We ALL Make Mistakes: Come Learn From Our Fish-Keeping Mistakes (Simple Fish Keeping Series)
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
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In this video we talk about some mistakes we have made buying certain fish. Hopefully, you will see some common themes as you learn what NOT to do in fish-keeping.
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One of the worst fish I ever kept was a Magikarp. It took him forever to evolve. But that Gyrarados was worth it.
Lol
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I know right!?
My name is (insert fish keepers name). I bought this cute little fish. It was a (insert fish species) and it out grew my tank and/or ate my fish.
Back in my impulse buying days, I bought some painted glass fish from my local pet store. I had a quick chat with the store owner about water parameters and how they'd do in a community tank, and I ended up buying six of them. Outstanding looking little fish, but later I found out their colors aren't a product of selective breeding, but they're literally injected with a dye during a procedure where something like 80% don't even survive. Gave the ones I already bought a good life, but it's a purchase I would never make again.
At least you gave thema good home for a while.
My daughter won a goldfish at a fair. I knew nothing about fish keeping! Poor fish lived in a bowl with bright pink gravel on the bottom. I learned a lot about fish after that.
I'm glad to see this video, because it's real easy to feel like the biggest loser when you make mistakes in this hobby. Things happen to even the absolute BEST fishkeepers. My mistake has been trying to keep German Blue Rams. I'm done with those unless someone can produce a very healthy strain.
Nope - we all make them!
Same here never again😭
I love that you were able to get so many other channels to contribute to this list! I'm subbed to at least a few of them. MD, KGTropicals, etc. My worst fish purchase was for a salt water tank that I had years ago. I purchased a snowflake eel. Didn't take him long to find a way to get himself out of the tank and die on the floor when I wasn't around. I only had a half cover on the tank leaving the back half exposed for east of maintenance of the filter, etc. I had no idea he'd even attempt that. Think I owned him a grand total of 4 days. Also I believe that was my single most expensive individual marine life purchase. lol.
This is an excellent series! I love seeing everyone together and great information!
Another great panel of my favorite fish keepers and hearing their fish mistakes!
I wish I'd seen a video like this when I first started in the hobby!!
My biggest mistake was the first time I was in The hobby working in a pet shop and having access to anything I wanted to bring home without being prepared. Too many tanks, too many specialty fish without enough experience and information to know what I was doing.
I feel Taylor's pain when something catches your eye and it's just so cute and pretty"🤣😬 then trying to figure things out after the fact or along the way!!
During that time though, I made an even bigger mistake, I went to the bait shop and in the minnow well was a teeny tiny little baby channel or blue catfish. I fell in love with that little whiskery face and thought it will be a baby for a long time, so I'll take it home and save it from becoming bait 🤣🤣 I added it to my 75 gallon tank, I knew he would get big I just didn't know how fast! It wasn't long before he was laying across most of the bottom of the tank!! Making a mess and eating a lot!!! I did have a bigger 200 gallon goldfish pond in my yard and I thought, well he could live out there until I can release him in a pond my beautiful goldfish. I just hooked him up with an all you can eat buffet!! 😭I So he stayed out there for a while until a blue heron found my pond and I never did see him again!!
I always felt bad about that fish😭🤣 Now coming on to RUclips and seeing the monster fish keepers like OFR taking care of these guys!! It was definitely something I didn't even think about and thinking through!! 🙏
I also felt what Joey was saying about acceptance wanting to fit in and taking on things that I might not be ready for or don't even need to have in the first place!! As they say need to learn to crawl before you can walk!! I sure do appreciate and want to thank all the wonderful panel members for sharing their mistakes so we don't have to make the same ones! Have a blessed day everyone!!🙏🥰🌿🐟🌿💚
I caught a small catfish from a lake one time and stuck it in a tank with my other North American Native fish - opps - that thing shredded the tails of my perch and blue gill. Got him out of the tank ASAP!
