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I was planting a stem from my tank that broke of a plant and this little yellow cherry shrimp i got two weeks ago started crawling on wouldn't get of for ages still after a name for him can you help me pick one
I need to transfer one of my aquarium plant to a different tank how do I do it?
Hi mate have you tried the hermit all in one lily pipe on the in take it takes water through the bottom and has a skimmer and the return is next to the intake
When I was younger in China my grandpa bought an eel and put it in a spare aquarium. I bonded with it. A few days later it vanished and there was a long, skinny piece of meat at the dinner table. I cried
omg...
did u eat it tho
@@FishForThought HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA, that is a very good question 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@FishForThoughti wouldnt
the same thing happened to me when i was in tianjin when i bought a catfish😂
Actually had same experience with rabbits. My uncle kept a bunch in hutches in his backyard, and one day I came over and they were all gone... 😢 I knew without asking cause this was the same uncle that strung up a gutted pig in his front yard. In an urban neighborhood. 😂 He moved to the country some years ago; I'm sure his old city neighbors miss him.
Everyone saw Leon the Lobster and is saving grocery store seafood.
ahaha
YESSS
I was at a repair shop and in the waiting room was a tank that was covered in Algae and you could not even see the fish. I came back later and brought my algae scrubber. I brought them a magnet one. Then showed them how easy it was to clean off the Algae. They put up a sign that said. " Bored use magnet and clean off Algae" The tank looks better. lol
oh man
I got my turtle at a grocery store. He cost five bucks. Best five bucks I've ever spent. I glad he come to live with me. I'm not creative, so I named him Kame.
There is a crazier place that I've found duckweed, but this is a family channel. Seriously, I don't know how it got there, but I'm glad I showered soon after I changed the water on my aquarium. My husband would have been dismayed that evening if had I not.
That's... A pretty crazy place to find duckweed. Oof.
is this a family channel though?!?!?!?
I… probably don’t want to know but at the same time…
I guess I can put it this way: was it a sewer or anything along those lines… or was it worse?
@@FishForThought Depends on whether any of the tanks you show have live bearers in them I suppose.
I suppose the honest reason for not saying it like it was is that I don't want to be put in TH-cam prison for however long, or even banned. That would mean I'd have to spend more time doing un-needed water changes and less time writing stuff on FTR and other videos I enjoy watching and commenting on. Not that it would be any great tragedy if I didn't, though I'm sure my fish would get more stressed if I chose to do water changes twice a day instead of writing useless stuff.
Absolutely, hysterical@@FishForThought
"How are you supposed to be friends with the pieces?" 🤣💀
oh no xD
My Mississippi river tank was intentionally the worst tank possible. I used real Mississippi river water sourced downstream from some sort of a chemical plant. Whatever was in it etched the glass in the aquarium I kept it in. I put a number of aquascaping features in the pure Mississippi muck also sourced from the actual Mississippi River. I put in it a part of an old tire, a broken bottle, a bottle cap, a rusty old hand gun, a dead cell phone, a pair of sun glasses and many other things which fall into or are thrown into the Mississippi River. I added some chemicals, some motor oil, and an already dead and rotting fish. I also put a large wreaking mass of cyanobacteria slime. Other than they cyanobacteria, I put nothing living in the tank, because that would be cruel. I also put a current generator in so that it would keep the sediment stirred up. There was never a time when you could see all the way through it. I then sealed top shut because I could not stand the smell. The crazy thing was that even in this heavily polluted anoxic environment, some sort of critters eventually emerged from the muck. Whatever they were, they managed to live quite well until I took the tank out and threw it in the tip three years after I started it. I didn't stick around to see what would happen when the trash collectors put it in their truck and crushed it. I'm sure they would have cursed the day that I was born even in my absence. That thing was a toxic waste site deserving of an EPA Superfund clean up. The poor blokes who picked it up probably spent the rest of the day with burning eyes and vomiting up everything they eaten for breakfast, thereafter experiencing hair loss and dry heaves.
