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Luke davidson fish tank review please
The 70s tank is perfection. It looks like it could be a zoo or public aquarium setup.
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I started 40 yrs ago. we did know about cycling . learning meant buying the hard cover books, and talking to old schoolers. And having patients becuase all the chemicals didn't exist. I still avoid a lot of what people do now that costs them extra money but I do use fertilizers for the plants. I don't do water changes (that doesn't really mean you never change any water) schedule water changes but I do test my water and do top ups. I do use fish math and stock lower then I could. I was around when the filters were very different and did not have bio media, that was a switch over I dove into and embraced when it came out but to this day filter floss is still my best friend, I dumped charcoal like a bad boyfriend real fast when I could though! I do know lots of hacks and tricks that I can use from time to time. I do think a lot of modern keeping is overboard and designed to get people to spend money and avoid needing patients.
great sharing to shed more light!
Truly amazing what ya'll did without Google! Although I still remember having to go to the library when I was REALLY young, we got the internet when I was 10 (right before AOL 3.0), and I couldn't imagine being in this hobby without it.. lol. Much respect for you and all the "old timers" 😂❤
@@Endorra.
to be honest this channel genuinely inspired me to start fish-keeping.
yes.. it’s 1:00am in Australia. I have school tomorrow. Doesn’t matter though, thanks Chris 💪🏻
its like 3pm in england 🤣
aw yey c: love to hear that!
10 am in new england (USA eastern time)@@GreekPatata
@@lilymaher6460 cool
Finnaly our main hoast and Cris are finnaly here!
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Who is chirs I’m here for the bird
what the HEK
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QotW: It’s not a fish, but I’ve really grown to love mystery snails. I’m not allowed to have an “actual” tank in my apartment currently, but I have a 3 gallon aquarium with live plants and one mystery snail, and she’s got so much personality.
You should look into getting a friend for her. They'll piggyback and clean eachother. And it's fun to watch em jump from things and float down. I had to get rid of my big snails in favor of some small horned nerite snails. But these snails had been with me from a 3 gallon to a 10 and they were huge.
My mystery snail is for sure one of my most personable “fish”. I’ve got her temporarily with my friendlier of the two bettas (so she won’t get chomped) but I plan on getting her into a 20 gal cory tank to see how big she’ll get.
My first experience of an aquarium was when I was about 5 during the 60's, my uncle had a 6 foot long tank built into his living room wall, you accessed it from another room from outside the house, sort of like a shed. There was even less available to the hobby then. I remember it had lots of plants and a few small fish, maybe a couple of angels. I was fascinated and have been keeping fish on and off ever since. I currently have 8 heavily planted nano aquariums scattered throughout my house with guppies, a betta, shrimp, snails and some pea puffers breeding in one of them. I test my water regularly, but when you are heavily planted and lightly stocked, you really don't need to do water changes very often. My uncle is still alive, he's in his 90's now, relaxing hobbies relieve stress keeping you sane and alive.
QOTW Otos for sure. They are peaceful and so cute, and I love their shoaling behavior. And they are great at keeping slime algae in check!
aw yis the goated fish
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I didn’t know that there are heartless people out there that hate on honey gouramis.
That’s hard to comprehend
QOTW: I've recently fallen in love with Siamese Algae Eaters. They nibble on blackbeard and staghorn algae. But up there, tied at #1, are otocinclus. So cute, industrious, and efficient. I love having a group of them as they eat the slicker, less stringy algae.
they are amazing fish for sure
@@FishForThoughtI LOVE my Oto. He cleaned the algae in one of my tanks in 2 days😂
I love how he can be talking about something really interesting but I can't help but stare at millie dancing around lol .
Qotw- the valiant bladder snail that attempted to eat black beard algae last night. I salute you, little trooper.
