We did a quick walk around fishroom tour of all our tanks currently to document how things were before we start changing out some smaller tanks for some larger tanks.
interesting theres more coldwater species than people are aware of , generally people and pet stores think only goldfish ,.i have 2 coldwater tanks but found alot of conflicting information on temps , esp. for shrimp
yes I agree, there are way more coldwater fish than the general fishkeeping public would like to mention, maybe its just lack of knowledge or experimentation. I also agree on there being lots of conflicting information on temperatures, we have personally kept neocaridiana shrimp in the 50s with success. thanks for stopping by the channel and sharing with us.
I am so glad I found your channel ! I have 9 tanks and a 100 gallon indoor pond . I am gradually working towards only native fish . I love my tropicals and won't get rid of them , but as they go I won't replace them. your fish room is awesome , I do not know why you don't have 50 thousand subs !
Appreciate that man, I'm glad you found us, I like building a community who enjoy the natives and am trying to spread the word more about native fish as much as I can.
I’m so happy to have found your channel! I have a 55 gallon no heater tank. To be honest when I go to get fish it seems to be frowned upon when I tell them it’s not heated. I currently have swordtails, albino corys, and mystery snails and all are doing great. It’s been set up a while and I’m wanted to add some. Will the crappie you have eat other fish? We live on a lake in Arkansas and our dock always has crappie coming up. 😊 Anyway your tanks are amazing and thank you. You the the exact set up I love.
That's awesome to hear, I really like hearing about more people keeping unheated tanks, it's just so much simpler and efficient. I wouldn't recommend a crappie with those fish, crappie have mouths and appetites like a bass, I'm afraid they would eat most those fish. How about setting up a North American Native tank with local fish from your area if its legal there. Glad to have connected with you on here and if you ain't to busy we livestream every Friday at 6pm. Est. Time.
Thank you, we talk about updates weekly on our Friday livestream, but once we get the new tanks setup we will make another fish room tour, thanks for the kind words.
Well, I was thinking about keeping some smallmouth, you would need a large tank because the grow fast and get large. I would start out as small as you can find and maybe try more than 2. Either way sounds fun.
Great tour. Could you list, if possible, the aquatic plants that can survive during the 55 F temperature drop. I have an outdoor tank with White Cloud Minnows in California, San Francisco Bay. And it get cold during winter at night maybe 40s or low 50s but most of the day is lower 60s during winter. Thanks,
Sure I've had good luck with dwarf sagitarie, jungle valseneria, rotalla rotundafolia, hydrophilia coryumbosa, Java moss and Java fern as well as alot of crypts, mostly crypticorne wendeties. Hope this helps yah and thanks for watching.
@@MrBeeznutz Thanks, that really helps. Besides the vallisnerias, cryptics, Java moss and Java ferns. have a couple of Amazon swords, cabombas,, and I was planning to add a dwarf lily. What do you think about those plants in a cold water tank. Thanks.
Thanks for sharing! I just ran into your channel and see that your setups are mostly of soil. I recently set up my first dirted tank and I added beneficial bacteria from a healthy 2 year old tank. I'm hoping to add fish within four weeks after setup - mainly because water test results have been unbelievably great and stable. How long do you usually wait till you add livestock? It's inspiring to see your livestock look healthy and plants are thriving.
Glad you found our channel, I normally only wait a few days before adding livestock, but I also use established sponge filters as well as some rocks and plants from established aquariums most of the time.
I really really enjoyed your fish room tour!!! It’s nice to see a change in collections!!! What made you decide to go with more “local” cold water species???
Thanks we appreciate that. It's basically all based around the area we have to work with. We keep most of our tanks in our basement were there is no active heating system. So temps range from high 50s in winter to low 70s during the summer. We figured out right away that trying to heat these tanks in the winter was not practical. So we decided cold water fish/fish room and we stocked around that idea. Local native fish are a great fit for us. Thanks for asking a great question.
