Ropefish are so cool! Their movement, behavior, social behaviors. So fun towatch them play. Everything about them is interesting. I'm doing a water change right now on their tank. They love to play in the flow of fresh water coming in
Oh my goodness I can see how this is absolutely one of your favorite tanks!! What makes it so interesting is the kind of oddbal mix. They all have such a cool vibel! Seeing these fish interact with each other is so amazing and awesome! So inspiring, this is seriously something I would consider doing! Rope fish are so unique and beautiful, then mixed with some of my most favorite fish like the giant betta, the panda garras, and corys!! Wow 😍♥️💖😱 Just watching them play in the crinum is absolutely mesmerizing!! Such a cool and different take on a community with all the other fish and shrimp you have in there 💯 Love the music and getting the opportunity to enjoy this tank!! Thank you so much Lucas for bringing us T.O.T.! Much love from my family to yours 🙏🌿🦐🐟🌿🥰
Omg I have that same carpet plant in my neo tank. It came out of the catch all tank at my LFS and they do not label plants well, and depends on the day for a employee to actually know what they are talking about. Thank you ❤️
Hey LRB, I also have a rope fish....he's about 8 years old and 40cms...doing really well was gonna get some more but it's only a 50g/190l tank..anyways.I noticed you had shrimps in there too which really surprised me...I was always advised not to as they would just get eaten by the RF....is this just BS and they will be just fine?...love the channel, thanks for all the inspiration and ideas 🤙
Its real. The trick is having a big rock pile for the shrimp to live in. Its easier to start the tank with the shrimp establish in a tank before introducing the ropefish. If you want to introduce shrimp to rope fish aquarium you want to put shrimp in when ropefish is sleeping. Then place shrimp in large rock pile with lots of cracks and cavities. It will be a number game at that point for some will survive and some will get eaten. Having a plant like bolbitis helps cover as well.
I think you should put some thing else in the middle because you are nowhere near overstocked! Maybe some large Tera or rasbora, or even a small puffer
this tank is awesome! If you ever see this comment, could you tell me the name of that big crypt? Is it an easy plant that can be left floating? Thank you!
It is Balansae Crypt. It could float for awhile but the. Would start growing weird, much better planted. Doesn’t take it long to weep it’s leaves across. Super easy plant to care for and will take all water parameters besides cold water and salt
@@LRBaquatics thank you so much for the quick response! I am still quite the beginner when it comes to plants so a crypt like this sounds awesome! I have found your channel yesterday while looking for types of corydoras and have been binging since then! Cheers!!
You need to call in some favors and get Jimmy from the co-op to shoot a final tour of the place before you leave. Need to document your masterpiece before someone else gets their hands on it.
I have had some basic crypt I bought almost 4 years ago. I moved some from my 55 where it was doing okay, but not thriving like the way it has established itself in my 40 breeder with basically the same lights/substrate.
@@caroleinwv that was my assumption. A bit more must have been just what it needed cause I had to pull up q total area of about the middle third of the tank clear of the stuff after about 14 months. That was maybe a year ago, give or take a month or two, and it's almost back to where it was, but now I have two other kinds on that end, slowly they work toward each other. Eventually I plan on having a multicolor crypt carpet for my ropefish to chill under without getting stuck in anything. One of them still thinks it's a baby. Lol
I do feed mid day. Didn’t take them long to come out since there was shrimp naturally in the tank. Made them feel comfortable enough to come out and hunt.
I could imagine it would be like breeding hillstream loaches. I imagine they breed in shallow slow water areas in natural but could be totally wrong and they just fling them down stream. Im not really sure but in either case the best approach would be in a tank with lots of rocks and crevasses for eggs to fall and babies to grow up with. In btw the rocks need to be a healthy establish mulm and microbiology and sand underlayment could be very beneficial. Then would come feeding brine shrimp and high and preferably live protein. Doing this I believe it would be possible to community breed them. With more though you could create egg trap systems. Hope this helps.
Those ropefish are soooo cool. I have a couple of questions: do your ropefish ever breed? : Do you have to vacuum the tank? Without a filter, how often do you need to do water changes?
I change the water once a month if that. Ropefish do breed but many believe its a maturity thing and not many people have been successful to breed them. I never vacuum then tanks because that will disturb and disrupt the microbiologies balance.
