My Fish *Disappeared* for 1 Year - And Came Back!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2024
- It is very difficult to starve freshwater fish. Aquariums provide lots of natural food for the tropical fish, particularly in dirted aquariums, and therefore fish will manage to find all kinds of foods to eat and thrive. Listen to Father Fish narrate the story of his favorite Jack Dempsey who disappeared for a year and then reappeared again. And how he survived that one whole year without anybody to feed him, change his water, or even provide a heater for him.
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That really puts things into perspective. Quite possibly we’re all over feeding the fish.
@chriskibodeaux9818 what? U think he's lying? Ur full of bs my guy. I have tanks I haven't fed in 2 yrs but I digress
@@chriskibodeaux9818it can be true if you don’t know water and bugs mix well so i’m pretty the jack has a good diet without pellets
@@chriskibodeaux9818it's true I had a khuli loch survive a month in my plant aquarium and he was FAT
Some get over fed so we know that all of them ate- unlike in the wild.
That’s why I don’t mind a three day gap for an out of town trip.
I feed gut loaded live nutrition before and after but I know while I’m gone they’re gonna find “something” til I return
@@freshwatermechanicanyone who believes that outrageous story has low IQ. This is why I have reef tanks, better hobby overall and no bs. I have fish and corals that would die due to a temp swing of 2 degrees. Fat and happy saltwater fish is key. Freshwater fish could literally live in a toilet, I’m not impressed.
My friend got divorced, broke down his entire garage fishroom and moved out. In such a hurry he left one planted tank full of zebra danios sitting in the corner without realizing it. A year later after the dust settled on the divorce and got his house back I was helping him move back in. When we discovered the tank we were blown away that they not only survived but had been breeding.
I went to works colleagues house and he had a small tank in kitchen, it had no light, no filter, nothing and it just looked gloomy. Yet there was two neon tetras in there. I immediately told him to look after them better and he said they had been like that for at least a couple of years as they were his ex gf's fish and he hates fish.
I couldn't believe they were still alive
Darwin vlessed these fish lol theyd probably take over the world if they was still on and about today :v
@straightouttacornwall that's so incredibly cruel! Just because you hate a species of animal doesn't mean you should let them suffer for years! Those poor fish..
How… i litteraly feed my zebra danios live food such has bloodworms and can get them to breed very rarely now and then, they bred without any food?
@@FishkeeperThatPlaysTF2 I'm assuming by leaving the tank neglected it must have simulated the different seasons they experience in the wild.
"No help from me thank you very much" that hit home with me lol
Me too! 😅
You know what Father Fish! I think we would all be healthier if we jumped into another tank that is not polluted with excess processed foods!
no doubt!
WHAT?!?! And here I am going crazy about how I didn't feed my FAT goldfish today.
You have fat goldfish too? Lol. Little chubby jerks living it up. 😂
Those guys are carp, algae eaters. Never even meant to really see protein and people fatten them to death lol
@@shanejones578 well I know that now, so my goldfish now maybe eat 3 times a month and one of them is more then the rest in this pass 3 months. I think I did good slowly taking there food from them and I don't think they really knew. Oh and I started feeding them homemade gel food so I definitely know they will survive.
@@hurricanevolf7165are they fine being feb thrice a month?
Sometimes we are all at fault of overthinking things when the answer is so simple we don't see it and this story is proof. Thankyou 🙏🏻
Just put dirt into my aquarium after finding this channel. Almost died when I saw all the dust but now it looks beautiful.
That’s amazing, 1 year and he managed to handle it like a champ.
He must have forgotten that it was a guppie breeder tank 😊
Hhh sure 🙂
I found a 3 1/2 inch (nose to penduncle) black moor laying sideways in 2 inches of water of a 20 tall in an abandoned apartment. You could almost count the evaporation rings on the glass. Long luscious finnage and no melanophore migration. Upgraded to a 40gal with excellent filtration and it lived another 4 years. To this day, I have never seen a more perfect example of old school telescope genetics.
The story is awsome but we cant deny this is also due to negligence of the owner. Good thing the Jack dempsey is as hardy and resourceful to survive on his own.
Exactly if you knew the fish jumped into another tank and neglected it that's terrible on your part and also you had to have been adding water to the tank so why not take the fish out and feed it
I managed a couple of fish farms. One had been shut down for over a year. There were 50 vats full of fish that had been in a closed up shut down shed with no light or running water. The fish were fine. Beautiful flowerhorns and jacks too.
