The high quality of your stuff would be good enough, the rate that you pump out these information-dense videos is shocking. There's no doubt in my mind that this is THE aquarium channel to watch

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Well i am honored to read this, and I work as hard as i can, trying to put 40 to 60 hours into the research, filming, outlines, editing and responding/interacting with viewers. So it means a great deal to me, to know that you can tell the difference between the large budget channels vs mine haha. Have a great weekend

@Tipman2OOO

Жыл бұрын

Right it's internet gold for me!

@MattyP650

Жыл бұрын

Agreed 100%

@LostLeftyLimb

Жыл бұрын

💯 dude.

@markfranklin8831

Жыл бұрын

It's really one of the best out there 💯💗✌️👍

Your fish are telling you they need more space. Yes I'm a fish whisperer!

@sjaaakvandijk321

Ай бұрын

it baffles me that you have been the only one commenting on this in the year after it's been uploaded. The fish are living in healthy water, just no too much of it.

@SissypheanCatboy

21 күн бұрын

@@sjaaakvandijk321 probably because fish don't care about anything, so long as their basic needs are met. The fish are able to move freely and orient themselves easily, their water is perfect quality, and they're adequately fed. Some fish _do_ need lots of space to quickly swim around, but plecos and angelfish couldn't care less.

excellent review Alex. This is a fundamental piece of work.

@Fishtory

11 ай бұрын

Glad you think so too! Cheers

Brother this is why I love your channel. Right in line with how I approach tanks. I dont want a perfect tank I have to constantly maintain. I want a interesting little self running world in a box I get to observe from the outside.

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Amen. And thank you kindly

It makes me feel super happy to know that there are people out there that truly are progressives for this hobby. This information is so valuable and needed. Everytime I go into my LFS I feel like I need to teach them something 😂

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Lol just remember that there is no right way to keep fish....but a few wrong ways

@RyanStonedonCanadianGaming

Жыл бұрын

Some major stores pay their employees to lie to make a sale.

@nathanbrown8515

9 ай бұрын

I can't talk to the employees at my LFS about anything, really. A few years ago there was one guy that I could talk to. But now it's like I feel dumber after I talk to any of them.

@missyflutter5562

5 ай бұрын

@@FishtoryI’ve heard someone say there’s fish keeping and then there’s fish abuse 😂😅

Thank you so much for this. This gave me SO much inspiration! I feel lucky to live in Oregon, because I have tons of healthy bodies of water that I can access. I went to a local creek (a part of a local river) and collected some decaying leaves/mulm/organic matter and some water, and brought it home. I got a big rubber stock tank to make into a "pond". I recently did an overhaul on my main tank, and switched the gravel substrate to a dirted substrate. I used the old gravel to fill the bottom of the tub that sits outside. I actually tested the water from the creek out of curiosity prior to using anything I collected from it. I tested for ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, pH, kh, gh, and copper. I used some of the mulm/water I got and put it into a jar so I could observe it. So far, I've seen various species of copepods/daphnia, seed shrimp, scuds, water mites, water beetles, ramshorn snails, bladder snails, and some nematodes. I went to a local pond shop and bought a water lily (came with free frog eggs, filamentous algae, and more snails!). The shop owner was even nice enough to give me a few gallons of green water for free to put in there. Now, I have a whole miniature ecosystem in there and it's doing amazing! Sorry for the boring essay, but I'm incredibly excited about this. I'm so thankful to have gotten this project idea from you. Thank you for everything you do.

I love a little ecosystem I created for my cpd's tank. I started by adding moss, some aquarium plants. Then I added snail eggs and fish eggs. When my fry hatched and I started feedinf them infusoria. I bought some life daphnia to feed the adults and decided to put some in fry tank. They started breeding there. My fry grew, I probably overfed some and started noticing detrite worms. I also got a lot of daphnia. And my baby snails grew. Now my fry reached the size where they hunt for baby daphnia and small worms. I had to spend 2 days in the hospital and couldn't feed the tank. But all my fry survived and grew. 😊 Tank also looks spectacular. Full of life. Daphnia, fry, snails, copepods. Everywhere you look, something is alive and moving. I still feed infusoria, microworms and some artemia.

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

👏 amazing.

