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Hi, I have a question. Some of my plants in my tank are doing really well but some are pale with brown spots. What am I doing wrong. Should I be adding CO2?
Hey MD, I have an 80 liters tank and two days ago all my fish died... The heater is just not working idk why... Only my big snails and a few amanos survived... What schould i do with them i need a new heater and i wanna remake the tank but where should i put the amanos? Help!😅
It's awesome that somehow baby fish make it in a display tank without any specific food or protection. They would be true survivors. Love your videos 👍👍
thats cute little cory babies and I know that you are happy md uncle, because its a wonderfull feeling when the fish breed in the tank and its a sign of happy fish and they absolutely love your tank and they are grateful to be a pet of yours......
If you want to be absolutely sure about the water temperature from the tap, I advise you to buy a shower thermometer. Not expensive at all, easy to install and use.
I do a MDf 'don't tell my wife"... I use the digital kitchen thermometer. Before and after in the fish tank as the fishtank thermometer is too slow when changing water.
I'm just spewing a hypothesis off the top of my head so someone correct me if I'm wrong lol. Regarding rain being a breeding trigger, the increased flow in streams during the rainy season brings with it a rapid influx of nutrient-laden sediment. Accordingly, algae and macrophyte growth increases and invertebrate colonies in turn. I would suppose that the promise of plentiful food is what encourages fish to breed in response to rain triggers.
Aloha from Oahu. So for egg scatters like neon tetras, when it rains and theres extra movement of water, it scatters the eggs. Preventing the parents and other neons from eating the eggs. Your also simulating a rainy season for the fish. Which in nature means more cover for fry and increase in food supply.
As an American, I could listen to you stumble thru the English language all day long. LOVE your videos and I've been watching all your builds. So, what happened to the finish of the Buddha tank? Also, can you do a new build on a five-gallon tank with plants leaving room for cories and Rummy nose Tetras? Keep up the show! You and Matt are great at doing this!
Good morning and good day everyone!!! I see that pep in your step 🏃 My most favoritist🤣 fish in the world are corydora!!! You can never have too many 🙏 I have never lucked up and had Cory fry before so I'm so excited to see your cute little babies!!😍 Awesome MD!! MD....champion aquascaper and now heading into World renowned breeder 💪😁🙌 It just shows when you set up beautifully planted tanks, creating a natural environment, all the fishies are happy ! Happy fishies make happy babies 🥰🤣😁 Thanks for sharing!! I hope you have a wonderful day 🙏🌿🐟🌿💚
I do exactly the same as you with the water after cleaning the filter. I water the plants with it and they are super beautiful I am coming to the end of filamentous algae, it just takes patience and work every week. your work is remarkable. bravo to you and your bins are magnificent. Hi from France...😉😃
@@shiyadh7355 When I need to water my plants, I just grab one of my fishkeeping jugs and take a couple of scoops from whichever tank or tanks I think is closest to needing a water change, then I top up the tank. Figure it helps tide the tank over until water change day. Of course, I don't have 100 plants, so it's just a couple of trips to the sink for me! (I think I have 15-20?)
I had bristlenose plecos breeding like crazy in my tank. Started with 4 tiny fish until they got to be a year old and the 2 males grew their bristles. So many babies that I had to give them away. My water was at 74 F, and they need a lot of driftwood. You won't have a problem as your tanks are heavy planted and have tons of wood. Love your channel..watch "sumfink" everyday!!😁🥰🐠
This is the best yet...LMAO as your acting skills are coming along nicely... The next James Bond maybe..? Keep on, keeping on.. Your the best!!! Brilliant, just Brilliant.
I bought three leopard corries recently. They are beautiful, but I didn’t realize just how shy and skittish they can be. Hardly see them. Hopefully, they are doing their job though.
I currently have 6 leopard corys and they are never shy for me 🤔. And when I used to keep fish 20 years ago they spawned for me every spring for 3 years in a row. I love them!
