If a person places a small amount of Lime Aid, like Kool-Aid but not. You can make the same unnatural looking water that Alex drank on this video. As intelligent as he is, I am very doubtful he drank anything harmful. His wife would probably hurt him. And I don't see him placing his health in jeopardy. Great effect however.

@Fishtory

3 ай бұрын

Wise man... very wise hahaha... the wife is the key

@morningstarquaid3464

2 ай бұрын

I was thinking tea, It's the same color as weak tea 😅

Just want to add... Along with taking a sip of the pond water you should also fill your underpants with the pond substrate and leave it there for 24 hours to check if there are any leeches in there.

@Fishtory

6 ай бұрын

Excellent choice of methodology

Okay, when he swigged the "pond water" I actually shouted "No!" 😂

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Excellent reaction 9 out of 10!

@leleo5019

2 ай бұрын

​@Fishtory I literally shouted out you shitting me 😅

@anthonylopez9777

Ай бұрын

The second sip had me like oh no!!

@Bondgirl73

18 күн бұрын

Haha I was having a good laugh. 😂 (“did he just do that?”)

@barbarianphilosopherpodcas9019

13 күн бұрын

Same 😂

😂😂😂😂 i absolutely died when you said in 2-4 months you will have tapeworms

@princenajtv9070

4 ай бұрын

Haven’t smiled that hard in a While

A helpful look at bringing nature into your aquarium. Thank you Alex.

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! I had a lot of new people asking about how you, lucas and i have told people to go collect jars and toss them in. So i wanted to make fun of the idea that we are doing this whilly nilly and drinking the stuff...literally. Its pretty much thanks to you, that i wanted to post a "cautious" way for someone to do this...but if youre setting up a tank, then go wild...fill it all with pond water hehe. Thanks FF

@FatherFish

Жыл бұрын

@@Fishtory I am guessing the drink was flat Dr. P!

@PsychoPlantLady

8 ай бұрын

I hope it was Dr.P LOL @@FatherFish

@firedogz7355

2 ай бұрын

Alex, don't do it, remember, don't eat em😉🤤😏 Don't get offended but I love em 🗿

Didn't even drink pond water but now I have tapeworms after watching this video.

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Lol

One of my very favorite Iocal fish keepers told me years ago that pond water and rain water were his keys to breeding neons and other soft water tetras. Rain water for general chemistry and pond water for easy live foods and tannins. Looking at pond water in jars and small tanks has been a favorite activity. Always something new to find.

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Awesome 👌 👏

I've watched so many of your videos, and I'm so happy to see the skit at the beginning. That little dopamine hit while learning lol.

@Fishtory

7 ай бұрын

Haha thanks. I had fun filming that

Really liked the flat delivery on your joke. I have been watching your channel for some time now. I live down in Dallesport and have been regularly collecting dead leaves from several local ponds in the gorge area from the set up of my tank. My Apistogramma trifasciata pair love the dragonfly nymphs. They just inhale them. The nymphs literally go backwards into their mouths after the apisto's stalk them from behind. Now there are baby apistos, so I think it may be time for another leaf litter trip. PS love your stuff. Very informational and entertaining.

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Right on. And thank you kindly. Best wishes my friend!

1:45 WAIT ! Wtf ????? I paused the video , grabbed my 7 different resurrection jars , took a big swig of each then came back and started the video again !!!!!!!!!!!! I'm feeling a little woozy here Alexander............

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Good man!

Watch the full video. You had me shaken at the beginning with that natural cup of tea

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

:D

Thank you for the chuckle about tapeworm and chugging the water.😆 I love learning from Father fish and now you, I’m absolutely a novice, but learning every day. I think it’s my 50 yr mid-life crisis. 😂 Keep up the great work! Best wishes from Australia. 😊

@Fishtory

17 күн бұрын

Oh grand. Cheers! And welcome 🙏

If your sample pond doesn't have a fish population then it's way less likely to contain any harmful M.O's. This together with letting it sit till any nasties hatch and fly off greatly reduces the chances of transmitting something nasty

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

100% and thats what i was saying about fish store water having a way higher risk than the pond

@marypaigeflynn4512

Жыл бұрын

Yes🫶❤️🙏

I unknowingly had a dragonfly larvae living in my tank that consumed literally hundreds of dollars worth of small fish and exotic shrimp. It lived in there for 3 years and I couldn’t figure out why my fish and shrimp would just disappear all the time. Then it hatched one day and I found it in my tank during its transition to its adult form. I know it was introduced 3 years back because that is when I got the plants set up and had gotten a beautiful plant from a local lake. I had rinsed the plant and even quarantined it for about 2 weeks but the little beast survived.

