I've been modifying the automatic feeder since i had to go away a couple of weeks and it gave like a BUNCH of food all together instead of a few bits, DIY sort of thing...i hope all is good when I'm back, asked a friend to check if it's clean and all working fine, she couldn't go yet because she works all day to late night, sigh, i hate being away from my animals, i tried it several times and it worked right how i fixed it but still i am worried
That is what happened to me. I had one tank and 1 quarantine tank. I ended up with 5 tanks at one point. Now I have one empty for quarantine and I keep wanting to put something in it.
Neon Clover : it’s hard keeping that quarantine/sick tank empty! At some point I’m going to set up a 20G long with dividers for 3 bettas and free up a 5G. The shrimp are going into the bigger guppy tank once that’s cycled. Both should have been done by now but other things got in the way. It’s easier doing water changes on 1 big tank rather than 3 smaller tanks!
The ‘10 Things’ videos are in a very digestible format for people who aren’t regular subscribers and just want the information mentioned in the title. Working in a LFS and being able to refer customers to videos like these really strengthens the hobby. I’m the type of person who needs to hear solutions from more than one source, so I actually recommend that customers get perspectives besides mine.
"They should eat all the food in 30 seconds to a minute" Ummm, it took one of my old bettas almost 5 minutes to realize there was food in the tank. When we first got him, it would only take a minute or two but by the time he was 4 or 5, it took about 5 minutes. He would only eat if it was there when he went up for air. We didn't feed him too often either, he was just kinda dumb. But he managed to live to be over 6 years old so I guess he was doing something right
Thank you, both of you, for your help - especially the basics of aquarium care. I’m a beginner that “inherited “ my daughter’s Betta she rescued from Walmart a year ago. He was in bad shape then but now amazingly still alive and active in big part to your TH-cam channel. Again thank you and Mr Bubbles thanks you 😊
In the 1960's we used to breed tropical fish and we had the following feeding rule. "Only put enough food in that the fish can eat before the food hits the bottom of the tank"
@@CaleenKnow Sorry that guy was rude to you, I got what you were asking. It could have been many things, you were just asking which one (or ones) it was. :-)
After working at Petsmart I have found that freshwater fish keepers rely to much on a dirty filter pad for nitrifying bacteria. Take a page from the book of saltwater and grab some live rock (not out of the reef tank) it has much more surface area then a filter pad and doesn’t need to be replaced or cleaned. I placed several pieces of dry live rock in my freshwater setup and found it to be a game changer once it was colonized buy the bacteria (about two months). The two types of nitrifying bacteria, nitrosomonas, and nitrobacter exists in both freshwater and saltwater environments and primarily live on surfaces and not in the water colum itself. Adding a few pieces of of dry live rock to a freshwater tank will greatly reduce the risk of ammonia spikes in my experience and give you the ability to give your hang on the back filters a good cleaning and replace your filter pads more often which will reduce your overall nitrate levels plus adding stability and consistency to your water parameters.
Even if you ask store employees if a fish is compatible, they may say yes because the fish is marketed as a community fish. I once got a small little dwarf gourami, and the employees said it would be fine with my 5 LARGE angelfish. It ended up to be that the small gourami started bullying the angelfish and nearly killed one of them.
the quarantining part is so true i got two angel fish and 3 tetras and put them in my main tank and they had ich i tried treating them but it wasnt working and i used to have 30 fish in that tank and now have 4 but i got a quarantine tank so this wont happen again
Just turn the heat up and do small water changes every few days. I never use meds for ich, the heat speeds up the life cycle it can't live long in temps of 86 degrees and above. Water changes and turning heater up is all u need to do to treat ich.
I've been keeping fish for around 15 years and also never had a single problem not using quarantine. I am very attentive to the health of the fish, where it came from, how it was taken care of, what fish it came in contact with recently. I never put random fish in my tanks.
I don't quarantine either I do now treat my tank with antibiotics when adding new fish though just in case . I don't have room for any more tanks it is what it is.
@@backbaysailor I took a chance with 5 black neons (5 for $5 sale at Petco) and within two weeks, I lost about 8 fish. I will never just dump 5 new fish in my tank again.
Relieved to read this thread. I'm a newbie - quarantinining was very difficult to digest. I've visited my trusted fish store's quarantine facility and cannot doubt them to compromise on their tanks. Also, it seems more practical to adopt freshly arrived fish when possible & closely study each fish you buy for signs of illness than actually setting up a second tank.
For #7, another good idea is to just toss the cartridge out completely and replace it with a sponge. Sponge grows a lot of bacteria and you don't have to replace it once a month. Just rinse it in aquarium water every now and then to get rid of all the junk it collects.
