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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and yours! I hope Santa is good to you! 🎄🎁🎅
merry fishmas :)
Not a problem. FTR is a gift any time it drops. Doesn't have to be on Christmas or any other day. It is a gift at so many other times that everyone should be happy that you are doing it regularly.
Merry Christmas 🐠🐟
Say what you want about that first tank, but it's oxygenated.
Bottom dwelling fishes love that
Corydoras pleco hill stream loaches panda garra and etc
Yeah I too thought that actually greatly helps the oxygen in the tank, I can't see it having any negative impact on the fish since its mainly the surface being agitated.
@@Arborpress The fish in the video didn't seem that upset. They could clearly hold their own pretty effortlessly even when facing downstream. (Downstream would be facing left, since they are below the jet which is spraying right at the surface, meaning then the water hits the right wall of the tank at the surface it has to sink and go back left into the pump to complete the circuit.)
tbh, the fish didn’t seem too bothered by it!
so oxygenated they might be high on that O2
I'm so happy that first post made it in LMAO I absolutely LOST IT laughing when that went viral on the subreddit
10:35 OMG I MADE FISH TANK REVIEW WHAT AN HONOR!!! thank you omg a 5/5 WHAT! I’ve been watching for years. This is so cool!
My fav was definitely the strong filter. Seen it when it was first posted, forgot about it, then got to revisit and cackle about it again lol.
YAAAA
the upgraded office tank is a triumph. TRUE WORKPLACE FISHKEEPER.
INDEED
8:43 heater malfunctions affecting water I have never thought about. This is why you are the GOAT Chris. Thanks for managing to teach new me new things every single time. Hope you are doing well and wish you a good recovery from the fire. Wouldn't be a monday without ftr.
it's happened to me once before and I was just glad I caught it before any fish died. it was still really low grade, stuck my hand in the water for maintenance and paper cuts in my hand started stinging. took my hand out and immediately it stops, not like water stinging a cut but distinctly something else. stuck my hand back in while really paying attention and immediately went "this water feels... faintly spicy." it's the only descriptor I have for this low an electrical leak level, it was this low level buzzy feeling I'd have probably never noticed without the feeling of-- kinda like getting really diluted pepper juice in the paper cuts. started unplugging equipment one at a time, and on the the heater the feeling immediately vanished.
Thanks so much! Hope you will never have to use that information even though you know it!
@@nivision glad you caught it before you lost any fish!
@@FishForThought Nah thank you Chris you the best man. Long time big fan.
Went to visit my soon-to be puppy today. The breeder had a huuugggeee saltwater tank, easily 300+ gal, just for 2 clown fish, plenty of live plants too. Was super happy to see a fellow fish keeper who knows what is what.
I’ve always wondered about filter strength and its impact on my fish tank. Your explanation and examples made it all click. Thanks for sharing your expertise! 💯
real glad to hear it helped!
@@FishForThought I’m always looking forward to the good contents you’ll share with us! 🙂
The highly oxygenated filter had me crippled with laughter 🤣
it's so unexpectedly dumb and funny
5:22 is my favorite because I didn't surprise my mom, but rather was requested to drive 14 hours to set up her new tank after doing a 4 hour round trip to select the items going into her 75 gallon tank. So I did that. And then she didn't even thank me let alone have a nice enough response to deserve a 2nd tank.
oh man :(
My dog woke me up at 4:30 this morning just so I could be here right when this video dropped.
ETA: coincidentally, the tank at 4:30 is also my answer to the QOTW
hahaha awesome!
7:40 It's sad, but you are giving honest information and not just instantly shaming the owner, you are calm, trying to be constructive even though it's an abjectly upsetting video. Thank you! (edit to fix typo...)
Thanks for noticing! Definitely the worst reaction to fish abuse is overreaction and making them feel bad and then double down on abusing
8:50 I used to have this issue at water change time. Turns out in florida, “cold” water out of the tap was 86 degrees. Tank was usually around 73. Took me a while to figure that one out.
ah shoot that's definitely a crazy florida thing!
QOTW: 0,07 the shrimp ball! That little shrimp going round and round on that moss ball was hilarious! 🤣😂🤣
100% agree. That shrimp was having the time of its life!!!