That tank from the 70s just became my life goal. That is absolutely beautiful.
a valiant effort indeed
An "aquarium" popped up in my Amazon feed yesterday, and the listing said (no joke) for "goldfish and betta fish". It was a 7x5 inch cube. Even worse? They suggested stacking it. My rage tic never got set off so fast as when I saw that!
dang son :,)
I should go buy one, just to see in person how tiny it is.
QotW : my favorite algae eater is my dwarf neon blue goby! he just looks so goofy and cute at the same time. hasn't really done much for my algae, but he tries his best to chow down on the hair algae issue I've been having. also love seeing him burrow into the substrate, it's just such a cool behavior to see.
such a cool lil fish fr
I am a HUGE fan of my Florida flag fish. Not only do they eat all the algae, but also any unwanted duckweed. I used to worry so much about one little duckweed infiltrating. But now, I know it will get munched. Also, their personality, and color, make them great additions to my community tanks!
My flag fish ignore the duckweed and bba
YES! I originally said otos, but for anything fuzzy, which lets be real is the more challenging algae to deal with, Flagfish are AMAZING. Plus they are attractive and very hardy. Question: how do yours do with aggression? I have mine in a newish tank that I am slowly stocking. At first he had a bit of an attitude with the nano rasboras and the otos, but he chilled out after a couple days. I'm considering adding another species, what are your thoughts?
qotw- my favorite lil trooper is a Panda Garra. It was incredible watching her as an infant, cleaning up algae like the world was ending and she needed to get one last meal in before it was Too Late. I've had her for 2ish years now, she's almost the length of my palm, and definitely doesn't do menial algae anymore :) I hired her a gang of Otos so that she could lounge around in peace, like the queen that she is :) She's very friendly and will come up to boop my hands during water changes, and I just love her so much.
ah yes quite a few garra answers, gotta agree they super cool
I know it's simple but I love bristle nose Pleco idk what it is but I just have a soft spot for them so yeah 👍
My Dad had one when I live in Portugal and it look nothing like that everything die but one giant pleco ...that was the only fish I know... until we moved to the state then I got older got curious did my research got a tank now I am schooling him 😅.. but that is so true back in the day there wasn't no internet😅
Hi Chris! I'm here to answer the algae eater question. I kept nearly every freshwater algae eater fish through my 25 years of being an aquarist and while they eat some algae indeed, they are relatively lazy waterhogs. 😂 So I started to think about what should I try now. I bought mystery snails, five normal sized snail, the common yellow colored ones. Dude I swear they eat algae like I eat Big Mac. Since I put them in my 72 liter tank 7 months ago the algae disappeared and never came back. It is important to give them some sliced up veggies on every 4th day if they consumed all the algae, as I see they like cucumber and zucchini the most, even though I tried nearly everything, for example carrot, salad, broccoli...but this last 3 failed miserably. I like your videos and have a nice week + fishkeeping experience! 🙂
Try green beans if you haven't yet. My mystery snails LOVE green beans.
Interesting and it can be a healthy alternative food for them (I guess). Thanks for the tip.
they def super lazy when they get up in size. those siamese algae eaters live the laziest of lives i swear xD
Yeah, they are next level waterhogs, but never underestimate the full grown ancistrus and pleco, they are good at slacking too. Some bonus info: I live in Hungary & a relatively small town in it. I don't know why but here the fish shops rarely sell the normal siamese, it is more likely to find oto, anci, pleco or the false siamese.
AotW: I love my amano shrimp. They're peaceful, always busy, great at eating algae (even though I feed them extra because I can't say no to these cuties) and just amazing critters to have around, imo. Got a couple of assassin snails today (and eight kuhli loaches, yeeeeey!) and one of the amanos immediately jumped onto the assassin and started cleaning the algae of its back. Ngl, way better work ethics than me.
I'm pretty sure that's a red belly pacu hanging on the wall at our local nature center... we're in PA... it was fished out of a local lake... because some yahoo had no idea HOW BIG THEY GET. It was bigger than a dinner plate.
If it had friends, they likely didn't survive our winters, but, geeeeeeeez people...