@Fishtory

6 ай бұрын

Jeeeeeze! Sorry to hear that. That is wild!

@rdred8693

2 ай бұрын

This is my biggest fear of summer tubbing and collecting local plants. I worry about this. Love dragonflies, but they will hurt my babies.

@thraciensis3589

2 ай бұрын

This is a crazy story. We have to be very careful. What species of fish were they? Their age, right before predation?

@hilossrt4

Ай бұрын

@@thraciensis3589 it ate quite a few Neon Tetras, White Cloud Mountain Minnows, many fancy Cherry Shrimp, Amono shrimp, a betta, some blue rams, lots of guppies as well as various types of small Cory catfish and probably a few others I can’t remember at the moment.

@thraciensis3589

Ай бұрын

@@hilossrt4 OMG. That is a massacre.! How did it hide easily? Did you have many thick plants?

So interestingly enough, came into possession of 2 baby mosquito fish from a clear flowing spring, so I collected water from the spring and aquatic plants from the area! Oh a few pond snails too. Somehow a tadpole made his way in, so he is there too lol, after about a month, everyone seems to be doimg great, and I'm really excited that the mosquito fish stay tiny! We shall see!

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Best of luck!

Ok that intro was funny. You got me on that one. Hilarious

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Hahaha omg, my stomach turned just thinking about the beaver fever (giardiasis infection) I got on a canoe trip 2 years ago. Hahaha! Great tips! This is how I collect daphnia.

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Good to hear it! Sorry about the bever fever though. Ive had it twice in my life...not fun.

@volcanixthanksyoufortheviewz

Жыл бұрын

I was thinking dysentery 😢😂😂

That was unbelievably hilarious. Good joke my friend. I’ve never seen a post so recent of only an hour after you made it. This is so exciting.

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

I use a plastic pond liner with couple cups of organic soil, pile of little rocks, a stick or two and water and some floater plants and some alge from my tanks. Some shrimp got moved by accident. Shrimp are thriving with babies and I see lots of little critters. As long as the shrimp are thriving, I use the pond liner water (filled when it rains) to help my tanks along. Even able to scrape the good green alge off and put into my aquariums.. My planted aquariums are all reaching critical mass on the shrimp population..

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Thats awesome! I love to hear it!,

@Webzcraft

Жыл бұрын

I use similar method 😊

Love your channel! i am always learning something new here. Thank you!

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

You are so welcome!

Thanks for this Alex! Much needed ❤❤

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

You're so welcome!

When you said everybody has worms, it reminded me I found one of my very favorite songs from this channel. “Everybody’s got to live” by Love 💕

@Fishtory

Ай бұрын

I love that song :) glad you do too! Music is probably tied with aquariums in my loves

I always have to watch a couple of times to absorb information. Always appreciated

@Fishtory

Ай бұрын

I appreciate your support!

I cracked up when you drank the "pond water"! I am going to try make an eco system in my outdoor 300 gallon pond, but I am leery of putting that stuff in one of my indoor tanks. I'm sure there are already dragonfly larvae in my pond, and I've seen one of those little wiggly roundworms (can't remember what they are called) and mosquito larvae. I just got the filtration set up last Saturday, and the water is green already, but my goal is black water. There's a guy on youtube who sells scud balls and microfauna, and I was thinking of getting some of that for my planted tank, but then I wonder if wouldn't that be just as risky as gathering that stuff myself from the river?

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Probably just as well off gathering them yourself honestly

This is so informative!!! Fantastic reporting!🌻🌼🐝

@Fishtory

6 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! And thanks for all the commenting

Great video as always man. One time I freaked out because there was a dragon fly larvae in my friends tank. I’m glad I knew what they look like lol. It came from a LFS plant.

