I am a total fish nerd from the UK who spends way too much money on EPIC fish! I live with my wonderfully understanding fiancée, my insane 2 year old son and Pluto the whippet.
I had two males and four females and the bigger male was breeding nonstop but I could get the fry to live very long. I'm getting a tank set up later this year so I'll try it again soon!
Oh my... A square nano tank for an apisto... People like you shouldn't be allowed to keep fish! Is it still alive? If it is, it's similar to human beings living in a cupboard! Sure they can survive but that's no quality life...
I found babies swimming around a few weeks ago and thought they were cherry barbs since we asked for 2 female gudgeons, but no they are distinctly male and female! We did nothing special. I feed them Flugal flakes and pellets, no frozen food at the moment. I caught them spawning on the heater suction cup that wasn't stuck to the glass the other day, but the next morning the eggs were gone. About 8-10 of the first batch is still alive.
I tried the boiled broccoli and banana peels method and after 53 days still have just a smelly jar of yellowish water. I then came across this video and tried to do the same but using 1/8 teaspoon of active yeast mixed in a 5.6 litre jar. All else was the same - squeezed a sponge filter from my Guppy tank into the jar, topped it up with water from that tank and added yeast and stirred it. Left it on a table outside (with lid on) under my awning. It doesn't get direct light but plenty of ambient light. After 60 hours it looks like your water at the 1:40 mark - hazy. The bottom is covered in (mostly) white junk which would be the yeast. Middle of the base is brownish but that would be the "dirt" from the sponge after I swirled the water around when I added yeast. There are small white flecks floating or on the sides but they aren't moving by themselves and look more like yeast fragments. I certainly don't see what you show at 3:17 mark. Others have suggested yeast but this doesn't seemed to have worked. I guess I can go out any buy a small bag of rabbit food, but do you have any ideas why what I tried doesn't work? Thanks in advance.
The rabbit pellets are an excellent suggestion! I'll be setting up my own peacock gudgeon breeding tank soon, so finding your channel was definitely serendipitous! Thank you from across the pond in Portland, Oregon, USA🌲🐿🐌.
I have 2 and I love them, but I've been told they will eat anything smaller than their mouths (guppies) but i see yours with guppies.... Has that been an issue for you?
My general rule of thumb with ropefish is nothing under an inch either tall or wide, over the years mine have swallowed a few 2.5" long standard Congo tetras that were maybe 5/8 or so inch tall, some smaller bosemani rainbowfish around the same size height but a bit longer... Half a dozen adult range yellow tail Congo tetras, which do stay smaller around the 2.5 inch mark. Even lost a 7" and a 5" peacock eel to one, thought they'd be ok since I have half banded eels but those are far thicker and more high bodied than the peacocks were, it's possible the peacocks were on the weaker side but they were definitely alive while half way down a ropefish's throat, tried to rescue the larger peacock eel which it did release but it still died shortly after the attack... Another one I had issues with was my long fin Angelfish, I'm guessing they had just mistaken the long trailing fin for a worm or smaller fish or something, never had that happen to my standard fin angels, luckily didn't end up losing the angel but they probably would have killed it dragging it around the tank if I wasn't there to intervene. My ropefish are about 7 years old, in the 15" range and there's 7 of them, so maybe if these fish grow up along with them they may not see them as prey, it's too late for mine though which kinda sucks I'd like to have a school of smaller fish like Odessa barbs, skull Creek rainbows, or Madagascan rainbows or something but everything up to and including the Kribs getting added now would be guaranteed viewed as food in my tank, guess it's up to the individual fish though. They're peaceful but they're still predators, use caution with these fellas.
This is the God's honest truth . these fish are the most amazing, amazing fish I have ever had, back as a 20 something year old, I had a 150 Gal fish tank , I had 2 rope fish and a few snakehead , one day I noticed one of my rope fish were gone , I figured one of the snakehead at him , this was the dead of winter , didn;t think much about it . . . .two days later, I was looking for something behind the couch I ran my hands over the top of my radiator , and I felt something that felt like a stick, was hard as a rock , I pulled it out , it was the rope fish ! I was like what the fuck , I figured hard as a rock and hot as hell, this thing was dead, I threw him into my sink , then like 20 mins laterI saw bubbles in the water, then this thing came back to life !! Just unfriggin believably hearty fish !
Can confirm the escape artist thing, first night i had one i found him the next day inside my sump, that means he when over the in tank barrier wall, into the water column, into the pipe out of the tank and into the filter pads, he then made his way through 4 filter zones and into the main water supply where i found him
The first time I seen a bichir was in a tank at a Chinese restaurant with some of the biggest freshwater angelfish I have ever seen I didn’t know what it was at the time but knew as soon as I seen it that it was related to rope fish They look like a cross between a rope fish and a crocodile I know they’re some of the oldest species of fish on the planet🐠💙🔥
It's crazy how big the reedfish grows around 2 feet 61 cm and its only needs a 50 gallon tank for one were other types of fish the same size need massive tanks.
Excellent video! I'll be using your tips while hatching and raising my first batch of eggs (2nd batch really, I let nature take its course for the 1st batch to encourage additional breeding events) which should hatch in the next week or so!
Celestial pearl danios! They're small, easy to breed. I can tell you what works for me if you do get and want to breed them! Will fit in your tanks just fine, and very nice guys.
if i keep 4 reedfish, how big my tank should be? as we know 55 galon as minimum if im keeping two, does that mean i need 110 gallons for keeping 4? note: i want keep only reedfish in the tank, not any other fishes.
@@ukfishguy8133 i just got one. its been 5 hours or so. so far so good.... i caught my channa staring intently at the ropefish probably going "hey! it breathes! i eat? wait.. this... wow its long. i eat? wait. its long. i eat? wait, lemme stare at it some more... i eat?".... so far so good. thank god!
@@ukfishguy8133 hey its been 2 weeks, and ive gotten even more ropefish! 1 each for my 10 snakeheads of all sorts of subspecies - andrao's, FNI's, pulchra's, bleheri's, orna's, and obscura's! they all seem to love em! so glad that they all have company and not be so lonely!
I have a 120 gallon do you think they would be fine with a ram cichlids angelfish blood parrot and various mollies/balloon mollies anything to worry about if I decide to add 2?
Probably late on this but they would likely be fine with everything except maybe the blood parrot. Blood parrots can be extremely aggressive and might scare the rope fish. Wouldn't be surprised if they went after the rams too