I have sponge, otb, and canister filters. I rarely replace the media inside the filters, but rinse the used filter media in tank water removed during water changes.
I just replace the whole cartridge and none of my fish have died from it yet. Honestly they get more active and have brighter colors when I replace it.
My Ryukin Goldfish are fully grown (2 mature males) and every time I enter their room and turn on the light they almost jump out of the water and “pop” on top of the water with their mouths (really loud) and I find it hard to not feed them sometimes. Love those dudes
I have just succumbed to MTS myself lol. My husband and I decided to get another aquarium for Christmas instead of buying each other presents! We are setting up a community tank with a Honey Gourami as our focal fish :D
Thanks for these videos! You put so much effort into producing videos for beginners and aquarists in general. You don’t know how much you help people like me with every video. Please keep making more videos like this, they are the best.
Asking petsmart employees about fish keeping can be harmful to fish, too. I talked to 2 people at 2 diff. stores and got 2 diff. answers about what to do with the flourite gravel.
Don’t bother asking pet store employees about fish unless you either have reason to trust them or already know the answer and testing them to see if they give you the right answer or one that might make a sale. DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH I cannot stress this enough I have seen a pet store employee tell a newbie that a Oscar would be fine in a 2 foot tank these fish grow a inch a month and get to over a foot in length. It would have been fine for 8 weeks at the most probably less. The employee was not impressed when I told the customer this fact.
An amazing video for beginners or even those who are in the fish hobby for years!!I used to make almost all those mistakes but I had a great deal to pay!!Experience and knowledge makes us better in whatever we do!!!Keep up with the good work,thank you,cheers!!!
I learnt the quarantine lesson the hard way. I purchased some Guppies because they were on sale, put them in my Guppy and Corydoras tank only to start losing fish by the day. Turns out they had a parasite that was very contagious. By the time I got through medicating the tank I lost about 8 or 9 Guppies and Corydoras and the meds did a number on my plants too.
Just got my 4th tank today. Eagerly awaiting my MTS card. One thing I had never thought about but which makes complete sense: wash your hands before sticking them in your tank. I'm a big band lotion used too so I'll make sure to remember that! Thanks for the tip!
Started with a betta tank and then made it a planted one. Now I have 4 different systems, a tropical freshwater community tank, a coldwater goldfish tub, a nano reef and a mudskipper mangrove habitat.
It's my beautiful little boy pleco catfishes second day with me and he's been gradually eating his fish pellet and cucumber slice. I bought my big tank over a year ago but it took me a year to decide what type of betta I wanted to get. I'm blessed to have two carers who have years of experience with fish 🐟 😊
I am a newbie to the fish world. I am starting off with a small fish tank! I want to thank you guys for the lessons on the 10 tips which is a big help! Wish me luck!
Great points! I'd add that sometimes fish one person keeps together fine can harm each other in another tank, strange how fish can behave so differently in various set ups. But research is a must! Another mistake is trusting other people with tanks, children are the worst lol
Everybody can learn something new, every day. I always watch you videos in case I have ever missed a hint or tip. Talking of tips ... When cleaning sponge filters, draw a bucket of water from the tank (during water changes) and wash the sponge in this water and NOT tap water. Also the drawn off water can be a boon for your house/garden plants. Thanks for your videos...love them.
Hey, I have a really small tank (3.5) from when I was a beginner. I've recently wanted to fill it with about a dozen shrimp. Could you please make a video over shrimp care and maintenance, if you havent already? Thank you!
To add on to the quarantine part, 1)first fishes added to the main aquarium is usually not quarantined by aquarists as they are the only fish 2)some aquarists don't support quarantine as they can stress fish even more(maybe because they are a reliable pest free shop), to resolve this, add shelter,caves 3)quarantine is useful when adding methylene blue in quarantine as medications can ruin/hurt beneficial bacteria in main tank
I'd like to really hammer in the quarantining your fish thing. I go to the same store all the time for my fish. Never had an issue. Until my whole tank ended up infected with ich. Thankfully only had one casualty out of it, it could have been so much worse. But I regret not quarantining.
