THIS is why Fish Tank Stocking MATTERS | Fish Tank Review 267

[@FishForThought]

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[@zcatplayzzzz4179]

its a 13.5 gal saltwater tank with 2 clownfish

[@Magma_Dino75]

@@FishForThought I will once I set up my fish tank

[@tankdud47]

due to various reasons i want to make a fully planted triops tank but i don't know any plants that can be full aquatic and can be on land for extended periods . (would love tips/ideas)

[@EuroGupper]

Pro tip: If you have Angelfish, get floating plants. They love hunting for small critters inbetween the roots and if you use an auto feeder and the food drops on the floater leaves, the angelfish will learn to pull down the floating plants to get to the food. Ingenious little hunter-gatherers

[@JaeElle]

What auto feeder do you use? I’ve had crap luck with them lol

[@EuroGupper]

@@JaeElle Smart Feeder AF-2019B

[@FishForThought]

great pro tip listen to this guy

[@yashtapase3821]

Alexander williamson tank right 😂

[@amongusorca7487]

I used to regularly go to a local cafe with 2 fairly well scaped tanks, one of which house several tetra species along with a small herd of adult Manacupuru Angels. And during one of those days I witnessed one of the Angels chomping on a cardinal, then proceed to spit it out and left it to wiggle around headless.

[@FishForThought]

wowee

[@elune43749]

well they are cichlids 😅😅😅

[@DahLekKnight]

Pleco: “That Angel ate something that fit in its mouth!” Goldfish: “…Hold my bloodworms.”

[@FloweyFanClub]

had to change my entire tank situation when my goldfish started attacking snails bigger than his head. and winning.

[@lorrieleopard1072]

@@FloweyFanClub my mom once thought goldfish were peaceful & put a betta in the tank. This was like 30+ years ago but that poor betta looked exactly like a clump of fish flakes....

[@AVDB95]

@@FloweyFanClubThat goldfish channeled some cichlid energy. I know cichlids go after snails to big to chew by grabbing them on the foot and shaking them out off the shell never knew goldfish also did that.

[@FishForThought]

goldfish: hold my anubias snow white

[@artchic528]

@@DahLekKnight Goldfish are the dumptrucks of the fish world. They eat anything and everything and poop it out tenfold.

[@CatFish107]

That trollin snail absolutely cracked me up. Thanks for bringing it to our attention!

[@FishForThought]

lmao! same when I saw that, omg

[@opheliamunroe1110]

He said "Im married so I'm allowed to look busted because my wife already loves me and I don't have to impress her." WHOLESOME. 😭

[@FishForThought]

ahaha i still gotta impress her

[@opheliamunroe1110]

@@FishForThought Even more wholesome 🥹 Married and you still want to impress her. I guess she's the primary person you would want to impress in the first place!

[@cathyhendrix7552]

My favorite live bearer is the guppy. Of course. They've been my fav since I was 6yrs old. I know I don't get extra points for rarity, and that guppies are common, but I can't help it. Especially with all of the new strains and colors that are available today. They're just stunning little fish that I could watch all day.

[@JaeElle]

I love guppies too. I have one of my 20 gallon tanks dedicated to some 😊

[@FishForThought]

same same!

[@atticacouch]

First time my guppies bred I told everyone I was a grandma. Then when I accidentally bred my lamp eye tetras in quarantine I was obsessed 😂

[@FishForThought]

dang accidental lamp eye tetra breeding!

[@OGBarry16]

My honey gourami knows when feeding time usually is ( around 7-9 am) and when it goes outside of that time range.. she literally shoots water up towards the lid😂😂😂 love that little one… I didn’t finish the video and I’m crying at the sting meme😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@ianharbjorn]

Black Angel fish. Just wow. 😮

[@SAWYT_19]

my fav livebereares is a firetail endler

[@VolcanixAquatix]

I love endlers! I love the staek and the lime greens. I breed them, 1976 wild types, and El Tigre ❤ (not cross breeding, just the separate strains). I would love some bluestars, firetails, and scarlets.

[@FishForThought]

wew

[@laurabustos6560]

Who is that handsome married gentleman?!? Happy FTR day everyone! Wishing all a super radically positive week!! That fish in the sponge filter tube brings back trauma! My little anchor cat made the filter tube his little hang out. I thought he was dead because he was wrapped around the air line and not moving. Dude thought it was a cave and was just trying to make a home. QotW; Heterandria formosa/ Least Killi Fish and Platinum Halfbeaks are my personal fav live bearers.

[@FishForThought]

ahaha thank you!

[@Fern.The.Otter.Therian]

When I first started fishkeeping, I tried to make sure that the species I got were able to be kept together, but I still got angels and neon tetras. One day I noticed that there were only 4 neon tetras in the tank instead of 6. Never making that mistake again. Luckily the tetras grew too big for the angels to eat but still many baby fish are lost to them 😭

[@mousedeer7837]

Keeping an angelfish with neon tetras is like keeping a lion with a zebra. Neon tetras are some of the main prey species for angels in the wild.

[@FishForThought]

lmaooo

[@candiedragon]

QotW: 24k gold guppies, platinum red tail dumbo ears, a santa claus line called guan yu that had white bodies with red head and fins. I had fun with celebes halfbeaks, too. Kinda hit a rough patch so I gave away my breeders, and have kept the platinum red tails in a community. I would like to have the 24k golds again.

[@ashleyjohnson976]

My favorite live bearers are melinistic gambusia they are like mini kio and eat mosquito larva. As a child I spent a summer try to catch one with a plastic cup and my hand. When I finally did I put it in a bucket to watch it swim around and then release it back into the pond so it could breed and make more. One day I want a tiny pond of them. Congrats on your marriage!