I wonder what those critters were that came out of the mud? They looked alien. One was a flat worm-looking thing with what looked like a medieval night's morning star on the end of it. Everything living in there looked nightmarish and alien. Thanks Mississippi river for that once in a lifetime experience. Thanks Canadian border guards for letting me come home without checking what was in my car too closely. You probably wouldn't have let me bring that stuff in if you knew about it, in spite of the Yamaska River being almost as polluted as the Mississippi. Heavy industry isn't supposed to be dumping bad chemicals in the water in either country, but we all know that they do, because government can't always be checking up. That's why every now and then a river catches fire and burns to the ground. Also both rivers are full of e. coli due to sewage treatment plants that aren't up to the task, and dump excess untreated raw sewage directly into the Rivers. Maybe someday I'll try to make a Yamaska River aquarium. It will be pretty nasty too. I remember driving by it once and seeing a bloated dead cow floating in it just downstream from a packing plant. Way to go guys! Glad you didn't butcher it and put it in our meat supply. Even the scavengers were turning up their noses at that cow. I don't blame them.
So yeh. That's my story of the worst aquarium that I've not only ever seen, but that may well have ever existed.
omg xD
That’s… definitely quite the story xD
common plecos can get hooked on eating slime coat, but I've mostly heard of it happening in goldfish tanks (plecos are horrible tankmates for goldies). I've been told that adding more driftwood and better hiding places can help get the pleco to chill tf out and stop trying to gum its tank mates to death.
I was gonna comment this! Doesn’t look like the pleco has many feeding options in this tank. I ordered live algae for mine, and chlorella beads. My pleco slurps them like boba.
Plecos also need a protein source. I have definitely heard of common plecos eating the slime coat off of bigger fish but mostly goldfish.
It would be nice to see videos or stories of this happening and then how a change in its diet stopped the pleco from doing it and they all lived happily ever after. 😂
dang totally didn't know that
I was thinking about that too! I remember Luke’s Goldie’s being adamant about that
Makes sense that adding driftwood would help since plecos enjoy grazing on that, but yeah as the other comment says they also need protein, if they don’t get it in their diet they’ll resort to getting it off of other fish
(Luckily I never had that issue with my common pleco because I spoiled him with brine shrimp and algae wafers)
I have a common pleco (before I knew bristlenose is the way to go) and it devours the bog wood in the tank, along with cleaning my turtle's shell on occasion. It also enjoys lettuce as much as my turtle
Worse tank I've ever seen irl is actually one I made as a kid. You see, there was this one settling pond in my neighborhood that was stocked with goldfish. I lowkey think the goldfish were there because of people abondoning them. It was a common activity to go to the pond and feed the fish old bread. Every kid always dreamed of catching one, but never figured out how. I was the first kid to figure out a way to catch the fish, by using a bucket filled with rocks tied to a string. Truly a big brain moment for me. Anyway I caught the goldfish but I didn't think ahead. So I kept it in a liter soda bottle cut in half and fed it bread crumbs. I only kept it for like, 2 days after I realize that i couldn't keep a fish like this, so I returned it to the pond
we all been there
I did this with so many lizards and frogs when I was young lol. "I CAUGHT A FRIEND!" *2 days go by in some Tupperware container I'm sure my mom was upset about me using* "friend deserves to be free :(" RIP all my mom's Tupperware
there IS a cuteness bias in conservation, but a lot of the animals that are chosen as species that we want to save - tigers, pandas, whales, ect - are also good strategic choices, because they have huge ranges and complex interactions with their ecosystems, which means in order to protect /them/, we also end up protecting all the other things that share their range, which includes the weird and "ugly" invertebrates that are foundational to the ecosystems they're part of. umbrella species ftw!
