Starving my fish for science

200 days of no food for my tiger Darios…
they didn’t survive… they THRIVED

[@FlowyScapes]

Just to clarify, no, fish foods not a scam. You definitely need to feed your fish. This only worked because tank was big, there’s lots of microfauna and fish were small micro predators. DONT STARVE YOUR FISH!!

[@ScarletsWork]

Going to starve my fish

[@user-em5ge1se9z]

​@@ScarletsWork same

[@MrChidorinagashi10]

Why misslead people then?

[@ScarletsWork]

@@MrChidorinagashi10 He said he didn't recommend it.... If you bothered to listen, you've heard him say he didn't recommend it

[@ScarletsWork]

@@user-em5ge1se9z lmao hopefully you saw that as a joke and not an actual thing

[@jonathanfinger712]

Instructions unclear fish dead and turtle turned into a ninja

[@hzhang1228]

you might have a rat hiding in your house...

[@jonathanfinger712]

@@hzhang1228 instructions unclear rat is now training said turtles

[@thariqgreasy8184]

Ninja fish

[@crazyparrot2786]

​@@hzhang1228 nah that rat is in my hat

[@misterkelley9740]

Legit made me lmao, I'm 2 pant sizes smaller now.

[@The1Helleri]

The problem with a closed bio-system, is that if something goes wrong, it goes really wrong, really fast. It's also very difficult to bring things back to equilibrium without first suffering ecological collapse. This was an early lesson out of the Biosphere 1&2 Project. Totally doable. Just a lot harder than it needs to be for most people.

[@chspotato4774]

Thanks for bringing this up, I was about to make a closed ecosystem tank, but your point makes a lot of sense. It wouldn’t take much for an invasive bacteria to take over and stop the cycle.

[@The1Helleri]

@@chspotato4774 Well there are things like biobulbs. Where some stuff goes into a glass jar that is then sealed and does fine for decades. I think the root of the problem is trying to fit too much complexity into too small of a space. everything add increases considerations by a lot. For instance. You can probably keep a single cricket alive for it's natural life span with just a few plants that are too large for it to eat all of before they have new growth. , that cover a wide enough range to meet it's nutritional needs, and are big enough to find an O2/Co2 exchange balance with it. But add even one more cricket of the opposite sex and you introduce the possibility of running out of space, resources and disease running rampant. You automatically need a lot more plants to meet the demand for food and air at any single point. You need a lot more space to avoid disease spreading too easily. You probably need at an area that is inhospitable so you know if any of them end up trying to stay there that it's truly over populated. And you need natural predators to keep their population in check. Plus everything their predators need to survive besides them as a food source. I'm not saying don't even attempt it. I'm saying it's hard and with good reason. The people who can do it consistently I believe have stumbled onto winning formulas that they don't fully understand. They found something that works and don't stray far from it. But probably can't say why in granular detail. And that is to say, don't get discouraged by failure if you try it. Because it's probably not easy for most who do. And be willing to adjust expectation of what success looks like. You might have a neatly complete ecological collapse only for your closed system to find it's own balance that you didn't design later.

[@censorsstarve]

Would i be wrong to assume, though, that the larger and more diverse the system you have, the more stable it will be. It makes sense to me because the earth is basically 1 giant enclosed ecosystem. For example, the more diversity in the same roles should mean the system as a whole is more protected against any 1 thing being taken out collapsing the whole system

[@The1Helleri]

​@@censorsstarve When we say closed system, we mean that ideally nothing material wise goes in or out. Or that what does is miniscule in mass, quantified, accounted for, and allowed. So 1 cubic meter of any biome on earth is not the same thing as 1 cubic meter of a mostly sealed off artificial biome. If you take under observation just any slice of outside. You would note that there is air moving through it constantly. Some of that air might carry dust in it from as far flung as the Sahara. A bird might come by, eat a bug and make waste. Then fly off again leaving a small feather behind as well. Water run off will take away some amount of soil. Rain will bring new minerals in etc. Any designated area of observation in a natural environment is being constantly interacted with and changing all the time. Even the earth constantly leaks some gasses and is receiving new material from space in the form of meteorites. A closed system is an area that doesn't have nearly this level of interaction and interchange with everything that surrounds it. It's a condition that is almost always artificial. Closed systems can be species and material loaded and will still not be as dynamic as an open system of the same area. And will suffer ecological collapse without constant and careful, well informed management. Specifically because they don't have that interchange. Diversity isn't just about diversity of species. It's about diversity of conditions as well. Because conditions create selective pressure. In a closed system you have a singular condition. So the type and amount of selective pressure doesn't change (except during that snowballing of things dying). You can load down a closed system with dozens of species and very likely (at least on the macro level) only a few will pull through collapse and find a new equilibrium. But everything in there that's left is bottlenecked genetically. So given enough time all that will die off as well.

