I recently saw someone on Facebook correct a commenter on their husbandry. The commenter said “oh, I didn’t know that! I’m going to change that today”. A few hours later they posted a photo of the change. I’ve never been more impressed by a keeper in my life. It’s all about growth 💣 QOTW: I love to feed them blood worms and brine shrimp 🦐
I think maybe when ppl first learn about fish tanks, they are worried that live plants/planted tank will be a lot more work and we are all so busy with work, so we are trying to make it easier by using fake plants. It wasn't until I tried a planted tank, that I realized it was easier to keep the fish tank healthy as a whole.
55 gallons on the floor for me once. My oldest son threw a metal Tonka truck at the tank when he was a toddler and the Tonka won. Glass shattered, fish flopping everywhere, water gushing onto the floor and walls. Thankfully we were hosting dinner that night and had a bunch of friends over that helped with the cleanup and getting my poor fish crammed in an empty 10 gallon until I could find another tank on a local buy/sell group. Somehow I didn't lose a single one.
She said she only had 8 hours to study, not that she did study for 8 hours-this is likely due to the quick receiving of the fish in the old tank, and only having 8 hours to both study and* come up with a better solution for that fish. Overall, a pretty nice upgrade for what that fish once had!
Or she went to the pet store and asked how to care for a fish. When I first did this, they tried to sell me a bunch of chemicals and fake plants / rocks .. I went home and researched natural tanks and went with that instead!
8 hours might be a bit steep, but I can believe it taking multiple hours for a first time fish owner to settle on that setup. First 30-60 minutes actually realizing how bad the current setup is (comparing multiple resources because you don't know where to find reliable info). Probably another few hours chasing down information vital to fish keeping like water parameters, cycling (which I hope she had a solution for), and appropriate tank conditions for bettas themselves. Then another chunk of time figuring out how you are gonna make your set-up: where the tank can go, which kit to get because not using a kit can be more expensive and confusing, and finally how much money can you afford to put into it at the moment.
i cant say for sure, but its possible the first betta fish owner *did* read all about planted tanks and the like, but was too intimidated to do it on a time crunch (which she would have been under if she was distressed by her mistake and wanted to upgrade the tank ASAP). the request for more info in the comments sounded to me like asking for elaboration on whatever she already read
I love how the Betta owner really made a positive upgrade. I'd prefer live plants, but it's not nescessary for the fish, it just add to my own appreciation.
Actually live plants are not simply aesthetically pleasing! The provide oxygen, refuge and a safe place, food and they take out ammonia from the water making the tank a stable and stressfree environment. On the other hand, plastic plants, apart from not providing any benefits for the tank nor the fish, they also can rip their fins and might leak chemicals into the water. They're not just an aesthetic choice ❤
@@Ella-qh6pn They still provide refuge and a safe place! And they are beneficial, which is different from nescessary. As long as you do adequate water changes and have a functioning filter, you take out the ammonia, nitrate and nitrite from the tank, and as long as you do the water changes correctly, it doesn't really disturb the fish more than any other activity in the room. If you do things wrong, it stress out the fish... no matter if you have live or plastic plants in the tank. A have almost exclusively live plants in my aquariums, but a few plastic, as they (my plastic plants specifically) provide better hiding places and protection for scattered eggs than my natural plants.
@@sleepytASMR I might have been phrasing it a bit lazily. A planted tank is better. Better and nescessary is two entirely different concepts. If you can raise healthy fish with normal life span, you have provided the fish with all that is nescessary. You can spend your entire life and income to make things better for your fish, yet you will never reach a point where it can't be better. Yes, plants do things for the fish too, of which some can't be replaced by plastic plants... but it can be compensated with water changes and a good filter. Which make the nescessary reqiurements met, but live plants will be better. Sure. The tank can still be better even if it have live plants in it. Every fish keeper have to balance out where they stop improving and say... this is good enough. As long as it's above what is nescessary for the fish, it's good fish keeping.
Happy FTR day everyone!! I'm having a bad pain day so I'm going to send out oodles of positive, healing hippy vibes to everyone who sees this. I wish you, whoever you are a wonderful day and if today isn't wonderful, tomorrow might be so keep on keeping on. Someday we'll get to that wonderful day where we walk around with goofy smiles on our faces all day. 🙏💙✌️ QotW; anything live that's not an earthworm is my fav fish food. There's just something about dropping in some mosquito larva or daphnia into your tank and watching fish do the thing they'd do in the wild. Scooting through the plants and hunting. I could watch fish being fish for hours.
dang, i had such a nice smile intel i thought you meant that mosquito larva or daphnia was your favorite food, because i hadn't got to QOTW yet, you have a great day too!
Do you remember that meme on "how to draw an owl"? That's like me for planted tanks after years into the hobby. The first three months all the aquatic nations lived in harmony... then everything changed when the hair algae nation attacked.
I eventually gave up trying to get rid of hair algae and just tried to manage it. My first betta loved the stuff and took all his naps in it, so I gave in and let him keep it in moderation. Trying to clean it all out just made him sulk and give me dirty looks for the rest of the day. Little guy could hold a grudge like a champ.
up until I was 16 I had 3 bettas. Starting at my 10th birthday. I unfortunately kept them in one of the containers you’d get at the fair. I moved out on my own at 17, and kept two betta in small small containers. I didn’t have another until I was 24. I knew more at this point. I have a 10 gallon planted now with a single betta. Temperature controlled, a custom low flow filter. A good quality light that is never on longer than 7 hours. Blackout days. I only ever have to add water to it. Over the last 3 years I’ve had two betta. The first lasted almost 3 years. I recently got my second. I dream of having my single betta in a 20 gallon soon though. I’d like to experiment with plant carpet in a 20. 😋
This is similar to my journey and now I enjoy the aquascaping part more than the fish keeping tbh. I currently have no fish, a couple of heavily planted tanks and some shrimp lol. I'll get back into fish when I'm no longer renting and can get a bigger tank to keep what want :)
2:35 This is actually very very good advice for anyone who is still in school. because if you start off doing amazing, they are not just gonna let you slide by and do the class like everyone else, theyre gonna give you extra challenges, and expect you to improve from wherever you started, so you will make school easier for yourself by pretending you don’t know what you know.