Currently have a 3.5 gal tank for my betta. I love him so much and he is a silly little guy! I love watching him swim! I have a 20 gal tank too with some fun little fishies in there. I have a 125 gal tank that I will be turning into a salt water tank one day (it’s a slow and expensive process) and I already want to get a 55 gal tank 😅
My common mistakes (1) Use rocks or sand that changes the water chemistry. Especially rocks/sand that contain calcium (2) Buying fish from chain stores. Buy from breeders or trade shows, less disease infestation. In chain stores, all the tanks share the same filter with new diseased fish added every week to stock (3) Lazy with water changes. No amount of filtration can get rid of fish waste. Filtration simply breaks down waste to nitrate which stays in the water forever. (4) Using Full-spectrum light which promotes algae growth like crazy. Algae by day gives oxygen, by night (without light) takes up oxygen (5) Using too much gravel. A thick layer of gravel traps dirt. A thin layer just enough to cover the bottom is good enough. Better yet, use no gravel for easy cleaning of tank bottom (6) Mixing incompatible fish together. You'll find out soon what the problem is. Keep fish together that comes from the same region minimizes conflicts in water and feeding parameter conflicts (7) Feed fish small amounts but frequently. Feeding too much at one time allows excess food to drift to the bottom, gets trapped in gravels, and rots. (8) Put too many decorations- dirt and uneaten food gets trapped under decorations and rot (9) Don't turn off filter during feeding. Many food will be taken up and get trapped in the filter and decay there while the filter spread the waster (10) Married a wife that can't stand fish
I left for vacation for a week and told my dad to feed my guppies but my dad got a few extra guppies from PetSmart and did not quarantine the new guppies and most of my guppies from my guppy colony died when I came home.
That number 1 point is super important especially at the moment. Between washing my hands more often and shops insisting I use hand sanitizer when going into the store my hands are a lot dryer now, thus I'm using more moisturiser which is thicker. It never even occurred to me that my moisturiser might leave something in my fish tank. Obviously, I don't put my hands in my tank right after eating or even right after applying moisturiser but it is a long-lasting product. Thanks for that tip :D
I am sure that enough people will suggest more mistakes to make a second set of 10 common mistakes video ;) Mine was relentlessly chasing a fish with a net and stressing it out to the max, now I use two nets, one to heard the fish right into the other net, less stress for the fish and the fish keeper :)
I have a bare bottom tank and all the poops were collecting in a big pile in the middle of the tank so I bought 2 little corys and they literally ate all the poops in 2 days I was shocked😂
My Betta boys always come poking at the surface of my feed ring when I walk near because they know I will feed them. That being said I only give a few pellets at a time
I just love that albino Oscar. And talking about multiple tanks, between my daughter & myself, we have 4 Bettas & 3 of them have mystery snail companions (1 each). I also have a 20 gal long with 4 land hermit crabs (females), & 2 empty 10 gallons that my daughter & I are trying to figure out what we want to do with. They were our initial hermit crab tanks before I upgraded mine & her female killed & ate her young male. I'm thinking of using one for either a divided betta tank or a community tank with some female Bettas. I have glass tops which are excellent for reducing water evaporation. I would love to have an Oscar as I think they are beautiful fish. However I know from experience that I can not properly house one for the span of its life because I can't have a 60 gallon or bigger tank in my upstairs apartment. Aside from the impossibility of carrying that size tank up my windy stairway, I'm pretty sure the complex management wouldn't like that either. Plus if I were to need to move, there'd be no way to safely move a tank & fish that big. That's also why I decided not to get another goldfish after my last one died (common gold, 8 yrs old, about 12 inches long not including tailfin, & weighed about 3 lbs or more).
I'd advise keeping one of the ten gallons as a quarantine tank - even if you don't plan to get new fish, you never know when one will get sick. A ten gallon is also too small for female betta community tank, needs to be a minimum of a 40 gallon for one of those. Why not use one ten gallon for a single male or female betta? The thing about divided tanks is that even if the bettas can't see each other, they share water, and can detect the other one chemically, stressing them out. A nice planted ten gallon would make a single betta very happy, and the right betta can also share that tank with some shrimp and snails.
Should I be expecting my MTS card in the mail soon? After getting a 5 1/2 gal for my betta tank and a couple of nerites, I made a marimo moss aqua-terrarium and decided to add nerites to that too lol
Super informative!! Thanks!!! .. Btw are the black spots on parrot cichlids (refer: time 5:45) normal or something to worry about? (since my parrot cichlids have started getting black marks all of a sudden)
3:58 - 4:37 YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS I work at a petsmart, I do the best I can keeping the fish healthy and informing people but if I don't know the exact size of your tank or what's in your tank I cannot help you stock it PLEASE do your research before buying a fish I beg you. No I don't recommend your Oscar in the 5 gallon you bought for your kid ;A;
I started last year with a 20 gallon I got my son for his birthday. Now we have six tanks ranging from a 2.5 gallon shrimp tank to a 75 that's cycling for angelfish. When is my MTS membership card going to be here?