I think you are the perfect example of "If you do what you love.." I smiled when you took us to your backyard because it wasn't unlike my backyard growing up, except we only had mosquito and tadpoles, and the occasional snake. I am always eager to hear what you have to share with us for the sole purpose of creating the most ideal environment for our aquatic animals. Your love of aquatic husbandry is contagious and we are lucky you aren't stingy with your talents or knowledge.

@Fishtory

11 ай бұрын

That is so kind of you to write. Thank you! Nature is my vice hehe

I really appreciate you Alex getting this out there, you and Father Fish are sharing how to have wonderfully healthy aquariums naturally 🐠

Took a really bad fall last night…had intended to order my tank this month. Set off every pain causing illness I have and badly bruised my hip joint, top of my head and my hands. I may not be commenting for a a while. And I will put my tank off at least a month,maybe two, depending on how I heal. Fee;ing frustrated, upset, disappointed and generally cranky. Hope you are well! Pollen count is already off the chart up here in Delaware.

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Im so sorry to read this! Hang in there... rest up and keep your chin up. Ill be here doing my thing when you're ready to get back to it. Best wishes to you

I never get tired of watching this

The amount of knowledge, context and understanding you bring is astounding.. I've learned so much and my tanks have never looked better.

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

This comment truly makes my week. Thank you so very much. Im honored to know the channel is of use to you. Happy fish keeping

I think it’s this channel for the why, and Serpadesign for the how.

@Fishtory

3 күн бұрын

I'm honored! I'd love to work with Tanner some day. Maybe if enough people mention it to him lol 😆 thanks for watching !

BRILLIANT! I just sat thru a college biology class by watching this thoughtful and progressive video. I left a storage tub on my deck last spring and summer. Rainwater accumulated and things started growing in there. Tree frogs were attracted to my deck for the 1st time in my 10 years in this house. So, tadpoles appeared. My chickens loved to drink out of this container (forget the fresh water bowl!) and had access to nibbling on the tadpoles. Deck biome, lol! Oddly enough, I have containers of standing water and no mosquitos here. I’m totally onboard with the balance-of-nature systems. I had an aquarium years ago and OH, you are tempting me back again! It’s a wonderful hobby. Continued good fortune with this channel,. You’ve got LOTS of great info to share!

As a lifelong fisherman and aquarist, I wholly agree.

Your channel and tank philosophy are right in line with mine, I’ve been keeping aquaria for 40+ years, and have tried all different ‘tech’ levels, there’s just something about the simple balanced tank with basic lighting, deep sand substrate, heavy planting, low bio load and a simple sponge filter is just so appealing and natural It’s a similar philosophy as ‘Father Fish’ but without all the unnecessary and illogical religious bullshit which has no place in an aquarium keeping channel. Yes, I know FF is a religious ‘father’ and he does overall do a good job of keeping the two subjects separate, and I appreciate that, but with your channel, I know it’s going to be just the facts on aquaria and no illogical extraneous tangents, and I appreciate that even more :)

@plantagominor722

2 ай бұрын

real talk over here - I feel the same about Father Fish. Such good pointers and teaching, mixed in with... general weird old man stuff

nicely done! I heard once "never criticize someone for mispronouncing a word, because it means they read it"

@Fishtory

7 ай бұрын

Haha love it

When starting a new tank, I always add a bit of tank water from each of my healthy established aquariums to try and build the microbiome, so far so good!

@Fishtory

9 ай бұрын

Great plan! I do too!

@stevengraham8841

6 ай бұрын

Apparently that doesn't work I've been told

@Fishtory

6 ай бұрын

@stevengraham8841 it helps most definitely. There is a bit of controversy since many people assume the bacteria... nitrosoma and nitrobactcilis only live on filter media. However, they live on any surface... and some are floating around at any given time. Something less than 5% of the nitrogen conversion bacteria is in your water collumn compared with 95% on surfaces and media. That 5% will colonize the new tank's surfaces though... and usually we wait for the bacteria to just "appear" from thin air and cycle our tanks within 4 or 5 weeks. Well even 5% of the bacteria...heck, even 1% of the bacteria, still equals millions of tiny cells...and they double every 9 to 12 hours, growing exponentially. So water from an existing, cycled tank skips a week or two of the intial bacteria colonization

I dare say in the tropics you won't need to inoculate your tanks. Keep the window open year round, open enough that birds and other big prey can't enter so that the wind can transfer everything into your tank Or put the tank outside for a spell and put mesh on it with decent openings on top of it so that the smaller stuff can enter the tank and the bigger stuff can't

