These Are The Nastiest Aquarium Fish! Top 5 Fish Tank Slobs!
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do I fit into this list is pretty messy I was called the worlds messiest eater lol
Sir what about red blood parrot fishes.... They are very messy or not❓️❓️❓️
The aquarium hobbie gets better and better with the work you put into it.its not for lazy people 100%
I think my sister is a bit on the opposite. She changes water almost every day. A small water change about 10-15% water change every day!!! And one big one every Sunday with 25-30%. And she cleans the glass with a sponge or skrape every day so it's absolutely spotless. Had to tell her the fish needs a bit of algae. So she stopped cleaning the glass except the front. The aquarium is beautiful and clean but I think it a bit overkill. She gravel vacuums 2 times a week at least
She has a community tank with several algae eaters.
If done right, it can actually be amazing with very little work at all. A heavily planted tank with low stocking basically never needs water changes, and once it's balanced itself out it doesn't need to be cleaned either. I have one tank that I never need to do maintenence on that just stays beautiful, and one that very rarely needs a gravel vac when the cories don't pick up all the leftover food.
This couldn't be further from reality. A well established tank doesn't require a lot of maintenance. You can create an environment that the biological system breaks down nitrates. It takes a few years for this to happen and a low flow filter system. Probiotic foods also break down waste in the tank. Good luck doing all that work tho.
My Oscar loves to "redecorate" his tank when he isnt fed on time. It is quite a sight to see him throw sand everywhere while stopping to stare at you till hes fed lol.
I had hoped to give him a 120 gallon with live plants both in and outside of the tank, but he has killed that dream.
It would be tough but if you use some insulation foam and waterproof concrete paint, you could still give 'em a cool harscape tho
@@sanguineregis5354 i wish I could. In two days I gotta take his tank down to reseal and thats takin up a lot of resources. Someday when I build him a plywood tank Ill make it look good
My RBP is way worse! He comes to the surface and starts thrashing on the surface, so shoves a gallon of water out of the tank everytime he's in "the mood".
Love the callout of petstore owners and employees haha As an employee of a petstore I get 10 customers a day looking for algea eaters or something to "Keep my tank clean" and everytime I have to break it to them that the only thing that is going to keep their tank clean is putting in the work to clean it properly.
my dad loved fish tanks we grew up with massive tanks after moving around he had to get rid but after saving for over 3 years he got a 6ft by 4ft tank and had african cichlids in he passed away a few years ago and i want to continue the hobby hearing about the number one being cichlids made me smile
Hope you can use this!
0:53 Common Plecostomus
3:07 Oscar
4:54 Goldfish
6:13 Bichirs
8:01 African Cichilds
Platys are good at producing waste like goldfish then make more
I bet there’s gonna be plecos on this list, my old bristlenose was always pooping 🥲 long strings of doodoo, tank no longer has “mud” in it since he passed 😔
oscar last week - yeah boys they be talking good stuff about me
oscar this week - wait why have you betrayed me i thought i was your favourite
Now matter what anyone says about Oscar's, they are the coolest...
Thanks for nailing it, John. Makes me glad I have an otherwise low-maintenance Betta by contrast.
Every time i get bored of my hobby kgtropicals kicks back the excitement
An Indonesian woman decided to deep-fry her husband’s pet Arowana after he failed to keep his promise to clean the aquarium.
Keep that in mind ladies and gentlemen. Don't be lazy especially if your fish is a slob just like in this video.
I also see it as another reason to not get married
@@Constantine_Cvl8 ...lol what? You dont want to get married cuz you want to live like a slob and not be responsible for you actions? I mean, he was abusing that fish by not cleaning up the tank...the fish was slowly suffocating in it's feces...
Sure, what she did was extreme...but it usually gradually builds up to the extreme...he was probably a reapeating offender.
...yeah I guess you are right, with that mindset, I hope you never get married to anybody.
@@midnull6009 Prob he meant did not clean the class hopefully
@@midnull6009 jeez man, I just said I don't want to get married. I clean my tanks but cooking an expensive fish just because someone forgot to clean some algae and poop is a little overkill, isn't?
@@midnull6009 like, dude, seriously, I was must commenting.
I’ve had my goldfish for 2 days now and I have absolutely fallen in love with them. They are so adorable
So nice to hear someone saying some nice things about Common Plecos and just assuming folks know most of the problems. Great content, as always.
