Its a snow day so I thought I would talk to you guys about feeding my fish. These are just a FEW of the products I generally use. What are your favorites? Buy me a coffee: msjinkzd.com/about_msjinkzd/support-our-site/ Instagram @msjinkzd Website and stocklist: msjinkzd.com/stocklist/ Facebook: facebook.com/msjinkzd/
Some of the foods you use, I can´t seem to find in Denmark. I like the frozen food, because I know what they are made of. The store sell some Tetra dry foods, but the ingredients are not clear on the content. My neighbor has some koi, and got some small pellets for the young ones, and I though, maybe I could buy a little from him. But when I asked about that at the petstore, he said, there was to much protein in koi food for the Betta. That got me confused, I thought Betta need high protein food? With only two Bettas and a snail, I don´t think I´m ready for doing live foods yet. Ps. My little skinny one seems to be ok. Watching closely with a magnifying glass, for any kind of infection. Today he swam into my palm, and rested for a little. This is a dangerous hobby :-D
Ive been watching your videos for about a year now and today I was in my local fish store just browsing when I heard the guy at the register excitedly tell the cashier to look up your videos. Lots of love from the San Diego fish community.
Great video again Rachel! I always enjoy your videos!' 2018 is going to bring you some awesome milestones! 100K! I learn a lot from them! Who doesn't love to see eating fish?! I LOVE it! Your fish look great Rachel! Keep up the good work and a huge thumbs up as always!
Thanks, Rachel. That was a very helpful video. We are hunkered down with high winds and falling snow, hoping we won't lose power, which has been flickering now and again. These northeast storms are such a nuisance! Tomorrow we return to the icebox at least for a while. The mild fall spoiled us. So today is good for vacuuming substrate and changing the water.
Back when i still had space and money for my tanks and fish, my ancistrus where the first fish to spawn. Seeing your baby ancistrus makes me wanna get into the hobby again. Gotta wait a while tho. Loving your vids! Got here cause of joey. Don't tell him, but i think you are way more knowlageable about fish and their behaviour than he is.
It's cold here in Ohio, too. Thank you for putting the health and safety of your fish foremost! PS It'll be a balmy 33 degrees here during the weekend, so you should be getting some warmer weather, too!
Great Video as always! Thanks to your species spotlight (and tons of reading) i could finally decide on some fish for my tank. Just recently got some kubotai, and have some questions, tried reading up, but as there is just limeted documentation (in both english and german language)... I have a small "problem" with agression(?) (some serious chasing) of these guys from one ot another. The chased party is changing. Is that courtship/mating behavior oder a real problem of maybe overstocking/stress/not enaugh food/to much current/anything else? (12 in a foot cube about 10 gallons, feeding small amounts 2-5 times a day, they are always!!!!! hungry but fat and flow set quite high as they seem to like it, or at least at first, nowadays their behavior doesn´t change too much with the change of flow, but it is much) Also: They really have some changing color. They are mostly that nice vibrant green with some gleaming blue up top, but that sometimes changes to a very coppery color. Different species? Stress? Wtf? Comes close to the rubescens. But as they are green most of the time and like the soft water i dont believe they are. Their behavior when not chasing/being chased is: schooling or shoaling around (the extend changes), not being shy at all. Rather confident. Behaving just like fish should. Other than that, the tank is more on the high tech side, 11W Light, Eheim filter for up to 50 gallon tanks, in line co2, UVC, a Söchting Oxydator (adds more oxygen to the water). Water is soft, GH: 6°; lightly acidic, pH around 6,4; KH around 6°; no problems with amonia nitrate and nitrite. Tank mates: bee shrimp, and snails (clithon sp.) Thanks for any answers by anyone!
I just recently picked up some bug bites for my tiger oscar. He seems to like them. I'm not sure I like how they put stuff like potato in it though. I've been using the tropical bug bite granules for about a year and a half my community fish with no issues. I don't feed it as a staple though, for my staple I use northfin community. The best food is always the food your fish will eat. I've tried feeding my fish new life spectrum but they won't touch it.