@@LRBaquatics Thanks so much for answering! It's amazing to me just how good the tank looks without a filter. I have a filter and I can't keep my water clear. I change the water, and in a couple of hours it starts looking kinda yellowish. I did add grape vine to it, but it looked like that before I added the wood. I think my light adds to it also. It's just the cheap light that came with the hood. I have 13 male guppies, 2 Otto's, 2 corys, and a German blue ram. In a 20 long. Oh and some bladder snails. But they're dying off right now. It seems like they do this on a cycle. ?????? Anyway, awesome looking tank. Thanks for sharing it.☺️
@@cathyhendrix7552 your snails are dying in a cycle because they populate to what the food levels allow, then the ones that can't get enough food die off (ironically becoming food for the ones that survive) the fact that you pay enough attention to notice it shows your dedication to your tank. :)
@@ira_nelson Awe. Thank you for the compliment 😊. I watch my tank everyday. I love it. And the fish of course. The guppies were born in this tank and I raised each one. The corys I got were barely an inch and now they're about 3in. So I've watched them grow as well. The german blue ram is fairly new. But she (I'm guessing?) already comes to the surface to greet me. It's really cute. I really do love them.🥰
@@cathyhendrix7552 I like to share things I learn, and that bit I recently added to my notes wile doing reaserch for two tanks I'm trying to plan out wile I look for places to get the things I want. This guy has the snail I want for 1 of the tanks. I like my ram horn snails, I have had major success with them in the past.
Sweet, I've been debating adding some ropefish to my 125g community tank for a while now. Think I'll bite the bullet soon. Do you worry at all about the ropes eating any of the other fish?
I dont worry about it. Especially with the shrimp in there. If they were to want to eat something else they have that as an option before they would want to eat another fish. Plus the other fish would not fit in their mouths.
@@LRBaquatics Alright mate, thanks for the reply. I did end up ordering 3 this morning haha. Should be fine in my community tank, the smallest fish in there is actually an old panda Garra, the lone survivor or a group I got a long time ago. Can't keep shrimp in that tank though cause I have a few cichlids in there.
Totally awesome set up! 🤘😎✌️ 💚It! I've wanted Ropefish for a while now! Would they eat neon tetras and guppies??? Peace and love from Scotland fish folk! 😎✌️💚X
I think they would be alright if the tank is big enough. I think having the shrimp in there helps with them trying to eat fish but also never seen them try to eat a fish.
How do you keep the animals, bacteria alive with no circulation and how you oxygenate the aquarium? If i turn of my circulation everything turns to sh*t
It just does it natural. Maybe ask the question why is it turning to sh*t when I do it? Is it trying to rebalance? Are my plants that i just bought grown from above ground? Do I have a fish kicking up stuff to cloud water? Do I have to many plants but not enough microbiology established after a water change? Lots of variables for sure but its how we learn through these processes. Just keep in mind microbiology plays a big role. Hope this helps.
@@LRBaquatics Thanks Lucas! I have quite a lot of fish and mother nature maybe can´t handle that and need a helping hand to oxynaite the water for the microbiology to survive. I have a lot of moss, giant anubias and no fast growing plants... so i go forward with my exellent eheim airpump and spongefilter, ziss moving bed filter!
@@LRBaquatics played it on repeat while doing dishes. It's amazing. In a way that people walk in the room and say, "what is THIS?!?!". And you have no clue if they are asking cuz they like or hate it. I love it. Normally you make my day with info but today....this song....on repeat....and repeat....and repeat...
Hi there. I would like to get a dwarf pea puffer, just the one but would like him to have a tank mate. How would he get on with a female betta or is he better off alone. Thanks.
I havent had any issues with it and have had them a long time but I have also been keeping the in moderatly har water under 300 tds. Never heard of them having a preference to soft or hard.
I have a ropefish, 8 yrs, unknown gender. It’s stunted in growth or I’m not aware of it’s life cycle, but I hope to get it in a bigger tank when I have the money 🤞 edit: I’m so stupid- i got it from a relative recently, they called it a ropefish but just told me it’s a Kuhli Loach- 🤦♀️
Lol that’s an old kuhli. I can see why you thought it was stunted 😄 Kudos to you about not being shy to reply to as why. You should still get the bigger tank though :P
@@LRBaquatics Yep, right now it’s a 20 gall with just a tetra (maybe looking to get a school so it isn’t so shy) and when I get the bigger tank, i want to have some live plants. A thing happened so I needed to home it in a cycled 20 gall quickly so it wouldn’t die, as the tetra was with it too, and the filter had busted in a old tank.
@@LRBaquatics Ah alright, only have one in my current tank so it’s doesn’t get too dirty or too much algae, for aesthetic, would you recommend a food maybe?
its so cool to see a tank thats this established with so meny fish and plants with no filter! seriously impressive work
Ropefish are so cool! Their movement, behavior, social behaviors. So fun towatch them play. Everything about them is interesting. I'm doing a water change right now on their tank. They love to play in the flow of fresh water coming in
I keep coming back to this vid, man. TOT is just pure grace and bliss.