Becky Reynolds I bought a 20 gallon for my girlfriend for Valentine’s Day because she loves fish and then the next day I bought myself a 10 gallon and then the next day I went and bought some accessories I’m just waiting for my family to move the end of this month to set it up
Bruh I have the worse MTS lolol! I had fish a couple of years ago and then after they all passed away(not at once!) I decided not to get anymore. Recently though I acquired a sick betta fish from my cousin and 1 tank turned into 5 tanks in 3 months. Everyone is healthy and happy and the betta fish is doing much better!
Everyone else pay attention but notice the one white Oscar spells Lisa’s? And I absolutely love your videos I’ve been watching for weeks and have not found one that wasn’t awesome!!
👨👨👧👦 *Get all the extra benefits by becoming a channel member* geni.us/KGTChannelMemberships
No heroic comment that can list the top 10 things mentioned ? :(
Ty now i know why my fish keeps pooping
I have cichlids too and they bred I have 20 babies (gonna sell)
I've been modifying the automatic feeder since i had to go away a couple of weeks and it gave like a BUNCH of food all together instead of a few bits, DIY sort of thing...i hope all is good when I'm back, asked a friend to check if it's clean and all working fine, she couldn't go yet because she works all day to late night, sigh, i hate being away from my animals, i tried it several times and it worked right how i fixed it but still i am worried
"There's no way they can eat it all"
Goldfish: are you challenging me?
😂😳🤣
This is so true. My goldies are absolute gluttons
Dead
u challenging the fish
me:dies from laughter
Also Goldfish: "Hey Cleetus! Check out this poop that's 5 times longer than my body!"
Quarantine tanks are dangerous! You end up thinking hmmm I'll keep those in there and get another tank for quarantine and so it goes 😆
Thats why I use some food safe plastic tubb in a decent size as a quarantine tank :)
I bought 3 5G tanks for quarantine/sick/fry. Now one is a shrimp tank and one is a betta tank!
Exactly what happened to me hahah I am a weak man when it comes to aquaria 😔✌
That is what happened to me. I had one tank and 1 quarantine tank. I ended up with 5 tanks at one point. Now I have one empty for quarantine and I keep wanting to put something in it.
Neon Clover : it’s hard keeping that quarantine/sick tank empty! At some point I’m going to set up a 20G long with dividers for 3 bettas and free up a 5G. The shrimp are going into the bigger guppy tank once that’s cycled. Both should have been done by now but other things got in the way. It’s easier doing water changes on 1 big tank rather than 3 smaller tanks!
The ‘10 Things’ videos are in a very digestible format for people who aren’t regular subscribers and just want the information mentioned in the title. Working in a LFS and being able to refer customers to videos like these really strengthens the hobby. I’m the type of person who needs to hear solutions from more than one source, so I actually recommend that customers get perspectives besides mine.
Lisa, please stop over feeding John. A very good list with some things I didn't expect.
Lol
Lol
maybe she likes more cushion for the pushin
His species requires heavy, nutrient-dense foods for optimal happiness. She's spot on!
Fish Room Fever 😂
“They’re swimming in their own toilet” what I’ve been telling my customers for the last two years I finally hear in a fish video 😭😭😭❤️
"They should eat all the food in 30 seconds to a minute" Ummm, it took one of my old bettas almost 5 minutes to realize there was food in the tank. When we first got him, it would only take a minute or two but by the time he was 4 or 5, it took about 5 minutes. He would only eat if it was there when he went up for air. We didn't feed him too often either, he was just kinda dumb. But he managed to live to be over 6 years old so I guess he was doing something right
Bella Overholt ‘he was jus kinda dumb’ 😂
I just got mine a week ago and he can't find food in front of his face
@@dimwitteddingo he ijust kinda dumb
@@chillywasthesimposter6482 😅😅😆
I just got a betta. It spends so much time hiding it doesn't realize I put the food in. :(
From a person who is new to the fish world - thanks for the advice! very helpful/appreciated.
So glad to see the return of 10 things! Will we see a "10 aquarium products you should NOT buy" video?
Thank you, both of you, for your help - especially the basics of aquarium care. I’m a beginner that “inherited “ my daughter’s Betta she rescued from Walmart a year ago. He was in bad shape then but now amazingly still alive and active in big part to your TH-cam channel. Again thank you and Mr Bubbles thanks you 😊
In the 1960's we used to breed tropical fish and we had the following feeding rule. "Only put enough food in that the fish can eat before the food hits the bottom of the tank"
Bottom Dwellers be like: Please... help me...
(Yeah, I know this is 2 years late, don't worry about it.)
