Inner Workings of My Fish Room Answered
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- This video is on the basics of my fish room. This incarnation has been up and running since 2008. If you have any questions on things I didn’t cover feel free to ask it in the comments section. Thank you all for subscribing and watching my videos and putting up with my ramblings.
I should mention that I do not have gravel or substrate in the tanks, (except for 1), because I don't want any of it getting down the drain in the sink where I empty the buckets. No other reason, various substrates look great.
thats an awesome set up ..thats what my room is going to look like in time ..lol great video
Thank you very much! I can't add any more it's getting tougher to keep up with everything : )
unbelievable setup!
Thank you!!
Beautiful fish room. I'm disabled and unable to work so we just bought a house with a 24x36 detached garage that I'm tuning into a proper fish room. Very expensive and time consuming. Over head air system with a Jehmco Linear Piston Pump and currently working on a automatic drip system. I got everything from Jehmco and did it probably. Thanks for sharing and As always do what you do if it works for you.
I wish you the best with the fish room! I think the dream and working towards it is the most gratifying part of things with every hobby or goal in life. If you have any questions you can email me at greydmail at yahoo.com
@@DGrey I could not have said it any better myself. I appreciate it and I would love to work with some of your fish in the future so you will be hearing from me. Have a great day and as always...Do what you do if it works for you.
Thanks! It's early in the morning so I still have a few functioning brain cells to gather a coherent thought!
@@DGrey 😂😂😂well those are some good words to live by. Not bad for a half coherent thought.
Thanks! :)
Wow, beautiful set up! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks very much & thank you for watching!
Excellent video!! 😊
Thanks very much Renee!
thanks for the knowledge your passing on to us too your such a great guy never stop making these vids cause im addicted
Thanks so much for the kind words!
How you keep breading a line ? Breading from diferent generations? Breading from same generation brother sister?crossbreading?
Great information. You have an impressive fish room. More on the extended fin black Moscow girls, please! They are spectacular. :-) ...And I love the bubble noise of tanks, too. My fish room is my bedroom, because I suffer from insomnia and can't sleep without that lovely burble. Seriously! The good news is, if we have a power outage, I wake up immediately, bolt up-right from deep sleep to get emergency aeration underway. It's a good system.
Thanks very much! The bubbling sound is a great way to drift off to sleep. You are lucky if you are a light sleeper. So far I have slept thru an earthquake and a hurricane over the years.
@@DGrey :-0
Nice set-up Doug. Getting some ideas on a small Fish Room set-up of my own. Haven't had one in a number of years. Now that I am Retired I want to get back with the one true love of my life - Tropical Fish ( LOL). BTW-had one of your Progeny drop some Fry about 3 Days ago. They are all good and healthy and the ones I got from you are truly Beautiful. Thanks Again!
Thanks Mitch! I'm glad the fish are doing well. You should be over run by them in a couple months! :) My fish room started as a dozen larger tanks on wrought iron stands. Took a long time to get it to what it is now.
@@DGrey I bet-hope I can get to half your expertise-I was in Bettas more so-but never got that good with them-do still love them though.
You'll pick up breeding guppies if you did and still do bettas. I used to breed bettas and sell to local stores I couldn't deal with the 100 or so mason jars around so I switched to angels & finally guppies.
@@DGrey Yeah all the jars and the heating problems are a pain.Have seen the heating tape but haven't tried it yet. I figure I will still toy around with Bettas but I always have loved Guppy tanks-never get tired of watching them. I love Angels, Bred some but I had to go out of town to work. Left instructions with the Wife on caring for my Angel and Betta Fry. Nobody cares about them like we Fish Nuts. So you know how the Babies fared. Que Sera Sera.
I really enjoyed the tour.
Edie, thank you very much!
How often you clean the sponges, is it an issue if you clean sponges too often ,or too late?
I use a python to do the weekly water changes and I push the sponge filter with it a few times to get some of the dirt out. Every 3rd week I take the sponge out and rinse it in a bucket of tank water.
Subscribed! I just recently bought guppies.
Thanks very much! Go Broke is the right name for those of us that love guppies!!
Do you always keep salt in the tanks and what dosage or you put salt only when you treat guppies?