My tanks are unheated and run low 70s in coldest of winter high 70s in hottest summer they are all in living quarters ... Gotta love Florida .. Dude darters are so underrated I'D put rainbow darters up against any cool fish in the hobby if they were from Africa or Asia they would be way more popular I dont understand that
@@MrBeeznutz lol…I’m such a softie for animals…if I didn’t have so many food allergies I’d probably be a vegetarian.. that and the whole “I’m from Texas must have Tbone fix.” After watching Leon the pet lobster show intelligence and feelings I now just can’t eat them anymore. In all seriousness, I’m severely disabled by multiple disorders which cause pain. Since that happened I became even more sensitive toward the suffering if other living things. When my hubby could hunt deer, I was ok because I knew the animal died quickly and without suffering. I also helped butcher it, which gave me even greater respect for what I was eating. Given what I know about the cattle and chicken industry, well enough said. I’m certainly no saint, but I’m grateful for what I’ve learned from my illness, if nit fir the illness itself, if that makes sense. I hope you are feeling better and did not compound your grief by watching the video. If you ever need to talk with someone who feels as you do, just ask.
Hey, really cool tanks. As someone who’s started his first cold water viquarium (half water-half land based terrarium) do you have any suggestions on what fish could go in it? BTW it holds only 4-4 1/2 gallons and has drift wood in it.
There are quite a few options for that size of cold water tank. As far as common fish you could do white clouds, rice fish, neocaridina shrimp, or danios. If your talking natives, there are lots of cool minnows, a few small species of darters and quite a few cool native killifish. Really depends on what you want to keep, but I've had all these fish down into the 50s before with no problems. Hope this helped have a great day.
@@MrBeeznutz where are you located. All these are local species to me. I’ve caught coosa bass in creeks and I live at the headwaters of the coosa river. I didn’t even know about the shadow bass until I caught one and didn’t know what it was.
@@MrBeeznutz Rome GA the Etowah and Oostanaula meet here forming the Coosa downtown. It’s also the only landlocked breeding population of stripers in the country I believe.
@Wbharrington that's awesome. Unfortunately, up here, we only have largemouth and smallmouth bass. I'd love to travel some time and fish for some smaller ones.
I would say yes the gymnogeophagus balzani would be a great fit for a cold water tank. I don't personally have any experience with that particular gymnogeophagus, but in general gymnogeophagus species thrive in cooler water tanks.
The piranhas tank normally fluctuates between 65-75 degrees Fahrenheit, no heater but it is in our upstairs living space, not down in the colder basement.
We don't have any red points anymore but the severums and convicts are doing great. We keep them upstairs in unheated tanks that get down into the 60s quite often.
I've kept them down to about 55 degrees Fahrenheit, they don't breed but they do fine at that temp for a few months each winter. You'd be surprised how many fish will do just fine in slightly cooler than most people recommend, I think everyone's trying to sell aquarium heaters 🤣
@@MrBeeznutz yeah thats right. And they want to sell more fish. I keep my tanks cold as well. I live in the netherlands, i keep a few sunfish species, fish that are native here ( pike, perch, wels catfish) and chinese perch. Love the north american natives i try to get some more but thats not easy over here. Love youre Chanel and tanks. 👍
The plants that are in that tank are for the scuds to eat on, that's the point. I take most of my plant clippings and dying plants and put them in there for the scuds to eat, they help recycle.
Yes they can but in my experience they prefer to eat decaying plant matter or other decaying debris. But when I put scuds in my fish tanks the fish eat the scuds so 🤷.
@@MrBeeznutz Do you tried to create living conditions for scuds in a fish tank? So that the aquarium will be self-sufficient, autonomous, without the need to feed the fish constantly.
That is a great idea and one I have thought about trying before, but I have not yet tried this. With the right amount of leaf litter and hiding places I think it is possible, thanks for asking such a great question.
interesting theres more coldwater species than people are aware of , generally people and pet stores think only goldfish ,.i have 2 coldwater tanks but found alot of conflicting information on temps , esp. for shrimp
yes I agree, there are way more coldwater fish than the general fishkeeping public would like to mention, maybe its just lack of knowledge or experimentation. I also agree on there being lots of conflicting information on temperatures, we have personally kept neocaridiana shrimp in the 50s with success. thanks for stopping by the channel and sharing with us.
I am so glad I found your channel ! I have 9 tanks and a 100 gallon indoor pond . I am gradually working towards only native fish . I love my tropicals and won't get rid of them , but as they go I won't replace them.
your fish room is awesome , I do not know why you don't have 50 thousand subs !
Appreciate that man, I'm glad you found us, I like building a community who enjoy the natives and am trying to spread the word more about native fish as much as I can.
Thank you for the tour and info. Been in tropical ale for 50+ yrs. Now going no heater.
Very cool David, your going to enjoy many aspects of it I'm sure, thanks for taking the time to comment and share.
