One of my tanks had a dragonfly nymph, I think it ate pest snails since all my fishes were okay. I didn’t even realise it was there until it crawled out one day, turned into a dragonfly and flew off :>
Wow, like some tiny aquatic alien, invading your aquarium and living among the fish just to one day grow into a bigger flying alien and asent to the world outside. ... Sorry, I write fantasy and sci-fi xD But honestly, if you find a dragonfly nymph in your tank, please don't kill it. Put it outside into a pond or river. Dragonflies eat lots of flying pest insects and even mosquitos.
I honestly love dragonfly and damselfly nymphs and would 100% let them chill in my tank although ive never had the pleasure. They are so cool and once they are adults they eat mosquitos!!
Fun story: My parents had a huge fishtank many years ago and the fish had slowly died out and was empty. My dad drained the tank and put the tank with its pebble sand floor (that had a bit of water still slushing about in it) in the basement and then we left 6 weeks going on vacation. We came back and I went down into the basement to fetch something and I passed the tank with the few centimeters of water at the bottom and .. SOMETHING WAS MOVING IN IT!! Turned out that the swordtails had dropped babies before they died out but the babies had been too tiny for my parents to spot when they emptied the tank however, the babies had survived... In the dark, in the cold basement.. without any sort of care. My parents then started up the tank once more and that number of swordtails grew for a good number of years afterwards but then on display :)
When I was a child, I absolutely hated fish. I thought they were strange and disgusting. Over time, I started to realise what amazing creatures they were, but I never wanted to keep one. You've inspired me to become a first time fish owner, starting off small with a local fish species, but I want to eventually have a natural ecosystem. Thank you so much for your content
Actually that was a kitchen nightmare episode Ramsey did it "to improve the decor"😅" to all 4 walls"😐 and memory serves me right he put koi fish in a 20g for the centerpiece for the restaurant..RIP they are in a better place now 😐
I inherited a 10yo Christmas Cactus from a coworker and I've been watering it from my work tank--- baby is looking beautiful and healthy and I can't wait to see her bloom this holiday season.
I’ve just bought an Easter cactus from a local garden centre (they have so many beautiful plants for relatively cheap), they said it was sick (it wasn’t but the “blooms” had just died lol), so it was on sale for only $3CAD +tax. Bought it at about 6 inches, and it’s so fun to see the little new paddles coming out of the top :)
Dang, glad you mentioned harlequin rasboras getting too big for a ten gallon. I was actually going to get some a few days ago, but didn't like the results on the water test so decided to do water change and wait a bit. My aquarium is still empty lmao. Favorite houseplant is African Violet. Small, pretty, pet safe, easy to care for.
12:06 It looks like a satin pothos (Scindapsus pictus Argyraeus), the leaves are a little too small to be a philodendron variety. Curiously, a satin pothos isn't true pothos despite being nicknamed that.
I love these plants... Got a "Silvery Anne" that's incredibly long but petite and an "Exotica" that rounds out instead of putting its energy into throwing out vines. The Exotica has a few leaves the size of my hand!
cacti and succulents are awesome a really good house plant is actually basil grown from seed. it's easy to grow, grows fast, and is edible. better yet with some pruning, it starts to resemble a small tree
I'm not that great at houseplants, so my faves have to be the snake plant and pothos lol. Really the only plants that I can keep alive, therefore I love them😌
The funny thing is living in the tropics for a couple years I saw how pothos and sansevieria live in the bosque, and it spoiled me for most houseplants lol, now I see how they exist in the wild
I was sold Black Skirt Tetra's to me by my local fish store telling me they'll thrive in groups in my 10 GALLON tank.....so I bought like 12-14 of them. Thankfully I realised something is wrong and divided them into my pond and 2.5feet long tank (idk the gallons on that, not American here) now they lived well in there for about 2 years. Planning on moving to plants only this year.
@@elaineleonard9526 IKR! When I found out about it was suprised as to what the fish shop guy did just to sell them to me. I moved them to my pond as soon as safely possible.
@@FishForThought i have a question. Im planing to get 20 gallon with 8 ember tetras, 3-4 guppys and otoc catfish with shrimp and snails and ill be trying to add live plants. But im still a begginer and it sounds like it could be overstocked but i wouldn't really know. I just dont want to make my past "fish keeping" mistakes. I dont know If thats to much fish and if so please tell me better stoking ideas. The betta fish is non aggressive to ember tetras and i hope it will be the same to other fish. Its female
@@dixon4487 So if its a girl you can put ALMOST any fish with her they will be fine, I have 2 girls with 18 neons 7 ghost shrimp and snails in a 10 (will soon be moved to 29 gal just because I want to and adding 3 more girls) In my opinion you will not be over the limit as long as you make sure the guppies don't breed out of control. I don't know about the 'otco catfish' sorry can't help ya there. Hope you find this to be helpful and that it all works out!!!!
I’m awful at keeping houseplants alive. My house has very few windows and little natural light, so houseplants struggle in here. Doesn’t help that my cat loves to eat and destroy anything remotely green. But if I could keep houseplants alive, my favorite is fittonia. Such a pretty plant and the one I had always told me when it needed water by drooping it’s leaves and dulling it’s color. Five minutes after I watered it, it’d be bright and perky and happy again. I swear you could watch it brighten up. So fun.
Try ivy and spider plants. They don't need a lot of light, can support extreme conditions and can be placed in high places or in suspension to avoid the cat thing
I have some pothos, it seems to be the only thing I can keep alive. Mostly because the cat learned that if he eats it, it makes him vomit. Can’t do spider plants. For some reason those are like crack to that damn cat. He’s very much a climber, the type of cat that happily spends the day on top of bookcases or almost does himself in trying to sit on top of doors. Believe me when I say that no matter where I put a spider plant, he finds it, devours it, and destroys it. I read that spider plants might have a mild hallucinogenic effect on cats and I believe it. He’d much rather have a spider plant than a whole garden of catnip.
