I don't expect any good information when I see something like 'care guide', but let me chip in if I may. When it comes to recommended temperatures for fish I can confirm they are all made up bs, how do I know? If you check where those temps are coming from you will notice a pattern: it is always wikipedia-> place of origin-> average yearly air temperature. that alone should tell how pointless this is. from personal experience and living under the roof having them in the kitchen, no heater, just roomtemperature I can tell you in summer it gets very hot here, 37C and coldest during winter nights 16.5Cish and they don't even lose color. More importance is to put on food, live food if you can swing it and 3-4times a month dried tubifex cubes. Lots of leaves, plants and some wood, deep substrate and you're golden. Mine procreate, I've never seen eggs or tiny babies but their numbers are growing, so I'd say they like it. Don't over-do water changes, I do minor cosmetic clean ups every 2-6months, if you set up your aquarium right this will be fine. If you do gravel and platic crap it obviously won't. Cheers, you have a nice voice.
Thanks for sharing! I like the fact that your fish are probably experiencing some sort of seasonal changes. Also, I wasn't expecting to hear any good information when you started with your care guide comment, which was essentially your own care guide, but I ended up enjoying it 🤣 Thanks for dropping a line
@@freshflowaquatics yea I mean you know what I mean, care guide always means same copy pasta bs. Zero value. Instead share your experience, here is what I did, here is what happened, so we can all learn together. ;-)
@@htpclivingroom8785 Lol, messing with you a bit. I guess I get defensive cause I put a lot of time into creating non gimmicky useful content for people... I will say that I did share my experience from problems my clients had keeping them - which I think is important because owning an aquarium service business, I get to observe the mistakes that a lot of people are prone to making. I also mentioned that the two biggest things you can do is to not blast them with current, as well as feed them very small foods including live foods (BBS and grindals). But part of a care guide is also providing those same stats that you see across other guides, because it's important information. In terms of temperature, chili rasboras live in the tropics, along the equator - one of the most stable climates in the world specifically with regards to temperature. Both latitude and high humidity contribute to extremely consistent temperatures all year round like average lows of 23 C to average highs of 32 C. Slow moving freshwater sources tend to be a bit cooler than ambient temperature - this study went out and collected water temperatures in areas close to chili habitat if you want to see the results www.frontiersin.org/journals/marine-science/articles/10.3389/fmars.2022.1075155/full While you may have had good experiences keeping chili rasboras far outside their natural range, that wouldn't be wise advice for me to give to people. Tropical species generally should be kept in stable conditions that closely resemble their environment, especially with regards to temperature. Also, great that you are critical of my content and what you see on wiki. It's smart to wonder where people get their information from, especially when there are no sources being cited. Unfortunately I don't have the time to cite everything I look at, it's already a ton of work to get the content out at it's modest quality on top of working a full time job and doing all the other life things. I would recommend that you look at www.scholar.google.com when looking for more reliable information. I used to work as an insect ecologist (that's one group that's very sensitive to temperature) and when citing sources they always needed to be peer reviewed sources. Wiki would never have flown. scholar.google.com is a great place to get reliable information, but it is a lot of work to comb through!
I also enjoy & appreciate first-hand observations and experience. There must be some serious compensation (advertising) for endlessly rewriting articles over and over and over because that's exactly what you get with %90 of aquarium topics. Change the font & re-submit the article under your business heading. Very rarely do any online articles provide references because they've cut & pasted from everyone else. Its so awful that each article is almost identical, even down to the organization of the paragraphs. The only difference between most articles is one or two individual words changed here and there. Lately for temps, I've started looking up monthly temps, the highs & lows from where fish originate. Mainly out of curiosity. Anyway. Great Video. Thanks for the original content.
@@shawndoe2834 Thanks for dropping a comment @shawndoe2834 - I have noticed a lot of copy pasting going on with online stores in particular. I guess they have so many species to list out and aren't really in the content game so maybe it's just easier to do it like that? Hopefully the fish are doing well, take care!
Outstanding. Well done
@LukeMcGuireoides thank you!