QOTW: my friend was moving to Texas in 2020 (we're on the east coast) and she didn't want to put her guppy through that drive, so I took it. My family and I were expecting at the very least a few gallons, but she gave me a sick guppy with a 0.5 gal "tank," nerd gravel, no decor, and brown water. Unfortunately, since it was summer of 2020 we couldn't get to the store right away to get a better tank, but she did live out the rest of her days in clean water
yes because the drive to texas would have been too hard on it lololol thank you for saving it from the drive to texas.
good stuff
5:12 As a french guy, this is funny because in our language "duckweed" "lentil" and "contact lens" have the same french word "lentille" : "lentille d'eau" = "water lentil/lens". So i gonna make a french meme typing under this photo : "wearing your lens, you are doing it wrong" LOL!
ahahah c'est drole!
The worst tank I have seen IRL is sadly my own... though, not by my choice. I couldn't bring my 20 gallon aquarium with me on a move, so my parents held onto it for me. Bacterial bloom killed everything. Parents kept putting fish in it, they all kept dying. One parent put in a single-tail goldfish. I moved back 2 years later. Aquarium is completely green with algae, the brown substrate has turned black, and it reeks. Goldfish is 6". So much fake decorations it barely has room to swim. I resumed ownership of the tank. Luckily, my husband knows someone with a pond who was willing to take the goldfish. Completely stripped the tank since, and have resealed it. New build in progress.
New fear unlocked: duckweed contact lenses
True eels, true crabs, true spiders and their corresponding false versions make me question if my dog is a true dog. Thanks, Chirs and Clint's Reptiles. Still need the Epic Rap Battle between Chirs and Clint.
My only hitchhiker is a little endler guppy the fish store accidentally put in once, his name is timmy and he is quite happy in his swarm of ember tetras :)
Before I moved my common pleco out of a 75 gallon and into a 300 gallon, she murdered one of my angelfish. I actually heard it happening, but it was too late for the angelfish by the time I got to the tank. I do think it is hunger, even though I made sure to feed plenty of pleco food, the tank was too small for a fish that big to properly graze or even swim around. It could have been a combination of hunger and unhappiness.
Plecos will kill bichir due to the slime coat being tasty to the pleco. Maybe angel fish have similar issue
Yes, some fish like bichirs, discus and angelfish are especially at risk. Common pleco's and sailfins shouldn't be housed with those. Bristlenoses and blue/green phantom are safe to keep with them. Fancy pleco's also might be fine, but personally I won't take the risk.
The only 2 hitchhikers I ever got were 2 tiny baby shrimp babies.....one turned into a beautiful chocolate sakura and the other was a blue one. In both cases I was very happy. :)
Our local grocery store has live frogs seasonally for frog legs. We bought one to be a pet. I told the butcher to give it to me live because I wanted to prepare it later that week and needed it fresh lmfao
QOTW: The worst fish container I ever saw was several guppies in a margarine container. To be fair, the person was moving and their aquarium broke en route, but it shouldn't have taken them 3 days to replace it. That should have been top priority
QOTW: my dad brings some of his outdoor goldfish inside for the winter and they’re in like a 20 gal. They’re not fully grown koi or anything massive, but still way too big to be sharing a 20 gal
I have a grocery store eel myself. I love them so much. I can't afford a fancy eel.
Chris: "Bully me"
Me: *Panicking*
"Uh! Uh! Repashy is funnier than Millie! No, wai-"
lmao xD
Thank you Chris thank you so much for finally being someone who said "Naan bread" is just them saying "Bred Bred".
THNAK YOU MANN FR
Hello fellow travelers on the FFT journey! Let's all make sure we're the best fish friends ever this week and meet back here next week! ✌️
Chris; those twirly sticks are for toddlers. Did you really play with them as an adolescent, ie teenager!?!?
QotW; worst "tank" irl had to be the maybe 1/4 gallon at most Betta vases with dollar store jagged glass pieces as substrate from California Bank and Trust. Yes I'm naming and shaming them because they deserve it! They had one at each teller area!! 🤬😡🤬
yes i like my twirly sticks xD
Killifish are invasive where I live so I netted some and added them to my tank. Since they’re wild, they’re relatively small, especially in comparison to my guppies.
