This is my favorite kind of video. You are a teacher. I suggest to make videos that you enjoy making, when you feel like making them. Taking care of fish is pressure enough. I LOVE seeing your natural tanks. My tanks are VERY natural and the fish play and are happy. Thanks, Nick, for sharing your aquatic life with us!! USA
Another Aussie here. I don't have a single tank but I enjoy watching others with their fish and aquascapes. The property market is crazy, as you say, it must be so frustrating to need more space as you obviously do, I can see you are patient and prepared to wait but I really get how good it would be to own your own place.No landlords...bliss. Thanks for sharing your projects and info.From an old cat lady in NSW.
Incredible vid, always love seeing your fish room and all your incredible inhabitants. Totally understand dropping the vlogs especially if they aren't fun and enjoyable for you and abit of a handful
Loving all the videos, you've really accomplished a lot. It feels so good just sitting down, relaxed, and watching your setups. Great video as always! Hope you have a great week! 😃👍🐟🐠🪴
I’m setting up my own fish room side hustle right now at my parents and I fucks w the Aussie accent so not only is your video vibe calm but the accent is even better thanks for all the info brotha
I think youre doing great. The fact that youre not satistified with where you are at isnt complaining. Its good for your drive and growth. Keep it up man
Re: new facilities, what is the market like in Australia for single use shipping containers? Here in the US, they can frequently be had for a very reasonable amount, even for insulted ones. Though rare and more expensive, some even have integrated HVAC. Could you find a more affordable, undeveloped lot/parcel, pour an appropriate sized foundation, and creat a shop using multiple shipping containers? Either temporary until you choose to construct a larger custom building, or embrace the containers as a system, and add additional units to create modular/scaleable future expansion? There is a company I read about recently doing a similar concept to create urban, modular hydroponic gardening facilities. Each container is modified, from the manufacturer, such that each container is able connect one to the next. Basically giant legos, same as they are on the ships. The standard size used here for most construction projects is a 40FT High Cube container, which is 40’ L by 9.5’ H by 8’ W (12.1M L by 3M H by 2.4M W). A lot of folks start with just two, side by side, as the basis for new construction then expand out from that. Whether or not local codes permit their use in your locality could be of concern. Here it can definitely be hit or miss. Often times commercial facilities have a slightly lower bar than residential, and the reuse of the containers is becoming more accepted. Maybe the same is happening there? Just a thought. 🤔🤷🏻♂️
Awesome video nick!! Congratulations on all the breeding projects that you have going on mate.... You have committed so much time and effort into your fish room and breeding projects and its certainly paying off. Keep up the amazing work 🙂
Cool stuff as always. Don't put the pressure on yourself with the new fish room. It will happen when it's supposed to happen and then you will be very happy with it :)
I absolutely love watching your videos; I've learned so much from you and have several tanks that are thriving thanks to your guidance, thoughts, and input. Keep it up!
Busy fishkeepers - a quick tip for refreshing our bodies is to sit in a comfy chair and put our feet up as high as our hearts. 10 minutes of this is so good for our circulation and energy. Leaning back a bit helps too. USA
I absolutely love your videos! Glad you’re sticking to what you like to do instead of what you feel like you should do with the vlogs. The painted tanks are very nice. Maybe keep trying a mixture of both as different fish will compliment the different colors you’ve selected. They both have their benefits. TY for producing and sharing so much information. That’s a lot of work, money, and time spent on all your equipment and stock but it’s really paying off when you see the results you’re having. Keep trying new things constantly like you are when you get frustrated. The water temps and flows were spot on for getting the Cory’s ready to spawn. I always love to see what innovative ways and ideas each person comes up with spawning their fish. I love the basket idea to let the eggs fall through to the bottom. I know you’re already working in tight quarters and spaces but adding a 3 tier roll around cart to go up and down the aisles for either carrying supplies while cleaning or to help when transferring over new fry from the styrofoam containers. Not only can you move them while the containers are still full of water without losing the bottom of your breeding box, but you can also move them into the light to see if your new fry are thriving or check on eggs. It also makes it easier when you can get them your breeding stock closer when transferring them to and from their perspective tanks into the spawning containers. Just an idea to think about and you may already have one off camera. In the states IKEA sells them. Most of the big box food or catering stores have them, or even a hobby story like Michaels, JoAnns, or even Amazon may have them as well to get them shipped to you cheaper. Also possibly look for a used one already in your area that’s cheaper because you’re not looking for anything pretty just something that functions well since it’s going to get water on it and ruined basically anyway over time. More or less you’re purchasing it for it’s purpose it will serve. I always give you a 👍 to help with your YT account and TY for making great content! Good luck on the new home and bigger fish room! Hoping something comes available soon for you! I would NOT want to move all that however! What a length and stressful job that will be.. cheers!
