FF you are one of a few people I can listen forever and not get bored 😅 Wonderful storytelling skill combined with vast knowledge on the subject. Every time I watch your video, I learn something useful. You are a rare find in the universe of nonsense these days. Live long. We need you ❤
I pray that Father you live for years and years together so that you can continue to share your wisdom with the current and future generations. It's a GEM that you are sharing with everyone for free!
This is the video I have been searching for! I was bought up by my grandfather keeping fish in a very VERY simple way. He had no filters, no air stone and would even catch his own fish and plants for the tank. I watched his fish grow from tiny to huge while I was a kid with such a simple technique. I have tried to stay true to this set up and let the tank balance to the point where I only feed and top up my tanks due to evaporation. (I do use air stones, lights & filters) But so often on TH-cam and in the fish keeping community you are condemned for doing such things. I have one tank I haven't done anything except topping up water and feeding for over a year, plants are growing amazing, fish are colourful and thriving and to some people it would seem overstocked. And in case anyone is wondering - yes, I do check my water parameters. But not weekly, or even monthly. I barely even check to be honest... I do it on a whim when I feel like it and there has never been ammonia, nitrite. Only just nitrates which stay regulated by the plants at below 40ppm & I haven't lost a fish from the tank yet.
Your videos are seriously the best, most instructive videos I have seen in the entire hobby. Thank you for doing what you do, I hope more people find your videos and come to the same realizations that you have. The fish certainly will be happier in such a place
Great video. I have been watching Lucas at LRB Aquatics for a long time. It is because he mentioned watching you that I found your channel. I am very thankful that he did.
Father Fish, it is a privilege to watch your videos and subscribe to your channel. Great video, you have so much knowledge. Thank you for passing on all you know to this generation of fish keepers (I'm 18). That tank in the background is beautiful as well.
My 12 year older brother ran tanks the exact same way. It was passed down to him from my uncle who was born in 1918. Then my brother explained to me. Thus on, this on.... Thank you for sharing this. History is knowledge.
very new to the hobby and glad I found you right away. I would love to learn how to have balanced tanks that support themselves without adding chemicals and doing water changes every time the test strip says. i have 2 tanks so far but after watching your videos i plan on redoing them with a dirt sand substrate and lots of plants hopefully i can create nice balanced tanks.
I redid my 5 tanks from the standard set-up that needed weekly changes to a naturally planted dirted tank that I have done no water changes. Plants are definitely the secret to a balanced natural tank.
Really enjoyed hearing The short history of your mother and grandmother’s aquarium keeping. I’ve always been interested in how people were keeping and maintaining aquariums back then. I have always followed the train of though, of trying to make the aquarium as close to nature as possible. A balanced tank is the best tank
The key is "gentle." Gentle with the entire process. Like a baby being born. When it is gentle there is nothing more beautiful. When rough and coarse it becomes frightening and dangerous.
Yeah, you can just sense the man's wisdom. Very good listen the whole way, when at first your not quite sure where your taking us. Thanks for the great vids!
TY I knew where I was going, just took me a bit to get there.I really wanted to acknowledge my grand mother. She was wonderful. She gave me this life long gift.
6 years ago I did the same natural method what father fish saying in this video .. Result is wonderful self sustaining happy aquarium. I love you father fish . 😍
Hello Father Fish , these contents that you share are what i have been looking for years (almost 20 years) on the internet/forums. You are summarizing to us thats whole your years of experience in 15 minutes. This is gold for a true aquarist. Thank you so much.
Thank you for sharing your wisdom, I have learned a lot from people who have been in the hobby longer than I have been alive! I'm happy to have a balanced 40 breeder with a few swordtails, giant danios and a pair of rainbowfish that has given me great joy during my past 4 years of college!
Thanks to you and another TH-camr I've created 2 balanced aquariums each with 6 inch deep substrate and many plants. I have yet to do a single waterchange in months and my fish and shrimp are multiplying and the water clear. Thank you!