[@censorsstarve]

@@The1Helleri you seem to be confused. Why are you saying 1m³ space? It can be any size. The larger and more diverse is what i was saying would make it more stable. I was talking about the earth as a whole, the entire planet, is a closed off system. Nothing is essentially entering or leaving the system. We are an exception, a small amount of gas from earth escapes, and most space debri and rocks will burn up in the atmosphere. When you make these tanks you are just replicating a small section of 1 ecosystem. Its like you want to argue that because something is only typically done a certain way it that is the only way it can be done. So if i took a room in my house and sealed it up in a way that nothing could get in or out, could that not be a closed system just like your smaller tank? This video may have been about fish, but this is something that can be done with any type of life. AntsCanada has a giant (as he put it) rainforest vivarium. He does manage it somewhat, but from his videos its more the occassional addition of new species. But he isnt adding food in for them, they eat whatever they can find in the tank. For the most part the more diversity you give should help with keeping the food web intact and nutrients properly flowing. Like if you have a couple different things that eat the waste products from other animals then your less likely to have a sudden spike in waste if something kills off a bunch of 1 of the species. Its small things like that that were popping in my head for diversoty that would help ensure balance can be maintained. If i go outside right now i wont find just 1 species cleaning up other things waste, i will find dozens of things doing the same jobs, keeping the ecosystem in balance. Sorry i keep jumping back to reread what all you said. You bring up gas and space debri which i did mention, but i wanted to also bring up the same is true for his fish tank. The open top means its constantly having air from outside that can enter the water, dust, small pest. Any number of things that are a larger effect then the minute amount of gas leaked by earth and the space debri entering it. Which is why i say earth is a closed system. We dont really have the possibility of foreign life coming here and contaminating the planet.

[@Brackish_Babe]

This is why I love making a little ecosystem in my aquariums because then you can go on vacation and not have to worry about somebody killing your fish

[@niks9652]

Somebody could still kill you fish even with a little ecosystem

[@wesleyschooley4454]

Disclaimer: this won't work with a gravel tank that's not planted and for best results go with a dirt and sand substrate with loads of plants

[@dimitrijekrstic7567]

actually it can work with gravel too. It just takes a bit of time for the mulm to settle and seal/cap the nutrient rich soil you used under the cap

[@AgxntAqua]

Aquasoil is going to have a longer lifespan than regular soil, is less likely to leech through your cap and is also going to give you more control over the microorganisms that you do introduce into the system

[@duanesaunders501]

I haven’t fed my 55gal planted gravel (no soil) tank in almost 3 years. Dozens of mollies live happily and local pet store gets a heap of fish every couple of months.

[@nemo-x]

Fish food is necessary for MOST aquariums because most aquariums have some gravel, 2 plants, and a decorative castle.

[@apontutul]

😂

[@vivalarance1840]

Most often 2 fake neon plants I'd like to add there😂

[@Webb432]

I’ve heard stories of established planted tanks keeping fish alive for 6 months, no fish food. When you apply the basic fundamentals of the food web to your tank it can auto pilot for a minute

[@SoulZeb]

Fish Journal be like... Day 82 since our master stopped feeding us. Its dark since then... Either hunt or die.

[@shaimanraza]

😂

[@land2460]

Are you implying that they started naturally breeding again or that more fish started to come out from hiding?