Thanks for putting out this video. I always say that if you don't enjoy cleaning an aquarium, you're not going to enjoy keeping fish. I have bristlenose plecos that seem magical in their ability to take in half an ounce of food and turn it into four ounces of poop. They are good at getting rid of the algea in those tiny hard to reach spots, but they do convert it to poop laying all over the place. My mystery snail is the interior designer in the tank. He likes to pop the heater out of its brackets and really just move anything that gets in his path. When faced with an obstacle, his approach is 'through' not 'around.' Before I got the snail, my air line ran through those little brackets that suction cup to the side of the tank. The snail was having none of that and removed the line from brackets daily; I finally removed the suction cups from the tank and just let the line lay where ever the snail leaves it.
Wanted to thank you and your wife always for all your knowledge you share!!
4:49 Thank you for the honest advice😂😂😂
I've been in this hobby for almost 2 years now thanks to you and lisa, as a student, I'm not lazy but busy🤣🤣🤣 but still I still do the water change on my 50 gallon tank once a week or once every 3 weeks if I'm busy on the weekend..
thats how you build up your nitrites, and get old tank syndrome. you need a better schedule, because in 3 weeks only doing a 50% water change wont get it lower, say ur waster builds too 5ppm of nitrites a week and doing a 50% water change just means after one week ur nitrites will be increasing slowly by 2.5 every week, therefore skipping a few weeks you may have 15ppm aftwe 3 weeks , in half now ur at 7.5, next week itll be at 10 instead of staying at a safe 2.5
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Thank you. Great info. 😊
"3 are in the same tank what's that say about me" you like it REAL nasty 🤣
Another fantastic video!!! Love waking up to these! Lol and the Oscar part 🤣
Dang thats surprising! Happy Halloween everyone!
So, I have been following you and others over the last 4 months. Just got into the hobby at the new year (aka 4 months ago). I rebuilt a 110 gallon. Set up an In tank sump filtration process. The part I would like to start a dialog about is that I also set it up in a way that I have a self sweeping bottom that pushes all waste into the filer housing. I'd love to share it with you if you see this.
I had a Gerbil that my boys loved as their first pet that lived to be TEN...he had really grey hair when he passed of old age.
I once bought three beautiful 'Male' platies twelve years ago and now I have probably two, three generations of absolutely beautiful live bearers that kept me so interested, and several 'upgrades' a UV filter when everything my new education on chemistry sets told me was the only kind of short term solution to pea soup.
Next, I guess is the dog and the aviary!
It's ALL good...I look at my new venture into planted aquariums and when the sun sets I still have beautiful gardens with lots of colourful mongrels 👍😊
Awesome video very informative thank u for sharing ur knowledge.
Thanks for your help
Not surprised to see the Pleco #5. My step mom had one 12 inches and we would wake up to her barking at it for messing up her tank lol.
Feeding oscar's nightcrawlers is one simple solution. No mess no waste and they absolutely love them. Oldest oscar i ever seen the owner said that was it's main diet.
You make such interesting and honest videos 👍keep it up
I remember join this hobby in high school all thanks to channels like KGTropicals. Thank goodness I didn’t just jump into it! No overstocked tanks for me lol
Some awesome fish there! enjoyed the B-Roll and boy do oscars and the common pleco produce some waste the pleco don’t clean nothing had him 8 years and he is just a Pooing Machine plus mine eat 1/2 sponge filter. I enjoyed the early African Cichlid videos they are the 1st videos I watched on the channel and they gave me a lot of help. I know you mentioned making them again I think that could be a lot fun as I love African cichlids even tho they are so messy and can be nasty to each other on times to. But peacocks and haps are some of my favourite fish
I have seven large goldfish and yep they are messy, but still adorable, so I don't mind doing weekly water changes to keep them happy and healthy!
I've had common pleco's in the past ( and will for my new tank!) but yep, they are messy, and leave trails of long stringy poop everywhere they go, still love them!😉🥲
4:51 nice
I do, I really do. I want it perfect. I fail miserably, buy I really do.
For me, the messiest fish I've kept are.
Oscars
Common Pleco
Goldfish
The rest have been about equal to the other fish not on my list. Unless we're talking substrate and decor rearrangement. Then you can add pretty much all cichlids, new world and old. My Managuensis in particular is a massive earth mover.
Ah, your list included my three right off the bat! Nice 😁
its like the legendry trio
My brothers have goldfish, and good lord they are messy.
