Remember when Saturday nights was heading to the pub trying to charm the ladies then walking home with a bag of hot chips ? Now it's a fish keeping video and an early night 😅
Yep sort of…. But I did always have to get up the next day and look after my very special rooms over the years. Lol.🤣 so pleased, though that I’m cool enough to hang out with you on Saturday nights.🙏❤️🦘🇦🇺🐶
Believe or not your videos help me , not only at the fish keeping level but also to my soul. Peace to You and all the people watching your videos. I Wish you great success .
Oh that’s so very nice of you to say and so wonderful for me to hear. I really love that people have connected with the energy here in the Fishroom and that is able to transfer across the RU-vid medium in such a way that it helps and inspires people. That means the world to me. I really appreciate your support and thanks so much again.. much love from Aus 🙏❤️🇦🇺🐶🦘
Adrian you give off such "Charles Clapsaddle from Goliad Farms" vibes especially when you're relocating the unwelcome snake friends. Trust me, it's a compliment! Such a pleasure to see the fish room along with all the other interesting projects you have going. Thanks so much for sharing
The red bellied rat snakes are so pretty. Just amazing how you caught and released the pythons😮 I enjoyed viewing your experiences very much. Thank you.
The bio barrels are such a great idea. Every video im in awe of your fish room and property, just beautiful. And also how calm you are, even when you discover venomous danger noodles! I could never, lol
Glad to see you dropping videos. The algorithm of videos with KFS play as autoplay every night when I'm doing fish room chores. Your voice has become a regular thing in the background. Keep it up ✌
yay!! i've been waiting for the bio barrels video since your first video!! i've been living in a cbd apartment for 10 years and alllllll i want is a pond. your videos really fill that gap in my soul.
Always enjoyable and always something happening, love the outtakes at the end. Goes to show just how much effort goes in to putting all that together for us to enjoy. This is my new fave fish tube channel.
Oh, that’s so cool mate. I’m really pleased to hear it. And yes, I had no idea how much time it actually takes to get a video out and how many times I would stuff it up. Lol pleased do you like the outtakes I was told by many people that I shouldn’t put it in, but I figured as I’m going to keep everything real why hide something that in actuality is pretty funny to watch. I’m actually surprised at how much Ziggy enjoys the filming and it’s an absolute classic to watch him watch me and him on the big screen TV when I put the videos on there. He genuinely recognizes that it’s us and he listens intently.😂❤️🙏🐶🇦🇺🦘
@@AdriansFishroom Its authentic its real nothing is manufactured, thats why your stuff is great. Ziggy is class what a sidekick lol awesome how you are also putting Oz on show, you do realise they'll still think were riding kangaroo's to the shops and pulling snake out of our beds even more now 🤣
Ha ha yeah you’re probably right… funny thing is I have kangaroos all up and down my street ! lol and heaps of snakes. 🐍 I’m stoked you like it bro 🙏❤️🇦🇺🐶🦘and yeah Ziggy is a legend ❤️❤️❤️
That bee house is some job man 👌 I have seen ow we do it in the UK and probably the parts of the world.. You said it was an Australian invention... Good job old boy yea
ill give it a go in one of my ponds. i also got shrimp today 100 or so i traided some of my guppies to a local. The aquarium community is awesome. i have a hive yet i have no bee's...thank you for another great episode
Make that sounds awesome and like you’re well on your way. Definitely give one of those barrels a try. You’ll be stuck with the results. Good luck with everything and thanks so much for your support.🙏❤️🇦🇺🦘🐶
I REALLY appreciate that! Thanks so much for your support and letting me know. I’m enjoying making them and the fact that they are helping an inspiring people is really incredible.🙏❤️🐶🦘🇦🇺
Another great video Adrian! Love seeing your place and nice to see your channel is doing good with views & subscribers. Yours, MDs & nicks videos are my favourite fish content on RU-vid
I love nick and his channel i need to wait to the end of your videos ab to comment i have so much to say love both of yalls content in from the south in the states excuse my typing lol lol i like and subscribe to everything and im stoked to see his content from the us i follow all the fish keepers he interviewed its crazy that we have the same respect for theses people. Im really blown away I've always loved your room and your enthusiasm for this Hobby and then i see you jumped on the fish tube man i couldn't be much more happy i neec the knowledge i want a fish room with all my heart but i need the knowledge. Yall are great and i appreciate you much love from Tennessee ❤
Thanks so much for such a cool message and given Nick has 15 videos at least on his US tour. I am super excited to see how it all went and what happened. My next video is an interview with Nick in relation to the tour and should be out this Friday. Thank you so much for your support. Much love from Australia.🙏❤️🐶🇦🇺🦘
I love your videos! I love that sometimes you loose focus and talk about something completely random. Keeps us wondering what’s next. You can keep the snakes although I think you’re totally brave to even think about handling them. I really like the ideal of your filtration barrels, I’m so glad you shared. Can’t wait to hear how Nick journey went.
