18 Things Fish Keepers Should Never Do (Biggest Mistakes Fish Keepers Make)

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@oliverwinsome6059 6 ай бұрын

None of all these things I ever do, I also hardly ever change the water, instead I run a deep dirted tank... 62 gallons, with 8 Discus fish.. plants.. plants and more plants.. togther with a micro diversity.. a food web for the fish makes me able to do 2 feedings a week to the fish.. never be a slave to the aquarium.. enjoy the nature in jour home..

@FishkeeperThatPlaysTF2 6 ай бұрын

I also have a dirted aquarium with apistogrammas in it

@PR-vx9bs 5 ай бұрын

What about total dissolved solids?

@oliverwinsome6059 5 ай бұрын

@@PR-vx9bs due to the 1 plant to tbe gallon, and 3 feedings a week I hardly hit the high numbers.. a well matured tank is able to handle.. ofcourse keep upserving the fish.. and act according to that. But never be slave to the tank. Nature knows best. And take a look at the FatherFish channel also here on youtube.

@FishkeeperThatPlaysTF2 6 ай бұрын

2:37 2:52 I tap on the glass of my 60 gallon tank (240 liters) every time before I feed my swordtails, they recognize the vibrations and come up for food like crazy, the volume of the tank is big so it doesn't disorient them

@Coffee_Lover11 5 ай бұрын

Agreed, I do this too❤

@GunterBagsYT 7 ай бұрын

The thumbnail caught my eye so I clicked on it.

@zakosist 6 ай бұрын

I'm glad I to hear I do almost none of these. But my fish water is 100% tap water, and it has never been a problem for my fish although I had them for like a year or more. I also used a ceramic cup as decoration, it was an "ancient" one that I found in a shallow shipwreck when diving and washed thoroughly (no soap) before putting it there. It caused no issues. I knew you generally have to be careful what decorations you put in, but not exactly which ones are bad

@joenegal9603 5 ай бұрын

That's cool to know

@agostinomallamace4899 6 ай бұрын

Ty so much i’m goung to buy two fish tomorrow and and i’m happy to now what to do and what to not do, i already had some fish but they all died and now i understand why, i did almost every error you listed here

@troylow7900 6 ай бұрын

plants not only make the tank nice and as mentioned, they also provide numerous benefits. although tough initially, they will grow under proper care and once they do, they can actually give a lot of goodness such as providing shelter for timid fishes and also help remove some of the potential dangers posed by nitrates and ammonia.

@JTSBenefitsandBeautyofthePlant 6 ай бұрын

Put plants in and give them a week to acclimate.(think 2 per gallon ratio)..then add life....youll be amazed that the 0 ammonia/nitrite readings show in wild Co2 like growth......a little over a month in, I got my first nitrate reading which is holding firm at 5 PPM. Plants create a balanced enviroment, one which isn't truly acquired without them.

@mercilesswombat6872 5 ай бұрын

For Tap water it’s worth checking the local conditions. Tap water is safe to use in some areas and other countries (e.g many countries in europe). Where I live tap water is extremely tightly controlled and only if they find some contamination they add chlorine for a week or so. But they also warn population in parallel. It happened like one time in the last 20y as far as I remember. Apart from these extremely rate exceptions it’s as safe as it can get for fish.

@rubenowitzv.3135 5 ай бұрын

Any creature animal for a pet, Is a 24/7 major responsibility folks.👀✨🙈

@troylow7900 6 ай бұрын

i agree with avoiding 100percent water change unless there is a disaster and your fishes are dying in an alarming rate. i once had to do that because ick was running out of control in one of my tank and after almost all had died, i shut it down and redo it with full change

@Coolbluedude21112 7 ай бұрын

6:01 obviously, for that one, because some irresponsible pet keepers release them into the wild they became invasive species that happens in Florida

@smitashrivastava9703 7 ай бұрын

100% water changes is over cleaning your tank in general

@cut419ram 6 ай бұрын

100% water change being bad was a new one for me. Of course, you don't want to do water changes if doing a fishless cycling of a new tank so you can build up the biofilter quickly. I know a lot of people in the forums I frequent do 90% changes at one time and haven't heard the pH swing issue mentioned. I've done between 50% - 80% changes depending on the nitrate levels. I suppose it makes sense to prevent pH swing but that might depend on what the source water pH is versus what the tank is maybe?