I recently got an infestation of limpets. Since i've had them, my off-white sand has actually been clean. Turns out they eat fish poop, among other things.. However, i only have dwarf and furcata rainbows in my tank, along with a couple of cory catfish. Believe it or not, they can make a huge mess.... And limpets can clean it up. I totally doubt limpets can keep a goldfish tank substrate free of poop, though. :)
I currently have an albino peacock cichlid with 4 angles 2 plecos 3 gouramis and an auratus cichlid in a 55 gal heavily planted tank. I’ve had 0 problems despite how everyone thinks cichlids are out of control aggressive. With any fish comes personality 😄
yup goldfish are messy! I had a couple small ones in my Zen garden tank that I would take the time each week to rake the Substrate so it looks nice and every morning it would absolutely be ruined because they like to dig and look for little morsels of food. so cute, but frustrating! haha
Love This Video on Fish Slobs🤣👍🐠
Yep, all I have are goldfish and one pleco. Gotta say though, those strange fish critters that came before the cichlids are fascinating.
I have every single fish on this list🤣🤣I have all of them together besides my 5 10 inch goldfish with my red eared slider turtle!! Just started breeding myself would love to meet you guys who knows maybe one of these days I'll be an elite fishtuber as yourselves thanks for the content I even watch videos I don't need to bcuz your awesome keep up the good work Jon and lisa💯💯thanks again!!
I keep convict cichlids with my oscars and they all co-exist well. I use them for the same thing you mentioned to follow behind them and clean up the excess food they spit out. Some days the convicts back the oscars up in corners rather than the oscars bullying them. For the most part though they all get along fine. Never had a death or issue related to them bullying each other.
I kept a mated pair of convicts in a 55 gallon with a mated pair of Jack Dempsey. I used a 1x8 plank to divide the bottom of the tank and never had a problem with aggression. Once the fry began to explore they didn't last long. I was fine with that since it's a natural cycle. All 4 fish had incredible color and personality. I used high quality pellets along with about 10% live/frozen food and switched to live only when they were ready to breed. I fed the fry with egg yolk for the first week then switched to daphnia for a week then brine shrimp.
I also had a mated pair of Oscars in a 55 gallon. I fed the fry to my 55 gallon and 20 gallon long community tanks. When my Oscars reached 8 inches I gave them to a breeder who put them in a 150 gallon.
Thanks for another great video. Have you ever had tropheus? Good or bad experience?
can you do a video of guppies or goldfish
They have already done videos on them in their ten Things series
I do 25% water change every week and 60% water change every 3 weeks for Goldfish. Even with that depending on how many you have it can get out of control really fast. I also cut back on feeding to every other day to try to give my filters a chance lol.
First of all, lemme tell you : since agust 2021 adopted 2 Red Eared Slider.
Now I have dozens of water creatures, 3 tanks, and 1 fish crate.
Realized 1 matter : they don't want to be adopted by me. I adopted them all.
Responsibility in MY SIDE. Their live life depends on me.
How messy they make, I have to deal with; but I am happy seeing they all being old together with me.
Amazing
Fun fact about goldfish and why they're so messy. They don't have stomachs! So everything they eat just goes directly to the poop chute. That's why they're constantly rummaging around looking for food is because they're always hungry.
The pleco does solve fish keepers issues, plecos make the fish keeper clean the tank more often. 😂😂😂
Also I totally understand you, my obsession are oscars, bichirs and plecos, and koi for me. Wich I understand the cleaning, I cleaned my tank, the next day I had a pile, literally big pile of poop, he just had to lay the biggest after I had cleaned it 😅 love this fish, love the constant maintenance, therapeutic for me.
Happy Halloween John and Lisa
My Clown Pleco stays small and is really no problem in my 20L...but my tank is now overrun with balloon animals that he makes for the other fish. LOL
I love how much you love Oscars. I had my Oscar Doc Holiday for over 10 years and Oscars will always be my favourite 😍
You rock 😎..... Plecos rule!
I have a 10 inch royal pleco, he turns bog wood to sawdust.
and a 20 inch ornate bichir in the same tank
The Redtail-Catfish should be in this list too... Eats and poops very much...
Hi John I've got a 75 African tank heavy stocked I do a 15 gallon water change every second day and have only 10parts of nitrate
My daughter has a 75 Gallon Tank, she has been keeping fish for several years now, but when she started out with a 10 gal tank she purchased a Red-tailed black shark, we were told it will live bout 3 or 4 years and only get to be about 6 inches in length, yah that was about 9 years ago, " Sharky" is now almost 10 years old and 9 or 10 inches in length and he has some good thickness to him, he has been apart of our family so long now we will be sad when he finally passes.