That special time when you see your first cory babies in a community tank. ☺ The reason that "rainy season" conditions trigger spawning in tropical fish is because heavy rain causes the waterlevel to rise in rivers and streams. This leads to areas previously terrestrial becomming aquatic and all of the nutrients that were lying on the ground being released into the watercolumn. This triggers a population explosion across many different micro organisms which provides additional food for those just up the food chain. Those then explode in numbers and fills the bellies of the next creatures up the chain. Basicly the rainy season provides a powerboost to the entire ecosystem from the bottom up. There for the taking for any species that can get the timing right and it turns out that if small fish get right on it when they first sense the temperature drop their babies will hatch just in time when babyfood sized inverts has their explosion. Some breeders go a step further than just dropping the temperature. They will wait until a heavy rainfall happens because the pressure drop in the air is also a regular phenomenon that when paired with a cool waterchange improves the likelyhood of spawning taking place. And finally to complete the scene they also drop the water hardness in the tank by using softer water for the waterchange because it mimics nature. All in all if done right its like lowering the lights, popping open the champagne and putting on barry white for fishies. Done right and boinking is guaranteed. All of these changes are natural common occourances in tropical river systems and fish species from those environments are built to take it. Just stay within a 3-5 degree celcius change and a ph drop of 0.2. We are not trying to shock the system but just trying to mimic the conditions of the animals natural habitat.
About the cold water triggering breeding, correct me if I'm wrong. But I believe the rainy season is typically the season in which most food is produced, nutrients get washed into the river, forest floors flood and a whole lot of feed becomes available. Fish want to spawn at this time because there is a lot of food available for them (so they can produce more babies) and for the young as well. Therefore providing cold (potentially RO water causing a pH change) with live food are all the indicators for the fish that the season of bountiful food has started, and thus the optimum time for breeding has come.
How wonderful to find baby corys. Just goes to show your tanks have super habitat to promote breeding and to have success with it is awesome. Keep the vids coming MD, massive hello from 🏴 just adore your channel xxx
MD, if you want a male bristlenose pleco, go to the bristlenose tank and look for the ones with a few bumps on the snout as those will eventually grow to look like a giant, funky-looking beard.
I have a group of 16, with a small school of another type of cory (maybe napoensis?) They are super busy, so active and cute, and in addition to scuttling around on the ground, rocks, wood and leaves - every once in a while they torpedo up to the surface and back down, faster than you can blink!
Fresh rain entering a stream or river will often bring with it nutrients from soil runoff in addition to insects. The nutrients are used by all sizes of microorganisms which small fry can feed on. Many fish plan their breeding alongside the rainy season for this reason.
I was setting up a new guppy tank and had moved some plants from a community tank with peppered Cory, After a day or so found three Cory fry swimming around on the sand Surprise!! Now there are even more in total so far around five new fry.
I thought the same. Put most in a hatchery for my 90 odd Cory's. But remembered a few eggs floating off the end of my finger. Thought they would probably be eaten up. But was surprised a 3 weeks later to see 1cm long baby blue leopard Cory's hiding very well against the black gravel.
thats awesome! i just got 6 pygmy corys today for my birthday, they are my first corys theyre so cute. hopefully they can breed, you have some lovely aquariums
You want 100? 😂 Be careful what you wish for! Those Bronze Cories are crazy breeders! My Bronze Cories decided to spawn right before I rescaped the tank and then again right before a water change. They have a flair for inconvenience! I saved what I thought were about 15 eggs from each batch….turns out I saved about 40+! So now I have a heap of tiny 6 day old babies in a grow out tank. You’ve got to try to breed them, because it so much fun to watch them grow. My Sterbai are quite skittish too btw, but they’ve never been hiders, just don’t like sudden movement. Hoping to get them to breed soon too. Number one trick to get them started is high flow against the glass, they love it!
The toddler corys are SO CUTE! It's not so much that you've bred another species, more you've provided a space good enough for them to get on with what nature intended! I've both accidentally and intentionally bred. You'll end up with better quality fish with the latter, if you know what you're doing, but most of us aren't experts on every fish we keep... Funny about your bristlenoses, I had the same but I had three males with big bristley beards, they look so amazing when they start to grow up.
