6 Surprising Pets You Can Keep in a Fish Tank (That Aren’t Fish!)
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When you've been in the hobby as long as I have, you've kept everything in the fish store, so let's talk about all the non-fish, aquatic animals you can put in aquariums - such as snails, shrimp, frogs, crabs, crayfish, and turtles.
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*What are your favorite kinds of non-fish aquatic creatures to keep?*
Turtles 100000%
Newts. Love those mini underwater lizards.
Crawdads/crayfish/lobster I love them but they usually get eaten.
Eastern Newts, the cold water aquarist’s friend
Yellow belly sliders are what I have now... Wanna try dwarf frogs next... and some truly aquatic turtles(non-basking type)... thanks
Adult vampire crabs are almost completely terrestrial; in nature they only return to water to reproduce. I highly recommend keeping them in a terrarium with a small water bowl, *not* a fish tank. I suppose you could still do that though if you had a large setup with plenty of dry land, but a water-filled tank with just a piece of driftwood sticking out won't cut it long term.
I do wish vampire crabs were more commonly kept, because they're the only crab that's super duper easy to breed in captivity (afaik), breeding in much the same way as shrimp and crayfish.
Wow. Good info. Thanks
🎶🎶All we are saying, is give snails a chance 🎶🎶
Mostly lol
That’s exactly what I was thinking to myself 😂
Yeah, two months later... I'm rushing to the fish shop to get 04 assassin snails and 02 dwarf puffers.
@@libertasmorix bro they’ll eat the snails. I kept a group of pea puffers and not even mystery snails way larger than them stood a chance.
I keep pond snails to feed my pea puffers and loaches. I accidentally got 1 on a plant that turned into an infestation. Let’s just say they make great food for fish.
When I’m at a fish store I always ask if they could grab me some “pest snails” from the tanks. It’s so cool to see the little guys working around the tank
bamboo shrimp are the most wild looking things i’ve owned. they’ll bully curious fish out of the way, pick through gravel, and are really beautiful and varied from individual to individual. big, too. fun to put them with nano fish
Ive had my bamboo for about a year now. He is one of the coolest things in my tank and they’re fun to watch with their fan hands. Although I think he is dead atleast once every month or two when he sheds lmao
I’m wondering if as Aquarium Co-Op expands we’ll see them carry crabs and more tropical crayfish
I LOVE snails! They've become my wife's favorite animals in the hobby. I really wish people would stop treating them as pests. If you're aquarium is balanced and you're not over feeding, you should never have a "pest" snail population explosion. Even bladder snails are manageable. The hardest one I ever kept was a "mud snails", and I think that was because I was inexperienced in the hobby at that point. And if all else fails...get a pea puffer!
Me too! And I have 5 pea puffers I feed pond snails too.
Agreed! I love my snails as much as my fish.
I had success with assasin snails
I love snails,they help your aquarium and if you feed them too much then that's your mistake not the snail's mistake!
i have 3 prolific snails have no problem with them
I bought a lovely planted lava rock couple of weeks ago and then noticed I had a cool baby snail appear in my community tank. Kinda felt awesome to get a free snail with my purchase and now he's one my favourite little guys in my tank.
Definitely do lots of research with turtles. They require very specific care and are quite hands-on. Not as easy as it may seem. Expensive UVB bars that need to be replaced, large land areas, heating with a thermostat + thermometer, and a varied diet (often consisting of both live bugs and veggies)
I had a turtle way before I started fish keeping and I thought it was extremely easy IFFFF you can get the adequate space for them. When you have a 5” turtle in a 20 long it’s a nightmare. And with fish, I struggled keeping platties alive.
*PLATTIES*
I hope you’re doing well Cory. You’ve contributed so much to the hobby. Best wishes, take care of yourself!
I’m an avid frog keeper and there are so many more options than the (admittedly really cool) Pipidae that people don’t really think about. If you want to do a land area, then firebelly toads are awesome. If you want something more advanced and delicate, Budgetts frogs are really cool.
We kept a feeder a goldfish. Decided to give her a tank mate. The store advised adding mystery snails to eat any extra food and algae. They make a great addition along with the live plants.