Those hives are really cool! I remember when they first came out I thought it was genius. What are your bees mainly feeding on? Bet that honey tastes great. Also I have some bug buffet on the way in the mail. I can’t wait!
That’s great news re the bug buffet I’m sure you’re going to love it. Your fish certainly will. The flow life is an amazing invention and I love it and so do the bees. They just feed naturally here on all of the flowering trees and plants around, this farm and the surrounding neighborhoods. The honey is amazing and I’ve had a lot of people tell me it’s the best honey they’ve ever tried. I am biased though too lol. 🙏❤️🇦🇺🦘🐶
Ha! Yeah little bugger…. What is hilarious and I’m going to try to capture on film as that he watches himself on the big TV intently. Lol he knows he’s a star. Lol.😂 ❤️🙏🇦🇺🦘🐶
I think I like the this is my place the most and Australian accent I have watched every video hands down some of the best content even my wife likes the tours and she hates my hobbies lol anyways thanks for the content and knowledge someone pay this man !! Peace from Missouri America !!
Oh wow that’s so nice of you to say what a beautiful message to get this morning 😍 I do understand the pain of your wife. Not liking your hobbies. Lol but I’m sure you do what I do and ask for forgiveness later not permission upfront. Lol fact. 😂 i’m going to try and keep them informative, entertaining and wholesome, and hopefully by you and many other Aquarius, some leeway from their partners. Lol please say hello to your wife for me. I greatly appreciate her sitting through my videos.🙏❤️🦘🇦🇺🐶
Ha…. Let’s hope I just get heaps of views and no one has to pay for it. I’m thoroughly enjoying the process and money is one of my least motivating factors (hence I’m always broke lol ) but if YT can assist, then I’m very grateful ❤️🙏🦘🐶🇦🇺
I wonder if a small bio barrel could be made for a patio pond, using a solar pump? Not sure it would be strong enough but might be fun to try! Thanks for the explanation!!
Absolutely it’s very scalable upsized and down, and I only have a 20 lit barrel for my blue medaka pond. The issue that I found with the solar pumps is that of course they won’t run overnight and you will need to have them attached to a battery system, but if the pump is small enough, a car battery will do just fine. It could then be completely standalone and off grid. if the water flow stops every night, the bacteria will die off within the barrel, almost the same, but not as bad as a canister filter. Good luck with it. You should definitely have a go and please send me the pictures. I’m on Instagram.❤️🙏🇦🇺🦘🐶
I think I watched that whole video like 😮 1st, Australia looks so beautiful 2nd, filming with one hand and snake wrangling with the other and 3rd, the Frankenfilter! Awesome content, AB! So glad you started a channel
So nice of you to say thank you very much. I really do greatly appreciate it. I’m hoping to keep them, entertaining, wholesome, and enjoyable. Much love from Aus ❤️🙏🐶🇦🇺🦘…. Oh and yeah, lucky dad was there to get the camera otherwise it would have taken another 10 mins of bucket play ! lol 😂
Yep, that’s very cool. I do have a couple with pre-filter, sponges over the pumps as well and it definitely helps cut down the cleaning. I would note though, however that if you stop too much of the food and waste getting into the bio filter that it main staff of the bacteria in there, so I usually use a relatively course sponge to try and avoid this happening. As always, it’s a very fine balance.🙏❤️🇦🇺🐶🦘
Another great video absolutely love the diversity of plants insect and animals on you property, love the Gouldian not so keen on the snakes but that’s part of nature I guess. Great video and explanation on the bio barrels Good luck with the sparkling gourami fry Keep the videos coming 👍
Hi AB ,when you had the afterthought, i was just about to comment the top of the barrel would be great for some plants. Buce would be amazing to try. Great video as always.