Absolutely love these diary style of videos, they become priceless treasure troves of knowledge and expertise on the fish you work with. And I prefer the granite black!
mate, things are very difficult trying to get real estate to purchase. The floods have made property scarce with so many people needing housing. Please just love your fish room till you purchase ,your doing great. Now's the time to learn all you can and truly appreciate your good fortune. Have fun 👍
Love all your videos! You should get your self a squeegee for your floor. Not sure what they call them down there. Usually made out of rubber or silicon and you can just push it all out. Thanks for the video!
Greetings from Scotland. Another very interesting video Nick. Sounds like you've got so much going on! When do you find some 'down time'!!! Looking forward to future videos. Fingers crossed in finding new property. 'Patience is a virtue' or so they say!!👍
Love the videos!!! Lol I need more room so badly. KFS you really got me Thinking about starting a channel on my fish room. Iv made a 10ft x 10ft shed outside. Insulation. AC/heater for winter and summer. And it’s crazy how many tanks Iv got in there. I built it for under 3k and it’s been about a year an half going strong. easily made 10x that back just selling fish Iv breed to local pet stores. People think you gotta have giant space and lots of room for a fish room but you don’t. It helps but you don’t need it. If I can fit like 35 tanks onto a 10ft x 10ft area so can other people and you’ve got me wanting to share it I just don’t know yet where’d Iv even start. But love the updates and can’t wait to see where your business takes you!
Really enjoy your videos.I dont keep fish anymore,started off with cichlids as my first fish(south american)than moved to the smaller species from lake malawi.Back when they were importing things you could only dream about lol.It must be very difficult these days for breeders.Gave a like and subscribe for the great content
I'm looking forward to your bin results as I've been considering something similar for about a month. Probably be purchasing my bins in the next couple weeks.
Hey mate a friend of mine breeds corys solely and he has had frequent spawns when he used a spawning mop. He also uses a Strainer/shower head or colinder to imitate rain when he does water changes!
Interesting about the black rams- melanistic mutations have been linked to increased aggression in some animals (eg. black squirrels vs gray squirrels), but reduced aggression in others (eg. black self lab rats vs agouti lab rats). Melanin is not just a skin pigment, it's also used in neurological processes. I've read that behaviour changes having to do with increased melanin has something to do with the role of melanin in the brain.
Love the black granite tank 👍 How did you fare during the floods. I somehow managed to keep 12 tanks running on battery pumps over 6 days without electricity in Ballina while the house was surrounded by the flood water for several days.
All good. Do what is best for you and your business. After floods I can imagine its even more problematic to buy property. Be careful where you purchase. Xx
If you want a new fish for breeding , buy gardneri killifish they are very easy to breed and they are not like the other killifish that need soil to spawn. Thank you
I bought a house six months ago, and there's a barn out back, that I have no real plans for. I'm thinking of breeding fish and growing aquarium plants.
Update videos once a week/fortnight is a far better long term gameplay to prevent burnout and your audience retention will stay because the quality will be goood. Keep it up mate keen to buy some shrimp off y’a, down in Vic
i got about 20 shrimp on trade with someone for a few plants, and there were about 5 cherry and 15 brown, now my tank has blue, green, yellow, cherry and brown and they are constantly breeding... unfortunately there are planaria in the tank, but i probably have about 50-75 shrimp at the moment, i think you will have similar results with getting a lot of colored shrimp and probably 30% brown
Keep your chin up mate, when the right house appears then everything will fall into place. Until then keep up the great content. Ps: sux you don't ship to W.A lol
My electric blue rams once laid eggs and the fries hatched. The parent fish were protecting the fries and guarding them as usual. But within a week or so only one fry survived. I still wonder what could be the reason. My uncle told me that sometimes the parents themselves eat their fries.
It's great to see a young man totally committed to something that he loves doing. Best of luck and I hope you are very successful.
Soon he'll grow old and weak, unable to lift the water bucket 😥
Rihet
Good luck! I wish you all the success in the future! You have helped me tremendously with your videos!! Keep doing what you love!!
