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i did not only make a water change but i changed the entire aquascape to black gravel so that future shrimp look fire

The Office tank is actually several tanks. The white bar at the ends is the borders.

I got so happy seeing my tank featured, I'm the one with the wild looking tank with the guppy and endlers! And yes, I'm thankful to be out and in a happier relationship with someone who wants me to be creative and is willing to learn the hobby, hopefully soon he'll feel ready enough to have his own that we can set up together ☺️ QOTW: I love my Bettas and guppies! Just adore them so much! Bottom feeders, I love corydoras. Though I will say since I got them recently, Chili Rasboras are the cutest things in the world!

About the toxic partner - maybe it wasn't so much about them being anti-scaping (specifically), just in control of household finances, stingy, and totally disinterested in aquaria or aesthetics of any kind. My ex-husband was exactly like that. Before I moved in there were no pictures on his walls, no houseplants, nothing. "Waste of money" he would say. He didn't mind me bringing my stuff to spruce up the place, but he wouldn't spend a dime to add anything. Oh my god he used my designer towel to wipe his hands while changing the oil on his car, don't get me started. So, when I was staying home with our newborn daughter, I got awful bored just watching TV while he was at work, so I begged for a fish tank. He baaaarely agreed to buy me a 10-gallon kit jobber from Walmart for like $50, and a few cheap fish from Petco. I'm certain that if I wanted to add driftwood, plants and a decent light for the plants, it would have been, "You wanted a fish tank, you got one. The fish don't need plants!"

Guys, I was a monster fish keeper until last month. I reworked a 100 gal I had where I had an Oscar (which I sold) and I now have amber tetras, lamb chop rasboras(basically Harley Quinn rasboras but smaller) cherry shrimp, one mystery snail, one Mexican dwarf crayfish (I have a lot of hiding room), amano shrimp and prob one of my favourites... Bristlenose pleco. Maybe my stocking is kinda bogus with all these bottom feeders competing, but I will only improve as my journey goes on

Not only did that terrifying bug thing make me panic check my fish tank for 20 mins, the sound effect of like dragonfly wings immediately when i came back to the video gave me a straight up heart attack... love it XD

The Bird on your shoulder is the most adorable thing I've ever seen 😭

Quick tip for anyone with dragonfly lavae in their tank. These larvae are sensitive to common aquarium fertilizer(one normal dose will kill them) plus they have a symbiotic relationship with water lily's

Re: The $1 Fluval Aquasky. I was a price checker at Macy's for a time. It is the person you see walking around with a laser gun type thing scanning price tags in most large chain stores. They had a thing they called Penny stock. And when this came up on your scanner, you were to remove it immediately so it could be counted as a loss and sold at one other their other outlet stores. I would assume this was the same kind of thing. The Fluval Aquasky was probably priced that way because it was meant to be removed before anyone came in the store. This person should have went back and seen if there were any more and got those also.

My favorite fish (although it's one I have yet to own) is pea puffers. I'm obsessed with them and once I buy a house I want to set up a good 40 gallon pea puffer tank.

Even fishes cant escape office work

I had a tank on my desk at the office, it was sometimes a bit distracting but it was very calming and thought-provoking. My coworkers liked it and it smelled fine. My favorite stocking was lamb chop rasboras.

My favorite fish is the veil-fin comet goldfish. I have many of them and they're not abused they're in a nice 300g tank. Goldfish are amazing

I'm so excited that my 10 gallon planted tank is finally cycled. I will become a member of the cory gang when I stock a school of pygmy corys in a few days 😊 can't wait!

that was a real tank or to be precise multiple L shaped tanks in a former call center in Boulder, Colorado. Built in year 2000 and housed a wide variety of fish ranging from cichilds and catfish, to tiger fish and menos.

Hubby did a few water changes already, i cleaned the filters, so it is going fine. The first fish that comes to my mind as favourite would be dwarf puffer fish. I would probably not keep them, but the level of adorable is trough the roof 😆

To answer your question - I’ve actually done 2 water changes so far this year on my only tank which is a 30 gallon. Both about 40% water changes, stocking is a bit weird…. 9 glass bloodfin tetra, 16 cardinal tetras, 6 corydoras and an apple snail.