Love your comments, especially the sarcasm, the many do's and dont's, all the information is just astounding. And one last thing, I have been watching past videos.....my son calls it, "falling done the rabbit hole". My very favorite, is your many hair styles, they are absolutely priceless. 👍
I literally had a dream last night where I had a giant four section paludarium that broke and someone in my dream was scolding me for not just making it a terrarium because then it wouldn't have mattered if it broke, then a giant monitor like lizard escaped from it and became alligator size and I had to fight it off with a snake catcher hook thingy. I don't even own reptiles or have paludariums, but it made me scared that my fish tanks were going to break.
I've had a rough past week so I really needed the smiles that this episode gave me, especially the short notice adopted betta upgrade lady. QOTW - For my community tank I love watching the cory cat crew rush to the front of the tank to enjoy the feast of bloodworms I drop in every few days for them. They're like little puppies scurrying and jumping around trying to get them all. SOOOO freaking cute! I love my cory crew. My best friend just passed away last week and I adopted her 3 HUUUUUUGE fancy goldfish and 3 more of her fish tanks. I now have 7 fish tanks. They're all over the house! I need to clear out my extra room and make that a dedicated fish room at this point. :S I especially love the fancy goldfish though because they LOVE my excess duckweed from my other tanks. I believe my duckweed over abundance problem has just been remedied. RIP Angelina, you sweeties are being taken good care of.
I understood the "I had 8 hours" as if they had eight hours from knowing they will get the fish until they got it. So it does include the shopping for the fish AND the research? Just because i guessed it was a rescue.
Someone else likely already said something like this: I interpreted the lady's 8-hours as "She had 8 hours to prep before the betta arrived"... but also I'm not bothering to rewatch because in the end she did the right thing (but also with the way chatgpt and other machine-learning algorithms have messed up a lot of search engine results, so the extra effort might be necessary to make sure you're not being parroted the same garbled/bad advice).
CO-HOST IS BACK! Also I had an Axolotl a few years back. One day I woke up to the sight of almost all the water on the floor with 2 inches still left in the tank with the little guy frantically swimming around. Was not a fun day of clean up
I've been fish keeping 17 years now. I too remember keeping a betta in a small bowl and then upgrading to a 20 gallon betta sorority tank. Its really low maintenance and a gift really because looking at my aquariums give me solace.
Qotw: I think my algae wafers that I give to my clown pleco is one of my favourite foods. It also helps feed the bladder snails that the kuhli loaches eat. But my kuhlis also go crazy for the algae wafers. Everyone in the tank loves it when I put one in!
Guessing she was doing passive research over a 8 hour workday, but great progress! Nobody starts at the finish line and we all build our abilities one skill at a time.
Favorite food for my red blood parrot cichlid is shrimp pellets, after she realizes what they are she goes after them like she's never seen food before 😆. Also loved seeing Millie today! She looked very cozy just vibin on your shoulder.
Depending on where she did her eight hours of study, she could have got a lot of conflicting information and some of it takes a while to “click”. I recall when I started out I would read multiple articles on the same subject before some of the science would make sense. This is a really good start. Better to experience keeping a fish alive and then upgrade.
super happy monday chris!!!!!! I'm so happy you reviewed my fish tank (the 210 with nano fish lol)!!! it had some big changes but its going good still! hope you have a super awesome monday like I am!!!!
We started like her 1 gallon tanks with heaters. They were upgraded to 10 gallon tanks. We now have 3 female Bettas, 2 in 10 gals 1 in a 5 (for now) a 30 (for now) with danios and shrimp and 2 other shrimp tanks all planted. Excited to get a 60+ for the danios and set up my other 8 tanks and upgrade all 3 girls
Chiropractors can be INCREDIBLE. But it has to be done by someone who 100% knows what they’re doing, and treatment for very specific types of issues, not just whatever random muscle ache. It’s great if done correctly. But yeah, loads of cases where it’s not.
I had to scroll the comments to make sure at least one person has already defended chiropractors haha. Mine literally keeps me functional. He fixed (when it first happened) and keeps away my tmj issues. Brought my chronic headaches down to bearable levels. Keeps me working despite the very physical job I have that is always messing me up. Every time I have some random thing pop up he is always always helpful. And he also is affordable, and when I said I could only afford to come every other week even though he recommended weekly with my job, he said thats fine, just pay for every other week but still come in every week. Stand up guy.
@@dustyboy1209 Yeah I’ve known someone who it’s done wonders for. Sucks because it can be really hard to find and be confident about a good one because of the ridiculous amount of not so good ones. I think maybe the fact that it almost became a trend made it worse. It’s definitely not the kind of thing to just recommend to anyone and everyone. Massage, acupuncture maybe, those are harmless enough, chiropractic treatment though, really needs to be pretty specialized.