@@PrimeTimeAquatics 😬those little whiskers sure will fool you....so cute and little🤣🤣
Mary Paige, your story posted the other day made me cry. ❤❤
@@cosmoplakat9549 thank you from the bottom of my heart my friend!! It was hard to do, but I just wanted to lay it all out and truly Express what you and this community has meant to me!! I know there's other people out there suffering and I found so much hope here!! Thank you so much!! And I hope you are having a truly blessed day 🙏🥰🌿🐟🌿💚
@@PrimeTimeAquatics kid me tried to do this,I somehow managed to catch. Small baby catfish in a red solo cup I was like MOm! Let's bring this home! Magically it disappeared XD I sure hoped they poured it back in the lake when I wasn't looking lol.
Mistake was listening to my local fish store and getting south American cichlids and African cichlids for the same tank. The African cichlids we're nipping the fins of the SA, eventually returned the AC to the LFS and the SA cichlids got ich shortly after. This was all over the course of the last 4 weeks
The Biz traumatized himself.... lol Great video, it's awesome to hear the mistakes that others make. It helps us to think before we do. My biggest mistake was my betta sorority. It was gorgeous and peaceful and so much fun to watch. Then one day the queen of the tank passed away and all hell broke out in that tank. It was a literal blood bath over night. In one night they wiped out the 6 danio's that we had as dithers. Two of the girls died that night and the rest were separated, two were rehomed.
Almost sounds like real life politics when a queen of a country die. All others nearby try to take the thrown, throwing the country into civil war.
The fish I most regret getting is mollies. I had them early on in my fish keeping hobby. They seem innocuous but I was very distressed by the male non-stop harassing the female and I started with 2 and ended up taking 50 back to the LFS. That was not enjoyable. Like MD, I learned to read up and learn about the fish’s behavior before making future selections. I’ve never again made a fish impulse purchase. I usually come up with the idea and dream about it for months or years ahead of time. Completely obsessing over it before I buy. This hobby is never ending with the amount of learning to be obtained.
Common pleco. Bought ten years ago. Currently lives in a 150 gallon indoor pond with another common pleco my friend begged me to take. For a cheep fish they’ve cost me the most as I keep getting bigger and bigger enclosures just for them.
Great video series! Big win for your viewers being able to add all these RUclips channel subscriptions too!!
Thanks Jason!! 👏🏼
Not quarantine my fish so guilty 🫤 thx for sharing
It's so reassuring to know that I'm not the only one with impulse buys and mistakes.
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We all do it at some point. :-)
Lol @Fishy Biz Aquatics 🤣 those alternative names for the dragon fish!!! I nearly forgot all about Denver the last dinosaur!!! 😅
Too funny!
@@PrimeTimeAquatics I'm not a fish keeper currently. I haven't had a tank in almost a decade. I'm going to be setting a tank up in the near future and I've been watching alot of your videos and other fishy RUclips creators as well for inspiration and stocking ideas. Thank you all for everything you put out to help those of us who are new or still learning!
This was a great series. I hope it will be continued. At least a few times every half year. 😊
Thank you!
I love Simply Betta! She lovely! 🥰❤️🐶
Joey also a good boy and him teach lots and also do great works! 🐶🥰
@Prime Time Aquatics
I've been power watching the videos on your channel. I just wanted to say Thank you for all the great information.
I especially liked this video, as it has some great reminders from long term fish lovers.
My favorite takeaway is no impulse buys of new species without the research into them! 😸
Thank you for being here!
I once bought a baby pacu. I was a teen and this was last century. The LFS worker said it would get about as big as an oscar, which of course it did... in 6 months and then kept going.
Getting to watch this Saturday morning,spent Friday moving niece out of college apartment and home. As far as mistakes all I’m saying is been there done that!
I loved this series, thanks for the videos
my mistake was being a helicopter fishkeeper and doing too many water changes on my first tank. whenever i saw a little bit of nitrates i would do large water changes every 2 or 3 days. it stressed my first betta and caused him to have clamped fins and tail biting and he was very stressed. my lfs told me how to treat him and to stick to weekly water changes and he is now doing well and thriving. he still tail bites tho.
That can happen. :-)
Hey Jason, thanks for providing the list of channels for us. Its a real humble thing that you did with that.. and I already know how humble you are being a sub for as long as I have!! Wishing You, Joanna, and the Boys wealth health and happiness this upcoming year.. cant wait to see you and finally meet you in person in Florida!!
Look forward to meeting you!