Can you make a "Lazy man's" fish list 😁
My pea puffers were also extremely messy!!
"top tank slobs"
the thumbnail is littarly half of the fish i own, and the common pleco completes the list xD
btw!! i got a common pleco, cuz i have the needs to take care of one, i didn't even have a dirty tank, i just really like plecos
Well I guess I take care of my fish and tank to good!
I have a question for you what should I do if my nitrate goes from being 20ppm water change every other week to 3rd week first time ever to 5.0ppm🤔
3:10,
Yes i remember
I have a 60 gallon tank with 100 white tip and black tip tetra,they only get 2inches ,and I clean their tank every Wednesday 🤔 no problem
For me, Oscar's are the coolest fish ever, I have a baby albino oscar and I love it, it plays with me and all.....
The Goldfish is the most loved Aquarium-Fish - but, sadly it's also the most used living Feeder-Fish...
Which is so strange! The more research that has been done, the more it’s said goldfish are one of the worst feeder fish. Reason is because of the waste, Goldfish don’t have stomachs so they are constantly producing waste… and on top of that they have the most ammonia of most if not all freshwater fish. All the ammonia and other potential toxins just aren’t good for your fish you’re feeding. :) Happy fish keeping
Hey I have a vertical 15 gallon tank what do you recommend i put in it
I was was going to do a planted betta/shrimp tank but I would like some other ideas
Bettas prefer more horizontal space. Having more vertical space can cause issues since they are labyrinth fish and breath air. So if you do go with a betta or another Gourami, make sure there’s some plants and stuff for them to rest on near the surface.
I’d try a school of Ember tetras with shrimp personally. If you want a Gourami with them, a Honey Gourami would compliment their colours, or a betta.
@@themute9354 thank you
I knew goldfish would be on the list, because I have kept them in the past. 🐡🐠🐟🐠🐟 What it says about you is cool fish are messy, but you like them anyway.
I to love oscar fish and my favriote type is the good old tiger oscar fish.
You didn't come here to complain about these fish being messing; you came here to gloat about how much you "love" these fish!
7:33 I’m not gonna have spaghetti anymore. Thank you.
I love my goldfish like I love my dogs but their waste is no joke!! I work in a pet store and usually tell people that with goldfish you put in a lot of work but you get equal enjoyment from them in return:)
Goldfish are cold-water bred into warm water, hence the amount of poop. It has something to do with metabolism of what used to be a pond fish. Second it has to do with digestion system of the "carp" family. Barbs aren't much better.
Gold fish is the vegetation oscar 🤣🤣😂
I seen you guys yesterday. How'd you guys do this so quick? Lol. Awesome job as guys. Ps. Lisa can you help me with some Discus questions with Jacobus @ Hans?
Of course 🙂
He's right on the goldfish, let me tell ya. I have a beautiful 75G and I have comets/commons in there and I have to do a 25% water change everyday and 100% once a month. But it's well worth the work because they're just such amazing creatures and they get so big and beautiful and the personalities I mean no 2 are remotely similar. It's a real shame that the majority of goldfish aren't looked after properly because they're truly awesome animals.
I've been in the aquarium hobby since 1975. I've never kept goldfish several friends do. They were having the same problem with hygiene. I told them to place the substrate in mesh bags and to wash half of the bags every 2 days in the water from water changes.
IF you do 25% water changes every 2 days and wash the mesh bags at the same time you will have a much better time and so will your fish.
Biggest slobs are big fish that get put into small tanks. Or deformed fish like goldfish that look small because they're bred short but have the digestive track of a bigger fish
It's all about numbers. 5 fancy goldfish are going to be less load on a 75 than 20 peacocks and haps.
I have 2 Oscars.,....they are my favourite..... They understand so much..... Yes they are messy but i love their naughtiness....
It's fascinating that the common plecos somehow poop more than they eat. It should be scientifically impossible but I swear it's true and it just gets worse with time.
Please do a beard review😂
I literally this morning moved to two gigantic feeder goldfish that I rescued a few months ago out of my 150 because they are slobs and tend to roll around and scare the others. Live stream on my page of that tank by the way.
Doing a water change right now.
@@WaterBoysofCFL yep i saw them. THEY ARE SOO ENRGETIC
Does anyone have any suggestions for tank mates for my male opaline gouram, I'm a new fish keeper. I was thinking either rummy nose, cardinal tetras, cherry barbs, honey gourami, or sparkling gourami.
jOHn thank you and right around 10 min, you almost said it all the RT's and SH's are getting big!!!!! next stop 750.