Oh my goodness I can see how this is absolutely one of your favorite tanks!! What makes it so interesting is the kind of oddbal mix. They all have such a cool vibel!
Seeing these fish interact with each other is so amazing and awesome!
So inspiring, this is seriously something I would consider doing! Rope fish are so unique and beautiful, then mixed with some of my most favorite fish like the giant betta, the panda garras, and corys!! Wow 😍♥️💖😱
Just watching them play in the crinum is absolutely mesmerizing!! Such a cool and different take on a community with all the other fish and shrimp you have in there 💯
Love the music and getting the opportunity to enjoy this tank!! Thank you so much Lucas for bringing us T.O.T.!
Much love from my family to yours 🙏🌿🦐🐟🌿🥰
That tank is a thing of beauty my man. Simple, yet mesmerizing to look at.
That bolbitis is so pretty 😍
I LOVE YOUR ROPIES SO MUCH what a high tier tank man you've done such a great job with it!!
Fascinating video! Beautiful tank. It's definitely one I would be interested in replicating.
Amazing tank Lucas and love the fish and plants thank you 🙏🏼 for sharing
I love this piece of music at the end man
Love the TOT videos. Thanks for sharing 🥰
Omg I have that same carpet plant in my neo tank. It came out of the catch all tank at my LFS and they do not label plants well, and depends on the day for a employee to actually know what they are talking about. Thank you ❤️
I truly loved this TOT video. Very nice! 🙏🏻❤️
Thanks Susan!
The tank looks amazing
Cool tank 👍 So unusual, simple, yet so delightful 🤪 🤣 Love the bolbotis interaction 🐉🦐🐟💋
So different and cool.
Nice tank, love the Ropefish, remind me of my Fire Eels !
Love the rope fish! I can feel the MTS setting in, lol.
Lol
nice i really nice different setup of some really neat fish plus shrimp
Hey LRB, I also have a rope fish....he's about 8 years old and 40cms...doing really well was gonna get some more but it's only a 50g/190l tank..anyways.I noticed you had shrimps in there too which really surprised me...I was always advised not to as they would just get eaten by the RF....is this just BS and they will be just fine?...love the channel, thanks for all the inspiration and ideas 🤙
Its real. The trick is having a big rock pile for the shrimp to live in. Its easier to start the tank with the shrimp establish in a tank before introducing the ropefish. If you want to introduce shrimp to rope fish aquarium you want to put shrimp in when ropefish is sleeping. Then place shrimp in large rock pile with lots of cracks and cavities. It will be a number game at that point for some will survive and some will get eaten. Having a plant like bolbitis helps cover as well.
@@LRBaquatics Thanks man 🤙
now that's some killer 7/4 groovin \m/
Ropefish seem so personable. Kinda want to start a tank for them. Cool vid man
Cool 😎
Love your tank man so awesome. Hope sale works out well!!
I like these tot videos
Awesome setup just beautiful!
Love this tank. Not sure why … lol 😂 water dragons for life !!!
New subcriber all of your tank looks cool love your plant design
Thanks!
Just tuned in for the first time. How does this work with no air or filter? I couldn't find a subscribe button. Enjoyed!
Mostly due to microbiology and the essence of mother nature. Its essentially a small pond in a glass box.
I think you should put some thing else in the middle because you are nowhere near overstocked! Maybe some large Tera or rasbora, or even a small puffer
That’s gotta be the most impressive bolbitis I’ve ever seen. How did you get it to that size?
Thanks. I just gave it lots of time.
this tank is awesome! If you ever see this comment, could you tell me the name of that big crypt? Is it an easy plant that can be left floating? Thank you!
It is Balansae Crypt. It could float for awhile but the. Would start growing weird, much better planted. Doesn’t take it long to weep it’s leaves across. Super easy plant to care for and will take all water parameters besides cold water and salt
@@LRBaquatics thank you so much for the quick response! I am still quite the beginner when it comes to plants so a crypt like this sounds awesome! I have found your channel yesterday while looking for types of corydoras and have been binging since then! Cheers!!
That's a nice tank, it gave me some ideas.
Love the Bolbitis, as well as the songs!
You need to call in some favors and get Jimmy from the co-op to shoot a final tour of the place before you leave. Need to document your masterpiece before someone else gets their hands on it.
Such a sweet tank.
Very cool! ☮️
Love seeing where a healthy Crypt will go in time.
