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Hey I have a question do you think I can keep cherry shrimp in a 4 gallon tank I want a fish tank but my room isn't big enough so something small on my bedside table will have to do, thanks!
As someone who has had multiple colored shrimp breed in her tank, you are correct that the mixing of colors will eventually cause them to revert to "wild" colors. However, those "wild" colors are also varied, and eventually the colors will return to some of the offspring after some time. You'll eventually have a mix of bright colors and wild. Shrimp are awesome.
The gorgeous pink flowers look like Crypt Pink Flamingo. At 8:12 time stamp. And my favorite tank plant is an aponagetin ulvacious. It has such light, bright green leaves, that are thin and grow to the top of water. Kinda like a sword plant. But these leaves are just light, and curly and they get really large. Mine overtook my 20 gallon long and I had to transplant it to a bigger tank. And that plant had a root system that was outta this world. Whew. It was as big as the plant. Yeah, I would plant this plant in 55 gallon and up. And definitely plant it in a back corner. But it is the prettiest plant I've ever seen.
Thanks for lifting my spirits. Started the week off horrible. Got home last night to find my 10 gallon rimless leaking everywhere. Had to dismantle my favorite tank and move the fish in another tank 😢. Had a beautiful black water bog going
@@4OruK they’re fine they moved into the new tank without a problem but I now have a very overcrowded 20. Moved ember tetras and khuli loaches in with my black neons and Cory’s so they’re fine compatibility wise for a while
I had to rebuild my 10 gallon into a 15 gallon when the 10 started leaking from the top seal. But it turned out better because I used all the substrate from the 10 at the bottom of the 15 and dumped a large amount of sand on that and topped it with a single layer of gravel. I was able to save all the plants and replant them, and now my Fire Red Cherry Shrimp is going absolutely crazy. I love the footprint of the 15 far more than the 10 and it barely takes up anymore space. Sometimes disaster creates beauty.
Plant: Caulerpa Taxifolia! They look like ferns, they grow like ferns if you bunch them up. It just looks like something straight out of a forest and it's a salt water plant out of all things. Love it. So do my clowns. have a great week everybody!
Lets gooooo a 5/5! I'll post an update with all the plants grown in and background plants as well. It's alot more full and planted now than when it started.
My favorite plant is plain old guppy grass. It grows everywhere and i love it! And more importantly, it keeps my guppy fry alive in my stock tank pond.
Yo, as a cat owner. The foil is all over the bottom tank and the stand, because that cat has infact already messed with the fish many times. Foil is used to scare the cats when they touch it. But it dont work on all. I have a male cat who plays with the foil. Plus if you look close at the top tank, you can see the nubby handle for the glass lid, it is not lidless.
4:43 MARYLAND REPRESENT! Hope my fellow statesman's arm gets better. Dont let the turtle tank get so dirty next time! Many little cleanings is better than one massive cleaning after it gets out of hand.
9:45 thoes shrimp do get BIG, I have an indoor pond with some. I started with a dozen juvies and im not really sure but theres at least 4 or 5 that made it to maturity, and their arms are CRAZY long and their whiskers are too. But if you got livebearers it helps keep some balance to the numbers.
My fave plant in the hobby is Anubias. The first time I made a planted tank, I researched what are easy plants to grow & it came up, so I got some as well as some java ferns & the anubias practically took over the tank; it grew so well! 😁
Personally an orchid and a carnivorous plant in the same enviorment. I feel like one of them will die. They just have completely different care requirements. Maybe I am wrong but either the orchid will get to much light or the fly trap will get not enough. I think you could find a happy medium for the water situtation but I feel lighting requirements are way to different to make them both happy.
My favorite aquatic plant in my tank is my java fern. My anubias nana is a close second, but my java fern produces SO MANY baby plants. My favorite non aquatic plant in my tank is my pothos. Her roots are over a foot long and i love watching my betta swim through them.
I love sylvinia! I've read that different light quantities and qualities can cause different leaf texture and growth patterns, so I'm looking forward to playing with that and seeing it for myself
For the shrimps, it really depends on which breed lines you follow. If they mix too much across different family lines, they kinda revert to wild colors again. Not even all blues or all reds are the same, but there are some cool charts out there for the color variants you can reference.