@@drunk4scunk Yup! 😁
bro is having the time of his lil life
@@FishForThought Yup!! 😁
@@FishForThought me watching FTR, having the time of my life like *shrimp on moss ball carousel*
my favorite post is the fish store review. I worked in petco and my proudest moment is when someone angrily posted to google that i wouldn't sell him a goldfish and bowl.
for context i was a manager, so I was able to put my foot down. Ended up getting fired for feeding extra mealworms to the hamsters, because a balanced diet is against the rules
that is a good moment to be proud about! good job on you
That stinks! That's why I'm scared of applying to chain pet stores, even though I want to work in animal care. Petco is one of the worst offenders. Although, I will say, I've been working at a pet supermarket for 6 months and our location is awesome, i feel so grateful I ended up with a team of coworkers that know what they're doing and are dedicated to animal care. It's a small store so we can mostly do what we want, we feed our gerbils and hamsters leftover veggies, fruits and mealworms from our reptiles and we have the largest selection of fish in our tanks in the franchise, over 100 skus- we've even had cichlids breed in our tanks! I can't speak for the company as a whole, but I love how encouraged we are to talk about proper care with our customers.
AotW The one at 0:11. That thing could push the water in an entire trout or salmon fish hatchery. I suspect he stole the motor out of his brother's jet ski. He could kayak in that flow. It puts the Stikine River to shame, and makes the rapids on the Ottawa River at high water look like a trickle. That's really amazing. Really amazing. It makes my monthly flow look anaemic. Makes a severed aorta seem like a slight abrasion. A broken water main doesn't send water that hard. Glacial lake Missoula never burst forth water that powerfully. The crazy guy next door finished building a boat, and is starting to load animals two by two. Don't they use these things in some places to disperse rioters? That really is quite an impressive amount of water.
insane
hahaha that's crazy xD
@@FishForThought I'm glad it gave you a chuckle. My mission is accomplished if it brought a little happiness and a smile into lives.
A really strict teacher at my school had a fish tank with 10 neon tetras and he yapped about how they kept dying and even showed us the tank with dead fish in it. I took one look and realised that those fish were literally getting stuck on the filter. He didn't hate me anymore after that 👍
2:00 bro looks so good in this pic, you should do your hair like that more and let the stubble grow again!
I used to keep river fish and had a filter that sprayed like that and the fish LOVED IT
That filter clip is like those clips of dam gates being opened
yeah haha
fave post is the tank at 4:00, beautiful scape, love the natural look of that decor
Though I also have to love that story at 10:34, truly inspirational
Also surprised the qotw wasn't about christmas plans or gifts or anything XD
I got a new laptop to replace my broken one and since I have one day off this week we're spending it having a nice breakfast, baking cookies, and then doing fondue!~^^
tyty!
awesome plans, have fun!
Man that tank 4:00 I will be tank inspiration from I'm about to set up a 36 gallon tank for small schooling fish. They would look so neat in that scape
agreed
QOTW: My favorite tank in this episode was the low-tech 10-gallon, 10:39. I’ve been wanting to setup a very similar scape for a while now. Happy holidays, Chirs!
That filter 😂
I also had a powerful filter that came with my 12 litre fish tank, and it jetted everything everywhere! When I told the store employees I had to buy a new filter, because the ones in the sets are too strong, they seemed to know! Why do they have to scam us?! 😅😂
lmao true xD
Ha, my reddit comment was featured in this video! The one about firefighting grade pump :D
there we goooo!!! nice comment broski
Complete attendance for FTR 2024 🎉
incredible ian! merry Christmas!
I'm pretty sure that first one is a pump designed to mimic river currents for larger stream fairing fish, it's supposed to be on at least a 4 or 5 foot long tank...
it's insane hahaha
Lol number one, I bought a 20 gal turtle tank filter for my 30 gal guppy tank, lol it pushes hard like that the fish love it I also have bristle nose plecos. Really did it because in the wild they are found under waterfalls
11:50 made me laugh - it was so unexpected! I hope they’re just in a holding tank while their pond is being worked on or something. But just the look in their faces… and how did they get lined up like that?
hahaha right, no idea!!
I slept so long. Waking up to this made me so happy
Been a subscriber since day 1.finally got my 105 liters aquarium now im finna go sicko mode on that aqua scape.
Last week I couldn’t watch your video on upload day but this week I most definitely am not missing it 👏
I needed to see that fish feeding ring post, please expand on this. I bought an auto fish feeder and it came with this exact ring and i dont know anything about these rings
YES FINALLY IVE BEEN WAITING ALL MORNING FOR THIS!I'm subscribed but didnt get the notification😢
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nice vid as always very much appreciated and merry christmas y'all! 🎄
Never use dirt in a tank, but the vallisnerias grow a lot boy, bought one stem about a year ago, it grew grew and grew, when a trimmed them in half the start grow another baby vallis, and another, and another, 2 tanks with around 6/7 big vallis like the on in 7:29 only with river rocks and sand
Well, also fish poop and an working small ecosystem
Would definitely see a video comparing both, but a sand only works as well
hm hm interesting!
8:10 I think the betta got spooked. It looks like in his panic, he rammed his head straight into the glass. Dude got knocked out, probably got a concussion, if not self deleted.