I have watched this before and I don't know where I failed to comment! This is one of the best videos on TH-cam for anyone interested in having a successful tank in this hobby..ME! this is where my journey with you began! I'm glad I'm past that snowflake age 😂😂👍🙌♥️🙏🐟
Finally, an explanation of balance that makes sense! I am binge watching all your videos and learning so much. I have trouble achieving balance in my 50 gallon tank in which I am trying to raise some goldfish. They keep eating my plants if I don’t feed them twice a day but when I do feed them my nitrates go sky high.
Goldfish can be as difficult as uaru, silver dollars, and pacu. Sand is a big help because it contains much of the kinds of food goldfish crave. Leave the lights on permanently but be mindful of the water heating up. LED or low wattage fluorescent is fine. One 40 watt tube is sufficient. That will grow algae in the sand which will keep the goldfish on the bottom feeding.
I have a small book adapted into English by an American called Braz Walker . The original work ,Bunte Welt Der Tropenfische, Stuttgart, Germany 1968 . Keep up the great work our fishy sage . we can learn from our fish tanks because without balance we are not happy either.
You betcha. The book i mentioned is "Exotic Aquarium Fishes" by William T. Innes, L.H.D. He founded the first public aquarium in the US in Philadelphia, PA. in 1936. It was closed in the early 40's due to lack of manpower to keep it functioning caused by WWII. I visited the derelictf acility in the late 50's before it was demolished.
I got my first aquarium around 1960. There was already electric, but everything was still very simple. Nevertheless it was already possible to run a nice aquarium
Lol ok before Boomer. I'm Gen X so I know exactly what a radiator is haha. Love learning from your knowledge, thank you for passing it on. It's substantial and so worthwhile. Thanks Father Fish!
I just found this channel and it´s all I´ve been looking for and so difficult to find these days. All these shiny high-tech aquascapes for so much $$$ that require daily interference..not for me. Thank you Father Fish for all the information in your videos. Greetings from Czech republic.
havnt heard anyone go into such deital about balance in many years older fish keepers understand the importance of balance my great grand mother had a moderate size fish room many decades ago breeding several different types of fish without the help of modern fish keeping tech learned alot growing up great video father fish saw you on someone elses channel smashed your red button
This sound sustainable logic applies to fish, and even humanity. So you can have healthy, happy people that enjoy where they're living. Without beneficial bacteria, life can not exist.
Thankyou for all your awesome advice, I've always hated using chemicals. I have a Betta with a few friends, cardinal Tetra's, a couple of mystery snails & some red (?) anyways my question is will the garlic tea help for ice & fungus for betta & other tropicals ? We live in Queensland Australia. Thankyou again. Karen.
I love your referencing to the older days of fishkeeping practices... and there certainly are fishkeepers today who are discovering that simplicity and less interference is proving to be okay in this world of "snowflakes" 🙂
Just found you and love your video! Quick question my java fern has been in my tank for 4 months and recently entire leaves have been falling off the rhizome. What do you think is the cause?
Father Fish thank you for you fast reply my ph was a little low, 6.5. My tap water has a low ph I’ve actually bred Rams In my tap water. I use crushed coral and seachem equilibrium to add minerals to the water. Do you have any suggestions on how to improve the mineral content in the water?
Your first aquarium was almost certainly slate bottom. I donated a 135 yr old aquarium to the new ZooMed aquarium museum in LA. It was a certified 2 owner 5 gallon aquarium with 1" thick slate bottom and brass balls on each corner.
Tank looks amazing - but how come you have goldfish with tropicals? I thought goldfish needed cold water. I’m curious to know how you do this. Love your vids.
Hey father fish greetings from florida. I am looking to get a new tank I have a frog and fish in a 10 gallon. I basically chose to take them in when the owner moved out of state. Anyways I am looking to give them a larger home. Any kinds of plants you reccomend?
I’m trying to make my dirted forty breeder balanced so that when I go to college next year, I can still leave the tank running and do water changes when I come back.