I love my African violets. Easy to grow, care for, and several flower colors available. Can't go wrong with my lack of plant care knowledge and experience.
And super easy to multiply. My mom and I got one African violet at different times (though when I got him it did not have any flowers and I only got it cause I liked the texture of the leaves) and unfortunately both purples. Ones a lighter purple so when we propagate them on masse we guess which one would be which purple lol! Our home has a bit too many African violets 🙃
Green jade pothos. When growing it emersed in a fishtank, it grows insanely fast. In my experience it grows 3-5X faster than the other pothos strains I’ve tried.
@@Zeroshiki wait a minute... I keep my Betta outdoor with Photos (some of their leaves underwater) in it for about ±9 months now. It doesn't make my Betta sick and in fact He is more lively.
ooo yes, the same experience I have had with pothos! Not sure if jade pothos or something else, but yeah once their roots adapt to submerged in water, they explode!
I’m absolutely terrible at houseplants! But I came here to say, I was guilty of getting black skirt tetras for my 10 gal but quickly realized they were going to get huge! Now my small school lives in 20Ga and they’re happy, healthy, and a couple years old now. I don’t have space for more/bigger tanks so I’ve definitely learned my lesson!
10:07 this is a pulp fiction reference! My favourite house plant is basically anything in the Calathea family, I just love the variegated top and pink bottom of the leaves, and they grow really well in tanks.
My favorite houseplant out of all the different type I own is definitely my Monstera .D it's a lot of people's favorite but it was the first plant I ever owned and it's almost taller than me now at only 1yr old! 🥰🌱
In my middle school marine biology class, we were all REQUIRED to make a fishtank and bring it to school where the teacher provided us a goldfish to take home. 20-30 goldfish per class period going home in old pretzel containers, cricket carriers, Tupperware, gallon jugs, you name it, all awful.
My favorite house plant is my Trans Plant. It's a polkadot plant with pink, white and red plants. Painted the pot with the trans flag for pun purposes. I really love how polkadot plants are very dramatic when thirsty. As long as the leaves aren't crispy, they will pretty much bounce back within an hour of getting water. (A lot of people think that it's dying or dead and not salvageable, when it's only thirsty and overly dramatic.)
Oh God, you popped the cherry on house plants, Chris. Itll bring you a lot of joy but your wallet isnt gonna like it too much lol. Next thing you know, Chris is gonna have a full on garden. It happens to the best of us lol. My favorite house plant is the fittonia. My favorite things to grow though, are lantana, hibiscus, purslane, and cyclamen. Terrestrial plants are actually what brought me to fish keeping, I wanted to keep more live aqautatic plants more than I wanted to keep fish.
i love my skirt tetras in my 50 gallon, they were my starter fish and i'll admit they got bigger than i thought (i started with them in a 37 gallon aquarium)
My bathroom is a jungle. Two out of my five tanks are in there and my entire wrought iron shelf I squeezed in there is full of house plants. Once you have figured out how much nutrients are in the dirty tank water, you want to water the plants with it. No waste! But then you get another tank, so naturally you need more plants to water with it. It's a viscous cycl-, I mean it's a great system. Also I'm on the Monstera deliciosa train. Varigated pothos is an easy second.
I love the Stardew Valley music in the background! My favorite houseplant right now is my beautiful snake plant that is thriving! (I also have a very old spider plant that is constantly reproducing, his name is Manny!)
I also often have dreams that I find aquariums I forgot I had and things are living in them! Usually its totally nuts though and it's like...a whole room of tanks I forgot about. Once one of the dream tanks had penguins in it... not sure what I ate before bed that night. My fave house plant is my pothos because no matter what I do to it I can't kill it. Ironically I am pretty crappy at keeping houseplants alive despite my success with aquatic plants.
Plant in the picture is most likely a Scindapsus pictus 'Silver Splash' or other scindapsus variety. :) Favorite currently is my philodendron McDowell 🌱
My favourite house plant is a red Calathea that I bought (or more exactly begged my mom to buy) when it was a tiny baby dying in a supermarket and now, 11years later, it is 1meter tall and making new leaves all the time
Chris the plant at 12:10 is a silver satin pothos (not really a pothos at all) aka Scindapsus pictus. Very cute little plant. :) I think my favorite houseplant atm is my string of bananas because it's looking so long and full and loving the spring.
My favorite house plant has to be Monstera Deliciosa, they grow new leaves super fast and the holes they have in the leaves gives them so much personality
I have a tetra tank 29 long 10 years old. I’d neglected it a bit due to health issues. I refreshed & rescaped it in the spring. I bought a few more tetras, including some diamond skirt tetras. I noticed what I thought was aggression between the new diamond tetras and the white skirts which were about 3 years old. I filmed it & did some research & discovered it was mating behavior. I didn’t think much of it because the tank was mature, but also recently revamped. I went in to film after a recent water change & feeding & found new residents”!
Yeah black skirt tetras are not my cup of tea for any tank smaller than 20 gallons. In the future I want to set up a 200-300 gallon with those medium sized community fish ( bigger tetras, barbs, bigger gourami, 2-3 inch cories, smallish plecos, electric blue acaras, angelfish, loaches, spotted raphael catfish and other 2.5-6 inch fish)
Fishkeeper gets fish-bowl and puts a betta in it Chris and myself : Now we have a problem Fish Keeper has a 10 gallon planted tank with a betta Chris and myself : I LOVE YOU
YES finally something I can answer! My favorite plant is the rattlesnake plant or calathea (I can’t remember the specifics oops). They’re quite picky but I love that they breathe. During the day the leaves are open and at night they stand up. I’ve attempted to propagate them but all my attempts have failed sadly (though a couple lived for over a year idk what happened :c). The mama plant is still thriving!
