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QOTW: my fav is the goldfish only have 3 sec memory. I school people on that one. I used to have a pond full of goldfish and koi, those guys never forgot sounds I made, songs I sang, and years later, they still swam up to me if I approached the pond. Mythbusters even proved they have a memory of at least a month. They sometimes let me pet them too. All our goldfish were feeder comets, we went to petco or petsmart and just bought a bunch of them to give them a chance. They Def remembered things and never grew too huge.
The transition from “this whirlpool isn’t really healthy for your snail” to “I built an automatic snail feeder for my puffers” was impeccably timed lmao QOTW: My least favorite myth is probably “you have to replace your filter cartridge every week/month.” When I found out that wasn’t true I was so mad, those cartridge replacements aren’t cheap and I’d spent so much money.
"Favourite" fishkeeping myth: Fisk keeping is so much work! You gotta clean that tank several times a week and put hours into maintaining those plants! (When in reality, I do a weekly water change... atleast this myth makes me look good and hardworking lol) Most annoying myth: your goldfish will adjust their size to the tank so it's fine if you keep it in a really small one
Weirdest thing happened to be last week. My shrimp a single female looked dead I tried reviving her by swinging the net while the shrimp was in it maybe the water could give the shrimp some oxygen, I lost hope and dumped the shrimp in my ecosphere to be decomposed. Then suddenly today I look into my ecosphere and I see the freaking SAME SHRIMP NIBBLING AT SOME DEAD LEAVES. I then I moved the shrimp back to the tank
1:50 I'm hoping Chris knows he's got lady fish nerds in the house as well? And most probably some others as well? 😅😂✌️ And re: that color blind person's tank, I wonder if their tank looks so awesome precisely because they can't see the color so they were able to focus more on depth and texture? It's a pretty awesome build!!
As for the Killerwhales... they are mammals. *BUT* technically everything living that's not a invertibrate, plant or funghi is a fish, in that we share a common ancestor 😜
QotW: It's gotta be a close tie between 'pLeCoS kEeP tHe TaNk cLeAn' and 'fish will grow to fit the size of the tank!', at least from the perspective of working at an LFS. More generally speaking, the idea that fish don't feel pain...
Hey Chris, I hope this comment reaches you. I've been a fan of yours for a long time and today at 10 am my beloved betta Rio passed away from ich. Thank you for your videos because they really helped through my journey and Rio used to love watching them from his tank. I don't know if you could, but it would mean a lot if you wore blue or something in your next video for Rio. I know it might be silly, but I've never been this heartbroken and he meant so much to me. Much love
My favorite fishkeeping myth is when people say that sponge media is for mechanical filtration. I use coarse sponge media so that I can rarely clean it because yeah it does do mechanical filtration, but it also does biological filtration which is more important.
So on the bizarre stocking combos, I was trying to find an aquarium themed puzzle and pretty much anything that wasn't just "ocean" mixed freshwater and saltwater, peaceful and aggressive, Coldwater and tropical. All I wanted was a pretty aquascape. My favorite myth is "the water is perfect"
QOTW, I think the one that stands out the most in my mind was the one inch rule. I had a book once that said one inch per gal in a box with water. With mechanical filtration, you could have two. If you then add biological filtration, you could have three inches of fish per gallon. I know it does not go into the logarithmic's of fish size but is a good start for the new fish keeper who wants a tank full of neons. After that, read, read, and read some more.
1:49 Yes, under multiple definitions. First of all, "fish," like "tree," is a folk term, not a scientific one. It has long been used to refer to anything with the general fish-like body plan that swims, including sharks, ray-finned fish, whales, and more. Second, bc we include lobe-finned fish as fish scientifically, all tetrapods, including cetaceans and their relatives hippos and many more creatures are also fish. The same way if New World and Old World monkeys are both monkeys, so must all apes be. So yes, Killer Whales ARE fish
Scientifically, you can't evolve out of a clade. We are fish that evolved to be out of water. Whales are fish that evolved to be out of and then evolved to be back in the water. In terms of bacteria, we are/our clade is the Eukaryote--organisms with cells that have an internal membrane protecting the nucleus.
my favorite myth is that all Bettas are baddies and can't be around other fish. They're my favorite fish and I've tried every single one I've ever had in community tanks-- out of +/- 8 males and a sorority of 11 females.... one. I've had exactly one that refused to do it. He stalked and killed even ghost shrimp. yes, yes, they didn't all get along with every fish in their tank and the most common aggression was towards slow things that looked like snaccs or shared the same coloring as the betta. I've got a sweet koi boi right now that recently decided he's over neon tetras. And a lovely ghost white double fin flared something something who likes to follow shrimp and supervise their acitivies. He doesn't even eat the fry and his tank is about to be overrun by them :D
Yeah, I was about to put that as mine too. I've had two males, two females. Both females liked having the other fish around (i think Lilith thought she was a platy) and my first male betta got really depressed after I brought him home, not because his new home was bad, but because he was really lonely, since my LFS houses their Bettas in tanks with the other fish. Got him a school of endler buddies and he perked right up!
1:49 Aren't orcas mammals in the dolphin family? Sharks are fish, but in my opinion the whales/dolphins aren't, unless you're talking about "fish" to mean, generally, "swimming sea creatures". But even then, most people aren't including, say, seals or sea lions when they say "fish".