I had an aquarium not too long ago that just stood around, it was fairly small. So I got this idea to put something else in it that doesn't live in water. Every year early summer I plant sunflowers, lots of them, on the balcony. Every year they attract a certain kind of insect at night, have you guessed what? Earwigs. Most nights I would count around 15-20 or more earwigs climbing up the walls on the building(two floors) to reach my sunflowers. They were *specifically* after them. I have no idea how they even spot them from the ground, you'd see them climb the wall, crazy. Turns out they eat the flower part while munching on any smaller insects that may be around. Anyways long story short I started capturing them and putting them inside the tank. I had them in there for over a year and you learn so much about insects by "studying" them. I used to be quite scared of them but they're completely harmless, they hide in dark damp spots and the males appear to be quite territorial. They would often be fighting each other with the pinchers, one of them had such a weird crooked one so it couldn't pinch properly. After a year I let them all out. I have no idea how long they live to this day never really read up on them in that regard. It was just a "fun" little experiment.
You want an interesting bug, find yourself an antlion. Record when it makes the little ditch trap. Pretty remarkable ingenuity. Then there's the brutality of the hunting.
You're so right about snails. My two rabbit snails had a baby and I was more excited than I ever have been. I didn't even realize they were the same species, much less opposite sex. It's so cute
I love turtles, but I worked in a pet shop for almost 7 years. In that time a lot of species have gotten illegal, because people abandoned them in the wild (because they didn't realise how big they get !). They survived in the wild and multiplied and are now a pest for our local water wildlife. So I printed a full sized turtle o paper and put it next to the baby ones in the shop. I also told people, who still wanted to buy one, that it costs a lot. They need a big tank (not one in the shop was actually big enough) and they need the heater (as a baby) and the UV light. But then again, we didn't have the audiance that probably watches these videos. We had the audiance that also put goldfish in a bowl (which is now also illegal, thankfully). But it still happens unfortunatly. It's one of the reasons why I quit and started working in a totally different branch. But the love for aquariums and turtles never left!
Shrimp have become so popular in my area that they are now sold for quadruple what they used to be. The shrimp business is now a good business to be in!
One of the snails that I absolutely love is Bullastra snail. Grows bit bigger than pond snails but their shell is covered with fleshy things which makes them look interesting and distinct from normal common snails.
I was interested in adding more snails to my tank - so I was researching my options and found this video! Its very informative and pointed me in the right direction! Can’t wait to have some more pets that aren’t fish in my tank- Thanks😃
I just have Amano Shrimp "only" at the moment and I'm so amazed at how fun they are to watch. I never expected them to move around so much
I've kept no end of indigenous species in aquariums, that I've netted out of local brooks and ponds... I remember some wild pond snails that I had: the shells weren't particularly impressive - the usual sort of brown... covered in algae and bits... But the snails body had the most incredible gold spotting on it. And as it was quite large (a good inch or so in length) it was quite an impressive sight.
All sorts of diving beetles, dragonfly lava, assorted nymphs... you name it... I kept it... and it was all free. And when you fancy the change you just took them all back... released them... and caught something different.
I also had a tank with a crack in the base glass which was kept outside with a sand, rock and scrub base: within which I kept native lizards and snakes (well slow-worms actually).
I have a beautiful Golden mystery snail buddy in a beautiful 10 gallon aquarium right now and love her! 💓 I can't believe how she blossomed when I first rescued her to this very day! She is adorable 😻🥰!
As always you're the best. I highly doubt you're aware of my appreciation but on the off chance you ever see my comments just know, you've directly been responsible for my knowledge and understanding of what works and what doesn't. If I'm unsure I search the internet and find what you have to say about certain products animals and how they're used before purchasing. You're the holy grail of fish keeping information and I will always support you and what you do. You've inadvertently deterred me from giving up when life got difficult personally and I'm much happier trying to continue my hobby for myself even if it's just me. Thanks again for all that you do for the community.
I love watching my mystery snail "parasnailing" (going to top and dropping to bottom) and my ghost shrimp doing Olympic backstrokes with duckweed in their... hands? Claws? The ghosties are so funny
We’ve had shrimps and frogs. We’ve currently got some snails in the pleco/Oscar tank. Snails always seem to arrive with lots of baby snails in tow. I wanna say they’re Apple snails but my other half may well correct me later. Ahem. Seasons greeting to you all
I've seen you mention them occassionally in livestreams and such, but I'd love to see a more in-depth video about caring for turtles. I have a friend who owns two red eared sliders.
You said it so well at the end!
I love my turtles, they get on fairly well with my leopard pleco.
Fun non-fish pets vid takes a nostalgic trip to old tank setup!
I have my own snail tank! I've kept a few fish, mostly bettas, but I've almost always had snails in the tank. Loved Nerites but they are so picky, Bladders were amazing, now I currently have Mysteries and Ramshorns, the Rams just had babies too! I adore snails so much, terrestrial snails are awesome as well and I am thinking about trying them out too!
Love this video ... I like to see or hear of some more you would recommend
Very educational.. thank yoy
Great video. I am planning a no watch change set up and was wondering if you do water changes?
