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I too ordered from MedakaFix too got Kouka Orange Lame' [May 2024] and Red Cliff Dark [June 2024] eggs both hatch rate was 90%+ both sets are doing great eating live baby Brine shrimp now
@garygregory8025 Very cool, so far a very good seller.
very cool , soon I will order eggs from Medakafix.
@thehairywoodsman5644 Awesome, the eggs are good an have a great hatch rate.
Thank you for posting this, Marine 😎👍
Oorah! You are welcome, I am happy that you liked the video.
@@NoobAquatics HOOAH!! 😎
Like #169 nice lol. But yeah i got some blue dragon rice fish that came in a while ago.
@@Jewsus_Crisco Nice, I have seen pictures of the Blue Dragons, they are good looking fish.
Do you still have Ebas? Here in Columbus
@ericag.4212 We are no longer in Ohio, as we moved back to Missouri. We are no longer breeding EBA's, instead we are now breeding Nannacara anomala instead.
@@NoobAquatics Thank you for responding back. I really looking forward to a local person or reputable person who breeds Geophagus.
The twitch is a warning, my fry freeze and slowly drop to the bottom
Yeah, it's amazing how they signal to their fry.
This was posted a year ago, are you worm free now, or are you still battling these things?
Yes, we are 100% worm free using Levamisole (Expel-P) only. We still use this as a preventative on any new fish we acquire to avoid an outbreak of cross contamination. Amazing medicine and does the job very well.
Nice video and congratulations on the new house
Thank you, we are working on a few more videos, we hope to get them released here in the next few weeks.
What kind of worms are those?
Grindle Worms & White Worms
@@NoobAquatics and those live in the bottom of your tank? i thought those were like terrestrial species
You have a lot going on, brother. Stay sane and let the fish help you stay sane!
Yes, there is a lot going on. We hope to make as many videos of it as we can.
Congrats on your new home and property🎉 the new fishroom is exciting!!! Looking forward to the updates! Enjoyed it very much!🙂👍🏻
Thank you, we are really excited. Hope to make many new videos here.
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Dude go to dans fish if you want quality. Aqua Huna is awesome and maybe 1/5 the cost. If you lose out sometimes so what. This place I’ve not lost a fish yet
This is completely understandable. Out of all the fish you see in this video, we only have 2 remaining. This is even after treating all the fish for illness using our tried and true treatment plan. I am glad you have had better luck than us with Aqua Huna. Dan's Fish is really expensive for the quality you get. We have bought from them, and the 6 fish we received are all still alive. Our goal when purchasing fish is to lose less than 10% of what we purchased because we all know some loss is not avoidable.
@@NoobAquatics absolutely and for the price there should be no complaint. I mean you’re getting the cheapest shipping around. You want quality and wanna pay the bucks go to dans fish and try the 60$ overnight your fish will arrive Just fine
None of them are pests, they're all awesome!
Awesome, we feel the same, 😄
Teamwork makes the dream work. Subscribed. God bless
Absolutely, my wife is the best. Plus, she just like I really care for all the fish we breed and raise.
Local aquarium club, I swear is your best bet.
We love the local aquarium clubs and have been part of them for a long time.
Hey nice! Looking forward to more videos friend, ohio to Missouri with all your tanks!?😮 i know that trip was tense, at least it would be for me.. thats a huge amount of back breaking work
It was extremely exhausting, to the point that it made me sick afterwards.
@@NoobAquatics i can imagine!😳 it was definitely a huge undertaking
I have 2 ?'s > after 1 year, how much RO water did you produce weekly ?, do you still use this RO rig or have you upgraded ?
I would say that we produced around 1300 gallons of RO water the first year. We recently moved to a new state and have almost finished fully setting up our new fish room. In our new location we will most likely not use the RO device unless absolutely necessary. We decided to seek our and breed fish that work with the water we have available. The water here is a little harder than where we were in Ohio.
Kid's got a good eye😊
Yes, he can be very observant at times.
What if your tank is heavily planted I’m worried I won’t be able to siphon up all the worms while using Fritz expel-p
We have several tanks that are heavily planted. It's OK to not siphon all if you do a total of three treatments. We tested this on two of the heavily planted tanks that had these worms and didn't siphon at all due to how many plants were in the tank and to this day the worms have not come back. Expel-P ends up killing the worms through permanent paralysis, the third treatment is to kill the newly hatched worms from the released eggs.
Thanks for all the great info regarding hatching Medaka eggs! I ordered eggs last year from an eBay dealer and now would like to grow the numbers. You method seems very successful and I am looking forward to trying it.