My favorite plant is my Mother of Thousands. We moved into our house last year and I haven't put much in the way of plants in yet, but succulents always do really well here.
It's a tossup between Desert Rose (Adenium obesum) and Persian Shield (Strobilanthes dyerianus) for favorite houseplants. They can handle PDXs rainy overcast winters; but will also bounce back when it gets triple digits in the summer (as long as they both have good drainage).
I found my desert rose on clearance for $4. It lost every leaf before it bounced back and now its gonna bloom. I love them. A nursery near me has some exotics for a decent price so I'll probably be getting one of those at some point as well. Itll be nice to start with a healthy plant. They are so beautiful
@@musician200X I got my first one off ebay for $12. And even being shipped across the country for a week, and hanging out in the mailbox when it was 85 did not seem to phase it in the slightest. It just popped out more flowers haha. Although I grew one from seed about 10 years ago, and that one is really my baby. Cutest seedlings ever.
@@musician200X But it also breaks your heart so much harder hahaha. I just feel safer knowing the whole plant wasnt ripped out of the wilds when it comes to some species. Also Im willing to invest the time to grow it, and pay less for the seeds. Although Im currently working on some lil cactus seeds. They've actually sprouted into lil boogers with the use of leftover aquarium sand/gravel/aquasoil. *fingers crossed* Lizzo the Desert Rose needs some friends in my very hot West facing window.
Gorden actually had the drop tanks put up when he redid the restaurant, to give 'ambiance', there was a normal tank in that episode as well & I think it was too small or over stocked, I can't remember
My fave houseplants are airplants. Just dunk them in fertilized water once a week and they can be sprayed cool colors. Love African Violets especially Deadly Sting, love Hoyas, succulents, Snow bush which can go inside or out and has gorgeous colors.
My favorite house plant has to be the golden pothos! I know it’s basic, but they’re super low maintenance, easy to propogate, and you can put it’s cuttings in your fish tank!!!
I did forget to water change this week lol. I'm designing a pea puffer tank tomorrow too! My family friend finally had time to come over and give it to me. I'll remember to water change every week on that one hahaha.
That houseplant is definatly a scindapsus pictus argyraeus! I have a scindapsus pictus exotica and it is definatly one of my favorit vines! Such unique leaves on them!
Syngonium is a really easy house plant to grow that has lots of beautiful varieties. They're a veining plant similar to pathos but they can handle lower light conditions. They propagate really easily in soil or water. I'm currently growing cuttings from my garden in my fishtanks to add root cover and oxygenation.
I keep lots of houseplants! My favourites are calathea (I have a gorgeous roseopicta) and orchids. Currently I'm growing a vanilla fragrans with its roots in my aquarium!
I have a couple ZZ plants too, but mine are really dense. My favorite though is my bay laurel tree. It's not exactly a house plant, but it can't stay outside over the winter. I need more house plants. I also have a bunch of bonsai, mostly junipers and boxwoods. Do you have bonsai? There's a lot of similarly to aquascaping. Definitely get into that flow state Balazs talks about.
My favorite houseplant is Hernia schneideriana, the lifesaver cactus. The plant isn't much to look at but I could get lost in the flowers. Second place would be the snake plant because they're so hard to kill.
My favourite currently is a tie between my ficus audrey and an orange plant I grew from a seed I found while eating an orange LOL It's still tiny but I'm hoping to grow it into a small tree in the coming years!
Been in the houseplant game for a long time, a lot newer to keeping aquariums. Favorite houseplant plant may be my epiphyllum oxypetalum. Absolutely ethereal.
Rhaphidophora Tetrasperma is one of my fave plants can grow the roots in the tank and they look cool grows a little slow unless you got lots of light and humidity
I like black skirt tetras. They're the poor man's angel fish. I had them with silver dollars and giant danios in a 55. It wasn't a planted tank, sadly, except when I put lettuce in for the silver dollars to munch on.
There are also dwarf ZZ and variegated and white zz… i love them 🥹 i also love all the variety of scindapsus, like amazonica and silvery anne and treubii
@ 9:41 mins. I fed my Betta large blood worms. The Betta was sick didn't eat the bloodworms so a couple of days later found some large mosquitos om my curtains and some floating on top of the water in the tank.... It was winter so those did not come from outside.....
Pothos for in and out of the aquarium! I just love vine plants... and I suck at growing any plants that don't grow in an aquarium. Pothos seems to be my friend!
I'm pretty sure I had the dream about the forgotten fish before I had fish too! I still get them as continuing those old dreams, as well as with other animals, and only now that I'm really thinking about them do I realise how weird and messed up they are😶
9:45 I found a big ass worm in my shrimp tank. It was a larve of dittera tipulidae if you want to look it up (basically those insects that look like big mosquitos). Damn I was really spooked and now I get why my plants were dying, that thing was eating everything! >_
QOTW answer: I am very into different orchids. I enjoy the diversity of this plant group. If I had to pick just one or two from my keeping it would be Ludisia discolor and vanilla. ♥️
My favorite houseplant is EASILY luck bamboo. Super hardy, low maintenance, and beautiful over all Also I just started playing Stardew Valley so I finally recognize your background music
A what?.. apparently your favourite house plant is called an emerald palm over here in the uk. . And mine has been surviving rather than thriving inside, now its outside, I see new growth.
Black skirt tetra females get chunky, I have them with my angels in 350 litre tank. They are sold in stores when small and slim, but they do get big and don't leave food for other fish 🐷
My favourite houseplant is a Philodendron silver sword! It’s blue-green and the leaves change shape as the plant matures. I love ZZ plants too! You might also like the ZZ zenzi and raven varieties 💚
You have a leg up being a fish keeper going into the houseplant hobby. There are many plants you can grow in water. I grow my melanochysum in water. Add and air stone and some shrimp/snails, some ferts, and now you have a plant you don't have to remember to water!
