Great video! I would love to see your axolotl tank! And axolotl (of course) 👾

I bred Discus, Coryadoris and Apistograma Chiclids in the 70's and 80's I shipped all over the world. Some of my fish were pictured in "The Encyclopedia of Tropical Fishes". Dr. Burges from TFH came to my house a took pictures. I never got credit for those fish. But when I called him and mentioned it the publisher sent me a free book. Adolfo Schwartz was occasional able to send me some really elegant discus. Mostly from Brazil but also (I think) from Columbia and Peru. I also was able to get some very rare Corydoris. I'm 82 years old, but I think often of building another fish room. The "bug never goes away"

It is always sad when people think environment (size of tank) will somehow override genetics.

Looking healthy mate. You can tell you have been eating healthy and working out. Good to see people getting healthy properly and not falling into the ozempic trend that makes people look like a bag of skin. Keep it up bro

Great video and to hear some truths about aquariums dispelling the myths.

My family has a 77 Gallon with just 1 upside down catfish. He's nearly 12 inches long and atleast 15 years old.

Hey looking good buddy! Love your work, you’ve helped me out a lot w fishkeeping

I just found your channel. Liked and subbed. Looking forward to going your stuff.

How do i remove the salt that i just directly put in my tank? 😭. Sorry im new in this.

My g is looking good ngl.

You’re looking good and sounding a heap more confident! Really liking the new style 👌100% agree with all of these also the API quick start and similar products are there as a helper to do the fish in cycle not so you CAN do a fish in cycle! to many novice aquarist see KZbinrs use these products and think it’s ok to add the 50 odd fish as long as they use quick start or filler boost and it will be ok.. then well we all know what happens..

Not everything that is squeaky clean is "good" or more precise to say "beneficial". Nature is not clean & organised.

8:46 Gonna say it, Dog < cat.................................. <Fish. In the terms of ease of looking after, i'd say the fish are WAYYYYYYY more hard work/Knowledge than having a dog or cat. Gonna call them out here, I went into a local PETSTOCK the other day. They had a "betta sorority" tank. It was about a 2 footish tank at biggest. In this tank was a single betta, a pleco, and 6 corydoras. With the corydoras they were ONE OF EACH SUB SPECIES.

We're are the picture on the wall in the background from legend

You missed the one I would like to see banished forever - you can keep 1 inch of fish per gallon of water. I'm sure that's fine with fish on an inch or so in length but once you have bigger fish the argument is ridiculous. A 2 inch fish is not twice the size of a 1 inch fish. Assuming similar body shape the 2 inch fish is twice as long, twice as wide and twice as deep. It is actually 8 times the size of the 1 inch fish. A 3 inch fish is 27 times the size of the 1 inch fish. 20 neon tetras are fine in a 20 gallon tank but if you follow the 1 inch per gallon rule you should be able to keep 2 10 inch oscars in the same 20 gallon tank instead. Good luck with that.

I’ve got a wild caught sail fin pleco that’s over 12 years old.

I agree with you on rinsing your filters with tap water, but I have the feeling your reasons for it might not be fully correct. Yes, rinsing your filter in tap water may physically remove some bacteria but that would be no different to rinsing your filter in aquarium water. You mentioned tap water killing the nitrifying bacteria, but this takes a very long time. The University of South Australia did a study looking at the effects of chlorine (specifically chloramine) in water on nitrifying bacteria. I their study they found that at the higher end of the chlorine concentrations found in drinking water it takes over an hour of exposure to kill 99% of the nitrifying bacteria. This means that a quick rinse is going to do very little to kill the bacteria. I can't count the number of times I have heard people say don't rinse your filter with tap water, when that is clearly not correct. Link to study: www.researchgate.net/publication/21373491_Bacterial_nitrification_in_chloraminated_water_supplies

That Ozempic working well brother 🎉😅

Ive got a school of 10 black phantom tetras. Some are over 6 years old. They are looking really old now.

Dude my great white shark is doing awesome in the pool.I can't keep calling old mate at work goldfish anymore 😂

"Sunlight causes algae" - this one...this lie is still strong

yes

Small suggestion: there are plastic razor blades that are cheap and won't scratch glass at all. Plastic blades sound dumb, but remember you're not actually cutting anything. They're pretty great when used right.

I had a pleco that lived over 21 years. He died about two years ago now. They used to say not to write “pleco” online or your pleco would die, so people always wrote “Pelco” but not me… so that’s another myth busted!

Looking good brother!

In 50 years we'll look back on this, for the moment that the term out waste was coined.

Heya! So I just wanted to share my experience with fish-in cycling! It's definitely not a beginner friendly type set-up, unless you've got that experience, like you had said, or in my case, I did extensive research before setting up my tanks only a year ago! I had never kept any type of aquariums or even lizards and whatnot, so i had no idea what to do going into this, but it quickly became my little passion project! . . . For my set-up i used I used soil substrate with a sand cap, but also, i went to my local river and got a good number of wild Gambusia fish, river leaf litter, some moss that was growing in the water, stones wood and even plants like Salvinia minima, bocopa, hornwort and pennywort! I used Gambusia and ramshorn snails in the initial set-up because of their high tolerance to changes in water chemistry. Silly hardy little fish and snails! 😂 but i had done about a month of research on how to basically kick start an aquatic ecosystem!

thanks Blake

Looking good sir!!! Must be from chasing all those little ones around!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Well Done! I have also heard lots of these. PS you been working out? Looking good, keep it up!

Looking good brother 💪

Handsome devil

Wow you lost weight

Awesome video Blake, thx✌✌

That's all true. Hope lots of people take this advice. Thanks for sharing

I enjoyed the myth busters but was distracted by the thin guy in the video. Whatever you are doing keep it up. Health fish and healthy fish keeper...

I know a guy who has kept fish for over 50 years and still believes that fish only grow to the size of the tank. I think we should make the word "outwaste" official.

What blows my mind, is move from aquariums to Koi/ponds and it gets worse. It's like a whole new subset of myths.

Blake has been losing weight

Shrriiiiiiimp! 🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐 Couldn't resist. They're so darned cute!

Great vid, thank you thank you✌️♥️ It blows my mind people still believe a lot of these - guaranteed to overhear someone say at least one every trip to the LFS🤣

i saw the title and was like were finally getting a blakes aquatic OF 😜

Can they live with a Dojo loach?

Would like to hear more about the quality of your water.. details.. Beautiful fish. Also more on what food you use.

Cannot agree more, very good piece of advice to put shrimps in a well planted aquarium and wait to mature the aquarium first. Ive noticed their favorite place is the "forest" of Limnophilia sessiflora. I've Neocaridina heteropoda (yellow fire) in a community tank and they believe they are fishes too 😂 Swimming all the time, very active.

Your chin is getting bigger and bigger everyday 🙂‍↔️

Really great video!! Thank you.

Thank you for the share of what you feed the fishes

Can this be used for a sump reliably?

Actually I think Elon Musk deleted my account. We are beefing at the moment. Mark Zuckerberg also deleted me from INSTA. I know things!!!!