That will work. Get lots of plants growing. They will provide food directly and indirectly for your fish. Limit the number and size of the fish in your aquarium. Notice Lucas' tanks. Many have few fish that require very little attention.
I have fifty white clouds in my forty breeder with lots of plants. There's a lot of pearlweed and stem plants which extract lots of nutrients from the water.
@@vb2377 That is not a large population. I think if you feed once weekly and gradually reduce to twice monthly they should do fine. These are a cold water fish. Depending on where you live you could set up the tank outdoors with a screen top to allow small insects they could eat. I doubt they could survive a freeze but certainly temps in the 40s.
Father Fish I live in Virginia so we can’t do that during the winter. I’m sure these fish can handle being fed once a week but I think twice monthly is a little pushing it. I don’t think I want to put my fish through that. My parents can feed and i do water changes when I get back from college. I’m sure I’ll be home at least once a month.
I'm wondering if you have any advice on African clawed frogs 🤔I have three they keep getting bloated from eating earthworms...I also feed bee moss, butter worms, red worms. Anything you know of that may be a bit easier?
Congratulations on reach over 500 subs. We’re all applauding your success. You deserve it for doing so much to better the hobby. I think you need to setup a Patreon account. I know you’re trying to increase revenue for your business and it would give out of towners an easy way to support you.
@@FatherFish I'm now your first Patreon member. I hope you get a bunch more. Another think you can do is during your Live Chats you can enable Super Chat which is where viewers can choose to make a donation so their chat with you will stand out and remain on top. Just another way to build support for what you're doing. Please keep it up! Thank you.
@@FatherFish I found a book by William Innes 1956 called Exotic Aquarium Fishes: A Work of General Reference. This book might also be a good source for those seeking to create a Balanced Aquarium. I will try and see if I can find the Ornamental Tropical Fish title as I did not find just Tropical Fish when I searched for that.
@@carlsfishroom632 You have thhe correct book. I had the name wrong. This book shows thhe difference between a "pop" tank set up purely for appearance and a balanced aquarium, set up for the health of the plants and animals.
@@FatherFish Ok Thank you! I will try to buy a copy. And do a bit more studying into the balanced aquarium principles. I have done a little reading of Diana Walstad's Ecology of The Planted Aquarium. And was also blown away by Justin's Ocean Aquarium, in San Francisco. His no water change, deep sand substrate and heavily planted tanks with all those healthy breeding fish. Just amazing to come across, these amazing hobbyists!
@@carlsfishroom632 You are on the right track. Digesting the science taught by Walstad is a major step toward understand the complexity of a natural system. I hope to visit Ocean Aquarium and share practices with these wonderful aquaculturists. I am most curious about their experience in their home country of Burma. I feel certain they developed their practices of frugality and stability whhile there.
I’m in a bit of a headache trying to determine the kinds of fish to keep in my upcoming community tank. I’m thinking of a German blue ram with tetras and rasboras. I didn’t want to add guppies or swordtails because i read about possible aggression in this mix, and different temperature requirements. Wanted to add angelfish but I read. That angels might eat tetras etc. does this all matter in an adequately planted tank? Oh my.
Reduce nutrition in the water column. Deep sand bed is critical to keep the dirt in the dirt and not floating about in the water. Stop feeding and clean it up. Be sparing with nutrition.
+Cories prefer a sand substrate to a gravel one. I just talked to my brochis and they told me so in no uncertain terms. Most cories are outspoken about sand. It helps them keep their teeth clean. Those big rocks are hard on enamel. They also think you should subscribe, George.
A good aquarist's work to enjoy the aquariums, not to changing the water, and clean the filter all the time.... Or you can do it, but is't just not woth it...
Hey father fish , I got a question for you about Florida fish store law .I went to my local fish store the other day and I politely ask if they would be interested in buying some Rio tapajos and turquoise rainbowfish, fancy guppies/endlers etc. And they said I needed a aquaculture certificate to sell them to them..ok so I looked into it and it's a 100$ a year but I don't see anything about it being law and wonder if the fish store is just bullsh@+ ing me!?? Have you heard of this before ..?... aquaculture certificate??