3:21 Years ago when I was an idiot fish keeper, on Valentines Day, I got a "betta tank" that was about, maybe 2 gallons, with a divider. My husband's favorite color is red, so I got him a red betta and myself a white one. I added red gravel and decor to one side and white on the other. Put his red one on the white side and my white one on the red side. I thought it was so cool, and honestly, if it wasn't abuse, it really did look cool, but alas, my days before RUclips were filled stupid pet keeping decisions of which I'm ashamed to admit.
Hey hey FTR gang!! Wishing all a super radical, super positive and most of all super stress free week!🌿✌️🌿 QotW; dang it Chris, I was going to say the one fish/ one inch per gallon then you used it as an example! I guess my other fav fish myth would be you need a certain size filter that runs a certain amount of gallons per hour and on top of that those dang filter cartridges that say you need to change them every week or two.
Apple snails are a hoot. They get massive, too! Loved my first one so much my boyfriend bought me more. Going to breed them if I can because I want more for free.😂
@ aqua world! They’re in the tanks with all the plants. About 15 mins away from ambridge if you’re close enough. I’m on the boarder in Ohio thats where I found mine.☺️
@ oooo! I love like five minutes away from there. What store? I know they have Off The Hook exotics down there but every fish I bought from them were sick 😭😭😭😭
This may be a stupid question but aren't Mystery snails part of the apple snail family? Cause that's the info I got when looking to buy one, only to find out that this particular branch is banned from sale in Europe due to the danger of it becoming an invasive species.
Oh my gosh the fish specialty shop one tho! 😅 No lie, on my way home from work I pass by this place called "Fish City Grill" ...closest thing I have to a local fish store 😅😅 (the name gets me every time until I see that last part!)
"How adorably can an apple snail eat a green bean?" *shows* Me: Okay that is adorable. (I honestly did not expect that XD I was expecting to just see it munching but to see it actually holding it like that? So cute ❤)
QOTW: My most annoying fish keeping myth: Goldfish and bettas can be happy in such a small, unfiltered tank that it would be like us living in a 6x6 room with no flushable toilet, heater, or escape and the room is slowly having toxins pumped in
My favorite fish keeping myth isn’t really a myth It just depends on the betta. My betta fish have never jumped out of their tanks. I do have lids for them, but the lids are extremely ugly. In fact, I’ve never even seen them jump when the water level was at its highest. The only time they ever jump out of the water is either when I’m trying to move them to their breeding tanks or when I’m dangling food in front of their face
"bettas live in tiny puddles in the wild" is by far the worst myth. Like people even try to argue with that *when I have literally seen bettas in the wild living in large blackwater streams*
Okay but some *do* live in little cups of water in the base of trees for the entirety of the drought season. Recently watched a video on wild Bettas, and no, not all of them live in open water year round. It is mildly hilarious that you think just because you've seen one thing, other things can't exist. Two things can actually be true simultaneously.
Added to that nonsense "You can't put a betta into a large tank, it will die from stress!"😒 No, it will die from stress if the tank is gigantic but empty of hiding places and the fish's fins are so stupidly large and heavy it can't swim to the surface.
@@thatkidmorganmariah Nuance. Surviving and thriving are not the same thing. There is a massive difference between "Can survive for a time while trapped in a tiny area during the dry season" and "They live in their tiny urine-sample sized cup of water their whole life by choice" No betta would stay in that itty bitty cup's worth of water if it had the choice of leaving. You should not base an animal's care on the absolute bare minimum circumstances in which is can survive. A human can live their entire life in a room the size of a prison cell but that doesn't mean they are thriving.
@mokko759 there is also a massive difference between "they can't live in that" and "they live in that for 9 months out of the year." I didn't say they were thriving. I said it happens, and they live through it. You know, in response to the person I was replying to, who said they don't live in those conditions in the wild due to the fact that they saw them in a stream. Two things can be true.
@@thatkidmorganmariah the difference is that a little pool around the tree has a lot of biological filtration going on, and the betta can hop into a different puddle if the conditions get bad enough. It also doesn't live in there full time, it just has to survive until the water comes back. Some lungfish encase themselves in mud and mucus, then wait out the dry season buried underground in empty riverbeds. Nobody would argue that keeping these lungfish in a box of damp clay would be species-appropriate, even though it's something they sometimes do in the wild. Yet for some reason, that logic is applied to bettas.
I don't know enough about the fishkeeping myths to have a favorite or least favorite. Probably some people thinking fishkeeping is the easiest of pets to have and take care of.
Fun Fact: Killer Whales (or Orcas) are marine mammals and the largest member of the dolphin family. They are highly social and intelligent and pass on learned hunting techniques to their young. In fact, different pods of killer whales have different learned hunting techniques depending on the prey and the environment around them. They have even been documented exhibiting “play” behavior. Behavior that has no other purpose other than for enjoyment or pleasure. This type of behavior is almost exclusive to us humans.
Those web search results with the wrong kind of fish stores sadly remind me of my own results while searching for local fish stores. I gave up after I tried “local pond stores” in my search for aquatic plant supplies and the results came back with “pawn stores”. No doubt just in case I had some dodgy goods to unload but didn’t know how to spell. I think my “favorite” myth is that fish secrete a chemical in their urine and the concentration in the tank water determines how much the fish will grow. No idea if it has been scientifically disproven, but it sounded like nonsense to me the first time I heard it.