I absolutely fell in love with rabbit snails. They are soo cool, very active, and fun to watch. Highly recommend them if you're looking to try something new!
I have two African dwarf frogs and 3 mystery snail buddies! In separate tanks! I could not be happier with them!
I saw one mystery snail who was zooming around the aquarium store. So much personality but seeing how energetic he was, I knew it wouldn't be fair to put him in my 5 gal. When I say zoom, I mean he was in probably a 20 gal and went from one side to the other in like less than 10 seconds. Wanted that dude so much lol.
Great stuff! I especially love the African dwarf frogs … they look like tiny people 😊
Could you do one on sunfish, darters, and other American native fish?
Dwarf frogs are easily my favorite non fish aquarium inhabitant. They’re so goofy and personable. They can even do alright in some community fish. Granted they can easily get outcompeted by some more ravenous fish if you’re not careful, but you get some shyer species that are slower and you’ve got an interesting community tank. You can even do a betta with them if you have a peaceful betta.
I'd like to hear your thoughts about clams and mussels. Since they're filter feeders, they should definitely be considered part of the cleaning crew
I have been keeping a rescue softshell turtle with my Widow Tetra and Tiger barbs. I rescued it from a guy selling it on the live flesh market.
It's really tiny and loves staying up top and resting on floating plants.
I will release it once summers are back but it's a really cool addition to the tank for now.
make sure it is legal to release and is native to your area!
There is a turtle listed at my local animal control ATM (along with a gold dojo loach named Karen Smith), hope they find a good home soon! Was surprised to see they have aquatic creatures at the city shelter
Axolotls are neat but if you are thinking about getting one you may stare at a body of water while it hides from light in a hide or under plants/logs. They don’t do much 8:33
Oooh old school cory!! I miss that tank in the back
I *love* my nerite snails! They are so cool! They do parkour all the time and go surfing on things floating in the tank. I have a floating cookie cutter in there (as opposed to most people using airline tubing to make an open area - tho my red root floaters aren't really spreading atm), and they have many times gotten on it, which pulls it down almost to the bottom, and then they climb off onto something else nearby and it bobs back up to the top. I took video of my lady nerite climbing down an Amazon sword leaf that bent over so it looked like a slide, then it sprang back up as soon as she was off it and on the gravel floor. My guy snail purposefully climbed UNDER a rock that weighs a lot more than he does and started to push it around with his foot. It was leg day. They snail across the 10 gallon tank in less than five minutes. Turbo snails! :D
My mom always had fish when I was growing up. Once we accidentally adopted some snails because they were on a plant we got for the aquarium. Snails are so cute!
I didn't think I would enjoy a snail in my tank but I purchased a mystery snail for my Betta tank. To my surprise I found her (yes, I found out she was a girl snail thanks to u-tube) fascinating!!. I enjoyed watching her so much so yeah, give the snails a chance. She grew like crazy and gave me a lot of enjoyment. When she passed I was quite sad so I had to get another.
I love mystery snails and African dwarf frogs. They are my favorite.
I actually enjoyed having snails I use to have a couple I really enjoyed keeping ghost shrimp aswell cause I really liked seeing them eat since you could kinda see the process of food going through their system
Purple mystery snails are my favorite thing to breed and grow in a tank. They have lots of uses other than aquarium life. Even the culled don't go to waste.
I have pond snails (AKA bladder snails) , and mystery snails and I like to watch them ride the air stone bubbles to the surface, and then drop down and repeat it. Like an amusement ride for snails.
I just got Corydoras for the first time! They are so cute
Have a Owacheta Map turtle for years. Change the water every other week, use a good canister filter, put some feeder fish in for an occasional snack, and everything goes fine. And don’t forget to clean the filter every 4 or 5 months.
I love my snail. He came from the river (by accident) and I've had him for over a year. Google says native Florida apple snails are only supposed to live about a year, so I keep expecting him to kick the bucket, but he's still going strong. I love to watch him eat an algae wafer.
I was doing crabs, shrimp, and crawfish since before they were popular. What I would really like to see is someone importing and keeping Aeglidae.
I have three large white Xenopus frogs in my 60 gal. tank. They get along well with the fish and are very interesting to watch swimming about and feeding. I would like to add a couple of newts if I could obtain them. My pet shop did have an axolotl but it was $50 and I didnt want to spend that much money for something that might go tits up.
5:45 Kept Fiddlers in my moms aquarium as a kid and actually had a Fiddler that would jump/fall off of the plastic plants to grab and eat fancy guppies and swordtails.