8:10 Crypt 'Pink Flamingo' if I'm not mistaken. Could be that new Alternanthera variegated form but the pots and planted tanks I've seen of that have a bit more green. Edit; holy guacamole, that paludarium!! Chris caught the Venus fly trap but missed the little moth orchid! For years I've been wondering why paludarium ppl don't include more orchids! Love it!
I think my favorite aquarium plant is water lettuce. Too easy to grow. About every week or two it has to be thinned out as it multiplies so fast! I love the feathery roots that hang down. 😊
At 8:17 That tank is literally a 5/5 ...for me anyways...absolutely beautiful... I miss having my fish tanks... next time around I think I'll have more of a natural tank..no more silk artificial plants...I see my future with a 40 gal ..50 gal and a 75 gal planted aquarium... with just small fish..
still new to the aquarium hobby but my favorite is Brazilian Pennywort so far. Everything about the plant I just love. The round leaves and how well they grow. I LOVE BRAZILIAN PENNYWORTTTTTT
Ayyyeee earlier today. woop woop favorite plant would probably be anubias barteri. sure their slow growers and not that fancy but there is just something about them big leaves and growing on wood/rocks instead in the gravel that allows you to do so much more with them
I've got a mix of coloured shrimp, I find that I get probably 70% clear natural coloured shrimp. Then 20% red shrimp, and 10% random colours. My fave was a orange shrimp that appeared ❤️
Definitely good to see Millie and Repashi alive and well after the fire. You mentioned once that you have a bird channel? Could you provide the name of it? I love my fish, but I'm even more into birds.
I still don't have an aquarium, but I'm thinking Hornwort for all the small spaces it leaves for small critters to hide, some sort of duckweed for floaters, and then pearl weed for a carpeting plant.
We've tried like three times to set up a large tank with all the needed equipment: heater, CO2, filter/pump of course... but inevitably, after a while, even when we take the time to let the tank cycle and only put fish in it after a month, the tank just... disintigrates into algae, plants dying, fish dying, etc. Yes, we test the water, yes, we do water changes/top ups when needed, yes, we do whatever it is we need to do to keep the water values good, but... after a while it's just no fun anymore. I get depressed looking at the tank, with plants just slowly withering away, fish disappearing (dying), and then we just... give up. We empty the tank - we kept a dwarf hamster in it for two years - and now it's empty, because in the Netherlands you're no longer allowed to buy/keep dwarf hamster for some idiotic reason. So we want to start up the tank again, but I'm dreading what'll happen. Even after watching all these videos and other videos about how to correctly decorate and cycle a tank, it's just... I don't know. Are we just not good enough? It's so frustrating!
The size and shape of the claws of the shrimp eating the neon are consistent of ghost/grass/glass shrimp, not macrobrachium species whose 2nd chelipeds are noticeably longer. Ghost shrimp can easily opportunisticly attack a small severely sick fish which is what looks like is happening in that clip.
the neo expert at my LFS claims that different colors will breed cull neos but then the next generation from the culls have a chance to get their colors back! also QOTW my current favorite plant is jungle val because of its background capabilities. it's a native plant here in FL too!
QOTW, I think my favorite plant is Anubias. I know they are slow growing but they are just amazing to me. I also like my crypts and the red they add to the green fields. Great video! I really look forward to Monday mornings with you.
I just spent over $70 on plants for my 29 gallon, I'm binge watching your videos to cope with the fact that it'll probably be over 6 months before they're grown in how I want them. At least the chili rasboras are happy, can't say the same for my wallet 😭 I got some Limnophila Sessiliflora which is great because it's easy to grow and that's really the only thing I could ever ask for. It's like Hornwort but less ugly. (In my opinion, no hate to people who have Hornwort.)
I am going with bucephalandra and it's many variants. It has the advantage over anubias in that it does good in birghter lights and grows faster. They also are a great plant to use to make one off those bonsai trees.
As someone who keeps wild betta I recommend betta Smaragdina or betta channoides I absolutely adore these 2 species the Smaragdina is similar to typical betta but has amazing iridescent emerald blue color with a hint of red and for channoides it’s a mouth breeder and over all very interesting behavior
9:12 I threw some wood to build up a wall, for my baisy blj rice fish, and asked if wife liked it (lol) She said could not see sheit as the tannins had leached XD
QOTW: Eleocharis acicularis, dwarf hairgrass. I like having a little lawn in my aquarium. Plus its cool that my celestial pearl danios attempt to spawn in it and then the shrimps come in and ruin all their hard work.