Awesome, yes the process we have here has worked for all the eggs we have hatched to this day. We have now used this method to hatch more than 600 medaka eggs and have very high hatch rates. Hope this works well for you and you are just as successful as we are.
Purchased many things at this shop. They also have frozen tubifex worms, can't get any other shop to get those in.
Yeah, it's a pretty decent shop.
It is a, subsidiary or something, of Petland. I occasionally buy some frozen food and i have a colony of black worms from them.
I would believe it based on what we had seen.
When watching a Medaka baby hatched out in a small bottle, I remember the Space Medaka, 4 Medakas had a 15days space flight for gravity experiment by Space shuttle Columbia in 1994, they were the first vertebrate spawned eggs and the eggs hatched out in the space flight. The descendants are living in japan. Thanks for the detailed step by step video.
Yeah, this is a very interesting fish. The space travel is a really cool part of their history.
do you need a the US license to get these overseas?
Yes, or you can use a Transhipper as well who takes care of all the customs work for you.
@@NoobAquatics I bought some from a japanese seller on Ebay but I wasn't sure if he uses a transhipper and I didn't have a license so I had to cancel my other today because I definitely do not want any problems😨
Are grindal worms the same as room temperature white worms?
Yes, grindal worms are better cultured at room temperature between 70 to 75 degrees F. These are a much smaller white worm that maxes out at about a half inch. I have learned that with dwarf variety fish or nano fish, these worms are best and easiest fed.
great video! ive a question im planning to add old sachem black sand id on a tank I break down a couple years ago ill pour it on top of existing substrate (after rinsing it) can I do it or substrate already went wrong after these years? Thanks.
I don't seen anything wrong with using substrate from another tank, you can always try. After 3 years, the SeaChem Black Sand, because it is a porous clay gravel, it may be really soft and similar to dirt in its current condition. It could be a little difficult to rinse easily. If it had softened and broken down then there is another way you could add it. Depending on the amount of water/size of the tank, you can always reduce the water by removing it and putting it in a bucket or several buckets, and then adding the substrate into a smaller amount of water slowly. After you add all the substrate that you want into the tank, you can then return the original water back into the tank by diffusing it using a plastic bag or glass plate to keep the substrate from clouding up the water.
When you see yourself working on the display 😅
Lol
I was really considering purchasing fish from AquaHuna since their prices are so good but I guess you really get what you pay for...there are so many more bad reviews compared to other online stores, makes me too nervous
The health of the fish is very low, but on a positive note, if you email them quickly and send pictures, you get a refund for the DOAs quickly. Their prices are excellent. If you do order from there, make sure to quarantine and be prepared to medicate for up to 2 months before you put them in your display tanks.
I purchased from aquahuna once and my experience was good so far. I got some pea puffers last year and they all came healthy. I still have them to this day. I just purchased some ranchu gold fish for another tank so if you want an update I'll lyk
Thank you
You're welcome.
The wetspot did the same to me also i ordered 12 phoenix rasbora an the sent 11 😢
It happens. The good part is that they did provide me a refund for the missing fish. Hopefully they did the same for you.
We both got the same deepsubstrate thanks for the content
Cool, we love a deep substrate, keeps the plants thriving.
Like how u describe things also with the pencilfish i love them also have a set myself
Awesome, we are excited you enjoy the content.
No more gravel vaccum. True
True for us as well.
Love this
Yeah, these are wonderful fish.
Hi from Singapore!
Hello, and welcome to the Channel.
Good job. Gives new meaning to the "Show Me" State!
Nice, I like it.
Congrats on the safe move 🙏 and congrats on the betta male holding👍🏻looking forward to more videos
helpful!
We are glad it has helped.
I think the dosage of the Fenben wasn't strong enough? In the tank with Fenben you have snails. Fenben kills snails, so this telling me you didn't use proper dosage or Fenben was out of date.
The Fenben was dependent on the fish eating the food. So the FenBen was food based and the Levamisole was powder based in the water column. This method is less dangerous for the inverts in the tank. This was prepared by DiscusUSA and was not expired. Finding Fenben in powder form was not as easy at the time of this video. But, DiscusUSA does now sell FenBen in its powder form if you are wanting to chance the dosing. Even with the powder form, as we have tried that recently, it still seems to be less effective, so our main choice currently is Levamisole.
