Good to see you back with another video! Sad to hear about guppy misfortune, but honestly I've just come to the conclusion that most flashy shiny guppies are so badly inbred now that they carry all kinds of genetic flaws. I've tried twice, and both times they seem fine for a while then one after another die off. Still got two, and I'm not going to try again. I recently condensed my 29g shrimp community tank, 40g, 15g and 10g all into a new 75g tank - I was up to 8 tanks, and it was getting to be very time consuming maintaining all of them. The shocking thing for me? Getting all the shrimp out of each of those tanks. You see a lot of shrimp looking at your tanks, but it's a small fraction of the total population. I *easily* have over a thousand shrimp in the 75 now. Easily. I had no idea just how much they'd bred. It literally took days to move them all, and I was just scooping and releasing, not acclimating (essentially the same water though). It's fun to have a 4' long 75g tank where, which the exception of a bristlenose pleco, everything is nano fish. Pygmy and Salt and Pepper Corydoras (who've been spawning for months now, and even in community settings I've gained lots), ember tetras, the remaining two guppies, a nerite, half a dozen Amano and a couple bamboo shrimp, *to my knowledge* one remaining micro crab, but others may have survived and hitched a ride in cholla wood or plants to the new tank. Couple Otos too. 15 or so Ember tetras now, and the bigger school absolutely results in better behaviour than 8-9 of them.
Cheers mate :). Think i'm going to try rice fish in the Guppy tank now. Yea its crazy how many shrimp are actually in tanks when you de-build them and find all their little hiding spots. I think I defo want to go with a 70-80G tank next year instead of the 55G, they just look so food filled wish fish :).
@@GlassBoxDiaries yeah for me, I wanted the widest footprint without extreme depth, and of the standard inexpensive rimmed tanks, the 75g's 48"x18" while "only" being 21" deep was the standout. I kept eyeballing a 125g (similar, but 6' long) but good sense and budget won out. I like that I can have all the same fish, but in much larger numbers. I always kind of thought you had to hit the minimum school size then you'd get the desired schooling behaviour, but it's not like that. It's very much a "more the merrier" situation where they become increasingly adventurous with each additional fish, apparently without limit.
@@Wintersdark Yea I have an issue with space right now, I would love a 6' tank but there's no where to put it :(. Yea I totally agree with the stocking numbers, I gave 10 chili rasboras but I might get more for my 12 gallon tank because my friend has about 30 and they act totally differently to mine.
Honestly mate, I would recommend it to anyone in the hobby who has the time. I have learned so much just by researching stuff for videos that helps improve my general fish keeping :)
I love the look of Endlers but they are a pain to find in my area :(. Ended up going with Rice Fish eggs to try hatch and grow but Endlers are next on my list :)
Looking good! Keeping neon tetras and cardianls together is a war crime though... Just kidding, I'm jealous of those tanks! i cannot keep guppys alive for the life of me, and i have several rare/difficult species so i am puzzled why they die, i think its down to bad genetics. i have set up a harder water/brackish tank and im trying them in there, so far its working.
Cheers mate :) Yea I totally agree about guppies, one of my good friends has Discus in his main tank, German Blue Rams in his second without issue but his guppie tank just keeps having issues. I have a range of fish species with minimal issues other than my guppies that just keep having problems so I don't plan to get any more.
I’m so glad you’re back! But shame to hear about all the problems you’ve been facing 😞 it’s tough getting attached sometimes. I actually scrapped my plans about a guppy fraternity and started a Betta sorority instead. It’s going well so far! Would you ever consider that as an alternative?
Cheers mate :). Its a pain to find female bettas where I live but I do love the species. I have been researching rice fish recently and I'm going to try some of them instead of more guppies :)
@@GlassBoxDiaries nice! I’d love to follow your experience with the rice fish because there’s very little content I can find on TH-cam about having them in aquascaped tanks and what their care is like
@@F33bB The eggs should come today so I want to do a video sharing my experience of getting the eggs, opening them, setting the egg tank up, and growing the fry up and document as much as possible :)
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Good to see you back with another video! Sad to hear about guppy misfortune, but honestly I've just come to the conclusion that most flashy shiny guppies are so badly inbred now that they carry all kinds of genetic flaws. I've tried twice, and both times they seem fine for a while then one after another die off. Still got two, and I'm not going to try again.
I recently condensed my 29g shrimp community tank, 40g, 15g and 10g all into a new 75g tank - I was up to 8 tanks, and it was getting to be very time consuming maintaining all of them.