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Nice save! Theyre like sci fi momsters lol

Scooped with my hand a couple globs of mud from a stagnant pond in my area. Carried it back with 8 american bar reed plants i also plucked from it. Made a shallow beach/pond basically from a 29gallon. Sand piled on one side sloping into the pool of water gradually, the american bar reeds scattered throughout the whole tank, in the pool of water the substrate is a mixture of the sand but mostly the globs of mud and at its deepest, around 4 inches of water, In my handfuls i managed to grab a dragonfly larvae, some other apex bug predator i cant remember the name of (got both of them out) found tons of microfauna, but what fascinated me the most were all the worms poking their heads out of the substrate and wriggling in groups. Like they were having a party. Tubifex worms perhaps? Not sure, maybe someone else can help me with that. However my hope/plan is to see if i can make this environment work for some african dwarf frogs. Would like to potentially breed two i have in another tank, and house their spawn in the big tank when theyre a bit more mature and can handle their own. The water is super shallow and because of the mud and the organics in it, the reeds, and the gradual slope throughout 80% of the tank, i think theres enough territory and a promising enough environment to see positive results. The water wont have a filter. But i have it loaded with salvinia. I have no idea how itll turn out but im definitely enjoying this style of tank setup way more than a store bought/built one.

Hey Alex another great video! You sure set the bar high each time! Great job! I am actually starting two dirted tanks 5gal and a bowl) for fun so initial tips tricks would be welcomeed! But i also wanted to ask what is the long skinny plant that is half in and half out of both tanks in the back? I love the jungle look they give

@Fishtory

11 ай бұрын

So i have a video on filterless fish bowl or vase creation... with deep substrate and no electicity needed. That may have some tips you'd find helpful. Also the plants are persicaria maculata and "purple bamboo plant"

Folks swim in lakes and ponds and get water in your mouth whether you believe it or not. So I guess drinking this is not that bad. Acquired taste Alex for sure. 😆 Mosquito larvae castings and sun dried dragonfly are good for ludwigia super red tea. Cinnamon for extra flavor.

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Haha indeed

Literally the video I needed, thanks

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Glad I could help. Have a great finish to your week

Good content thank you brother!!!

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Thank YOU

Your sense of humour is fabulous and from what I’ve seen rewatching livestreams, Laura is right there with you! You’ve had me in instatears more than once and I appreciate it so much! 😂 Thank you for these tips - I’ve thought about this sometimes in the past, but I’ve always been warned against it by aquarists that were more experienced (back then) than me, so I put the idea aside. Maybe it’s time to revisit!

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! Glad to make someone smile a little

Thanks great information:)

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

I have a little creek in my backyard thats full of rocks and leaf litter. I've never seen anything alive in it but i hear there are tadpoles and crayfish. Its funny you made this video because this is exactly what I've been thinking about since its right in my yard. I wonder what could be in there that i could put in my fish tank. I'm in the process of setting up my 2nd tank now and im really tempted but this tank will have no lid. I may try it with my established tank though.

@Fishtory

11 ай бұрын

Right on. Best of luck to you!

Thanks for the video bro 🙏🏾❤️🤗

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure. Thank YOU for watching

LMAO!!!!! OMG I realize it was a joke almost immediately lmao but stressed me out so bad when you drank that.

😆 man I did not see that sip coming

@Fishtory

4 ай бұрын

They never do...

Good info alex 😊

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Glad you think so!

That sip got me 😂

Greetings from SoCal. I’m loving your stuff, I ran into FF first and stumbled onto your videos. I love how you expand on what he preaches thank you for the videos man. I really enjoy learning this stuff, can you recommend any similar channels? Im trying to soak in as much as I can and I’m also interested in learning how to raise live cultures. Do you have any advice on getting started ? Thank you !

@Fishtory

6 ай бұрын

Lrb aquatics is one similar to Lou (father fish) and I. And we are all hopefully doing a conference in Oregon next October. ... Diane Walstad is still featured in some content...and controversially " Dr. Novak"... but i cant condone his work anymore, nor his "Dr." title... but its interesting none the less. Also scishow... journey to the ( microcosms )... tardibabe (tardigrade pun)... those are the related channels i can think of. Were a little on our own... oh and Below Water, is geat... Ivan Mikolji is great and my partner in a non-profit. Also for reference material check my video called " top 10 internet resources for fish keepers". You may dig that

@fabianjavierlicha

6 ай бұрын

@@Fishtory will do thanks buddy. I just watched your video with Lrb. It’s trippy watching a fish room tour video that’s that silent lmao

I'm currently building a river scape aquarium. It's a little over half full, 75 gallon with an elaborate waterfall design on half of it. Just today, I went to our local river and collected enough sandy substrate to put in the bottom. I didn't clean it at all in the hopes of keeping as much of the natural components in tact as possible. I just poured it in and did 3 water changes to get all the really fine sediment out. Obviously, I'll keep a close eye on it in the coming weeks to determine when it will be safe to introduce fish to it. I did collect it from the sandy bank as opposed to the riverbed in order to not get things like dragonfly/mosquito larva. Do you have any advice in regards to moving forward with it? Anything I should look out for? Thanks for all you do. Keep up the good work.