I think that rainfall brings down nutrients from terrestrial areas into main bodies of water, where they will first be utilised by phytoplankton, which in turn get eaten by zooplankton like daphnia and etc. Both are food for baby fish and some adults. Plus, insects, worms and the like also get swept up by the rain, ready to be consumed by insectivorous fish. Rainy seasons literally last as long as seasons do so the adults would be full from eating and ready to spawn. By the time the babies hatch there will be algal and zooplankton blooms of food ready.
Corys are my favorite freswater fish, they remind me of little fat professors! This summer I ordered 20 pygmy corys from AQUA HUNA.....they are my first miniature corys. i highly recommend them....really great in schools and in nano tanks.....males dont get over half inch!
Good video, I like the colour's on your bristlenose pleco. Also @ 12:41, I could possibly help. We have lots of big and tiny male bristlenose pleco's, when you are ready we could send you some or one, whatever. (of course NOT in the POST.)
An attempt at explaining why the rainy seasons ("water change") may induce spawning During the rainy season, water levels of streams/lakes/ponds etc. rise. So there's more space for fish to utilise as habitat for food/shelter/spawning sites etc. You can also get more nutrients in the system (when previously dry banks get inundated, or nutrients are flushed from the surface into water). More nutrients = higher productivity = higher potential for the community to grow. Put simply, they "know" this is the best time to spawn Also possible that the fish "don't know" about this, and are just reacting instinctively to changing water conditions (nutrients, temperature etc.)
Heyyyyy congrats grandpa!!! Very nice 👍 there's nothing like finding a baby or babies of fish u have!!! I mean to me it's always new Everytime my fish breed!!!! MD that means your doing something Right!!!! Thanks for posting.
That’s crazy!!! My corydoras just spawned too!! I have like 5 babies now in my 60 Gallon that have been there for a while but I never noticed until the other day. They’ve been hiding and are so small. Awesome that you and I got Cory babies about the same time lol
Hi MD - found you by accident the the African tank video kept me up really late 🥱 Used to keep tropical fish years ago but haven't been in a suitable place since. ❤the Cory's, had some that spawned in my community tank, laying eggs on the Amazon Sword and the glass. 3 of the fry survived to adulthood. Really liking those Glowlight Tetras and is it Silver-tipped? The tech for filtration and water testing has certainly changed a lot! Just need a lottery win now to start with 25 aquaria 😁
Should drop those wafers, discs and pellets for any Cory Catfish, Plecos and Nocturnal species just after lights out or closest point till your just about to leave your fish rooms for home in the case lights out comes after you leave your "Dojo" each evening.
MD I'm really happy for you and hope you will continue to have great breeding success. I would also love a video of the Buddha tank being maintained and put back to rights. It is one of my favorite tanks you have ever done.
I can guarantee you from experience that platys and neon tetras LOVE the algae wafers. I have to drop multiple in one corner to give my loaches a chance to eat 😂
I am sure you al will succeed in that. Cory breed like rabbits, I had to give away all mine because I got tired from trying to rehome a new batch every month. Just feed them and ignore them, you will have full tank in a blink.
@@lindaspitsyna8663 Yes, I used to have Panda Cory's that would breed. The most surprising fish I ever got to breed and even rear young was some Glass Cats. The ones that look like skeletons.
My Bolivian Ram loves algae wafers! I’m training him to take a small piece from my fingers Atm he just comes up and waits for me to let it go then hones in to grab it. He’s got great character.
Amazing videos, very inspirational. Like your channel a lot. I've been keeping fish most of my life but recently I've been busy with other things and haven't had time for them but watching your videos makes me feel like I want to go back and create some awesome biotope tank again. THANKS a lot for motivation and inspiration :)
My bronze Cory breed like mad lads. I honestly don't know what to do. I kind of just leave it up to natural selection but I did a water change today and found three babies. 1 was dead in the filter and the other two I caught and are sitting in a floating nursery.
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I feel excited for you! Always awesome when you find babies :D
Hi, I have a question. Some of my plants in my tank are doing really well but some are pale with brown spots. What am I doing wrong. Should I be adding CO2?
Cá chuột cà phê 😁😁😁😁
Hey MD,
I have an 80 liters tank and two days ago all my fish died... The heater is just not working idk why... Only my big snails and a few amanos survived... What schould i do with them i need a new heater and i wanna remake the tank but where should i put the amanos? Help!😅
@@kazza2173
1st how long did you setup the tank?