Dwarf Gourami. Even though they caught an uncurable gourami disease every time Ive owned one, I still love them. They were my first fish and the onl fish that survived the terrible petco husbandry. R.I.P. Riptide, Fire Coral, and Riptide the II

Bettas gotta be my current fav, when starting out, i NEVER wanted one cause I thought they were basic and boring, but then my sister (who was less than too knowledgeable on fish) gave me hers and I absolutely fell in love! Their personalities are so unique and differ from fish to fish. That little bro has sadly passed about a year ago, and I’m here now with my second betta who I’ve had for almost two months now, named Fruity Jerma (it’s a uhhh…. Placeholder name LMAO). Also, currently watching this while doing my first water change of the year 👌 motivation has been yeeted out the window this year, so it’s a week or so later than I wanted, but hey, im proud I was able to muster up the motivation to do it now ^^ Thanks Chris for another rad Fish Tank Review, love ya man

As a new Fishkeeper, I did my water change this year! I got a new plant fertilizer which said multiple times was safe for snails (It had a very small amount of copper but the company said it was so small it wouldn't hurt him) well... put the dosage in, and within hours my Mystery Snail's behavior started to change, so we had to get him out and change the water. The snail is fine now! His behavior is back to normal and he is very active again! And I got a refund on the plant fertilizer. Im very happy that I was paranoid about it from the start, Im pretty attached to him and his betta buddy. 😌

Favorite fish has to be checkered barbs. They are so cute and have amazing fin colors. They each have a very distinct personality. Pretty cool fish.

Qotw: my favourite fish are common goldfish, they are amazing and if you keep them in the hundreds of gallons they deserve, they'll grow massive and live for decades! I think they look great in tanks. I love the fish room vlogs and updates The ender breeding tank is looking great.

my red root floaters flowered white. i had them in a newer tank with fluval aquasoil and sand, and TONS of light. tank was a COLD axolotl tank that was started room temp for a few weeks. flowered before i turned on the cooling i think.

my favorite fish are filament barbs. i got some like 5 years ago not knowing how big they get and how aggressive they are. i had to rush out and buy a new tank one evening when they started trying to kill another fish in my tank, and i ended up having to build a 150 gallon fish tank for them. they eat all plants and i love planted tanks. but they’re still my favorite, the way their colors shimmer on their sides as they race past is beautiful and they’re really personable when they beg for food. totally underrated in my opinion, perfect for large tanks with no plants and aggressive fish

Weekly water changes for me. 14g rock flower garden. 29g quarantine and 14g planted freshwater.

1 of my bladder snails is named Mr algs because he/she has a full 5cm trail of thicc algae on its shell lol its cool to see and it doesn't seem to be spreading to the actual tank sometimes I give him a trim about once a month

I arguably spend equal time watching FTR than i do on my PhD

Changed 1/3 of water of all 13 aquariums I have twice in 2023 so far, plus currently in the process of upgrading to 4 big tanks instead of 13 small tanks 😊

for the rice one, its over stocked but theres usually more water in there, which is used mainly for weed suppression, rice doesnt need to be flooded to grow. usually rice paddy fish are small minnow sized fish ... ive alsdo seen shrimp and fish liek this in man made lake type set ups with sewage...

I think the weird creature is a dragon fly larvae. I've seen one in my tank before. It legit freaked me out, cause I noticed it when my hand was in the tank... Never before have I pulled my hand out of a tank so fast!!😜

Sort of cheating by saying my favourite fish are small tetras, but I love the colours and behaviours of them. To be more precise, the neon/cardinal tetras with the red and blue, the Glowlight with the bright orange stripe, the black neon with the black (wow) and blue stripes and the Rummynose’s bright red head and silver make those 5 species my favourites and must have fish in a South American community tank.

My tanks are overloaded by plants and super over filtered, I don’t even need to do weekly water changes.. January is almost over and I still haven’t done a water change but everything (plants, fish, snails, and even algae lol) is still thriving!