Thank you Rachel for your videos. Question: Do you pull your pseudomugil rainbow eggs from the parent tank or do you leave them? I have some ARU II's and was curious. Thanks
If i wnt to actually raise any meaningful amounts of fry, I have to pull the eggs. The fry are super teeny and the parents will predate on them, as well as the eggs.
Geriatric community tank haha ... Sorry , but sounds so funny and cute when you say that. I love that tank by the way , I had no idea neons could live so long .
Ha! I was about to place an order last night and then I thought with the cold there might be delays! I guess whenever the thaw ends you'll have 10 million requests :)
i know the Latin WAY better then the common names- I get stuck on those in all honesty. I Have a list of common names I have to reference so I can tell you guys them. And thanks!
Rachael, what would be best shrimp to add to my new Planted Shrimp tank (that don’t have shrimp, yet. Cycling). I have a mystery snail in my large Betta planted bowls and the snails have eaten the plants! Heard Maylasian trumpet snails are good. Do they eat plants?
I was surprised to see rainbows with shrimps. Means i can finally add something else in my tank without my shrimp being at risk. Yay. Also i wanted to ask you, you said that you feed the shrimp tank two times a week. What would you do if a fishtank has shrimps but also few types of tetras, snails and corys. Still two times a week or more frequently ? Btw your haircut is simply the best today.
Your fish are so nice, would you be able to suggest a food for julii corycat fry? I have them in a tank with snails, I'm feeding them algae wafers, almond leaves. would they eat this too?
Great video! One question: is it possible to keep multiple african butterfly fisch in one tank ? Alot of people say they are related to arowana sooo since king of DIY did multiple arowana maybe the butterflys work on the same principle? I have a large low tank so a lot of room for them.
Hey there .I gotta say .you look better and better every single day .what's your diet and workout lol .besides keeping my fish healthy I wanna be healthy too .
I am doing a diet that is similar to Keto, so almost all fresh foods and good quality meats/seafood. I avoid all processed grains, sugar, and beer and eat 4 or 5 meals a day and drink a lot of water. I am not qualified to offer nutrition advice, but its the same diet that I ate growing up and it is very much agreeing with me. It is much more of a lifestyle change then a diet, in all honesty.
I recently tried some of the repashy gel food that you have to make up yourself, it stinks something awful, especially when you make it first up, but the fish love it
Are freeze dried tubifex worm cubes not used any more? I used to stick it to my glass ad my fish would go nuts for it. Curious as to why I haven't seen it used by hobbyists today.
how do u catch ur bottom dwellers on your planted tanks and such? traps? because i want to catch my Siamese algae eater and some kuhli loaches but dont want to talk my aquascape
Hi Rachel 😊 I had a nerite snail die one Xmas Eve and found an Amano shrimp dead on Xmas day. I did an ammonia test after both deaths and it showed 0 so went ahead and did my usual 10% change. I did my regular water test 3 days later and though it was yellow, there was a very slight greenish tint so I bought some Ammo-lock and decided to keep an eye on things. By Friday my ammonia was nearer 0.25 so I did a 15% water change and decided to use the Ammo-lock. I've been testing every other day and using the Ammo-lock as per the instructions. I've trimmed all plants that looked even slightly sorry for themselves, checked nothing else had died, added a chunk of polyfilter and vacuumed the gravel. Today the ammonia had gone up to 0.5 and I have no clue why. I knew Ammo-lock would give me an ammonia reading, even though it's been converted, but I can't understand why it's gone up. I also started to get a bluish tint to the nitrite. I don't want to meddle and end up doing more harm than good so I'm wondering of several smaller water changes rather than a big one would be better? Just for clarity, this is my current tank which is nearly 3 years old, not the new one. Thanks. 😊
Rachel O'leary Well, I lost all my fish in January '16, despite religiously using tap water conditioner. I suspect my local water was the culprit for that and they did send me a water report and whilst it didn't show up anything conclusive, the water still definitely smelled of Chemicals which was why I decided to switch to remineralised R.O. (it wasn't expensive for a 17 gallon tank) and I've been using it successfully ever since (my fish love it).