GREAT JOB MAN 👍 👍 👍 NICE
Thanks man I appreciate that. 👍
Wow Brandon what an incredible tour of your fish room 😍 Low tech, Dirted Tanks... Simple and absolutely beautiful, thank you for sharing! 🙏🌿🐟🌿💞
No problem glad you like it Mary, thanks.
Thanks for the tour.
Thanks for stopping by and watching.
Great tour. Thanks for sharing! - Little Bobby
Thank you New Mexico Aquatics
New sub. .. Mark J Larson outdoors sent us over. God bless Tony and LeeAnn.
Thanks for stopping by, appreciate yall
Looks great
Thanks John, its changed a bit from this video.
Nice tanks. My fav was the one with the maple root... great look to it.
The black crappie are badd asses with amazing colors.
Thanks Scott, yeah that root ball is hard to beat, glad to have you here.
I’m so happy to have found your channel! I have a 55 gallon no heater tank. To be honest when I go to get fish it seems to be frowned upon when I tell them it’s not heated. I currently have swordtails, albino corys, and mystery snails and all are doing great. It’s been set up a while and I’m wanted to add some. Will the crappie you have eat other fish? We live on a lake in Arkansas and our dock always has crappie coming up. 😊 Anyway your tanks are amazing and thank you. You the the exact set up I love.
That's awesome to hear, I really like hearing about more people keeping unheated tanks, it's just so much simpler and efficient. I wouldn't recommend a crappie with those fish, crappie have mouths and appetites like a bass, I'm afraid they would eat most those fish. How about setting up a North American Native tank with local fish from your area if its legal there. Glad to have connected with you on here and if you ain't to busy we livestream every Friday at 6pm. Est. Time.
wonderful video, thank you so much my friend, greetings like 2
Thanks Acuario MBR. Much appreciated
Thanks for the knowledge. I love cold water nano fish!
No problem, we love our little native killings, starhead topminnows. Thanks for watching.
Love it. I’m looking for an energy efficient setup that doesn’t need a heater. Thanks for posting.
Your Welcome, Thanks for taking the time to comment and Yes, Coldwater tanks are definitely more cost efficient.
Great video. I really enjoy the natural look in the aquarium.
Thanks Lonnie, we really enjoy it as well and try to setup every aquarium as natural as possible, have a great weekend.
Nice tour. You have some beautiful tanks.
Thank you for the kind words. Glad you enjoyed it.
Love the native tanks! Cool way to enjoy the hobby, all fish must be able to thrive at 60 degrees. Nice job, keep it up.
Thanks glad you enjoy it and yes we truly love keeping native fish, it just fits so well with our fishroom temperature.
There’s an extra sub and like 👍
Thanks man
awesome fish room , great to see such a huge native collection !!
Thank you, we always enjoy when people appreciate the native fish, thanks for watching.
thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching friend.
Fantastic fish room, Looking forward to seeing your updates.
Thank you, we talk about updates weekly on our Friday livestream, but once we get the new tanks setup we will make another fish room tour, thanks for the kind words.
Looking good!
Thanks Rikostan, appreciate you stopping by, have a great day.
very cool
Thanks man.
Great video Brandon! Everything looks amazing thanks for sharing =)
Thanks Brian, appreciate that, also thanks for taking the time to watch and comment
You need some S. Barbatus from Brazil which are cool water cories. Super cool fish.
Awesome we will check into those, thanks for the recommendations, we are always looking for coldwater fish to try.
Awesome 👍👍👍
Thanks Vinny 👍
Cool to get a tour as changes will be coming 💋
Yes changes are coming, thanks ness, love you 😘
@@MrBeeznutz love you too 💋🍁
That's pretty! I like your facility. 😍
Thank you
Nice video, everything looks "wow"
Thank you, appreciate the kind words.
Beautiful tanks!
Thank you.
👀💯🔥❤ Tanks for sharing 🤜
👀 no Problem Greg, tanks for watching🤛
Thank you buddy
Thanks Terry for watching
Wow, the bristlenoses do well at low temperatures? That's great to know!
Yes, bristlenose are pretty good all the way down into the lower 60's.
Been running your Playlist for your watch hours hope it help
Oh yes Dave, it has been helping, last time I checked we were only 30 hours from being monetized, thanks for your help buddy.
Temperate tanks you have are very unique.
Thanks, we enjoy being different from most.