I’m hoping to get back into fish keeping this year! In the last year I’ve moved to California and gotten married. Our apartment doesn’t have room for a fish tank yet, but maybe when we move! We have a kitty right now though. I’ve been so busy the past year that I haven’t kept up with the channel, but I’m binging through all your videos now Chris 😅 wish me luck. Also, 祝你新年快樂，恭喜發財，祝你今年身體健康，萬事如意🧧🧨 happy year of the rabbit!

changed water in aquariums, added water to garden pond, discovered some rando lagomorpha or rodentia had snipped the wires from the solar panel to the fountain in one pond... HAWKS AND FOXES, ASSEMBLE!!!

I just found an article says the office was in Boulder, Colorado and it was stocked with "Cichilds, catfish, tiger fish, menos, and much more". But no longer exists as the company, got sold.

Changed my water in 2023!!! 😄 I love my fish! I’m not sure the feeling is mutual. I think they think they’re miniature sharks, because they always swarm an attack against my hand every time I put it in their tank.

Qotw: After seeing one in my local fish store, I've been obsessed with African Butterflies. I love the way they look, the fact that they can glide out of water, and that they eat insects. I always thought it would be cool to get some feeders for my fish

one time my guppy grass produced two white flowers as it hit the top of the water, that was two years ago haven't been able to do it again since i really have no idea how i did it and didn't know guppy grass could flower. the more we learn i guess haha

First fish I think of is Rummy Nose Tetras. I think all 6 tanks have had a water change so far.

1-1.5inch vinyl hose(length necessary to go from toilet to tank plus another 5-10 feet, fill the hose with clean water, plug one end with a rubber cork that has several feet of string attached, and put one end into a freshly cleaned toilet that has been flush several times to rid most chemicals. You'll need some large rubberized clamps that won't harm the tank(like Rockler bandy clamps, which I love) to clamp the siphon end into place so it cannot move or allow anything to become contaminated or messy. Once in place, stand a good distance and pull plug hard away wit ha string to allow the clean water to flow and begin the siphon, which will begin to fill the toilet and empty the tank. Wait for all to be drained to the level of the siphon, do not move anything, just make sure the siphon end and toilet end stay steady, preferably you have 2 people so you can monitor both ends so nothing goes wrong. Once the siphon clears, transition it carefully into a bucket of bleach solution. Do not contaminate anything. Rinse your hands in the bleach then quickly into water and rinse for at least a solid minute in room temperature water, not warm or particularly frigid. Depending on whether your fish are still alive, also note that you can attempt to net them and put them into a mild solution of hydrogen peroxide, which will be oxygen rich and mostly sterile. Careful how much you use, I tend to use about an ounce of 4% hydrogen peroxide per 1/2 gallon of room temp water from the sink but only for a short time and try to match the temperature of where they came from. There's a lot more to the fish rescuing part than that, but that's the basic idea. Plants can be planted immersed outside for a year or so to make them safe to reintroduce to an aquarium. Something can be done, but I recommend keeping people away from your aquariums.

My Dad always had fish tanks while I was growing up, And I recently decided to start my own up after 2 weeks of having a 7 gallon tank with a few goldfish I now am in the process of starting up a 43 gallon tropical tank, no fish in it yet but once I have cycled the tank I will start adding a few species every month

My favourite fish are black phantom tetras. I have a 10 gallon species tank with 6 of them and they're so beautiful

12.5 and 9.5 gallon planted with a single betta each, haven't changed water yet

That wavy fish tank setup there is no way that's real. How could those desks hold that mucccch? OO

the office tank was a real thing in Boulder, Colorado they had a daily mail article. it closed in 2008

QoTW, kuhli loach, awesome little fish, especially if kepts in groups 6+ (more is better) as the they tend to be a lot braver and active in the tank.

I change my water weekly so three times in ‘23. All time favorite fish is a Jack Dempsey. It was the first fish I helped take care of when I was a kid, with my dad.

Favorite fish is any type of gourami. They're just so beautiful and unique.