And yes, I did quarantine them.
3:30 it happened in ''the boys'', saddest scene
Ending on a sweet little pea puffer is perfection. 🥺
QOTW: Okay so this is all on my mom and dad but....our catfish tank 💀 I was like 4 or five at the time and my only contribution to this was finding a bunch of baby catfish in the mud while my dad was fishing and apparently smuggling them home in the cooler.
So ANYWAY, there were like six of them and I remember the tank seeming big at the time but it was almost certainly super overstocked and had basically nothing but the fish in it and I don't think they were prepared for how big they were going to get or that they would actually stay alive.
Well they did and their tank was disgusting and they were aggressive as heck and eventually I was told - many many many years later - that they all got super riled up and proceeded to BREAK THE TANK and they couldn't afford another one on short notice and that's how my catfish took themselves off the census.
My mother says we did not eat them but I am pretty sure we ate them. 😐
My worst was a 100 gallon tank that was just... packed with fake plants. At least 40. Due to the original owner's extended illness and the caretaker not realizing better, the tank was overcome with algae and decaying, rotten food was stuck everywhere (the fake plants trapped everything). I helped basically take out all the decor, deep clean it, and thinned out the decor so the fish would be able to move and the food wouldn't get caught in them before they could eat. Doing much better now, although I wish they got real plants because that tank would be gorgeous... but ugh the smell on those plants....
I got my axolotls from a mutual and she had them in an inch of water, no filter, eating their own poop. She said they were 6 months old but they were the size of 2 months maybe. Got them home still have them 2 years later and they’re finally at a healthy size
QOTW: Once saw a tank insanely over-stocked with minnows and crayfish from the creek, decked out with a bit of plastic and randomly colored rocks from several old tanks with nowhere near enough surface area or filtration to keep the water reasonably clean. Especially given all the random claws and such hanging around in there. It was pretty much a 75 gallon crawfish battle dome with a handful of the mightiest minnows natural selection ever had to offer. I had to walk away.
daaang
All I can think of is the episode of “The Boys” in which Deep goes to save a certain lobster from a grocery store and they immediately kill it after removing it from the tank. 😬
QOTW:
Not completely on topic but still.
My mom and sister rescued a few guppies from some relatives. And I took them to my place. Poor fishies! They were brought to me in the container with water from their previous tank. The water was so dirty you couldn't even tell how many guppies were there. And it stinked so much that I had to place my 5 gallon quarantine tank where I put them in the kitchen for the first night. Until I very slowly changed that dirty water. I was afraid fishes would be shocked too much from clean and clear water. They stayed so skittish for a long time as if they've never seen people before (and I guess they've not in that dirty water they've lived in). So technically I didn't see the tank those guppies lived in and I can't even imagine how horrific it was!
P.S. Yesterday guppies moved to their permanent home at my mom's place :)
QOTW: Saw a 5 Gallon tank at my neighbours house with artificial decor, 5 goldfish, a pleco,.
The worst tank I ever saw was a friend of mine's when we were just kids back then. She and her dad had this 180L aquarium with way too many fish. He suddenly passed by and she simply ignored the tank. It was in this room and every time I visit it the fish got dirtier and started chasing each other because she wasn't feeding them. I did it, but I couldn't come every day. But she wouldn't let me do a water change
I talked for a long time, but when she finally relented and I was able to endure it, I was 13 when my parents graciously supported the transfers. At this point the water was black, the fish had black dirt over their bodies, it took about two platy years to finally be completely clean again.
I know she wasn't well, but honestly how can you neglect animals like that, you see them every day
I went to a Chinese restaurant either in NYC or Boston (I forget) and their tanks for their food fish were basically just oversized holding tanks for bettas with no lids. Like, decently sized fish that could easy jump out. I...ordered the chicken.