:( hopefully not...
Aye it’s Christmas break so I get to watch FTR right after it comes out. An early Christmas present!
I have the 15gal fluval flex, and I decided to put material from the fishnet glued over the intake covers, and I haven't even had a baby snail in there in 6mo.
My favorite post in this episode is probably the one about the office fish tank. I've been talking about it with some of my co-workers lately, but I sort of don't think we will ever get one since I work for a City and some people in the City might think it is a waste of City resources even if we fund it completely through our own money from employee pockets. Thinking of maybe a brackish tank to possibly show what types of fish live in brackish water.
8:56 you can watch the color in that Betta change and lighten up from the time it hits the sand to when the video ends.
QOTW- Millie, at 3:55: “Be why!!”
Merry Christmas to you and yours ! 😊
I also have two female ancistrus bristlenoses, one is a bit bigger than the other. And the bigger one bullies every fish roaming the bottom of my big tank! She´s like: That's my algae wafer, piss off!
lmao! size does matter in the animal kingdom for sure!
"they'll buy an overabundance of plants" I had the opposite happen... initially planted 2 very tiny val and 3 java fern buds in my 55 (fully stocked on a slightly overpowered canister filter) but now its a jungle that is so balanced that i can run it off 2 medium sponge filters and no water changes (there are more types of plants in there now including some terrestrial out the top).
Merry Christmas chris I hope you enjoy Christmas dinner🎄
9:02 made me so happy
That first one,..I have one pump like that I needed some adjust if I wanted to use it as internal filter, cuz that is for a hang on the back filter
Merry Christmas fof!!!
Merry Christmas!
I accidentally gave my blue dwarf gourami toxic shock the other day. I immediately moved him to a different tank, and he quickly recovered. Im pretty sure the problem was chlorine in the water. Make sure tap water is properly dechlorinated when you do water changes!
ah shoot ;( hope he is fully recovered!
@FishForThought Oh yeah, he's fine. This all happened while he was quarantined (fungal infection) and the water change was for adding medicine. He's recovered from that, too, and is back in the big tank.
I wonder if the pump is for misters or a water feature you could probably pump water up afew feet with that pressure
Hard to pick a favourite post, so many post of pictures of nice tanks. I'll pick 15:19 because it's wholesome and I wish someone would straight off gift me a big tank completed with decore and everything (stones are so expensive duuude). Such a lucky dad!
aw great choice :)
it’s a monday and i have a fever and my stomach is 107 degrees but FTR keeps me going thanks chris
oh shoot are u okay man what did ya eat
Having Lunch while whatching FTR is really good
that lunch vibe
8:50 man the betta fish perishing from shock is hard to watch
all that first filter needed was filter floss. they're strong to be able to push water through that!
I feel like the filter floss would get yeeted out of the tank lmao
7:36 great insert!
thx!
9:16 That's my poser, bully bristle-nose pleco. 🎉
ayyy!
My favorite post would be the first one. That filter is like a boat engine.
I'm always on the Aquarium reddit and I saw that insane filter flow post when it came out too lmao
you witnessed history haha
7:38 to me as a betta person, it looks like he was doing the "chasing his glass reflection" thing male bettas that are understimulated do and can get addicted to. they're not intelligent enough to recognize their own reflection so once they notice it and cave to the chasing urge, they'll never figure out it's just them and it escalates just at different paces per individual. iirc the pnly real solution is to change the lighting and stuff till they can't see it anymore. with a sidebar of interacting with the fish and doing flaring practice type stuff, trying live food, or maybe move him into some setup with some kind of other living beings to watch, because the fish has gone neurotic on you in his solitary prison cell.
literally looks like bro was so lost in the sauce he basically charged headfirst into a sand wall, and sand at high speed is like concrete. they really are the underwater predator equivalent of cats, and some of them have the spirit of orange cats in particular.
I feel so bad, I bought a five gallon tank and put 3 bluegill in it so they can grow until I get a bigger tank but I found out It’s only a 2.5 gallon.🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
gallon still too small for a grow out might be able to get away with 20 long for awhile
damn, bluegill grow FAST idk how long thats gonna last. They are one of the coolest pet fish imo but they are large and in charge
QOTW: I’ll pick the office tank just because I wish I could do the same at my work. They’ve got a 1.5-2gal “tank” with two African dwarf frogs in it. And a SpongeBob house. 😭
Could you get the frogs a Christmas gift in the form of a better tank?
When your filter also doubles as a wave maker
a huuuuge wave maker for the ocean haha
@@FishForThought Time for a bigger tank!