I have had some basic crypt I bought almost 4 years ago. I moved some from my 55 where it was doing okay, but not thriving like the way it has established itself in my 40 breeder with basically the same lights/substrate.
@@goosenotmaverick1156 Interesting! What do you think does it? Maybe light a little closer?
@@caroleinwv that was my assumption. A bit more must have been just what it needed cause I had to pull up q total area of about the middle third of the tank clear of the stuff after about 14 months. That was maybe a year ago, give or take a month or two, and it's almost back to where it was, but now I have two other kinds on that end, slowly they work toward each other. Eventually I plan on having a multicolor crypt carpet for my ropefish to chill under without getting stuck in anything. One of them still thinks it's a baby. Lol
@@goosenotmaverick1156 It sounds very fun!
It is a beautiful aquarium have to do a similar aquarium love the rope fish 🐟
Ripefish aren't available here. I would definitely get some. They are so cute 👌😍
sounds like ya have a cold Lucas, hope you're doing well buddy 👍
Thanks bro!
How long did it take for them to finally start swimming around the tank ? Do you feed them mid dah for them to come out more often ?
I do feed mid day. Didn’t take them long to come out since there was shrimp naturally in the tank. Made them feel comfortable enough to come out and hunt.
Hi when you move r you building another big fish room . Love your channel lol
Yes I want to build a separate fish house.
Ropefish are bad keep um coming 👍👍
Great tank love it.
I would very much like to here your advice on breeding the Garra flavatra panda garra if possible at any point,
I could imagine it would be like breeding hillstream loaches. I imagine they breed in shallow slow water areas in natural but could be totally wrong and they just fling them down stream. Im not really sure but in either case the best approach would be in a tank with lots of rocks and crevasses for eggs to fall and babies to grow up with. In btw the rocks need to be a healthy establish mulm and microbiology and sand underlayment could be very beneficial. Then would come feeding brine shrimp and high and preferably live protein. Doing this I believe it would be possible to community breed them. With more though you could create egg trap systems. Hope this helps.
I have missed the TOT series
Awesome tank!! Could you do a TOT on the Synodontis lucipinnis sometime?
It was going to be one of my next ones
👍
Those ropefish are soooo cool. I have a couple of questions: do your ropefish ever breed? : Do you have to vacuum the tank? Without a filter, how often do you need to do water changes?
I change the water once a month if that. Ropefish do breed but many believe its a maturity thing and not many people have been successful to breed them. I never vacuum then tanks because that will disturb and disrupt the microbiologies balance.
@@LRBaquatics Thanks so much for answering! It's amazing to me just how good the tank looks without a filter. I have a filter and I can't keep my water clear. I change the water, and in a couple of hours it starts looking kinda yellowish. I did add grape vine to it, but it looked like that before I added the wood. I think my light adds to it also. It's just the cheap light that came with the hood. I have 13 male guppies, 2 Otto's, 2 corys, and a German blue ram. In a 20 long. Oh and some bladder snails. But they're dying off right now. It seems like they do this on a cycle. ?????? Anyway, awesome looking tank. Thanks for sharing it.☺️
@@cathyhendrix7552 your snails are dying in a cycle because they populate to what the food levels allow, then the ones that can't get enough food die off (ironically becoming food for the ones that survive) the fact that you pay enough attention to notice it shows your dedication to your tank. :)
@@ira_nelson Awe. Thank you for the compliment 😊. I watch my tank everyday. I love it. And the fish of course. The guppies were born in this tank and I raised each one. The corys I got were barely an inch and now they're about 3in. So I've watched them grow as well. The german blue ram is fairly new. But she (I'm guessing?) already comes to the surface to greet me. It's really cute. I really do love them.🥰
@@cathyhendrix7552 I like to share things I learn, and that bit I recently added to my notes wile doing reaserch for two tanks I'm trying to plan out wile I look for places to get the things I want. This guy has the snail I want for 1 of the tanks. I like my ram horn snails, I have had major success with them in the past.
Sweet, I've been debating adding some ropefish to my 125g community tank for a while now. Think I'll bite the bullet soon. Do you worry at all about the ropes eating any of the other fish?
I dont worry about it. Especially with the shrimp in there. If they were to want to eat something else they have that as an option before they would want to eat another fish. Plus the other fish would not fit in their mouths.
@@LRBaquatics Alright mate, thanks for the reply. I did end up ordering 3 this morning haha. Should be fine in my community tank, the smallest fish in there is actually an old panda Garra, the lone survivor or a group I got a long time ago. Can't keep shrimp in that tank though cause I have a few cichlids in there.
