@janankhan3235 I'm not sure what would actually happen in that scenario as I have never seen it, best way is to give it a shot and see, but if I had to guess I think the banjo could hold it's own from vampire shrimp as the banjo spends 98% of the time under substrate and if it is found by a crab I have faith it can retreat to a new spot, id recommend a good deep sandy area for the banjo to help with this
@janankhan3235 I only see my banjo cats once every month if I am lucky... no joke haha, but sometimes they come out very eager to eat and other times they don't come out at all even if food falls right where they are hiding. So that's another great question, I'd probably aim to feed the tank 1 or 2 times a week if you are specifically trying to feed the banjos
I moved mine from a comunity aquarium to a brackish puffer tank and they have changed their food of choice from algae to live bugs, now i have to starve them all to get them back to work, the biggest one of the SAE even gets cocky with the bigger green spotted puffers when i feed crickets to them.
Do they uproot plants from planted tanks? I see lot of plants fetting uprooted when i wake up. SAE is my oldest tank mate who is there for more than 1and half years now and hes like more 3 inch long. Any chance that culrpit would be the siamese algae eater ?
@thanus7456 hey! Thanks for checking out my video!! Simease algae eater is a possible culprit, but not likely, do you happen to have any plecos in the tank? Or other types of catfish? You can always try planting the plants deeper in the substrate, if they are new plants, sometimes they uproot themselves because their roots have not grown enough to anchor them down yet
@alisonreeder1587 thank you for checking out my video! Your comment means alot🙂 sometimes even smaller aquariums can have absolutely an incredible paradise!
Siamese algae eaters and redfin sharks look the same in terms of size and body shape. redfin shark is not very effective at cleaning algae. Does it apply the same as the Siamese algae eater?
Nice transformation! About to do the same - also with a 55gal. Thanks for the link and motivation to get started! Incidentally, your place looks just like mine lol. Obviously an enthusiast's zone rather than a display room. This sort of staggered approach without draining the water should ensure the substrate biology can poopulate err populate the new material quite quickly. I'm going to remove all my fish first though. The sudden increase of suspended particles in the water would be tough on them I feel... especially as my tank has a massive amount of compacted mulm.
@AtTheEdgeOfTokyo no problem! I'm glad this video came in handy once again rather than collect digital dust haha, and yes my fish cave is definitely... living lol. Removing the fish may add stress, I never seem to have issues on floating debris in the tank especially when I'm doing tank overhaul, but you may be right with the mulm let me know how that works out for you! I wish you the best of luck and can't wait to hear about it
Thanks for the info. I had 2 and the pet store said they would school with my glofish danios fine. 3 weeks I started noticing that my glofish danios where disappearing and then I did a water change and noticed that they were dying. I then see the giant one being aggression with the danios. I'm so sad. I should of never got that giant danio
@tomongvue6934 unfortunately that is a tough thing to witness but from that whole experience you have learned a great deal about the fish behavior, and it will never happen again! Sorry you had to go through that but everytime I loose a fish I look at myself as a better aquarium hobbyist, because with each death comes lessons! I appreciate you checking out my video!🙂
Thanks for the vid. How are they going with the peacock surgeons!? Surprising mix since they have some similarities. Btw looking at the colours I'd guess it's more likely a male...? I thought the females are slightly duller coloured than that.
@AtTheEdgeOfTokyo you bring an elite question!! One I love to awnser, very good questions, the Peacock gudeon and the Paradise Gourami seem to live very peacefully. They respect eachother and space, they swim near eachother with no signs of chasing or dominance flexes, but at first I did see a little bit of flexing but never any nipping. Short answer, they seem to coexist, and perhaps because the tanks is so densely planted. Now for the male or female, truly I'm unsure. But from photos I've seen many females seem to look like the one I have, but many males seem to look more elegant in the fins (much larger and longer fins, very blue as well) but it still is young and a junior so maybe it has yet to show its true colors, truthfully I'm still learning about this little beast! Everyday is a study! I really appreciate you checking out the video!
@@lakesregionaquariums2887 thanks for the quick reply. I have a regular spawning pair of peacock gudgeons and nearly a hundred fry now at around the 2 month development stage (IE identifiable as real fish lol). I also have golden wonder killifish (and, again, a ton of fry) that I was tempted to try putting together. I like the idea of encouraging any fish I keep to spawn as frequently as they like (helps measure their health and wellness) but I also have a limit to how many I'm capable of looking after. So I mix species to predate each other's fry (intentionally). GW killifish are surface dwellers and peacock gudgeons mostly lower or bottom dwellers...which would be fine but apparently they DO fight...and bigger GWs would possibly even eat the adult gudgeons (certainly the fry). So I've been contemplating paradise fish for some time. The round tail variety are actually endemic to parts of Japan and they're reasonably popular in aquariums. I was seriously surprised your paradise fish (which is usually the more aggressive variety) gets along with the gudgeons. Fyi the round tail variety also have the benefit of wider temperature tolerance (very cold to quite hot) and apparently aren't quite as aggressive to each other.