Hi, I use 1 teaspoon per 10 gallon tank. I use the salt as a preventative since I tend to keep more fish in a tank than a normal person should.
Lovely..I was going to ask if you have display tanks..because I don't have a fish room..I try to keep all my tanks display..the real problem with that is removing fry ..so I now try to breed my fish at the same time so I can make a mess of the breeding tanks and re do them..I have room for a fish room..but I really want a smaller house at some point..😂😂😂
Hi Lily, thank you! I have a few 37 gallon or larger tanks that are empty in the garage, As soon as I can find a place to put 1 or 3 of them I'll set them up with silver dollars or various barbs etc.
@@DGrey I was looking at a 29g for my more plain female guppies and also my older ones..I want to put a tub outside but that may have to wait till I screen in my patio..I keep changing my mind...
I usually put out 2 of the 10 gallon tubs with some guppies in it once the weather gets nicer. Someday maybe, a pond out back.
Do you keep youre tanks super clean and how much you clean youre sponges?
My tanks are not super clean. I have plants in the tanks and they always seem to store up some dirt as well. I rinse the sponges out once every 3 weeks in warm water.
Great colored guppies, do you allow selecting and local pick up?
Thank you for watching! With the current virus situation no one is coming in the house, not even relatives : )
Very Nice Indoor Fish Room friend. Thanks for sharing your fish room. Happy Fish Keeping! How many strains do you have?
Thank you very much! Too many strains actually :) The current guppy strains are 2 lines of full reds, black moscows, black deltas, metalhead red/blue grass, red grass, pingu's, yellow deltas, red lace snakeskins, black lace snakeskins, half black blues, snow white albino's and various experimental crosses
@@DGrey Nice! many to mention. you have lots of hi quality guppies. HFK!
What plants you have and are they resistant to salt?
I use a thin leaf water sprite and also the regular broad leaf water sprite floated at the tops of tanks. Some of the tanks I have a clump of java moss at the bottom. They are the only plants I use since they grow so well and have no issues with me using the salt in each tank.
Do you have soft water or hard water , what ph are you re tanks?
Can you make a video showing how much food should you feed amd what types of food you use and how often?
I kind of made that video in February about the live baby brine shrimp and high protein foods and flake foods.
I have been binge watching all your videos. Liked and got your jokes but then again I have a dry sense of humor. I want to do a guppy rack in my den but am limited to a 36 inch space. This is enough for 4 5.5 gallon tanks and 3 10s. Or 8 4.5. Can you get by with just 5.5 for breeding? If you were to start off line breeding just one or two types what would be the tanks you would recommend ie 2 5.5s and 2 10s?
Thanks for watching and putting up with my jokes! I use 10's for grow out tanks and also if I have more than 2 breeding trios. Other wise I use the 2 and a 1/2's for my crosses. The reasoning behind that is the males have less space to chase the females. I use the 5 and a 1/2's for a few pair of breeders if all goes well.
Do you use tap water or well water?
I use tap water and treat it with seachem prime.
Do you allways have melafix in the tanks or just when you treat ?
I add it when I do the water changes once a week. I am not sure but it probably dissipates in a few days.
Sluggish that one was good 👍 🤣
Thank you for watching!
My wish fish room.
Thanks very much! It took me a long time to get the chance to do this. I had a lot of ideas in my head that could finally get out!
@@DGrey I am also building my fish room day by day. 7 tanks at this time and counting. Hope to have a room like you. Cheers!
It'll happen. The current fish room used to be 8 or 10 tanks on wrought iron stands for many years.
Oh wow very nice buddy. You got a lot going on in there buddy
Angelo thank you very much!
Hi there...new subscriber here. Cool setup and I love your devotion and obvious love of our great hobby. I hope my passion comes through in my videos as yours does. Best regards! -Bruce
Thanks very much!! I think I went way over budget! :)
@@DGrey yep... that'll happen!
How many fish you keep in 10gallon tank?
In a perfect situation I keep 2 or 3 trio's in a 10. Sadly I've been using the 10's as grow out tanks due to space limitations and have too many fish in the tanks most times :)
@@DGrey ok thanks ,tell me please about water is it soft or hard, I am asking because I have issues when buying new guppies they keep dying and I have soft water, do you think that is the problem or the guppy that I buy are not good quality?
