Joined this channel during its early days, when I was getting back into the hobby and it's been sooooo helpful. Unfortunately I stopped keeping fish about 1½-2 years ago due to a house move, then lockdown. I'm still here here though. Great work 👍
First lesson I learned way back when I first started keeping fish.... you can't be a keeper of fish until you understand and know how to keep the water that they need to survive and thrive in.
I have Oscars, they dig and spit sand into my filter inputs slowly filling my filter with sand :( I topped my sand with river stones, and that has been great. If ever I get around to reset my tank, I will skip the sand and just use stones.
@@RickCatita true, sand is generally high maintenance, it's usually better to have an input high up. A sump system generally works best. I personally always use gravel, I love how sand looks but I've found from a filtration and maintenance standpoint, medium to large sized gravel is the best.
Part of that fog after you turn on the filters is really the beneficial bacteria spreading throughout the tank from the out water. Really great advice! Some gets collected again but it starts to columnize.
oscar is classic, love them and yeah they are aquatic dogs.. way back in 90s i trained a tiger oscar to jump while holding food.. more than half of its body is outside the water :D
My ultimate goal in fish keeping is an oscar shoal (or a pair of grumpy giant gouramis I can feed grapes to). I'm so happy to see someone living that dream! My ultimate goal is an 8' oscar tank with 2 tigers, 2 albinos, 2 commons and 2 of whatever the newest variation of oscar exists. Oscars and angelfish are the ultimate puppy dog fish. Thanks for the videos, I love the content!
Great video, loved the cats reaction to the new tank. Tamara is a good catch (excuse pun). Thats quite an achievement, always nice to hear about your family. The fish are stunning, sign is looking great its going to be quite a den!
Great job Joey, I love Oscars, always hungry and always willing to engage with you when you are at the aquarium. I'd really love to see you raise and breed them - I kept Oscars years ago but never managed to grow them out and breed. All the best with this.
Looks great with the wood, Oscar are wonderful fish and once they mature they will appreciate having the wood seperation so they can each claim territories. They like to dig which has caused my filters to slowly fill with sand...my answer has been river stones as substrate. To answer your challenge Joey, I keep fish in an aquarium; but you are right they do a fine job being happy without me... It's tending the bacteria colony which is my critical role in their environment. Also don't tell my wife but I have a secret bin of red wiggler composting worms hidden under our basement stairs. The compost is great for the garden, and from time to time my Oscars get some worms as a treat.
Absolutely love cichlids but I've ALWAYS found myself coming back to my water puppies. So glad they finally went in! Currently I have three oscars and one of them loves to be hand fed. He won't grab anything from my forceps but will always grab anything in my hand.
Lol! your cat asked to be picked up so he could see too! That was cute overload. The tank Looks incredible! You're driving yourself crazy trying to feed to youtube monster.
Ranchers can run cattle from the back of a horse all day. But what no one talks about is they have brilliant pasture maintenance rituals to keep the grass growing. No pastures no cows. No bacteria no fish. Id say you're a cowboy. Keep up the amazing stuff. Im so happy about an oscar tank.
cats and pulling fish out of the tank? hahaha there's always strays peering down onto my fish from on top my aquarium and they have never dared to touch the water (one of the friendly ones was drinking from it i think 🤣🤣)
So I was planning on doing a massive water change and cleaning my canister filter. Should I save some of the water in the canister filter and once everything is clean out that water back in the canister?
@@vinceolshove1499 I actually had to empty my tank cause with water it was to heavy to move by myself and I cleaned the filter other then the bio rings and it still completely killed my cycle and I’m still trying to do a fish in cycle
I might be wrong but I think you have two different types of Oscars in there. I see tiger Oscars and a wild type Oscars. The striping is a little different on wild ones, It’s narrower that of a tiger one. Tiger Oscars also have more red scales. What do you think Joey?
So I have a 75 gallon tank that has had a largemouth bass in it for about 2 years and I’ve just started to want a few more fish in the tank. My main issue is the water hardness, I’ve don’t multiple water tests and it’s sitting around 300 gh which I think is extremely high. I was just wonder what I could do to get the hardness down.
You've been a huge inspiration to me, I love your content and everything you do! I'm starting a channel and just order a bunch of stuff to start my first fish room! Thank you so much for everything you have done! God Bless and Much Love! ✌️