[@orbogthedraugr6109]

Pretty sure he means breeding

[@FlowyScapes]

Yep they just started breeding

[@dallasbrat81]

​@@FlowyScapesso they only breed when food is scarce

[@edan1841]

I mean the kids also are a source for sustenance

[@dimitrijekrstic7567]

@@dallasbrat81 not really. Having a seasoned tank with tons of microfauna promotes breeding. Tiny live food that is

[@Giftig--Daniel-P]

I would love a full length video on this.

[@Hook1fred]

I did this as well. I had a large heavily planted aquarium that was mature. Life for busy and I neglected the tank. I had 3 pea puffers and when I check back in a couple months I had 5+ the original 3 and 2 tiny guys. My tetras thrived as well. The water looked great thanks to my plants and my auto topoff kept the water level stable

[@noka1979]

That's a natural habitat for them. It's amazing

[@rd3munna812]

It's not their nature habitat. Most fish we own doesn't even exist in nature we created these fishes by artificial selection. The only reason these fish didn't die is because they are too small so they will eat the bacteria in the water if you did the same thing any big fish like gold fish or carp they will die in a year

[@Lackalope]

One time I trimmed my planted tank I had full of white cloud minnows. I decided I wanted to grow out some of the clippings and put them in a bucket with a light and put it in the attic. Completely forgot about the bucket until I moved 4 months later. No clue how, but there was a live minnow in the bucket I must have accidentally picked up when I netted out the trimmings. Amazed he survived up there for four months just feeding off whatever was on the plants.

[@rauladdam1717]

I’m going to try this with my kids, they have a fauna in their room

[@henrylin6537]

I have a 6 gallon tank with wood, lava rock. Gravel. Aqua soil. Have dwarf grass thats slowly carpeting. And anubis floaters. It has 1 betta fish. Some bladder snails. And seed shrimp. The water has brackish. So i have trouble seeing the seed shrimp. The bladder snails i occasionally see 1. The betta fish basically gets fed once a week. And its healthy and happy and have lived longer rhen my previous ones. I guess its been snacking on them tank buddies. Oh and no filter.

[@francogonzales8574]

What fish are those they are beautiful

[@skotos5274]

bro thanks for this video, good content

[@FlowyScapes]

Glad you liked it!

[@maherbk9742]

I Don't Feed Fish, I Feed on Fish. 😎

[@cosmicvvolf2306]

Me too 😂

[@jakobxr]

I had a small goldfish and a couple cory catfish in a tank. The tank and gold fish were a gift during a relationship, after it ended I was crushed and neglected my fish and tank. Sheldon the goldfish and the catfish survived without food or tank cleaning for several months. Their survival was inspiring to me, I feel/felt so bad for my neglect but they lived on

[@GladSadMadBad]

Allah is giving you another chance to salvage the situation. Sometimes one thing goes south, but other things got better. 😊

[@xvlout999]

@@GladSadMadBad comedian

[@GladSadMadBad]

@@xvlout999 may Allah give u guidance ☺️

[@bibekgc4181]

What kind of guidance...Blasting Your self ?

[@adisimo9066]

⁠11/10 comment😂

[@user-gm7du2ms7v]

Yeah, secretly feeding your fish

[@chrisguy97]

This one’s gonna blow up. We’re making it out the hood.

[@ForgedinStruggle]

I love double Dario's. Nice color

[@itemtest1]

This is how Stephen King style horror movies start😂😂

[@jafjavier4939]

i have a 5 gal planted tank before, i purposely keep the lights on longer to have an algae, then seed shrimps eats the algae and reproduce, and my Betta is basically living in his own ecosystem

[@mosamaster]

I have a small aquarium where I have red tailed blue guppies and I decided to put 5 tiny shrimps in it. I didn't see them for almost 2 months then noticed multiple tiny shrimps all around the aquarium floor ❤

[@keelozest]

No! Feeding fish is not a scam. Believe me, some fish are just lazy sob’s. I have an aquarium full of ancistrus and they only eat spirulina and wood tablets, not feeding them is cruel af!

[@lindasidor7165]

You also have to get alittle pond water and that's when they get natural food. I will go 1 or 2 days without feeding but that's it...they give me sad eyes 😅

[@dimitrijekrstic7567]

You just interpret those eyes as sad, they are the same as they always are

[@craig559]

Great short

[@potatoesorsomething]

I still feed my chili rasboras but dont change out the water besides topping off. Got a bunch of plants to filter it out.