Chiropractic was invented by a man who claimed the ghost of a doctor taught it to him. It is based on the idea that any illness, anything wrong with the body, is due to a misalignment of the spine called a "subluxation" (not to be confused with the actual, medical term subluxation). And that by adjusting these "subluxations", a chiropractor can cure any and all diseases. When a spinal x-ray is put in front of a group of chiropractors and asked to identify (if any) the chiropractic subluxations, they can not reliably agree on where the subluxations are nor how many are present. They even identify subluxations on perfectly healthy spines and have also misidenified spines with real medical issues as completely healthy. And lets not forget the significant amount of people (including children, btw) who have been paralyzed and killed by getting an "adjustment" from a chiropractic. Chiropractic is complete and utter bullshit pseudoscience. If it had any real merit or evidence supporting it, it would be taught in medical schools and require a medical license to practice.
Chiropractors are actually a brach of academic medicine and it takes as many years to qualify as chiropractor as it does for medical doctor: Medical doctors who try to heal organic bodies with synthetic drugs kill much more people in year than all chiropractic paralysis in the world since the beginning of our time. It’s good to keep things in perspective. If medical shook was actually about teaching people how to heal, they would be learning everything about natural clean minimally processed nutrition - whereas most doctors remain clueless about food-wellness connection. Or the pure toxic effects of the drugs they prescribe. Doctors with their drugs are today the 3rd leading cause of death in the world.
@@thomaxtube chiropractic isn't a branch of any academic discipline. It is magical thinking. It is reflexology of the spine. It is a scam. Every single time it has been tested, it has fallen completely flat on it's face and failed to show it has any basis in reality. You know what those drugs have that chiropractic doesn't? Heaps of evidence showing that they work and how they work. Get outta here with your inane conspiracy theories and stop drinking the kool-aid. Come back when you have evidence.
Yeah, it was on the verge of being banned for being a dangerous pseudoscience like 40+ years ago but they argued that it was a religious practice and continued doing it under the guise of religious freedom. The guy who invented it was also a known fraudster and absolutely not a medical doctor. Apparently they also have pretty strong ties to Scientology which doesn't really surprise me....
My aunt had my little cousins betta in a 2 gallon when he got it and i literally just went out and bought a 5 gallon with a heater and filter, and extra blue gravel (bc he was 7 and that was what he wanted- I don’t expect the 7 year old boy to like the look of nature over bright colors). My aunt was so mad because it was more water to change but she’s come around now 😂
Millie! I used to have a cockatiel, I loved her and miss her. She had a similar colouration to Millie, but lighter. Her name was DeeDee. She loved popcorn and chicken and hated eating her vegetables.
9:46 IVE SEEN THAT TANK AT MY LOCAL FISH STORE It’s hurendously overstocked with no plants and has a shipwreck It has the same stocking and also a full pleco and this massive catfis that stays at the back It’s also weird because the rest of the store has proper gorgeous planted tanks Don’t know if anyone will see this now but I’m flabbergasted
There's slightly different types of chiropractors I go to a NUCCA one. They can be amazing, I had scoliosis from falling off horses and after going regularly I don't and my back doesn't hurt all the time. Some chiropractors are way too rough, it does not take much pressure to move your bones around, even a bad massage can mess up your alignment.
Ooooo I should try breeding my snails that way. I got a few interesting throws where the shell is goldish and the foot is this bright pink. It's popped up a few times but now wondering how much work it'd be to separate the colony into a different tank. That blue is stunning. 10/10 would buy
Bug bites. My Cory's can't get enough of it. Also my dwarf African frog loves it. He eats it out of my hand. Really cool. The danios love it to. They will even dive down and feed off of the bottom!!! So......Bug bites.
First video: I think she just got the fish from someone else with very little notice. She says she had just eight hours to research what she needed, so I think this is actually her first tank and she's upgrading from someone else's mistakes.
Quacktopractors! Run for your life! I love to feed them to my fish. Well, they might be good to feed to my fish if my fish were great white sharks. Since my fish aren't great white sharks, I guess I'll stick with baby brine shrimp. Also, both Millie and Repashi. I covet you your pets.
8 hours was a lot... meanwhile there's me who looks at different set ups plus the suppliers in my area plus taking notes on the plants i can use that are easier to manage and the list goes on..
I think the 8 hours of research is finding a lot of peoples different opinions and trying to figure out which is actually the best. A lot of my research time for my hognose was trying to figure out which was the best equipment because I had already determined the substrate and enclosure I was gonna use and so many people had completely opposite opinions
So for me, the whole "I did 8 hours of research" is telling me she had no idea how to keep fish at all, and this fish was probably just like, dumped on her and she had no idea what she was doing. If you had to start from like, "fish + glass box + water = tank" being your sum knowledge of fishkeeping, I could see 8 hours being mostly taken up with finding out specs like temperature, diet, learning about cycling a tank, lighting (SO many novice keepers I talk to say they leave the light on ALL THE TIME, EVEN ALL NIGHT), and then I noticed that even when she went for the artificial decor, she picked smoother decor (that rock arch comes with sharp plastic plants glued onto it. I think she trimmed at least some of that off) and ones with more rubbery leaves or fabric leaves. It reminds me of a couple customers I helped and the choices that they made based on what advice I could give in a psycho busy retail environment.