Today I tried a new SSRI prescription for the first time, and it hit me so severely I was thinking I would have to call for help (iykyk how SSRI medications hit you when you first start taking them). Thanks for helping keep my mind off and for making edutaining content!
I've grown to like hygrophilla corymbosa recently even though I've had it for a very short time, maybe because of how much character and depth it adds to my tank
oh and my favroute plant has to be nomaphila siamensis parfolia ( i only found it in the netherlands there isnt much info oubput it but if u wanna buy one and dont know how to take care of it heres the insiructins the thing has to be 22-28 degrees celcius or 71 -m 82 farheinheit it needs light for like 8 hours i'd say could be more or less the guy at the shop told me its some sort of danish plant he said that basicly means it can be outsideof water in a place with high humidity like we see at 10:26 welp thats it
AOTW: Dandelions. I can't stop them from growing in my yard, so I'm guessing I won't be able to stop them from growing in my aquariums. Besides, they have pretty yellow flowers. My fish tanks grow guppy grass and salvinia like guppies and bunnies. I can start with one leaf of salvinia and one inch of a single guppy grass plant, and by the end of the week there won't be any room in the tank left for fish. Can you imagine how many nice yellow flowers there will be in one week if I put dandelions in my fish tank? My neighbour is an absolute witch. When the kids are going past after school (not my kids. He already grew up and then died) she runs outside and starts screaming at them for any imagined infraction she can think of, including talking too loud or laughing. She has an immaculate lawn. It's my dream to grow thousands of dandelions each week in my fish tank, then once a week, pull all the dandelions out of the fish tank, then sneak over to her yard late some night and seed it with all the puffy little dandelion seeds, and plant all the plants. Since she digs out weeds by hand, that should make enough of a nightmare for her that she won't have time to rag at the kids about being under the age of 11. It will also be really pretty when her yard turns from green to yellow. So cheery! She won't have the will to be a witch anymore.
I did the shrimp science experiment: all the colors... second and thrid generation you get clear/stripey/with a wash of red... then more stripey... then eventually WILD TYPE (no no it's NOT doo doo color, it's all silver and grey and black and brown). I also got some black and dark brown with a sand colored stripe down the back. Perfect camo: they look at first glance like a rando bit of plant stuff, then, oooooooo that's a stripe on a shrimp. You just add a colorful one once in awhile and see what happens.
Qotw answer: my favorite plant in the fish tank hobby would be my hornwort. Let me explain, my 4 male mollies eat EVERY plant but duck weed and hornwort. Its the only bushing plant i can keep in the tank.
8:27, shame fish stores don't keep/sell more bettas like this. Would've been cool to see more than jist splendeds Also 11:50 yeah black/brown ghosts tend to look like that when they get older, shame they lose their cute baby rotund faces
the double edge sword senario ..bro gets a archer fish has pokemon cards on the desk next to the tank..the issue wakes up to soaked cards from the archer..the lesson is a lid or give the fish more attention hahahaha
QOTW: Maybe I'm just poor or a noob in fishkeeping, but I LOVE MOSS. Any kind of moss and subswassertang. So pretty, low maintenance, and very versatile
QOTW: Anubias covers a multitude of sins... Guppy grass does too, but then it becomes a sin before too long. I guess ultimately, buce is my favorite because it's hard to find something that balances out those dark spots & buce just fits right in there & completes any look.
ooooh favorite plant might be even harder than favorite fish! My green thumb is better underwater than above, but I've still only been able to really grow maybe 10 plants well in all these years. I'm currently really into brownie buce and anubias nana petite because I'm obsessed with those little trees I keep seeing online. My husband really likes hornwort, so I make sure to always have them somewhere.
I have one off those trees with bucephalandra (a slightly red variant), but because off pricing I got an artificial tree instead off one made out off spiderwood. In my opinion buce looks as good if not better on a tree than moss.