This is my favorite kind of video. You are a teacher. I suggest to make videos that you enjoy making, when you feel like making them. Taking care of fish is pressure enough. I LOVE seeing your natural tanks. My tanks are VERY natural and the fish play and are happy. Thanks, Nick, for sharing your aquatic life with us!! USA
You have accomplished a lot. I hope the next year or so brings you the new facility you want.✌️🐟🌿
Ng
Another Aussie here. I don't have a single tank but I enjoy watching others with their fish and aquascapes. The property market is crazy, as you say, it must be so frustrating to need more space as you obviously do, I can see you are patient and prepared to wait but I really get how good it would be to own your own place.No landlords...bliss. Thanks for sharing your projects and info.From an old cat lady in NSW.
Hello there i just bred bristlenose plecos using your tips it has helped me alot there are now little fry keep up the good work:)
Congratulations!! My little pleco loves thawed raw peas. USA
Incredible vid, always love seeing your fish room and all your incredible inhabitants. Totally understand dropping the vlogs especially if they aren't fun and enjoyable for you and abit of a handful
You do excellent work! I continually learn many things. Outstanding to see a young man doing such focused work and moving forward. You are the BEST!!!
You had a Lego add! Good show 😃
Your commitment and dedication will take you where you want to be.... Even beyond that.
Loving all the videos, you've really accomplished a lot. It feels so good just sitting down, relaxed, and watching your setups. Great video as always! Hope you have a great week! 😃👍🐟🐠🪴
I’m setting up my own fish room side hustle right now at my parents and I fucks w the Aussie accent so not only is your video vibe calm but the accent is even better thanks for all the info brotha
I think youre doing great. The fact that youre not satistified with where you are at isnt complaining. Its good for your drive and growth. Keep it up man
Re: new facilities, what is the market like in Australia for single use shipping containers? Here in the US, they can frequently be had for a very reasonable amount, even for insulted ones. Though rare and more expensive, some even have integrated HVAC.
Could you find a more affordable, undeveloped lot/parcel, pour an appropriate sized foundation, and creat a shop using multiple shipping containers? Either temporary until you choose to construct a larger custom building, or embrace the containers as a system, and add additional units to create modular/scaleable future expansion?
There is a company I read about recently doing a similar concept to create urban, modular hydroponic gardening facilities. Each container is modified, from the manufacturer, such that each container is able connect one to the next. Basically giant legos, same as they are on the ships.
The standard size used here for most construction projects is a 40FT High Cube container, which is 40’ L by 9.5’ H by 8’ W (12.1M L by 3M H by 2.4M W). A lot of folks start with just two, side by side, as the basis for new construction then expand out from that.
Whether or not local codes permit their use in your locality could be of concern. Here it can definitely be hit or miss. Often times commercial facilities have a slightly lower bar than residential, and the reuse of the containers is becoming more accepted. Maybe the same is happening there?
Just a thought. 🤔🤷🏻♂️
Love all the vids man, updates are great and fun to watch. In terms of vlogs yeah don't force yourself to do em if your not feeling it.
It's always great to sit down and have a snack and watch your videos! Have a blessed day nick!
Awesome video nick!! Congratulations on all the breeding projects that you have going on mate.... You have committed so much time and effort into your fish room and breeding projects and its certainly paying off. Keep up the amazing work 🙂
Awesome! Your fish room very impressive!! Your doing great work for the fish community
Cool stuff as always. Don't put the pressure on yourself with the new fish room. It will happen when it's supposed to happen and then you will be very happy with it :)
Always when i watch youre video's, you make me motivated to work in my own fishroom with your great ideas
I absolutely love watching your videos; I've learned so much from you and have several tanks that are thriving thanks to your guidance, thoughts, and input. Keep it up!
Love the work you do, just keep doing what makes you happy. Hope you have a great week 😊❤
The space was utilized very well, looking forward to see you move to a larger fish room in the future... I love your videos, keep uploading ^^
Love your work Nick. You’ll find your new fish room one day and make a success of it I’m sure.
Those black rams are top quality.
Busy fishkeepers - a quick tip for refreshing our bodies is to sit in a comfy chair and put our feet up as high as our hearts. 10 minutes of this is so good for our circulation and energy. Leaning back a bit helps too. USA
YES!!!! Make a pea puffer breeding vid!!!