18 years in the hobby (I’m 28, I started at 8 and kept fish till I was 26) and I’ve learned very quickly after 15 years that I don’t do root plants well 😂
Bro you aren’t lying about the nightmares of the tank collapsing 😭 had those a few times every time I set up a new tank or get a new fish. Also I gotta go with the Fluval Flaked Bug Bites as a favorite :D
hey Chris i got that gravel vac and water change done i don't see much improvement yet but I'm going to do another this week and ill let you know how its going :) as for the QOTW: i love to use blood worms and the fish seem to love them too XD but if i use a flake food i like bug bites 👍
First FT review was so great she was given a betta in that puke gravel and small tank and knew to change 🤣 8 hours of studying is funny I look at information on all kinds of fish while looking at my own fish tanks
I hope Betta Girl learned about the nitrogen cycle during her 8-hour studies. As for Boraras, they are hardy, once they adjust to a new tank. I had some losses at first, but the ones that survived the delivery and change in environment, my exclamations are going on their 3 year; my chilis are over 2 years old. So what’s the deal with the random sneaker on top of your tank in the background? I think Millie has some dandruff problem cuz check out your shoulder under her.
wow early! i woke up abit of a bad day so far, my mom and dad talking about how broke they are really hurt abit, thanks for this, also, meme for you: 8:46 my bunny when i put something new and smaller in my room:
My fish absolutely love blood worms!! I try to mix in other protein like daphnia brine shrimp and tubifex worms but they only get into a frenzy over blood worms 🤷♀️
listen... Ramshorns are crazy. I started with two eggs on plants from an online aquariumcoop. I now have the LARGEST population of Pink Ramshorns, i have slate colored leopards, i have Rust colored ones, black ones. Slate non leopards, RED..... I've had a SNAILPOCALYPSE because i used to overfeed my angel tank due to my bottom feeders and greedy angels in the 100gallon. These snails bred me some INSANE colors and variations. Theyre inbred as heck but they have fed many a breeding arowana, pea puffers and clown loaches of friends xD
QOTW I love to feed my kuhli loaches bloodworms and brine shrimp but my betta goes to the bottom of the tank (even when the lights are out) to go steal their food, even after feeding him some a minute ago. Now I have a bloated betta 😡🤬😂
Hey! I have a question for Chirs or anyone else who can answer it! I have a half-moon betta in a 3-gallon tank with filtration, a heater, live plants, and weekly 50% water changes. I plan to upgrade to a 10-gallon tank but am unable to do so right now due to house remodeling. Will my betta be okay in his 3-gallons for a few more months before I can get him a bigger tank? I would appreciate an answer.😁
Hopefully someone will tell the lady with the betta about anubias and driftwood. She could take out the fake plants and replace them with some already attached to driftwood. QOTW - my fave fish food is really a fish snack, I love to watch the fish eating tubifex worms.
Ya that honey gourami should come out of that tank because even if the other fish in the tank aren’t particularly aggressive they will most likely eventually think it’s food because it’s so much smaller than the others 😊
Doesn't matter how TIGHTLY I fit my sponge over my filter intake and outtake ... I STILL find a shrimp or two in my filter. Little Tom Cruise Mission Impossible shrimps I tell you.
You'd think a fish nerd would understand how it goes from " What is betta" to being knee deep in landscaping and plans for a 300 gallon 8 hours later while your betta acclimates 😂
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I recently saw someone on Facebook correct a commenter on their husbandry. The commenter said “oh, I didn’t know that! I’m going to change that today”. A few hours later they posted a photo of the change. I’ve never been more impressed by a keeper in my life. It’s all about growth 💣
QOTW: I love to feed them blood worms and brine shrimp 🦐
that is so feel good moment!
@@FishForThoughtno likes lemme change that.
If you can’t accept change and advice well we know the outcome 😅
I read that as husband
I think maybe when ppl first learn about fish tanks, they are worried that live plants/planted tank will be a lot more work and we are all so busy with work, so we are trying to make it easier by using fake plants.
It wasn't until I tried a planted tank, that I realized it was easier to keep the fish tank healthy as a whole.
exactly haha! i been saying this stuff for years
55 gallons on the floor for me once. My oldest son threw a metal Tonka truck at the tank when he was a toddler and the Tonka won. Glass shattered, fish flopping everywhere, water gushing onto the floor and walls. Thankfully we were hosting dinner that night and had a bunch of friends over that helped with the cleanup and getting my poor fish crammed in an empty 10 gallon until I could find another tank on a local buy/sell group. Somehow I didn't lose a single one.
Near parenting fear unlocked
She said she only had 8 hours to study, not that she did study for 8 hours-this is likely due to the quick receiving of the fish in the old tank, and only having 8 hours to both study and* come up with a better solution for that fish. Overall, a pretty nice upgrade for what that fish once had!
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also possible she was studying possible solutions, and not directly the best sort of envionment but finding the best for her budget
Or she went to the pet store and asked how to care for a fish. When I first did this, they tried to sell me a bunch of chemicals and fake plants / rocks ..
I went home and researched natural tanks and went with that instead!
8 hours might be a bit steep, but I can believe it taking multiple hours for a first time fish owner to settle on that setup. First 30-60 minutes actually realizing how bad the current setup is (comparing multiple resources because you don't know where to find reliable info). Probably another few hours chasing down information vital to fish keeping like water parameters, cycling (which I hope she had a solution for), and appropriate tank conditions for bettas themselves. Then another chunk of time figuring out how you are gonna make your set-up: where the tank can go, which kit to get because not using a kit can be more expensive and confusing, and finally how much money can you afford to put into it at the moment.
Absolutely. When you first start it takes a long time just to tell good sources from bad ones
i cant say for sure, but its possible the first betta fish owner *did* read all about planted tanks and the like, but was too intimidated to do it on a time crunch (which she would have been under if she was distressed by her mistake and wanted to upgrade the tank ASAP). the request for more info in the comments sounded to me like asking for elaboration on whatever she already read
could be true!
I love how the Betta owner really made a positive upgrade.
I'd prefer live plants, but it's not nescessary for the fish, it just add to my own appreciation.
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Actually live plants are not simply aesthetically pleasing! The provide oxygen, refuge and a safe place, food and they take out ammonia from the water making the tank a stable and stressfree environment.