@Fishtory

11 ай бұрын

Sounds amazing! Id suggest introducing a piece or two of wood... some plants and some dried leaves or botanicals... this will help jump start your fungal, archaeal, bacterial and algael diversity. Often times fresh wood releases some tannins and cellulose, which bacteria or fungi will then start to colonize. Usually this is within the 3 to 8th week and you get 2 weeks of those 5 weeks, where you will get algae and or clearish/milky looking fungi or bacteria clouds... this is often unsightly, but almost always harmless and often beneficial speceis. Anyhow, this period in the tank cycling up and balancing out. So the more types you have bloom prior to fish and fertz or microorganisms- the better. Best wishes and please write me again, if you dont mind sharing your creativity and skills.

I have a story to tell. My guppy made about 100 fry the other day so I decided to put them away for a while to let them grow a little bit. Out of ~100 I catched ~90 and let the others to become food in the main tank... None of the 10 that where left in there to die got attacked in any way, they just thrived. The 10 living with their parents and the 90 in a smaller and colder tank did grow at different spaces. So in a couple of days I was able to tell the difference. It was a VERY SLIGHT variation over colors in the tail. (This is important to understand the rest of the story). About 2 weeks in and I decided that I needed the small tank back for another project so I put back the 90 fry with their parents thinking they would be fine after all. Then the "horror show" began (it was fascinating). The mothers chased all the 90 down to the last. In an hour they ate em all. But even in that cahotic frenzy, they never got confused and the 10 where left untouched. What happened there ? Is that smell ? Size ? Invasion ? How come they could make the difference since they where all brothers and sisters from the same batch ?

@Fishtory

6 ай бұрын

So a fish gets its immune system from the water and the plants or fish it rubs against as a fry...and throughout life. My guess is being seperated made them "smell" or however guppies tell one another apart ..different. Guppies are well documented to practice infanticide against weak fry, fry from another mother and sometimes against all fry if there are too many. Its unusual to see that level of "dedication"... but im guessing one of these factors trigged her. Sorry to hear that

@mr.octopus6972

6 ай бұрын

@@Fishtory it's not like I miss them, I have too much, even my local fish store won't take them 😅

QUESTION: If I had a tank with Malawa shrimp, Caridina mariae (tiger shrimp wild type) , Caridina Serrata (wild), and caridina babaulti, would they crossbreed? I already have malaw shrimp on my tank, but I wanted to add more shrimp like neocaridina and those caridinas I asked. Nice video as always. Cheers from Portugal!

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

So likely the first 3 will cross ...or CAN. The babaulti dont seem to have a species they will cross with- that ive seen or heard of. The serrata and mariae will cross easily and will grow the slowest. Malawa will sometimes cross, but i havent had any 2nd generations so they may be sterile. From my experience, usuallying mixing more than 2 shrimp species ends up in one becoming dominant within a year or two and the other lines disappearing. ... i dont know how or why...but unfortunately that seems to be most people's experience long term. Short term, mix any adults you want to and enjoy!

I did this, from a nice primary lake up north. only good things happened.

@Fishtory

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

Amazing information in this video. It brings so much information together that could be expanded upon. Please more information on this topic. Could we see microscopic videos .

@Fishtory

5 ай бұрын

Yes... look up my videos on microscope work... i show a tank substrate 3, 6 months 1 year 3 years and 5 or 6 years old substrate :)

Dam didn’t see the little thing u out there and drank some lake water I’m feeling a bit woozy here bud check back in a few days

Oh that was funny. Nice work

@Fishtory

7 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Crazy good intro.

@Fishtory

11 ай бұрын

Glad you like it

Excuse me good Sir, what are the beautiful plants that are sticking out of the tank behind you while you at the 10 minute mark?

I added dead leaves from a pond. The decomposition provided plenty of infusoria for my zebra fry which were pin point tiny!

@Fishtory

Ай бұрын

Yeah that's a prefect time to add something like leaves. For fry. I warn folks living in the tropics, to let any leeches and larvae hatch in a covered jar first. But most temperate climates are pretty safe

This one just makes me laugh my ass off every time. It is very sad that you had to put the disclaimer but good thing you did.

I literally almost pissed myself when you took a drink of that lmao 😂

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Excellent lol

I have been collecting creek and pond water from a conservation area in the woods for a while now for my top offs from evaporations for my tanks. I would rather use creek and pond water then tap water because of chlorine and chloramines. Also you are getting all those natural biologicals for your aquariums that is very good for your natural ecosystem that you are trying to create. At the same time because I am doing it the true natural way, I don't do water changes anymore!

