should be the first question out of anyone's mouth when talking about the quality of care for a fish, and that is "what are the water parameters?" The reason there are these metrics online is because people tried different things and they either succeeded or failed and told other people. Then others evaluated why. And the cycle continues. When a website says a fish does best in x number of gallons, it is because that is what they found works to keep things healthy. It wasn't written in their DNA, a scientist didn't find "ah, well here in the genome it says it won't live in anything less than 20 gallons." They can swim and forage and seek refuge in your vessel, and so long as the water parameters are healthy and stable, it's looking fantastic. You're already doing heaps and bounds above what any "rescuer" does when they buy a "sad little goldfish" at a big box pet store and shoves it in a 10 gallon acting like they "rescued" it. Keep up the good work.
I think this video does somewhat highlight the ethics of fancy varieties of goldfish. They will die quite easily when you dont make the pond as safe as physically possible, we kind of have to force them for them to actually thrive. Personally ive been in the hobby for years, and ive come to the realisation that I do not like fancy goldfish at all, I find them to be unethical. You can still have incredibly beautiful standard goldfish, just look at shubunkins. Theyre also more beautiful like koi, because they swim more strongly and gracefully.
Honestly I'd really advise against mixing goldfish and tropicals, as the 'compromise' just means the goldfish poop even more and the tropical fish are still too cold and prone to ich. If nothing else, the neon tetras shouldn't be in there. They need a bigger school to feel safe and you can tell how stressed they are just looking at their pale colors. Catfish, including corys, are great fish but their function as 'clean up crew' is really not what it's made out to be. Snails would work much better imo.
.... and we're gonna skip over the shrimp tank? I love fish tanks and have had some, but I've not kept shrimp for long in a mixed tank, and would love to have a dedicated tank. It looked like a freshwater shrimp tank, so neocaradins maybe? Super cool, and would love to see a video on them!
Here's the bad news - using an unlined galvanized tank will poison the fish. You typically need to spray the interior with something like FlexSeal or pond liner....
man i almost can't blame you for all than annoying sponsor shit you cram into every video now. if it meant i could get a big ass house with a fucking greenhouse AND a fish tank inside it, hell, i'd probably do the fucking same.
if you dont know already, the fish you stocked it with are the pugs of fish. they are selectively bred with disregard for health issues and quality of life.
I usually only comment criticisms since having a criticism is the usually the only that motivates me to stop watching and start writing, but this video is motivating me to tell you that you're a cool ass dude, Ragusea. I have zero interest in aquariam stuff but I could listen to you talk about it all day.
TH-cam algorithm is indeed recommending this to “fish people.” Looks like a great setup - Thanks for talking about responsible fish keeping with your audience!
I'm personally not a fan of the fancy goldfish like you are, although I'm definitely learning to love koi and other "normal bodied" carp types, but i truly appreciate the passion you show and the care you give your little "puppies". And they are really cute. I almost couldn't believe my eyes when two of my favorite hobbies and my favorite presenter all came together. ❤❤❤
I'm interested in seeing temperature fluctuations. I was considering doing a few common goldfish in a 350 plastic pond trough. I'm in Southeastern Virginia and am worried it will get too hot for them in my screened in porch.
Those goldfish aren’t compatible with neon tetras and bristlenose plecos. The neons are insectivores who prefer warm water. The bristlenose need warm water and wood (lots of fiber). The goldfish will be much happier on their own. The neons look pale and stressed already… I’m sorry to point all this out, but it makes me so sad to see them looking so scared. You at least mentioned the corydoras aren’t compatible, but you didn’t mention they also need to school (like the tetras). In the long run you’re gonna stress your goldfish too if you keep a heater with them; it shortens their lifespan and stresses them out. Temperate fish NEED seasonal temperature fluctuations; day/night temperature fluctuations are much more pronounced than near the equators. The tropicals, on the other hand, need much more stable warm temperatures year-round. The vast majority of fish are exothermic, meaning their metabolisms are completely temperature-dependent. Daylight exposure also vastly affects their hormones; tropics receive much less (if any) seasonal fluctuations versus what we can expect in temperate regions.
Awww this is such a cute video. Also, this may be silly but I love those little striped cories. I know they are more of a service fish but I think they are just so darn cute. I vote to have them in any tank my husband manages.