Thanks for sharing!! And how true you are. It’s something that I’m very cognizant of throughout my daily life and used to my benefit in the fishroom. Much love.❤️🙏
I just made one of these for my turtle pond yesterday! I got so tired of replacing canister filters and parts so I decided to make my own filter. So far it’s cleaning way better than any filter ever has
They make incredible plant growing spot I use mine to grow my emersed plants the roots love the water flow and plants go bonkers when they hit the surface and have access to co2 in the atmosphere
Hey Adrian how do you feed so many Cory’s in the one tank. How much food does a 100+ eat? Great video by the way. I’m on the sunny coast and enjoy our local RU-vid content.
Oh, that’s so cool mate thanks for the support, and I would say, roughly 3 of my normal pinches, lol which equates to about 20 g I would estimate. They really aren’t huge eaters I’ve found…. Really hungry, but pretty light on volume.🙏❤️🐶🇦🇺🦘
Adrian, just wanted to tell you how much i'm loving the videos! You are very zen (i've noticed some Buddah statues around) and it really comes across in your videos. They are so relaxing (and informative) to watch. The bio barrels seem great and i look forward to playing with some different setups with them. Also, thanks so much for letting us know about the book, "The Hidden Messages in Water". I can't wait to read that. I appreciate all that you do and am happy to be along for the ride!
Wow, thank you! I really appreciate you taking the time and sharing such kind words. I do try and remain balanced throughout my life as at my age I have no need to ride the roller coaster any more. Lol. I’m stoked that you are gonna try the bio barrels and I really appreciate your support. ❤️🙏🦘🇦🇺🐶
Ah that’s so very nice of you to say, and I really do appreciate your support and also for letting me know. I’m going to keep on trying to make them entertaining.❤️🙏
Very good explanation of how your bio barrels work especially for taking the time to draw all the small stones :D First time I see such a tech bee hive. Does it require ANY maintenance? Never kept carpet pythons, lovely specimens. Filming while trying to handle snakes was a big NO for me as majority of sp. i have kept were not constrictors:P Those red bellies black elapids...wow! I do feel for you putting up with the wildlife knocking at your door but, on the other hand, it keeps you vigilant and alive. Congrats for the sparkling babies and looking forward next Sunday night show from Down Under - all the best !
Thanks so much for the awesome message. And yeah, I wondered if I should speed up the small stone section lol. The flow hive requires almost no maintenance, other than harvesting honey, and keeping the caps full of water other than that your usual hive inspections once or twice a year. It is extremely easy to extract the honey from though.❤️🙏🐶🇦🇺🦘
I would try for a definite pair mate or alternatively get a group of babies about 5 say and let them pair up naturally then remove the pair to another tank, have some forces (appropriate for their size) and some plants for fry protection, feed them really well (bbs) so that they know there is food for their babies and keep the water clean and they will do the rest them selves.❤️🦘🇦🇺🐶
G'day Adrian, another amazing video! Anyone watching your videos would think you've been at it for years, they are soooooo good. I found your demonstration/explaination of your bio barrel system fascinating. I was wondering whether the system is scalable to take in the whole fish room? Could you have a virtually closed fish room recycled water system, only topping up to cover spills, evaporation etc.? A couple of questions to ask Nick when you interview KFS: now that he has moved away from being a wholesale fish supplier to shops, what are his future business plans? Will he be doing more trips with Jason etc to explore the creeks etc in Queensland? PS: There is nothing worse than a dog's fart! I remember visiting my brother in the NT, we were in his WD driving along a dirt road, the air vents and windows were closed to keep the red dust out, his dog was on the back seat when it dropped one, it was horrendous and I will swear until my dying breath that the dog sat there and smirked!
