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@JustADude6

Жыл бұрын

Hey Chris, submitting on Scapeism doesn't work for me. Did you change it back to Petscord submissions?

My betta died 2 weeks ago, and i decided to use the tank as a shrimp tank. I bought 5 red cherry shrimps and they did an amazing job in cleaning the anubias within 24 hours.

@angiebear8727

Жыл бұрын

Sorry for your loss but enjoy your new shrimp.❤

@Finkeldinken

Жыл бұрын

Sorry about your Betta. I hope you'll love shrimp life!

@oftheHowl

Жыл бұрын

Assuming your tank is at least a 5 gallon, you could get some more shrimp and it'll start a colony much faster. Finding new shrimp babies is always awesome

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын

aw sorry for your loss :(

@orangescalefishy1258

Жыл бұрын

I used a betta quarantine tank as a ghost shrimp aquarium

You can boil water for 15-20mins to remove chlorine in a pinch. However I dont reccomend it unless you know what is in your water. Your local water treatment plant might use chloramine instead of chlorine which can only be neutralized with a dechlorinator. Just make it easy on yourself and use a dechlorinator. Also, those poor goldfish were definitely in shock. They weren't hungry at all. 😢

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын

agreeeed

@dsdragonspawn

Жыл бұрын

For chloramine, you can also use a bubbler to break it down and remove it from the water. However, I recommend at least 24-48 hours per gallon or so a 5 gallon bucket can take a week or more to fully remove the chloramine

@PutSomeTwazOnIt

Жыл бұрын

@@dsdragonspawn that takes way to long

@Mesch-87

7 ай бұрын

You can also just leave the water sit out for at least 24 hours, and the chlorine will evaporate

@DLlama

5 ай бұрын

People go to _crazy_ expensive lengths to "purify" their tap water ...but won't buy a $15 pack of test strips to find out what's actually in it 😂

Hey I just wanted to say that when I was 13 I almost bought a Betta to keep in a vase with a plant as a filter (I just googled can you keep a Betta in a jar, and the articles said yes) but then I got your video on Betta care recommended and ended up returning the vase and not getting a fish :)

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын

noice!

@TheDeno786

Жыл бұрын

Put it in a cup they live in puddles

@Chiswum

Жыл бұрын

​@@TheDeno786 No. That's not how it works. Look it up.

@YGAPlayz

11 ай бұрын

@@TheDeno786they can *survive* in puddles. they don’t live in them

@KIBERB

10 ай бұрын

@@TheDeno786Betta fish live in rice fields in Thailand, not little ponds (I’m pretty sure)

The first clip left me shaken to the core and made my heart bleed. Those poor fish 😭 Got a new quarantiene tank second hand yesterday and I wouldn't even use this treatment on that.

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын

yeah this treatment shouldn't be used any time xD

I remember the first time I watched FTR, it was during the peak of the pandemic in our place and we are stuck in our homes and in our phones. So glad I found this channel. A weekly reminder to love fish keeping hobby and do water changes regularly. Cheers always 🥂👏🎉

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын

aw ty Ian !!

I can't believe how much food she gave them after destroying their tiny tank!!! The whole thing was scary😮

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын

yeah v v

@A.A.Rae-Rae

Жыл бұрын

The saddest part is they didn't even go for the food after!! 😰 Goldies are MASSIVE food-hogs, and (even though they shouldn't have to) are hardy enough to live through immense amounts of stress... When a goldfish isn't hungry, that's a sure sign it's on its way out soon I'd bet money those fish died like, just a few hours later...😕

@tracynevins5118

Жыл бұрын

@Rae good point and like you said, sad 😔

This is so bingeworthy!!! ❤ I just got back into aquaculture after 10+ years, used to be quite serious in the hobby, and dude, I love your approach! Also, that girl with the first tank, all I'm thinking is PLEASE SWEETY LET ME HELP YOU! Look at the care she's actually taking - she's super thorough, but she somehow has no idea that she's actively killing her little friends. With that cleaning focus and attention pointed in the right direction and armed with just rudimentary knowledge she would be an actual goldstar fishkeeper in no time. Please let me at her - and let's save those poor behbehs! 😢

@ajet8284

Жыл бұрын

Was thinking the same thing, she seemed so caring and put so much work into it....just EXTREMELY misinformed. I hope someone gently steers her the right way 🥺

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын

Welcome back to the hobby! yeah :( I'm sure that energy can be converted towards good husbandry

@Finkeldinken

Жыл бұрын

@@FishForThought Thank you!