I really like my houseplants with a lot of fluffy foliage, so I love my poinsettias (I have a salmon pink one and a red/white variegated one). Also my Pachira aquatica/Money Tree is so big and fluffy and makes me happy. I also have some orchids, and monsteras, and a BoP, and a whole bunch of other plants I use to try to fill the void in my life.
well I have multiple ones , a potted cypress tree (for the story my sister and I bought two saplings, hers died and mine is now taller than me XD) , delta maidenhair fern ( I like the color of the younger leaves ), and maybe ochna integerrima of hoa mai ( It's a Vietnamese shrub said to bring good luck, cause my family buy chinese/vietnamese takeout regularly , the restaurant's owner gave us two saplings, it was quite funny for me since one of my ancestors was from there ).
Favourite plant is definitely the ZZ plant. They look beautiful and strange and can actually do ok in low light and low water conditions but if you treat it and give it lots of light and fertiliser they'll shoot out gorgeous lime green new shoots every so often
That dream that person mentions about "forgetting about their tank" THAT HAPPENS TO ME TOO! I dream about my anoles and that I forgot to buy them crickets and I need a ride from my dad to go buy some. They never starved, but for some reason I'm always dreaming about them hungry and it's been over 30 years since I kept them. ;.;
i had a dream where i had two leopard geckos in a shoe box under my bed and i forgot to feed them for months and looked under one day to see gecko bones.
I used to have a 10 gallon tank that was originally stocked with: 2 dragonfly nymphs 5 damselfly nymphs 2 snails (idk what type, everything was from my local river) 20+ shrimp The dragonflies ate everything then the bigger one ate the other
I had 15 blackskirt tetras in a 70 gallon tank. I must say they were one of the most thankful fish I ever had. They lived for 8 years. They died by nen accident when I wasn’t home. And Chris you are right, they need bigger tanks even if they are peaceful and like to hide, they also loves to swim a lot. And the adult one get big for a tetra . The female be like 6-7 cm the male stays a bit smaller.they are a great match for any communitytank.
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One of my tanks had a dragonfly nymph, I think it ate pest snails since all my fishes were okay. I didn’t even realise it was there until it crawled out one day, turned into a dragonfly and flew off :>
That's gotta be one heck of a thing to witness come outta ur fish tank LOL
@@FishForThought ahhhhhhhhhhh
Wow, like some tiny aquatic alien, invading your aquarium and living among the fish just to one day grow into a bigger flying alien and asent to the world outside. ... Sorry, I write fantasy and sci-fi xD
But honestly, if you find a dragonfly nymph in your tank, please don't kill it. Put it outside into a pond or river. Dragonflies eat lots of flying pest insects and even mosquitos.
I honestly love dragonfly and damselfly nymphs and would 100% let them chill in my tank although ive never had the pleasure. They are so cool and once they are adults they eat mosquitos!!
wait do you mean the snails could be harmful to the fish or the dragon fly could be harmful?😅
Fun story: My parents had a huge fishtank many years ago and the fish had slowly died out and was empty. My dad drained the tank and put the tank with its pebble sand floor (that had a bit of water still slushing about in it) in the basement and then we left 6 weeks going on vacation. We came back and I went down into the basement to fetch something and I passed the tank with the few centimeters of water at the bottom and .. SOMETHING WAS MOVING IN IT!! Turned out that the swordtails had dropped babies before they died out but the babies had been too tiny for my parents to spot when they emptied the tank however, the babies had survived... In the dark, in the cold basement.. without any sort of care.
My parents then started up the tank once more and that number of swordtails grew for a good number of years afterwards but then on display :)
sounds like the beginning of a horror story! From the sludge in the forgotten corner (creepy music)
@@shayxie8318 Yes, I remember freaking out seeing the shadows of half pale strange creatures flailing around ..
wow this story is beautiful the fishes parents died but the babies survived.
@@shayxie8318 First it sounded like it not now. I also thought it was horrow but its not its a good news because the babies of swordtails survived.
When I was a child, I absolutely hated fish. I thought they were strange and disgusting.
Over time, I started to realise what amazing creatures they were, but I never wanted to keep one.
You've inspired me to become a first time fish owner, starting off small with a local fish species, but I want to eventually have a natural ecosystem.
Thank you so much for your content
You thought fish where strange and disgusting?😭
Actually that was a kitchen nightmare episode Ramsey did it "to improve the decor"😅" to all 4 walls"😐 and memory serves me right he put koi fish in a 20g for the centerpiece for the restaurant..RIP they are in a better place now 😐
oh gosh HE did that? cri.
@@FishForThought season 2 episode 7 fast forward to the end 🙃 I know you got shitz to do 🙂
I came here for this comment, legend!
I inherited a 10yo Christmas Cactus from a coworker and I've been watering it from my work tank--- baby is looking beautiful and healthy and I can't wait to see her bloom this holiday season.
When a Christmas Cactus grows for a long time the branches look really cool!
I’ve just bought an Easter cactus from a local garden centre (they have so many beautiful plants for relatively cheap), they said it was sick (it wasn’t but the “blooms” had just died lol), so it was on sale for only $3CAD +tax. Bought it at about 6 inches, and it’s so fun to see the little new paddles coming out of the top :)
I've got some Christmas cactus in my tanks growing emersed.... I had read they don't like to be over watered but doing great just sitting in my HOB!?
@@mrWonderphilly that's amazing! I might have to try that!
Dang, glad you mentioned harlequin rasboras getting too big for a ten gallon. I was actually going to get some a few days ago, but didn't like the results on the water test so decided to do water change and wait a bit. My aquarium is still empty lmao.