Saw a pop up vendor in a local shopping centre selling betta fish in teeny tiny tanks with glass beads on the bottom. Ended up reporting them to the RSPCA.
I am a fish keeper and a construction worker. I have found natural decor on jobs.
You are the most interesting person ever!❤
Mondays are always the best
lets goo
there's a chemist shop few blocks far from here they had a 5 gallon tank with a turtle , gold fishes and of course iridescent sharks . with half of the tank filled with murky green water ,I never went there to get any meds ,was cycling and saw it.
what in the world where do you live LMAO
@@FishForThought India , many people keep freshwater fishes without any research or consult from the petstore here too. btw this incident happened almost a decade ago.
The duckweeds got me 😅
It's an Eel. Either Anguilla bicolor or Anguilla marmorata. They get up to 1.5m and are indeed what goes into Unagi.
so I have a pygmy cory species tank, and a couple days ago I realized I have pygmy cory fry in there!! The tank is only maybe 6mo, and I'm so smitten and it was the best surprise ever! Micro pygmy!
qotw- I work at a tv station and we travel around to film a series at different elementary schools in our area... so many bad tanks :/
oh man xD you probably seen more bad tanks than I have irl
Ive never been this early
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same 😂😂😂😂😭😭😭😭🗿🗿🗿🗿💀💀💀💀
Me either 😂
same
lets guuu
bro just gained huge indian fan base by saying
chai tea is tea tea....
and naan bread is bread bread...
it is so annoying to hear that!!
I won a good fish from a fair but they sold tanks to but they were so small (like the ones you keep crickets in ) so happy that he came back to my house and lived in a 30 gal tank , had him for 12 years :)
Phil McFurry's lower tank: river CHUBS, perhaps? (not cubs)
QOTW: Nearly 1,5 year ago in a local fastfood restaurant I've seen a 60 or maybe 70 gallon tank full of mountain dew color water with plecos, haps and mbuna cichlids. One of the cichlids literally doesn't have eyes the thermometer was somewhere in the gravel substrate instead on the glass. Full artificial decor ofc, no rocks, no live plants. The decor was full randomly tossed to gravel, no organization, nothing. The only thing worked in the tank was the oxygen pump. Oh and the fish were skinny af, even the largest haps and plecos. If the staff can't handle a 70g tank maybe they should start with a 20-ish and seek advice from pros, bc what they do in a restaurant is horrific, I wonder how people eat there, next to that horror tank, I just grabbed my food, paid it and walked away, never went back, they ruined my day, though their gyros is best in the city. 😐
oof a worthy sacrifice
A whole week late but QOTW:
MY old friend's girlfriend had a 1gallon take in their kitchen for her daughter with 3 comet goldfish and a mystery snail in it. The water was cloudy and stinky and she said the fish died every month and they would just replace them. I told them to get a much bigger tank or stop replacing them when they die.
I rescued 3 bristlenose pleco and they were aggressive when there was competition for hiding space. Now that I added hecka hiding spots and feed in all four corners of the tank, no more aggression
good fix
right on. I've been finding that most every fish I've tried to keep enjoys some hiding spots. Even the "OOOOh, HUMAN NEAR TANK MEANS FOOD!" guppies and goldfish seem less skittish with some floating plants, and some other plants lower down to break sight lines.
The 20 long on that little shelf had my anxiety on edge
Tilapia make pretty good aquarium buddies if you have good filtration. They get along with other tilapia and similar sized fish, happy eaters, are rather hardy, and have some pretty cool antics. They get big quick and aren't the prettiest though.