@@AVDB95 same! The buce trees are so pretty! I actually shelled out for a nice one from etsy, and then as it was soaking on my back porch, getting ready for it's new leaves...my dog saw the pretty spiderwood and thought it would be tasty :/
QOTW- I like Java fern, but Java fern does not like my tanks. The Hornwort is doing well! That tank at 5:00 is an oldie- an artificial woodgrain rim?! That's from 1982 ...at least!
I avoid female Bettas because of a video I saw about how much trouble they are if not for breeding. Something about putting them in a little cup and massaging their eggs out with q-tips. I thought everyone says to only get males. My local shop always has such sweet little female ones, being all coy and koi.
Let's welcome a new week with our fav fishy vice, FTR!! I'm counting on you Millie, I mean Repashy, I mean that other host guy, to make my week worth it by starting it in the best way. Edit: I really need it this week. I just busted a little 5.5 gallon long tank that was going to be the perfect forever home for my Chili Rasboras. Was going to carry it over to the bag of organic potting soil to start the lasagna layers of substrate and... dropped it on the driveway! Carpel tunnel and old age do not make for ease of tank carrying in a safe and non-breakable way. 😢 QotW; I think in general my fav plant would be Crypts just because there's soooo many sizes and colors in this one genera of plants. Tiny little grass green Crypt parva for carpets all the way up to huge pine green with a sort of rust colored edge Crypt spiralis or balansae, with colors galore throughout the spectrum! The one floater plant I've always wanted and can never find, Azolla just for the weird fractal wonder effect is pretty high on the list too, but more in a lust after way. Edit # way too many; very glad to see best girl Millie and Repashy are both safe and weren't in the danger zone of the fire.
Happy monday fishkeepers! Hope you enjoy the episode and enjoy the update from Milly and Repashy!
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Hey I have a question do you think I can keep cherry shrimp in a 4 gallon tank I want a fish tank but my room isn't big enough so something small on my bedside table will have to do, thanks!
As someone who has had multiple colored shrimp breed in her tank, you are correct that the mixing of colors will eventually cause them to revert to "wild" colors. However, those "wild" colors are also varied, and eventually the colors will return to some of the offspring after some time. You'll eventually have a mix of bright colors and wild. Shrimp are awesome.
I mix shrimp colors. Some of my neocaridinas look brown until you look closer and realize it's rainbow plaid. The rest just look rainbow plaid.
Pics pls.
@@shize9ine lol how?
@@Stoutswiller community post?
rainbow plaid sounds rly cool :)
Same !
My favorite plant is the one you were wondering about - the Crypt Pink Flamingo. Stunning!!
They look so good but damn are they expensive
very cool plant!
@@psy_99 Flip Aquatics has them for $15. Lots of plants cost $15. Although, I did kill mine.
The gorgeous pink flowers look like Crypt Pink Flamingo. At 8:12 time stamp.
And my favorite tank plant is an aponagetin ulvacious. It has such light, bright green leaves, that are thin and grow to the top of water. Kinda like a sword plant. But these leaves are just light, and curly and they get really large. Mine overtook my 20 gallon long and I had to transplant it to a bigger tank. And that plant had a root system that was outta this world. Whew. It was as big as the plant. Yeah, I would plant this plant in 55 gallon and up. And definitely plant it in a back corner. But it is the prettiest plant I've ever seen.
awesome!!
Thanks for lifting my spirits. Started the week off horrible. Got home last night to find my 10 gallon rimless leaking everywhere. Had to dismantle my favorite tank and move the fish in another tank 😢. Had a beautiful black water bog going
I feel your pain I hope your fish are okay
@@4OruK they’re fine they moved into the new tank without a problem but I now have a very overcrowded 20. Moved ember tetras and khuli loaches in with my black neons and Cory’s so they’re fine compatibility wise for a while
so sorry to hear about the leak :(
I had to rebuild my 10 gallon into a 15 gallon when the 10 started leaking from the top seal. But it turned out better because I used all the substrate from the 10 at the bottom of the 15 and dumped a large amount of sand on that and topped it with a single layer of gravel. I was able to save all the plants and replant them, and now my Fire Red Cherry Shrimp is going absolutely crazy. I love the footprint of the 15 far more than the 10 and it barely takes up anymore space. Sometimes disaster creates beauty.