The shocking thing for me? Getting all the shrimp out of each of those tanks. You see a lot of shrimp looking at your tanks, but it's a small fraction of the total population. I *easily* have over a thousand shrimp in the 75 now. Easily. I had no idea just how much they'd bred. It literally took days to move them all, and I was just scooping and releasing, not acclimating (essentially the same water though).
It's fun to have a 4' long 75g tank where, which the exception of a bristlenose pleco, everything is nano fish. Pygmy and Salt and Pepper Corydoras (who've been spawning for months now, and even in community settings I've gained lots), ember tetras, the remaining two guppies, a nerite, half a dozen Amano and a couple bamboo shrimp, *to my knowledge* one remaining micro crab, but others may have survived and hitched a ride in cholla wood or plants to the new tank. Couple Otos too.
15 or so Ember tetras now, and the bigger school absolutely results in better behaviour than 8-9 of them.
Cheers mate :).
Think i'm going to try rice fish in the Guppy tank now.
Yea its crazy how many shrimp are actually in tanks when you de-build them and find all their little hiding spots.
I think I defo want to go with a 70-80G tank next year instead of the 55G, they just look so food filled wish fish :).
@@GlassBoxDiaries yeah for me, I wanted the widest footprint without extreme depth, and of the standard inexpensive rimmed tanks, the 75g's 48"x18" while "only" being 21" deep was the standout. I kept eyeballing a 125g (similar, but 6' long) but good sense and budget won out.
I like that I can have all the same fish, but in much larger numbers. I always kind of thought you had to hit the minimum school size then you'd get the desired schooling behaviour, but it's not like that. It's very much a "more the merrier" situation where they become increasingly adventurous with each additional fish, apparently without limit.
@@Wintersdark Yea I have an issue with space right now, I would love a 6' tank but there's no where to put it :(.
Yea I totally agree with the stocking numbers, I gave 10 chili rasboras but I might get more for my 12 gallon tank because my friend has about 30 and they act totally differently to mine.
gotta love the dedication, im trynna make a fish hobby channel myself!
Honestly mate, I would recommend it to anyone in the hobby who has the time. I have learned so much just by researching stuff for videos that helps improve my general fish keeping :)
That's fun you have another Honey Gourami and that they get along too! I love those fish and their tank I like a lot too!
Cheers mate, yea they are social fish and definitely seem happy with at least one more of their kind in the tank :).
Thanks for sharing your experiences with us 🙏
Cheers mate :)
Great video! I was wondering how your fish room was set up, and now I know.
Cheers mate, trying to find more space for tanks but its a bit of a pain right now >.
amazing tanks keep up the good work 😊
Cheers mate :)
I would get endlers livebearer instead of guppys they are definetly more hardy and the males have also great colour.
I love the look of Endlers but they are a pain to find in my area :(. Ended up going with Rice Fish eggs to try hatch and grow but Endlers are next on my list :)
Looking good! Keeping neon tetras and cardianls together is a war crime though... Just kidding, I'm jealous of those tanks! i cannot keep guppys alive for the life of me, and i have several rare/difficult species so i am puzzled why they die, i think its down to bad genetics. i have set up a harder water/brackish tank and im trying them in there, so far its working.
Cheers mate :) Yea I totally agree about guppies, one of my good friends has Discus in his main tank, German Blue Rams in his second without issue but his guppie tank just keeps having issues.
I have a range of fish species with minimal issues other than my guppies that just keep having problems so I don't plan to get any more.
@@GlassBoxDiaries If the ones in my tank don't survive, I'm totally done with them as well, big pia
I’m so glad you’re back! But shame to hear about all the problems you’ve been facing 😞 it’s tough getting attached sometimes.
I actually scrapped my plans about a guppy fraternity and started a Betta sorority instead. It’s going well so far!
Would you ever consider that as an alternative?
Cheers mate :).
Its a pain to find female bettas where I live but I do love the species.
I have been researching rice fish recently and I'm going to try some of them instead of more guppies :)
@@GlassBoxDiaries nice! I’d love to follow your experience with the rice fish because there’s very little content I can find on TH-cam about having them in aquascaped tanks and what their care is like
@@F33bB The eggs should come today so I want to do a video sharing my experience of getting the eggs, opening them, setting the egg tank up, and growing the fry up and document as much as possible :)
@@GlassBoxDiaries can’t wait!! 🙌🏾