Well when I was young (3-4 decades ago) the ratio was 1 liter (0.25 gals) per fish. 1 gallon is an improvement yet. But I think the ratio should be at least 4-5 liters per cm of fish. So a Betta should have 20-25 liters at least and a goldfish 100-150 liters. Imagine a fish could “run” into their tanks. Amazing!
I always click like but I’ll try to comment on every video from now on… I have 3 aquariums fully planted & I try my best but sometimes I forget fertilizer or over feed a little etc 😵 but I have lots of shrimp & different snail types to help me w/the plants & cleaning up extra food here & there… I’ve been lazy letting the duckweed take over at times lol
So hippie fun fact, pomski breed is lab bread cause exactly like you were saying my dude. Cause physically really just no way. Just like there be glow fish the same science gave us the pomski
QOTW is deffs that fish will grow to the size of their tank. I do kinda like seeing the looks on people's faces when I tell them their outsides stop growing, but their insides don't. Yeah bit of a horror show
QOTW: Myth: Water changes are necessary. If you have a planted tank, and your parameters are fine, no need for water changes. I do weekly top offs and that's it. I might actually clean my canister filter every 6 months. I have clear water, and my fish are all happy and healthy.
Technically orcas *are* fish :P "Fish" refers to a body plan, not a clade, and even if it did, whales would be fish in the same vein that humans are primates or mammals, since a clade includes any clades or species that are descended from it)
I just thought of the perfect way to demo why inch per gallon doesn't work. Technically, humans are fish (basically everything that's a vertibrate is a fish). Have humans crawl into tanks (doesn't necessarily need to have water in it). Get someone who is 5 foot tall to cram into a 60 gallon (probably the 60 breeder). Fill up a 125g with the appropriate amount of toddlers.
QOTW my favorite fishkeeping myth to debunk is that male Betta fish can't be kept with other fish. I debunk it by showing my main tank, which is 14 gallons holding 1 male Betta, 5 pygmy corydoras (pygmy gastrodermus?) 6 amano shrimp, 3 otocinclus, and 2 longfin danios (one zebra, one leopard) As for your question regarding "killer whales," no. Fish move perpendicular to whales.
1:48 killer whales are not in fact fish or whales, they are mammals and they are cousins of the dolphins. They can also hunt dolphins for food and win.
Orcas are dolphins, and dolphins are toothed whales. (Also, mammals are technically really weird bony fish, but that's taxonomy, not the everyday use of the word "fish".)
OK to answer your question it's a myth, in my area at least at both Petco and PetSmart. They claim that River danio make great community fish! I unfortunately fell for this about eight years ago. My beautifully planted tank has become unsightly. They bullied all the guppies until death. They kept breeding, so I did make money from them. However, I only have three of them left and thankfully they don't breed anymore. One of them was an offspring and he thinks he is part of the Corey gang, because he was bullied by the other group. But I kinda can't wait until they're gone fully so that I can redo my tank.😮
It doesn't depend only on the fish's size and the tank's size, but also on the behavior of the species you've got, the beneficial bacteria population and how much support there is for it, the filtration, the amount of plants, the frequency of water changes... There isn't a unique answer.
pretty silly to have a snail dispenser on a puffer fish tank ... you can literally dumb all at once. Puffer fish stop eating when they are not hungry .. they dont eat until they get sick. Depending on number of puffer fish and tank size you can even have snails multiplying in the tank itself. I keep 3 Redeye Puffer and also have a population of snails, shrimp and dwarf crayfish in it ... ofc these tank mates dont manage to breed faster then whats being eaten by the puffers, but if enough are added the tank can be left on its own for a fairly long time before I have to put more snails/shrimp or crayfish in. And those puffer are really chill when they aint hungry, swiming around all the live "food" without bothering it until they fancy a snack.
QOTD: 1 inch per gallon. It is.. very inaccurate. It all depends on fish type, personality, filtration system, aquascape, and just.. so much more. Is 1 betta, 14 tetras, 2 albino corys, and 3 mystery snails too much for my 10 gallon, heavily planted tank? According to that rule, yes, but everyone is thriving and happy. So.. idk man.
The "one inch fish = 1 gallon of water" (or "1 cm fish = 1 liter of water") is not a myth. Sort of. It's a kinda semi-accurate way to calculate the bioload of your fish, especially if you have relatively small fish (fish that bigger than 10-15 cm need more water per cm). However, it's about bioload, not the actual space that the fish need, and the two often do not overlap really well. So it can be used; you just need to know what you actually measure with it and how. On the other hand, my favorite myth is probably "they grow as big as the tank.". Like, come on… If it works like that, then there should be some whale-sized guppies and stuff out there.🤷
QOTW - the myth that fish will grow to the size of the tank. This is how I ended up with my sister's common pleco (who now lives in a 300 gallon stock tank).
1:50 yes, killer whales are fish because Mammals are fish because tetrapods are fish because we split off from ray finned fish more recently than we split off from cartilagenous fish. So if you only want to count ray finned fish (salmon, bettas, guppies...), then Coelacanths, Sharks and Hagfish can't be fish. If "Fish" only applies to the narrow definition of Ray finned fish, then Orcas aren't fish. Otherwise, they are
@@FishForThought as I said... It depends on your definition of "Fish" At least we agree that jellyfish aren't fish XD (I call them sea jellies and I wonder why there aren't any fresh water sea jellies for the hobby...)