Love snails, I have a few aquatic species and some terrestrial ones too, they're some of my favourite animals
My assain snails were wonderful additions to my tanks. Would definitely recommend 😁
Sulawesi snails are also nice because each individual differs from the other a lot in terms of colour.
Do they breed much ? I am concerned about over-population...
@@fanaticatheist from my experience (I am no expert 😅) they breed very slowly. Their eggs take about two months to hatch. So they rarely become a pest on their own. I use them to keep my trumpet population in check.
I do like Helena snails. They're really useful if you have pest snails in your planted aquarium. They're pretty to look at and are pretty darn fast, they have to chase down other snails after all. I bought one for pest control once and now I always put them in my aquarium, just like Amano shrimp.
I've also had axolotls and a fire bellied newt before. They're a little more work, but they're fun and pretty to look at.
Love nerite snails. They come in cool colors, eat the algae, and are fun to watch. Mlem mlem mlem!
Quick shoutout to bladder snails too. Great way to start a tank, excellent cleaners, prolific breeders. Best used with live plants to control algae, and therefore population.
Oh my those turtles were so cool ❤❤
I think I would like to keep some newts. But that's waay in the future. lol
It’s true. When I first saw babies on the frogs back video- I had nightmares for months
Tbh, I freaking love snails. I think they're cute, they do some weird and entertaining stuff, and watching them clean algae off the glass is very calming.
I have a blue lobster crayfish and because she was kept with other crayfish it turned out she was "pregnant" ( she started holding eggs like a week after i got her). So now i have a bunch of cute baby crays to try to sell.
Crayfish are super fun to watch, they're surprisingly personable and love to dig and climb. The only downside is that they eat anything smaller than them and plants so you can't keep them with anything.
I've always loved snails 🐌 and now I love shrimp!🦐 and dwarf frogs 🐸
for a year and a half now I've manage to build a 20 gal-35 gal. tank with a peninsula cooter i rescued a year ago and over the months grown well and with a tank full of fish like guppies, snails, red crabs, albino corydoras, a dwarf bovillan ram cichlid (it brought unrelated drama in becoming a solitary fish and not wanting company of the same species), single dwarf catfish, and recently a pair of American Flagfish with a bi weekly 20-30 ghost shrimp feeding, it may sound cramped but its really not, everyone lives pretty peacefully, sides the cooter trying to eat them but its been months and the guppies take the brunt since theyve been feeder forms for months and manage to breed their 3rd generation of fry, overall i say i keep a naturally made riverbed tank well
I feel like Cory gives great hugs.
I have African dwarf frogs, four different species of shrimp (including bamboo shrimp), mystery snails, ramshorn snails, and pom pom crabs. I love em all, but the crabs are my favorite.
Batman Snails are an awesome nerite to pick up. A little hard to find so a bit expensive, but super cool - almost like limpets.
My girlfriend has frogs, they seem to be highly territorial, they attack fish when they swim too close, a couple of fish had their fins bitten off, not sure if it was frogs but it looks like it. During feeding, they could also be aggressive and often snatched food from the mouths of smaller fish that were unable to eat the worm fast enough.
I've always been worried for invasive species for snails. I've had to go so far as pasteurize my gravel/tank back when I had a cichlid community 55 gal.
I had a overload of them. They came from nowhere. And they completely took over within a year!
Always been scared too after.
Snails are my absolute favourite aquarium thing. I have apple snails and they were a gateway to fish keeping 16 years ago :) I had 2 - a boy and girl - which was educational to find out they did snex haha
Iv since added Giant african land snails to my family because of them :) (and keep 3 apples with my goldfish)
Do they breed much ? I am concerned about over-population...
I have Chinese mystery snails, and they’re great, they give live birth to one baby at a time that’s around the size of a small paw and and get to grow about the size of a quarter. Unlike usual mystery and apples snails I’ve had no issues with them with live plants. They make a great snail do an aquarium as they don’t multiply rapidly or get to a size where they do damage.
They are invasive in some states and provinces in Canada.
Also find it takes them a while to settle into a new aquarium sometimes, and tend do do best when not moved around much
Look up Broken Rib Newts. I have some and they are awesome. They like cool water so I keep them with my Dojo loaches.
I found a dwarf Mexican crayfish that has red colors green colors and brown colors and they have the same pattern as the orange one. In the creek bed.
i had a little crayfish once. not sure what kind it was, but it came in a shipment of feeder goldfish when i worked at a pet shop. it was the same size as a typical CPO but a grayish color. i was told to "dispose of it" but decided to just take it home. i put it in my 10gal and it ate some of my fish and ripped plants from the ground! after that i put it in its own 5 gallon tank. it was stocked with fake plants to hang out on and some driftwood. the crayfish lived several years, molted a few times, and was sassy as all get out. would lift its claws up to "threaten" me if it saw me outside the tank. so cute and full of personality. i would definitely recommend a little crayfish, they are endlessly entertaining.