[@Atlas92936]

Love my Black Tiger Badis (Tiger Darios). The fish shop I got them from thought they were Scarlet Badis, but as they grew and formed deeper color. I wondered why they didn’t look like Scarlet Badis. Then I realized it was a completely different(but related) fish!

[@MrBiswas123]

The scary thing is if you translate it to packaged food for us humans.

[@parthasarathyvenkatadri]

Did this and my gold fishes started disappearing... Later found out the culprit was the house cat 😂

[@duktrilfromsouthafrica]

I started feeding my barbs every 3rd day ( down from once a day) . Their poop started turning green and their colours more vibrant. I think they have been eating algae and little microfauna in the off days.

[@dimitrijekrstic7567]

Yep. Green poop should mean plant/algae being eaten.

[@asusrog8872]

​@@dimitrijekrstic7567yeah but the thing is my fish tank had no dirt/sand or plants whatsoever... all it has is FAKE plants, so i gotta feed em

[@SerpentVenom25]

Fun fact, I forgot I had four little zebra danios in a 30 gallon tank that was sitting by itself for two or three weeks. I noticed one of them and they were actually pretty fat and happy eating all the little critters that were thriving in the water.

[@andrewvalentin6228]

Badis are specifically micro organism hunters though. You shouldn’t stop feeding other species of fish, that may not hunt micro organisms.

[@ellaaqua]

This is true. Definitely feed your fish. However, fasting your fish for a few days won't hurt them. They become hunters and is really fun to watch.

[@Barakon]

The fish food also feeds the microfauna if the plants don’t.

[@souka...naruhod0881]

Bought fish from a local breeder that regularly feeds his fish live foods. Meanwhile, i don't have access to live foods (i did try to culture but always failed) my fish are dying with dropsy one by one. I suspect liver failure because they couldn't handle fish food when they've been feeding on live foods from birth untill a random man who can't culture live foods bought them.

[@Acee23456]

I have the same thing in my backyard pond

[@arelaxingmusic3926]

I can confirm this is legit

[@trixie1636]

I want to know what plants you have 😮

[@Kyddoemiko13]

I believe my pond mountain minnows ate way healthier than my aquarium fish.

[@1971mav]

On the fish container it says feed 2 or 4 times a day as much as they can eat in 2 minutes. They don't need that much.

[@ThermicLight]

Yeah those instructions are crazy and run completely counter to over feeding issues.

[@Overhead_Official]

Wait till father fish see this

[@OrionCamps]

What was that Christmas tree in your tank....

[@paul48526]

the experiment is cool and evil at the same time 😂

[@TheSiddhartha2u]

Awesome

[@gamingvibes9584]

Yeah, feeding your dog or cat is a scam let them hunt on their own 😂

[@user-vw6my2mj9t]

Use wolfia you make unlimited food lol😂

[@tiffanyclark-grove1989]

she would’ve made a fabulous model. Sad that she had no protection and culivation as a child.

[@RampartPh]

what kind of fishes are those?

[@remyche8768]

Yeah man, dont even feed my fish or change the water, at this point i just top up the evaporated water got discus and Tetras also shrimp. Used to c02, wayer changes check water it was hard and would go to crap. My tanks looked like your. But now its just over grown dont look as pretty but less stressful 😅

[@williamsduran3232]

U should test the fish food that claims to enhance the color of your fish

[@notkeehan]

Bro studied cinematography

[@kazuma-san7354]

Instructions unclear my fish got scammed to death.

[@user-um7bd2tf9y]

When I fed my snapping turtles minows I wouldn't feed them fish food. The eat algae and if any 🦟 s lay eggs. Fish eat damn near everything. Probably healthier than those food coloring fish flakes too.

[@ThemissingJem_09]

Wow

[@JustTryingToYoutube]

Man’s out here trying to kill fish

[@Rafilkis]

What's that product?

[@JohnnyTVlogs]

Okie I will try to do my koi fish

[@Loki-innovator]

What are the fish names and average prices.pls

[@reconcile_icy]

You experimented on the fish

[@user-ej1td1rq9h]

What Fish are these?