@Gabriel.terluk

Ай бұрын

Chlorine evaporates after one or two days, not a big deal

I just came across a ditch beside the creek and found tubifex worms wiggling in there. I collected a sample and kept it in a jar and i see a lot more in it. I think i see blackworms, isopods and a very weird worm that stands up and has horizontal, almost invisible tentacles. I added a piece of Hornwort and a baby blue dream shrimp to test. Later I will add a baby guppy to test. If they grow up and have no problems then i can use the sample.

@AndrewFishman

Жыл бұрын

That "weird worm with tentacles" is probably Hydra. Not really wanted unless you have gouramis to feed. They love the stuff.

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Cool experiment

@FatherFH

Жыл бұрын

@@AndrewFishman nope it is not hydra, dealt with them before. It is very long and stands on its own. Moves just like the black worm but when it stands straight it has long hair like tentacles perpendicular to its body. I can only see them because i looked really, really close. Because of all of these worms, i am worried about the tape worm eggs. The 2 baby blue dream shrimps are alive and well and i wll test it with a guppy fry, since it cant eat my tubifex worms. Almost impossible to find Comercial tubifex worm cultures around where i live. I got my hands on black worms a while back and have been keeping them going.

@AndrewFishman

Жыл бұрын

@@FatherFH Tubifex, traditionally, are from warmer waters than blackworms, so were the source of many manky diseases and fungi. They were commercially sourced from some pretty questionable areas and got a bad reputation. Culture grown worms are not the problem that wild harvested can be. Blackworm like much cleaner, flowing water than the stagnant pools Tubifex are found in so were considered a better source of food.

@FatherFH

Жыл бұрын

@@AndrewFishman true. I am in Canada so everything freezes here. To me the tubifex are the ones that keep wiggling and are more pink. Blackworms are just like normal worms but they live in water.

I've never had a mosquito larvae "hatch out." They are so easily picked off when they come to the surface, I couldn't even imagine it happening.

@Fishtory

4 ай бұрын

Yeah if you have anything but nano fish, they're goners

I want to grab some gravel from my local lake. is it ok to get it and then add boiling water to clean it? cuz i don't want to buy some aquarium gravel from my local pet shop and spend 40-80$😂. I looked at my local harware store but they smalled graind size gravel they have is took big and will get some endler fry stuck. also the pool filter sand i have heard it is too small that it get sucked up when you gravel vac.

My tank was set up with water from a natural stream and do water changes with it, but there were no issues yet apart from one snail

@Fishtory

5 ай бұрын

Flowing water is terrific. Even if slow. Deoxygenated stagnant water is honestly the problem

Thanks, been thinking about this. I've only gotten so far as to collect and keep plants from a stream and a pond, and one with just the rock for algae. Though that's fun to observe over time in its own right, I don't just want to dump anything into an aquarium just because "it's natural". _(Also, I live in northern Sweden so it's quite a bit colder than Seattle, so who knows how things will develop when they get hotter. I'm a bit surprised the plants seem to love it on the window sill.)_ Also, funny intro :D

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

You probably would only have some bacteria, algae and protezoa maybe some scuds or micro crustaceans... and worms hehe. But if you've added algae, youve added all those microorganisms as well, id assume. Cheers

@Korvmannen

Жыл бұрын

@@Fishtory could be! just found an asellus aquaticus (water louse) with a belly full of eggs, they seem to be everywhere around here. this bottle has been up for 3 weeks now

I've been watching another source on utube and now u . I'm glad I saw this because the other source tells you to get sources from local pond, lake. I only want to do a soil tank and sand cap. I want to raise angel fish and possibly they might breed. Is there a video that you have for angel fish with those criteria and possibly food for angels. I'm in Gainesville Florida and I can make a separate tank but I am new at this concept. Any suggestions 🤔

@Fishtory

11 ай бұрын

I dont. As i only breed my angels one small group at a time...with parents and most wont survive in community tanks, but im not doing it for money, i just love watching them do their thing. But i have several tank builds and filterless tank builds... i do think angels do best with a filter...or at least an airstone. That or a 55 gallon+ but any of my anoxic builds, deep substrate builds or even just my aquascapes are going to use the core elements i still use on the channel. I should show how to do one for specifically high temp. Midsize to larger fish, i just have never had space in the places i live, for larger gallon tanks. I think later this summer i may be setting up a 55g deep substrate for earth eaters/geos though... oh and i have videos on if you are going to do the father fish thing... some ways to avoid pathogens and insects... or build wholistic ecosystems

