The best part is that it's much more fun in making DIY aquariums compare to buying from a store. Fun and learning. Happy holidays to you and your family my friend!

@4me completely agree, it's not about how much money, it's about being creative.

I released my newts back to the place where I found them. Kept them for about one year. I pick them at the end of the September. Getting them into room temperature aquarium in the autumn definitely messed up their natural cycle. They start mating games almost right away. I did not want to use coolers for this tank for keeping them on the natural cycle. And by the end of the next Summer my whole family decide that it would be right to let them go back to nature. Taking care of them was great year long adventure my family and I enjoyed. I was planning to visit their natural place once a season - just to keep on observations. Though, my trips were interrupted by the limited access (bad snow storms messed up trails - some are still closed). Still have more videos about newts to work through 😉 Eastern newts certainly make one of the most interesting pets for aquariums. I may get them again in the coming years - will look for babies (Efts) to raise.

Thank you!!

Pothos is the most resilient plant among all terrestrial plants I tried to grow in my aquariums. They grow on top of aquariums with roots in water, the grow in high humidity under cover of aquariums and even fully submerged underwater.

Here is my videos about Pothos in aquariums: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l5bCaKFuiLeopck

Oxygen is essential for existence of all organic based living organisms. Some adapted to get oxygen from water, and some can stay underwater for prolonged time (bladder snails, whales and such).

Thank you for the warning! I did not experience any side effects with it yet. Though, I don't really touch it.

Thank you very much! I have not ever tried bonsai - though I've been eyeing it for years :) There are some very nice bonsai on display in Brooklyn botanical garden NY. I love it!

@@4me I've been there. I am just south of you in New Jersey. I am an amateur bonsai lover I know you have to be willing to put years into it and artistic ability and still be able to say "Oh well I spent 5 years on that juniper and it died" Keep it up!

@@AShoreThing Hi neighbor! You have a much better view on NYC from your shore than I have from Roosevelt Island 😊 Years go by scaring fast in this hobby 😁

It stays afloat until it gets soaked. I feed the amount of flakes that my fish eat clean in about 3-5 minutes. Snails would gather on any leftover flakes in about 10-15 minutes.

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That's very cool!!

This is the way 😁

I have mixes of temperate white, silver and orange. I tried culturing only orange. The white jumpers moved in a matter of first couple weeks. They are really-really great explorers 😊

Thank you very much!

Yes. Those pieces get eventually dissolved to some residue. I discard it all when I setup new cultures

@@4me Thank you

Thank you very much! Happy holidays to you and your family!!

Scuds seem to avoid two plants among all aquatic plants that I tried in my aquariums: Hornwort and Marimo moss balls. Scuds still chew them a bit, but would not go after those plants if any other plants / food available.

What about guppy grass? Or moneywort? My hornwort was decimated over the span of two days when I did not feed Are any floating plants also immune? Like azolla or duckweed

@@VetrivelR-zu3ks I give them guppy grass, duckweed, elodea at least once a month. Once a week they get a leaf of mulberry tree. And they get a flake or two of cereal every other day or so except days when I see leftovers from previous feeding.

Scuds eat guppy grass and whatever other organic available. Though, they have preferences to certain food just as we all do. They will go after soft parts of any plants if nothing else available.

@@codfishface5029 I don’t know if any reliable way of drawing alive springtails… the nature made them light enough and well equipped to walk on the water surface. You may try to force them with a pipette or syringe. Collect them in the pipette with water from the surface and inject back in the aquarium- hope the fish may catch some before they get back to surface.

@ thank you!

I am working on it 😉

My pleasure! Wish you all the best!

I have 3 types of springtails. The white shown in this video are the smallest indeed ☺

Wish you all the best!

They are aquatic snails. Though, this type of snails breath atmospheric air and therefore have to climb to water surface and often above it for breathing.

Years back I recorded behavior of two siblings males - it was mind opening to me on how different could be personality in fish. One of the males was very aggressive toward females during his "teenage". It changed quickly after females have grown old enough to be the Female. Life is beautiful! ✌

@@4meAmen🥹

I don't know for sure if they can survive staying in chlorinated water for prolongate time. Though, there are well known facts: it takes about 24 hours for chlorine to evaporate. The chlorine evaporates even faster at wormer temperatures and from the water body with larger water surface. The pond offers very large water surface. The fish may get sick initially, but apparently able to recover.