Love the tour. Tanks are beautiful 💕
Thanks Monster Fiah Gal 😁
Those are big scuds.
Yes they are, those are scuds from our local waterways, they are much larger than what most people deal with in home aquariums, thanks for watching.
Love it I'm looking for 2 Smallmouth bass. 4 to 6 inches.
How about it?
Well, I was thinking about keeping some smallmouth, you would need a large tank because the grow fast and get large. I would start out as small as you can find and maybe try more than 2. Either way sounds fun.
Great tour. Could you list, if possible, the aquatic plants that can survive during the 55 F temperature drop. I have an outdoor tank with White Cloud Minnows in California, San Francisco Bay. And it get cold during winter at night maybe 40s or low 50s but most of the day is lower 60s during winter. Thanks,
Sure I've had good luck with dwarf sagitarie, jungle valseneria, rotalla rotundafolia, hydrophilia coryumbosa, Java moss and Java fern as well as alot of crypts, mostly crypticorne wendeties. Hope this helps yah and thanks for watching.
@@MrBeeznutz Thanks, that really helps. Besides the vallisnerias, cryptics, Java moss and Java ferns. have a couple of Amazon swords, cabombas,, and I was planning to add a dwarf lily. What do you think about those plants in a cold water tank. Thanks.
Sounds like a good setup to me, nice variation of plants there, one more I also forgot to mention was bacopa, it's done good for us too.
👍👍
Appreciate you buddy
Thanks for sharing! I just ran into your channel and see that your setups are mostly of soil.
I recently set up my first dirted tank and I added beneficial bacteria from a healthy 2 year old tank. I'm hoping to add fish within four weeks after setup - mainly because water test results have been unbelievably great and stable. How long do you usually wait till you add livestock? It's inspiring to see your livestock look healthy and plants are thriving.
Glad you found our channel, I normally only wait a few days before adding livestock, but I also use established sponge filters as well as some rocks and plants from established aquariums most of the time.
@@MrBeeznutz I was hoping you'd say that! ;-) Thanks and see you soon.
No problem, have a great day
Do you just use tapwater and dechlorinate, or do you add water from the source you've found them in?
We just use our local tap water.
I really really enjoyed your fish room tour!!! It’s nice to see a change in collections!!! What made you decide to go with more “local” cold water species???
Thanks we appreciate that. It's basically all based around the area we have to work with. We keep most of our tanks in our basement were there is no active heating system. So temps range from high 50s in winter to low 70s during the summer. We figured out right away that trying to heat these tanks in the winter was not practical. So we decided cold water fish/fish room and we stocked around that idea. Local native fish are a great fit for us. Thanks for asking a great question.
My tanks are unheated and run low 70s in coldest of winter high 70s in hottest summer they are all in living quarters ... Gotta love Florida .. Dude darters are so underrated I'D put rainbow darters up against any cool fish in the hobby if they were from Africa or Asia they would be way more popular I dont understand that
Yes, I agree. There's a ton of cool north American natives that alot of people don't have a clue about. Thanks for taking the time to comment.
Hola 👋 again 😅
Hola friend
What is your quarantine medicine regiment that you use on wild fish? Dewormer?
I use prazipro when I catch a new wild, usually only one treatment right at first.
really, you are getting a bowfin? that's amazing. where are you getting it from?
Yes, we got it from jonahs aquarium about a week ago
Now horrified that as a child I caught and had Mom fry up sunfish!
😂 don't be horrified they make great food as well as great pets.
@@MrBeeznutz lol…I’m such a softie for animals…if I didn’t have so many food allergies I’d probably be a vegetarian.. that and the whole “I’m from Texas must have Tbone fix.” After watching Leon the pet lobster show intelligence and feelings I now just can’t eat them anymore. In all seriousness, I’m severely disabled by multiple disorders which cause pain. Since that happened I became even more sensitive toward the suffering if other living things. When my hubby could hunt deer, I was ok because I knew the animal died quickly and without suffering. I also helped butcher it, which gave me even greater respect for what I was eating. Given what I know about the cattle and chicken industry, well enough said. I’m certainly no saint, but I’m grateful for what I’ve learned from my illness, if nit fir the illness itself, if that makes sense. I hope you are feeling better and did not compound your grief by watching the video. If you ever need to talk with someone who feels as you do, just ask.
Hey, really cool tanks. As someone who’s started his first cold water viquarium (half water-half land based terrarium) do you have any suggestions on what fish could go in it? BTW it holds only 4-4 1/2 gallons and has drift wood in it.