QOTW: Back before internet, I read "only use kosher salt or sea salt in your aquarium!" I only recently saw this contradicted. Good grief, the comments on "are whales fish?" No, vertebrates are not "fish" just because fish are the first vertebrates. Why do you think we have the word "vertebrate"? Are you trying to take away its purpose?!
Killer whales are fish because they are descended from fish, and they are morphologically shaped like fish, but mammals are defined as distinct from fish. Currently no one simple correct answer, just like the definition of a fish. QOTW: bettas have a gibbet kink.
QOTW: My least favorite myth is that bettas "don't need a lot of space" because its obviously not true and if people did even a pinch of research, they'd know. Pop quiz: And killer whales are not fish, they are mammals. :3 Gonna be changing my name on all platforms to Laid-To-Rest if anyone cares lol.
In terms off needed swimming space it simply doesn't hold up especially for fish off medium size or bigger. Inch per gallon would state it's fine to keep 2 14inch oscars in a 29gallon, that size aquarium is often only 12inch in width so shorter than the fish that suposedly would be fine in it. Another thing to consider is bioload, a 3inch long kuhli loach is going to eat and poop a lot less than a 3 inch long apistogramma.
@@yutub561 I think it's so common because when it comes down to stocking there really is no go to rule that always work but people want one anyways. People love rules that they can follow and be sure it works out. I also see this when people want to have a betta with other animals or want a predator community tank. People want a straight answer off what's going to work even though that's impossible since fish have different personalities. As far as bioload goes something like aqadvisor is an usefull tool, not perfect but defenitly a good starting point if you aren't sure about your stocking.
QOTW: I know too many people who still believe a goldfish will grow to the size of the tank, as in it's fine to keep them in a small tank because then they'll stay small 😭😭
Love how you are dunking on people for not being intellectually aware and then calling Journey to the West, Journey to the East 3.48. People in glass houses dude. Love the videos by the way, no hate here it was just ironically funny 😂
it's all fish, we're all fish, you go back far enough into the Devonian, before the first tetrapods emerged (during the Late Devonian period around 390 million years ago), it was all fish... our ancestors were fish. You are fish, we are fish, orcas are fish... LOL Orcas need a tank the size of the Pacific Ocean, nuff said...
First; killer whales are mammals. They're in the dolphin genus, and are not technically whales. Or something like that. Second: the myth that I'm most happy about getting debunked is....fish will only grow to the size of the tank. How bad the fish have suffered because of that one.😢
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@Weakestfinchstafffan oh yeah. Living in Europe is great, innit?
7:04 bro is just a chill guy 🤣🤣🤣🤣
QOTW: my fav is the goldfish only have 3 sec memory. I school people on that one. I used to have a pond full of goldfish and koi, those guys never forgot sounds I made, songs I sang, and years later, they still swam up to me if I approached the pond. Mythbusters even proved they have a memory of at least a month.
They sometimes let me pet them too. All our goldfish were feeder comets, we went to petco or petsmart and just bought a bunch of them to give them a chance.
They Def remembered things and never grew too huge.
they definitely have some good long term memory!
The way the keep eating the same piece of poop thinking it's food for the 11th time though...
The transition from “this whirlpool isn’t really healthy for your snail” to “I built an automatic snail feeder for my puffers” was impeccably timed lmao
QOTW: My least favorite myth is probably “you have to replace your filter cartridge every week/month.” When I found out that wasn’t true I was so mad, those cartridge replacements aren’t cheap and I’d spent so much money.
how often do you replace them now?
hahaha IKR from caring about every snail to a snail murdering machine...
As long as it doesn't fall apart@@sierrabird3817
Bros gonna need to dump a full can of fish flakes for a daily feeding for the first tank😭
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and that's gonna spike the organic waste up by a loooot
No, s/he won't. The fish won't live long enough to need feeding
Sure, just increase the ammonia level even further lol
@@eph2vv89only1way not if you don't feed them! Poor things!
"Favourite" fishkeeping myth: Fisk keeping is so much work! You gotta clean that tank several times a week and put hours into maintaining those plants! (When in reality, I do a weekly water change... atleast this myth makes me look good and hardworking lol)
Most annoying myth: your goldfish will adjust their size to the tank so it's fine if you keep it in a really small one
yeah I literally haven't done maintenance in a HOT minute
Weirdest thing happened to be last week. My shrimp a single female looked dead I tried reviving her by swinging the net while the shrimp was in it maybe the water could give the shrimp some oxygen, I lost hope and dumped the shrimp in my ecosphere to be decomposed. Then suddenly today I look into my ecosphere and I see the freaking SAME SHRIMP NIBBLING AT SOME DEAD LEAVES. I then I moved the shrimp back to the tank
She needs time to herself😂
it might've been the shrimp's shedded exoskeleton
@@FishForThought No it sounds like after they moved the shrimp into the ecosphere they saw her moving and eating, since they got moved back afterwards
KIAC = Korea International Aquascaping Contest. They even have a website so you can check out past entries and winners.
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1:50 I'm hoping Chris knows he's got lady fish nerds in the house as well? And most probably some others as well? 😅😂✌️
And re: that color blind person's tank, I wonder if their tank looks so awesome precisely because they can't see the color so they were able to focus more on depth and texture? It's a pretty awesome build!!
yes ofc haha
As for the Killerwhales... they are mammals. *BUT* technically everything living that's not a invertibrate, plant or funghi is a fish, in that we share a common ancestor 😜
I was looking for this
basically we all came from bacteria, or that first single cell!