It may not be a true comparison because Levy tank is bare bottom which you can get every worm, whereas the Fenben tank had gravel and eggs can always hide in it. Neverless i will still go with the levy . Thank you for the info
Maybe, but we were not as worried about the eggs. Yes, the eggs can cause a re-infection. But our main concern with this test is how well it worked in killing and/or expelling the worms in the fish. We found that Levamisole seems to remove the worms from the fish better, and the FenBen didn't do much to expell the worms already in the fish. One other issue is how both meds are delivered. We could only find FenBen on medicated fish food at the time of this video, and this required the fish to actually consume the correct amount of medicine. This made it really hard to get the fish properly medicated. The Levamisole was delivered in the water column as a powder and absorbed into the body. One thing we can say is that we are extremely pleased with how well Levamisole works, and after three full treatments, we have never seen any of the worms come back, even on the three tanks we did not gravel vac. DiscusUSA does sell the powder form of FenBen if you ever find that Levamisole isn't working.
The red rainbow fish died because they have Camallanus worms you have to use levamisole it’s the only thing that works on them every red rainbow I have gotten from aqua huna has has red worm
That is always a possibility. But from what we had seen, they didn't show any signs of camallanus worms. Levamisole is part of our 2 month long quarantine process we do on all our new fish. With their survival rate, we don't plan on buying any more fish from Aqua Huna.
Thank you. I needed this video!
Excellent I am glad the video helped.
Looks way better then when drove 3 hours got there and there was one lady there and no very helpful 🙄 we would ask something she would answer real fast then act like we wasn't there I won't ever go there again my special needs son was very upset how we was treated
I am truly sorry, it is never good to have a bad experience anywhere. From our experience, we enjoyed the store and thought the improvements were great. We didn't have a lot of interaction with the staff, but from what we did, they seemed very friendly.
I appreciate you and your family coming out again! We will be continuing to update and of course adding more animals as we grow here!
You're welcome, the store is looking great. Keep up the excellent work out there.
Hi, I would like to mineralize RO water to increase the KH level and also ensure a constant pH level of 6.5. I have Seachem Alkaline Buffer and Acid Buffer. The store advisor suggested that I buy the Brightwell Florin Delta KH+ product. Doesn't it have the same effect as Seachem? Secondly, will Seachem cause degradation of the active Master Soil Powder substrate?
We stick purely to Alkaline Buffer and Acid Buffer, what we like to do is add this to our water before a water change. These SeaChem products are a mixture of 3 different bicarbonate salts, because of this they tend to last longer on their ability to buffer the water. To maintain a pH of 6.5ish you will just follow the direction on the side of the bottle to target the correct pH. I would stay away from Brightwell Florin Delta KH+, this product is pure Baking Soda, nothing else. If you look at the ingredients on the side of the bottle you will see that it is Sodium Bicarbonate. Your better off just going to the store and spending a few dollars on organic baking soda. This is not a long term fix, and the buffering capabilities diminish too quickly. It also adds in too much Sodium, so if you are running a planted tank then this can become a problem for your plants and fish later. As to answer your last question, we are not too sure on any side effects with aqua soil. Most of our tanks are now dirt on the bottom or volcanic ash on the bottom and then capped with sand. Over time aqua soil ends up losing its nutrients, and you will eventually need to replace it or add in root tabs. You can always send an email to SeaChem to see if their products would cause any diminished returns on the aqua soil, from our experience we haven't noticed any issues.
@@NoobAquaticsThank you very much for your quick and detailed answer. I will do as you say to raise the KH in my aquarium. Kind regards :)
great info and footage, just picked of my first trio of flagfish!
Excellent, we are glad you enjoyed the video. We hope you enjoy these beauties like we do.
Hello! This is the first time I've seen a species spotlight on Florida Flag Fish. It was interesting and they're handsome fish! I appreciate all the info! Have a great day too.
We felt they needed a little attention, glad you enjoyed the video. And yes, they are very interesting fish. You have a great day as well.
HI, Great and very informative video! I have 2 pairs of Nigerian Reds coming in and wanted to keep them together in a 4 foot 55 Gallon tank. Do you thing this is possible? Cheers Chris
Excellent, glad you liked the video. We have always found that the females are the most aggressive in these fish. Sometimes to the point of killing the other female. Males tend to show colors, gill flash, and mouth wrestle a bit, but I have not seen any males battle it out to the death yet. But to answer your question, Yes, it is possible to have two pairs in a 55, but all fish have different temperaments and personalities, so if for some reason it doesn't work out, always have a backup plan on where you can put the more aggressive pair.
I would recommend making a diy dowel rod flapper for the inside sanding. It would make your process easier.
I will take a look into doing that. After I created this video, I used the end of an old wooden broom stick and wrapped and gorilla taped the sand paper around that and that worked pretty well. It was much easier on the fingers, lol.