I absolutely love your videos! Glad you’re sticking to what you like to do instead of what you feel like you should do with the vlogs. The painted tanks are very nice. Maybe keep trying a mixture of both as different fish will compliment the different colors you’ve selected. They both have their benefits. TY for producing and sharing so much information. That’s a lot of work, money, and time spent on all your equipment and stock but it’s really paying off when you see the results you’re having. Keep trying new things constantly like you are when you get frustrated. The water temps and flows were spot on for getting the Cory’s ready to spawn. I always love to see what innovative ways and ideas each person comes up with spawning their fish. I love the basket idea to let the eggs fall through to the bottom. I know you’re already working in tight quarters and spaces but adding a 3 tier roll around cart to go up and down the aisles for either carrying supplies while cleaning or to help when transferring over new fry from the styrofoam containers. Not only can you move them while the containers are still full of water without losing the bottom of your breeding box, but you can also move them into the light to see if your new fry are thriving or check on eggs. It also makes it easier when you can get them your breeding stock closer when transferring them to and from their perspective tanks into the spawning containers. Just an idea to think about and you may already have one off camera. In the states IKEA sells them. Most of the big box food or catering stores have them, or even a hobby story like Michaels, JoAnns, or even Amazon may have them as well to get them shipped to you cheaper. Also possibly look for a used one already in your area that’s cheaper because you’re not looking for anything pretty just something that functions well since it’s going to get water on it and ruined basically anyway over time. More or less you’re purchasing it for it’s purpose it will serve. I always give you a 👍 to help with your YT account and TY for making great content! Good luck on the new home and bigger fish room! Hoping something comes available soon for you! I would NOT want to move all that however! What a length and stressful job that will be.. cheers!
The black Granite tank looks awesome 👍
Absolutely love these diary style of videos, they become priceless treasure troves of knowledge and expertise on the fish you work with. And I prefer the granite black!
so many cool fish and shrimp
mate, things are very difficult trying to get real estate to purchase. The floods have made property scarce with so many people needing housing. Please just love your fish room till you purchase ,your doing great. Now's the time to learn all you can and truly appreciate your good fortune. Have fun 👍
I hope you find a bigger place for your fish room mate. You seem super busy which is awesome, you're clearly doing everything right. Good luck! 👍
Love all your videos! You should get your self a squeegee for your floor. Not sure what they call them down there. Usually made out of rubber or silicon and you can just push it all out. Thanks for the video!
Really interesting thank you. I had noticed there are a few more pea puffers around. Still way out of my league but one day...
Good luck with your new fish room.
Love these videos, keep doing your thing, very enjoyable to watch
You are a great young man, hope the best for you and your future projects
Greetings from Scotland. Another very interesting video Nick. Sounds like you've got so much going on! When do you find some 'down time'!!! Looking forward to future videos. Fingers crossed in finding new property. 'Patience is a virtue' or so they say!!👍
I’m in the USA 🇺🇸 and mostly do Nano fish, but love watching your channel. Wish I could order your Black Rams.
Keep up the great work!
Stay focused on what you are passionate about, and with persistence, success will follow.
Greetings from Cape Town, South Africa
Good stuff,keep it up.
just watched a guy with 1100 tanks lol
Wishing you great success. I think the fish are easier to see in the black tanks.
Great vid, thanks from lake munmorah NSW ❤️🇦🇺
I love watching your videos 😍
Keep following your dreams. Your breeding and beautiful fish are absolutely gorgeous stunning. Your very smart. All the very best always
I always look forward to your videos. I kept checking TH-cam to see if you’ve posted a new one
Good luck in all you do, I do enjoy your videos very much.
That male dark knight is a beast
Love the videos!!! Lol I need more room so badly. KFS you really got me Thinking about starting a channel on my fish room. Iv made a 10ft x 10ft shed outside. Insulation. AC/heater for winter and summer. And it’s crazy how many tanks Iv got in there. I built it for under 3k and it’s been about a year an half going strong. easily made 10x that back just selling fish Iv breed to local pet stores. People think you gotta have giant space and lots of room for a fish room but you don’t. It helps but you don’t need it. If I can fit like 35 tanks onto a 10ft x 10ft area so can other people and you’ve got me wanting to share it I just don’t know yet where’d Iv even start. But love the updates and can’t wait to see where your business takes you!
Nice breeding room !
The gray is brighter but has a little glare. The black doesn't have as much glare. I think black is best.
Really enjoy your videos.I dont keep fish anymore,started off with cichlids as my first fish(south american)than moved to the smaller species from lake malawi.Back when they were importing things you could only dream about lol.It must be very difficult these days for breeders.Gave a like and subscribe for the great content
Tips on the aggazzis please lol keep up the great work !