worst tank? Probably my friend’s old tank. 2 gallon with glofish and smol goldfish. His younger sister’s choice was poorly done as she chose the gems,fake decor(i sometimes use it bc its cheap, only natural looking fake decor) but the only good thing is the cycled tank and filter. I decided to answer all the questions why the fish kept dying off. I simply told them glofish CANNOT go with the goldfish. Fin nippers is the answer. I decided to buy them an 120 litre plastic tub (water holding material) and split it down with black backdrop in the middle, 3 sponge filters for the 2 small baby(will buy bigger next year) goldfish with at least 10=13 gallons water for each one. Put in nerites to help with algae control for glofish. Bought all sorts of plants and 4 kg of aquasoil(my god i spent 80 dollars on filters and decor)got 240g white dragon rock(called dragon at lfs) for 2 dollars and prob wasted my savings to just actually get some asthetics for my ghost shrimp and kuhli loach tank, some extra rocks or even hornwort and red root floaters. Did not get any wood as the box is wet and some have planaria swarming over. Humidity here is literally killing us. I do plan to get 2 more kuhlis for extra friendz as they just lay across the hornwort and sleep all day. happi late monday
It is indeed my favorite Monday show
yay xD
I went to buy some recently legalized plants from a guy a few years back. Green water. Nearly a foot of water marks. Stocked with three plecos and a snapper
nice haha
Unagi is just eel, unagi sauce is a totally valid way to refer to the sauce that gets brushed onto eel meat as it grills.
*Talks about the redundancy of naan bread and chai tea*
“This week’s QOTW!”
AHAHAHAHAHA
33 year old and I have kids so I hunt with my kids for rocks on the playground now. Also the local playground is right by some trails and ponds and right on the playground there is a workout space with some equipment
I'm a social worker and home visitor and I've seen some pretty bad tanks. A 10 gallon super over stocked with guppies interbreeding with fin rot. Another that had a really big tank (the old fashioned built in kind) but they had many large goldfish and algae eaters in it with the water only half full. Next time I visited that same house the tank was empty so you can guess what happened 😢
oh nooo
Mine was my own... it was a 2"x6"x3" critter keeper and had a betta in it. I die a little bit every time I think of it. Now I keep Bettas (1 per tank... Hopefully obviously) in planted 10gs. My kids will never make the same mistake I did and it applys to all animals they ever develop an interest in
3:10 bro I just got a grocery store lobster for this very reason. Always thought it would be fun to buy one but keep it as a pet when I was a kid… and here we are 😂 (She’s in the discord btw!)
I found duckweed in my armpit when I was in the shower!!! Breeding fish it’s going to happen 😂
Also the Pleco: underfed was my first thought
omg
@@FishForThought 🤣
I got a rabbit snail and a very small Khuli loach as hitchhikers from petco. I think the guy just forgot which ones I said I was getting but I didn't get charged for them so that's a win
Fish for thought ❌
Deep thoughts with the Deep✅
When I got my goldfish, I wanted a pleco for my tank, but the pet store employee told me not to do it because people reported that they nip at goldfish tails 🤷♀️ I've heard they can be aggressive, but didn't have any issues with them in my dad's old tank
My old roommate wanted to 'save' a koi from a gardening center pond. It was around 10 inches long? She hastily put it in a 30 gallon on top of her dresser. It only lasted like 2 days, and then she had a 4th aquarium to over stock. The only one that wasn't was a betta tank but it was probably a 1.5 gallon?
Chris, you're talking about Sky Dancers! I used to have one as a kid too. (Btw, have you ever got hit by a flying one trying to catch it because you're a dumb kid? It hurts!)
QotW: One of those peace lily vase betta sets...it was at a dentist's office. Poor betta was pretty lifeless since the idea used to be that they would just eat the "roots" and "algae" in the tank and you didn't really have to feed them.
One of my best friends, his mom, had a betta in a 1 gal bowl. No decor. But ironically they did very frequent water changes and kept it alive for many years. Surviving, not living.
worst tank was the one my folks set up for me and my brothers. They did zero research, took whoever sold them the fish's word for it that guppies don't need dechlorinator, plopped some endlers in a bare glass 10 gallon with an airstone. They knew enough that you needed to do water changes, and to not overfeed, but when it was water change time, all the fish came out of the tank, into a tupperware, all the water was drained, every surface washed clean, then tank refilled with tap water (no heater, maybe close to room temp, maybe straight up cold), and the fish dumped back in. Tough as nails fish survived and bred. My folks had no idea about livebearers, and I can remember my mom cursing "Where did these babies come from? I didn't see any eggs! &*(&*()$^*&("
They were horrible fishkeepers, and not great parents either.