The part I'm most interested in is the aquaponics.. seems really partly self sustainable mini ecosystem a homesteader can build.. I hope they grow and expand as Adam Ragusea the cook continue to feed us his polymathic exploration
Loved the video Adam! I would be very interested to see more on this topic and get updates on aquaponics system building! It might also be cool to see some more non-food videos, if things like that interest you
I have to say "TH-camrs making videos about things they're deeply passionate about even though it's different than their channel genre" is becoming (if not already) my favorite type of video
Agreed. I kind of miss this from before the algorithm started punishing content creators for going off brand. Absolutely love it when a creator can do passon videos like and not have to make some second channel or something.
same energy as internet shaquille's various videos on worms and pottery and whatever other neat hobby he gets up to. it's super refreshing to watch this type of stuff
That's basically the idea behind April Cool's Club, an alternate to April Fool's Day pranks!
Plus it helps the TH-camrs write off their hobbies as a business expense =)
I'd pay money to see a curated playlist of that genera
We thought he was here to cook, but all along we were just funding his master goldfish plan. That’s awesome.
Composer, chef, journalist, gardener, aquarium enthusiast, and more. Adam, you're a genuine modern-day Renaissance man! :)
Don't forget Dad 😊
Don't forget gymbro
...and videographer, and editor, and forager, geez this guy Adam can do a lot!
I knew he wrote music but I guess didn’t realize he was an actual composer? 😂
there’s a big difference in skill set between someone who just writes music and someone who understands engraving, orchestration and “classical” tonality/modality, I was impressed with his score!
Also completely rocked those women pajamas and proud and secure enough to show his thousands of viewers.
Positive masculinity y'all
For obvious reasons this is now my favorite Adam Ragusea video - Kevin
Luv ur vids :)
Omg it’s Epic! Goals! Lol
Yooo I love you Eric! Eric Gardening is some of the best content
OMG I didn’t expect to see Eric here!
Let's go! I think you'll find moving to a larger setup to be even more stable/easy to maintain, especially with more plants doing the brunt of the filtration.
dang, everybody coming together!!!
Ayyyy funny seeing you here!!! 😂
THE GOAT🐐
Serpa Squad!
Ayo this is mad, food tube and aquatube were meant to be together.
In your larval form you looked exactly like a guy who would compose music about goldfish varieties. Great video, I love everything you do.
Adam, as a long time fan of yours, this might be my favorite video you've ever done, and that's saying something. At the risk of feeding the parasocial thing you've said very recently makes you incredibly anxious, I love the vulnerability and enthusiasm in this video. It's so nice to see a nerdy person getting to make reality a small dream they've had for a while. Remembering that grown ups like I am now often have the means to achieve those dreams is honestly going to inspire me to try to achieve a few of my own.
I wonder what about it he's worried about? Not a regular channel viewer, but Parasocial relationships are like, 50% of our attachment to most forms of media in some way shape or form, and especially after youtube. The only difference is people without boundaries can actually find you if you're a real person -- which was the real reason we lost jenna marbles. I wouldn't have thought adam's videos would do that to people.
@@woIf
Listen to the last 20 minutes or so of his latest podcast, if you want to be clued in. Dudes been dealing with some issues, you wouldn't necessarily expect, just from watching his cooking videos.
@@woIf There is a lot of festering hate in this world waiting for any excuse to be released.
What a kind and heartfelt comment
In my experience, people that successfully maintain an aquarium, rarely stop at one setup. I look forward to seeing your expanding empire of tanks.
Multi tank syndrome is very serious problem affecting many a hobbyist😔
@@wxlurker it's true. 32 tanks at the height of my affliction. In fairness, some/most were terreriums.
We've already seen a shrimp tank, a koi pond, and the goldfish trough. MTS has already set in.
its more contagious than covid 😝@@Kraus-
Can confirm. I have enough terrariums, aquariums, and plant/bug bins to fill half an apartment.
One important thing about goldfish is that you need to make sure not to release them into the wild or add them to a natural pond. They are extremely invasive and harmful to many ecosystems.
Because they are very hardy and resilient. Maybe too much
Long body goldfish are absolutely an invasive nightmare. Those fancy round body goldfish like the Ranchu in the video would be murdered in minutes by larger fish, or birds, outcompeted, or straight up die because they’re the pugs of carp
While this is true for all aquatic pets and plants, these fancy goldfish aren't very rigorous. they'd be eaten summarily, unlike koi or common golds.
Last time I introduced a goldfish to my house he took over and I'm now living on the street. It is a serious issue that often doesn't have the media coverage it should.
