Dude has to open top tanks lmaoooooo "I wonder what happened to my pets with legs?" I hope hes joking lol

Had a 4in crayfish break and climb floating moss to escape a tank, found it a month later behind a box at 2am without my glasses on. Scared the shit outta me

@DanHiteshew-oneandonly

Жыл бұрын

Lol I know the experience.

I'm not seeing how you actually expected to keep these critters in open top tanks. Baffling.

Hey Dan, you did have a crayfish or two briefly in the waterfall tank when you first set it up and were thinking about converting it into your new native tank. You also had two or three of those mottled sculpins from the creek in there back then. I remember !

You can keep 100% aqauatic micro crabs. They are no bigger than your pinky fingernail, are delicate, and have bristle pompoms on their claws to collect food particles like bamboo and vampire shrimps do. They never climb out of your tanks, but should only be kept with micro fish like Chili Rasboras. Some times they are listed as pompom crabs.

Keep your water level down Half way down for crawfish

Can't get enough + Rep

Severe dehydration in those critters. 😥 Interesting video. 📺

the same thing happened to me. but idk if they left, bc i never found any, and i also had predatory fish

Hey there Dan - I'm a new fish keeper, as of december 2019, and I have 1 Gourami, 7 black Tetras, 6 zebra striped Danios, and 2 albino Corys in my Aqua One Aquastyle 510, 20 gallon/ 75 litre tank. I run a Fluval 106 filter, with 3 grades of sponge, and 750g of Biohome Biogravel filter media (all that I could fit in my filter trays). I have managed to cycle my tank to where everything has settled to how should be, and all the water parameters are great. The trouble is, when I have my lights on, the water looks perfectly clear but, as soon as I turn the lights off, the water looks a slightly lighter brown version of the water in your waterfall tank. I don't have live plants any more, as I managed to kill off what I'd bought when I first set up the tank in early December (no green thumb), and I ended up with a terrible algae bloom that took a while to get rid of, so I started the cycle from scratch again, and just added plastic plants! I have fine river gravel on the base of the tank (2-3mm) - well rinsed - a well-scrubbed piece of pottery, used as a cave by my fish, and 2 small pieces of wood, that were used by my tank's previous owner - then well scrubbed before I used it (no chemical use), plus the ubiquitous castle with moving drawbridge! Is this right, Dan? I see so many tanks on KZread, with the water looking crystal clear - well, except for your waterfall tank? Like I said, the water has been perfectly well cycled, and I test it with my API Master water test kit, weekly now, (the last test done on the 16th March: pH: 6.0; High Level pH: 7.4; Ammonia: .50 ppm; Nitrite: 0 ppm; & Nitrate: 5ppm - and the UIE is .0052) to make sure the water parameters stay settled, with no spiking - but the colour isn't really clear, without the lights. Is this an actual problem, Dan, or am I just being a worrywart? Lol

@DanHiteshew-oneandonly

4 жыл бұрын

If you're getting tannins, that's fine, but I'm not sure where they'd be coming from. (I'm assuming you mean the water looks slightly "tea stained", and not cloudy or full of detritus.)

@KatytheNightOwl

4 жыл бұрын

@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly Yes, the tea stained look - a great way to describe it :) I do have the 2 small chunks o wood in the tank - could the tannin be coming from them do you think? My daughter says I worry too much, but I'd hate to be hurting my fish without realising it, ya know? :/

@DanHiteshew-oneandonly

4 жыл бұрын

@@KatytheNightOwl Oh, I'm sorry, I missed that. Yes, they're coming from the wood. they're good for your fish and tank, but some people don't like the stained water look. They have mild antiseptic properties too.(it's claimed)

@KatytheNightOwl

4 жыл бұрын

@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly Oh that's fine then, Dan - I'll stop worrying now, and be grateful that the tannin will help my fish :) Thankyou, Dan :)

Hi, I have red claw crabs. I was wondering if your ever open their abdomen? Is that a normal thing? Or it’s in the process of dying?

@DanHiteshew-oneandonly

4 жыл бұрын

I never saw mine do that, but I don't know if it's normal or not. Sorry.

Mystery solved.

I used to feed crayfish to my monster fish.......found a couple that got away. As far as crabs go I had one that disappeared for a week or more...went in my HOB filter to clean the media and he was living in my filter. The worst offenders are African frogs........the bigger ones not the dwarf clawed frogs every single time I bought one no matter how well I covered my tanks I would find them months later under my couch and even found one in my closet all dried up 3 rooms away from the tank.

@DanHiteshew-oneandonly

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah those frogs are strong. Lol