lol yeah agree ! He knows !! lol and thanks so much for the cool message and the questions for Nick. As far as the bio barrel is concerned, yes absolutely it is scalable and in fact, I am thinking of putting an IBC size one to run the 8 foot tank side of the fishroom. The only question is how I keep it warm as I would have to locate it outside and I’m currently working through insulation options.❤️🙏
This is so awesome! Really love these type of videos. I live in Florida near springs so this really made a lot of sense to me. I wonder if I could build one on a smaller scale under my tank almost like a canister filter? Just don’t know how I would pump the water back up to the tank? And yes you should do high flow plants!
Great stuff mate! Love the content. I have been looking at those easy flow hives for my dad’s property but wasn’t sure how to get the bees do you have any tips where I can get them or how? Regards Duzzy🇦🇺
Hey mate thanks so much for your continued support and yes for sure I would definitely get one for your dad‘s farm. They are an amazing invention and make beekeeping incredibly easy. I would suggest looking at a local apiary club near your dad‘s location and you should be able to buy a queen and some workers for somewhere between $100-$150. Good luck and let me know how it goes.🙏❤️🐶🇦🇺🦘
@@AdriansFishroom thanks so much. Such a great gift for someone. I’m really enjoying your channel, I’ve been following your stuff from KFS this was that natural progression. Regards Duzzy🇦🇺
I recently read Diana Walstad's "The Ecology of the Planted Aquarium". She reckons that plants much prefer to absorb nitrogen as ammonia or ammonium rather than as nitrates: it is more efficient for them. She therefore reckons that biological filtration (ie. nitrifying filtration - converting ammonia to nitrates) competes with the plants for ammonia. As a result, she eschews biological filtration in favour of extensive planting of the tank, and a soil substrate. There seems to be very little discussion of the relative merits of these two methods of dealing with the nitrogen-load of the tank. Might this subject make an interesting future AB video??
Yeah, wow that is very interesting indeed. As you can see with my goldfish pond, I have both an extremely heavily planted tank and biological filter and the water seems perfect in that instance. I would love to dig some more into this, so yes I may look to try and include some of it into a video soon. Thanks so much for the information and your support.🙏❤️🇦🇺🐶🦘
Vloggers/writers seem to either advocate 1 approach or the other (nitrification/de-nitrification), without really explaining why. It seems easy to assume that the 2 approaches are mutually exclusive, with nitrification requiring aerobic conditions and denitrification requiring anaerobic/anoxic conditions. Vloggers often seem to state or imply that the roots of aquatic plants need anoxic conditions, and that they prefer nitrates (to ammonia). In fact, according to Diana and her sources (she cites the scientific literature extensively) aquatic plants tolerate anoxic substrate (they inject oxygen into it [into the "rhizosphere"] to make it more palatable). By so doing, they create a very localized gradient (around their roots), from anoxic to aerobic, in which a variety of diverse chemical reactions can occur. My guess is that the best approach (for the aquarist) is to help the plants to do just that - create diverse conditions within the substrate so that the tank can benefit from the best of both worlds (nitrifying and de-nitrifying). Actually, that is perhaps precisely what ecologically/minded aquarists are already doing? [your goldfish pond a case in point]. However, I suspect that in many cases they are doing it without an awareness of all of the intricacies at play. Certainly, I myself have been puzzling over the seemingly inconsistent information that I have been coming across, before arriving at the "resolution" (if that's what it is) as outlined above. I'm sorry that this was such a long and dense message Adrian, and perhaps telling you stuff that you already know. But my impression is that, generally speaking, there is quite a lot of confusion around upon these matters which, I for one, find very interesting? The microscopic dimension of fish tanks draws one in, does it not? I'm Gordon by the way, from the UK - another of those "whingeing poms", as Dame Edna would have said! @@AdriansFishroom