I trade with my hobbyist customers. If you want to sell a variety of fish you need a wholesaler license, costs more than $100. Your LFS does not want to deal with you, for what ever reason. The Ag license is not for selling. It is for raising, for maintaining a farm. BS would be an appropriate term. In reality a good LFS will always encourage customers to bring unwanted or excess fish to them. Store credit is an easy and effective way to deal with this. The reality is we do not want non native species released into local water.
Congrats on the great information you are providing to us all. When you mention the risk of the top offs to poison the system with minerals, could it be avoided if you used distilled water to do the top offs? Thanks!
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This was the most important fish video I've seen from a TH-camr. This makes so much sense to me, and i thought I understood it before.
With proper knowledge, learning continuously and age a person gains valuable experience. I'm thankful to Father Fish for sharing this 🙏
This generation owes you what you are doing for the hobby: Returning to basics. Excellent 👍🏻
TY It is a joy for me to work in this way.
FF you are one of a few people I can listen forever and not get bored 😅 Wonderful storytelling skill combined with vast knowledge on the subject. Every time I watch your video, I learn something useful. You are a rare find in the universe of nonsense these days. Live long. We need you ❤
Glad you enjoy it!
I pray that Father you live for years and years together so that you can continue to share your wisdom with the current and future generations. It's a GEM that you are sharing with everyone for free!
This is the video I have been searching for! I was bought up by my grandfather keeping fish in a very VERY simple way. He had no filters, no air stone and would even catch his own fish and plants for the tank. I watched his fish grow from tiny to huge while I was a kid with such a simple technique.
I have tried to stay true to this set up and let the tank balance to the point where I only feed and top up my tanks due to evaporation. (I do use air stones, lights & filters) But so often on TH-cam and in the fish keeping community you are condemned for doing such things.
I have one tank I haven't done anything except topping up water and feeding for over a year, plants are growing amazing, fish are colourful and thriving and to some people it would seem overstocked.
And in case anyone is wondering - yes, I do check my water parameters. But not weekly, or even monthly. I barely even check to be honest... I do it on a whim when I feel like it and there has never been ammonia, nitrite. Only just nitrates which stay regulated by the plants at below 40ppm & I haven't lost a fish from the tank yet.
God bless your grandmother. You were blessed.
Your 83 years young,welldone for that milestone inlife🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
TY David.
Your videos are seriously the best, most instructive videos I have seen in the entire hobby.
Thank you for doing what you do, I hope more people find your videos and come to the same realizations that you have. The fish certainly will be happier in such a place
And I think that is not all GOOGLE hates. lol
Great video. I have been watching Lucas at LRB Aquatics for a long time. It is because he mentioned watching you that I found your channel. I am very thankful that he did.
Me too.
Same. Good luck!!
Father Fish, it is a privilege to watch your videos and subscribe to your channel. Great video, you have so much knowledge. Thank you for passing on all you know to this generation of fish keepers (I'm 18). That tank in the background is beautiful as well.
My 12 year older brother ran tanks the exact same way. It was passed down to him from my uncle who was born in 1918. Then my brother explained to me. Thus on, this on....
Thank you for sharing this. History is knowledge.
very new to the hobby and glad I found you right away. I would love to learn how to have balanced tanks that support themselves without adding chemicals and doing water changes every time the test strip says. i have 2 tanks so far but after watching your videos i plan on redoing them with a dirt sand substrate and lots of plants hopefully i can create nice balanced tanks.
You will succeed by following these simple practices. Keep us posted and remain in touch.
I redid my 5 tanks from the standard set-up that needed weekly changes to a naturally planted dirted tank that I have done no water changes. Plants are definitely the secret to a balanced natural tank.
Really enjoyed hearing The short history of your mother and grandmother’s aquarium keeping. I’ve always been interested in how people were keeping and maintaining aquariums back then.