2nd what groun do u have?
🤣 love the “dramatic reenactment”
that walk into the fish room in the beginning though .
😂
Lmaoo❤
It’s so cool when they breed in the tank without any encouragement. They must be happy 👍🏻
🙌🥰🐟
It's awesome that somehow baby fish make it in a display tank without any specific food or protection.
They would be true survivors. Love your videos 👍👍
Love the ‘ shock and wonder look’ ( with added hand action) hilarious. Corys are so bloody cute though!!
I'm loving the 'dramatic' beginnings in your videos. They make me laugh out loud 🤣
I am Japanese.I always have fun watching videos.Please do your best on RUclips from now on💪
thats cute little cory babies and I know that you are happy md uncle, because its a wonderfull feeling when the fish breed in the tank and its a sign of happy fish and they absolutely love your tank and they are grateful to be a pet of yours......
0:02 pinguïn MD😂
Your amano shrimp look massive!
If you want to be absolutely sure about the water temperature from the tap, I advise you to buy a shower thermometer. Not expensive at all, easy to install and use.
I do a MDf 'don't tell my wife"... I use the digital kitchen thermometer. Before and after in the fish tank as the fishtank thermometer is too slow when changing water.
Congrats MD! This cheered me up after travelling for a funeral last week. Many good long years for your baby fish.
I'm just spewing a hypothesis off the top of my head so someone correct me if I'm wrong lol.
Regarding rain being a breeding trigger, the increased flow in streams during the rainy season brings with it a rapid influx of nutrient-laden sediment. Accordingly, algae and macrophyte growth increases and invertebrate colonies in turn. I would suppose that the promise of plentiful food is what encourages fish to breed in response to rain triggers.
What you said + tons of extra bugs.
Aloha from Oahu. So for egg scatters like neon tetras, when it rains and theres extra movement of water, it scatters the eggs. Preventing the parents and other neons from eating the eggs. Your also simulating a rainy season for the fish. Which in nature means more cover for fry and increase in food supply.
As an American, I could listen to you stumble thru the English language all day long. LOVE your videos and I've been watching all your builds. So, what happened to the finish of the Buddha tank? Also, can you do a new build on a five-gallon tank with plants leaving room for cories and Rummy nose Tetras? Keep up the show! You and Matt are great at doing this!
@5:00 that golden ram is like heyy MD,look what I do to your plant 🪴 😌nomm nomm
Good morning and good day everyone!!!
I see that pep in your step 🏃
My most favoritist🤣 fish in the world are corydora!!! You can never have too many 🙏
I have never lucked up and had Cory fry before so I'm so excited to see your cute little babies!!😍 Awesome MD!!
MD....champion aquascaper and now heading into World renowned breeder 💪😁🙌
It just shows when you set up beautifully planted tanks, creating a natural environment, all the fishies are happy ! Happy fishies make happy babies 🥰🤣😁
Thanks for sharing!!
I hope you have a wonderful day 🙏🌿🐟🌿💚
I love the humour and enthusiasm! Love these videos.
I do exactly the same as you with the water after cleaning the filter. I water the plants with it and they are super beautiful I am coming to the end of filamentous algae, it just takes patience and work every week. your work is remarkable. bravo to you and your bins are magnificent. Hi from France...😉😃
I have never done that It all ways seem like every time I do a water change all my 100+ plants are waterd
@@shiyadh7355 When I need to water my plants, I just grab one of my fishkeeping jugs and take a couple of scoops from whichever tank or tanks I think is closest to needing a water change, then I top up the tank. Figure it helps tide the tank over until water change day. Of course, I don't have 100 plants, so it's just a couple of trips to the sink for me! (I think I have 15-20?)
I had bristlenose plecos breeding like crazy in my tank. Started with 4 tiny fish until they got to be a year old and the 2 males grew their bristles. So many babies that I had to give them away. My water was at 74 F, and they need a lot of driftwood. You won't have a problem as your tanks are heavy planted and have tons of wood. Love your channel..watch "sumfink" everyday!!😁🥰🐠
Cool! And you are right, those cory babies are so cute!