I've a pleco and yeah he poops a lot 😂 though to be fair he does eat a lot of the algae don't worry I got him because I wanted him as find him truly fascinating and I have him in a small tank for now as he is little but I do have a bigger tank for him
Leopard bush fish are quite messy as well
I'm a big oscar lover as well and mine is also a piggy xD
Hi I love your channel and btw I have some questions
My common pleco is around 1 foot and he doesn’t touch the sponge filters. I’m grateful
You said that most people that are thinking about getting an aquarium it's goldfish that they picture in there.
Well in my case when I bought my first aquarium it was a betta that I pictured in there.
same a betta was my first fish
@@apss5736 You will not believe it, that female crowntail betta I had in my 10-gallon tank, I bought 2 platies and those were quarantined, so those were a little expensive than the regular ones. when I put those platies with the betta, they were fine. But when I came home from school one of the platies was completely destroyed and the other one was fine. When I looked at that tank I saw the betta was constantly picking on the destroyed plati. Luckily, I had another 10-gallon tank with 8 guppies in it, so I put those 2 platies in that tank but 1 died and the other one is doing great. So, I think my crowntail doesn't appreciate any tank mates in her tank. But I still love my betta😊
@@candlelitnight yeah some bettas cant have tank mates. it is possible the reason that this happened was because if you added the betta first then the betta might get territorial because she thinks that the tank is her territory and not tolerate the other fish. i had a similar mistake but luckily i had a spare tank and everything is fine now
@@apss5736 Yea, I had that betta for almost 2 years in that tank.
Yea that was probably the reason also if you ever introduce other fish then rearrange the tank decor and if you add more platies then get about 4 or 5 so that the betta doesn't single out one fish. Sorry for your loss tho and I hope all the fish are doing well.
It's true that goldfish produce more waste than probably any other popular aquarium fish. However, since they get hungry pretty fast, they start sifting through the substrate the way catfish do and thus keep it cleaner than most other fish. Also, goldfish food contains less protein and thus puts less ammonia products into the water. And since goldfish don't have a stomach, they physically can't eat too much food at a time. So it's not that straightforward.
🤣Just said the other day my pleco poops streamers around the tank. Every morning there will be strings of poop over the plants, rocks and wood😅
100% accurate. But goldfish will definitely eat other small fish, but its not a predator based eating response like many fish. It's a more like a "if i fits I sits" situation, if it fits they'll eat it. Imagine zoned out eating, that's goldfish.
yeah even peaceful fish will eat other fish that can fit in their mouths
My firemouth acts just like a Oscar lol
😳😊😁😏🤗😍😚love your channel.
I had problem with much poop from my Oscars pleco and bikirs Then i got a wavemaker and boom tank look sooo much more clean.
Yes, I love my Oscar's and they are destroyers, I've had Oscar's all my live, one of my favourites.
I just got 4 pairs of beautiful African cichlids and that last one kinda bummed me out.
Here are the varieties:
Melanochromis auratus 'albino'
Melanochromis cyaneorhabdos
Labidochromis chisumulae
Labidochromis caeruleus
I also wanna ask if angelfish can be kept with these
Hey John long time since I watched one of your videos but I need a really quick answer my cat pooped in my aquarium sand in my empty tank do I have to completely get new sand or can I just scoop out the poop and will it be safe or do I have to rinse it out
You should clean all the sand. This has happened with one of our cats before and everything was fine once we cleaned all the sand
4:49 funny moment
2:20, nah, my plecos don't get scared when you get near the tank, now... My Pacu on the other hand, he's a scaredy cat🤣, especially if the light is off, he'll start to panic, he's the biggest fish in the tank and eats the most and well I see him as the "King" of the tank, but even kings have there fears
Quick question, I have a 36 gallon aquarium. Every time I check the ammonia levels it's says it critical, I did a 50 percent water change, cleaned my sand etc, tested it again today and it's still critical but all my fish are energetic, great color, my water is clear for the most part, my tank isn't over stocked, I still have 10 in he's give or take more room. Any pointers or suggestions to actually quell the issue?
I don't understand it either
@@DanRemdor I've figured it out.. I really deep cleaned my sand and was doing 50% water changes everyday. The problem is fixed haha.
@@nyrayegermangenson8160 lol
Hi ur beard is beuroful