So glad you never leave your followers for ‘the next big move’ congrats to you fellow fish friend
Plant: Caulerpa Taxifolia! They look like ferns, they grow like ferns if you bunch them up. It just looks like something straight out of a forest and it's a salt water plant out of all things. Love it. So do my clowns. have a great week everybody!
Lets gooooo a 5/5! I'll post an update with all the plants grown in and background plants as well. It's alot more full and planted now than when it started.
That was a amazin escape bro, keep it up 🔥
awesome thanks for sending that banger in!
Nothing as soothing than watching ftr at Twilight Monday evenings while eating spring rolls
the springrolls part got me jealous
8:15 those are pink flamingo cryptocorines! They are rather rare, I managed to get my hands on a few
My favorite plant is plain old guppy grass. It grows everywhere and i love it! And more importantly, it keeps my guppy fry alive in my stock tank pond.
can't go wrong with the classics
75,000 gallons? Time to set the SeaMonkey world record.
That poor little cardinal getting dragged around by that shrimp!
hard to watch :(
Yo, as a cat owner. The foil is all over the bottom tank and the stand, because that cat has infact already messed with the fish many times. Foil is used to scare the cats when they touch it. But it dont work on all. I have a male cat who plays with the foil. Plus if you look close at the top tank, you can see the nubby handle for the glass lid, it is not lidless.
I love the driftwood in grandpa's tank that looks like an open mouth of a sea monster! That's why the tank is understocked!
4:43 MARYLAND REPRESENT! Hope my fellow statesman's arm gets better. Dont let the turtle tank get so dirty next time! Many little cleanings is better than one massive cleaning after it gets out of hand.
9:45 thoes shrimp do get BIG, I have an indoor pond with some. I started with a dozen juvies and im not really sure but theres at least 4 or 5 that made it to maturity, and their arms are CRAZY long and their whiskers are too. But if you got livebearers it helps keep some balance to the numbers.
My fave plant in the hobby is Anubias. The first time I made a planted tank, I researched what are easy plants to grow & it came up, so I got some as well as some java ferns & the anubias practically took over the tank; it grew so well! 😁
Personally an orchid and a carnivorous plant in the same enviorment. I feel like one of them will die. They just have completely different care requirements. Maybe I am wrong but either the orchid will get to much light or the fly trap will get not enough. I think you could find a happy medium for the water situtation but I feel lighting requirements are way to different to make them both happy.
My favourite plant is Red tiger Lily bulbs, so easy to grow 😂
My favorite aquatic plant in my tank is my java fern. My anubias nana is a close second, but my java fern produces SO MANY baby plants. My favorite non aquatic plant in my tank is my pothos. Her roots are over a foot long and i love watching my betta swim through them.
I love sylvinia! I've read that different light quantities and qualities can cause different leaf texture and growth patterns, so I'm looking forward to playing with that and seeing it for myself
1:30 mark Chi Chi's Planted Dreams rules!!!!
For the shrimps, it really depends on which breed lines you follow. If they mix too much across different family lines, they kinda revert to wild colors again. Not even all blues or all reds are the same, but there are some cool charts out there for the color variants you can reference.
14:21 maybe its a shubunkin which naturally look like tbat but yeah it's so sad 😢
10:20 borneo crabs would go crazy for this tank
8:10 Crypt 'Pink Flamingo' if I'm not mistaken. Could be that new Alternanthera variegated form but the pots and planted tanks I've seen of that have a bit more green.
Edit; holy guacamole, that paludarium!! Chris caught the Venus fly trap but missed the little moth orchid! For years I've been wondering why paludarium ppl don't include more orchids! Love it!
thanks so much!
I have 5 shrimps who are pregnant in my 75 gallon tank! 😂 they all hang out together like they are in a mommy club
mommy club haha
I think my favorite aquarium plant is water lettuce. Too easy to grow. About every week or two it has to be thinned out as it multiplies so fast! I love the feathery roots that hang down. 😊
At 8:17
That tank is literally a 5/5 ...for me anyways...absolutely beautiful...
I miss having my fish tanks... next time around I think I'll have more of a natural tank..no more silk artificial plants...I see my future with a 40 gal ..50 gal and a 75 gal planted aquarium... with just small fish..