Amazing
I can't wait to get my tank set up again I haven't done it because I'm lazy and it is going to take a little bit of work I know it's only a 20 gallon tank and I bought the substrate and the sand and I'm tired of constantly replacing the plants thank you so much for enlightening me
Didn't know I wanted a fish tank... thanks pops.
Same happens on a regular basis in my outdoor lily tank that has a couple of Apple snails and 6 Molly fish. I do not feed it synthetic food, mostly the fish eat alage, aging leaves, other organisms, it receives 6-7 hrs of direct tropical sunlight. Fish are thriving. The male is 5X the size it was when it came
My turtle escaped once outside(I live in the desert) and he survived 3 months under a bush on the bugs and little water he got from the watering.
Admits roaches.... that's an honest guy !
True. True. I've got a new spawn of Kribensis. The mulm at the bottom of the tank is so full of micro-organisms the little ones are plump, happy and growing. I watch them picking through it continually.
That fish is a legend, sir! Very few fish disappear without a trace and then come back! 😁None I know of, at least.
I fell off with aquarium keeping a few years ago and i sit with an empty 75 gallonn in my room doing nothing and im loving your content. Not sure if ill fix the tank up or get a new one since its in horrible condition but wow you have some awesome content.
Just curious if he could have jumped tanks to feed? I ask because I’ve seen Bettas move themselves to other tanks in a store?
no. the tank was isolated on the floor.
This fish has a first and last name and possibly a social security number 😂
leaving town for a short get-away soon. GF will be watching the dog and I've already told her. Don't worry about the aquariums. If the power is on...their fine.
Long years ago, i had bricardis. I thought all of them died. And i left aquarium at a corner of empty room. Maybe 6-7 months later. I wanted to use that aquarium. When i went to take it. I seen a bricardi in it. Water was so low that fish was in a hole he digs. Water was just 4-5 (less than 2") cm and all that hole was about 7-8cm (3") diameter. All that time and that room is a cold room about 13-15 degree most (55-60fahrenheit). Fish was healthy, strong. Lived with me more than year.
I get stressed about late water changes, but I keep hearing stories of people who forget or abandon tanks for a year or more and the fish are just fine.
Wow that's an impressive specimen!
Is that beautiful blue/black fish towards the end, is that a Jack Dempcy? Awesome looking fish
@father fish yeah i had the same. After the tsnk got a leak i had to empty it. So like 10cm of water remained. Nu filtration, only light. As i thought there was no fish in there anymore, i left it from june till january. Then as i wanted to clean it out i found 2 more red terror fry. Fast i put them in a 500l tank. Skinny but healthy. Then after i took al rhe water out i took a 20min break. Then found 2 more.
Also alive, and kicking. In the long run the did grew verry slow and took 3x as long to grow them to 12cm but they still alive and starting to collor up.
stuff that falls into the tank is the best food a fish can have because thats what they naturally would eat in the wild as long as theres no pesticides in them
I freaking love this dude. Gentlemen like this are the people you need to listen too on the topics they know the most. They have been observing and studying through trial and error longer than a lot of us been alive
@@ronburgundy4743 go to a psychiatric ward
Tell that to my fish that go mad every morning when I walk past the tank
You trained them.
I am a hands off pond keeper and the fish breed and do just fine, my neighbor had a pond and did monthly water changes and kept his filter clean and the fish died after 6 months. To top it off, i have no filter, only a pump to bring water up to the waterfall. The point is, leave the fish alone, they know what they are doing without you interfering.
I accidentally fished out a baby ember tetra at the surface when I was moving some floaters into a new tank. I had put him in a breeder box in the main tank to grow until he was big enough to not get eaten. In that same time, a second baby tetra was growing and surviving without any help from me. It was so cool to see that my help is a cherry ant not a necessity.
Feel like all the advice Father Fish gives is how to be the best negligent fish owner😂
My girlfriends swordtail somehow jumped from her 65 gallon over a 10 gallon and into a chiclid 65 gallon and the next day when we found it it was quite the murder scene
Meanwhile Bettas: oh no you breathed on my 20 gallon tank wrong! I have fin rot now
✅✅✅✅Jack Dempseys Are Absolute Beasts ✅✅✅✅
I love Jack Dempsey cichlids. ❤ They're a pretty hardy fish but it doesn't take much to hurt them if their needs aren't met in an aquarium. 😊
🙏 Poor Jack ... Better covered our aquariums since some fishes do jump! 🌷🌿🐠
I've seen TH-cam videos where people go into abandoned homes and the aquariums are evaporated to less than half of the water, and there are still fish living in the green tank water
That’s like ppl I’ve seen on TikTok w/ tanks so dirty u can’t even see the fish in them yet those fish are healthy & thriving 🤷🏻♀️
A real survivor. I hope you kept him for the rest of his days!