I would say more but the guy's laptop I'm posting this from in Starbucks is coming out of the bathroom and I should leave now.
And VERY hardy fish. Since carp are cold water fish, they can survive in near freezing water just fine.
It's gonna sound weird but Adam saying long term he might be doing videos on aquaponics is a dream come true. This video is compositionally as well such a magnificent piece. Thanks Adam.
Adam's hobby videos are the ray of sunshine I didn't know I needed. More of this!
what are some other examples?
As someone who has 16 planted tanks and also watches you for COOKING, this is not the crossover I expected, but it was the one I needed 😭
This is incredible. I’ve been in the aquarium hobby for over 10 years now and I’ve been in the cooking hobby for about five. It’s awesome to see them come together and someone I’ve respected and watched for so long. I would love if you made a second channel about your fish, or at least just keep us updated on this one please!!!
The fun you get from this fishtank project really came through in the video, hope to see more of the little water pups.
I think my favorite genre of youtube video is “Happy and excited person talks about what they’re happy and excited about.”
I love to see you happy and excited, Adam! Thank you for sharing this with us!
Lol, same. Are you already subscribed to Atomic Shrimp? Sounds, like his content would be right up your alley.
It's like Adam writing a wholesome, awkward love letter to his younger self and I dig every second of it
Adam for his eventual fish and chips video:
"Why I season my fish trough, NOT my fish"
i clicked this to watch the goldfish trough build process but was definitely pleasantly surprised by the storytelling behind the love for goldfishes and 100% would love to listen to the full goldfish oboe performance
Your goldfish setup is lovely. I also loved listening to the snippet of your music. What an informative and fun video 💕
Adam being an Aquarist feels like two worlds collided. Man i love him even more now. Their home looks fantastic. Good filltration and an oval trough with no corners to needlessly bump into!
THANK YOU for not contributing to the "Here's a .5 gal bowl with 12 fish and one pothos stem. The water is clean because that's how nature works!" shit that most non aquarists imagine when they think about plant-filtered tanks. This is a really nice setup for them.
Adam Ragusea + fish tube?? My two favourite things!! Show us the shrimp tank too sometime!
As an aquarium expert, this channel is getting better and better each time!
As someone with no knowledge of aquaria, I agree.
As a non-Portuguese speaker I don't know what it means when someone says something "is keeping better and better." 😏
This was such a delightful video. After watching this, I feel like I should start calling this my favourite channel. You cover such a broad spectrum of topics in such an easily digestible but thorough manner. I've probably watched about 90% of your catalogue at this point and both the quality and my enjoyment levels have never dropped.
It really shows how you needed something different. I enjoyed every second of this video (except Immi not being available in Europe, but whatever), as a curious being who knows nothing about the subject. Also they're so cute!
You have my support, do whatever you need to get through these hard times :)
Hugs, because hugs are good.
Hi there! We ship to the UK and EU!
@@immieats oh, good to know, didn't notice!
Adam - my folks had a working aquaponics system in NC where we stocked a little over 100 tilapia, which fed into our greenhouse grow beds to feed plant rafts. They live in Farragut now, which I think is not far from you, but will be moving to Maryville shortly and setting up a similar system with off-grid power. I can tell you from first hand experience that aquaponics rigs are EXTREMELY power hungry if your power goes out in the winter time. The issue is tilapia need to be kept in a very specific temperature range or they will die, and if your power goes out and you can't heat/cool them, you can run into some issues. For reference we had around 100 solar panels generating enough power to fully power their home (~6k sqft), with battery backup using Telco batteries that were enough to last 3 days without grid power and minimal recharge from overcast skies. That aquaponics rig tho, when there was no power, consumed 95% of our available electricity during the winter time. If you want pointers setting up a more energy efficient setup, we'd be happy to help. We learned a LOT from making a bunch of mistakes on that rig. Overall it's MAYBE worth it if you're really serious about growing your own food, but a stocked pond is probably better at actually helping you grow a large number of fish for consumption.
As a foodie who has several fish tanks themselves, this is the best day ever. 😊
Same here! We had a koi pond that my dad and I built out of scraps, plus a tank of African Cichlids. The koi all got to be around 20 years old, but we never could keep the cichlids from murdering each other.
Same!
same
of course I never thought I'd watch an entire video about a fish tank, but when Adam does something I must watch until the last second. I guess I'm just very impressed in the way he manage to convey information in a dynamic (dare I say "cinematic") way. That and also his voice is kind of soothing. But mostly the fact that his way of filming is deeply cinematic in a literal sense: as in using movement (kinē) to convey meaning.