@Fishtory

Ай бұрын

100% this is correct

Your Silky looks just like our cat Matcha 😊 My wife surprised me with a betta fish for my birthday last week....never raised a fish before but I am a total nature freak so right away all the sterile tank / fake decorations started to trigger me and also the thought of weekly water changes and adding chemicals to the tank etc. So the past week i've been traveling the interwebs from wormhole to wormhole, came to you from the Father Fish comment section and feel like I found home, thanks for doing this! Just cleaned out a 15 gallon tank, setting up a substrate, found some river plants, gonna buy some more and a handful of tank mates. Your videos have made the deeper knowledge so accessible and reassured me this is possible and inspired me with your thick ass foliage. You're a good human being! My heart thanks you!

@Fishtory

8 ай бұрын

Aww thank you. And thanks for caring for the nature in our world. I value father fish greatly, Lou is a friend, but we have a few disagreements, just that i think you can do things 3 or 4 "correct" ways...but i prefer the way he leans towards also. :) best of luck my friend!

@evergreenpsyche

8 ай бұрын

@@Fishtory I understand and feel similarly, hence why your work resonates with me. FFish seems like a great guy but I dont want to be too narrow in my thinking, plus you actually explore the details and science of these natural ways of fishkeeping which is more my jive. Grateful for you both!

I've kept tanks some years now, always wanted tanks like yours, but mine wont thrive. I hope I can achieve this with my tanks. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. As a microbiologist myself I was always afraid of introducing pests/diseases. Time to see the good things of these useful microbes instead of being afraid.

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Its always possible, but remember our fish come from pretty gnarly little mud holes and tannic creeks, puddles and silty rivers... undoubtly to their microbiome and immunesystems, it is everyday normal stuff, where as the pet trade, fish stores and holding facilities are the super spreader, bad Pathogen havens

@Yolaana

Жыл бұрын

@@Fishtory you're totally right. Never thought about it in this way. Thank you!

"I'm just throwin something out there!" Bro, you're awesome, so intelligent and thoughtful. I'm learning so much

I don't even have an aquarium and I really enjoy watching your material.

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Awww awesome! Thanks. That makes my day! Welcome

Thanks! Teacher in a highschool here and aquaryist. I've been breeding White Clouds in my classroom for a year. These tips will bring my tank to the needed next level.

@Fishtory

8 ай бұрын

So glad to hear it! Thats really amazing of you to do. Im sure the students love seeing the process. I highly recomend doing kribs or some dwarf cichlid with parental care too! Kids go wild for that... or guppies and mixing colors or traits with punnett square predictions as an asignment

Watching now, great info. My oldest tank has been up for 10 years. It's gone through many iterations and always interesting to see its changes. Now it's got 3 Iberian crested newts, some guppies, and tons of cherry shrimp.

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Whoa! What a mix of critters. Cool

Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience.

@Fishtory

3 ай бұрын

So nice of you! Thank you

“Over here is Fresh Neptune (Joe Namath) rockin the shag tubs”

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Hahaha you caught that eh?

I love/hate when u make a video I have to watch like 9 times to understand lol

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Lol my bad/good?

Watch KeepingFishSimple's first garage fishroom tour with Adrian @17:03 this guy Adrian has special snail tanks and algae cups that seem to act as his own unique version of your bucket method.

@Fishtory

2 ай бұрын

Cool. Thanks for the idea and info. Now ill have to go try it too

Bro no way you just made this video, I’ve had my first fish tank for a few weeks and now have hella plants plus some shrimp yesterday and some isopods today (a few scuds came with it and some unknown little white specs I threw in the tank as well) but it’s so hard to find information about creating a proper ecosystem and what microorganisms I can get but I’m so glad I found you. My first fish tank is lining up to be a 55 gallon planted community ecosystem tank oh lord

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like youre doing it correctly! Use your logic and intuition, and keep learning about whatever interests you most about the hobby ...which will lead you to discover so much about everything else, as well. Cheers

How do you deal with mosquitos? Would your method work if I put a screen on top of these outdoor buckets (to prevent mosquitos laying eggs in it)?

Thank God!!! FINALLLLLYYYY!!!! I have spent probably 20hrs over the past month looking for some sort of list... -Microorganisms, Macroorganisms, invertebrates, Crustaceans, Arthropods, Copeopods, Larvae, Insects, Etc.... That should be used to create a lasting food chain in an aquarium. I have been collecting organisms for weeks but I'm a novice and don't want an eco-crash. This is the first video or literature that even comes close!!! Thank you!!