ROFLMAO at the dragonfly nymph... I've seen plenty in the wild (kayak, explore, turn over some rocks ya'all). I have them in my garden ponds, where they eat bugs and mosquito larvae, along with damselfly nymphs. Accidentally brought in some damsels with pond plants, oooops. Netted and relocated back to pond. Got some neat pics over the years of both dragons and damsels emerging from their last nymph stage; the exoskeleton splits and they climb out, unfurl their wings and become aerial stealth hunters. They are hunters underwater as nymphs, so, yeah, maybe not in your shrimp tank (adult shrimp are ok with damsels, but they might have eaten some of my newly hatched cherry shrimp.

I've had snails with little bits of algae growing on, or at least stuck to, their shell. Not like that though. Someone takes a dump in one of my tanks, I'm drowning them in that tank. And I don't want to know what that sawdust tank was. QOTW: The Green Terror (actually Gold Saum, blah blah blah). It's the fish that got me hooked. I always liked helping my dad with his tanks as a kid. He kept tetras, betta, corys, etc., some livebearers in one tank (he had 2 or 3 running most of the time). I really liked the tanks. But when I saw a full grown, male GT at the LFS one day when I was 9 or 10 years old, I was instantly in love. I saved for a couple years to buy my own bigger tank just so I could get one. And I've had at least one for well over 30 years since.

Lol to answer the question at the beginning I've changed my water so many times this year. Since the beginning of the year I've set up a new tank and tore 3 down, one to keep cycled to repurpose later, plus getting new fish and moving them all around and such. So. Many. Water changes.

lol you went from nah on the office and then you started thinking of the potential stocking and got excited. Oh and my favorite fish is probably the Black ghost knifefish. They always made me feel like there was a mini orca in my tank.

I know its incredibly basic and boring, but I absolutely love betta fish. They were my first hyper fixation, and to this day I still love browsing through information about that, even if I've already seen it. They are also just so pretty, and I find myself falling in love with them over and over again. Absolutely stellar fish, I cant get enough of them

At 6:10 that is a dragonfly larvae and they will eat your livestock in the tank. They are very accomplished hunters, using jets of water expunged from their body to shoot through the water.

Can't help it the Betta fish is my favorite I have a black crown tail in a 5.5 gallon with black neocardinas and a tangerine koi betta in a 10 gal community tank with a pigmy cory gang of 4 and mixed shrimps loving their fully planted tanks

Haven't changed my water yet. Will this weekend! I'm new, glad I found your channel

No water changes yet, but I set up a new tank (#5). Favorite fish- reticulated hillstream loach

Omg I would be livid if someone pooped in my tank. How do you even get you a$$ up that high? Stand on a chair?? I have done one water change so far this year. *Heavily* planted 20G hybrid Walstad tank, 5 african dwarf frogs. (3 females and 2 males.) & A couple ramshorn snails that hitchhiked in on some plants. 🐸💕

Did two water changes already this year. I added some new plants and now I'm overrun with baby snails!! This never happened to me before. I'm not sure what to do.

I have for some reason gotten a nitrite spike which have decimated my stock. Yeahyea, mea culpa, I'm learning. So yeah.. a couple of water changes this new year, just about one 1/5 each day for two weeks. The upside is that I got the tip of using pothos, so I quickly cut up a couple of PET bottles so I could hang cuttings on the glass. It look very pretty now. And yes, the nitrite is gone.

Absolutely love the 5 minute length!

Didn’t change any water yet. One tank has an aquaponics system on it and others are covered in floaters. I just remove floaters a few times a month. I usually do a water change every 3 months or so.

Dude i love watching your videos, youre super chill, easy to listen to for hours, awesome content, i love the tank reviews. Also im a huge office fan too so the fact that you are makes me feel like youre one of my friends lmao. Sive drafely!! 🤝🏽

First water change of 2023 this morning. Hope y'all have done yours as well.

Doing the Father Fish method. Just started, we will see about the need of a water change in the future.

