I actually went to get a different tetra but the employee heard me wrong and I got 12 pencil fish, I didn’t want to correct her after she bagged them up for me so I just said thanks and went home with these random fish I didn’t actually want. Fast forward half a year and they are my FAVORITE FISH EVER. I have them in a 20 gallon with my corys so I have fish at the bottom and fish at the top, and they are so much more interactive and curious than I thought they would be! When I come up to the tank they all get close to the glass and I have to boop each one of them one by one and they swim back one by one as my finger touches the glass where they’re waiting for their boop lol. They’re very smart! My corys are just goofy and swim like crazy all over the place and are chill and happy but there’s not much interaction with me, whereas my pencil fish will follow me from one end of the tank to the other while I go around the room. and they’re the “boring” colored ones BUT in a tank with lots of greenery they actually stand out nicely! I really do think they are the best choice, I’m glad the employee gave me the wrong fish lol

I feed mine 2 times a day, in the morning, n before bed, because I do have a pleco. N i slowly feed as much as they can eat for 5 minutes. Meaning, I will put in 3 pellets, n will not add more till they are gone. I also gotta wash the algae wafers because the oscar WILL eat them, belive it or not. I currently have no ammonia n nitrate, or nitrite, but I do have to clean the gravel n do water changes like 2 times a week (I have 16 fish, most of which get to 10 inches or over).

I baught a silent air pump that is still noisy.

I should've quarantined the hatchet fish. Ick has infested my school of 6 hatchets ,bristle nose and pair of apistos.

Do the shrimp not crawl out of the bowl? I had an amano shrimp clear a 4” lip in our tadpole tank. I found him dried up on the floor under the shelves when sweeping later.

How do you unplug them from the wall to clean aquarium???

Beautiful ❤

Lovely and so is the fish bowl!

Ive had my same colony of cherry shrimp for almost 6 years

Love shrimp!

Very pretty!

Do you do a water change during the rest weeks?

You made it look so easy

The question didn't get answered yet. Where are the aquarium fishes coming from?! Talking about wholesalers as the source, the fishes are still in aquarium here as well.

What light do you use?

I keep this in most of my tanks. However I was wondering about my Molly tank. I put one and a half tablespoons of salt for every 5 gallons of water in my tank. Will that amount of salt do any damage to this plant? Thank you in advance.

Hello, my Oscar just layed some eggs and I’m not sure what to do. I have 2 Oscar’s and 2 parrot fish. I want to believe the Oscar layed the eggs because they have been guarding it

Thank you! I've found my new tank so stressful because there are alllllll these things you must seemingly watch for and eradicate with nuclear force, but meanwhile I'm trying to create a healthy ecosystem, and it seems impossible to get all the right microorganisms and none of the wrong ones. But sometimes I'll find videos like this that's just like "don't freak out, it's actually not a huge problem" which I really love to hear. 😅

This would be great for Christmas lights as well. I hate messing around with those old digital timers.

please make an update telling us how to remove the hideous filter :)

You can consider macro algae. They are saltwater plants.

These videos are amazing, right to the point where the word quarantine is mentioned. That assumes you can have more than one tank big enough for the fish. That is not possible for me, so what are the alternatives when putting these fish straight in?

these look like cauldrons from how to train your dragons haha

I managed to keep five together in a large tank with lots of branches and i mean lots of branches,yes they will spare with each other now and again but in the group it is spread out. I had them up to 15" before rehousing them. They love mussles prawns and blood worms. Great fish and can be trained too eat from fingers if feeding mussle.

After watching this video I decided to visit the store and received excellent service, bought a few things by Aquarium Co Op and picked up some Dragonstone and Mystery Snails. Will be back again soon.

I start off with a 10 gallon and try to get the smallest oscar. After that 50 gallon tank and then 75 gallon . Can’t wait to buy my Oscar!!! 11/30♐️

u didn't put the link on how to make brackish water in the description

Anyone want some, i got the green kind... free to good home😂

Well done. Nice setup.

Great advice. You cover a lot of area in a concise way.

Do they mess with snails?

I have my moss ball in a coffee jar would I be able to add one or two shrimp to it

Gorgeous !!

only videos on how to get ridd of them, but non on how to get them

Shrimps can't survive with my water condition then I tried nerite snail and they've been in my tank for a month and they've been working like crazy, I purposely let algae grow in the stones and glass and they've cleaned it all off...I haven't bought a water test kit yet and I have only given them occasional algae wafers..., I'm figuring out if I need to by calcium for them but may not if I have hard water, since I haven't seen any problems with their shells yet

Planted communities 40g is a great tank. My set up Driftwood and plants 12- Thredfin rainbows 8- Galaxy rasbora 3 - Dwarf (Croaking Guorami) 4 - red eye Red veil tail Gupps 6 - Venz Orange Cory 5 - Siamese Algae Eaters 4 - Neri Snails 2 - Krib (F) UGF and HOB

How many... W the lighting?

I just cought one from the river and I'm keeping it

I've been facinated by these creatures since i was 9 or 10 years old in 1976/1977. Thsy were in one of my favorite books, i was dreaming of becoming a marine biologist back then. Wow! I didn't know there so many species or that they were so geographically wide spread. Thank you!

So I had some fish in quarantine One was a guppy who delivered fry and then died. I separated the fry into their own tank and now that the quarantine is over I cleaned the tank and am now using the 10 gallon tank for the guppy fry. They are about a month old. Should I treat the tank with para cleanse since the mother had worms? It did look like one of the fry had white stringy poop. I didn't know whether they were too young to medicate? Also, when I am done medicating them is it okay for them to stay in that tank since there will still be medicine / worms possibly in the water?

How much pump is mandatory for ghost fish??

I just found your Kio farm by accident and was very impressed but was treated like an idiot for asking questions I “should” have known. The elderly woman, who I just realized is your mother was not very interested in helping me understand the most basic information I needed for this fascinating hobby. She let me know you are a Koi expert who even judged in Japan but the entire time my mother and I thought we were bothering her because we weren’t educated enough. I decided to leave when I asked how do you tell the difference between a male and female and was met with the reply, “here we go again, it takes experience to see the difference”. … so today I found another kio pond resource and spent 800.00 without being made to feel like an idiot.

Where can I get a shirt like that bro?

Excellent video! 👍🏻😉

Nice

The shot @ 11:13 is beautifully composed. Such a subtle detail but as a camera nerd stuff like that sets great videos like this over the top.

Should check out Champkoi and Genkikoi in San Jose.

Isn't this a repost⁉ I've seen this before🤔🤔🤔

This makes you seriously appreciate the resources and the ability of legitimate places like this. Yes we all want to be "breeders" on some level and this is purely about fish care and fish quality of life. It's a meaningful and beautiful thing to see places like this that exist as a hobbyist.

My LFS sold me one this past week and they kept their stock in their saltwater system. I buy my saltwater there as well so parameters are similar and it’s doing fine. Specific gravity is 1.025 normally. He has been thriving for a week so far eating frozen mysis shrimp right off the tongs.