Adam, it’s really great to see and hear about some of your other loves. Thanks for this video
George and Gracie the goldfish are precious little fish and i love how you made their home! It's such a cute little pond. If you blanch veggies like zucchini or carrot and offer a small piece they can nibble on it, it's good for their digestion 👍
As someone who has always wanted a pond with cool fish and a greenhouse I am envious! Also at the risk of being the internet pedant that tank looks more like galvanized steel than an anodized aluminum but I could be wrong.
The most wholesome and adorable thing on earth is watching Adam geek out about his fish. This made my kinda rotten day ever so much better.
I don't think I'll ever quite understand fancy goldfish, but it's pretty damn cool that they really are so domesticated. Never really thought about that before! My stepfather kept several fish tanks once upon a time - but I think they were all tropical or something. Certainly some of them were big ol' bullies too, but I think cichlids are just...like that?
They are VERY cute, and I hope that your experiment does well!!
Hello from Aquarium TH-cam, Food TH-cam!
Haiiiii ^~^
It's so fun how enthusiastic Adam is about these lovely fish, I really enjoyed this non-food episode :) makes me wanna get a fish tank ngl
As someone who loves both cooking and aquariums this was a welcome surprise! Thanks for colliding fish TH-cam with food TH-cam Adam!
Reminds me of the time I was in the big school and rented a house with my girlfriend . The guy that owned the house was a slumlord type of guy and hired me to take care of his rentals while I went to college. There was a HUGE ice maker with stainless steel tank to hold the ice in the back yard. Well nothing worked but it seemed a shame to just let it waste away so I decided to use it as a fish tank. My buddy worked at a pet shop so we got great deals on guppies. We pitched about twenty in the "Tank". Added tropical plants etc. After much hanky panky they had multiplied into hundreds. About a year later we just couldn't give them away fast enough. It was fun, lots of fun until the night of the "Great Fish Massacre". You see one of the gang was netting fish in a local canal and caught a baby catfish about 5" long. He was a perfect addition to the tank for about a year. THEN IT HAPPENED !!! One night he went wacko and ate ALL of the guppies. End of story.
I'd love to hear a full podcast episode doing a deep dive on aquarium keeping (pun intended). I know you touched on it a bit in the comfy content episode but I found myself yearning for more!
while i can't imagine myself having enough gumption to properly care for fancy fish, i do have a soft spot for watching aquarium enthusiasts share their hobby with anyone who will listen. looking forward to more of this topic!
As a cooking and aquarium keeping hobbyist, I'm very delighted to see one of my favorite youtubers share my same activities.
!!!If the power goes out that air pump will syphon all the water out as it’s lower than the tank.. hope there’s a check valve I cant see from the video but even they aren’t 100%
This is the most wholesome video of adam i've seen, love to see his love for the fishes!
I've been watching you for years Adam and I cannot say I have ever been more delighted to accidently cross into food youtube during a fish youtube rabbithole.
Im a marine Biologist myself working on farmed mussels with a little shrimp tank of my own.
Its honestly a delight to see you talk about your hobbies of Music and weightlifting, this is the fist time I've heard of your aquarium passion and I'm all here for it!
I really don't trust this man to not eat his goldfish.
As a trans woman, your pajamas made me do a double take! They looked very cute on you though, you could pull it off!
A cooking channel, discussing fish…and Snazzy Labs a Tech channel discussing food, all within the same week? I love this new… “TH-camrs doing what makes them actually happy” vibe we have starting.
"as to why I'm wearing ladies' pajamas, my best guess is...wine."
This is one of my favorite Ragusea quotes. Easily top ten.
I would totally watch an aquarium show with Adam Ragusea.
I would absolutely love a 24/7 livestream of George & Gracie.
I really appreciate this video after your last two podcasts, and I really am glad to get an example of your musical composition.
I deeply appreciate the myriad little looks into your world you've shared with us here, even how you integrated the sponsorship with just the right amount of whiplash.
Ranchu are my favourite goldfish too. Aquaponics with really nice fancies like this doesn't work. Fancies need extremely good water conditions to thrive (zero ammonia and nitrites and very low nitrates). Aquaponics needs ammonia, nitrites and nitrates to produce food. There's a big difference between growing some pretty aquatic plants and growing food and for the latter the fish will suffer.