@reneesnugent3358

11 ай бұрын

I meant I was just going to watch my angels breed , not for money like u . I am currently running a medium sponge filter through aquarium coop and hob for each 29 gallon tank, but I actually hear through ff that the natural way is best. I believe I can use both filters in the ff way. What do you think is best for angels as far as set up? Also id like to feed them the best food. If possible, I did see a video u posted regarding producing Daphne and your own food .I believe that u use some other substrate? I'm also concerned about getting things from a pond or lake like ff suggests especially after seeing this video. I'd like to watch the video u mentioned in your reply message. I must admit that I am trying to learn from u but I do get lost some because u are much smarter than me. I really think you are a asset for us to learn from & appreciate your passion of teaching and helping us. I know your time is very valuable and you are valued by me. I'm going to keep listening and probably join also.

@Fishtory

11 ай бұрын

@reneesnugent3358 my opinion is that the "master breeder Dean" or coop way is better to ensure breeding angels and or a pair... but if you want to raise fry with adults... its more important to have a natural tank.... otherwise yes, youll need to feed the babies live babg brine, daphnia or some sort of food...and later mosquito larvae, blood worms, black worms or beef heart to grow the nickel to quarter sized fish quickly. When feeding many babies, i like the option of a good filter...usually HOB , lots of plants and i use fluval or ada amazonia substrate if plants are a main feature of the tank. But you can also feed baby angel fish boiled egg yolk, just a little smudge of it between your fingers rubbed into the water...but it makes a mess and raises ammonia and thus nitrates...and thats why i like having extra filtration...just in case the babies arent eating enough of what i feed them

@reneesnugent3358

11 ай бұрын

@@Fishtory thanks 😊

lmao I was not ready for you to actually drink that XD

@Fishtory

11 ай бұрын

Excellent. Lol

it was hard to watch when you drank the apple juice hahhh good stuff duff

@Fishtory

9 ай бұрын

It was actually bacopa and lymnophilia arromatica (both traditionally edible plants) in melted ice water /dr pepper haha

I am crying the drinking was hilarious ... benefit is I checked to see if this was released yesterday 4/1. I made the mistake of going to one of my storage units today I have a 55 gal and 20 long I had forgotten about ... but did not see my 45 corner tank???

Thanks for the info. How did fish get into your man made pond?

@Fishtory

8 ай бұрын

Must have jumped in ;)

I got a lot of micro fauna from my local pond/swamp. However, I don't recognize any of the common species like daphnia, scuds or worms. There is a lot of activity of very thin comma shaped critters and colonies of greenish funnel shaped ones that accumulate on surfaces like algae. I'm feeling apprehensive about introducing them to my fish.

@Fishtory

5 ай бұрын

Yeah id hold off unless you get an ID

@Nunya369

5 ай бұрын

And all the ufo hunters think aliens are all off planet when all they have to do is check stagnant water.

Father fish says that a pond with fish in is better for sample jars well bc the environment there is suitable for fish life. You make a valid point as well, about the possibility of fish parasites being higher there. I am confused, I wanna build a food web for my angelfsih tank but I am too scared to collapse my 2.5 yo tank.

@Fishtory

11 ай бұрын

If i were you... id go culture the creatures one by one... scuds, isopods, daphnia, cyclopse.... or paramecium/infusoria... and then add those or green water to the tank you already have. Then you dont risk so many things. Its Unlikely to catch a fish parasite from just water. But it does occur

@svrkl15stnbld17

11 ай бұрын

​@@Fishtory thanks for the answer. I have small buckets of daphnia I feed my fish, and they never reproduce in aquarium, fish are too predatory lol. I used to have bladder snails but since I started to feed less they got eradicated by my corys. Maybe I should wait for the plants to grow more so that they have better hiding spots. Do isopods do well in water? I thought they were pill bugs living on land

@Fishtory

11 ай бұрын

@svrkl15stnbld17 there are aquatic isopods, we usually think of pill bugs but its a group of speciesn

@TRPGpilot

5 ай бұрын

Father Fish says . . .

There's an irrigation cannal behind my home and has squaw fish year round. I dont think it would be good to use considering possible pesticides leaching into the stream.

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Id trust your instinct and avoid it then!

Is it ok if I do dirt/soil plus sand and natural plants, but I use tap water and wait a bit before adding lifeforms ?