I'm obsessed about washing my hands before working on my aquariums. My Dad says I look like a doctor, I consider that a compliment 🧽🧽🧽
Thanks for bringing 10 Things back. I always learn something new. Please don't stop doing TOOL. That series is hilarious and educational.
I love this quick, down-n-dirty approach to giving great advice to aquarists. Thank you!
MTS is so true. I adopted a Betta fish. Now I'm setting up 2 more tanks for more Bettas!
Awesome 🙂
I have 8, you’re doing fine 😂
@@somegirlswill * laughs in 2 divided 10's for my bettas, and 6 additional community tanks *
The last fish I got spent so much time in quarantine that he was named QT 😂
ronerx what was he in for
@@CaleenKnow what do you think genius
Bernard O'Connor there could be a lot of thing he had
@@CaleenKnow probably quarantining the fish as he recently bought it
@@CaleenKnow Sorry that guy was rude to you, I got what you were asking. It could have been many things, you were just asking which one (or ones) it was. :-)
I started with one tank in the fall and now have 5 🤦♀️
Ryanne Croyle same i went from 1 to 4 different tanks in 8 months
Went from 2 to 6 in 3 months 😂
I feek yah.. Same 1,2,5
Same here
Same
Wow, You guys knocked this one outta the park! If I were a beginner and I came across this one, I would subscribe immediately!
I'm so happy that you two brought back 10 things. And that oscar eating and pooping in same time, FtW.
After working at Petsmart I have found that freshwater fish keepers rely to much on a dirty filter pad for nitrifying bacteria. Take a page from the book of saltwater and grab some live rock (not out of the reef tank) it has much more surface area then a filter pad and doesn’t need to be replaced or cleaned. I placed several pieces of dry live rock in my freshwater setup and found it to be a game changer once it was colonized buy the bacteria (about two months). The two types of nitrifying bacteria, nitrosomonas, and nitrobacter exists in both freshwater and saltwater environments and primarily live on surfaces and not in the water colum itself. Adding a few pieces of of dry live rock to a freshwater tank will greatly reduce the risk of ammonia spikes in my experience and give you the ability to give your hang on the back filters a good cleaning and replace your filter pads more often which will reduce your overall nitrate levels plus adding stability and consistency to your water parameters.
Even if you ask store employees if a fish is compatible, they may say yes because the fish is marketed as a community fish. I once got a small little dwarf gourami, and the employees said it would be fine with my 5 LARGE angelfish. It ended up to be that the small gourami started bullying the angelfish and nearly killed one of them.
Beginning: Don’t over feed your fish
Me: Dropping pellet by pellet and waiting for the clownfish to notice
Sterling Sword me with my betta, smh he gonna make me late to school 😂
Haha 😆
My betta never ate pellets or any of those dried bloodworms. It only eats frozen shrimp or worm
@@randomstuffyouwontseeinyou8786 that’s not healthy
@@memylipsandi1680 why
nicely done John & Lisa. Good to see 10 things back
the quarantining part is so true i got two angel fish and 3 tetras and put them in my main tank and they had ich i tried treating them but it wasnt working and i used to have 30 fish in that tank and now have 4 but i got a quarantine tank so this wont happen again
Just turn the heat up and do small water changes every few days. I never use meds for ich, the heat speeds up the life cycle it can't live long in temps of 86 degrees and above. Water changes and turning heater up is all u need to do to treat ich.
One of the best informational videos I've seen.. great work.
I'm glad you stopped at 10 things. More would just be more things I have done or do wrong.🤗
10 of the BEST of 10 of the BEST! I love these kind of TV PROGRAMMES! So do million more viewer's do!
I've kept fish over 40 years and I've never quarantined my fish, and I've only had one bought off ich, maybe I'm just lucky
I've been keeping fish for around 15 years and also never had a single problem not using quarantine. I am very attentive to the health of the fish, where it came from, how it was taken care of, what fish it came in contact with recently. I never put random fish in my tanks.
I don't quarantine either I do now treat my tank with antibiotics when adding new fish though just in case . I don't have room for any more tanks it is what it is.
@@backbaysailor I took a chance with 5 black neons (5 for $5 sale at Petco) and within two weeks, I lost about 8 fish. I will never just dump 5 new fish in my tank again.
Relieved to read this thread. I'm a newbie - quarantinining was very difficult to digest. I've visited my trusted fish store's quarantine facility and cannot doubt them to compromise on their tanks. Also, it seems more practical to adopt freshly arrived fish when possible & closely study each fish you buy for signs of illness than actually setting up a second tank.
Me too I've never even seen ich.
Fantastic to see 10 things back love it, keep them coming 😍😍
For #7, another good idea is to just toss the cartridge out completely and replace it with a sponge. Sponge grows a lot of bacteria and you don't have to replace it once a month. Just rinse it in aquarium water every now and then to get rid of all the junk it collects.