(I was experimenting with 'aquaponics' almost 50 years ago before I'd even heard the term. It only works with hardy fish species - which is why the fish chosen are often 'food fish'. As in 'don't get attached to them, they're disposable and simply a nutrient source for the crop'.)
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Are you going to eat.... oh. Never mind.
Seriously, that's such a fabulous little aquarium. And I learned stuff too!
What a lovely garden, as a college student this is very lovely.
So I come here trying to learn about fish, and the first thing I hear is you saying you won't eat your goldfish? This seems a bit odd; if anything, this makes it feel like you would eat your goldfish, but I assume you somehow attracted an odd audience.
Initially, I was going to mention the intrigue of the *shrimp cube* ~ but I just listened to the full four movements of Types of Goldfish. So cool that you composed these!!! My favorite movement was Jikin -- felt like it could be part of a Ghibli film score. The beginning of Celestial was magical, as well. The main oboe line in Ranchu sounded like a ton of fun to play (albeit I've never played oboe...it made me miss playing flute!)
Thank you for sharing your passions with us, Adam!
Brilliant description, by the way. "...Hopelessly domesticated... just kinda friendly, and soft, and dumb." 😅
Stock tanks are great. I've grown vegetables in 8 different sized tanks for 15 years. They're nearly weedless and easy to care for.
As a manager of a pet store and aquatic enthusiast, you did a great job doing the fish justice and informing parts of TH-cam that may otherwise have not have learned more about fish.
You would be amazed at just how little effort the vast majority of adults care to learn, well, anything about the animals they are about to be responsible for.
Edit: also your vessel of water is not too small at all for two ranchus. And if anyone thinks it is, another funny thing I run into is people who take info from some place on the Internet and treat it like gospel. They will say anyone who puts a Betta in anything smaller than a 150 gallon is a horrible abuser. What I find curious is these people never ask a very essential question, what should be the first question out of anyone's mouth when talking about the quality of care for a fish, and that is "what are the water parameters?" The reason there are these metrics online is because people tried different things and they either succeeded or failed and told other people. Then others evaluated why. And the cycle continues. When a website says a fish does best in x number of gallons, it is because that is what they found works to keep things healthy. It wasn't written in their DNA, a scientist didn't find "ah, well here in the genome it says it won't live in anything less than 20 gallons." They can swim and forage and seek refuge in your vessel, and so long as the water parameters are healthy and stable, it's looking fantastic. You're already doing heaps and bounds above what any "rescuer" does when they buy a "sad little goldfish" at a big box pet store and shoves it in a 10 gallon acting like they "rescued" it.
Keep up the good work.
I think this video does somewhat highlight the ethics of fancy varieties of goldfish. They will die quite easily when you dont make the pond as safe as physically possible, we kind of have to force them for them to actually thrive. Personally ive been in the hobby for years, and ive come to the realisation that I do not like fancy goldfish at all, I find them to be unethical. You can still have incredibly beautiful standard goldfish, just look at shubunkins. Theyre also more beautiful like koi, because they swim more strongly and gracefully.
Honestly I'd really advise against mixing goldfish and tropicals, as the 'compromise' just means the goldfish poop even more and the tropical fish are still too cold and prone to ich. If nothing else, the neon tetras shouldn't be in there. They need a bigger school to feel safe and you can tell how stressed they are just looking at their pale colors. Catfish, including corys, are great fish but their function as 'clean up crew' is really not what it's made out to be. Snails would work much better imo.
.... and we're gonna skip over the shrimp tank? I love fish tanks and have had some, but I've not kept shrimp for long in a mixed tank, and would love to have a dedicated tank. It looked like a freshwater shrimp tank, so neocaradins maybe? Super cool, and would love to see a video on them!
I am going to eat them, Adam. I will eat them both. I will not relent. I will not forget. I will EAT. THEM. BOTH. Using one of your own recipes.
Having a koi and goldfish pond has also been my childhood dream! I'm not quite there yet.
Here's the bad news - using an unlined galvanized tank will poison the fish. You typically need to spray the interior with something like FlexSeal or pond liner....
man i almost can't blame you for all than annoying sponsor shit you cram into every video now. if it meant i could get a big ass house with a fucking greenhouse AND a fish tank inside it, hell, i'd probably do the fucking same.
if you dont know already, the fish you stocked it with are the pugs of fish. they are selectively bred with disregard for health issues and quality of life.
I usually only comment criticisms since having a criticism is the usually the only that motivates me to stop watching and start writing, but this video is motivating me to tell you that you're a cool ass dude, Ragusea.