QotW: It's gotta be a close tie between 'pLeCoS kEeP tHe TaNk cLeAn' and 'fish will grow to fit the size of the tank!', at least from the perspective of working at an LFS. More generally speaking, the idea that fish don't feel pain...
Hey Chris, I hope this comment reaches you. I've been a fan of yours for a long time and today at 10 am my beloved betta Rio passed away from ich. Thank you for your videos because they really helped through my journey and Rio used to love watching them from his tank. I don't know if you could, but it would mean a lot if you wore blue or something in your next video for Rio. I know it might be silly, but I've never been this heartbroken and he meant so much to me. Much love
Sorry to hear that! Swim in peace Rio!
@@FishForThought Thank you, we just buried him and I will be holding a little memorial later. Your response means so much to me than you would imagine
My favorite fishkeeping myth is when people say that sponge media is for mechanical filtration. I use coarse sponge media so that I can rarely clean it because yeah it does do mechanical filtration, but it also does biological filtration which is more important.
it definitely does both but yeah honestly everything in the filter is helping with biological filtration and it's much more important
13:59 fire eel? I only see plants
ur funny hahaha
So on the bizarre stocking combos, I was trying to find an aquarium themed puzzle and pretty much anything that wasn't just "ocean" mixed freshwater and saltwater, peaceful and aggressive, Coldwater and tropical. All I wanted was a pretty aquascape.
My favorite myth is "the water is perfect"
come on in the water's warm xD
QOTW, I think the one that stands out the most in my mind was the one inch rule. I had a book once that said one inch per gal in a box with water. With mechanical filtration, you could have two. If you then add biological filtration, you could have three inches of fish per gallon. I know it does not go into the logarithmic's of fish size but is a good start for the new fish keeper who wants a tank full of neons. After that, read, read, and read some more.
1:49 Yes, under multiple definitions.
First of all, "fish," like "tree," is a folk term, not a scientific one. It has long been used to refer to anything with the general fish-like body plan that swims, including sharks, ray-finned fish, whales, and more.
Second, bc we include lobe-finned fish as fish scientifically, all tetrapods, including cetaceans and their relatives hippos and many more creatures are also fish. The same way if New World and Old World monkeys are both monkeys, so must all apes be.
So yes, Killer Whales ARE fish
they WERE fish, they were also bacteria and that first single celled organism, but it's inaccurate to classify them as fish.
Scientifically, you can't evolve out of a clade. We are fish that evolved to be out of water. Whales are fish that evolved to be out of and then evolved to be back in the water. In terms of bacteria, we are/our clade is the Eukaryote--organisms with cells that have an internal membrane protecting the nucleus.
my favorite myth is that all Bettas are baddies and can't be around other fish. They're my favorite fish and I've tried every single one I've ever had in community tanks-- out of +/- 8 males and a sorority of 11 females.... one. I've had exactly one that refused to do it. He stalked and killed even ghost shrimp.
yes, yes, they didn't all get along with every fish in their tank and the most common aggression was towards slow things that looked like snaccs or shared the same coloring as the betta. I've got a sweet koi boi right now that recently decided he's over neon tetras. And a lovely ghost white double fin flared something something who likes to follow shrimp and supervise their acitivies. He doesn't even eat the fry and his tank is about to be overrun by them :D
Yeah, I was about to put that as mine too. I've had two males, two females. Both females liked having the other fish around (i think Lilith thought she was a platy) and my first male betta got really depressed after I brought him home, not because his new home was bad, but because he was really lonely, since my LFS houses their Bettas in tanks with the other fish. Got him a school of endler buddies and he perked right up!
1:49 Aren't orcas mammals in the dolphin family? Sharks are fish, but in my opinion the whales/dolphins aren't, unless you're talking about "fish" to mean, generally, "swimming sea creatures". But even then, most people aren't including, say, seals or sea lions when they say "fish".
Post one: hey my tank is cycled let’s get all the fish now!
The cycle: ANDDDD ITS GONE
hahaha
QOTW: That bettas can live in a bowl or vase
3:21 Years ago when I was an idiot fish keeper, on Valentines Day, I got a "betta tank" that was about, maybe 2 gallons, with a divider. My husband's favorite color is red, so I got him a red betta and myself a white one. I added red gravel and decor to one side and white on the other. Put his red one on the white side and my white one on the red side. I thought it was so cool, and honestly, if it wasn't abuse, it really did look cool, but alas, my days before RUclips were filled stupid pet keeping decisions of which I'm ashamed to admit.
Hey hey FTR gang!! Wishing all a super radical, super positive and most of all super stress free week!🌿✌️🌿
QotW; dang it Chris, I was going to say the one fish/ one inch per gallon then you used it as an example! I guess my other fav fish myth would be you need a certain size filter that runs a certain amount of gallons per hour and on top of that those dang filter cartridges that say you need to change them every week or two.
I loved watching my Mystery snails eat, that apple snail put them to shame. Hahaha excited to see the next little cute guy next Monday!