I have always followed the train of though, of trying to make the aquarium as close to nature as possible. A balanced tank is the best tank
You make this seem so easy and effortless. I like hearing and seeing how you do it step by step.
👍💕👍
The key is "gentle." Gentle with the entire process. Like a baby being born. When it is gentle there is nothing more beautiful. When rough and coarse it becomes frightening and dangerous.
@dvp458 TY DVP
Yeah, you can just sense the man's wisdom. Very good listen the whole way, when at first your not quite sure where your taking us. Thanks for the great vids!
TY I knew where I was going, just took me a bit to get there.I really wanted to acknowledge my grand mother. She was wonderful. She gave me this life long gift.
6 years ago I did the same natural method what father fish saying in this video .. Result is wonderful self sustaining happy aquarium. I love you father fish . 😍
That is awesome!. An addendum to follow.
Father Fish @👍welcome 😉
Me again. Story telling skills are amazing. Continue to love this guy.
TYVM
FatherFish I appreciate your wisdom on balanced aquariums and the hobby of fish keeping thank you for the wonderful video!!!
So nice of you
Awesome videos thank you
Hello Father Fish , these contents that you share are what i have been looking for years (almost 20 years) on the internet/forums. You are summarizing to us thats whole your years of experience in 15 minutes. This is gold for a true aquarist. Thank you so much.
Powerful kudo. TY You inspire me.
Thank you for sharing your wisdom, I have learned a lot from people who have been in the hobby longer than I have been alive! I'm happy to have a balanced 40 breeder with a few swordtails, giant danios and a pair of rainbowfish that has given me great joy during my past 4 years of college!
You are so welcome!
Thanks to you and another TH-camr I've created 2 balanced aquariums each with 6 inch deep substrate and many plants. I have yet to do a single waterchange in months and my fish and shrimp are multiplying and the water clear. Thank you!
That is awesome!
I have watched this before and I don't know where I failed to comment! This is one of the best videos on TH-cam for anyone interested in having a successful tank in this hobby..ME! this is where my journey with you began! I'm glad I'm past that snowflake age 😂😂👍🙌♥️🙏🐟
Hello again Mary. Your kindness is much appreciated.
@@FatherFish and you are so appreciated as well 🙏♥️🐟
thank you for this Sir. This is THE BEST aquarium balance video on youtube.
Another Great video! Thank you!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for sharing!
Finally, an explanation of balance that makes sense! I am binge watching all your videos and learning so much. I have trouble achieving balance in my 50 gallon tank in which I am trying to raise some goldfish. They keep eating my plants if I don’t feed them twice a day but when I do feed them my nitrates go sky high.
Goldfish can be as difficult as uaru, silver dollars, and pacu. Sand is a big help because it contains much of the kinds of food goldfish crave. Leave the lights on permanently but be mindful of the water heating up. LED or low wattage fluorescent is fine. One 40 watt tube is sufficient. That will grow algae in the sand which will keep the goldfish on the bottom feeding.
Good grief you're magnificent! Thank you for confirming my instincts! A grateful new subscriber.
Great topic and information. Thank you for sharing!
Listening to this is awesome brother. Please keep doing what you are doing! ✌🙂🙏🙏
Absolutely agree with your final thoughts on this video. Sterility is not your friend
Yes, Birdan. Sterility breeds infestation.
I wish I knew about you 5 years ago 💖 Thank you so much
I have a small book adapted into English by an American called Braz Walker . The original work ,Bunte Welt Der Tropenfische, Stuttgart, Germany 1968 . Keep up the great work our fishy sage . we can learn from our fish tanks because without balance we are not happy either.
You betcha. The book i mentioned is "Exotic Aquarium Fishes" by William T. Innes, L.H.D. He founded the first public aquarium in the US in Philadelphia, PA. in 1936. It was closed in the early 40's due to lack of manpower to keep it functioning caused by WWII. I visited the derelictf acility in the late 50's before it was demolished.
thanks for this information ⚘⚘⚘
I got my first aquarium around 1960.