Your videos are always so helpful, thanks you. Always nice to get advice over new foods. Check out my new video if you ever have time. You give me inspiration to improve the information on my channel. Thanks again
Hi Rachel could you please tell me what type of fish captain cranky pants is please, I am really like watching your videos especially your monster fish x
Do you ever have problems with your tanks with normal fish and bottom feeders? My tetras like to steal the bottom feeder food and swim around the tank with it so nobody can eat it
I never seem to see my CPDs eat, I suppose they are somehow since they are still alive but it makes me nervous. my tetras seem to steal most of the food. any recommendations?
Good food is soooo important. Unfortunately I learned it the hard way. By giving my various tetras and ottos and corys common fish shop food like crisps pleco tablets I have noticed that they get bloated often. And I was reading about it. The wheat content in the food is making this. It is just they same with us. New studies show that the wheat we eat today is different from that we where eating 20 years ago. It’s just too much modified now. It’s getting less natural and we get bloated as well. Same with fish. After some time reading fish with those foods I ve noticed some deaths - even unsuspected ones. Now I feed them only natural foods like frozen and I just drop from time to time some veggies like a cucumber. I they love it. No deaths reported. Looking healthy and colourful. So learn that I should provide them with good diet of natural food. Thanks for the videos.
Its a snow day so I thought I would talk to you guys about feeding my fish. These are just a FEW of the products I generally use.
What are your favorites?
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Rosie M, nope, too little space. You can do a lone betta in the 5.5 though.
What species is Whiskey?
+Bomber Harris 4 line pimodella
Some of the foods you use, I can´t seem to find in Denmark. I like the frozen food, because I know what they are made of. The store sell some Tetra dry foods, but the ingredients are not clear on the content. My neighbor has some koi, and got some small pellets for the young ones, and I though, maybe I could buy a little from him. But when I asked about that at the petstore, he said, there was to much protein in koi food for the Betta. That got me confused, I thought Betta need high protein food?
With only two Bettas and a snail, I don´t think I´m ready for doing live foods yet.
Ps. My little skinny one seems to be ok. Watching closely with a magnifying glass, for any kind of infection. Today he swam into my palm, and rested for a little. This is a dangerous hobby :-D
Ah, I used to have one years ago, nice
Ive been watching your videos for about a year now and today I was in my local fish store just browsing when I heard the guy at the register excitedly tell the cashier to look up your videos. Lots of love from the San Diego fish community.
that is awesome!!!
Its good to see that even though you sale fish that you still spend the extra money to get them the best diet possible.
Aqua Apprentice Hey buddy
Guppy Gal & Tanzie the Ragdoll 👋 always good to see a familiar face 😁
I love watching your videos!! Happy Snow Cyclone!
Great video again Rachel!
I always enjoy your videos!'
2018 is going to bring you some awesome milestones! 100K!
I learn a lot from them!
Who doesn't love to see eating fish?! I LOVE it!
Your fish look great Rachel!
Keep up the good work and a huge thumbs up as always!
Awesome introduction and really good information.
Loved watching this, thanks for the fab video lovely x
That Geriatric tank likely has some fish with 'tails' to tell. If so, would like to hear some of them. No coffee again.. lol
Love the name of your fish Rachel. Very well suited! Makes me laugh.. Thank Q
You are such an awesome person. You make awesome videos. Glad I found you!
Thanks, Rachel. That was a very helpful video. We are hunkered down with high winds and falling snow, hoping we won't lose power, which has been flickering now and again. These northeast storms are such a nuisance! Tomorrow we return to the icebox at least for a while. The mild fall spoiled us. So today is good for vacuuming substrate and changing the water.
much respect for you from Korea. You are real cool lady and i admire you
Thank you for that Rachel. Learnt a lot of the different foods I can feed my fish.