Happy FFTday everyone!! The goldfish clip broke my heart 💔 but the one of the Cory Gang restored it 💗!!!

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын

aw happy FFT day!

As an axolotl owner and having to keep the water at 60 degrees seeing the boiling water sent chills down my spine

For the boiled-water-in-freezer Thing, the idea is to have sterilized water for your fish tank. I forgot what was said exactly, but supposedly placing boiled water instantly in the freezer gives you a more steriled water solution than simply boiling it. Though it may be a good way to get rid of pathogens and the such (as well as kill your fridge/freezer), it doesn't eliminate certain minerals or other components from the water that could still harm the fish.

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын

i know for sure a few more times and that freezer is gonna need replacing

my female betta is always swimming around and exploring (and sometimes flaring at a snail at the top of the tank) SHORT FIN MASTER RACE

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын

SHORT FIN MASTER RACE

Video 1 should be shown to every new aquarist as a perfect example of everything not to do to their aquarium. 😳

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын

yes

@dawnt6791

Жыл бұрын

Even as a first-time aquarium keeper with NO research many years ago, I didn't do anything that unbelievably horrendous. Makes me feel a bit less bad about some of the things I DID do before I educated myself. Yikes!

I think the purpose of boiling water and cooling it in the freezer before putting it in the tank was their version of adding distilled water... boiling it does get rid of any additives but obviously was not the way to do this lol.

@HidekiShinichi

Жыл бұрын

Boiling eater does not get rid of any additives. Everything that was in that water is still there.

"Hippity Hopity, bacteria-less property" 🤣 THIS kind of wit is why I love this channel ❤

I'm more than a bit jealous of the mushroom growing on the aquarium log

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын

ikr haha

Im so glad i wasnt as bad as the first clip when i got my first ever goldfish 😭 Ive had my dude for like 4 years now and he went from like a 5 gal??? to a 250L in the span of like a year; and this FFT was the main reason ive probably been able to know so much LMAO

Just got two goldfish. Have wanted them for years and finally my lfs had some shubunkins(spelling?) They are babies right now and look so tiny in my indoor pond. My indoor pond which will never ever ever be cleaned with soap 🧼. Wow!

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын

aw so cute :)

we are actually so close to ep 200 rn, its like watching chris level up, he has so many subs now

Dear God that "cleaning" maybe the boiling made the chlorine evaporate faster. Might be an interesting research experiment. Most likely, it was done to "sanitize" the water though. Just God. Favorite boardgame is either Mancala or pente. Mancala is just super relaxing with sound, smell, sight and touch forming this kinda zen mode. Pente is like a cross between tic tac toe and go.

That picture of the Cory gang was amazing! Some really nice tanks this week, other than the first one with the doomed goldfish 😢 trying to think of my favorite board game… Probably between chutes and ladders and Candyland 😂

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын

albino cory gang

my albino bristtlenose pleco is always that shape because she eats to mutch but she is healthy for already 7 years asslong as i had it. she even layed many eggs. love your vids keep it up

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын

she a big girl!

if you remember me with understocked 36 gallon (I commented 2 FTRs ago) I now have a total of 2 african dwarf frogs 3 kuhlis 5 corys 2 malaysian trumpet snails 2 mystery snails and last but not least 4 CONGO tetras

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын

wow!

Chris: talking about a ghost in his house The ghost that watches FTR over my shoulder: I’ve been recognized

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын

bruh what pls nop

That worst water change video actually made me stop breathing for a full minute.