On the other hand, plastic plants, apart from not providing any benefits for the tank nor the fish, they also can rip their fins and might leak chemicals into the water. They're not just an aesthetic choice ❤
@@Ella-qh6pn They still provide refuge and a safe place!
And they are beneficial, which is different from nescessary.
As long as you do adequate water changes and have a functioning filter, you take out the ammonia, nitrate and nitrite from the tank, and as long as you do the water changes correctly, it doesn't really disturb the fish more than any other activity in the room.
If you do things wrong, it stress out the fish... no matter if you have live or plastic plants in the tank.
A have almost exclusively live plants in my aquariums, but a few plastic, as they (my plastic plants specifically) provide better hiding places and protection for scattered eggs than my natural plants.
I respectfully disagree. I think fish are much happier with live plants. They are softer, and make the water cleaner and nicer for them.
@@sleepytASMR I might have been phrasing it a bit lazily.
A planted tank is better.
Better and nescessary is two entirely different concepts.
If you can raise healthy fish with normal life span, you have provided the fish with all that is nescessary.
You can spend your entire life and income to make things better for your fish, yet you will never reach a point where it can't be better.
Yes, plants do things for the fish too, of which some can't be replaced by plastic plants... but it can be compensated with water changes and a good filter. Which make the nescessary reqiurements met, but live plants will be better.
Sure. The tank can still be better even if it have live plants in it.
Every fish keeper have to balance out where they stop improving and say... this is good enough.
As long as it's above what is nescessary for the fish, it's good fish keeping.
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Happy FTR day everyone!! I'm having a bad pain day so I'm going to send out oodles of positive, healing hippy vibes to everyone who sees this. I wish you, whoever you are a wonderful day and if today isn't wonderful, tomorrow might be so keep on keeping on. Someday we'll get to that wonderful day where we walk around with goofy smiles on our faces all day. 🙏💙✌️
QotW; anything live that's not an earthworm is my fav fish food. There's just something about dropping in some mosquito larva or daphnia into your tank and watching fish do the thing they'd do in the wild. Scooting through the plants and hunting. I could watch fish being fish for hours.
I hope that tomorrow is a much better day for you! ❤
dang, i had such a nice smile intel i thought you meant that mosquito larva or daphnia was your favorite food, because i hadn't got to QOTW yet, you have a great day too!
@@carynn3496 that's hilarious!! 🤣✌️
@@laurabustos6560 fr LOL
@@woofawoof7616 thank you🙏
Do you remember that meme on "how to draw an owl"? That's like me for planted tanks after years into the hobby. The first three months all the aquatic nations lived in harmony... then everything changed when the hair algae nation attacked.
I eventually gave up trying to get rid of hair algae and just tried to manage it. My first betta loved the stuff and took all his naps in it, so I gave in and let him keep it in moderation. Trying to clean it all out just made him sulk and give me dirty looks for the rest of the day. Little guy could hold a grudge like a champ.
lmao xD
up until I was 16 I had 3 bettas. Starting at my 10th birthday. I unfortunately kept them in one of the containers you’d get at the fair. I moved out on my own at 17, and kept two betta in small small containers. I didn’t have another until I was 24. I knew more at this point. I have a 10 gallon planted now with a single betta. Temperature controlled, a custom low flow filter. A good quality light that is never on longer than 7 hours. Blackout days. I only ever have to add water to it. Over the last 3 years I’ve had two betta. The first lasted almost 3 years. I recently got my second. I dream of having my single betta in a 20 gallon soon though. I’d like to experiment with plant carpet in a 20. 😋
good job upgradeing
grea job!
This is similar to my journey and now I enjoy the aquascaping part more than the fish keeping tbh. I currently have no fish, a couple of heavily planted tanks and some shrimp lol. I'll get back into fish when I'm no longer renting and can get a bigger tank to keep what want :)
2:35
This is actually very very good advice for anyone who is still in school. because if you start off doing amazing, they are not just gonna let you slide by and do the class like everyone else, theyre gonna give you extra challenges, and expect you to improve from wherever you started, so you will make school easier for yourself by pretending you don’t know what you know.
Love your comments, especially the sarcasm, the many do's and dont's, all the information is just astounding. And one last thing, I have been watching past videos.....my son calls it, "falling done the rabbit hole". My very favorite, is your many hair styles, they are absolutely priceless. 👍
Millie and Repashy are both exquisite co-hosts. One could not possibly choose between two pieces of perfection. 🤌
Rapashy is the host
i'm exquisite
the guy is alright too I guess
They are the real host, don't let him fool you into thinking he's the host, in reality is the co-host, I was a fool once... and fell for his lies.
I literally had a dream last night where I had a giant four section paludarium that broke and someone in my dream was scolding me for not just making it a terrarium because then it wouldn't have mattered if it broke, then a giant monitor like lizard escaped from it and became alligator size and I had to fight it off with a snake catcher hook thingy. I don't even own reptiles or have paludariums, but it made me scared that my fish tanks were going to break.
I've had a rough past week so I really needed the smiles that this episode gave me, especially the short notice adopted betta upgrade lady. QOTW - For my community tank I love watching the cory cat crew rush to the front of the tank to enjoy the feast of bloodworms I drop in every few days for them. They're like little puppies scurrying and jumping around trying to get them all. SOOOO freaking cute! I love my cory crew. My best friend just passed away last week and I adopted her 3 HUUUUUUGE fancy goldfish and 3 more of her fish tanks. I now have 7 fish tanks. They're all over the house! I need to clear out my extra room and make that a dedicated fish room at this point. :S I especially love the fancy goldfish though because they LOVE my excess duckweed from my other tanks. I believe my duckweed over abundance problem has just been remedied. RIP Angelina, you sweeties are being taken good care of.