Apple snails are a hoot. They get massive, too! Loved my first one so much my boyfriend bought me more. Going to breed them if I can because I want more for free.😂
@ I have not found any yet, they are so invasive:p so that might be way I can’t find any in PA
@ aqua world! They’re in the tanks with all the plants. About 15 mins away from ambridge if you’re close enough. I’m on the boarder in Ohio thats where I found mine.☺️
@ oooo! I love like five minutes away from there. What store? I know they have Off The Hook exotics down there but every fish I bought from them were sick 😭😭😭😭
This may be a stupid question but aren't Mystery snails part of the apple snail family? Cause that's the info I got when looking to buy one, only to find out that this particular branch is banned from sale in Europe due to the danger of it becoming an invasive species.
3:47 He said "JOURNEY TO THE EAST "💀 it was supposed to be journey to the west
LMAO I totally did that on purpose... totally
First fish tank requires 50 regular cans of fish flakes and a filter 20 times larger than the tank 💀
for real
With my cat on my lap, I sit and watch Chris and the fish ❤
that is the greatest of vibes
Watching ftr while having lunch is awesome
it's a vibe for sure eh? Enjoy!
bro makes all our Mondays 😎
I noticed a lot of white molly's floating.
Dude gettin' all existential today.
always am but it just escaped more today haha
Oh my gosh the fish specialty shop one tho! 😅
No lie, on my way home from work I pass by this place called "Fish City Grill" ...closest thing I have to a local fish store 😅😅
(the name gets me every time until I see that last part!)
love the office!
it's my whole personality at this point
13:18 bro just left the Ecclesiastes Bible study 😂
HAHAHAHAH ya got me with this one
My least fav myth is that you dont need to cycle your tank, just throw fish in there with a filter and they will be fine
Journey to the east is wild
"How adorably can an apple snail eat a green bean?"
*shows*
Me: Okay that is adorable.
(I honestly did not expect that XD I was expecting to just see it munching but to see it actually holding it like that? So cute ❤)
same reaction hahaha
QOTW: My most annoying fish keeping myth: Goldfish and bettas can be happy in such a small, unfiltered tank that it would be like us living in a 6x6 room with no flushable toilet, heater, or escape and the room is slowly having toxins pumped in
My favorite fish keeping myth isn’t really a myth It just depends on the betta. My betta fish have never jumped out of their tanks. I do have lids for them, but the lids are extremely ugly. In fact, I’ve never even seen them jump when the water level was at its highest. The only time they ever jump out of the water is either when I’m trying to move them to their breeding tanks or when I’m dangling food in front of their face
"bettas live in tiny puddles in the wild" is by far the worst myth. Like people even try to argue with that *when I have literally seen bettas in the wild living in large blackwater streams*
Okay but some *do* live in little cups of water in the base of trees for the entirety of the drought season. Recently watched a video on wild Bettas, and no, not all of them live in open water year round.
It is mildly hilarious that you think just because you've seen one thing, other things can't exist. Two things can actually be true simultaneously.
Added to that nonsense "You can't put a betta into a large tank, it will die from stress!"😒
No, it will die from stress if the tank is gigantic but empty of hiding places and the fish's fins are so stupidly large and heavy it can't swim to the surface.
@@thatkidmorganmariah Nuance. Surviving and thriving are not the same thing.
There is a massive difference between "Can survive for a time while trapped in a tiny area during the dry season" and "They live in their tiny urine-sample sized cup of water their whole life by choice"
No betta would stay in that itty bitty cup's worth of water if it had the choice of leaving. You should not base an animal's care on the absolute bare minimum circumstances in which is can survive. A human can live their entire life in a room the size of a prison cell but that doesn't mean they are thriving.
@mokko759 there is also a massive difference between "they can't live in that" and "they live in that for 9 months out of the year."
I didn't say they were thriving. I said it happens, and they live through it. You know, in response to the person I was replying to, who said they don't live in those conditions in the wild due to the fact that they saw them in a stream. Two things can be true.
@@thatkidmorganmariah the difference is that a little pool around the tree has a lot of biological filtration going on, and the betta can hop into a different puddle if the conditions get bad enough. It also doesn't live in there full time, it just has to survive until the water comes back.
Some lungfish encase themselves in mud and mucus, then wait out the dry season buried underground in empty riverbeds. Nobody would argue that keeping these lungfish in a box of damp clay would be species-appropriate, even though it's something they sometimes do in the wild.
Yet for some reason, that logic is applied to bettas.
I don't know enough about the fishkeeping myths to have a favorite or least favorite. Probably some people thinking fishkeeping is the easiest of pets to have and take care of.
so do we need to pay to get rewieved?
nope! There are free links all the time here in the comment section and on my instagram stories :)
I love the myth that dirted planted tanks need to have water changes.
Fun Fact: Killer Whales (or Orcas) are marine mammals and the largest member of the dolphin family. They are highly social and intelligent and pass on learned hunting techniques to their young. In fact, different pods of killer whales have different learned hunting techniques depending on the prey and the environment around them. They have even been documented exhibiting “play” behavior. Behavior that has no other purpose other than for enjoyment or pleasure. This type of behavior is almost exclusive to us humans.
It's pretty far from exclusive to humans, lots of animals play.
Those web search results with the wrong kind of fish stores sadly remind me of my own results while searching for local fish stores. I gave up after I tried “local pond stores” in my search for aquatic plant supplies and the results came back with “pawn stores”. No doubt just in case I had some dodgy goods to unload but didn’t know how to spell.