I have sponge, otb, and canister filters. I rarely replace the media inside the filters, but rinse the used filter media in tank water removed during water changes.
It’s all speculation, my canister I had for 2 years I always wash with tap water and zero fish die
@@socalfishnoob9938 Even the biological media???
@Super Sable: I have done that also and it works so much better than the cartridges a hang on back comes with
I just replace the whole cartridge and none of my fish have died from it yet. Honestly they get more active and have brighter colors when I replace it.
I’m so happy you brought back 10 things!!! Can’t wait to see what’s next!
Awesome video! Great important information! Lisa's Discus look beautiful. Keep up the great work you two! Thank you for the video!
My Ryukin Goldfish are fully grown (2 mature males) and every time I enter their room and turn on the light they almost jump out of the water and “pop” on top of the water with their mouths (really loud) and I find it hard to not feed them sometimes. Love those dudes
And just a little add-on, I’ve got 2 calico Orandas that I ordered from Dandy Oranda’s and should be here by the end of the month and I’m so excited!
10 things are a great series ...love it 💙
Great review of some known points, and introductions of some new. Great vid. Love the TENS.
MTS multiple tank syndrome
Me sweating profusely at my 20 over tanks
10 things 🎉 Great job John and Lisa 🤗 🐟
I have just succumbed to MTS myself lol. My husband and I decided to get another aquarium for Christmas instead of buying each other presents! We are setting up a community tank with a Honey Gourami as our focal fish :D
Thanks for these videos! You put so much effort into producing videos for beginners and aquarists in general. You don’t know how much you help people like me with every video. Please keep making more videos like this, they are the best.
Leaned my lesson. Wish I woulda watched this last month
Asking petsmart employees about fish keeping can be harmful to fish, too. I talked to 2 people at 2 diff. stores and got 2 diff. answers about what to do with the flourite gravel.
Don’t bother asking pet store employees about fish unless you either have reason to trust them or already know the answer and testing them to see if they give you the right answer or one that might make a sale. DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH
I cannot stress this enough I have seen a pet store employee tell a newbie that a Oscar would be fine in a 2 foot tank these fish grow a inch a month and get to over a foot in length. It would have been fine for 8 weeks at the most probably less. The employee was not impressed when I told the customer this fact.
Omg your opening statement had me in stitches lol
An amazing video for beginners or even those who are in the fish hobby for years!!I used to make almost all those mistakes but I had a great deal to pay!!Experience and knowledge makes us better in whatever we do!!!Keep up with the good work,thank you,cheers!!!
I missed 10 things! Thanks for bringing it back!
I learnt the quarantine lesson the hard way. I purchased some Guppies because they were on sale, put them in my Guppy and Corydoras tank only to start losing fish by the day. Turns out they had a parasite that was very contagious. By the time I got through medicating the tank I lost about 8 or 9 Guppies and Corydoras and the meds did a number on my plants too.
1:57 ITS CORONA TIME... see even the fish have to social distance hahahaha xD
Great Video! Lots of Great info everyone needs to know!!
Loved this video! It answered multiple questions I was searching for today. Thanks guys! 🐡🐠🤠
I am not a guy who shies away from carbohydrates... LOL ok, I subbed
So glad 10 things is back!!
Just got my 4th tank today. Eagerly awaiting my MTS card. One thing I had never thought about but which makes complete sense: wash your hands before sticking them in your tank. I'm a big band lotion used too so I'll make sure to remember that! Thanks for the tip!
I really appreciate this video and key points. It is very helpful as I start my new tank. I will subscribe and watch your feeds. Thanks KG
Glad to see the 10 things series back 🤓
Started with a betta tank and then made it a planted one. Now I have 4 different systems, a tropical freshwater community tank, a coldwater goldfish tub, a nano reef and a mudskipper mangrove habitat.
I'm new to the fish keeping world. I have one clown pleco and 4 soon to be 8 neon tetras. They are just fascinating little creatures.
Awesome video! You hit some really important topics!
Lost it at the MTS club!
Still waiting on my card to arrive 😁
Me too lol. It didn't take long for me to develop this syndrome.
It's my beautiful little boy pleco catfishes second day with me and he's been gradually eating his fish pellet and cucumber slice. I bought my big tank over a year ago but it took me a year to decide what type of betta I wanted to get. I'm blessed to have two carers who have years of experience with fish 🐟 😊
Y’all have helped me so much! I’ve learned so much from y’all!