I'm sorry about your loss. Knowing that you're taking good care of her water puppies is probably helping her to rest easier. ❤
sorry bout your loss Maka :(((
Gotta love FFT on Monday mornings. ❤
I understood the "I had 8 hours" as if they had eight hours from knowing they will get the fish until they got it. So it does include the shopping for the fish AND the research? Just because i guessed it was a rescue.
Someone else likely already said something like this: I interpreted the lady's 8-hours as "She had 8 hours to prep before the betta arrived"... but also I'm not bothering to rewatch because in the end she did the right thing (but also with the way chatgpt and other machine-learning algorithms have messed up a lot of search engine results, so the extra effort might be necessary to make sure you're not being parroted the same garbled/bad advice).
I don think the first girl did 8 hours of Research, I think she got the Beta 8 hours ago, my guess it was dumped on her.
Thank you for making this Monday great, once more! Fantastic fish content!
ty for watchin!
CO-HOST IS BACK!
Also I had an Axolotl a few years back. One day I woke up to the sight of almost all the water on the floor with 2 inches still left in the tank with the little guy frantically swimming around. Was not a fun day of clean up
Anything that is still alive. Love watching the fish hunt!
I've been fish keeping 17 years now. I too remember keeping a betta in a small bowl and then upgrading to a 20 gallon betta sorority tank. Its really low maintenance and a gift really because looking at my aquariums give me solace.
The tank on the back of the bike being "cycled" killed me!! So funny 😁
Happy FFTday!!!
Qotw: I think my algae wafers that I give to my clown pleco is one of my favourite foods. It also helps feed the bladder snails that the kuhli loaches eat. But my kuhlis also go crazy for the algae wafers. Everyone in the tank loves it when I put one in!
You honestly make quality content watching from downunder from Perth west Aus, I legit look forward to your uploads x
Guessing she was doing passive research over a 8 hour workday, but great progress! Nobody starts at the finish line and we all build our abilities one skill at a time.
true!
Favorite food for my red blood parrot cichlid is shrimp pellets, after she realizes what they are she goes after them like she's never seen food before 😆. Also loved seeing Millie today! She looked very cozy just vibin on your shoulder.
Depending on where she did her eight hours of study, she could have got a lot of conflicting information and some of it takes a while to “click”. I recall when I started out I would read multiple articles on the same subject before some of the science would make sense. This is a really good start. Better to experience keeping a fish alive and then upgrade.
Oh crap! I better start my water change regimen for the week. Great video, Chris! Keep it up.
lets gooo!!!
Those Trumpet Snails are working hard keeping his substrate aerated and cleaning up his over feeding but he still wont give them a break. Poor guys
"you pulled a shiny holo charizard, you immediately put it in the card protector. it looks like you put this snail into a card protector" subbed
super happy monday chris!!!!!! I'm so happy you reviewed my fish tank (the 210 with nano fish lol)!!! it had some big changes but its going good still! hope you have a super awesome monday like I am!!!!
also my favorite food to feed my fish would probably be bug bites! they go insano mode over them!!
ayyy!
the kerning soundtrack makes these videos amazing
Pleasantly surprised to see so many great tanks here along with the return of Millie!
yeah! milly never left, she just sometimes doesn't sit through the whole thing xD
@@FishForThought Right, birds tend to have minds of their own like that xD
We started like her 1 gallon tanks with heaters. They were upgraded to 10 gallon tanks. We now have 3 female Bettas, 2 in 10 gals 1 in a 5 (for now) a 30 (for now) with danios and shrimp and 2 other shrimp tanks all planted. Excited to get a 60+ for the danios and set up my other 8 tanks and upgrade all 3 girls
Chiropractors can be INCREDIBLE. But it has to be done by someone who 100% knows what they’re doing, and treatment for very specific types of issues, not just whatever random muscle ache. It’s great if done correctly. But yeah, loads of cases where it’s not.
I had to scroll the comments to make sure at least one person has already defended chiropractors haha. Mine literally keeps me functional. He fixed (when it first happened) and keeps away my tmj issues. Brought my chronic headaches down to bearable levels. Keeps me working despite the very physical job I have that is always messing me up. Every time I have some random thing pop up he is always always helpful. And he also is affordable, and when I said I could only afford to come every other week even though he recommended weekly with my job, he said thats fine, just pay for every other week but still come in every week. Stand up guy.
@@dustyboy1209 Yeah I’ve known someone who it’s done wonders for. Sucks because it can be really hard to find and be confident about a good one because of the ridiculous amount of not so good ones.
I think maybe the fact that it almost became a trend made it worse. It’s definitely not the kind of thing to just recommend to anyone and everyone. Massage, acupuncture maybe, those are harmless enough, chiropractic treatment though, really needs to be pretty specialized.
Millie!
Milly chirps her most thankful chorp
Chiropractic was invented by a man who claimed the ghost of a doctor taught it to him. It is based on the idea that any illness, anything wrong with the body, is due to a misalignment of the spine called a "subluxation" (not to be confused with the actual, medical term subluxation).
And that by adjusting these "subluxations", a chiropractor can cure any and all diseases.
When a spinal x-ray is put in front of a group of chiropractors and asked to identify (if any) the chiropractic subluxations, they can not reliably agree on where the subluxations are nor how many are present. They even identify subluxations on perfectly healthy spines and have also misidenified spines with real medical issues as completely healthy.
And lets not forget the significant amount of people (including children, btw) who have been paralyzed and killed by getting an "adjustment" from a chiropractic.