Cory babies are the cutest baby fish imo
that walk in the beginning was funky as hell , beautiful cories!
This is the best yet...LMAO as your acting skills are coming along nicely... The next James Bond maybe..? Keep on, keeping on.. Your the best!!! Brilliant, just Brilliant.
I bought three leopard corries recently. They are beautiful, but I didn’t realize just how shy and skittish they can be. Hardly see them. Hopefully, they are doing their job though.
I currently have 6 leopard corys and they are never shy for me 🤔. And when I used to keep fish 20 years ago they spawned for me every spring for 3 years in a row. I love them!
That's why cories should be kept in groups of at least 6!!
That special time when you see your first cory babies in a community tank. ☺
The reason that "rainy season" conditions trigger spawning in tropical fish is because heavy rain causes the waterlevel to rise in rivers and streams. This leads to areas previously terrestrial becomming aquatic and all of the nutrients that were lying on the ground being released into the watercolumn. This triggers a population explosion across many different micro organisms which provides additional food for those just up the food chain. Those then explode in numbers and fills the bellies of the next creatures up the chain.
Basicly the rainy season provides a powerboost to the entire ecosystem from the bottom up. There for the taking for any species that can get the timing right and it turns out that if small fish get right on it when they first sense the temperature drop their babies will hatch just in time when babyfood sized inverts has their explosion.
Some breeders go a step further than just dropping the temperature. They will wait until a heavy rainfall happens because the pressure drop in the air is also a regular phenomenon that when paired with a cool waterchange improves the likelyhood of spawning taking place. And finally to complete the scene they also drop the water hardness in the tank by using softer water for the waterchange because it mimics nature.
All in all if done right its like lowering the lights, popping open the champagne and putting on barry white for fishies.
Done right and boinking is guaranteed.
All of these changes are natural common occourances in tropical river systems and fish species from those environments are built to take it. Just stay within a 3-5 degree celcius change and a ph drop of 0.2.
We are not trying to shock the system but just trying to mimic the conditions of the animals natural habitat.
Nothing more exciting than seeing fish eggs or fry in a tank
Upping up the dramatic walk in 🤣🤣
🤣🤣 that's just how I walk...
@@MDFishTanks just another thing on the MD habits list, the paper towel swat has been replaced by the 'walk in' 😂
This was a fabulous tank. All the colors of fish really made it pop
About the cold water triggering breeding, correct me if I'm wrong. But I believe the rainy season is typically the season in which most food is produced, nutrients get washed into the river, forest floors flood and a whole lot of feed becomes available. Fish want to spawn at this time because there is a lot of food available for them (so they can produce more babies) and for the young as well. Therefore providing cold (potentially RO water causing a pH change) with live food are all the indicators for the fish that the season of bountiful food has started, and thus the optimum time for breeding has come.
How wonderful to find baby corys. Just goes to show your tanks have super habitat to promote breeding and to have success with it is awesome. Keep the vids coming MD, massive hello from 🏴 just adore your channel xxx
Have a few varieties of baby tetras survive in my 25 gallon Tetra only tank - the wonders of planting and hiding places! plus lots of moss.
Congrats on the Cory babies! Had a similar experience with pandas. Your glow light tetras look absolutely phenomenal!
MD, if you want a male bristlenose pleco, go to the bristlenose tank and look for the ones with a few bumps on the snout as those will eventually grow to look like a giant, funky-looking beard.
I recently bought 10 Pygmy cories and they’re already one of my favorite fish ever. They have so much personality and so active. Highly recommend
I have a group of 16, with a small school of another type of cory (maybe napoensis?) They are super busy, so active and cute, and in addition to scuttling around on the ground, rocks, wood and leaves - every once in a while they torpedo up to the surface and back down, faster than you can blink!
Why do I LOVE it more with the "soundtrack"? Again MD, you're more American than you think! Cheers from San Diego, CA
Fresh rain entering a stream or river will often bring with it nutrients from soil runoff in addition to insects. The nutrients are used by all sizes of microorganisms which small fry can feed on. Many fish plan their breeding alongside the rainy season for this reason.
Amazon update! My favorite tank you’ve done, thanks for checking in!