I had pleco for a 1 year since i added it my aquarium just never gets dirty I do water changes every 30-40days now🏴
QOTW: My fav algea eater are my otocinclus. I don't have that much experience with any other fish yet... But I just now got my otos after months and months of research and planning + setting up my tank. They are just the cutest and I love them very much. Taking care of these little guys has geniuenly been so good for my mental health as well. I think I will always have a soft spot for them. ❤😊
My fave is mystery snails. Their faces are just so goofy
Godda love waking up moody cuz it’s Monday only to realize we got a new FFT video to make it all better again
I love your channel your one of the best UA-camrs I’ve ever seen. Keep making videos😊❤
thanks so much!!!
I really appreciate your channel, you helped me give my betta fish a much better life. He died of age last week, but I still have some other fish to keep me company. Thank you so much for helping me and thousands of other people become better fish keepers!
Gutentag Millie, fellow FTR crew... and Chris😂. Wishing all a radically positive week!! Go forth into the world, spoil your pets and be cool to humans too, if you want. 🙏💙✌️
QotW; definitely going with snowball Neocaridina as my fav algae eater. I have a 10g colony breeding tank w/ snowballs and CPD's. All my other tanks get a lot of natural light so I get hair algae, I swirl it into a ball and toss into the snowballs who will live on that algae ball for a straight 24 hrs of feasting or more till it's gone. They keep their tank so clean I have to add algae! And as soon as I do, they will run-swim in nanoseconds from all over to get that algae! They will give amano and green leaf algae shrimp a serious run for their money on algae eating! Mind you, all my other tanks have "cherry" Neocaridina of various colors in them, but they don't groove algae like snowballs.
milly says gutentag to you as well. She likes ppl to know she's a distinguished gentlewoman
@@FishForThought please pass along that I'm incredibly sorry for misspelling the gentle ladies name. I couldn't figure if it was a "y" or "ie" name. I should have guessed it was "y" as that's so much more distinguished. 🤍💛🤍
1st time answering QOTW my favorite is the otocinclus. They are great at eating algae and are super and I mean SUPER cute. I started with 5 and now have 10. 5 wild caught were my 1st then I saw 1 alone and brought him home only to find out he was not exactly like the others so I tracked down 4 more that looked like him. They all hang out together but the wild caught hide when I come to the tank unlike the tank raised that don’t even swim away from the net or gravel vac
otos are the best
@@FishForThoughtthank you. I think so too
It's a good Monday when Millie is back
I just thought you needed to know sonething, so that you can go to sleep with a little smile on your face today. Im from germany, so i know this: fishbowls are not only not a thing in germany, actually it is a law that you do not keep any fish (snails ans shrimp are different) in an aquarium with less then 54l. So no fish store even sells them. You also dont find pacus etc in fishstores here, youd have to go to a specialist that actually checks if you have an aquarium big enough for keeping whatever you are buying. In my opinion thats the absolute right thing to do!
My dad was a HUGE fish keeper when I wasn’t born. He had to get rid of the tanks because no one would admire it. Now I’m mad that I was born to late to admire my dads hard work of fish😭😤
Been there, done that, I started fishkeeping in the late 70s/early 80s. If I had a question, I asked my dad, if he couldn’t answer… I literally wished for the internet without knowing the form it would take.
My Grandpa used to keep a 100 hundred gallon tank back in the 60’s and late 70’s, I wish I could’ve gotten to see it, but I’ve only ever just heard about it
when i first saw this video i thought it said Fish Tank Review 1970, i was like: HOW LONG WAS I GONE?! lol
Honey gouramies are literally the cutest lifeform we have encountered yet
Hello,I am getting a 40 gallon tank with some rubber lip pleco’s,and ghost catfish.I know you probably don’t care or probably won’t see this but this is a big achievement for me,Ps I’m buying everything and I’m 11
Not only is that a *beautiful* 10 gallon but it’s also appropriately stocked! That’s what I like I see personally
Beautiful shallow tank too, that’s the dream right there
“You sure that’s a closed aquatic ecosystem? How are you gonna feed the fish?”