Chiropractic is complete and utter bullshit pseudoscience.
If it had any real merit or evidence supporting it, it would be taught in medical schools and require a medical license to practice.
Chiropractors are actually a brach of academic medicine and it takes as many years to qualify as chiropractor as it does for medical doctor:
Medical doctors who try to heal organic bodies with synthetic drugs kill much more people in year than all chiropractic paralysis in the world since the beginning of our time.
It’s good to keep things in perspective.
If medical shook was actually about teaching people how to heal, they would be learning everything about natural clean minimally processed nutrition - whereas most doctors remain clueless about food-wellness connection. Or the pure toxic effects of the drugs they prescribe. Doctors with their drugs are today the 3rd leading cause of death in the world.
@@thomaxtube chiropractic isn't a branch of any academic discipline. It is magical thinking. It is reflexology of the spine. It is a scam.
Every single time it has been tested, it has fallen completely flat on it's face and failed to show it has any basis in reality.
You know what those drugs have that chiropractic doesn't? Heaps of evidence showing that they work and how they work.
Get outta here with your inane conspiracy theories and stop drinking the kool-aid.
Come back when you have evidence.
Yeah, it was on the verge of being banned for being a dangerous pseudoscience like 40+ years ago but they argued that it was a religious practice and continued doing it under the guise of religious freedom. The guy who invented it was also a known fraudster and absolutely not a medical doctor. Apparently they also have pretty strong ties to Scientology which doesn't really surprise me....
My aunt had my little cousins betta in a 2 gallon when he got it and i literally just went out and bought a 5 gallon with a heater and filter, and extra blue gravel (bc he was 7 and that was what he wanted- I don’t expect the 7 year old boy to like the look of nature over bright colors). My aunt was so mad because it was more water to change but she’s come around now 😂
2:46 never thought about smurfing in school I only do that in competitive games.
Welcome back, Millie! You are the best host 🙂
Millie! I used to have a cockatiel, I loved her and miss her. She had a similar colouration to Millie, but lighter. Her name was DeeDee. She loved popcorn and chicken and hated eating her vegetables.
so cute c:
9:46 IVE SEEN THAT TANK AT MY LOCAL FISH STORE
It’s hurendously overstocked with no plants and has a shipwreck
It has the same stocking and also a full pleco and this massive catfis that stays at the back
It’s also weird because the rest of the store has proper gorgeous planted tanks
Don’t know if anyone will see this now but I’m flabbergasted
bros got over 50 catfish in that tank the sheer amount made me fall off my chair from laughing i dont know why
There's slightly different types of chiropractors I go to a NUCCA one. They can be amazing, I had scoliosis from falling off horses and after going regularly I don't and my back doesn't hurt all the time. Some chiropractors are way too rough, it does not take much pressure to move your bones around, even a bad massage can mess up your alignment.
Omg the cockatiel! I had three. I miss them...I may need to see if I can find another good breeder I can trust! They have such personality!
i get the nightmare of my fish being all over the floor way too often
Ooooo I should try breeding my snails that way. I got a few interesting throws where the shell is goldish and the foot is this bright pink. It's popped up a few times but now wondering how much work it'd be to separate the colony into a different tank. That blue is stunning. 10/10 would buy
Bug bites. My Cory's can't get enough of it. Also my dwarf African frog loves it. He eats it out of my hand. Really cool. The danios love it to. They will even dive down and feed off of the bottom!!! So......Bug bites.
yeah bug bites are like crack for these guys
Thank you for delivering us a new video every monday. I always love to wake up and see my favorite host millie, and her co-host Chris!
thanks for tuning in every monday!
First video: I think she just got the fish from someone else with very little notice. She says she had just eight hours to research what she needed, so I think this is actually her first tank and she's upgrading from someone else's mistakes.
Quacktopractors! Run for your life! I love to feed them to my fish. Well, they might be good to feed to my fish if my fish were great white sharks. Since my fish aren't great white sharks, I guess I'll stick with baby brine shrimp.
Also, both Millie and Repashi. I covet you your pets.
ahaha
8 hours was a lot...
meanwhile there's me who looks at different set ups plus the suppliers in my area plus taking notes on the plants i can use that are easier to manage and the list goes on..
My shrimp and otos love the Algae sticks! It’s just a bamboo skewer covered in spirulina among other things
Elljustell here ^-^ waking up to see this was an awesome birthday surprise ❤🎉
Also, spot on that guess this was the box photo from a 20gal.
ahh nice! Happy birthday!
Millie is the cleanest bird on the planet. Is she ever not preening?
can confirm she preens 90% of her liffe
I think the 8 hours of research is finding a lot of peoples different opinions and trying to figure out which is actually the best. A lot of my research time for my hognose was trying to figure out which was the best equipment because I had already determined the substrate and enclosure I was gonna use and so many people had completely opposite opinions
Hello fellow hognose owner.
8h of tick tock studying = 5 minutes of actual research
lmao xD
3:39 ive got 2 things to say and that's make sure the plants arent too sharp so they don't cut the fin and betas apretiate a beta hamock
Yeah, when she said eight hours and then pulled out the fake gravel and plants, I was like WHAT?? LOL
So for me, the whole "I did 8 hours of research" is telling me she had no idea how to keep fish at all, and this fish was probably just like, dumped on her and she had no idea what she was doing. If you had to start from like, "fish + glass box + water = tank" being your sum knowledge of fishkeeping, I could see 8 hours being mostly taken up with finding out specs like temperature, diet, learning about cycling a tank, lighting (SO many novice keepers I talk to say they leave the light on ALL THE TIME, EVEN ALL NIGHT), and then I noticed that even when she went for the artificial decor, she picked smoother decor (that rock arch comes with sharp plastic plants glued onto it. I think she trimmed at least some of that off) and ones with more rubbery leaves or fabric leaves. It reminds me of a couple customers I helped and the choices that they made based on what advice I could give in a psycho busy retail environment.