Love seeing an aquarium work so perfectly! Especially heavily planted tanks
Love the entrance and the dramatic "surprised" reaction 🤣
I was setting up a new guppy tank and had moved some plants from a community tank with peppered Cory, After a day or so found three Cory fry swimming around on the sand Surprise!! Now there are even more in total so far around five new fry.
I thought the same. Put most in a hatchery for my 90 odd Cory's. But remembered a few eggs floating off the end of my finger. Thought they would probably be eaten up. But was surprised a 3 weeks later to see 1cm long baby blue leopard Cory's hiding very well against the black gravel.
thats awesome! i just got 6 pygmy corys today for my birthday, they are my first corys theyre so cute. hopefully they can breed, you have some lovely aquariums
Thanks to You I just got my first ram cichlid and i love it. 😍
Congrats MD and WOW! that golden ram is beautiful still trying to find one that nice!
I'm a huge fan of tetras and I like your aqua scaping amazing bravo muy bien 😻
You want 100? 😂 Be careful what you wish for! Those Bronze Cories are crazy breeders! My Bronze Cories decided to spawn right before I rescaped the tank and then again right before a water change. They have a flair for inconvenience! I saved what I thought were about 15 eggs from each batch….turns out I saved about 40+! So now I have a heap of tiny 6 day old babies in a grow out tank. You’ve got to try to breed them, because it so much fun to watch them grow. My Sterbai are quite skittish too btw, but they’ve never been hiders, just don’t like sudden movement. Hoping to get them to breed soon too. Number one trick to get them started is high flow against the glass, they love it!
hopefully the cories have more babies soon
this channel might soon become md breeding tanks
The toddler corys are SO CUTE! It's not so much that you've bred another species, more you've provided a space good enough for them to get on with what nature intended! I've both accidentally and intentionally bred. You'll end up with better quality fish with the latter, if you know what you're doing, but most of us aren't experts on every fish we keep... Funny about your bristlenoses, I had the same but I had three males with big bristley beards, they look so amazing when they start to grow up.
I think that rainfall brings down nutrients from terrestrial areas into main bodies of water, where they will first be utilised by phytoplankton, which in turn get eaten by zooplankton like daphnia and etc. Both are food for baby fish and some adults. Plus, insects, worms and the like also get swept up by the rain, ready to be consumed by insectivorous fish. Rainy seasons literally last as long as seasons do so the adults would be full from eating and ready to spawn. By the time the babies hatch there will be algal and zooplankton blooms of food ready.
It's always so cool when you find baby/Juvie fish that finally come out from hiding.
The tank look awesome!
👍❤👍
Cool! What's more exciting than seeing baby fry for every fish keeper.
My Cory's brazenly sit on the sponge filter munching away 🤣
Corys are my favorite freswater fish, they remind me of little fat professors! This summer I ordered 20 pygmy corys from AQUA HUNA.....they are my first miniature corys. i highly recommend them....really great in schools and in nano tanks.....males dont get over half inch!
Wowee! Lil' babies! Fish daddy at it again, congrats 🐠🎉🥳
Good video, I like the colour's on your bristlenose pleco. Also @ 12:41, I could possibly help. We have lots of big and tiny male bristlenose pleco's, when you are ready we could send you some or one, whatever. (of course NOT in the POST.)
An attempt at explaining why the rainy seasons ("water change") may induce spawning
During the rainy season, water levels of streams/lakes/ponds etc. rise. So there's more space for fish to utilise as habitat for food/shelter/spawning sites etc. You can also get more nutrients in the system (when previously dry banks get inundated, or nutrients are flushed from the surface into water). More nutrients = higher productivity = higher potential for the community to grow. Put simply, they "know" this is the best time to spawn
Also possible that the fish "don't know" about this, and are just reacting instinctively to changing water conditions (nutrients, temperature etc.)
Heyyyyy congrats grandpa!!! Very nice 👍 there's nothing like finding a baby or babies of fish u have!!! I mean to me it's always new Everytime my fish breed!!!! MD that means your doing something Right!!!! Thanks for posting.
Love the way the African river tank is turning out!
Your Discus are fantastic. Skilled tank keeper.
I have a male and a female bristlenose pleco, love watching them when they come out of hiding
have to get a male!!!!