Right now I’m having a really bad day, but I just saw this video post and now my day is good
still new to the aquarium hobby but my favorite is Brazilian Pennywort so far. Everything about the plant I just love. The round leaves and how well they grow. I LOVE BRAZILIAN PENNYWORTTTTTT
Ayyyeee earlier today. woop woop favorite plant would probably be anubias barteri. sure their slow growers and not that fancy but there is just something about them big leaves and growing on wood/rocks instead in the gravel that allows you to do so much more with them
8:35 that Betta is beautiful...
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I've got a mix of coloured shrimp, I find that I get probably 70% clear natural coloured shrimp. Then 20% red shrimp, and 10% random colours. My fave was a orange shrimp that appeared ❤️
Love your videos!!!!!!!!!!!!
So entertaining but educational and funny too.
your might be the only person that keeps the Fish keeping hobby alive and fun, appreciate it Chirs 🌆♥
aw thanks man! There's a bunch of other awesome fishtubers out there though, I'm glad to be one of the ones you like!
@@FishForThought yeah i know but nobody does fish content like you, they are some channels i like for mostly educational purposes of fish keeping
Damn Milly was in a mood with her announcement today 😂
hahaha
Definitely good to see Millie and Repashi alive and well after the fire.
You mentioned once that you have a bird channel? Could you provide the name of it? I love my fish, but I'm even more into birds.
I still don't have an aquarium, but I'm thinking Hornwort for all the small spaces it leaves for small critters to hide, some sort of duckweed for floaters, and then pearl weed for a carpeting plant.
Chirs is that a Pusheen plushie in the background? 🤭 Love ftr btw❤
I've started an experimental shrimp breeding tank with neocaridina jade, carbon rili, and a single sunkist orange
We've tried like three times to set up a large tank with all the needed equipment: heater, CO2, filter/pump of course... but inevitably, after a while, even when we take the time to let the tank cycle and only put fish in it after a month, the tank just... disintigrates into algae, plants dying, fish dying, etc. Yes, we test the water, yes, we do water changes/top ups when needed, yes, we do whatever it is we need to do to keep the water values good, but... after a while it's just no fun anymore. I get depressed looking at the tank, with plants just slowly withering away, fish disappearing (dying), and then we just... give up. We empty the tank - we kept a dwarf hamster in it for two years - and now it's empty, because in the Netherlands you're no longer allowed to buy/keep dwarf hamster for some idiotic reason. So we want to start up the tank again, but I'm dreading what'll happen. Even after watching all these videos and other videos about how to correctly decorate and cycle a tank, it's just... I don't know. Are we just not good enough? It's so frustrating!
The size and shape of the claws of the shrimp eating the neon are consistent of ghost/grass/glass shrimp, not macrobrachium species whose 2nd chelipeds are noticeably longer.
Ghost shrimp can easily opportunisticly attack a small severely sick fish which is what looks like is happening in that clip.
the neo expert at my LFS claims that different colors will breed cull neos but then the next generation from the culls have a chance to get their colors back! also QOTW my current favorite plant is jungle val because of its background capabilities. it's a native plant here in FL too!
10:19 yaaay i thought Chili rasboras too
7:51 all that $$$ white anubias?? damn???
Always a great video, keep up the awesome work.
The plant that facilitates me the most in my aquarium is the java fern, it makes it look like a proper forest 👄
My favorite aquarium plant is easily the Amazon sword. They just look so nice😊
QOTW, I think my favorite plant is Anubias. I know they are slow growing but they are just amazing to me. I also like my crypts and the red they add to the green fields. Great video! I really look forward to Monday mornings with you.
anubias def in my top 5
I just spent over $70 on plants for my 29 gallon, I'm binge watching your videos to cope with the fact that it'll probably be over 6 months before they're grown in how I want them. At least the chili rasboras are happy, can't say the same for my wallet 😭 I got some Limnophila Sessiliflora which is great because it's easy to grow and that's really the only thing I could ever ask for. It's like Hornwort but less ugly. (In my opinion, no hate to people who have Hornwort.)
Ever thought about going to a river and collect some free plants
@@supp2281 If you do that you could bring unwanted pests into your tank. Also I live in a cold area and I have a tropical tank.