This was very informative and fun. Thanks to all. I sub to a lot of these folks but met some new faces, so thanks especially for that.
You and your wife are partially responsible for the fact that I have four tanks now. It was supposed to be one. Now I'm looking at a 125 that a co-worker is selling. What is happening.
NIce to hear even the "pros" are human! We all make mistakes and as long as experience = knowledge we are good. Thank you everyone!
People who keep fish long enough all make mistakes. :-)
i used to keep my moors in a ten gallon 😭
Love it, thanks!!
I'm learning thanks guys been in it for about 3 years now going from a 55 gal to a 125 gal next year in Jan 2022 but been love with aquatic fish for a long time since age of 8 my fist fish was gold fish,now at age 69 I had Oscar’s and they got to big for my tank,so I sold them and now I have angels nanos tetras ,but in to the new year they all be moving into there 125 gallon tank,but I will build a stand for with cylinders blocks and plywood and paint
Great video. It´s good to know that we all do mistakes. Mine was to buy a Gibbiceps pleco that my son wanted. Into a Discus tank... It took a while to find a new owner and by that time my son had already got him a name and he was family. And he was big. All the food I put into the tank he just ate it all. I think this is what´s called a family crisis...
One of the worst mistakes I made was doing regular 50+% water changes weekly, with heavy gravel vacuuming AND filter rinsing. Crashed the crap out if my cycle and lost all my Amano shrimp to molting issues because of it. It was heartbreaking and I even had to euthanize a couple which was traumatic lol. I felt so guilty for so long.
I really love this series, you guys! ❤ Fishy Bizz for his knowledge, humor, and bc he's a teacher who helps out his students' fams. I just got 3 little ember tetras for my 5 gal shrimp tank to control the copepod population and I've never heard anyone regret getting tetras 😀 💚💙💛
My biggest mistake was in Cosmo's tank setup. A decoration trapped water inside and when I moved and put everything in a bucket, bacteria must have gotten in there. He died just a few days after having symptoms even tho I did several water changes and used salt and meds. Always make sure you set it up so water won't be trapped anywhere.
I was laughing when I heard Fishy Bizz's story :-)
What a great way to start the morning!
HAHAHA ... great idea for a vid.. really enjoyed it.. Happy New Year to all of you
Biggest mistake was also accepting a pair of blood parrots, I say accepting because they were donated and I had no clue how those fish would be and they were the worst!! Bullying every other fish I had, like the guy said ALWAYS wanted to breed which would make them very very aggressive, I would reach in to move things around and they would just attack my hand! And let’s not forget the mess they would make in the tank, piles of sand on each corner, plants floating around in the water because they would pull them out! 🤦♂️🤦♂️
I'm right there with LRB on the Chinese algae eaters. I got some for a community tank and they are getting a little to big to fast.. Thankfully they aren't showing aggression towards the other smaller fish but the size thing is definitely a issue..
Great, interesting episode!
Absolutely great videos. Every one of you is so amazing, thanks so much for another amazing video.
Thank you!
Black ghost knife? 🤣 I’ve kept those for 20 years and wouldn’t describe them as sensitive or finicky. They’re so easy to keep.
@fishybizz that was teen early adult me... No experience with tanks. Saw that dragon fish thought it was the coolest thing out there. Almost almost, and probably would have if it wasn't for the fact I moved too much to have tanks. Would have placed a dragon fish into a 3 gallon. I had absolutely no knowledge of fish. Thank that gods for fish tube, and starting small with my 20 gallon. Oh and my axolotl who introduced to me that things needed to be in bigger thanks then a Betta in a vase.
i would say my biggest fish mistake was getting a tangerine lobster. i saw one at petco that i had been eyeing for about a week and so one day i went in and i scooped this little guy up. he was a cool little lobster i made him a little cave to call his own but within 1 day and a half he was dead. i have no idea why i fed him some sinking pellets and stuff but he still died. i took him back and the clerk was like yea these are really sensitive and stress easily. they had another one that died within a week too. havent had a lobster since, so lesson learned was to do the research before diving into a new creature.
I feel ya LRB. The main river I fish in is full of otter and mink and they steal fish I've caught all the time or the turtles. There's one mother otter that yells at me if I fish in the wrong spot, I'm probably too close to her babies.