Favorite houseplant is African Violet. Small, pretty, pet safe, easy to care for.
Porkchop rasboras stay smaller and have a similar appearance! I have a small school in my 10 gallon (species tank) and they're great!
Rapashi is adorable, I see the ftr for him . Sorry Chris 😂
* sad Chris sounds *
repashy is a gworl 🤪😍🥰😘😘
12:06 It looks like a satin pothos (Scindapsus pictus Argyraeus), the leaves are a little too small to be a philodendron variety. Curiously, a satin pothos isn't true pothos despite being nicknamed that.
Dose it look like a Hoya, Hoyas look really different from pothos
Yes, that is Scindapsus pictus argyraeus.
ooo, seen this one at my home garden centres, and almost pulled the trigger on it!
I love these plants... Got a "Silvery Anne" that's incredibly long but petite and an "Exotica" that rounds out instead of putting its energy into throwing out vines. The Exotica has a few leaves the size of my hand!
Pothos aren't true Pothos species either
cacti and succulents are awesome
a really good house plant is actually basil grown from seed. it's easy to grow, grows fast, and is edible. better yet with some pruning, it starts to resemble a small tree
I'm not that great at houseplants, so my faves have to be the snake plant and pothos lol. Really the only plants that I can keep alive, therefore I love them😌
Classics are classics for a reason
Pothos are cool
You may also enjoy ZZ plants! I've heard they're also super low-maintenance (:
The funny thing is living in the tropics for a couple years I saw how pothos and sansevieria live in the bosque, and it spoiled me for most houseplants lol, now I see how they exist in the wild
@@voluntaryismistheanswerlol yes, i live in se asia and here the pothos get absolutely huge if left to their own devices
This was an interesting day. I came home from school to baby mollies in my 20 gal. I was able to separate most of them to a 10 gal
I was sold Black Skirt Tetra's to me by my local fish store telling me they'll thrive in groups in my 10 GALLON tank.....so I bought like 12-14 of them. Thankfully I realised something is wrong and divided them into my pond and 2.5feet long tank (idk the gallons on that, not American here) now they lived well in there for about 2 years. Planning on moving to plants only this year.
that's awesome, you are one of the good ones and they are some lucky ones :)
I have 8 black skirts in a 50 gallon and I feel like it’s not enough. I can’t even imagine that many in a 10 gallon. Lol.
@@elaineleonard9526 IKR! When I found out about it was suprised as to what the fish shop guy did just to sell them to me. I moved them to my pond as soon as safely possible.
@@FishForThought i have a question. Im planing to get 20 gallon with 8 ember tetras, 3-4 guppys and otoc catfish with shrimp and snails and ill be trying to add live plants. But im still a begginer and it sounds like it could be overstocked but i wouldn't really know. I just dont want to make my past "fish keeping" mistakes. I dont know If thats to much fish and if so please tell me better stoking ideas. The betta fish is non aggressive to ember tetras and i hope it will be the same to other fish. Its female
@@dixon4487 So if its a girl you can put ALMOST any fish with her they will be fine, I have 2 girls with 18 neons 7 ghost shrimp and snails in a 10 (will soon be moved to 29 gal just because I want to and adding 3 more girls) In my opinion you will not be over the limit as long as you make sure the guppies don't breed out of control. I don't know about the 'otco catfish' sorry can't help ya there. Hope you find this to be helpful and that it all works out!!!!
100% Scindapsus pictus. I have some growing out of both of my tanks and they love it! They grow way faster in the tank than they do in soil.
I used to have the same finding abandoned fishtank dreams! they ironically stopped when I started keeping fish.
I’m awful at keeping houseplants alive. My house has very few windows and little natural light, so houseplants struggle in here.
Doesn’t help that my cat loves to eat and destroy anything remotely green.
But if I could keep houseplants alive, my favorite is fittonia. Such a pretty plant and the one I had always told me when it needed water by drooping it’s leaves and dulling it’s color. Five minutes after I watered it, it’d be bright and perky and happy again.
I swear you could watch it brighten up. So fun.
Try ivy and spider plants. They don't need a lot of light, can support extreme conditions and can be placed in high places or in suspension to avoid the cat thing
I have some pothos, it seems to be the only thing I can keep alive. Mostly because the cat learned that if he eats it, it makes him vomit.
Can’t do spider plants. For some reason those are like crack to that damn cat. He’s very much a climber, the type of cat that happily spends the day on top of bookcases or almost does himself in trying to sit on top of doors.
Believe me when I say that no matter where I put a spider plant, he finds it, devours it, and destroys it.
I read that spider plants might have a mild hallucinogenic effect on cats and I believe it. He’d much rather have a spider plant than a whole garden of catnip.
@@Annie_Annie__ you have weiiird cats
Ramsay said, "You DONKEY! Where. Is. The. Swim. Space?! WHERE IS THE SWIM SPACE?!?!"
Great impersonation!
I love my African violets. Easy to grow, care for, and several flower colors available. Can't go wrong with my lack of plant care knowledge and experience.
And super easy to multiply. My mom and I got one African violet at different times (though when I got him it did not have any flowers and I only got it cause I liked the texture of the leaves) and unfortunately both purples. Ones a lighter purple so when we propagate them on masse we guess which one would be which purple lol! Our home has a bit too many African violets 🙃
Green jade pothos. When growing it emersed in a fishtank, it grows insanely fast. In my experience it grows 3-5X faster than the other pothos strains I’ve tried.
Well looks like I /haaaavvee/ to get this other strain of pothos now.... oh darn lol
I really wanted to use Pothos in my tanks, but I just learned that it's toxic to Bettas. Rip. 💀
@@Zeroshiki wait a minute... I keep my Betta outdoor with Photos (some of their leaves underwater) in it for about ±9 months now. It doesn't make my Betta sick and in fact He is more lively.
ooo yes, the same experience I have had with pothos! Not sure if jade pothos or something else, but yeah once their roots adapt to submerged in water, they explode!