There was already electric, but everything was still very simple.
Nevertheless it was already possible to run a nice aquarium
You know lightbulb lighting. 👍🏻
What filter did you use
@@rozzer666 a air sponge filter DIY
@@opionair5257 was there heaters back then?
Great video. Enjoying learning from the father!
Lol ok before Boomer. I'm Gen X so I know exactly what a radiator is haha. Love learning from your knowledge, thank you for passing it on. It's substantial and so worthwhile. Thanks Father Fish!
OK before Snowflake. This is great fun for me.
I just found this channel and it´s all I´ve been looking for and so difficult to find these days. All these shiny high-tech aquascapes for so much $$$ that require daily interference..not for me. Thank you Father Fish for all the information in your videos. Greetings from Czech republic.
Thank you for this very interesting film, it certainly makes you think about how we maintain and look after our aquariums
Hey! New sub and fellow fishfam!! I love those plants in the tank behind you! Cool information
Great video
Glad you enjoyed it
havnt heard anyone go into such deital about balance in many years older fish keepers understand the importance of balance my great grand mother had a moderate size fish room many decades ago breeding several different types of fish without the help of modern fish keeping tech learned alot growing up great video father fish saw you on someone elses channel smashed your red button
All right. Balance is everything. You cannot do it artificially. It hhas got to be natural/ Be natural or go home!
This sound sustainable logic applies to fish, and even humanity. So you can have healthy, happy people that enjoy where they're living. Without beneficial bacteria, life can not exist.
Yes. keeping fish is all about living.
Thanks father fish....Jack says your a Fish Jedi....👍
Someone posted a pic of Yoda in re me earlier today at another site. It has been a jedi day.
Father Fish around Christmas Time has added value.
HO HO HO!!!
I'm so glad I found your channel! thank you so much for this valuable video! Just subscribed! about to watch the rest of your videos now!
Awesome! Thank you!
Just found You! Great information you gave here.
That dosnt suprize me that the Germans where some of the first people to to keep tropical fish. they are super advanced thanks great video 👍
THANK YOU!
We, still have these radiators here. Water is heated in a city level facility, and pumped through pipes accros the city.
This could be called the Zen of fishkeeping.
And a happy tao to you.
Great video 👍🙂
TY JOHN
Thankyou for all your awesome advice, I've always hated using chemicals. I have a Betta with a few friends, cardinal Tetra's, a couple of mystery snails & some red (?) anyways my question is will the garlic tea help for ice & fungus for betta & other tropicals ? We live in Queensland Australia. Thankyou again. Karen.
Garlic is best used as a food. Crush and feed directly for gut health.
I bet your grandmother got to keep some of the wild type guppies that have now disappeared. I'm incredibly jealous!
Right? My mom as a kid did!
I grew up with wild guppies there where nice . Now we have the endlers .
@@Booneville2024 Mosquito fish (Gambusia) looks like guppies .
Wild guppies they look like endlers of today.
Agree 👍😎
You guys....
I love your referencing to the older days of fishkeeping practices... and there certainly are fishkeepers today who are discovering that simplicity and less interference is proving to be okay in this world of "snowflakes" 🙂
There are a few gentle souls who are practicing the fine art of harmony in their aquariums.
Just found you and love your video! Quick question my java fern has been in my tank for 4 months and recently entire leaves have been falling off the rhizome. What do you think is the cause?
Ph may be low. Light insufficient. Temp too high or low. Could be anything. Ck perameters and do water change/
Father Fish thank you for you fast reply my ph was a little low, 6.5. My tap water has a low ph I’ve actually bred Rams In my tap water. I use crushed coral and seachem equilibrium to add minerals to the water. Do you have any suggestions on how to improve the mineral content in the water?
@@jamesmoore603 -The key is carbonates. I add calcium carbonate to my additive formula to increase and stabilize Ph.
Very well said
TYVM
I added a tek light to a well-established tank and boy did I knock it off balance. It did however recover within a couple of weeks.