Holy dooly on the cold,,, I seriously reckon I would die if I were to be subjected to anything minus for too long. Stay warm Rachel
Awesome video, thanks for sharing your food types. My goodeids tend to be micro-predators as well. They love frozen foods and bug bites!
Back when i still had space and money for my tanks and fish, my ancistrus where the first fish to spawn. Seeing your baby ancistrus makes me wanna get into the hobby again. Gotta wait a while tho.
Loving your vids! Got here cause of joey. Don't tell him, but i think you are way more knowlageable about fish and their behaviour than he is.
So excited to find your channel! :D
Love the tanks . Keep up with the great videos.
Great channel, love the content!
Great to see all the fish and hear about your feeding regime. Speaking of bad weather, do you use a backup generator for your fish room?
+mama j yes. Absolutely
You’re looking great!
Those last fish remind me of a stegosaurus 🤘 great looking fish
Great video.
Being a fish P.i.M.P. is a hard life. Lol
I’m learning so much from your channel.
glad to hear it carmen!
Keep up the good work! Just started the bug bites small formula for my community tank and they love it!
I really like your videos, subscribed!
welcome!
next up...freshwater tropical aquarium fish species that poop linkin logs...the gift that keeps on giving ;-)
Stay safe and keep warm.
Hi Rachel thats a really cool looking aquarium video you got today cheers from me Mikael
It's cold here in Ohio, too. Thank you for putting the health and safety of your fish foremost! PS It'll be a balmy 33 degrees here during the weekend, so you should be getting some warmer weather, too!
My fish love the bug bytes line
the "shellies' are my favorite!
Love it when my fishes look THICC
Bug bites food is awesome. My flowerhorn loves them
Omg your looking so good and healthy!!!! Good on you! 💓💓
+Sonny Bradley thanks! Been working hard
Great Video as always! Thanks to your species spotlight (and tons of reading) i could finally decide on some fish for my tank.
Just recently got some kubotai, and have some questions, tried reading up, but as there is just limeted documentation (in both english and german language)...
I have a small "problem" with agression(?) (some serious chasing) of these guys from one ot another. The chased party is changing. Is that courtship/mating behavior oder a real problem of maybe overstocking/stress/not enaugh food/to much current/anything else? (12 in a foot cube about 10 gallons, feeding small amounts 2-5 times a day, they are always!!!!! hungry but fat and flow set quite high as they seem to like it, or at least at first, nowadays their behavior doesn´t change too much with the change of flow, but it is much)
Also: They really have some changing color. They are mostly that nice vibrant green with some gleaming blue up top, but that sometimes changes to a very coppery color. Different species? Stress? Wtf? Comes close to the rubescens. But as they are green most of the time and like the soft water i dont believe they are.
Their behavior when not chasing/being chased is: schooling or shoaling around (the extend changes), not being shy at all. Rather confident. Behaving just like fish should.
Other than that, the tank is more on the high tech side, 11W Light, Eheim filter for up to 50 gallon tanks, in line co2, UVC, a Söchting Oxydator (adds more oxygen to the water). Water is soft, GH: 6°; lightly acidic, pH around 6,4; KH around 6°; no problems with amonia nitrate and nitrite. Tank mates: bee shrimp, and snails (clithon sp.)
Thanks for any answers by anyone!
Fish pimpin' ain't easy, but it sho is fun.
I just recently picked up some bug bites for my tiger oscar. He seems to like them. I'm not sure I like how they put stuff like potato in it though. I've been using the tropical bug bite granules for about a year and a half my community fish with no issues. I don't feed it as a staple though, for my staple I use northfin community. The best food is always the food your fish will eat. I've tried feeding my fish new life spectrum but they won't touch it.
Thank you Rachel for your videos. Question: Do you pull your pseudomugil rainbow eggs from the parent tank or do you leave them? I have some ARU II's and was curious. Thanks
If i wnt to actually raise any meaningful amounts of fry, I have to pull the eggs. The fry are super teeny and the parents will predate on them, as well as the eggs.