@Fishtory

6 күн бұрын

Totally

What would be the best timeframe to let dragonfly and mosquito larve to run their course if you have them in your tank? I probably have them in my one tank but dont have any fish in it yet to make sure it is safe etc... thank you

@Fishtory

2 ай бұрын

Well dragonfly are sneaky... id manually look for and hunt them... they're large also. Anything over an inch, id toss instantly. However 2 or 3 weeks max at 70f + should reveal and grow out most larvae to at least visible and nettable sizes/if not actually hatched.

Would the same thing happen if you went out and got a bucket of mud to use as substrate in a tank? I've seen that recommended and wondered about this very topic.

@Fishtory

10 ай бұрын

I dont tend to do this...some mud is great...other mud is full of methane and sulfur, ammonia and all sorts of good and harmful bacteria. But father fish likes doing it lol

@Chompchompyerded

10 ай бұрын

@@Fishtory Thank you, as always, for your rapid reply. If Father Fish has a presence on KZread, I haven't encountered it yet. It was a lady whose name I have now forgotten who was recommending mud and pond water. Being physically disabled, it would be impossible for me to go out and get pond water and mud (muck?), but if it were worth doing, I might be able to pay someone to go out and do it for me, however, I don't want to build an aquascape which provides parasites and bad bacteria to my plants and my self. Thanks, have a great day, and don't drink too much of that tea... I mean pond water! 🤣😆🤣

Hi Alex. How would you dose the prazi in the pond water? I want to do this but I’m not sure how much. Ty!

@Fishtory

9 ай бұрын

I would get a gallon of it, then dose according to adjusted calculations off the box of instructions, however, here in WA state, I've had zero issues with parasites in a decade... so i wouldn't "nuke " my pond water like that.... but in warmer parts of the USA i would definitely consider dosing it. Hope that helps. Best of luck to you

@nicolem376

9 ай бұрын

@@Fishtory I just meant the pond water in my mason jar 😂 not my pond.

I accidentally caught some sort of Ludwigia in Central New York. Next thing I know cyanobacteria covered my entire tank. After several round of treating antibiotics the plants exploded with new growth. Totally worth it as my tank inhabitants have started reproducing at a regular pace.

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Oh interesting. Yeah cyano can be treated with a half packet of api erythromycin per 10g ( half packaging dosage). Or any gram possitive antibiotics really.

@toothpicdinosaur3777

Жыл бұрын

I used API worked wonders.

@user-vd5gj3id7m

9 ай бұрын

Guys, I’ve got ciano during 2,5 years. I’ve never used antibiotics because I was trying to understand what is the problem. The problem is - a dirty aquarium. I’ve used ferts that were good only for ciano. I have a heavily planted tank now. I don’t use fertiliser and I don’t change water. Only 10 percents sometimes… I have no Ciano. So I want to tell you - if you have it - the problem Is not in pond water. The problem is in wastes in your tank

I'd just say that today I received a free scud in my water wisteria delivery.. If I did not add the wisteria to a neutral tray of water It might have gotten into my medaka tank and I don't need them there. Swigging the water after telling us about a 30ft tapeworm was funny...just tag your worms before adding them to the water.

Hello, I added several blue hills from a local lake to my 40 gallon aquarium but I plan on keeping only tropical fish in this tank. Should I treat the tank when I remove the blue hills and the tank is fish free? If, so how do you recommend treating it?

@Fishtory

8 ай бұрын

Yes id remove the fish, then remove the water for a day or two, and just refill it with tropical temp water. Any algae, fungi and many of the bacteria will need to change and recolonize things/die/start up, so its not a bad idea to treat it like a totally new tank and test for nitrites and nitrates... after that anything that survived in the substrate should be fine in the warmer water and most likely with no fish for a week to 3 weeks...most parasites would all die....between temp and no fishy host and the water change. Hope this helps! Best of luck

KZread shown me some videos of a person who heavily pushes the idea of adding pond water. He said it would keep the water super clean etc. I am happy I checked your video out before trying it x) My conclusion: I am the nature of my aquarium, I do 2 to 4 water changes every week, I do all this cleaning as a part of my hobby, but I can't deal with tape worm! A tape wormm?? Nooo.... I can't, I will just keep cleaning my tank and my filter myself.(no sarcasm I mean it tapeworms are gross)

@Fishtory

11 ай бұрын

Leaches are gross too lol

@voluntaryismistheanswer

7 ай бұрын

​@@Fishtoryno! 😮 I love my leech, am always hoping someone will show them to advantage in a planted tank. Useful helpful critters, and the green stripe is gorgeous. Hirudin and Pubmed will show many of their uses - anticoagulant, antitumoric, antifibrotic, etc. The most interesting of carnivore earthworms!