@@FishForThought pothos takeover
My favorite houseplant? I tend to have a softspot for spider plants. They're very easey to grow and propegate and they don't dissapoint.
I’m absolutely terrible at houseplants!
But I came here to say, I was guilty of getting black skirt tetras for my 10 gal but quickly realized they were going to get huge! Now my small school lives in 20Ga and they’re happy, healthy, and a couple years old now. I don’t have space for more/bigger tanks so I’ve definitely learned my lesson!
10:07 this is a pulp fiction reference!
My favourite house plant is basically anything in the Calathea family, I just love the variegated top and pink bottom of the leaves, and they grow really well in tanks.
My favorite houseplant out of all the different type I own is definitely my Monstera .D it's a lot of people's favorite but it was the first plant I ever owned and it's almost taller than me now at only 1yr old! 🥰🌱
The monstera certainly is a beautiful plant. Popular for good reason!
In my middle school marine biology class, we were all REQUIRED to make a fishtank and bring it to school where the teacher provided us a goldfish to take home. 20-30 goldfish per class period going home in old pretzel containers, cricket carriers, Tupperware, gallon jugs, you name it, all awful.
My favorite house plant is my Trans Plant. It's a polkadot plant with pink, white and red plants. Painted the pot with the trans flag for pun purposes. I really love how polkadot plants are very dramatic when thirsty. As long as the leaves aren't crispy, they will pretty much bounce back within an hour of getting water. (A lot of people think that it's dying or dead and not salvageable, when it's only thirsty and overly dramatic.)
Oh God, you popped the cherry on house plants, Chris. Itll bring you a lot of joy but your wallet isnt gonna like it too much lol. Next thing you know, Chris is gonna have a full on garden. It happens to the best of us lol.
My favorite house plant is the fittonia. My favorite things to grow though, are lantana, hibiscus, purslane, and cyclamen. Terrestrial plants are actually what brought me to fish keeping, I wanted to keep more live aqautatic plants more than I wanted to keep fish.
haha I am in danger xD
Fittonia sound and look so cute! They kinda remind me of my peacock peperomia, I'll have to get into it!
Gordan has renovated a restaurant by putting bettas on the walls before... I was mortified
i love my skirt tetras in my 50 gallon, they were my starter fish and i'll admit they got bigger than i thought (i started with them in a 37 gallon aquarium)
My favorite houseplant is any type of Syngonium. super cool arrow headed plant and pretty easy for beginners too!
I love any plant with white variegation or alocasia dragons !
Love your videos ! Do you still have the goldfish ?
My bathroom is a jungle. Two out of my five tanks are in there and my entire wrought iron shelf I squeezed in there is full of house plants. Once you have figured out how much nutrients are in the dirty tank water, you want to water the plants with it. No waste! But then you get another tank, so naturally you need more plants to water with it. It's a viscous cycl-, I mean it's a great system. Also I'm on the Monstera deliciosa train. Varigated pothos is an easy second.
My favorite house plant is any streptocarpus, especially the dark bloomers. They are harder to find but their blossoms are so beautiful.
I love the Stardew Valley music in the background!
My favorite houseplant right now is my beautiful snake plant that is thriving! (I also have a very old spider plant that is constantly reproducing, his name is Manny!)
When you were talking about hoarding potions it perfectly reminded me of that ProZD vine, "It's the final battle!" "But I only have 85 of them!"
I also often have dreams that I find aquariums I forgot I had and things are living in them! Usually its totally nuts though and it's like...a whole room of tanks I forgot about. Once one of the dream tanks had penguins in it... not sure what I ate before bed that night.
My fave house plant is my pothos because no matter what I do to it I can't kill it. Ironically I am pretty crappy at keeping houseplants alive despite my success with aquatic plants.
Plant in the picture is most likely a Scindapsus pictus 'Silver Splash' or other scindapsus variety. :)
Favorite currently is my philodendron McDowell 🌱
My favourite house plant is a red Calathea that I bought (or more exactly begged my mom to buy) when it was a tiny baby dying in a supermarket and now, 11years later, it is 1meter tall and making new leaves all the time
Chris the plant at 12:10 is a silver satin pothos (not really a pothos at all) aka Scindapsus pictus. Very cute little plant. :) I think my favorite houseplant atm is my string of bananas because it's looking so long and full and loving the spring.
My favorite house plant has to be Monstera Deliciosa, they grow new leaves super fast and the holes they have in the leaves gives them so much personality
I have one and I'm new to it. It's kinda weepy. How often do you water?
I would love to keep a mini monstera!
@@musician200X in the winter I do every other week but when it gets warmer I usually do every week
I keep monstera adansonii because they don't get quite big very quickly
I'm afraid that Ramsay was the one that PUT those tanks in that restaurant... broke my heart
I have a tetra tank 29 long 10 years old. I’d neglected it a bit due to health issues. I refreshed & rescaped it in the spring. I bought a few more tetras, including some diamond skirt tetras. I noticed what I thought was aggression between the new diamond tetras and the white skirts which were about 3 years old. I filmed it & did some research & discovered it was mating behavior. I didn’t think much of it because the tank was mature, but also recently revamped. I went in to film after a recent water change & feeding & found new residents”!
Two new beebes!