They're pretty, but so hard to photograph😂
Lol, no joke! I spent a lot of time capturing footage and most of it was even worse than the video!
I don't expect any good information when I see something like 'care guide', but let me chip in if I may. When it comes to recommended temperatures for fish I can confirm they are all made up bs, how do I know? If you check where those temps are coming from you will notice a pattern: it is always wikipedia-> place of origin-> average yearly air temperature. that alone should tell how pointless this is. from personal experience and living under the roof having them in the kitchen, no heater, just roomtemperature I can tell you in summer it gets very hot here, 37C and coldest during winter nights 16.5Cish and they don't even lose color. More importance is to put on food, live food if you can swing it and 3-4times a month dried tubifex cubes. Lots of leaves, plants and some wood, deep substrate and you're golden. Mine procreate, I've never seen eggs or tiny babies but their numbers are growing, so I'd say they like it. Don't over-do water changes, I do minor cosmetic clean ups every 2-6months, if you set up your aquarium right this will be fine. If you do gravel and platic crap it obviously won't. Cheers, you have a nice voice.
Thanks for sharing! I like the fact that your fish are probably experiencing some sort of seasonal changes.
Also, I wasn't expecting to hear any good information when you started with your care guide comment, which was essentially your own care guide, but I ended up enjoying it 🤣 Thanks for dropping a line
@@freshflowaquatics yea I mean you know what I mean, care guide always means same copy pasta bs. Zero value. Instead share your experience, here is what I did, here is what happened, so we can all learn together. ;-)
@@htpclivingroom8785 Lol, messing with you a bit. I guess I get defensive cause I put a lot of time into creating non gimmicky useful content for people...
I will say that I did share my experience from problems my clients had keeping them - which I think is important because owning an aquarium service business, I get to observe the mistakes that a lot of people are prone to making. I also mentioned that the two biggest things you can do is to not blast them with current, as well as feed them very small foods including live foods (BBS and grindals).
But part of a care guide is also providing those same stats that you see across other guides, because it's important information.
In terms of temperature, chili rasboras live in the tropics, along the equator - one of the most stable climates in the world specifically with regards to temperature. Both latitude and high humidity contribute to extremely consistent temperatures all year round like average lows of 23 C to average highs of 32 C. Slow moving freshwater sources tend to be a bit cooler than ambient temperature - this study went out and collected water temperatures in areas close to chili habitat if you want to see the results www.frontiersin.org/journals/marine-science/articles/10.3389/fmars.2022.1075155/full
While you may have had good experiences keeping chili rasboras far outside their natural range, that wouldn't be wise advice for me to give to people. Tropical species generally should be kept in stable conditions that closely resemble their environment, especially with regards to temperature.
Also, great that you are critical of my content and what you see on wiki. It's smart to wonder where people get their information from, especially when there are no sources being cited. Unfortunately I don't have the time to cite everything I look at, it's already a ton of work to get the content out at it's modest quality on top of working a full time job and doing all the other life things. I would recommend that you look at www.scholar.google.com when looking for more reliable information. I used to work as an insect ecologist (that's one group that's very sensitive to temperature) and when citing sources they always needed to be peer reviewed sources. Wiki would never have flown.
scholar.google.com is a great place to get reliable information, but it is a lot of work to comb through!
I also enjoy & appreciate first-hand observations and experience.
There must be some serious compensation (advertising) for endlessly rewriting articles over and over and over because that's exactly what you get with %90 of aquarium topics. Change the font & re-submit the article under your business heading. Very rarely do any online articles provide references because they've cut & pasted from everyone else. Its so awful that each article is almost identical, even down to the organization of the paragraphs. The only difference between most articles is one or two individual words changed here and there.
Lately for temps, I've started looking up monthly temps, the highs & lows from where fish originate. Mainly out of curiosity.
Anyway. Great Video. Thanks for the original content.
@@shawndoe2834 Thanks for dropping a comment @shawndoe2834 - I have noticed a lot of copy pasting going on with online stores in particular. I guess they have so many species to list out and aren't really in the content game so maybe it's just easier to do it like that?
Hopefully the fish are doing well, take care!