I have a pet bluegill and when I first got the tank I took plant and about 1 gallon of water from the same lake he came from and let it cycle for a month before even catching him and there was so much micro organisms and small life that I didn’t even knew existed and when I put him in there he didn’t even need to be fed for 2weeks because he just ate all the snails and things that where in there from the plant and water
I've got a 10-year-old 75g paludarium that has never been fed and the small school of danios and neocardinia shrimp have been doing great.
I moved from Atlanta to Savannah left my oscar fish in Atlanta with my dad he forgot about the fish in my room for 4 months it was living off of snails and bugs fat
This guy is on another level
Even I put molly in my cemented container because i ran out containers
And i forgot to switch in main tank
After a year i realised that i had a molly that i dumped in cemented container in my garage it doesn't have any kinds of light to grow algae but still the molly survive without light he was eating the bottom dirt because no algae was happening in there ! 😅
And I saved him
I’ve been trying to establish something like that. Definitely feel like that start is essential to a stable future more than anything. My 55g that’s changed drastically as I’ve learned is my best of the two rn and I still have to clean it every 2-3 weeks. I don’t mind it since everything’s healthy though
Clean biweekly? How deep?
@@FatherFish it’s a 2-3 inch sand bed. Definitely need to add a lil more but I’ve just left it alone aside from the water change every 2-3 weeks since the fish have been doing so well
This video introduced me to this channel! Just subscribed 🤗me want fish wisdom, me come here! Thank you father fish😊you are awesome 😎
Thats an awesome story
I love your content. Have learned alot from you. The kne thing I would really like to know is what is the striped fish in background at 52 sec.
Once upon a time.. lol what a story
I have frequent nightmares about leaving 3 aquariums unattended for months, and when I return to see my fish, they are all ok 😂. Probably it has to do with it
I’m so happy to see this bc I have some brass tetras that are always chewing and I am baffled! What are they eating 😩. Now I know it’s the microorganism in there. Thanks for the info❤
What kind of fish is at the 0:45 mark? The almost all blue one? Thanks for all the wisdom.
Samed happened to my frog, he was in a bioactive enclosure together with other smaller frogs and I stopped seeing him for several months, so I never got the chance to feed him. I, instead, fed my smaller frogs some fruit flies. After 6 months, my frog reappeared, healthy as always and I figured out he was shy, and had probably eaten the critters in the bioactive soil
God bless Mr Jack Dempsey he's a true over comer , what a true survivor, what a testimony 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂❤❤❤
Jack Dempseys are special and different. Can live ten to twelve years. Recognize their owners. Do well in a tank all by themselves.
Was that Super Cichlids? i only ask because that is my favorite fish store in my area
yes
My aquarium must have feasts in it!!! 😂
I’ve got a pea puffer tank that barely even needs to be fertilized
I have a barrel pond that had 2 goldfish in it. I took them out and gave them to a friend as I was leaving town for 4 months. When I got back, it was over grown with duck weed. I pulled out some duck weed and discovered at least 50 baby goldfish about 1/2" long.
Wonderful
Love the Jack D story 👍
I find it hard to believe you had a tank of water on the floor for a year and never stopped to look in it
I dont feel too bad about doing up veggies for my fish tank now instead of the processed flakes etc
Imagine setting up a fishtank and not buying any form of food 😂. The begginers are gonna be so confused
I know. Right! The food web is the key.
Wow he lived along time!
How ! That’s amazing 🩵😬
That's the beauty of nature ❤
Life finds a way
Same happened to me it was two galaxies 8 months later I look and I’m like oh no how.
I'm certainly guilty of overfeeding my fish. Particularly since some need to be fed at different levels of the aquarium. But I AM getting better. My filter floss in both of my seachem tidal 110s isn't quite as dark at weekly water change time....lol
I wish my betta would eat the hair algae
Jack Dempsey is one bad Mamajama!!!