I kinda wanna know what filter that was. I can move more water with my mouth than most small filters like that. Get one of those bad boys for a hillstream loach tank would be sweet!
hahaha true but man will it be the loudest system running 24/7 like that, get no sleep around here
Must always comment so I don't let the Chirs down.
qotw: 5:20 bc I think they probably do "pets as presents" in the right way where there's conversation ahead of time and the surprise is more when and/or what it looks like. I had an ex get me a snake for xmas one year, but I already had the enclosure setup for like a month beforehand. highly recommend 10/10 experience. my family has also gotten a couple xmas puppies/dogs over the years that have always been great additions to the family, and while we never did the whole morning of thing, it was a really fun surprise the year we did it as kids. it definitely needs to be a conversation and something the person is ready for though, otherwise I would assume it would be nearly as stressful as finding an animal that you decided to keep (which I have done, the chihuahua I found wandering the streets on my birthday is currently on my lap, I like to joke that he was my present from the universe, but that was still really stressful and not at all how I planned to spend that day)
What’s that plant that blew up over night (7days) around 6:50? NEED THAT!
limnophila sessiliflora
yep!
I took the little pump out of an automatic cat waterer, cheaper than identical devices sold for aquariums, works much better. QOTW: I miss gec & birb hosts.
I’ve watched every video from you and Wickins wicked reptiles for over 2 years and I just realized that I was subscribed to neither
That first filter would probably be good for like a fast river tank lol
1:50 Question is, do you buy a new filter better suited for the current aquarium, or do you use this opportunity, to buy a bigger aquarium to match the filter flow 🤔.
That plastic cup on your table is hanging on by a thread 🤣
Shrimp and moss ball! 😂
best clip
I never see anyone buy a pleco for the main fish but I am 👀
Buying a clown pleco for 20 gallon, going to put some community fish and will try to get plants.
I've got both a male and female adult bristlenose. Let me tell ya, they are the most aggressive fish in my 29. Not even the adult blue gourami will mess with them, everyone gets out of their way or pays for it.
I used to have a 5 gallon with a powerhead. It had a lot of current like that. The fish were strong as hell. Funny.
9:22 my girl do the same shi when I feeding the fish😭😭😭
but sometimes she's going crazy all over the tank (bro's starving with the poop in her length)
I really want that filter from the beginning of the episode. I would use it as a powerhead in my pond. lol
that would be quite nice
Maybe they washed the tank with soap or the water is too cold. The fish tank looks too clean and new. Poor betta
true!
Qotw answer. 7:01 is my fav in this video.
The "Poser Pleco" 😂
The filter is filtering the D2O from the H2O 💀
lmao
I have a heavily stocked 55-gallon tank. I do water changes every 2 weeks. However, my water tends to always appear cloudy. Was wondering if I should increase my filtration since the canister filter that I use has seen its better days. Its rated for 150 gallon tanks but I know it's not preforming hownit use too. I also feed my fish every 2 days.
That's what my 15 gallon fluval filter looks like without the tips on it and mesh stuffed in them. It's still too powerful for the tank, feeding the fish is a pain in the ass and i have to turn the filter off and it came with the tank. There is no adjustment on it. I HATE this fluval tank. I don't know why so many people praise them.
4:33 I had my oto did the same thing before and ended up in very bad shape afterward, it did not make it. I end up using cholla wood to prevent any entry.
QotW: 10:33 Glad someone help making nice aquarium for the office instead something people would regret later.
Happy Holidays man.
My small pleco was actually attacking my corydoras to get their food. He would suck on to corydoras and did some damage. I removed him from the tank once I saw him doing this.
moss ball @ 9:10
haha
Oh to be a shrimp spinning around on my cool moss ball
Merry Christmas!
I’m betting his dad was talking about how much he would love having a bigger tank like my mom was talking about getting a dog and over thinking all the thing for getting a dog so I picked up basic supplies and got to puppy searching and she was so happy she cried
Remember that scene from One Punch Man when Saitama smashed Boros into the wall with the first punch? Yeah, the fish that was closest to the filter when it got turned on probably experienced the same thing.😂
so true hahaa i loved that episode too
Thinking about getting some bushy live aquarium plants.What do you think about hornwart
eh I'm not a big fan!!
@FishForThought ok thanks, what should I get?
Didnt know you could use a jetski as a fish tank filter
Good morn my fishy friends!! Another super busy morning but wanted to stop in and say, if you're seeing this, you're awesome! And if you celebrate any of the assorted holiday traditions I'm wishing you a relaxing and stress free festive day(s) and if you don't celebrate, have a wonderful day and say hello to your fish for me. 🎄✌️🌿
always the best video on the internets.
thank you for your support my G!
merry fishmas!
I'm crying at the first tank 😂😂😂