[@ooze1033]

I didnt feed my fish for 6 years... lol

[@user-jm9iw6mm9o]

It depends on the species

[@Someperson-]

Basically, yes its a scam. The larger your system the better, the only thing needed is energy.

[@Lilvicque]

Bro I'm from Malaysia and I you tiger 🐅 and can u spamin my ah 😅

[@misterkelley9740]

It's a question of how big, and how much of an ecosystem does your tank actually have compared to how many fish you have in the tank. I built an ecosystem in my tank so I can regularly go a week or two without feeding my fish and it's not a problem.It's a small ecosystem, So I can only go a short while without feeding them. Because I also don't want them to kill all the microphone.And me to have to start over. But with a good ecosystem, you can typically go on vacation for a week or two and there's no issue for your fish.

[@lWubaLubaDUBDUBl]

my golden fish survived 1 year in plain water. how?

[@obsidiananime1737]

This is awesome ima save so much money on fish food never gonna feed them again. Btw does this work with dogs and cats too?

[@jeagerkej3171]

Absolutely fking not, it barely works in this example if you starve your pets they WILL die

[@zanzarrahaas4887]

Fish food is actualy plant food

[@olecwow]

ill guess you also stopped changing the water because thats the only way to start up the micro eco system.

[@Punisher32144]

You gotta feed mate

[@SilverLininig2024]

Bro i agree with you... I have a planted aquarium with a few fishes in it... Its been 3yrs with no filter no food no water pump... Everything is running just fine....

[@fritzmuller2399]

Please dont torture your fish :/

[@wastelandrebel762]

@@fritzmuller2399 they die faster overfeed than underfeed

[@jacobwestbrook9527]

Thats called animal cruelty, and it is a crime

[@Kashew1403]

no, you are killing your fish with your kindness, I mean you can feed your fish once/twice per week but no more than that, if your tank is a planted aquarium

[@prominecraft1483]

well u can feed them fish food

[@Hasu61727]

Pls don’t try this with oscars 😂

[@lemonade3623]

When you like fish but you are lazy 😂

[@lucianofriend5368]

Don't starve your fish, never! 😡😡😡😡😡😡

[@porosus331]

Microctenopoma ansorgi

[@lucindabrennan4218]

I hardly ever feed my fish and they breed like crazy (they dont even eat their own babies)

[@user-el5mx6ph4z]

Father Fish videos on KZbin

[@alfredogonzalez2857]

First You need to create a foodweb in order to stop feeding your fishes. Only small fishes will survive.

[@ikanmasin]

No you need to feed your fish. They WILL DIE if you dont.

[@masterplanet420]

As a kid we had a fish tank and didn’t feed them for years, had a little under a hundred minnows and they just kept going.

[@doggiestdoge3576]

Reported for animal cruelty. Hope you get a fine

[@BadWarrior-dn2rh]

Yeah its a scam when you have fish in river and ocean😂😂😂 be sensible

[@dannnboy2011]

Animal cruelty

[@Despair_8]

Are animal lives your playthings??? So cruel and inhumane!!!

[@Kenneth91619]

I feed my bettas every 3 days and they are healthier then if fed everyday

[@wh0tube]

Fish bait? Just please dont make any parenting videos!

[@beninchandrab5615]

Like the video … seems sense to me .. I sometimes in a month feed once 😂

[@humility-righteous-giving]

i want to do this!!!

[@goldenmonkey963]

Im going to report u for animal abuse! Just joking! But dont do this again !

[@thegrumblesquad4949]

misinformation

[@CheeseMeme985]

Reported.

[@ScarletsWork]

For what?

[@sleeeeeed]

​@@ScarletsWorkfor

[@junayedalam8463]

Animal activists : don't use live animals to try vaccine on them. Also, them : I want the vaccine too

[@ScarletsWork]

@@sleeeeeed huh?

[@ScarletsWork]

He literally said that he didn’t recommend that. Fish normally eat other fish to live anyway

[@Shrike456]

I know this is just some stupid gimmick of a video, but please don't stop feeding pets that depend on you for survival.

[@Foltyn-r9t]

Scam you're