I love my caribes. Im glad someone on here is not bashing piranha. They get a bad rap because people do not understand them at all. They attract some terrible aquarists and the so called pros dont understand them. Been keeping them for 16 years now.
Great video love watching
Super interesting video. Thanks
Awesome video!
What a video, just the best. All those fish people in one video.
The best one for me was the story of fishy bizz with his Walmart experience and just looking at the expression on his face while telling his story. 😂😂😅
What a great video. Just the best
Ya - he had a great story :-)
My mistake - i started with 50g aquarium..2 years later realized thats not it..got 120g..2 years later still too small..got 250g..5 years later..want 500g.. get biggest aquarium you can fit in room at the beginning :)
Happy holidays and happy new year.
LOL I have a clown pleco in a 10 gallon heavily planted tank with a betta, I have more fun playing find the pleco than watching the betta I think. I find now that ussually he hangs out around a block of wood I put in the back corner for him the aquarium heater and a plant that is in front of all of it. mind you I dont think I've ever actually seen him on the wood which seems odd. Sometimes when I get up in the morning to go to work he will be on the front glass or somewhere else in the tank but, yeah definitely a good hider....don't think of him as a mistake though...
Most of our clown plecos make an annual appearance. Haha
I’ve made a impulsive decision to buy a red belly pacu but I’m totally in love with it 😂
I did that too - back when they said the fish would only grow to the size of the tank.
@@PrimeTimeAquatics yeah rn I have him in a 75 gallon tank since he’s like 8-10 inches as of now but later I’ll get him into a 300 gallon pond and after a bigger pond
My biggest fish mistake is buying fishes that grow past 4 inch long. Only keep small fishes in big planted tanks.
More beautiful IMO.
Some great stories
One message comes through clearly - research, research, research. Fishtuber GirlTalksFish described how she made a spreadsheet and PowerPoint to plan her stocking in one of her videos. Watching the lessons of this video, I understand why!
Ya, planning saves a lot of issues.
WOW!!!! you even got fishtank Mike out of his den.....
Misteak is my middle name Jason 😂
Mark 🤣🤣🥰🦐
Too funny!
Awesomeness 👌
I had a 40 gallon with a jack Dempsey. It was great until i got divorced went into deep depression developed a crippling heroin addiction as a result circled the drain for 7 years neglecting my own personal health and the fishes too. He died unhappy and i survived with a huge block of regret and sadness strapped to my back for the rest of my life. I hate myself for it.
Hey - you're here now and if you're getting your life together you move forward. You got this.
@@PrimeTimeAquatics thank you very much!!! I have recovered and i am doing better. It means a lot that you replied and gave me some encouragement. Its a big deal to me. I love your content and i will support your channel endlessly.
i think i did most of these, didnt buy a redtail cat... but the rest, to be fair before the internet there wasnt a lot to research, like i read all the books my library had and i had a few magazine subscriptions but it was really either i knew it or i was going to lean the hard way.... now with the internet you can do your research on your phone in the petstore so no excuses.
Back in the old days you had to rely on the petstore people to tell you. :-)
I got my dragon fish from Walmart when I was like 7 😂
I got a Ctenopoma acutirostre. I love it to death, but it's not really fitting into my taste in fish right now. Not to mention it has eaten ALL of the algae eaters in its tank: Siamese algae eaters, otos, the tail and dorsal fin of a pleco. You name it, it took a bite from it.
They love to hunt!
@@PrimeTimeAquatics They sure do!
hey i have a 29 gallon with 8 red eye tetras and 5 glofish tetra 1 high fin tetra and 1 clown pleco 1 dwarf frog and a glofish shark with 3 nerites snail. i like this set up more than what i had before because i had some barbs but i just want to know what you think if there is anything else i can do?? like add some more glo tetras because i know their a schooling fish but your opinion would be helpful and thanks for everything you do.
That might be hitting the limit right now. I’m not sure if the glo sharks get as aggressive as the regular ones, but they can get super aggressive as they get larger - maybe just keep an eye on it?
My worst mistake ever was putting a pictus catfish in a community tank of very peaceful fish. He was beautiful but he killed every fish in that tank before I could catch him in the act!