😄 oh my goodness.

And in 2 to 4 weeks.... you'll have a special friend to share meals with. Enjoy!!!

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Take that new years resolution!

Southern sweet. Got it 😅

The intro of this sent me

Yo...! Major Sideeye and I was about to Bounce! LMAO! Im soooo, Glad that was Sarcasm! 😦

I was wanting to use my local creek water and boil it to get the germs out bc my town water uses a stupid amount of chloramines which spikes the ammonia up and that would be much cheaper than whatever RO treatment I would need. Would the creek water suffice for that? Would it be cloudy?

@Fishtory

3 ай бұрын

It may start cloudy... dead bacteria ironically will produce some level of ammonia and biological debris... but a cycled tank should process that in 6 to 12 hours usually. So i think thats a great solution... check the ph so you dont shock the fish though

When are you dropping your "fish story" beanies!!!!!????lol Omg I can't believe I just said when are you dropping. Lol

What about expel p by fritz its a powder how much to use in qt jar?

@Fishtory

7 ай бұрын

Very very little expel p. Levamisole is one of our strongest dewormers. For animals or humans. Probably something like 50mg ... like a tiny little pinch of salt

@ineshianewton7740

7 ай бұрын

@@Fishtory ok thanks

I’m so glad that was a joke 😂

Would local Fish stores give away waste water?

I’m trying to figure out whether or not you actually drank that pond water

@Fishtory

5 ай бұрын

Its dr pepper, water and Lymnophilia arromatica

@PetfaxTV

5 ай бұрын

@@Fishtory ahahahaha

I was wondering if anyone knows of a good field guide for freshwater invertebrates, which includes microinvertebrates. Most seem to focus on macroinvertibrates exclusively. Or if anyone knows of a field guide to microinvertebrates, perhaps I could get myself one field guide in each category.

@Fishtory

5 ай бұрын

I haven't found one yet...but there are some printable taxonomy keys for specific regions...usually based out of a regional local university

@mr_seth

5 ай бұрын

Thanks Alex!

😂😂 Dude lol nice one

Alex has died of dysentery. Good ol Oregon trail. Wtf value did that game have to my fourth grade education?

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Lol

The cringe of drinking dirty water haha. Reminds me of syphoning the pond water from a tank to get a filter pump started. It was gross haha

@Fishtory

11 ай бұрын

Oh man...yeah i never do that any more...but as a kid i did lol

If my aquarium could FINALLY give me some tapeworms I would loose the weight 😂😂 I guess I have to double my efforts not washing my hands.

You're either early or late for April fool's but I'm here for it either way

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

:D

Hello can I use a fish dewormer

@Fishtory

7 ай бұрын

Yes you can use dewormer... it will kill any snails, worms ...good or bad...and probably kill off some other small organisms... but the water will be "safe" from stomach worms or pin worm type pests... but also any larvae or fish food type microlife is likely to die. Thats why i dont use meds...i wait a few weeks with oxygen getting to the jar at full temp of the tank... most leaches or nematodes that do harm, will die in a week or two with no fish host... or youll see then like half an inch long

Oh no....I drank it before I saw the message.

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Lol

@misabigaming

Жыл бұрын

@@Fishtory Love watching the vids, very educational and has helped me not kill my fish so many times lol.

I like my water RO and reminerilized

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Thats all good :😀

Lol when you drank it 😂😂

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Made yall cringe

@HappyOne2017

Жыл бұрын

@@Fishtory You had me for a second

Main risk is hydra. I've fed pond foods for years with no problems, that I know of. However, they are sourced from ephemeral waters; mostly black mosquito larva, fairy shrimp, daphnia and cyclops. The odd water tiger that I give to bigger fish. It's been clean so far, but the window is only about 2 weeks after snowmelt. Feed live then freeze the rest. Otherwise, I'd say it's risky business... semi-permanent and permanent are a lot more likely to provide nasties. Good advice to pre-treat for worms, I will start doing that. Great info Alex.

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Right on. Thanks for sharing your insights and experience

My gut reply is, “No way!!!” I’m going to have to watch the whole video to see you justify this, lol.

Beaver fever coming up !

@Fishtory

10 ай бұрын

Hahaha

Looking forward to an update in the next few months where you had take dewormer XD

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Haha sure thing... my weight loss plan