I have the innes book also given to me by my grandmother. My first aquarium had I think it was like a slate bottom? at least it wasn't glass.
Your first aquarium was almost certainly slate bottom. I donated a 135 yr old aquarium to the new ZooMed aquarium museum in LA. It was a certified 2 owner 5 gallon aquarium with 1" thick slate bottom and brass balls on each corner.
I had a glass tank with metal frame and slate bottom.
Tank looks amazing - but how come you have goldfish with tropicals? I thought goldfish needed cold water. I’m curious to know how you do this. Love your vids.
Gold fish are native cold water species that have been raised in warmer climates for thousands of years. they adapt pretty well.
Hello Father Fish, do you have to put root tabs or fertilizers every few months or few years even if u have a dirtied tank or a balance tank?
No the tank will balance itself.
Hey father fish greetings from florida. I am looking to get a new tank I have a frog and fish in a 10 gallon. I basically chose to take them in when the owner moved out of state. Anyways I am looking to give them a larger home. Any kinds of plants you reccomend?
What ever you like. Just be sure to create a nice home for the plants, deep substrate with nutritional sub bed.
@@FatherFish what can I use for nutrition? Nutrition tabs ?
@@A1Bokeh bury them deep
I’m trying to make my dirted forty breeder balanced so that when I go to college next year, I can still leave the tank running and do water changes when I come back.
That will work. Get lots of plants growing. They will provide food directly and indirectly for your fish. Limit the number and size of the fish in your aquarium. Notice Lucas' tanks. Many have few fish that require very little attention.
I have fifty white clouds in my forty breeder with lots of plants. There's a lot of pearlweed and stem plants which extract lots of nutrients from the water.
@@vb2377 That is not a large population. I think if you feed once weekly and gradually reduce to twice monthly they should do fine. These are a cold water fish. Depending on where you live you could set up the tank outdoors with a screen top to allow small insects they could eat. I doubt they could survive a freeze but certainly temps in the 40s.
Father Fish I live in Virginia so we can’t do that during the winter. I’m sure these fish can handle being fed once a week but I think twice monthly is a little pushing it. I don’t think I want to put my fish through that. My parents can feed and i do water changes when I get back from college. I’m sure I’ll be home at least once a month.
@@vb2377 You have a good plan. These are cold water fish that do not eat at all for about 4 months during the cold season.
I'm wondering if you have any advice on African clawed frogs 🤔I have three they keep getting bloated from eating earthworms...I also feed bee moss, butter worms, red worms. Anything you know of that may be a bit easier?
probably less. Imagine what they would eat and how much hin the wild.where they would be fortunate to get a small meal once a week
Congratulations on reach over 500 subs. We’re all applauding your success. You deserve it for doing so much to better the hobby. I think you need to setup a Patreon account. I know you’re trying to increase revenue for your business and it would give out of towners an easy way to support you.
TYVM I will do so.
This is immensely complicated
I have created a Patreon account. Looks like more work than YT. I need to learn to use it.
@@FatherFish I'm now your first Patreon member. I hope you get a bunch more. Another think you can do is during your Live Chats you can enable Super Chat which is where viewers can choose to make a donation so their chat with you will stand out and remain on top. Just another way to build support for what you're doing. Please keep it up! Thank you.
@@flyby183 Thank you Aaron. I am very grateful for your support.
Hello Father Fish Could you tell me if the author of the book Tropical Fish was William T Innes?
Yes. The book title is "Ornamental Tropical Fish" It was first published in 1934. My grandmothehr gave me a 20hh edition copy in 1958.
@@FatherFish I found a book by William Innes 1956 called Exotic Aquarium Fishes: A Work of General Reference. This book might also be a good source for those seeking to create a Balanced Aquarium. I will try and see if I can find the Ornamental Tropical Fish title as I did not find just Tropical Fish when I searched for that.
@@carlsfishroom632 You have thhe correct book. I had the name wrong. This book shows thhe difference between a "pop" tank set up purely for appearance and a balanced aquarium, set up for the health of the plants and animals.