4:08 I might be wrong, but I think what she meant was she had 8 hours to get it all together, not 8 hours to research.
18 years in the hobby (I’m 28, I started at 8 and kept fish till I was 26) and I’ve learned very quickly after 15 years that I don’t do root plants well 😂
Stayed patiently a week for this. Yeah now my Monday is complete 🎉😊.
lets gooo! 1 day done!
That nightmare is why I’m glad I can see my tanks from my stairs when I come out of my bedroom
Bro you aren’t lying about the nightmares of the tank collapsing 😭 had those a few times every time I set up a new tank or get a new fish.
Also I gotta go with the Fluval Flaked Bug Bites as a favorite :D
10:23THEY, what do you mean? Are there fishkeeping gods that I dont know about?!
lmao xD
Favourite food: any live food. They respond so well to it! They get live food on occasion as a snack. Normally they get Dr. Bassleer granular food.
ooo nice
“Is it the best tank ever”, “yes” 😂😂
Just joined the patron keep it up Chris
thanks so much for your support!!
@@FishForThought no worries mate you gave me the courage to start posting on yt
so thank you chris
1 man 1 fish, the sequel we didnt know we needed
It sounded like the Betta was an unexpected arrival...she said they only had eight hours to do research and get what was needed
hey Chris i got that gravel vac and water change done i don't see much improvement yet but I'm going to do another this week and ill let you know how its going :) as for the QOTW: i love to use blood worms and the fish seem to love them too XD but if i use a flake food i like bug bites 👍
keep it up!
First FT review was so great she was given a betta in that puke gravel and small tank and knew to change 🤣 8 hours of studying is funny I look at information on all kinds of fish while looking at my own fish tanks
:D HELLO AGAIN, CHRIS!!!
heyHEY
In my vacation I started on a planted tank, I have some neon tetras with some shrimp. Love em
cool stuff
return of Queen Milly!!!! 💜💜💜💜
she is a quen for sure
3:35 Sounds to me like she got the fish rather suddenly, so she had only 8 hours in advance to prepare a tank for the little one.
9:14 I can feel the spine deformities💀
This guy is so good 😊 with his fish.
I hope Betta Girl learned about the nitrogen cycle during her 8-hour studies. As for Boraras, they are hardy, once they adjust to a new tank. I had some losses at first, but the ones that survived the delivery and change in environment, my exclamations are going on their 3 year; my chilis are over 2 years old. So what’s the deal with the random sneaker on top of your tank in the background? I think Millie has some dandruff problem cuz check out your shoulder under her.
WOKE UP TO A FFT VIDEO??????? I LOVE YOU CHRIS
ayyy there ya go love ya
wow early! i woke up abit of a bad day so far, my mom and dad talking about how broke they are really hurt abit, thanks for this, also, meme for you: 8:46 my bunny when i put something new and smaller in my room:
ahahah
@@FishForThought lol
My fish absolutely love blood worms!! I try to mix in other protein like daphnia brine shrimp and tubifex worms but they only get into a frenzy over blood worms 🤷♀️
listen... Ramshorns are crazy. I started with two eggs on plants from an online aquariumcoop.
I now have the LARGEST population of Pink Ramshorns, i have slate colored leopards, i have Rust colored ones, black ones. Slate non leopards, RED..... I've had a SNAILPOCALYPSE because i used to overfeed my angel tank due to my bottom feeders and greedy angels in the 100gallon.
These snails bred me some INSANE colors and variations. Theyre inbred as heck but they have fed many a breeding arowana, pea puffers and clown loaches of friends xD
Gotta remember It might not just be her first betta but her first fish. In which case it could take longer to lean everything involved.
QOTW I love to feed my kuhli loaches bloodworms and brine shrimp but my betta goes to the bottom of the tank (even when the lights are out) to go steal their food, even after feeding him some a minute ago. Now I have a bloated betta 😡🤬😂
Somehow acquired detritus worms in my five gallon! My betta fish took one look...and ate one.
Good morning everyone!❤🎉
mornin!
Hey! I have a question for Chirs or anyone else who can answer it! I have a half-moon betta in a 3-gallon tank with filtration, a heater, live plants, and weekly 50% water changes. I plan to upgrade to a 10-gallon tank but am unable to do so right now due to house remodeling. Will my betta be okay in his 3-gallons for a few more months before I can get him a bigger tank? I would appreciate an answer.😁
Hopefully someone will tell the lady with the betta about anubias and driftwood. She could take out the fake plants and replace them with some already attached to driftwood. QOTW - my fave fish food is really a fish snack, I love to watch the fish eating tubifex worms.
aw yeah those worms go hard
Ya that honey gourami should come out of that tank because even if the other fish in the tank aren’t particularly aggressive they will most likely eventually think it’s food because it’s so much smaller than the others 😊
I like the fish on your shoulder
flying fish
been watching u lately so only polite that i subsribe now.
thx!
im new to fish keeping and your vids have been a great help thx
np!
Doesn't matter how TIGHTLY I fit my sponge over my filter intake and outtake ... I STILL find a shrimp or two in my filter. Little Tom Cruise Mission Impossible shrimps I tell you.
You'd think a fish nerd would understand how it goes from " What is betta" to being knee deep in landscaping and plans for a 300 gallon 8 hours later while your betta acclimates 😂