Yeah black skirt tetras are not my cup of tea for any tank smaller than 20 gallons. In the future I want to set up a 200-300 gallon with those medium sized community fish ( bigger tetras, barbs, bigger gourami, 2-3 inch cories, smallish plecos, electric blue acaras, angelfish, loaches, spotted raphael catfish and other 2.5-6 inch fish)
Bigger livebearers too and in a nice planted tank
Fishkeeper gets fish-bowl and puts a betta in it
Chris and myself : Now we have a problem
Fish Keeper has a 10 gallon planted tank with a betta
Chris and myself : I LOVE YOU
@Doctor Wiggler …-_-
@Doctor Wiggler nothing 🤦🏽♀️
10:33 Yeah I found one in my shrimp tank... luckily no more found. It scared the shrimp out of me...😅
YES finally something I can answer! My favorite plant is the rattlesnake plant or calathea (I can’t remember the specifics oops). They’re quite picky but I love that they breathe. During the day the leaves are open and at night they stand up. I’ve attempted to propagate them but all my attempts have failed sadly (though a couple lived for over a year idk what happened :c). The mama plant is still thriving!
My favorite plant is my Mother of Thousands. We moved into our house last year and I haven't put much in the way of plants in yet, but succulents always do really well here.
In Germany you are not allowed to keep fish in a tank that is less than ~12 gallons. You can use these tanks for shrimps or for breeding.
Damselfish Larvae vs Pufferfish :Fight!
It's a tossup between Desert Rose (Adenium obesum) and Persian Shield (Strobilanthes dyerianus) for favorite houseplants. They can handle PDXs rainy overcast winters; but will also bounce back when it gets triple digits in the summer (as long as they both have good drainage).
I found my desert rose on clearance for $4. It lost every leaf before it bounced back and now its gonna bloom. I love them. A nursery near me has some exotics for a decent price so I'll probably be getting one of those at some point as well. Itll be nice to start with a healthy plant. They are so beautiful
@@musician200X I got my first one off ebay for $12. And even being shipped across the country for a week, and hanging out in the mailbox when it was 85 did not seem to phase it in the slightest. It just popped out more flowers haha. Although I grew one from seed about 10 years ago, and that one is really my baby. Cutest seedlings ever.
@@SrMise I wish I had success with seedlings like that! I feel like you bond with that plant! It's not quite the same with cuttings
@@musician200X But it also breaks your heart so much harder hahaha. I just feel safer knowing the whole plant wasnt ripped out of the wilds when it comes to some species. Also Im willing to invest the time to grow it, and pay less for the seeds. Although Im currently working on some lil cactus seeds. They've actually sprouted into lil boogers with the use of leftover aquarium sand/gravel/aquasoil. *fingers crossed* Lizzo the Desert Rose needs some friends in my very hot West facing window.
There’s an amazing plant called the ‘wandering Jew’ just take a clipping and watch it grow. Amazing purple color
Sometimes it takes me a hot minute to realize when Chris is being sarcastic. And during that time I’m like, “Chris. Wtf?!”. Then I realize.
Gorden actually had the drop tanks put up when he redid the restaurant, to give 'ambiance', there was a normal tank in that episode as well & I think it was too small or over stocked, I can't remember
My favorite houseplants are peperomonias! They’re hardy, don’t need much water and they grow like crazy!
I have a peacock peperomia and I love it to death
@@FishForThought Oh no, I just looked it up and now I want one! So pretty! 😭💜
Pothos!!! Grows in almost any environment and very forgiving :)
My fave houseplants are airplants. Just dunk them in fertilized water once a week and they can be sprayed cool colors. Love African Violets especially Deadly Sting, love Hoyas, succulents, Snow bush which can go inside or out and has gorgeous colors.
My favorite house plant has to be the golden pothos! I know it’s basic, but they’re super low maintenance, easy to propogate, and you can put it’s cuttings in your fish tank!!!
Currently, my fav house plant is the black velvet alocasia, but it's because I just got mine to flower recently.
Sorry guys but size matters (at least when it comes to fish tanks).
I did forget to water change this week lol. I'm designing a pea puffer tank tomorrow too! My family friend finally had time to come over and give it to me. I'll remember to water change every week on that one hahaha.
After seeing so many abused bettas around it gives me joy to see people give 5-10 gallons to bettas in this vid. keep on going guys!
yes indeed!
That houseplant is definatly a scindapsus pictus argyraeus! I have a scindapsus pictus exotica and it is definatly one of my favorit vines! Such unique leaves on them!
Syngonium is a really easy house plant to grow that has lots of beautiful varieties. They're a veining plant similar to pathos but they can handle lower light conditions. They propagate really easily in soil or water. I'm currently growing cuttings from my garden in my fishtanks to add root cover and oxygenation.
7:28 - the first time I see the microplastics outside the fish xD
I keep lots of houseplants! My favourites are calathea (I have a gorgeous roseopicta) and orchids. Currently I'm growing a vanilla fragrans with its roots in my aquarium!
I have a couple ZZ plants too, but mine are really dense. My favorite though is my bay laurel tree. It's not exactly a house plant, but it can't stay outside over the winter. I need more house plants. I also have a bunch of bonsai, mostly junipers and boxwoods. Do you have bonsai? There's a lot of similarly to aquascaping. Definitely get into that flow state Balazs talks about.
My favorite houseplant is Hernia schneideriana, the lifesaver cactus. The plant isn't much to look at but I could get lost in the flowers. Second place would be the snake plant because they're so hard to kill.
My favourite currently is a tie between my ficus audrey and an orange plant I grew from a seed I found while eating an orange LOL It's still tiny but I'm hoping to grow it into a small tree in the coming years!
My favorite houseplant is a Lithops that I have in a tiny corgi-shaped pot.
Been in the houseplant game for a long time, a lot newer to keeping aquariums. Favorite houseplant plant may be my epiphyllum oxypetalum. Absolutely ethereal.
Rhaphidophora Tetrasperma is one of my fave plants can grow the roots in the tank and they look cool grows a little slow unless you got lots of light and humidity
This was helpful lol, I plan on stocking two 10 gallons with *Ember* Tetras and 6 male guppies!