There are quite a few options for that size of cold water tank. As far as common fish you could do white clouds, rice fish, neocaridina shrimp, or danios. If your talking natives, there are lots of cool minnows, a few small species of darters and quite a few cool native killifish. Really depends on what you want to keep, but I've had all these fish down into the 50s before with no problems. Hope this helped have a great day.
@@MrBeeznutz thanks so much I have zero experience with cold water fish and this helps a lot...
Hi i have a Question i have a few black spots on my java fern and i was wondering is that normal is something wrong and can i fix it? thank you.
Do a Google search but black spots on Java ferns are usually little baby Java ferns trying to propagate.
Have you ever heard of a shadow bass. It’s doesn’t get much bigger than a war mouth definitely smaller than a rock bass
I've heard of those and the Coosa bass, maybe one day, I've thought about raising a largemouth bass this year .
@@MrBeeznutz where are you located. All these are local species to me. I’ve caught coosa bass in creeks and I live at the headwaters of the coosa river. I didn’t even know about the shadow bass until I caught one and didn’t know what it was.
@Wbharrington I'm in Norrhern Indiana, what about you? You must be down south.
@@MrBeeznutz Rome GA the Etowah and Oostanaula meet here forming the Coosa downtown. It’s also the only landlocked breeding population of stripers in the country I believe.
@Wbharrington that's awesome. Unfortunately, up here, we only have largemouth and smallmouth bass. I'd love to travel some time and fish for some smaller ones.
Hey 👋 I’m currently doing my research on Gumnogeophagus balzani for a cold water tank…. Would you say this would work here in England
I would say yes the gymnogeophagus balzani would be a great fit for a cold water tank. I don't personally have any experience with that particular gymnogeophagus, but in general gymnogeophagus species thrive in cooler water tanks.
Pirahna in cold water? What temperature are your aquariums
The piranhas tank normally fluctuates between 65-75 degrees Fahrenheit, no heater but it is in our upstairs living space, not down in the colder basement.
How are your red shoulder severums, marbled convicts and red points doing in the cooler water?
We don't have any red points anymore but the severums and convicts are doing great. We keep them upstairs in unheated tanks that get down into the 60s quite often.
@@MrBeeznutz thanks for the info!
Rossi San, your welcome.
Also thnx for subscribing
No problem 😁
What's the specs on the shop lights you use?
A mix of 5000k and 6000k, 3000-5000 lumens from amazon.
Hey Brandon
Hello 👋
Those are the fattest Red bellies I ever saw.
They are chunks, aquatic nesss feeds them good with raw shrimp, thanks for watching Dragonlair.
How cold can you keep a brisyle nose ? Dont they need warm water ?
I've kept them down to about 55 degrees Fahrenheit, they don't breed but they do fine at that temp for a few months each winter. You'd be surprised how many fish will do just fine in slightly cooler than most people recommend, I think everyone's trying to sell aquarium heaters 🤣
@@MrBeeznutz yeah thats right. And they want to sell more fish. I keep my tanks cold as well. I live in the netherlands, i keep a few sunfish species, fish that are native here ( pike, perch, wels catfish) and chinese perch. Love the north american natives i try to get some more but thats not easy over here. Love youre Chanel and tanks. 👍
That's awesome that you keep natives to your region, thanks for sharing buddy and glad we connected.
3:46 Are you not afraid that your scuds will eat your plants ?!
The plants that are in that tank are for the scuds to eat on, that's the point. I take most of my plant clippings and dying plants and put them in there for the scuds to eat, they help recycle.
@@MrBeeznutz What happens when you put scuds in a fish tank? Can they eat plants there?
Yes they can but in my experience they prefer to eat decaying plant matter or other decaying debris. But when I put scuds in my fish tanks the fish eat the scuds so 🤷.
@@MrBeeznutz Do you tried to create living conditions for scuds in a fish tank? So that the aquarium will be self-sufficient, autonomous, without the need to feed the fish constantly.
That is a great idea and one I have thought about trying before, but I have not yet tried this. With the right amount of leaf litter and hiding places I think it is possible, thanks for asking such a great question.
Think I am 1000 sub
Thanks for the support Aquatic Thumb, lucky number 1000
Thanks for the tour.
Thanks for coming back and watching another video.
Thanks for the tour
No problem, thanks for stopping by and watching.