Gday Gordon, Mate thanks so much for your message, and no issue with the length, or the denseness…. Or you being a pom Lol you have raised some interesting points, and I would agree with Diana’s assessment of the roots, creating little micro pockets to maximize their ability in different conditions, to create the perfect environment for them to thrive. That’s natures MO really. I think this is evident to anyone who has ever pulled a plant out of a substrate where it has been for a decent amount of time and seen all of the gases escape, which I’m sure would include oxygen. it’s also worthy of noting that the plants in the pots within the ponds that I have almost without exception, extend out roots into the water column (deliberately) outside of the pots and flourish in that state in exactly the same water. Oh and the Dame Edna reference definitely gives me an age range !! lol ah the good old days… possum .🙏❤️🦘🐶🇦🇺
Hello Adrian I didn't know about plants in the substrate also sending roots into the water column - you definitely have the edge over me in terms of experience, to the point where I am feeling like a bit of a fraud, and the need to confess that I haven't actually kept an aquarium since the 1970's! That aside, my participation so far is limited to reading, and watching videos, although I hope to rectify that situation soon. Diana (Walstad) goes on (in her book) to mention that many "aquatic" plants might better be described as being "amphibious), with 2 different (potential) growth forms - the oft-mentioned emergent and submerged - according to whether or not they are currently underwater. Many of these "amphibious" plants are adaptable to the point where they can grow from pond/stream bed up to the water's surface, producing aquatic leaves as they go, but they are also capable of then emerging above the surface, and producing their "land leaves" from that point upwards. This means that those land leaves have access to more plentiful supplies of (atmospheric) oxygen and carbon dioxide, which gives them a considerable competitive advantage over the algaes that might be growing in the water column. The houseplants which aquarists encourage to root into the aquarium water column are better than the aquatics at removing nitrogen from the water for presumably the same reason - that their metabolism can proceed more vigorously because of the relatively unlimited supplies of oxygen and carbon dioxide that their foliage has access to. But, to return for a moment to the aquatics planted in the tank bottom/substrate, if they have emerged foliage above the water level, not only can they grow quickly, but they are also able to inject more oxygen into the substrate around their roots, and maybe its true to say that these two capabilities make the emerged growth of these "aquatics" (or "amphibious plants") especially useful to the tank's ecology? I'm looking forward to watching the new video Adrian, I haven't seen it yet. Say hi to Ziggy for me! BW Gordon
Will do mate and thanks for that info… really great. Well I would say you’re a “fraud” but I would def recommend getting a tank !! lol 😂 but hey…. That’s just my opinion. (Maybe a beautiful bowl with an eta ?? )😂😂😂🙏❤️🦘🐶🇦🇺
Ha…. Yeah he is a farm dog, he only takes calculated risks… 😂 plus if it bit him, he would learn not to do it again. Non venomous…. So it would scare him only. The cats have the ability (and have used it) to teach him other life lessons. lol I of course would never let anything happen to him, (and he knows it) so he is fairly confident around them now.🙏🐶❤️🇦🇺🦘
Ah bummer….I’ve found them awesome…. Sorry to hear that you didn’t. Was there anything in particular you found troublesome that you could share ? Thanks for your support and your feedback. 🙏❤️🦘🇦🇺🐶
Yowies… you’re obviously an Aussie ! lol 🙌🏻🇦🇺 and yes mate there are many stories from the tribal people over thousands of years about them. My mates Farm in the numbing bar valley is part of the border ranges and they’re hundreds upon hundreds of caves with ancient art all through there and I believe to be places that the yowie go. My mate has personally seen one when he was much younger as a boy, and can still describe it in detail.
My thoughts, are that I do believe they exist, (and many other things we have been “taught” to ridicule ) and that pretty much everything else that we’ve been told about this world is a lie. The real truths come from ancient tribal cultures….. not the TV station’s owned narrative and deliberate deceptions. Just sayin cause you asked….. lol 😂
@@AdriansFishroomI am thinking about put a screen over my two goldfish stock ponds this year because of the snakes. We get alligators in my area too but so far they have not visited me. I am in south Louisiana USA.
Well Gday from Aus !😍 Great idea re the snakes and hopefully no gators work out it’s a good spot to wait ! lol we have same issue with crocs in Aus but (unfortunately 😂) not near me. I would LOVE a salty in a pond !!🙌🏻❤️🙏🦘🇦🇺🐶