Totally awesome set up! 🤘😎✌️ 💚It! I've wanted Ropefish for a while now! Would they eat neon tetras and guppies??? Peace and love from Scotland fish folk! 😎✌️💚X
I think they would be alright if the tank is big enough. I think having the shrimp in there helps with them trying to eat fish but also never seen them try to eat a fish.
@@LRBaquatics that's the answer I was hoping for lol. I'm definitely getting them. Would a 3ft-1ft high with lid he suitable for 2/3 rope fish? 😎✌️X
@@jonathanniven8030 That should be enough
Is it me or are those panda garra huge?!? Super awesome tank though!!
Wonderful
1:09 awesome looking tank & fishes though what small fishes are ok there thnx
You could put tetras, rasboras, and many other smaller fish. Hatchet fish would be super cool or any danios.
TOT ❤️✌️🍀
How do you keep the animals, bacteria alive with no circulation and how you oxygenate the aquarium? If i turn of my circulation everything turns to sh*t
It just does it natural. Maybe ask the question why is it turning to sh*t when I do it? Is it trying to rebalance? Are my plants that i just bought grown from above ground? Do I have a fish kicking up stuff to cloud water? Do I have to many plants but not enough microbiology established after a water change? Lots of variables for sure but its how we learn through these processes. Just keep in mind microbiology plays a big role. Hope this helps.
@@LRBaquatics Thanks Lucas! I have quite a lot of fish and mother nature maybe can´t handle that and need a helping hand to oxynaite the water for the microbiology to survive. I have a lot of moss, giant anubias and no fast growing plants... so i go forward with my exellent eheim airpump and spongefilter, ziss moving bed filter!
What was that instrumental at end? I loved it. Please share title or artist!
Trap juice is its name. Its one of the free ones YT provides.
@@LRBaquatics played it on repeat while doing dishes. It's amazing. In a way that people walk in the room and say, "what is THIS?!?!". And you have no clue if they are asking cuz they like or hate it. I love it. Normally you make my day with info but today....this song....on repeat....and repeat....and repeat...
Nice crypt! what species of crypt is this?
Balansae Crypt
Nice
Just Mother Nature in a box… and a heater ;)
Lol and a heater. Im not even sure if its plugged in. Theres actually a skimmer in there to that never gets used as well.
@@LRBaquatics Better to have it and not need it! Sweet tank though, definitely looks like an interesting one to watch.
How big is your jumbo betta and your ropedish?
The betta maybe around 4 inches and the ropefish around 14+ inches
What kinda plants are those?
Crypt balansae, bolbitis heudilotti and Marisela minuta
Hi there. I would like to get a dwarf pea puffer, just the one but would like him to have a tank mate. How would he get on with a female betta or is he better off alone. Thanks.
The pea puffers are best for species only since they can be territorial and nip fins with their sharp teeth.
@@LRBaquatics ok thanks
Bunch of betas and shrimps sounds like America
😂Dont believe the media not everyone and most arent like that
Awesome
How do the Panda Garra handle hard water?
I havent had any issues with it and have had them a long time but I have also been keeping the in moderatly har water under 300 tds. Never heard of them having a preference to soft or hard.
What's the plant seen at 5:52? Thanks :)
The foreground is a glosso and the one to the right is bolbitis
I have a ropefish, 8 yrs, unknown gender. It’s stunted in growth or I’m not aware of it’s life cycle, but I hope to get it in a bigger tank when I have the money 🤞
edit: I’m so stupid- i got it from a relative recently, they called it a ropefish but just told me it’s a Kuhli Loach- 🤦♀️
Lol that’s an old kuhli. I can see why you thought it was stunted 😄 Kudos to you about not being shy to reply to as why. You should still get the bigger tank though :P
@@LRBaquatics Yep, right now it’s a 20 gall with just a tetra (maybe looking to get a school so it isn’t so shy) and when I get the bigger tank, i want to have some live plants. A thing happened so I needed to home it in a cycled 20 gall quickly so it wouldn’t die, as the tetra was with it too, and the filter had busted in a old tank.
@@-Random101 Tetras and kuhli loaches don’t need filters if that helps. Same with plants.
@@LRBaquatics Ah alright, only have one in my current tank so it’s doesn’t get too dirty or too much algae, for aesthetic, would you recommend a food maybe?
They Betta keeps trying to steel the show. The rope fish are beyond awesome to watch. The plants are unreal man.
Lol the betta really does and thanks!
Put a, screen on it
Some Reptile screen might fit your tank
Or you can modify or make one
Njce
Fft
FFT? thats a new one for me?
@@LRBaquatics fft recommended the channel to me
@@LRBaquatics you got some great tanks
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