I'm looking forward to your bin results as I've been considering something similar for about a month. Probably be purchasing my bins in the next couple weeks.
Waiting a little while longer to purchase a property might end up being a huge blessing.
Nice fish room. Good luck
new update! thanks, I needed this
For the new fishroom background maybe black with the kfs TH-cam logo in the middle so all your footage is water marked and looks cool
You will own your own fish room soon. 💪
Love your videos keep them coming
Do what you love! If fish keeping and breeding is what you love, take us along on your journey; don't feel like you have to cater.
Mike
I love that plastic tank it perfect size for betta I hope when I can go to Thai again they are available there
Gray looks great. I feel like black is the norm. Dan’s Fish is doing that in his new building.
Love the videos!
Hey mate a friend of mine breeds corys solely and he has had frequent spawns when he used a spawning mop. He also uses a Strainer/shower head or colinder to imitate rain when he does water changes!
You'll get mostly wild type. Especially in the tank with yellow shimp. But you'll also get really dope combinations of shrimp that are super unique
INSANE for sure
Awesome video. Thanks for sharing bro
I’ve done the same with my shrimp and ended up with some cool Coulter’s purples and creams
you should try to keep more native fish like bass
Most if not all corydoras breed with a temp drop. Excited to see if they breed more.
Pea puffers are gorgeous.
Careful with adding sand on the bottom of the tank. Pressure might result into cracks.
Any news on the breeding of the neon tetras?
Unreal mate!!!
my to-go channel
THANK YOU FOR THE UP-DATE :)
AND GOOD LUCK :)
THANK YOU FROM ISRAEL :)
Interesting about the black rams- melanistic mutations have been linked to increased aggression in some animals (eg. black squirrels vs gray squirrels), but reduced aggression in others (eg. black self lab rats vs agouti lab rats). Melanin is not just a skin pigment, it's also used in neurological processes. I've read that behaviour changes having to do with increased melanin has something to do with the role of melanin in the brain.
Love the black granite tank 👍
How did you fare during the floods.
I somehow managed to keep 12 tanks running on battery pumps over 6 days without electricity in Ballina while the house was surrounded by the flood water for several days.
Was all ok didnt even lose power
You inspire me to try and breed fish I m starting with guppies and wanna grow from there
Can you try breeding peaceful bettas/betta imbellis please?
Thank you nick very interesting information always
You are really gifted. You should open your own pet store!!
Keep up the good work I love the fishes big importations to me
Your tours are the best, t(h)anks!
Nice video mate. Keep it up. God bless...
Hey, can you do a breeding video for chili rasboras?
Very smart to drop the vlogs if they were becoming a drag, gotta keep it sustainable!
All good. Do what is best for you and your business. After floods I can imagine its even more problematic to buy property. Be careful where you purchase. Xx
Hello from Texas!
If you want a new fish for breeding , buy gardneri killifish they are very easy to breed and they are not like the other killifish that need soil to spawn. Thank you
Dope video mate
Can you do a video on how you hatch your sterbi eggs? My hatch rate has been terribly low 20% or less from every batch. Thanks!!
I bought a house six months ago, and there's a barn out back, that I have no real plans for. I'm thinking of breeding fish and growing aquarium plants.
Update videos once a week/fortnight is a far better long term gameplay to prevent burnout and your audience retention will stay because the quality will be goood. Keep it up mate keen to buy some shrimp off y’a, down in Vic
i got about 20 shrimp on trade with someone for a few plants, and there were about 5 cherry and 15 brown, now my tank has blue, green, yellow, cherry and brown and they are constantly breeding... unfortunately there are planaria in the tank, but i probably have about 50-75 shrimp at the moment, i think you will have similar results with getting a lot of colored shrimp and probably 30% brown
yellow and blue shrimp give green shrimp but after multiple cycles of many different collours some are getting brown atm xD
Nice video Nick good luck
Keep your chin up mate, when the right house appears then everything will fall into place. Until then keep up the great content.
Ps: sux you don't ship to W.A lol
Hey bro wats up i got some purple pink guppies yesterday they look amazing cant wait ti breed them
My electric blue rams once laid eggs and the fries hatched. The parent fish were protecting the fries and guarding them as usual. But within a week or so only one fry survived. I still wonder what could be the reason. My uncle told me that sometimes the parents themselves eat their fries.