I keep colony of scuds in 5 gallon jars in still water - they breed all year around without any trouble. I also have scuds in all my aquariums with fish. The smallest tank are 1.5 liter for many years. The population of scuds does not grow much in small tanks, but they live.

@ your low tech success is really inspiring, I wish the differences in our setups was more obvious to me

@@cosmicclaxon thank you very much!

I came back to your question after good night rest and...well, one of the most common bad things that may happen in small tanks is high water temperature fluctuations. The oxygen level goes very low when water gets warmer - it is really matter of very short time for a cup. There is a chance your scuds may suffocated.

@ thanks for returning! That sounds plausible, especially in the winter. I’ve come across at least two posts with similar scud survival issues, and a lot of the comments say it’s an ammonia spike, but that just seems too fast. This is why I thought it might be worth commenting on your video

Thank you very much! Did you managed to breed banded killifish?

@@4me The males would chase after the females and trap them in amongst the plants and appear to mate but i never got any babies. I might try again.

@@stashmarten9740 Interesting behavior to observe! I've never tried them.

Thank you!!

Thank you very much! That is a very interesting fact about Philoscia muscorum!!

@@4me Its good to know becouse you may start to panic and think you have a colony crash when in fact they all just breeded :)

@@JarMaster I would not panic now 😁

@@4me :)

Great found! I've never seen black springtail to tell you for sure, but I certainly would try them in my terrariums if I got a chance 😉

What a number! Thank you very much!!

@4me LOL YOU STILL ACTIVE ON THIS CHANNEL!!! Anyway H.A.N.D.!!?

@@D4rk0utMusic 😁that's what happens when you like doing what you do 🤣

I've been playing my piano keyboard connected to my iPhone with this USB-C cable for almost 2 years so far...not a single complain 😊

I agree with you. Balance means everything for real. When it comes to mold - I have 3 types of springtails and still have to see them eating / gathering on mold. They all gather on yeast and food flakes. There is one exception I observed with silver springtail going occasionally after particular type of mold, though it is not something they do consistently. Cleaning out mold at first sighting is really the most effective way of preventing it from spreading around in terrariums.

Hi! Lately I've been drawing with my finger on iPhone😊

How are your aquariums?

@@4me An absolute joy, just as you said ! I moved the White Clouds into the big aquarium on Friday and they are delighting in swimming the length of it at speed and chasing each other around the rocks and plants! I really had a hard time tearing myself away today to go down to the beach in the sun😅 Thank you so much for asking, you are very kind 🥹🤝🤍

@@gayefanner731 I am very happy for you!✌

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@@GuadalupeGuacamole my pleasure!!

No. The screen of you mobile phone does not emit light in the same wave length as UV light.

Great question!! I keep the same stock. Though, I would love to get blue star endlers from other breeders. Unfortunately, I don't know anyone local with clean blue star strain available for trading. I don't want to mix my strain with different strains yet, which could be done easy with guppies. I am planning to add Least Killifish in the tank with my Endlers to see how they will interact. There is a chance they may crossbreed...I am not sure about it though. I just want to learn more about Least Killifish behavior in presence of larger fish. Though, if they crossbreed.... that would be something interesting to explore further 😉

That is the beauty of this hobby - the problems make us look for solutions which call for experimenting and observations. We are wired for resolving problems. We are good at finding problems and resolving them 😊You will love to figure it out in your way! Wish you all the best! ❤✌

Very true n thank you ✌️

@@robertfaber6796 Soulmate!

The slug found you 😁

@ it seems like it :) i went to the garden to find more and i caught two tiny baby ones! its such a joy watching them move about once in a while :D

@@Shanecerity Those babies can grow pretty fast with good care. Have fun and happy slugs :)

I see you are having fun providing them with nice choices of food to go for whole day long 😊✌

Yes, they were mixed sizes (I don’t know what possessed me, not my LFS 🤷🏼‍♀️) they all looked rather lean to me so I’m feeding them up, gradually, and they don’t look ‘pinched’ anymore so I’ve got that right at least ! ✌️

@@4me Do scuds manage to survive in the aquarium or they get eaten up ?

@@yashwantn5533Some adult scuds always survive hiding in gravel in all my aquariums including the tank with newts. I never see them swimming around until I move newts and fish out of the tank.

@@4me ok great. In that case they keep on producing young scuds and soome of them will be eaten by fish. Continous food chain. Do you ever need to feed the fish ? Few scuds a week should be suffice for the fish.

Thank you!

My pleasure!

The healthy running activity mixed with dangerous behavior produces very unhealthy results :(