Aww yay thanks for sharing my meme in this most excellent video 🎉 That water change was hard to watch oof.

its my birthday today and I couldn't ask for a better gift than a new ftr!😁

@IdratherbeinHobbiton

Жыл бұрын

Happy birthday! 🎊🎁🎂🥳

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын

Happy Birthday!

OMG- THAT PATREON PLUG WAS PHENOMENAL, 10/10 CHIRS!

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын

lmao xD

I love Chris’s humor. He should DEFINITELY be a comedian ❤

Hii Mr. Chris! I’m a new viewer and I love watching your videos! Love your humor! 🫶🏼

it amazes me how after years of research, experience, regular water changes, etc i’ll have fish that’ll die from the most minute thing and people like this can keep theirs alive for years in those conditions

@HidekiShinichi

Жыл бұрын

Its called survivor bias. Those people kill a lot of fish, and once in a million they get a fish or two that are naturally very resilient. They dont think that its them that killed the fish so they dont remember/speak about the whole fish graveyard they could populate, they just think they are brilliant fishkeepers. You dont see millions of fish that died, they are not there.

My shrimps do sometimes clean up algae infested plants but it always takes at least 5 weeks 😂 nice ftr as usual chirs

Yet another Monday made great! Thank you for making such great content!

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын

thx for tuning in!

Ce lundi était affreux, mon travail m'a épuisé. Merci pour tes vidéos, ton humour fait du bien au moral !

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын

aw merci d'avoir regarde, c'est super que je puisse t'aider

Upping my membership. Chirs losin' it 😂 Love it. CGFF

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын

TY

We used to have a Play-Doh board game called Splat. You molded little bugs for your tokens and there was a squisher plastic hand that stamped SPLAT on your opponents when you got to use it. Good times.

not me up at 1 am in Australia waiting for this video to come out on school day

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын

bro xD ty

2:44 there was one time in FTR where someone cleaned his tank with soap but this is next level

Scrabble is the winner by far. When you don't have your Cory gang with you the magnetic travel version is there to save the day! Great episode, thanks!

I have a crown betta who I’ve had for over 2 years and he’s doing great but you’ve definitely convinced me to get a female or short fin next time ❤

When I watched your videos for the first time I laughed about multiple tank syndrome. I didn't have an aquarium back then. Now I have three.

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын

ahahaha

that first tank, I thought I was getting a panic attack😱 and the fish omg poor things, they are in a to small of a tank

I honestly have no idea how you guys are able to find these type of videos 😂😂 Whenever I look up "fish tank" or "aquarium" or "water change" on Tiktok the results I got are always veteran arowana keepers (who knows what they're doing) and owners of high tech aquascape tank making useful tutorials for their subs.

Once I saw the soaped fishtank at the beginning, I died a little inside... just like her fish. 💀

Favorite board game? Make snacks for people playing the game, and sit back, watch, and sow discordance amongst the players. I call it Machiavelli and I always win 😂.

I've had the worst sinus infection combined with toothache all at once this week and this show has been my main distraction

That 1 fish was doing benevolent work sparing its brothers' and sisters' live from constant torment in that tank.

I am obsessed with my 7 pygmy corydoras they are the sweetest things and are so playful with my betta Neptune and the otocinclus too but when the night comes they are like a tiny school of sharks! I love them so much! 😍✌️💙

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын

gotta love corydoras!

i had a pleco a year ago and my aunt dropped my tank when we were in the middle of a water change we LOST him for a solid 20 minutes and he was fine after

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын

pleco be trolin xD

This episode gave me mad chills

THE HEAPING PILE OF FOOD AT THE END LOL

The house alarm was foreshadowing.

Raccoon Tycoon is one that my brother got for Christmas, it is a lot of fun! Then there are the classics like Clue, Aggravation, and Life.

One 8th grade science teacher is actually really cool. He was a sub for us and took us to his class. He had like a 30 or 40 gallon tank WITH LIVE PLANTS and it had 2 goldfish and 5 small schooling fish. He had another 5 or 10 gallon tank with sand, live plants, nice wood scape, and it only was stocked with vampire shrimp!! Both looked really well maintained too!