I think my “favorite” myth is that fish secrete a chemical in their urine and the concentration in the tank water determines how much the fish will grow. No idea if it has been scientifically disproven, but it sounded like nonsense to me the first time I heard it.
it's true for goldfish, i don't know about other fish
8:49 HAHAHAHAHHA NOO WHY IS THAT SO RELATABLE 😭🤣
AHAHAHAHAHA we in it together my broski (but i am married now tho)
@@FishForThought show off.............. 🤣
Killer Whales are mammals that swim, like platypus fish
Well when I was young (3-4 decades ago) the ratio was 1 liter (0.25 gals) per fish. 1 gallon is an improvement yet.
But I think the ratio should be at least 4-5 liters per cm of fish. So a Betta should have 20-25 liters at least and a goldfish 100-150 liters.
Imagine a fish could “run” into their tanks. Amazing!
I always click like but I’ll try to comment on every video from now on… I have 3 aquariums fully planted & I try my best but sometimes I forget fertilizer or over feed a little etc 😵 but I have lots of shrimp & different snail types to help me w/the plants & cleaning up extra food here & there… I’ve been lazy letting the duckweed take over at times lol
amen to that duckweed taking over. I recently just removed some but wow did it get real bad.
That Molly tank has a 300 gallon sump under it…
So hippie fun fact, pomski breed is lab bread cause exactly like you were saying my dude. Cause physically really just no way. Just like there be glow fish the same science gave us the pomski
QOTW is deffs that fish will grow to the size of their tank. I do kinda like seeing the looks on people's faces when I tell them their outsides stop growing, but their insides don't. Yeah bit of a horror show
QOTW: Myth: Water changes are necessary. If you have a planted tank, and your parameters are fine, no need for water changes. I do weekly top offs and that's it. I might actually clean my canister filter every 6 months. I have clear water, and my fish are all happy and healthy.
QoTW: "They only grow big in a big tank. They stay small if they have small space"
Yeah, cause they die small....
Or they get stunted, lowering their quality of life and life expectancy.
Technically orcas *are* fish :P
"Fish" refers to a body plan, not a clade, and even if it did, whales would be fish in the same vein that humans are primates or mammals, since a clade includes any clades or species that are descended from it)
I just thought of the perfect way to demo why inch per gallon doesn't work. Technically, humans are fish (basically everything that's a vertibrate is a fish). Have humans crawl into tanks (doesn't necessarily need to have water in it). Get someone who is 5 foot tall to cram into a 60 gallon (probably the 60 breeder). Fill up a 125g with the appropriate amount of toddlers.
would neritie snails be suitable for a betta tank.
1:50 Orcas are dolphins
Ahhhhy if it's isn't my favorite Monday show.
thanks for the support :)
QOTW my favorite fishkeeping myth to debunk is that male Betta fish can't be kept with other fish. I debunk it by showing my main tank, which is 14 gallons holding 1 male Betta, 5 pygmy corydoras (pygmy gastrodermus?) 6 amano shrimp, 3 otocinclus, and 2 longfin danios (one zebra, one leopard)
As for your question regarding "killer whales," no. Fish move perpendicular to whales.
3:50
West* 😂😂😂
hahahaha
1:48 killer whales are not in fact fish or whales, they are mammals and they are cousins of the dolphins. They can also hunt dolphins for food and win.
Orcas are dolphins, and dolphins are toothed whales.
(Also, mammals are technically really weird bony fish, but that's taxonomy, not the everyday use of the word "fish".)
OK to answer your question it's a myth, in my area at least at both Petco and PetSmart. They claim that River danio make great community fish! I unfortunately fell for this about eight years ago. My beautifully planted tank has become unsightly. They bullied all the guppies until death. They kept breeding, so I did make money from them. However, I only have three of them left and thankfully they don't breed anymore. One of them was an offspring and he thinks he is part of the Corey gang, because he was bullied by the other group. But I kinda can't wait until they're gone fully so that I can redo my tank.😮
skipping school to watch fft🔥🔥
Does anyone know the correct way to prune a aquatic ‘banana plant?
QOTW: Goldfish can live happily in bowls. C’mon man, its just torture for the poor fish.
Normally i keep volume around 18-20 with your new mic i gotta go up to 24.
What is the correct stocking number cause i always see 1 inch per gallon
It doesn't depend only on the fish's size and the tank's size, but also on the behavior of the species you've got, the beneficial bacteria population and how much support there is for it, the filtration, the amount of plants, the frequency of water changes... There isn't a unique answer.
@marjorielabrioche1440 that's what I thought, my guess is its for new people to not overstock
gud boi
Was there a chef fight movie where the protagonist cannot sense taste but makes excellent dishes
sounds familiar
pretty silly to have a snail dispenser on a puffer fish tank ... you can literally dumb all at once. Puffer fish stop eating when they are not hungry .. they dont eat until they get sick. Depending on number of puffer fish and tank size you can even have snails multiplying in the tank itself.
I keep 3 Redeye Puffer and also have a population of snails, shrimp and dwarf crayfish in it ... ofc these tank mates dont manage to breed faster then whats being eaten by the puffers, but if enough are added the tank can be left on its own for a fairly long time before I have to put more snails/shrimp or crayfish in. And those puffer are really chill when they aint hungry, swiming around all the live "food" without bothering it until they fancy a snack.