I am a newbie to the fish world. I am starting off with a small fish tank! I want to thank you guys for the lessons on the 10 tips which is a big help! Wish me luck!
Start with at least a 10 gallon, but 20 is better. You will have more room for "errors", which you won't in a smaller aquarium.
Great points! I'd add that sometimes fish one person keeps together fine can harm each other in another tank, strange how fish can behave so differently in various set ups. But research is a must! Another mistake is trusting other people with tanks, children are the worst lol
Lost a community tank to nephew's feeding them lasagna and ice cream.
@@nopespray3724 Ouch! I can't top that one, that is the worst I've heard.
@@jonstfrancis lol
@@nopespray3724 I killed two goldfish in a bowl when I was 3. I fed them parts of my bologna sandwich... :cry:
Everybody can learn something new, every day. I always watch you videos in case I have ever missed a hint or tip. Talking of tips ... When cleaning sponge filters, draw a bucket of water from the tank (during water changes) and wash the sponge in this water and NOT tap water. Also the drawn off water can be a boon for your house/garden plants.
Thanks for your videos...love them.
🤔 Who told you about the Victoria's Secret lotion?
😣Don't tell my wife...
😨She works nights....
😔It gets lonely...
Hey, I have a really small tank (3.5) from when I was a beginner. I've recently wanted to fill it with about a dozen shrimp. Could you please make a video over shrimp care and maintenance, if you havent already? Thank you!
To add on to the quarantine part,
1)first fishes added to the main aquarium is usually not quarantined by aquarists as they are the only fish
2)some aquarists don't support quarantine as they can stress fish even more(maybe because they are a reliable pest free shop), to resolve this, add shelter,caves
3)quarantine is useful when adding methylene blue in quarantine as medications can ruin/hurt beneficial bacteria in main tank
I'd like to really hammer in the quarantining your fish thing. I go to the same store all the time for my fish. Never had an issue. Until my whole tank ended up infected with ich. Thankfully only had one casualty out of it, it could have been so much worse. But I regret not quarantining.
Currently have a 3.5 gal tank for my betta. I love him so much and he is a silly little guy! I love watching him swim! I have a 20 gal tank too with some fun little fishies in there. I have a 125 gal tank that I will be turning into a salt water tank one day (it’s a slow and expensive process) and I already want to get a 55 gal tank 😅
I saw red minor tetras that what I have I’ve had 4 of them and a blue and black betta and there doing great thanks for the advice👍🏼
Omg you should sell MTS stickers!😂 my friend definitely has multiple tank syndrome and I am well on my way lol
My common mistakes (1) Use rocks or sand that changes the water chemistry. Especially rocks/sand that contain calcium (2) Buying fish from chain stores. Buy from breeders or trade shows, less disease infestation. In chain stores, all the tanks share the same filter with new diseased fish added every week to stock (3) Lazy with water changes. No amount of filtration can get rid of fish waste. Filtration simply breaks down waste to nitrate which stays in the water forever. (4) Using Full-spectrum light which promotes algae growth like crazy. Algae by day gives oxygen, by night (without light) takes up oxygen (5) Using too much gravel. A thick layer of gravel traps dirt. A thin layer just enough to cover the bottom is good enough. Better yet, use no gravel for easy cleaning of tank bottom (6) Mixing incompatible fish together. You'll find out soon what the problem is. Keep fish together that comes from the same region minimizes conflicts in water and feeding parameter conflicts (7) Feed fish small amounts but frequently. Feeding too much at one time allows excess food to drift to the bottom, gets trapped in gravels, and rots. (8) Put too many decorations- dirt and uneaten food gets trapped under decorations and rot (9) Don't turn off filter during feeding. Many food will be taken up and get trapped in the filter and decay there while the filter spread the waster (10) Married a wife that can't stand fish
Woohoo! 10 things is back!
I left for vacation for a week and told my dad to feed my guppies but my dad got a few extra guppies from PetSmart and did not quarantine the new guppies and most of my guppies from my guppy colony died when I came home.
Thank you for the tips you learn something new everyday thank you
Wow those cichlids in the first clip are big I just bought two tiny ones for my 55 gallon
That number 1 point is super important especially at the moment. Between washing my hands more often and shops insisting I use hand sanitizer when going into the store my hands are a lot dryer now, thus I'm using more moisturiser which is thicker. It never even occurred to me that my moisturiser might leave something in my fish tank. Obviously, I don't put my hands in my tank right after eating or even right after applying moisturiser but it is a long-lasting product. Thanks for that tip :D
I am sure that enough people will suggest more mistakes to make a second set of 10 common mistakes video ;) Mine was relentlessly chasing a fish with a net and stressing it out to the max, now I use two nets, one to heard the fish right into the other net, less stress for the fish and the fish keeper :)
One net to chase and one to catch is a lifesaver!