@Fishtory

9 ай бұрын

It wont crash, but if you want to sustain the fish with insects and orgsnisms in the tank, youll need a creature that eats algae or a plants/algae as your bottom trophic level. So then the fish that eat insects or mid sized aquatic life, cant over harvest their foods...its a tall order if you want many fish, so most folks feed the fish some essential nutrients at least

certainly important for an aquatic ecosystem. grab a jar of muddy water from a pond, river, lake or stream and leave it for a month. the life inside will be mindblowing

The more i watch of your videos the more im convinced your are the best aquarium channel on YT... 💯

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you!

Excellent, Alex. This is the story that must be told.

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Most the folks in the comments seem to be mentioning you :) i think nature is winning out, slowly but surely. Congrats on that viral video you created last week as well! People want to / are finally ready to hear your message.

@FatherFish

Жыл бұрын

@@Fishtory We are together in this Alex. Without your input I could not be as far along. With Lucas we 3 are changing the hobby.

@zeb33369

Жыл бұрын

Well as a new sub to both of you, I'm grateful for the knowledge share..I've kept and bred turtles the past 24 yrs but only just got into aquatic plants and set my 5ft tank up again for some angels..wish I'd seen the dirted set ups before but at some point I'll break it down and redo, had to laugh when I saw your faux barrel tubs as I just bought 4 identical ones and set the first two up yesterday for some plants..much love and thanks to you both for sharing your extensive understandings, from Australia🙏 🇦🇺🦘🐨 I have 5 tanks in my loungeroom rn, 2 for giant bettas 2 for hatchlings, and the 5ft.. oh plus the outside turtle tank so in total..looking for future tanks online..I'm in the grips of MTS 😲..and loving it 😁 may I ask which channel Lucas is?

Replaying back to back

Alex i am addicted to your contents❤

@Fishtory

Ай бұрын

I'll allow it. Haha thanks Johnny

Thanks!

@Fishtory

5 ай бұрын

No problem! Thank YOU! MERRH CHRISTMAS TOO!

Super interesting title. I'm sure this video is going to blow my mind! Thanks for all your hard work putting out such awesome content. And for being THE go to for finding info on giving my critters their best life possible!! 🙏✌️

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

ThanK YOU for watching, commenting and supporting what i create

@laurabustos6560

Жыл бұрын

@@Fishtory I just wish I was at an expendable income lvl that I could monetarily support the channel. You are literally my fish info walking encyclopedia! I appreciate your wisdom so much!!🙏

I've been doing this with water from a pond nearby. That's how I was able to source scuds. I haven't been able to get any blackworms tho. But definitely agree the more nature is in the tank the more it takes care of itself. Another great vid!

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

That is awesome!

@mikefrost1312

Жыл бұрын

Same ! I'm lucky enough to live in the mountains & have all kinds of little turtle ponds and streams that flow around the property. Black worms are something I haven't been able to find wild either, but I assume I'm just missing them, theyve GOTTA be there somewhere lol

@RaptorRockDrakeJesus

Жыл бұрын

Been sourcing scuds and water lice for about a few weeks now. Unfortunately my fish keep eating them so I'm trying to get a population going in one of my 10 gallons, I'm still hesitant to use actual pond water since I don't want leeches, hydras or flatworms. But at the same time I really want copepds, water daphina, worms etc. I do have detritus worms in my filters tho, have no clue how.

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

@RaptorJeSus scuds like hanging out at the water surface especially around floating plants ...and in darkness

You are like a young Father Fish! Great content

@Fishtory

9 ай бұрын

Haha yeah he and i starting publicly discussing the more natural ways of keeping fish, about 4 years ago. We have about 50 to 100 old streams together on his old daily morning show :)

If you have insectivore fish as I do it certainly doesn't hurt to farm the mosquito larvae. I would just go out with a net and scoop them into a jar full of aquarium water and use a pipette to feed them to my Betta, CPDs, and panda corys. Watching them hunt their food is so satisfying. If you never let them get to the stage of hatching out it reduces the mosquito population because they would otherwise successfully lay their eggs elsewhere. It does demand daily attention though or the mosquitos will win out. It never occurred to me to also harvest the algae and microfauna as well so great video.