"Wukong is from Journey to the East" ... Close. 😂😂😂 (It's "Journey to the West")
QOTD: 1 inch per gallon. It is.. very inaccurate. It all depends on fish type, personality, filtration system, aquascape, and just.. so much more. Is 1 betta, 14 tetras, 2 albino corys, and 3 mystery snails too much for my 10 gallon, heavily planted tank? According to that rule, yes, but everyone is thriving and happy. So.. idk man.
The "one inch fish = 1 gallon of water" (or "1 cm fish = 1 liter of water") is not a myth. Sort of. It's a kinda semi-accurate way to calculate the bioload of your fish, especially if you have relatively small fish (fish that bigger than 10-15 cm need more water per cm). However, it's about bioload, not the actual space that the fish need, and the two often do not overlap really well. So it can be used; you just need to know what you actually measure with it and how.
On the other hand, my favorite myth is probably "they grow as big as the tank.". Like, come on… If it works like that, then there should be some whale-sized guppies and stuff out there.🤷
QOTW - the myth that fish will grow to the size of the tank. This is how I ended up with my sister's common pleco (who now lives in a 300 gallon stock tank).
I just done water change
good stuff man!
how long does it take?
Is a killer whale a fish? Which way does the caudal fin move?
Up/down whale.
Side to side fish.
1:50
yes, killer whales are fish because Mammals are fish because tetrapods are fish because we split off from ray finned fish more recently than we split off from cartilagenous fish.
So if you only want to count ray finned fish (salmon, bettas, guppies...), then Coelacanths, Sharks and Hagfish can't be fish.
If "Fish" only applies to the narrow definition of Ray finned fish, then Orcas aren't fish. Otherwise, they are
Clint would be proud of you
@AlpMan444 hehe
they are definitely not classified as fish anymore. they evolved from fish though like everything else, which also evolved from bacteria xD
@@FishForThought as I said... It depends on your definition of "Fish"
At least we agree that jellyfish aren't fish XD
(I call them sea jellies and I wonder why there aren't any fresh water sea jellies for the hobby...)
Bro there is more ammonia in the tank than fish💀
for real
03:38 Journey to the EAST?? no wonder they took so long to go to the west
HAHAHAHA
Scientifically, not only are killer whales fish, but so are we! Lobe finned fish are closer to us than they are to ray finned fish. 🐋
2:08 I wonder how many died by the next morning
Killer whales are birds
QOTW: Back before internet, I read "only use kosher salt or sea salt in your aquarium!" I only recently saw this contradicted.
Good grief, the comments on "are whales fish?" No, vertebrates are not "fish" just because fish are the first vertebrates. Why do you think we have the word "vertebrate"? Are you trying to take away its purpose?!
Killer whales are fish because they are descended from fish, and they are morphologically shaped like fish, but mammals are defined as distinct from fish. Currently no one simple correct answer, just like the definition of a fish.
QOTW: bettas have a gibbet kink.
earliest i ever been
There is no purpose. Its just to exist and live the best lives we can.
My fish died this morning :(
aw sorry to hear that :(
@ he had cancer :c
YAY. IM FIRST TO FTR
IM SECOND
Guys what the real or new rule for "1 inc per gallon"
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QOTW: My least favorite myth is that bettas "don't need a lot of space" because its obviously not true and if people did even a pinch of research, they'd know. Pop quiz: And killer whales are not fish, they are mammals. :3 Gonna be changing my name on all platforms to Laid-To-Rest if anyone cares lol.
Care to elaborate why one inch of fish per gallon is wrong? That's the rule I see everywhere
In terms off needed swimming space it simply doesn't hold up especially for fish off medium size or bigger. Inch per gallon would state it's fine to keep 2 14inch oscars in a 29gallon, that size aquarium is often only 12inch in width so shorter than the fish that suposedly would be fine in it.
Another thing to consider is bioload, a 3inch long kuhli loach is going to eat and poop a lot less than a 3 inch long apistogramma.
@AVDB95 thank you for explaining. Why is that rule literally everywhere then?
@@yutub561 I think it's so common because when it comes down to stocking there really is no go to rule that always work but people want one anyways. People love rules that they can follow and be sure it works out. I also see this when people want to have a betta with other animals or want a predator community tank. People want a straight answer off what's going to work even though that's impossible since fish have different personalities.
As far as bioload goes something like aqadvisor is an usefull tool, not perfect but defenitly a good starting point if you aren't sure about your stocking.
@@AVDB95 i gotcha, i appreciate you taking the time to explain so thoroughly. thanks!
ayyy I was gonna explain but my boi got me! great explanation. Glad to see it.
QOTW: I know too many people who still believe a goldfish will grow to the size of the tank, as in it's fine to keep them in a small tank because then they'll stay small 😭😭
Love how you are dunking on people for not being intellectually aware and then calling Journey to the West, Journey to the East 3.48. People in glass houses dude. Love the videos by the way, no hate here it was just ironically funny 😂
it's all fish, we're all fish, you go back far enough into the Devonian, before the first tetrapods emerged (during the Late Devonian period around 390 million years ago), it was all fish... our ancestors were fish. You are fish, we are fish, orcas are fish...
LOL
Orcas need a tank the size of the Pacific Ocean, nuff said...
First; killer whales are mammals. They're in the dolphin genus, and are not technically whales. Or something like that.
Second: the myth that I'm most happy about getting debunked is....fish will only grow to the size of the tank. How bad the fish have suffered because of that one.😢