04:05 - "most knowledgeable petco employee"

I totally feel that aquascape dream vs reality disapointment haha. My favorite board game was Pokémon Monopoly... Husband didn't care when he treated it as trash and burned it during a house move. Years later he cares. He hears about it once or twice a year when I show him the current selling price. Needless to say, I am still waiting on a replacement lol.

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын

whoa pokemon monopoly!!

Kicking it old school... I love the board game Trouble. My kids liked it too and referred to it as Trouble in the Bubble!

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын

oh trouble! I remember that on tv commercials

I am so glad I found this channel. Every aquarium and fish keeper community I found so far is either the most elitist aqua scaper group, which's members almost spit on another person if they find out no co2, or top best fertilizer in the tank, or dare to put in anything bigger than a cherry shrimp or endler guppy in the tank, because that needs extra work and calculations in nutrients, or the ones who believe good fish keepers are the ones who export their fancy expensive huge fishes and seeing a tank they instantly size up what is the biggest fish they can shove into. Here I hear what I always believed was right. Best is the natural, with wood and stone and living plant, and trying to keep everything as natural and balanced as possible. Big tank means more small schooling fish, and more space for them. Where I live everyone believes cory fishes are for the beginners and the lazy, because hard to kill and clean up the "real" decorative fishes. To hell with those, corys are the best. They are cute, and have personality.

I have the exact fishtank at the first although instead of putting a fish in it I turned it into a terrarium with a few plants and isopods.

Not a board game, but I loved to play BS with my friends during school. It’s a card game where you try to get rid of all your cards, and when you put them down they’re face-down, so no one can see what they are, and they have to take your word or call BS. I was pretty good at it because I was so quiet and unassuming.

Best I can think of for the first water change is like. "Hmm I've heard that boiling water purifies it, let's put it in the freezer to cool it down, easy peasy" And my friends and I love Quiplash!

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын

oh boi xD i like quiplash too!

Favorite board game… idk, there’s so many options! I do agree with you on code names, that’s a good one. pegs and jokers, exploding kittens, unstable unicorns, the chameleon, so many options!!! I can’t choose!

The sigma background music is killing me lmao

I’m new the the hobby and my first tank recorded around 0.8 mg/l chlorine even though I did the water changes, used dechlorinator and even left it for a few days to see if it will get better on it’s own. It didn’t I’m going to try boiling the water for 15 mins and use dechlorinator after it has cooled, probably going to leave it in the same room as my fish for a few days to match the temp.

Your videos make my Mondays enjoyable

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын

aw

Id suggest looking into "Psathyrella aquatica" a fungus that actually makes mushrooms under water. Sure above is cool, but that can happen with any decaying wood.

I finally set up my first 9 gallon tank yesterday I have 6 neon tetras in there and it is a planted tank. I was so scared to put them in my tank but they seem to be doing well. ❤❤

@marjorielabrioche1440

Жыл бұрын

9gallons is not an appropriate volume for neon tetras... :/

@ihavegoodmemes2176

Жыл бұрын

​@@marjorielabrioche1440 he only needs 1 gallon more

@marjorielabrioche1440

Жыл бұрын

@@ihavegoodmemes2176 We're talking about paracheirodon innesi, right ?... ten gallons seems okay to you for these guys ?!

@evapolyarush55

Жыл бұрын

@@ihavegoodmemes2176 then you have never seen a healthy grown neon. They are very huge. 6 neons would require AT LEAST 13 gallons

@nathanp5552

Жыл бұрын

9 gallons should be fine. as long as you have good filtration, real plants, hiding spots, and of course water changes.

Fire tower is the best board games I’ve played. There is a large expansion set for it as well that really adds to the overall experience but it is great no matter what. My wife and I and whoever we are playing with have a blast every time we pull this game out.

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын

never heard of this but might give it a shot!

1:41 the cohost fan's coming to see Millie!