I am going with bucephalandra and it's many variants. It has the advantage over anubias in that it does good in birghter lights and grows faster. They also are a great plant to use to make one off those bonsai trees.
buce is king
I accidentally started playing the video on full volume... and I was at work! 🤣
My favorite time of the week
As someone who keeps wild betta I recommend betta Smaragdina or betta channoides I absolutely adore these 2 species the Smaragdina is similar to typical betta but has amazing iridescent emerald blue color with a hint of red and for channoides it’s a mouth breeder and over all very interesting behavior
9:12 I threw some wood to build up a wall, for my baisy blj rice fish, and asked if wife liked it (lol)
She said could not see sheit as the tannins had leached XD
QOTW: Eleocharis acicularis, dwarf hairgrass. I like having a little lawn in my aquarium. Plus its cool that my celestial pearl danios attempt to spawn in it and then the shrimps come in and ruin all their hard work.
Today I tried a new SSRI prescription for the first time, and it hit me so severely I was thinking I would have to call for help (iykyk how SSRI medications hit you when you first start taking them). Thanks for helping keep my mind off and for making edutaining content!
4:17 I don't see any Corries in these tanks :0
Dang I try to have. Corries in my tank set up over the last few decades
My favorite plant is 100% the Amazon Sword, especially when they get established and shoot out a new 12 inch leaf every few weeks
As first I would like to say THANK YOU SIR!
Fav plant: Ludwigia Super red
Today I worked out I have aquarium leeches and I noticed you haven’t had a video on them yet… please and you’re welcome
My favourite plant is Hygroryza Aristata. My betta’s look so cute sleeping on top of it at night.
Banana Plants! I love the shape of the leaves
12:58. Is your wife your editor? XD
no haha but I can see how one might think that xD
I've grown to like hygrophilla corymbosa recently even though I've had it for a very short time, maybe because of how much character and depth it adds to my tank
oh and my favroute plant has to be nomaphila siamensis parfolia ( i only found it in the netherlands there isnt much info oubput it but if u wanna buy one and dont know how to take care of it heres the insiructins the thing has to be 22-28 degrees celcius or 71 -m 82 farheinheit it needs light for like 8 hours i'd say could be more or less the guy at the shop told me its some sort of danish plant he said that basicly means it can be outsideof water in a place with high humidity like we see at 10:26 welp thats it
Great as usual, I so look forward to ftr❤
AOTW: Dandelions. I can't stop them from growing in my yard, so I'm guessing I won't be able to stop them from growing in my aquariums. Besides, they have pretty yellow flowers. My fish tanks grow guppy grass and salvinia like guppies and bunnies. I can start with one leaf of salvinia and one inch of a single guppy grass plant, and by the end of the week there won't be any room in the tank left for fish. Can you imagine how many nice yellow flowers there will be in one week if I put dandelions in my fish tank?
My neighbour is an absolute witch. When the kids are going past after school (not my kids. He already grew up and then died) she runs outside and starts screaming at them for any imagined infraction she can think of, including talking too loud or laughing. She has an immaculate lawn. It's my dream to grow thousands of dandelions each week in my fish tank, then once a week, pull all the dandelions out of the fish tank, then sneak over to her yard late some night and seed it with all the puffy little dandelion seeds, and plant all the plants. Since she digs out weeds by hand, that should make enough of a nightmare for her that she won't have time to rag at the kids about being under the age of 11. It will also be really pretty when her yard turns from green to yellow. So cheery! She won't have the will to be a witch anymore.
unique choice!
FAVORITE PLANT: Ludwigia Palustris
MOST HELPFUL: Potos clippings
No plant beats anubias 💪 you can plop that thing wherever and it'll still look good
The red root floater is my fave plant 🪴
I did the shrimp science experiment: all the colors... second and thrid generation you get clear/stripey/with a wash of red... then more stripey... then eventually WILD TYPE (no no it's NOT doo doo color, it's all silver and grey and black and brown). I also got some black and dark brown with a sand colored stripe down the back. Perfect camo: they look at first glance like a rando bit of plant stuff, then, oooooooo that's a stripe on a shrimp.
You just add a colorful one once in awhile and see what happens.
very cool experiment!
2:30 when your thinking this was an American water slide...
I do love me some anubias. I always have to remind myself I can't fit any more in my 10 gal scape when I see them on sale
Qotw answer: my favorite plant in the fish tank hobby would be my hornwort. Let me explain, my 4 male mollies eat EVERY plant but duck weed and hornwort. Its the only bushing plant i can keep in the tank.