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

I do that very same thing...but didnt want to advocate it for everyone...i have a whole fish room and can feed 10 or 20 to each tank and know nothing will ever mature. Great point though!

@jonisolis9645

10 ай бұрын

@@Fishtory so that is how you deal with the mosquito larvae that show up in the tubs?

Protect this man at all costs!!! Golden information

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Haha thats very kind of you to say

This is what natural fish keeping is all about. :)

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Amen

Wow love this. Discovering a new world of fish and planted tanks. Wish I saw it 8 months when i started. Ive got into microbiome of the human gut recently as i suffer from IBS and a few intolerances. Natural is definitely thecway forward

@Fishtory

10 ай бұрын

I hope you feel better soon!

I love this! ❤ I have followed father fish and he preaches this kinds of biodiversity with dirted tanks. I want to try this next with a nano/Pico planted setup with just shrimp

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Go for it! And tell Lou I say" hello friend!"

Another amazing and informative video! Thank you for sharing your methods! Ecosystem tanks are so much easier to maintain and fascinating to watch 🙂

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

I have been looking for an aquarium channel like this. Right on.

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Welcome to the channel! There are 1200+ old videos here also, and weekly new content. KZread will not get the hint you want educational content unless you watch a few back to back every now and then...sunscribing sadly doesnt work alone these days. But i hope you enjoy anything you watch and have a great week!

This is my goal, but... Only for nano fish. Seeing those angels barely move confirmed I'll keep my over planting tanks to my nano

@Fishtory

Ай бұрын

The angels always have a "donut" to swim laps under the plants like a cave shaped like a "c"... but the front plants were way too tall here because I had been traveling a month

so beautiful

there's so few people in the hobby that i see talking about microflaura/microfauna. i wish i saw this before making up my own system, probably would have saved money

Great work! Thank you for being an inspiration and source of information

Nice! Crazy how you got sticklebacks in there too.

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

They had babies in the tub i guess haha

Amazing information in this video, thank you!

Wow, you are like the secret protege/prince/son of father fish

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Lol yeah i started youtube about 3 years prior to him, but hes been preaching the same methods for a few decades, so when i met him and he started up a channel, it was like fate. For a year or so we were both on one another's channels a whole lot.

I’ve been keeping fish with this method for a couple years now. I’ve been keeping 5 little phoenix Rasbora in a 20 gallon tank for over a year now. I have never fed them. The only thing that goes into my tank is light.

Dude keep on making these videos, someday maybe I'll understand everything you're saying! Going to have to call you the professor man.

@Fishtory

8 ай бұрын

Hahaha i dont know about all that. But im glad its informational

Love your deep dives!

That was very informative; I wanna try this thanks

Watching father fish made the algorithm bless me with your channel, thanks so mucho for this information packed video, you got a new sub :D

@Fishtory

8 ай бұрын

Welcome aboard! :) and thanks to Lou haha 😄

Youre are genius person❤

@Fishtory

28 күн бұрын

I dunno about that.... however I'll take the compliment haha. Thank you

That tank is awesome. Thanks for the information.

Commenting for algorithm! This is one of the best "organic" fish keeping channels I've encountered. I just came into the fish world with 2 fry texas shiners and a tadpole 😂😂 i want to keep their environment as close to natural and functional as possible and the information gained here is worth its weight in gold, frfr. Thanks so much!

@Fishtory

11 ай бұрын

Welcome aboard! And thank you

Neat

Great information in this video.

@Fishtory

4 ай бұрын

Glad you think so!

Love this information. Ty 😊

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

You are so welcome!

❤❤❤ I love this! Thank-you! ❤❤❤

I have a 20 gal with a ton of plants and I never gravel vac anymore. Ive got way a bunch of plants to utilize the extra waste and nutrients. Happy to finally reach that point!

@Fishtory

3 ай бұрын

Awesome to hear!

Thank you again for your valuable insight.

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Of course. Thanks for watching

Setting up another 10g and hoping to get a deep substrate, dirty, and really push a living environment. Thanks for your work. Always earning those upward thumbs!

@Fishtory

9 ай бұрын

Good luck! And thank you

Never got bored watching your videos, Alex 😊 By the way, both my tanks… the betta tank, the tank with Tiger Barbs and Cory Cats… are jungles now 😅 Red root floaters covering the top 🥰 So… I am now in the process of creating another water world… third tank 😊 Thank you, thank you, thank you soooo much 🙏🙏🙏😊😊😊

Thanks for all your information!