10 things series is awesome!!!
*laughs in a dozen Corys, a snail infestation, and massive plants*
every time i go to do tank maintenance i end up washing my hands four times because i have to make sure they’re extra clean. i think i’m paranoid
I love the ten things videos 😍 as long as you can come up with stuff keep making them
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Every new fish keeper should watch this video. More seasoned ones to I guess lol
5:42 that blood parrot fish with the black on it is really cute !
I have a bare bottom tank and all the poops were collecting in a big pile in the middle of the tank so I bought 2 little corys and they literally ate all the poops in 2 days I was shocked😂
My Betta boys always come poking at the surface of my feed ring when I walk near because they know I will feed them.
That being said I only give a few pellets at a time
I just love that albino Oscar. And talking about multiple tanks, between my daughter & myself, we have 4 Bettas & 3 of them have mystery snail companions (1 each). I also have a 20 gal long with 4 land hermit crabs (females), & 2 empty 10 gallons that my daughter & I are trying to figure out what we want to do with. They were our initial hermit crab tanks before I upgraded mine & her female killed & ate her young male. I'm thinking of using one for either a divided betta tank or a community tank with some female Bettas. I have glass tops which are excellent for reducing water evaporation. I would love to have an Oscar as I think they are beautiful fish. However I know from experience that I can not properly house one for the span of its life because I can't have a 60 gallon or bigger tank in my upstairs apartment. Aside from the impossibility of carrying that size tank up my windy stairway, I'm pretty sure the complex management wouldn't like that either. Plus if I were to need to move, there'd be no way to safely move a tank & fish that big. That's also why I decided not to get another goldfish after my last one died (common gold, 8 yrs old, about 12 inches long not including tailfin, & weighed about 3 lbs or more).
I'd advise keeping one of the ten gallons as a quarantine tank - even if you don't plan to get new fish, you never know when one will get sick. A ten gallon is also too small for female betta community tank, needs to be a minimum of a 40 gallon for one of those. Why not use one ten gallon for a single male or female betta? The thing about divided tanks is that even if the bettas can't see each other, they share water, and can detect the other one chemically, stressing them out. A nice planted ten gallon would make a single betta very happy, and the right betta can also share that tank with some shrimp and snails.
Welcome back 10 things! Great job as always! Oh.....almost forgot...welcome back the pink shirt 😊
Should I be expecting my MTS card in the mail soon? After getting a 5 1/2 gal for my betta tank and a couple of nerites, I made a marimo moss aqua-terrarium and decided to add nerites to that too lol
Great video guys!!!!👍🏼
Super informative!! Thanks!!! .. Btw are the black spots on parrot cichlids (refer: time 5:45) normal or something to worry about? (since my parrot cichlids have started getting black marks all of a sudden)
3:58 - 4:37 YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS I work at a petsmart, I do the best I can keeping the fish healthy and informing people but if I don't know the exact size of your tank or what's in your tank I cannot help you stock it PLEASE do your research before buying a fish I beg you. No I don't recommend your Oscar in the 5 gallon you bought for your kid ;A;
Can you guys do a video on jow to set up plants for a beta tank?
God that white and red Oscar is beautiful!! ❤️
Species-only tank keepers looking at the “quarantine” section of this vid: Tf is a “quarantine?”
How much would you recommend to feed a single beta fish? Love your videos!
Thank you for your nice tip 👌
Great video! Thanks
I started last year with a 20 gallon I got my son for his birthday. Now we have six tanks ranging from a 2.5 gallon shrimp tank to a 75 that's cycling for angelfish. When is my MTS membership card going to be here?
Becky Reynolds I bought a 20 gallon for my girlfriend for Valentine’s Day because she loves fish and then the next day I bought myself a 10 gallon and then the next day I went and bought some accessories I’m just waiting for my family to move the end of this month to set it up
Update- I now have seven tanks.
Becky Reynolds Thats how I’ll be after we move lol I want to start growing plants and then breeding fish so I know I’ll need a few tanks lol
Bruh I have the worse MTS lolol! I had fish a couple of years ago and then after they all passed away(not at once!) I decided not to get anymore. Recently though I acquired a sick betta fish from my cousin and 1 tank turned into 5 tanks in 3 months. Everyone is healthy and happy and the betta fish is doing much better!
Everyone else pay attention but notice the one white Oscar spells Lisa’s? And I absolutely love your videos I’ve been watching for weeks and have not found one that wasn’t awesome!!
34th! Keep coming out with the top 10 videos! We all love them!