I love snails. I love guppies because they're easy and they're very colorful. I have had the dwarf frog. I've never had a crab. I have tried shrimp. I don't have luck with them. But I can definitely grow plenty of hydras, snails and algae. That is not a problem
4:03 My absolute favorite aquarium pet! Though Dwarf Frogs are cute too! I need to give Dwarf Frogs another go since only experience I had was my mother jumping the gun with an overstocked up 5 gallon tank and sick froggies that died very quickly :(
But with Clawed Frogs, all four I have are still alive, including the two that were in very poor condition at the pet store I bought and have big tummies now rather than very skinny caved in tummies and very thin legs, how their legs look like how they should and they have normal tummies. I was really hoping to do the same for the dwarf frogs I mother bought...
I love snails...! And shrimp...! Almost all of em, as long as they don't eat plants(most don't), I'll take em...! I sell my mystery snails to my local stores at at least $1 each, most of my species are around a $1 each but I do alot of live bearers... I do wanna get some dwarf frogs next... Thanks for your awesomeness...! Keep it up and go enjoy some nature...!
Our dwarf Mexican Crayfish and snails are our pride and joy! We're expecting our first clutch of mystery snails to hatch any day!
I adore my mystery snails. They are so much fun and have big personalities.
Do they breed much ? I am concerned about over-population...
@The Fanatic Antitheist I've had 3 snails for a year now. I believe they have life span of aprox 18 months. Mine have never laid a clutch of eggs. Now "pest" snails breed like crazy..like the little bladder snails that sometimes sneak in on plants.
@@sparrowsfish *Thank You* that is useful information. I will see if my local pet supplier has mystery snails
I really love my mystery snails. They've got such fun little personalities.
Do they breed much ? I am concerned about over-population...
@@fanaticatheist That's always my concern with snail too, but I havent had any of these breed yet and if they do the eggs are really easy to find and remove from the tank in one go, I've read. I'd definitely recommend them!
@@chloekm7958 Thank you. I will see if I can get them locally... *HAPPY NEW YEAR !*
My aquarium has a mossed out terrestrial area and whenever I'm at home and find a jumping spider I get so excited and take it to the tank and just release it on the Terrestrial area. Sometimes they will dig in and nest up because the moss attracts fruit flies which the jumping spiders eat.
In Germany,there are expensive snails like red marbled/deviled Sulawesi snails that are 15€-40€ each because they are so rare!
My parents had a clam when I was young. It would bury itself in the gravel and show up somewhere else. It was like playing hide and seek. They had it for about 2 years before it died. I haven't seen one since.
I kept a crayfish in my tank at some point. They’re cute when they’re little but they’ll get an appetite for your fish. Sometimes I would bring a new fish in the aquarium and when I would go back to check on it, I would find it being eaten alive by the crayfish. I would try rescuing it but it was already missing half its body. I learned to keep the crayfish separate
My golden mystery snail Gertrude is honestly my favorite pet above my endler guppies and female crown tail betta, I talk about her more and have more photos of her than any other pet lol
I even got my friend so intrigued by her that he got a gallon tank for his blue mystery snail Luffy
love my ramshorn snails!
How about triops (tadpole shrimp)? I've seen some UA-camrs who've gotten some wild mutations. But I'm not sure how they do in a community tank setting or with other aquarium animals. If you could also document your experiences with triops that would be a great bonus.
You can get fiddler crabs from bait stores for like 10c a pop
I love ramshorn snails.
I want more info on the diamond back terrapin 🐢. That was the one spotted with light flesh, right? What are their range of personality?
My snail did the amazing - it went from the tiny ONE I bought to about 50 in the tank in only about 5 weeks! I don't know if it's a mystery snail or a pond snail though ( It's supposed to be a mystery snail).
I love my ramshorn!!
I have 2 mussels 6 clams mystery rabbit nerite and bladder snails and ghosts shrimp ❤
You sound like Milo from Treasure Planet I love it so much
I love shrimps and snails in my guppy community tank 🥰
I love how chawed frogs are illegal in your state but you can still keep turtles.
I wanna know where to get them black tanks you use in your warehouse?
Turtle be cool, would like a good community one someday
Shrimps are sold for more than 5$ each at local petstores here in Canada, it's stealing. Very few hobbyist selling their own.. I miss my once big colony, shrimps are so fun to look at.