Ya, those things can really harass other fish!
LRB! Had the same issue with a golden algae eater. He was an a#@ to all my other fish! He was beautiful but at about 4" he started harassing my community fish in my 65gl so bad I was going to move him to a 20gal so I could re home him and unfortunately he was damaged in the move due to inexperience in catching superfast fish. Never again even now.
You’ll laugh, but my biggest mistake was buenas aries tetras. I put them in with my congo tetras and they destroyed their beautiful fins. The ba’s were so aggressive all my congos were soon dead from the constant aggression. Lesson learned! Just because it’s a tetra doesn’t mean it’s a fit your community tank.
I had Buenos Aires tetras too - hated those fish :-)
Hey I watch alot of those people :)
You have good taste :-)
My biggest mistake was buying 2 paradise gouramis and puting them in a 20 gal. They fought to the death over night. The survivor lost its tail and it never grew back. 2 years later I still have him and is naed tailess.
Fish aggression is so stressful. Glad one lived!
What are those startlingly colorful fish in Fish Room Feaver's tank. The purple ones especially cought my eye. Glowfish? What kind?
Glofish skirt tetras I think
Biz rly traumatized tho 😭🤣🤣
I was gifted 6 mosquito fish for my pond and now I have 6 million. Short of draining my very large pond, Idk what to do with them!
Woohoo!
Lol I got a 125 gallon today and I don’t want to make a mistake.. I have approximately 1-2 feet from the dirt to the joists. What would you recommend using between the joists and dirt? I was thinking either bricks or jacks.
Bricks work just fine :-)
Thank you 😊
My biggest mistake was years ago.. I had an african cichlid tank that was actually pretty stable. I even had some fry that one pair was keeping and agression was under control. I was at the fish store and they had an "unknown" cichlid for a very low price. I bought it, put it in my tank. When it matured (it was brown as a fry), it turned out to be a red devil and killed everything in the tank.
helloo
Omg the knife fish 🤭😶
Too funny
My biggest mistake was my first mistake. I had a 20 long and the LGS recommended 2 Pacus for it. Needless to say it didn't work.
Why stores even sell those fish is beyond me. I had one at one point too a long time ago because the dude at the store told me it would grow to the size of the tank.
@@PrimeTimeAquatics , this was 1998 before much was known about them I assume. I was told they were vicious predators and at the store they were. Once they got into my care the only thing they were vicious on was Brussels sprouts. Turns out they were starving at the store. I can totally see that they would attack people in New Zealand when they didn't have a lot of food available.
Just got my biggest tank of all and sadly last.
Jason, Can I tap your expertise? Platy, grew a large brown pimple near the back fin, same color as him. Pimple on both sides. Never in 30 years with platies have I ever seen them grow a pimple like this. Platy shows no signs of any distress. He is healthy, eats well, active male. Any idea what this could be? Water chemistry fine. I can send you a pic if you can tell where to send it. I tried to research, nothing. I'm stumped. Bob
I wonder if it's a tumor?
@@PrimeTimeAquatics It's about 3/8 of an inch round. Possibly, but fish appears not at all bothered by it. Do some tumors not bother fish?
I think i got so lucky with my blood parrot fish. His mouth works totally fine, so much so that he is a murderer that must live by himself cuz he eats every other fish, except a pleco 0_o, I love him though. he is almost 8
It does look like Skeltore I’m old 😩
I think 99% of new fish keepers don’t know about the nitrogen cycle
Peer pressure and acceptance is a social cancer. This is what my kids are taught daily
My biggest mistake is adding gold fish with mollys 😂😂😂
Alligator garr story was horrific 😩
For me, Chinese Algae eater - what a disaster that was...
Chinese alge eater bully, I can atest. 11:15
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Only watched because of MD ok bye
Common pleco....smh
There's a long line of people who have made that one :-)
Yep, same here. Unfortunately where I got him told me he'd/she'd be fine in my 20g. Well, he's 20 inches long, and I know have him in a 125g. He's moved from Illinois to Minnesota and is somewhere between 20 and 25 years old. He's cool, and he's got a great life, but I wish I never did it.
Editing badly needs help!!! I did enjoy the video though!
Not always the easiest thing when you have a dozen or more people sending files.