Duh! They nibble on the plant roots! … What do you mean “bettas are carnivores”?
Also for favorite algae eater, I’d say hillstream loach
Very unique looking, will accept a wide range of foods, and (contrary to what the internet believes) they do well in a wide range of environments
I remember my mom's tanks when I was a kid (late 80s). She had under gravel filters. The only plants she could get were hornwort bunches that were always loaded with bladder snails and bulbs for dwarf lilies and apogenetons. She rescues a hex tank (I remember it was pink) that had brackish puffers in it, but found someone else who wanted it after my dad kept saying he was going to put bleach in it. He also would cut the pads from the lilies when they would grow because he said they looked "trashy". He's never kept a fish in his life, these were just in a space where he saw them. Yes, he's still this much of an asshole, but at least my mom left.
We never had more than Jungle brand Start Right crystals and non-iodized salt for chemicals, aside from blue ich meds. The aquatics shops were all the same as well, with no meds sold. This was also Arkansas.
bruh what was up with u dad...
Ive been looking into getting into fish keeping, I like to watch your channel for research along with my own independent research to make sure i dont make any mistakes
woohoo! I hope you find it entertaining as well :)
Most definitely, the amano shrimp is our favorite algae eater. Watching them go crazy in a tank is fascinating. I like to put a good number of them in a tank and stop feeding the tank. The plants will be cleaned of all algae in a matter of days.
My favourite algae eater is the amano shrimp, the Otto in lus or the Pygmy corydoras because they actually eat algae and are cute
I recently bought some Siamese algae eaters and they are my new favorite. Mine are so energetic bouncing around sucking algae down. They also like to play in the filter flow and float to the bottom and go back to the top
QOTW: I honestly can say that nerite snails have my heart. They're absolute tanks and do a great job. Plus they don't make babies in freshwater which is handy.
HONEY WAKE UP!!! NEW FISH TANK REVIEW DEOPPED!!!!!
Favorite Algae Eater: Siamese Algae Eater, they eat like monsters, always play/wrestle with each other, can’t float so they always moving around, don’t get bullied by other fish like cichlids, and don’t hurt little fish either.
qotw: I like snails, in general. They're just cute lil guys and I love seeing them going about their business. Plus, they come in so many shapes!
Just stocked up my fishroom but couldn't get any of those creepy little yellow men at my store.
Only PetSmart here. Both Ottawa locations I went to were great, with fish staff it was a real pleasure to meet (and also cashiers.)
Bladder snails are my favorite algae eaters. Their numbers are kept in check by my Yo Yo Loach, named Lenny 😊
I always get excited when I get notifications that you uploaded
Hearing the Genshin ost in the background I got scared I still had my game running lol. But I started watching this channel cause I started working at a pet store and wanted to learn more so I could have the right answers for customers. I mostly work with dogs but every now and then I'll bump into customers who have questions about fish. I still feel like I have so much more to learn but I hope to one day do fish keeping
For the QOTW I like shrimp. Keep up the great work
Be watching awhile now from Ireland love the channel you genius so entertaining fish channel
Favourite algae eater: the common ancistrus bristlenose. So dorky! Kind of decided to name mine Peppie & Kokkie now, after some Dutch silent film comedy characters.
"Moonfish"... must be Dutch, because that's a literal translation of the Dutch name. The aquascape also looks like a good old-fashioned Dutch-style scape. I'm also not surprised by the "no water changes, no/low tech", after all, European aquascaping was where Diana Walstad got her inspiration of the thick dirt pack substrate - before all the fancy tech was invented, fishkeeping was intuitively done this way long before Walstad formalized the science in a book.
trust me Otocinclus are the best of all the best. One window was full of algae then I bought the fish and after a day everything was gone. I also think they are very beautiful because when they stick to the window they look a bit like little ones Dragons out
I *currently* work at PetSmart and have for roughly two years. Started out as a cashier and now I'm an ALK, and when I tell you I loathe having to talk to customers about fish because a lot of the people I encounter are so disinterested in learning the correct (or at least survivable) way to get their tank started and introduce fish. I tore a ligament in my hand and wear a very obvious brace, customer wanted some black neons... naturally it was taking me a minute to catch all eight that he wanted. Dude gonna look at me and ask me if he needs to catch them 😂 Gotta love the place but also have to hate it too.