I like black skirt tetras. They're the poor man's angel fish. I had them with silver dollars and giant danios in a 55. It wasn't a planted tank, sadly, except when I put lettuce in for the silver dollars to munch on.
There are also dwarf ZZ and variegated and white zz… i love them 🥹 i also love all the variety of scindapsus, like amazonica and silvery anne and treubii
@ 9:41 mins. I fed my Betta large blood worms. The Betta was sick didn't eat the bloodworms so a couple of days later found some large mosquitos om my curtains and some floating on top of the water in the tank.... It was winter so those did not come from outside.....
Pothos for in and out of the aquarium! I just love vine plants... and I suck at growing any plants that don't grow in an aquarium. Pothos seems to be my friend!
The problem I had was part of the pothos root died in my tank, spiking ammonia and killing my poor guppies
@@ThomasisaNerd that's terrible! I'm sorry that happened!
i also have recurring dreams where i find a forgotten aquarium of my own except they are actually nightmares
I'm pretty sure I had the dream about the forgotten fish before I had fish too!
I still get them as continuing those old dreams, as well as with other animals, and only now that I'm really thinking about them do I realise how weird and messed up they are😶
9:45 I found a big ass worm in my shrimp tank. It was a larve of dittera tipulidae if you want to look it up (basically those insects that look like big mosquitos). Damn I was really spooked and now I get why my plants were dying, that thing was eating everything! >_
QOTW answer: I am very into different orchids. I enjoy the diversity of this plant group. If I had to pick just one or two from my keeping it would be Ludisia discolor and vanilla. ♥️
Just got an orchid for mother's day! She loves it, I love it, win win xD
@@FishForThought Well played! 👏
My favorite houseplant is EASILY luck bamboo. Super hardy, low maintenance, and beautiful over all
Also I just started playing Stardew Valley so I finally recognize your background music
Love it! My parents have a few just stuck in some water and nothing else :)
Dude I thought I heard Stardew summer music in there! I thought I was crazy haha but he did use to have Minecraft music so it makes sense :)
Lol lucky bamboo is hardy af. You can just throw them into a cup with some water n they still would thrive in it
A what?.. apparently your favourite house plant is called an emerald palm over here in the uk. . And mine has been surviving rather than thriving inside, now its outside, I see new growth.
Black skirt tetra females get chunky, I have them with my angels in 350 litre tank. They are sold in stores when small and slim, but they do get big and don't leave food for other fish 🐷
My favourite houseplant is a Philodendron silver sword! It’s blue-green and the leaves change shape as the plant matures. I love ZZ plants too! You might also like the ZZ zenzi and raven varieties 💚
I love my snake plants... I have 4 in 3 different varieties. Bonnie and Clyde are over 4 ft tall and in 18 inch pots.
You have a leg up being a fish keeper going into the houseplant hobby. There are many plants you can grow in water. I grow my melanochysum in water. Add and air stone and some shrimp/snails, some ferts, and now you have a plant you don't have to remember to water!
Coming from a brit I can say that even i was shocked at the accuracy of your Gordan Ramsay impression 😂 love the vids man
I really like my houseplants with a lot of fluffy foliage, so I love my poinsettias (I have a salmon pink one and a red/white variegated one). Also my Pachira aquatica/Money Tree is so big and fluffy and makes me happy. I also have some orchids, and monsteras, and a BoP, and a whole bunch of other plants I use to try to fill the void in my life.
well I have multiple ones ,
a potted cypress tree (for the story my sister and I bought two saplings, hers died and mine is now taller than me XD) ,
delta maidenhair fern ( I like the color of the younger leaves ), and maybe
ochna integerrima of hoa mai ( It's a Vietnamese shrub said to bring good luck, cause my family buy chinese/vietnamese takeout regularly ,
the restaurant's owner gave us two saplings, it was quite funny for me since one of my ancestors was from there ).
Purple oxalis Is stunning 💜
Favourite plant is definitely the ZZ plant. They look beautiful and strange and can actually do ok in low light and low water conditions but if you treat it and give it lots of light and fertiliser they'll shoot out gorgeous lime green new shoots every so often
That dream that person mentions about "forgetting about their tank" THAT HAPPENS TO ME TOO! I dream about my anoles and that I forgot to buy them crickets and I need a ride from my dad to go buy some. They never starved, but for some reason I'm always dreaming about them hungry and it's been over 30 years since I kept them. ;.;
i had a dream where i had two leopard geckos in a shoe box under my bed and i forgot to feed them for months and looked under one day to see gecko bones.
I have been feeding my betta pre workout and protein along with strength training for the past six months. My hope is to evolve it into an alpha fish.
Sadly there are even smaller things people put fish in than a tic tacs case
5:50 those wall tanks were part of his teams remodel, he said they were "brilliant" and it hurt
I used to have a 10 gallon tank that was originally stocked with:
2 dragonfly nymphs
5 damselfly nymphs
2 snails (idk what type, everything was from my local river)
20+ shrimp
The dragonflies ate everything then the bigger one ate the other
I had 15 blackskirt tetras in a 70 gallon tank. I must say they were one of the most thankful fish I ever had. They lived for 8 years. They died by nen accident when I wasn’t home. And Chris you are right, they need bigger tanks even if they are peaceful and like to hide, they also loves to swim a lot. And the adult one get big for a tetra . The female be like 6-7 cm the male stays a bit smaller.they are a great match for any communitytank.
Me: spends $100+ on plants
A few days later: they all melt
(And so did all my money lol)
if the roots are still healthy they might come back, if not thats a shame, hopefully you figure out what the problem is!
@@plzifan3773 thanks bro 😎
My favourite indoor plant is the African violet
My favourite house plat is by far the peace lily
You know what you can create a tshirt with repashy on it, they way he is sitting in this video on the microphone, looks like a Ying Yang. So cool. You can fill the whole back with the design and small logo thingy on the lest chest