@Fishtory

7 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

Thank you so much, this video is greatly informative and inspiring. For me it's the missing link in the road to real ecosystem aquarium.

Definitely shows you do your research. As always great content

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Thank you kindly

Interesting I have a tone of bucket in my yard I’m going to do this thank you

Hey bro, really cool. We need to promote natural sustainability in this hobby

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Definitely. Thank you

I'm so glad I found your channel. Love all of the information, thank you....❤

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

You are so welcome! Im glad you found it as well!

I appreciate the understanding of nature you have! This is a great introduction for people to understand the aquarium hobby and world!

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

So nice of you

Absolutely brilliantly explained. Thank you. I’m in Scotland. And just thinking with the energy crisis. I need a simpler more natural aquarium

Great video. What we really need! This is the way forward for the aquarium hobby. Just a quick question. How often do you change your water and if not, are the anaerobic effects of the dirt substrate everlasting? Do you have to do something to it to keep the natural effect going? Thanks for any advice you have.

Wooo! ❤ been awaiting this! Thanks for another amazing video Alex! ❤️

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it! Thank you kindly 🙏

So interesting ,thank you --for invaluable information.

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

I've recently just got back into having a tank and have never done much of a planted tank before as I used to have axolotls. I've been researching loads and I love your videos! So informative and you're really encouraging my new fixation 😅 this video in particular is exactly what I've been looking for. Thank you so much for the amount of work and detail you put into these videos.

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

No worries 👍 enjoy the "got to catch em all" phase of the hobby haha :)

i LOVE THIS STUFF, great content, very educational!

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

Awesome report! thank you for your work Sir

@Fishtory

9 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

mikimí love your aphyocharax rathbuni 🥰

Great information

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Glad you think so!

Great information as always sir 😊

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Jeff!

this was a very informative video and opened up my eyes to a different way of keeping an aquarium!

@Fishtory

6 ай бұрын

Glad to hear it. 🙏 thanks for stopping by :)

Great video

Silky is so sweet!

Hey mate, greetings from Fife 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, great video again, i got dragonfly & damsel fly larva in some of my mini ponds recently as i had bogbeans from a local pond in them, a good way to get rid of them is to suck them out with a turkey bastor in the dark with a flashlight, also couldnt agree more on the bio diversity thing im not as learned as yourself on it but i have outdoor ponds and tubs full of daphnia, cyclops etc which i pull out with a turkey bastor and im raising baby bettas i bred on water straight out my outdoor tubs as its full of micro things (don't know all the names) they thrive on it, i have 40 or so all from an earlier breeding living in a 150l tank, males & females together, i believe if you feed them plenty live food plus treats and spend time ticklin their bellys they aren't as aggressive, i can only speak for myself tho on this as i get clipped by all the "betta experts" for having them together as they're meant to be alone "allegedly" 😉 keep up the good work pal, cheers 🥃

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Thats exactly how i do it too! Cheers! Keep on keeping on, my friend.

Again a super interesting video. Thank u

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

I'm in Georgia. That is a skeeter factory.

@sancraft1

9 ай бұрын

I'm so excited. I saw a tiny white worm in my Dwarf African frog tank. This is a 40 long that I'm trying to create a natural tank. Right now there are only 3 frogs and 3 large nerite snails aka a few rams horn snails. I'll add the Buenos Aires Tetra from the community tank. They are a bit too aggressive.

Thank you hi silky

Love this Alex!! always the best of the best my friend....❤🥰

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Aww thank you Mary Paige! I miss you and hope life is treating you right.

Amazing, always to the point delevering a world of deep information. Thank you for your research and sharing. Also I would like to propose you to teach us how and where to do our own research, and maybe share what you read with us to allow us to go even deeper.

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Ill leave this right here for now... kzread.info/dash/bejne/pISh1LiEeJuZoKQ.html Also scroll back on the community tab. Members see more, but theres still lots there

Dude!!!! Y👌👋ou are on the right path, inspiring and thankyou

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

It is an honor. Best wishes!

Brilliant work.

@Fishtory

6 ай бұрын

Why thank you

Awesome video, great information!! Thank you! Also, what was that beautiful fish that swam past around 5:40 or so?

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

A betta nemo koi galaxy plakat ( betta splendens domesticated line)