@@FatherFish Ok Thank you! I will try to buy a copy. And do a bit more studying into the balanced aquarium principles. I have done a little reading of Diana Walstad's Ecology of The Planted Aquarium. And was also blown away by Justin's Ocean Aquarium, in San Francisco. His no water change, deep sand substrate and heavily planted tanks with all those healthy breeding fish. Just amazing to come across, these amazing hobbyists!
@@carlsfishroom632 You are on the right track. Digesting the science taught by Walstad is a major step toward understand the complexity of a natural system. I hope to visit Ocean Aquarium and share practices with these wonderful aquaculturists. I am most curious about their experience in their home country of Burma. I feel certain they developed their practices of frugality and stability whhile there.
Were you refering to Exotic Aquarium Fish by William Innes?
YES!
My grandmother gave me his book when I graduated high school. It is still in my library.
@@FatherFish I will have to see if I can find a copy.
I know you did a video on fish food but can you do fish food review of actual brands and dried food?
I will do more with food, yes.
I read the Innes book in the 70's
BASIC!
I’m in a bit of a headache trying to determine the kinds of fish to keep in my upcoming community tank. I’m thinking of a German blue ram with tetras and rasboras. I didn’t want to add guppies or swordtails because i read about possible aggression in this mix, and different temperature requirements. Wanted to add angelfish but I read. That angels might eat tetras etc. does this all matter in an adequately planted tank? Oh my.
start with a few and add more each week./ Some will be good and others will not. You will learn as you progress.
Like so? I was asking about putting pressure on hair algae while balancing a new tank
Reduce nutrition in the water column. Deep sand bed is critical to keep the dirt in the dirt and not floating about in the water. Stop feeding and clean it up. Be sparing with nutrition.
Father Fish Fair enough, thank you
Can i keep my corys in a tank with a sandy bottom???. I have gravel now
+Cories prefer a sand substrate to a gravel one. I just talked to my brochis and they told me so in no uncertain terms. Most cories are outspoken about sand. It helps them keep their teeth clean. Those big rocks are hard on enamel. They also think you should subscribe, George.
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A good aquarist's work to enjoy the aquariums, not to changing the water, and clean the filter all the time.... Or you can do it, but is't just not woth it...
True words Árpád!
You just subcribed to my channel 😃 what an honour thank you so mutch
Simply returning the favor.
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Hey father fish , I got a question for you about Florida fish store law .I went to my local fish store the other day and I politely ask if they would be interested in buying some Rio tapajos and turquoise rainbowfish, fancy guppies/endlers etc. And they said I needed a aquaculture certificate to sell them to them..ok so I looked into it and it's a 100$ a year but I don't see anything about it being law and wonder if the fish store is just bullsh@+ ing me!?? Have you heard of this before ..?... aquaculture certificate??
I trade with my hobbyist customers. If you want to sell a variety of fish you need a wholesaler license, costs more than $100. Your LFS does not want to deal with you, for what ever reason.
The Ag license is not for selling. It is for raising, for maintaining a farm. BS would be an appropriate term.
In reality a good LFS will always encourage customers to bring unwanted or excess fish to them. Store credit is an easy and effective way to deal with this. The reality is we do not want non native species released into local water.
long time ago you could have sold fish to pet shop but they had to know you well.
can this balance be achieved without live plants? south american cichlids will destroy any plants i put in the tank..
The deep substrate will achieve balance without plants. I use large plants such as Amazon swords with S Am and C Am cichlids.
so in your case u really dont need those fertilizers and co2?
CORRECT
Watching at 2x speed to get through these
Works for me. If I could think 2X my vids would be MUCH shorter.
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Do you do water change in your balanced aquarium?
as needed
its a much more enjoyable to do it , see your tank as a whole ecosystem not a display case
Absolutely right Dax!
Congrats on the great information you are providing to us all. When you mention the risk of the top offs to poison the system with minerals, could it be avoided if you used distilled water to do the top offs? Thanks!
yes