I have zero interest in aquariam stuff but I could listen to you talk about it all day.
Adam, I appreciate your content but I am not paying $40 for a 6-pack of ramen.
Dang, I thought he was going to eat the Gold fish. 😂
But I do like his Koi pond.😎👍💯
TH-cam algorithm is indeed recommending this to “fish people.” Looks like a great setup - Thanks for talking about responsible fish keeping with your audience!
I demand a full length performance of "Types of Goldfish"
When I thought you couldn’t get any nerdier, I learn you wrote a musical score about goldfish. Love you Adam!
I've been dreaming about this for twenty years - YES, TWENTY
May want to get a liner for the trough. Metals are toxic to fish. Overtime the zinc in the galvanized steel could cause issues with their gills
Young Adam and young Josh Groban share jawlines and great hair! Neat goldfish tank idea
Please do more content that YOU want to do... we want you to be happy and not feel the need to please us. Thank you for being you
Adam, What products do you use for your hair/what is your routine? it looks great!
I'm personally not a fan of the fancy goldfish like you are, although I'm definitely learning to love koi and other "normal bodied" carp types, but i truly appreciate the passion you show and the care you give your little "puppies". And they are really cute. I almost couldn't believe my eyes when two of my favorite hobbies and my favorite presenter all came together. ❤❤❤
Oh baby I'd LOVE to see a co-lab between Adam and Serpa Design
I'm interested in seeing temperature fluctuations. I was considering doing a few common goldfish in a 350 plastic pond trough. I'm in Southeastern Virginia and am worried it will get too hot for them in my screened in porch.
As a member of both food youtube and fishkeeping youtube, this is the best crossover ever.
I have always wanted a container pond with a few fish but mainly i want some waterlilies. Some of the tropical waterlilies are very colorful!
Those goldfish aren’t compatible with neon tetras and bristlenose plecos. The neons are insectivores who prefer warm water. The bristlenose need warm water and wood (lots of fiber). The goldfish will be much happier on their own. The neons look pale and stressed already… I’m sorry to point all this out, but it makes me so sad to see them looking so scared. You at least mentioned the corydoras aren’t compatible, but you didn’t mention they also need to school (like the tetras).
In the long run you’re gonna stress your goldfish too if you keep a heater with them; it shortens their lifespan and stresses them out. Temperate fish NEED seasonal temperature fluctuations; day/night temperature fluctuations are much more pronounced than near the equators. The tropicals, on the other hand, need much more stable warm temperatures year-round.
The vast majority of fish are exothermic, meaning their metabolisms are completely temperature-dependent. Daylight exposure also vastly affects their hormones; tropics receive much less (if any) seasonal fluctuations versus what we can expect in temperate regions.
Omg yes. Came here to say this 😢😢😢 tropicals and goldies have very different needs! Pleco can attack and suck slime layer off gold fish!
Not going to last , galvanize steel as a pond doesn’t not last long till it bleaches the water and hurts or kills the fish
Try Mangrove root in the pond. They’re incredible. You basically don’t have to worry about chemical balances at all with them there
This was pretty cool content from you. Not that your usual stuff isn't, of course.
That's not the video I expected but t was nice to learn about your other passion
I hope you will make an update video about your fishes at least once a year
1:57 Adam as the band kid in college is blowin my mind rn
I love this video. For all the great research and technical presentation it’s fundamentally a kid showing off the fish they finally got to keep :)
Awww this is such a cute video. Also, this may be silly but I love those little striped cories. I know they are more of a service fish but I think they are just so darn cute. I vote to have them in any tank my husband manages.
"Why I trough my fish, NOT my food."
this is an excelent video to watch while high. those are such good fish.
Thank god he seasoned his cutting board so that Gracie and George could have a home ❤
Enjoying the video while researching my tilapia/koi pond aquaponics project here in the Andes Mountains.
How lucky all those fish and critters are to end up in your thoughtful care
The part I'm most interested in is the aquaponics.. seems really partly self sustainable mini ecosystem a homesteader can build.. I hope they grow and expand as Adam Ragusea the cook continue to feed us his polymathic exploration
This is awesome, and you're very welcome!
Hey. Hey Adam. Hey.
...you gonna eat 'em or what
Never knew Adam had this much knowledge about the aquarium hobby!
Loved the video Adam! I would be very interested to see more on this topic and get updates on aquaponics system building! It might also be cool to see some more non-food videos, if things like that interest you