This content is my Advil for my headaches.
i rly like that compliment ty!!!
My favorite algae eater are neocardina shrimp. I love them, they're so cute.
My fav Algae eater is an Otto bc they don’t actually help with the issue 😃😂
My fav algae eater is Garra ceyloneyensis-Ceylon logsucker(Endemic sp. to sri lanka)
Reason - I have kept a few types of algae eaters but they're the best ones I ever had ❤
Once I had a tank filled with brack beard algae so I put one of them in the tank and like boom!! the algae was gone within 3-4 days
those are so coooool!
fav algae eater has to be amano shrimp.. theyre so fun to watch.. my betta would sit next to them n zone out while they ate algae off leaves.
It isnt anubias in 1970’s tank. It is a famous old school dutch style plant the OG Saururus cernuus. In Dutch ‘leidse plantje’
I remember when I was little I use to read books at this place called the library. If you like the book you could check it out and take it home.😅
Omg twig catfish!! The cutest Lil stick insect fish dragon lookin!!
QOTW- I really love my Bristlenose pleco, he's so cute and scrunkly. Couldn't ask for a better fish and algae eater than bristlenoses
Rineloricaria lanceolata! Definitely the coolest, prehistoric looking water-dragon ever existed!
They didn't need all that stuff because it is a heavily planted tank with controlled illumination and minimal stocking. A tank will take care of itself if you have a good balance =)
This channel made me work on a naturally planted tank for the long term benefit and convenience of easier (in my opinion) water change and maintenance.
everything i do on this channel is so people like you can start creating natural planted tanks :)
To answer the QOTW, I love me some Cherry shromp. They eat the hair algae AND they look cool.
I have soil and sand substrate and a ton of plants. Only had my 20gal set up for half a year now and there is no need for water changes because there are no nitrates. It all stays clean
alot of pre 70s aquariums used asphalt instead of silicone to seal it. it sucks for waterproofing but was a bit cheaper probably
amano shrimp gotta be my fav algea eater. they are hardy, efficent, cool and they dont take over the tank.
In New Zealand, love getting Tuesday morning Mondays 😂
Thank you for continuing the grind I love your channel and you definitely helped to get me to start fishkeeping!
Mine is the starlite Pleco, but it died after a few months as it became pale grey. RIP for pleco
Father Fish would be proud 😢
I have a 15 gallon planted tank with 4 varieties of just Cory! (Enough to impress and make Chirs get wings to fly to see them. 😂😂😂
Gotta say, bladder snails have done wonders for cleaning up mulm and glass algae. Totally maintanence free and self sustaining! They also make a great snack for my swordtails.
qotw...Mystery snails! They my favourite because I've never kept any algae eater except them. Also they look very cute and alien looking!
But i do love hillstream loaches and amano shrimp tho. They are definitely in my bucket list.
Glad U respect the old days. Started in 1994, with only a book from 1970.
And yer cycling, changes an all that crazy stuff those think they need to do as maintenance today was not a thing.