@AtTheEdgeOfTokyo it sounds like you have a beautiful lively aquarium. That's incredible I'd actually like to see your set up one day! And the paradise gourami I own I got incredibly lucky I believe now I only have one peacock, if I had a pair like you do and I added a paradise gourami into the tank I feel that might spark some sort of aggressive behavior from the gudgeons perhaps, but I could be wrong. I really do believe the more planted an aquarium is definitely defeans aggressive behavior in the paradise fish as the line of sight is so easily broken. And yes the kilifish GW definitely is capable of eating a gudeon, I had a GW years ago that ate a truly massive rummy nose tetra, but they do dwell in different parts of the tank. So if you did have a large mass of vegetation in the tank you may see some positive results but I've noticed GW especially pairs, like to explore the tank from time to time, so you may loose fry or maybe even a grown gudeon. It would be interesting to see how it would work but unfortunately there's always risk, but that being said I took a huge risk adding my paradise G and I have only had positive results, so you don't know until you try! 😁
@@lakesregionaquariums2887 Thanks for the encouragement. My adult GW killifish, Mickey platies and medaka are in a well aged "planted" 55gallon. The plants have never done as well though in that tank so it's currently too sparsely covered. Not sure why that is but I'm contemplating a full reset - and changing it to a deeply dirted tank based on success with my other dirted tank experiments. Surprisingly the killifish leave the medaka alone - although I have lost a few medaka "mysteriously" quite some time ago. I think fish need to get used to each other and once through that phase, they're usually fine. I've found that with killifish raised from fry stage alongside other even quite small fish (that they eventually overtake in size), those smaller fish get left alone - even though they'd be instant snacks if dropped in with adult killifish. I guess they learn early there's no point trying to eat those "small fish" and the lesson sticks through to adulthood. But with the gudgeons, although they are bigger (and different zone) to the medaka, I think their colouring and propensity to be quarrelsome wouldn't be worth the risk. I've got the various fry, dwarf platies and bumblebee gobies in different newer tanks. A couple of smaller killifish mixed in the goby tank and they completely get along well so far lol.
@@AtTheEdgeOfTokyo, I completely agree that fish need to adjust toward each other. The fact that adult fish can be opportunists by nature when it comes to feeding and realizing it is not worth their energy to go after small fish is an incredible behavior to witness especially in an aquarium and I have seen it myself. I feel you will definitely see good results in the dirted option, as plants that mainly feed from their roots will benefit from that GREATLY. Light also plays a massive factor in the benefit of plants have you tried to adjust lights at all in the aquarium for better plant growth? I found the moment I bought a plant light for my tank Plantcity (The tank in the video) The plants absolutely took off, but some plants I still struggled with, so I began adding small amounts of crushed coral which has benefited many plants very well, I also dose my tank each week (Especially after a water change) With liquid fertilizer, magnesium, iron, and others. Plantcity is not dirted, Though I wish it was, I do actually plan on doing that in the somewhat near future but who knows at the way the plants grow with the ferts and the lighting my tank may grow plants out of the windows of my home lol😁
Thinking of putting them in with one beautiful solo honey gourami. Worried a little bout temperature but you seem to have yours with tankmates with higher temp requirements. Wondered what you may think
@garyjones8841 Hey that's a great question, yes these guys would do extremely well with a honey gourami! These fish can adapt to most temperatures in the tropical fish world, they tend to do a bit better slightly cooler, but even at higher temps they adapt very well as long as you acclimate them accordingly! Thanks for checking out my video!
Hey bud those tetras are acting that way because they need a bigger school. They won't act right until they have at least 9 in their school. I have 9 and they are sooo peaceful and happy.
@Blowncapacitor84 appreciate the feed back! Definitely could have used a bigger school! of that tank could have accommodated them, those old fish finally did end up passing away after nearly 8 years. But now that tank only has bleedingheart tetras in with a school of 8 new young ones. Really appreciate the comment and you taking the time to watch my vid! And I hope you continue to enjoy your own bleeding hearts!😄
@lakesregionaquariums2887 8 years! Wow that's awesome! I absolutely love them. They seem happy with the white and black skirts for sure! I do love feeding the bleeding hearts. Even our glo tetras act like little piranhas at feeding time. Also I thought they were kind of aggressive at the beginning but as I watched the video I realized it is just normal tetra behavior!
@Blowncapacitor84 yeah I figured they were up for some sort of world record with that lifespan haha, but yeah! They are definitely more so a sassy fish in the tetra world. This is my fiancé's tank she got me into bleeding hearts. I hope one day I can do a large planted aquarium with a Very large natural school of them together 😄
This is beautiful and deserves more recognition. If you can repost it, but a longer version, I think it’ll do numbers. Even if you don’t your work on that tank is gorgeous!
When you have an Incredibly happy plant in an aquarium and some natural sunlight' some produce flowers that leave the water in search of male / or female plant of their own kind to attempt to breed! How wild is that!😄
Had to change out my pre filter foam from fine to medium. Pre filter would clog in 2 weeks. Way too, fine foam. Now it's great thanks to amazon foam replacement.
Thats one of the problems I had at the beginning! I talk about that in another video, some of the newer models coming out have adjusted the PPI, making them much better, but Yes I had the same issue and it was every other week I had to clean the pre filter. thanks for watching!
The filters I clean out once a year like I did in this video, but the pre filter within gets cleaned every couple months. The tanks themselves get cleaned once a week with light water changes🙂 thanks for watching!