Geriatric community tank haha ... Sorry , but sounds so funny and cute when you say that. I love that tank by the way , I had no idea neons could live so long .
Ha! I was about to place an order last night and then I thought with the cold there might be delays! I guess whenever the thaw ends you'll have 10 million requests :)
How in the hell can you say those latin names so quickly and confidently?
Also your makeup looked awesome today!
i know the Latin WAY better then the common names- I get stuck on those in all honesty. I Have a list of common names I have to reference so I can tell you guys them. And thanks!
Rachel O'leary That is so hilarious! You are honestly the best!
Rachael, what would be best shrimp to add to my new Planted Shrimp tank (that don’t have shrimp, yet. Cycling). I have a mystery snail in my large Betta planted bowls and the snails have eaten the plants! Heard Maylasian trumpet snails are good. Do they eat plants?
Look at your subscriptions going up. Yeah Rachel
pretty amazing, isn't it!!
I was surprised to see rainbows with shrimps. Means i can finally add something else in my tank without my shrimp being at risk. Yay.
Also i wanted to ask you, you said that you feed the shrimp tank two times a week. What would you do if a fishtank has shrimps but also few types of tetras, snails and corys. Still two times a week or more frequently ?
Btw your haircut is simply the best today.
Would u be exploring into marine tanks and fishes anytime....I really like the videos u put up....thanks for making such videos...God bless
Your fish are so nice, would you be able to suggest a food for julii corycat fry? I have them in a tank with snails, I'm feeding them algae wafers, almond leaves. would they eat this too?
Soilent Green is people!
If I were a fish, I'd be whiskey..I love my food.
Great video! One question: is it possible to keep multiple african butterfly fisch in one tank ? Alot of people say they are related to arowana sooo since king of DIY did multiple arowana maybe the butterflys work on the same principle? I have a large low tank so a lot of room for them.
ordered some repashy for the fish, went with soilent green to try first, also going to get some o nip
Hey there .I gotta say .you look better and better every single day .what's your diet and workout lol .besides keeping my fish healthy I wanna be healthy too .
I am doing a diet that is similar to Keto, so almost all fresh foods and good quality meats/seafood. I avoid all processed grains, sugar, and beer and eat 4 or 5 meals a day and drink a lot of water. I am not qualified to offer nutrition advice, but its the same diet that I ate growing up and it is very much agreeing with me. It is much more of a lifestyle change then a diet, in all honesty.
I recently tried some of the repashy gel food that you have to make up yourself, it stinks something awful, especially when you make it first up, but the fish love it
oh it smells like rotten death!!
I watched your shocking time with Joey lol..... what does his gallery look like first hand....
Are freeze dried tubifex worm cubes not used any more? I used to stick it to my glass ad my fish would go nuts for it. Curious as to why I haven't seen it used by hobbyists today.
Do you culture any live foods to feed when you get in some of the imported fish?
I have a question regarding the shrimp. On the bug bites ingredient list, copper is listed. Is this something to be mindful of?
no. most foods have copper and its sincerely doubtful the small amoutn and type of copper that it is is harmful in even the long run
how do u catch ur bottom dwellers on your planted tanks and such?
traps? because i want to catch my Siamese algae eater and some kuhli loaches but dont want to talk my aquascape
Hi Rachel 😊 I had a nerite snail die one Xmas Eve and found an Amano shrimp dead on Xmas day. I did an ammonia test after both deaths and it showed 0 so went ahead and did my usual 10% change. I did my regular water test 3 days later and though it was yellow, there was a very slight greenish tint so I bought some Ammo-lock and decided to keep an eye on things. By Friday my ammonia was nearer 0.25 so I did a 15% water change and decided to use the Ammo-lock. I've been testing every other day and using the Ammo-lock as per the instructions. I've trimmed all plants that looked even slightly sorry for themselves, checked nothing else had died, added a chunk of polyfilter and vacuumed the gravel. Today the ammonia had gone up to 0.5 and I have no clue why. I knew Ammo-lock would give me an ammonia reading, even though it's been converted, but I can't understand why it's gone up. I also started to get a bluish tint to the nitrite.