@living_perch5246

Жыл бұрын

NO COMMENTTTTT 😅😅😅

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын

nop nop noping outta there

Omg what a lovely water change😍😍

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын

LMAO

You didn't have to make me feel like your whole rock family is gonna get destroyed by Adam Smasher at 5:04

@CoriMultipass

Жыл бұрын

Too soon... 😭

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын

2 soon

OMG, even on my most uneducated 6 year old goldfish keeping days, I wasn't that stupid! Soap?!? I'm speechless! Then she piles a ton of fish food into that 'clean' tank. Smh..ugh. Rest of the video had some really nice tanks though! Ok my favorite game is, of course, GO FISH! LOL! Thanks for another cool video, always enjoyed!

Thanks for sharing my comment Chris! 😃

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын

ayyy!

Omfg! Lumpsuckers! One of my dream fish! So cute!

I like these videos please keep up the good job.

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын

ty!

4:15.... that water was still steaming.. No wonder that person deleted their tiktok

Blockus, anomia and retro loonacy. Last 2 are more card game but still super fun!

Wow! I've never seen anything like that!!! Even when I was new I would have never thought of cleaning my tank this way!!! Really how are those fish alive!?

My favorite board game of all time is root. My favorite for relaxing is currently wingspan, best with oceania expansion. My favorite for push my luck has been quacks of quedlinburg. Ive been playing liars dice recently and its a lot of fun. The sherlock holmes board game for a cooperative game.

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын

awesome options here!

chris should make a tank with only local materials and stock it with native aquatic inverts and native nano fish

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын

would be so cool

first person broke every single rule of fishkeeping

good monday morning crihs ‼️

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын

mornin!

For over 20 years of my life I have been playing Clue wrong because my Dad made up rules to make t harder. I took a loss back in '22 that shattered my world view forever.

i recently learned a boardgame called Tsuro. It's cool and has a dragon on the box, not wordy and easy for drunk people to enjoy

4:17 chirs, its to "rEmOvE thE hArmFuL tHiNgS iN thE wAtEr"

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын

omg

Another great episode Chirs! I know this is not related to this video but have you heard about father fish, if yes what is your view on his way of things? If possible you too may try an example...please let me know :)

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын

I haven't watched too much of his vids but for the most part I agree with lots of what he says!

@cineroustit

Жыл бұрын

@@FishForThought mm...maybe you can try a similar style of tank?

0:21 The co host and third best host in FTR (sorry. I did it for the memes lol)

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын

haha

FFT: good luck getting that image out your head when you sleep tonight Me: the gold fish tank right?

No one: Absolutely no one: Chirs: ***QOTW*** Qotw: I like jackbox

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын

QOTTWWWWW me too

The Cory gang made me laugh out loud and woke my partner 😅 thanks Chris!

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын

aw :) np

Excited For All Videos You Make My Day From Horrible To Best 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🎊

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын

great to hear it!

Hi chirs!

seeing this i now get why the pet store i go to grills people on tank size and experience

Pretty sure the boiling water logic is "sanitizing" the water. Some people have a terrifyingly weird obsession with "cleaning" things but not actually being smart about it.

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын

smh

Codenames is a riot. I’m a big fan of Catan and Ticket to Ride.

I'm being "gifted" my aunts 3.5 gallon tank she had a betta in but passed away, last year. She hasnt emptied it since and it is about half full of water that's evaporated, fairly clear water but brown spots here and there, fake plants, 3 petrified moss balls in there, a little heater stick, a lid, LEDs and the filter looks good as its completely dried out now, how can I "fix" it? And what can I put in here? I was thinking just cherry shrimp but it is a halfcircle tank with a more vertical space than floor space so Im unsure and don't know what fish would fit or do well, and plants? I'm doing some research since i havent owned fish before but there's a lot of contradicting advice out there!

I've been researching aquariums and wanted to start with just snails + cherry shrimp and add fish like guppies at a later time but I keep reading that the guppies might eat the shrimp. Is it a bad idea or could I still give it a shot? I want a lot of plants so they'll have plenty of hiding space but I'm not sure if that's enough.

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын

guppies usually leave shrimp alone!

Now that's a Patreon advertisement!

BANG! is my favourite too :)

Me myself and I, watching ftr just when it releases

@FishForThought

Жыл бұрын