I have one tank that I just let snails and anubias take over. I do absolutely nothing with it other than top it off when it needs a little more water. I was thinking about sticking some medaka in it for fun. I keep medaka in a big planter outside in all weather and also do pretty much nothing other than top the water off. It's heavily planted and full of snails. The medakw breed like crazy. Now my 90cm tank has a 45cm pleco that is a crap machine. I siphon out the poo then top off the water and thats about it. The little community fish in with him eat the snail eggs and plants and whatever else grows. To be honest i just kind of let the tanks do their thing. My water composition levels are all great and I have the chunkiest tetras I've ever seen (especially for only getting a pinch of flakes maybe once a week).
I feed my fish once a day or once every other day depending on the week but never more. Ive had 3 tanks running for 8 years and my fish always live out their full lives. Matter fact I haven’t bought a new fish in about 2 years now that i think of it.
My tetras got a mosquito today lol 😂 these fish will really eat anything and so much! My cories once they are done grazing the good stuff they go for all the algae and my otos scream! That’s their whole diet basically lol leave their algae alone mannn
But the microorganisms are there for sure especially low maintaining tanks and they keep my guppies fat. 😭
No fish dies from starvation but most of them die as a result of overfeeding
It was a hard lesson learned for me but hungry fish is healthy fish
Teach us how to grow Daphnia.
OK
Jack really wanted a peaceful and quiet life
This so true i had a raphael catfish in bucket of of water with wood no filter or water movement for like 10 months later used the wood and to my surprised there was a catfish i thought had died since i rarely saw him no food either that i put in
They don’t make fish like that anymore lol truly amazing I don’t like to assume but I’m assuming that the tank your Dempsey jumped into was dirted with lots of plants and at least an air stone? Probably wouldn’t need a filter. The fish was eating its own waste also. Sounds like what happens at the bottom of a pond to me. Good stuff! Tnx again for the education father fish
bare 10 gal tank, no air, fish 4"
@@FatherFish WOW I consider myself a conservationist, avid, outdoorsman, avid fisherman I’m pretty in tune with nature I never thought that would be possible truly amazing! Thank you for sharing your experience an eye-opener to say the least
Nobody argue!! Take knowledge from others into consideration! Go to a library & find stuff that suits your fancy😂
Most community tanks that we have we feed 2-3 times a week..But we have a few community tanks who have one day without food only, because some.of the species attack and eat the smaller ones in there if they don't get food for 2 days...
I thought you said gravel is bad for tanks and there is Jack Dempsey in one with gravel
What the ?
Amazing really and interesting.
Yup i had a khuli loach do something similar didnt see him for months figured he died after i flipped the rocks and didnt see him but i was letting the tank dry up out side and i saw a mud cloud caused by something swimming sure enough it was the khuli loach several months later in about 2 inches of water 😂 put him in the new tank hes doin great
I did that once with ditch fish
My fish are too big to survive on algae and micro organism. This would work in a planted tank, but not in a predator tank/pond
It will if you culture larger fauna such as shrimp and small fish in schools.
I lost a jeweled cichlid for a year. Thought it got eaten. I even did water changes and one day there he was.
I feed most of my tanks once a week and haven't lost a fish since i got on the routine last july.
Geuss I'll stop feeling bad when I've forgotten to feed the pond fish out back, ill think of this when it inevitably happens again 👍
This is why i dont kill detritus worms anymore, my beani cichlid picks them off the tank wall, still eats pellets though.😅
beani, a wonderful Central cichlid.
Complete ecosystem!
Mr Jack Dempsey was lucky he jumped into a tank on the floor. I just lost a beautiful lavender and black female Betta via jumping. She was in a tank in a shady windowsill and I keep the door open most days so we get lots of gnats and flying insects. I think she was going after a bug and happened to slip out of the gap in the lid for the filter. I feel like I added to her hunger for gnats because I catch them with tweezers in that window and feed them to my fish. 😔
Very cool!
I had a dragon eel that lived in my closet in a hanging filter for well over a year.
Holy SHIT lmao now that’s a bonkers one, what the hell did you do with him when you found him 😂😂😂😂
@shanejones578 Well first of all it scared the shit out of me. I was getting the filter out to put together an aquarium so I just put him in there. Lol
Wow. What an adventure..❤
Don't cichlids like to dig. Or rearrange substrate ? Can you keep larger cichlids in a. Aquarium with dirt & sand ? Just curious.
They dig for hardscape. A few flat rocks prevent much of the digging.
@@FatherFish ah ok