Naan bread is to refer to the type of bread being naan, its like asking for ciabata bread.
As a powerlifter, I was curious what aquarium I could lift as someone who is in the 1% of people for some lifts, and I can only deadlift a 60 gal tank. This is as a competitive powerlifter. Best of luck to that shelf lol
When you buy live seafood like that~, emphasize you want it 'Alive'~.
ahahaha
I had a sucker fish that ate the scales from my goldfish! Woke up one day and found it stuck to the side of the goldfish and its body was white with no scales and it was eating it's flesh but the goldfish wasn't even doing anything about it either just kept swimming around.
(at the 9:20 park) So in the goldfish world they say to not keep plecos with goldies, esp the fancies bc they are slower, bc the plecos will chase them and eat their slime coating. Prolly from lack of proper care and feeding but its a thing.
I also have an aggressive pleco. He's now in his own tank because he has killed 13 lives in the community tank. He's nine years old and huge . I have him in a 40 gallon breeder. But if it fits or moves, he's gonna eat it He is not interested in plant life, or greens, etc. will not eat pleco food. I have to buy him minnows or go get minnows for him.
the floating shelf should be anchored fairly well since it stretches from window to window. there should be studs surrounding the windows if it's framed properly. I'd still want some pretty hefty triangle brackets personally, but it definitely *could* support that weight
9:01 I had plecos do this to both my angels and discus.
They were put into my pond.
And this was seperatly over years
QOTW: No specific aquarium comes to mind, but there was this aquarium store in the San Fernando Valley that had seen better days. Dead fish, sickly fish, even empty tanks. The creepiest thing was, they had a moth-eaten, taxidermied alligator hanging from the ceiling above this massive open tank. Pieces had broken off of it, it was nasty. (This didn't stop me from buying mirror-scale carp, because "Wow, mirror-scale carp!"j
I had a bristle nose pleco like that, it killed my 2 fancy goldfish (warm indoor tank, suitable temp, lots of plants and hides) , it was a vicious beast. He went to a relatives 6ft tank, the bristle got fed at 1 side, and all the other fish at the other instead of all across like they used to.
Very interesting to see a comic like that!
And surprised by that twist but at the same time appreciate it. So many expert hobbyists enjoy collecting stuff from the wild but that’s a good way to introduce potentially harmful stuff to your tank if you don’t treat it properly
Introduced my Mom to FFT last week- Now she keeps asking if my new tank is cycled yet... aparently she called dibs on the old one, she already has plans 😂
She wants to do a fully planted tank and keep some cherry shrimp... I am so torn because I was thinking of doing that... but I'll probably let her take it since I've already got 4 other tanks right now, 5 with the new one...
I now common who was hiking thru a country that eats dog when they came across a house full of puppies. They bought one and headed back into town to get it a rope for a leash and it was in butcher paper when they returned...
No duckweed in my eyes but once I woke up with dry java moss woven into my hair. Still have no idea how it happened to this day.
lmao!!
This channel started my tank problem- I went from a 20 long, to a 20 long, a 35, and a 55. 😂
LMAO that's a lot of water!
worst tank(s) in real life have been the probably 10-15 betta vases my family had at one point..... i think every woman/girl in my family received one for Christmas one year. My great aunt and I had a thing going to see whose lasted longer... i did move mine to a bowl after about 2 years, but that's because i thought my cat would knock over the vase, not because i knew a vase was too small... i think about those fish a lot.... sorry, Betty, you deserved better (and a better name, but i was 5 when i named him)
Yo it may not be the best fish tank show. But I don’t laugh as hard watching the others 🤣 that’s what’s keeps me coming back.