My favourite plant is good ole Pogostemon Stellatus.
Favorite plants Anubia Pinto and Anubia Gigantea.
I am so excited! FISH TANK REVIEW EVERYONE. Also wow I have never seen a crab spawn
8:27, shame fish stores don't keep/sell more bettas like this. Would've been cool to see more than jist splendeds
Also 11:50 yeah black/brown ghosts tend to look like that when they get older, shame they lose their cute baby rotund faces
As a 6'10" guy, I would LOVE a display tank I could sit in 😂😁
the double edge sword senario ..bro gets a archer fish has pokemon cards on the desk next to the tank..the issue wakes up to soaked cards from the archer..the lesson is a lid or give the fish more attention hahahaha
QOTW: Maybe I'm just poor or a noob in fishkeeping, but I LOVE MOSS. Any kind of moss and subswassertang. So pretty, low maintenance, and very versatile
boosting that algorithm
QOTW: Anubias covers a multitude of sins... Guppy grass does too, but then it becomes a sin before too long.
I guess ultimately, buce is my favorite because it's hard to find something that balances out those dark spots & buce just fits right in there & completes any look.
qotw: I LOVE vallisneria especially when it lets its leaves poke out of the water surface.
ooooh favorite plant might be even harder than favorite fish! My green thumb is better underwater than above, but I've still only been able to really grow maybe 10 plants well in all these years. I'm currently really into brownie buce and anubias nana petite because I'm obsessed with those little trees I keep seeing online. My husband really likes hornwort, so I make sure to always have them somewhere.
I have one off those trees with bucephalandra (a slightly red variant), but because off pricing I got an artificial tree instead off one made out off spiderwood. In my opinion buce looks as good if not better on a tree than moss.
@@AVDB95 same! The buce trees are so pretty! I actually shelled out for a nice one from etsy, and then as it was soaking on my back porch, getting ready for it's new leaves...my dog saw the pretty spiderwood and thought it would be tasty :/
Water changes for that water tower would be awful 😂
Fish Aquariums and Pokemon Cards. "We were meant to be friends." ~ Aoi Todo
I got myself back into fish keeping, I have a firemouth with convicts!
QOTW- I like Java fern, but Java fern does not like my tanks. The Hornwort is doing well!
That tank at 5:00 is an oldie- an artificial woodgrain rim?! That's from 1982 ...at least!
I avoid female Bettas because of a video I saw about how much trouble they are if not for breeding. Something about putting them in a little cup and massaging their eggs out with q-tips. I thought everyone says to only get males. My local shop always has such sweet little female ones, being all coy and koi.
For the mythical Forrest I think a good stocking option is like a school of guppies
that's a great and simple way
Let's welcome a new week with our fav fishy vice, FTR!! I'm counting on you Millie, I mean Repashy, I mean that other host guy, to make my week worth it by starting it in the best way.
Edit: I really need it this week. I just busted a little 5.5 gallon long tank that was going to be the perfect forever home for my Chili Rasboras. Was going to carry it over to the bag of organic potting soil to start the lasagna layers of substrate and... dropped it on the driveway! Carpel tunnel and old age do not make for ease of tank carrying in a safe and non-breakable way. 😢
QotW; I think in general my fav plant would be Crypts just because there's soooo many sizes and colors in this one genera of plants. Tiny little grass green Crypt parva for carpets all the way up to huge pine green with a sort of rust colored edge Crypt spiralis or balansae, with colors galore throughout the spectrum!
The one floater plant I've always wanted and can never find, Azolla just for the weird fractal wonder effect is pretty high on the list too, but more in a lust after way.
Edit # way too many; very glad to see best girl Millie and Repashy are both safe and weren't in the danger zone of the fire.
Yessssss a new video
Keeping Fish Simple channel did the "mix the shrimp" experiment for a year. Didn't go brown
so it was a myth!!
@@FishForThought it's worth a watch, it's only 8 mins: "I Cross-Bred Shrimp for a Year, This Happened"
Let’s go woke up this morning for this video
hey good mornin
Qotw: crypt pink flamingo tied with banana plant, love all the anubias too!