6:00 it’s a dragonfly larvae, they come in as eggs on the roots of plants and eat fish

Idk what I do to cause it but my red root floaters flower like crazy almost all the time! It's really pretty. My vice flowered too was excited about that!

yup 36% on 11 tanks . did it just now actually and chilled with youtube after the fact o.o .. 2 turtle tanks, 2 fishtanks 4 axolotl tanks, 1 newt aquarium and one african clawed frog community tank

QOTW: My favorite fish are the mandarin fish. They are beautiful during mating season, and the fish helped me get into the hobby.

Why are Millies wings clipped? They look rough

5:59 Yep, that's a dragonfly nymph. The fauna in that tank must feel like they are in a slasher movie.

Just finished my 7th water change. green hair algae just destroyed my whole aquascape while I was on vacation so I had to do the hydrogen peroxide treatment for 4 days + my weekly water changes. Now it looks like a tarantula enclosure.

Changed it twice so far, with. thorough clean the second time💪💪 You give me that dedication Chirs

My neighbor is a hoarder and didn’t realize she had a fish tank. So when I go over to her house I steal the fish that are still living. I have three African dwarf frogs from her now and they are the loves of my life, like fr the reason I get up in the morning. I put them in a forty gallon and have spent like a thousand dollars on these stupid little frogs. But I love em so much. Guys if you ever have bouts of depression get yourself an easy fish tank. If you know what your doing of course.

Fav fish - rummy nose tetras. They are just so cute ☺️

Yup 6 tanks usually once a week. Cleaned too many sponge filters at once in the 75 gal, bit cloudy(Bactria bloom)?

QOTW: Pea puffers, I love how they only grow 1 inch and are full of personality. I also love how they only grow 1 inch big too. I am thing of getting 7 or 8 and putting them in a 125litre/33gallon

I have an ecosystem tank, and have only topped off the water so far this year!

I have not done a water change for 9 months now, my 780 litre reef is understocked, I dose all of the elements required and test with my Hanna test kits weekly, my nitrate is at 5 after 9 months!

big tank like that has to have a sump setup , did you see the 2nd one on the smaller desk too?

2 water changes so far but planted goldfish tank is still spotless

I've had multiple water changes this year, 50 gallons and above hit a certain kind of way

Did 2 water changes already on my 3 tanks and fav fish is skalars or bettas, bettas courtship display is so pretty but skalars is too.

I'm in the process of setting up my first tank, a 10 gallon planted tank for a betta, it's really exciting!

Honestly, it's so good that you say to like the video EVERY TIME because I forget EVERY TIME lmao Also that office tank. Bring your pet to work day???

I have yet to do a water change on my 20 gallon but I’ve checked the levels and they’re all perfect 👌🏻 yay plants lmao. Finishing cycling a 40 breeder for an axolotl so I’ve got daily changes for the next week before he can go in 👀 also just wasted 8 years in a toxic relationship and finally got out a few months ago 🎉 his tank is still here though and I have to take care of it til he gets it 🥲

I did a small water change. Favorite fish is the dwarf gourami.

I've been working on my tank for a while, trying to get rid of brown alagee on my plants, going well.

I'm new to keeping fish but Bettas are my favorite I've keep so far so much personality

You asked if I already did Waterchange. I already set up a new shrimp rack with 6 tanks plus one tank in my old rack

Another great Monday! Thank you once more! Fantastic job!

I forgot about this channel forever ago ad now I’m trying to catch back up 😂

I don't actually own fish But through the research of many hours kuhli loach I just think they're really cute

Dragonfly nymphs are awesome, but they're little murder machines that will obliterate small fish. I used to have a dragonfly nymph named "Chompy" that would eat tadpoles face-first. It was spectacularly horrific. Incidentally, the idea to give Aliens those telescopic jaws was inspired by dragonfly nymphs.

Switched a 20 g to a 55, my fish are so happy with all the space!

Of course we did water changes , but it's a helpful reminder!

Yeah did a water change and made a normal tank into planted tank like amazon setup , I love it

Happy FFTday!! OMG the Uncle Roger reference made my day!! 🤣 I love Nigel Ng!

Their boss was like "do you want benefits or giant fish tanks. Too bad, I chose for you"