My nephew had a betta in a one gallon bowl with no filter and a small sponge bob decoration in the middle needless to say the fish died quickly. I was just getting into the hobby at the time but knew it wouldn't last long in there, tried to warn him and my sister and brother in law but it was too late.
I can’t decide on the worst tank I’ve ever seen. I saw a betta in a 10 gal with an inch of water, a single plastic plant, a handful of gravel, a filter that couldn’t run because the low water level, and a thermometer. There was white stringy stuff locating around as well. I’ve seen an elderly betta that also had a 10 gal with some gravel and live plants, but only 2 inches of water. The live plants were rotting, the filter and heater weren’t running, there was rotting food, and this poor guy was left outside overnight in the middle of December. It was like an ice bath when got him out of the tank while rescuing him, poor guy was so cold he could barely move. The water could’ve frozen over the night before I saved him, but thankfully it didn’t. Then there was the time I was going to rescue some female bettas. I thought it was just a guy keeping four of them in a very bad 7.5 gal sorority tank with no heater, only blue gravel, and the tank was only half full. Turns out it was a whole backyard breeding situation and this guy had a wall full of half dead male bettas. He also had a 20 gal long tank with at least 50 female bettas (and some sneaky males) packed in there, 2 blood parrot cichlids, and a pleco. No decor, a ton of diatom algae, and it smelled awful. To top it off it was a hoarders house. I planned for 4 bettas and came home with 7 that he put all into a single Petco betta cup.
This always makes my Monday morning shift so much better! I'm currently working on building a 120gal aquascape for a red eared slider and your show is giving me a lot of inspiration and information, both on what to do and what not to do 😂
glad to hear it!
@@FishForThought he's still rather small and enjoying his 45gal grow out tank and will probably be fine for another year or so before he actually has to move but I want to move him into his forever home with the perfect mix of river and river bank, I'm currently researching their natural habitats so I can try and make a slice of nature in a glass cube 😊
Question of the week=
A 5 gallon with more algae than water and five goldfish with the water level halfway. ( I WISH I WAS JOKING! )
Favorite fishkeeping channel for sure! I follow quite a few but Fish For Thoughts is my ride or die. QTWA: I've seen some horrendous stuff but can't really pick out one specific tank as *the worst*. Good contender would be the tank in my grandma's retirement home. Nice 55g tank, professionally set up, good amount of plants, stocked with tiger barbs, couple different rasboras, corys etc... I saw it once in that state, came back 2 weeks later and it was completely green, like literal mountain dew, so thick I couldn't make out a single fish. I offered to help both with cleaning and maintenance but they said they had it under control. It stayed like that for a month or so, then the tank disappeared. They have a lone guinea pig now... :/
From my experience with my 2, plecos are aggressive when young but quickly calm down
The Aquarium Guys talked about plecos eating the slime coat off fish…if I remember correctly off angels specifically.
I would give anything to hear you on their podcast (I would say on your TH-cam channel but that would be too much editing for you!) and watch all your strong personalities come together!
I have kept a couple eels (true ones a longfinned and a shortfinned) an Asian supermarket
The not-eel makes me think of Leon the Lobster.
Watching ftr on ur switch >>>
I had a green phantom pleco that took a chunk out of my fire eels tail one time, then 2 days later a rock shifted in the tank and fell on the pleco and killed it. "Insert sad panda face here"
Yes, loneliness, or the loss of hope because when there’s no hope why even bother…… other than to keep moving forward and pushing through like we’re taught….. anyways thanks for making my first break at work always better. It’s been crazy hot lately. Enjoy the cooler week ahead love from the niSqually River.
its not drift wood if it hasn't drifted in a lake or been treated properly ( I think? )
edge case questions for thought: How about wood that spent time in the ocean? Logs that were towed down the inlet? Is a lake necessary? Ponds, rivers, creeks, estuaries, brackish marsh, swamp? Much to chew on, for those inclined.
Thanks, your vid just reminded me to go boils some small scale tank woods