@@DGrey can you make a video where you show water ph gh? Is youre ph stable?
Thanks D grey
Thanks Mike!
Great fish room Doug,,can you just tell me again what you add to water when you do a water change..keep up the jokes😁😁😁 great information.👍🇮🇪
Thanks Alex! I forgot to mention I usually drink a beer or a seagrams flavored beverage as I do a lot of water changes, seems to help. I use seachem prime to treat the water. I also add a teaspoon of non iodized salt to a 10 gallon tank and a dose of pond strength melafix as a conditioner.
D Grey you can’t beat drinking a beer when you’re working Doug 😁thanks for reply,needed that information 👍
Hiya D..another great video with some good info. Question...you say you use salt...but does that hurt plants and snails? And btw..your reds are beautifully bright red.
Thanks Rhia! I don't put salt in the few tanks that have the snails. I think it would kill them. The plants do fine with the salt.
Hey Doug, do you remember or heard of a Breeder named ( think it was) Louis Wasserman? I remember He was like a famous Breeder back in the late 70s and maybe into the early 80s. He had some beautiful Guppies for sale.
Hi Mitch. Yes, I have his book which is pretty good actually. How to raise show guppies.
@@DGrey very cool
Is it necessary to add Salt to a guppy tank? Thank you so much for the great information I learned a lot! 😊
6mg per 10l will be good for Guppy to prevent disease growing in your tank.
Jane thank you! Yes as Luck Aqua said I use the salt to try to cut down on diseases getting a foot hold. It's not necessary, it just helps.
Is there any reason you have substrate in one tank and not the others
Thanks for watching! Just a fluke that I left the gravel in 1 tank
Sluggish lol. Thanks for the laugh.
Thanks, it was kinda lame but funny!
check out the tail at 7:01
That was a funky tail. I yanked that 1 out at some point.
@@DGrey It was a flame tail....lol
How often do you do water change and how many percent?
Thanks for watching! I take out 30% once every 5 days in each tank. I normally use the python water changer and do 25 tanks in a day.
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Thank you!!
one teaspoon for each 2 gallons of new water, approximately?
I didn't think of it that way, but I do add a new teaspoon of salt in each 10, (or 1/2 a teaspoon in a 5 & a 1/2), as I do each water change and I'm taking out 3 gallons (or 1 and a 1/2 in a 5).
@@DGrey thank you very much.
I put less, maybe, but I've had a hard time keeping Guppies. I will increase it a little, without jeopardizing the plants and see what happens.
Sorry that you are having losses. Are they pet store guppies? If they are, then that is most likely the cause of the problem. No knock on pet stores but they mostly get their fish from wholesalers and those fish can have residual diseases hanging around in multiple stages. In other words they could look healthy but be an internal mess. Maybe there is a pet store near you that buys fish from local breeders and those fish would be used to the water conditions that you have and likely do better.
@@DGrey I live in portugal, but I believe that this is what happens, here, just like in America.
The local breeders have fish with poor genetics
and I do not want pure lineage. I want assorted guppies
, to be able to sell back to the store
and people who have community aquariums
. I want to create quality guppies
, but not fancy guppies. It's a little explored market niche here in portugal
.
Thanks for all your tips
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You just have to get a few that live and then you can make your own strain out of them Once you have some babies to grow out they will be healthier because they have only been in your water. I wish you success!
you could have one bristlenose and move him from tank to tank lol youd never have to feed it hahaha
That's actually a great idea and some guys I know do that exact thing.
Do.you.sale.your.fish.
Hi Linda. I do but haven't been shipping until the stay in your home order in Philly is lifted.
Awesome Video Thanks for Sharing FishFam NJAE19
Thank you very much!
can you sell this fish to me?
Which guppies are you talking about?
B.E red mosaic
Yes I should be selling some on aquabid soon or you can email me at greydmail at yahoo.com
Never ever tell another joke as bad as the sluggish joke. Wah wah wah.... :-/
Thanks! That was a terrible joke.