I still don't use ph tester XD
Steve's son just bred a tutrle Steve discovered for the first time. So cool
Oto catfish its the first time i have them and they absolutely demolished the brown algea and slime algea in the new tank(it cycled 1 week for the plants and 2 for the fish)
I’m over here catching up on ftr and realizing you use the viva piñata sound track sometimes. Old favorite of mine
Someone said flagfish, and I have to revise my original answer. I love my otos for the slimy stuff, but flagfish dominate with anything fuzzy. They are hardy, attractive, and utilized all areas of the tank. I have a planted setup with lots of nooks and crannies in the hardscape, and I see that guy everywhere. They have a bit of an attitude, but once everyone gets established it's a peaceful tank. Plus it's a good excuse to keep my tank a little furry. My guy (Rocky) is the centerpiece in my 29 gallon (kind of by accident) and it's working out really well! AND they are from Florida, so good for a North American native tank.
we love Mondays because you post on Monday !!!!!!
I’m on a holiday rn but I told my parents I need to watch fft every week or I’ll die😂 currently watching from my hotel room :)
Loved this episode! Keep up the amazing videos and thanks for making my Monday amazing as usual :)
tysm!
Betta update: So the little man is still kicking! So I think his sight is very limited and he is incredibly near sighted. I’ve found out a way to make him eat which is really good. Just trying to figure out a name for him.
Qotw: I love algae eaters! atm I have a clown pleco who is tankmates with the kuhlis (aka the noodle gang). I don’t always see him but he’s a goofy little guy. I also love my nerite who is a beast. Dude ate hard-to-remove algae off a betta leaf and somehow ate through some of the coating/plastic(?) on several occasions and is still kicking. I also love corycats but my currents tanks aren’t big enough for them 😔
I will always love and support the channel.
its regreshion, when you go backwards. my dad, same age, had a tank so much like this one, even the same type of stock, angel fish, cat fish (called somthing else now corydora) khuli loach he also has sworsfish and mollys but only cardanal, neon, head n tail light, tetras and harleqin and zebra rasp. and guppys, which bread regularly. when i whent to secondary school there were libuary books from the 60's (at uni i studyed 2 types of biology) with the carbon cycle (though i was at secondary late 80's) we were taught carbon cycle at school. my dad clearly understood the plants were importaint for the health of the fish. watching that tank is one of my earliest memories, one of my friends came into the house when i was 4 or 5 and i was telling him what all the fish were, i always knew exactly what was in the tanks, even though its a days travel to visit i still know what fish he has (one 20yr old dwarfed plec, its only just over a foot long, neon/cardinal tetra guppys, khuli/basic loach corydora) i just have goldfish. there was a real fish comunity, they talked to each other, i remember going and getting medicine when we got white spot and my dad chatted for ages with the petshop man and a couple of other people that came in, i just played with the animals
i like weather loach
Qotw It's the bristlenose pleco because they look cute and mine is always up to something.
QOTW- Ma albino bristlenose pleco Mr Chompers :)) He does his best even if he is a lil lazy
Ottos, they are so cute and smol!
Another great episode. Love it!
My fave algae eater and over all fish is the otocinclus. Because they are the cutest catfish ever.
I started this year i went from a fish abuser .5 tank with a betta to a 10 gallon tank and i can tell he is atleast a little more happier because i still have a little more to work on
I have noticed that parrot people are very often also saltwater tank fish people too. I fall into this category. Dogs and cats are not enough for quirky people- they bore us. We require a pet that can communicate and manipulate us along with a tank that we kept an octopus in for at least a year of our life before we decide to take on the impossible hobby of growing a coral reef in our living rooms😂 if this sounds like you, we are the same little weirdos! There are a lot of us! And our parrots know all our fishes names!!! We still can’t figure out which is more intelligent- a parrot or an octopus. We are the weirdos that keep this information locked in our brains and one day we think it’s the parrot and the next day it’s the octopus.
I love Otocinclus. Not because they effectively eat my algae (cuz the dont) but because they are just gorgeous and cute and they look like mini sharks when they swim around. But honestly i have never had any other algae eaters except snails.
QOTW: For freshwater tanks, I used snails to eat my algae! The chinese mystery snail is very good at eating all the algae, but imo they are kinda ugly and they breed too fast. My favorite algae eater cuz they look good are the pink ramshorn snails! (For saltwater though, I love my nudibranch!!)