I don't want to meddle and end up doing more harm than good so I'm wondering of several smaller water changes rather than a big one would be better? Just for clarity, this is my current tank which is nearly 3 years old, not the new one. Thanks. 😊
How mysterious! Have you checked with your municipal water supply to see if they have done a recent flush? You may want to call htem and ask.
Rachel O'leary Well, I lost all my fish in January '16, despite religiously using tap water conditioner. I suspect my local water was the culprit for that and they did send me a water report and whilst it didn't show up anything conclusive, the water still definitely smelled of Chemicals which was why I decided to switch to remineralised R.O. (it wasn't expensive for a 17 gallon tank) and I've been using it successfully ever since (my fish love it).
Can u do a video on your German blue ram fry and how you breed them I love blue Rams I tried to breed them 4 times but none hatched
Have you done species spotlights on the dace and shiners in your hillstream tank? If not can you?
+Matthew Zito I have not but agree that I should
Nice video! I'm curious, did you get all three polypterus at once and grow them up together, or did you have to introduce them when they were bigger?
+Ginger L they were all from the same import but I got them at different times from the same source. I grew them out individually to combine them
Thanks! Those guys are just fascinating.
Your videos are always so helpful, thanks you. Always nice to get advice over new foods. Check out my new video if you ever have time. You give me inspiration to improve the information on my channel. Thanks again
16:18 DIY logo spotted..
Hi Rachel could you please tell me what type of fish captain cranky pants is please, I am really like watching your videos especially your monster fish x
He is a wild oscar :)
Aw thank you he’s amazing x
Can I ask some advice, can I put assassin snails in with my shrimps.
🤘🐌🤘
-15 hahaha hitting -25 here in Ottawa Canada
Tom-E that is horrible. Hope you will be okay!
Do you ever have problems with your tanks with normal fish and bottom feeders? My tetras like to steal the bottom feeder food and swim around the tank with it so nobody can eat it
yeeeaahyyyyyy heloooooooooooooo
I have a 20 gallon shrimp tank how many shrimp can I put in it and won’t over populate the tank I have around 26 right now is that to many ??
I’m working in Taiwan. Can’t find frozen food anywhere :(
I never seem to see my CPDs eat, I suppose they are somehow since they are still alive but it makes me nervous. my tetras seem to steal most of the food. any recommendations?
👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼
I have 3 male guppies if I get 4 females will them over stock my tank
How old are your emperor tetras in the retirement tank?
+Sonny Bradley only about 2
What species is Whiskey?
Off topic. Rachel have you been losing weight? Looks good on you 👍
NiX aKi I was also wondering I’d she was losing weight. Certainly looking great!
Good food is soooo important. Unfortunately I learned it the hard way. By giving my various tetras and ottos and corys common fish shop food like crisps pleco tablets I have noticed that they get bloated often. And I was reading about it. The wheat content in the food is making this. It is just they same with us. New studies show that the wheat we eat today is different from that we where eating 20 years ago. It’s just too much modified now. It’s getting less natural and we get bloated as well. Same with fish. After some time reading fish with those foods I ve noticed some deaths - even unsuspected ones. Now I feed them only natural foods like frozen and I just drop from time to time some veggies like a cucumber. I they love it. No deaths reported. Looking healthy and colourful. So learn that I should provide them with good diet of natural food. Thanks for the videos.
Does your hair represent the German flag 🇩🇪
the first time I ever dyed it that way it WAS in honor of some German friends I was meeting up with.
yay!
i didn´r noticed that until i´ve read thsi comment ! Nice hair ;-) greetings from Germany
Do you have breeding female multies for sale? I live below allentown so not to far away.
nope