cool didn't know they make those ball siphons I have been looking for something like that. A lil trick I use to make sure babies don't get stuck and mushed in the roots, I will shake gently while bringing up slowing that way it shakes everything out of the roots, gently .

ok I've watched several of your vids and you are one of the busiest people I have ever seen. I don't know how you get it all done. I have plants chickens, pigs, horses, goats snakes setting up my first tank in years and have a full time job. you still win lol. well I must give credit to the wife that does lots of animal chores.

excellent Rachel nice video I love your videos

nice update. Cool to see the progress on the bins

Congrats Rachel on the spawning of such a cool little species!!!

This is Awesome Rachel! Thank you for your continued efforts in being such a great resource of information in the hobby. I would like to see more methods of winterizing outdoor aquatic and marginal plants in your future videos! 💙

Another gorgeous fish I found quite by accident a while back. I'm glad I saw your video on this as I didn't know you might have them (I see this is last year's). I turned my LFS guy onto looking into them, but he did mention they wouldn't be something they would stock because of their lifespan. I will keep an eye on your stocking list in the future when looking for them potentially. Thanks so much for all your videos. (Am glad to have found your channel. Your 101 nano species book is what I used when setting up my tanks last year and I've turned my LFS onto it as well and they now use it as reference material ).

@RachelOLeary

7 жыл бұрын

+Carla Pappalardo thanks so much carla!

thanx for the tip Rachel! the snails worked!!!!!

Thank you for the tip on the water they are in being soft rain water. I'm about to bring mine inside. And was going to put them in their tub water just to keep their good bacteria water. I have hard water in the house. Thanks to your tip , I know to do the switch a lot slower than I was going to.

That's awesome, can't wait to see what you get!

Your videos are so educational! Thank you.

@RachelOLeary

7 жыл бұрын

+dena butler my pleasure

This is SOOOOO COOOOOL!!!! =D Totally geeking out right now ... I gotta decide what species to put outside this year!!

Rachel, you can overwinter water lettuce potted in soil , not floating in water. In nature they can be found in seasonally floded areas.

I've already started closing all mine down here In the uk the weather has deteriorated a lot 😱 nice fry Rachel 🤗🤗

they are amazing. id love to do a pond one day. cant wait to see what they fry look like when they grow

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I have a tank of Ellasoma evergladi. They're so cool and I just found a baby in the tank. Love these guys.

@RachelOLeary

8 жыл бұрын

+Sharon Wyly they are lovely!

Great job I interested in getting some. First time I see them they are gorgeous

@miguelmarrero3176

Жыл бұрын

Ok

Summer went too fast! It seems like you were just setting these up!

@RachelOLeary

8 жыл бұрын

+Jennifer Langley tell me about it!

Grats Rachel!!!

Nice, Gratz!

never seen Pygmy sunfish. very cool

I saw the title and thumbnail and thought who the heck would fry and eat pygmy sunfish!?!

I'd say 20 to 30 is a good batch. Maybe you'll have a few pair up as they mature

Hi Rachel, I rarely see these beauties in lfs, could u plz do a species spot light on Pygmy sunfish? The water parameters, environments, etc. thank you~

they can handle temperatures well below 50. the banded pygmy sunfish is wild in my area and endures water temps in the 30's. i've collected them after breaking thin surface ice. i'm in mississippi and not sure where you are, but as long as they don't freeze solid, they're good. i mainly catch them in swamp pools that dry out in late summer.

You said in one of your videos you buy fish from suppliers, can you do a video on buying whole sale and finding rarer fish?

@TwoRavensMinis

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that would be really cool!

Hi Rachel, I live in the Caribbean where it's warm all year,do you think neon tetra's would enjoy this weather,I love them but worried about the conditions over here.

hi there you actually motivated me on setting up tubs as well. im on the other side of the globe, South Africa. our spring just started, so we are getting day temps of 25 degrees celcius, and night temps of 11 to 14 degrees celcius. but im checking the temps every morning between 6 and 7, was on 12 degrees this morning in the tubs. im planning on doing live barers for my first time around. also still need some plants, but will get it month end, when i stock the tubs. do you have some kind of overflows or holes drilled in the tubs? im just trying to figure out how to keep fry and fish inside the tubs if we get heavy rains. last thing i want is for it to overflow.

I love to get my hands on some Dwarf Water Hyacinth

You got chickens too...!

@RachelOLeary

8 жыл бұрын

One of my chickens has her own instagram page, the Original Stalker Chicken! LOL

I like it :)

can you use crushed coral substrate to buffer the water outside so it doesn't turn acidic from rain water. or would that make the ph and kh too high?

I just saw Father fish catching them in a spring thats in a ditch on the side of the road.

Great video! I watched all of it! I've settled it down to Pygmy sunfish or Dario Dario. Whatever one is at LFS or I can find somewhere. What should I feed these fish I don't want any culturing of bbs or anything like that. What could I feed frozen or freeze dried food for there tiny little fish? Thank you and how many male and female ratio can I have in 5.5?

wow!!

can you talk about the species spotlight of the dwarf puffer or pea puffer?

Very glad i found your channel! Id like your opion, i have a 75gallon aquarium and i never grew live plants....i just went and bought 7 low to mid light plants....no co2 and i just bought 1 48" 8000k led from 21 LED usa. can you please give me your opion if you know of ONE LED(if none are good enough to have just 1 then tell me to get 2) strong enough for this 75gallon low-mid light planted aquarium.....i dont mind spending 300 on 1 or 400 on 2.....thank you so much for any help

I'm in CA. and I want to get a few breeders ❤

I'm really interested in how you condition your water or what products you use to do so? Thanks :)

@RachelOLeary

7 жыл бұрын

+Marissa Karto I have a well, I don't need to use any chemicals

Do you have any for sale atm?

You've worked with soo many fish. I am looking into nano fish for a 5.5G setup and had a few questions about some uncommon fish I can't seem to find any experienced people to ask. Can scarlet badis, pygmy sunfish, or anchor catfish tolerate hard water with some API freshwater aquarium salt in it? I'm looking for some small, peaceful, little shy, slow moving fish that tend to graze on their food rather than gobble it up as the star of the tank (FW longnose pipefish - lots of debate on if they need brackish conditions so right now I'm considering keeping them full FW but with FW salt) require slow eating, non aggressiveness tank mates. Thought these nano species would be a good place to start as all are rather slow moving and shy.

Any word on how the chili rasboras did outside?

@RachelOLeary

7 жыл бұрын

+aligpiro hopefully I will bring the rest of the fish in this week. Plan to work on it tomorrow

Rachel how long have you been in the hobby?

@RachelOLeary

6 жыл бұрын

my entire life, but at this sort of level- about 14 years.