That’s crazy!!! My corydoras just spawned too!! I have like 5 babies now in my 60 Gallon that have been there for a while but I never noticed until the other day. They’ve been hiding and are so small. Awesome that you and I got Cory babies about the same time lol
Sana ol fish keeper I love it 💖
Hi MD - found you by accident the the African tank video kept me up really late 🥱 Used to keep tropical fish years ago but haven't been in a suitable place since.
❤the Cory's, had some that spawned in my community tank, laying eggs on the Amazon Sword and the glass. 3 of the fry survived to adulthood.
Really liking those Glowlight Tetras and is it Silver-tipped?
The tech for filtration and water testing has certainly changed a lot! Just need a lottery win now to start with 25 aquaria 😁
The start of this video cracked me up so much 😂😂😂
I literally had two Cory doras. I saw them mating weeks ago and now I’ve got about 5-6 babies. Crazy lucky.
The thumbnail was literally soo helerius lmao 🤣😂😆c crazy one MD do more ........
the discus are looking beautiful
Unreal - what a massive result fella
@7:41 can’t wait to see the renovate video
Beautiful footage... and I am most surprised by the baby corys. I thought the eggs had to have lots of intervention to survive and hatch.
Hahaha that walk at the start!
Oooh, I want to do a cory tank at one point, so I will be waiting (im)patiently for your take on a corydora tank :3
Corry fry + update on the Amazon tank, greatly appreciated, thanks
Grats! You're a Grampa!
Super cool 😎 Yay baby Cory's! 🐟🐠🐟🐟🐠
You bought that little Cory from pets at home!! 😜
Should drop those wafers, discs and pellets for any Cory Catfish, Plecos and Nocturnal species just after lights out or closest point till your just about to leave your fish rooms for home in the case lights out comes after you leave your "Dojo" each evening.
You can breed hybrids aswel btw
😊 Happy fish!!! 😊
MD I'm really happy for you and hope you will continue to have great breeding success. I would also love a video of the Buddha tank being maintained and put back to rights. It is one of my favorite tanks you have ever done.
I love these entrances at the start😭😁
Feeding live baby brine shrimp helps for spawning as well
Watch for eggs at the glass
I can guarantee you from experience that platys and neon tetras LOVE the algae wafers. I have to drop multiple in one corner to give my loaches a chance to eat 😂
Haven't seen great reenactment acting like that since the latest true crime show I watched 😂
A recap on all the things you've bred would be an interesting video.
so many beautiful tanks wow!
Such a great video MD!!! Loving all the progress on all the tanks 😍😍😍
Congratulation!
I really love Corrys and enjoyed your video
I've got loads of male Bristle nose pleckos. I've bread loads. Different colours too
I'd happily give you some. They're around 1.5" long.
Time to watch my daily MD Fish video 0:00 😂
Nice!! I'm currently trying to breed my Cory's :)
I am sure you al will succeed in that. Cory breed like rabbits, I had to give away all mine because I got tired from trying to rehome a new batch every month. Just feed them and ignore them, you will have full tank in a blink.
@@lindaspitsyna8663 Yes, I used to have Panda Cory's that would breed. The most surprising fish I ever got to breed and even rear young was some Glass Cats. The ones that look like skeletons.
Finally rescaped my tank wish I didn't know my pleco has kicked up a load of soil 🤣🤣
Bro. This keeps getting crazier. My baby corys are about the same size as yours.
My Bolivian Ram loves algae wafers! I’m training him to take a small piece from my fingers Atm he just comes up and waits for me to let it go then hones in to grab it. He’s got great character.
Amazing videos, very inspirational. Like your channel a lot. I've been keeping fish most of my life but recently I've been busy with other things and haven't had time for them but watching your videos makes me feel like I want to go back and create some awesome biotope tank again. THANKS a lot for motivation and inspiration :)
Looking like you going to have to start a breeding rack😁😁😁
My bronze Cory breed like mad lads. I honestly don't know what to do. I kind of just leave it up to natural selection but I did a water change today and found three babies. 1 was dead in the filter and the other two I caught and are sitting in a floating nursery.
1 of my albinos fry survived and is enjoying life