[@frankzondag4976]

i have fed my mbuna cichlids frogs a third their size before and they loved them

[@KylaPlumlee]

Omg. I adore platies!! Seriously, my first livebearers and I've never looked back. So many colors and variety.

[@FishForThought]

awesome :) mine was guppy for sure but platies are incredible

[@emmyashbaugh]

I adore my platies too 🥹💓 so many different gorgeous colors and personalities. I have a guppy/platy live bearer tank and I frequently trade the guppy babies back to my fish store but can never part with my platy babies 😅🥂

[@mcaquatics3143]

Live bearers my favorite is kinda a toss up between the limia islia tiger's, the xenotoca lyonsi goodied and the black chin live bearer. Honorable mention is the xyphosporus milleri

[@rowan_jalso]

6:20 In the immortal words of Drawfee: “He strikes me as a pervert?” “… ma’am that’s a dog.”

[@FishForThought]

aha

[@twiggy2495]

The angel fish noming the tetra reminds me of my betta shes been raised with differ fish since she was a a baby, but ig one day she got curious and poked at an ember (this was before my tank fell) i found it floating later that day woth a hole in its stomach. She hasnt poked at any other fish since.

[@WackWacky-vc5ed]

Bro I had pathos in a clear vase and the water was evaporating half way down, my mom saw it in my room and told my that I had to change its water😭😭😭 she said that my pathos plant got it oxygen from the water and would die if I did not do a water change😭😭😭 There was no shrimp or snails in the vase, she just saw some Instagram reel and thinks she knows everything now😭

[@aishwaryajayaraman1791]

Sorry to break the bad news to you but your plants do need oxygenated water for their roots. The roots need oxygen or they rot :(

[@pmac7641]

@@aishwaryajayaraman1791 Pothos is not a submerged plant tho so can't it just do gas exchange through the leaves outside of the water?

[@FishForThought]

o nooo

[@MrDanAng1]

2:40 Absolutely correct Chris, there are a lot of different tetras that work fine with angel fish. For example, Lemon tetra or Black tetra are as big as Rummy Nose tetras, but have higher bodies, making them harder to swallow. I have had angels with Lemon tetras for years, the only thing that was a bit scetchy at the beginning was the tetras nipped a bit in the fins of the angels, but that stopped once I put in a bunch more of the tetras.

[@FishForThought]

yessir

[@murplee50]

I spent $70 on plants for my aquarium over the weekend. Got everything planted and it looked great! Woke up this morning and my blood parrot decided to rearrange the tank overnight… I guess I will continue keeping my glass box with a fish because we can’t have nice things here!😅😢

[@MakaKamala]

I'm easy to please when it comes to livebearers. My heart swoons for my red tail dumbo and moscow black guppies

[@FishForThought]

classic moscow blacks, and never heard of the red tail dumbos but will check em out!

[@peepopopo7140]

that gourami is actually really cute

[@enownowe]

Congratulations, you are now Mr. Chris!! Re the tetra being eaten- reminds me of a quote from Woody Allen: "To me, nature is... I dunno, spiders and bugs and, big fish eating little fish. And plants eating plants and animals eating...It's like an enormous restaurant."

[@Jax442lol]

I just set up a shrimp tank and the Java fern started pearling immediately. Are you proud of me chirs

[@DragonLady465]

Endlers and fancy guppies, i love the bright colors and patterns

[@FishForThought]

ditto!

[@garg4531]

Yeah that angelfish isn’t being aggressive or territorial or cichlid. It’s just being a predator. In the wild, they eat small fish and invertebrates. And that guys right about however peaceful a fish is, it *will* eat anything that fits in its mouth. Goldfish, for example. Yeah killifish is what came to mind for me right away too! And that big, beautiful planted tank is such a dream ❤ That little catfish just *loving* that current! 😂 That little mating dance That snail! 🤣🤣 That furniture tank, I’d go with little dither fish like tetras or livebearers, not big ol koi. Would work and look so much better.

[@oohavocadoo]

QOTW: Guppies! When I was a kid (we're talking like 5 years old), my parents had something like a 20 long with guppies and neon tetras and I absolutely loved sitting in front of the tank and watching them swim around

[@Stella-n-Luna]

7:59 this is exactly what my blackwater, walstadt method, Endler’s do! They’re crazy lol they swarm my fingers anytime i reach into the tank to fix a plant or something

[@FishForThought]

awesome!

[@TrueFlame2010]

QotW: My job at a pet store has mostly wrecked livebearers for me (the sheer amount of guppies people get, my goodness), but I still think gold dust mollies are kinda nifty. Party in the front, formal in the back.

[@FishForThought]

lmao!

[@KoiraStar]

That drawing with the description of relatively small and a silver/grey color, that's almost certainly a Norman's Lamp-eye killifish, not a gardneri or golden wonder. Golden wonder isn't silver/grey (and they are pretty big), and the gardneri I would think the description would mention its coloration.

[@fernedowns6652]

You usually can keep neon or cardinal tetras with angelfish as long as you buy them at the same time so the tetras can grow up. Before the angelfish get big enough

[@aarondavies8486]

Top tip use fluval bio cleaner in a bowl with water and your bio media like biohome to clean it you will never have to buy media again best thing I ever did

[@garg4531]

QOTW: I like guppies as much as the next guy, I absolutely love gold lyretail mollies, but platies are my pick simply for being the hardiest, and I love the colors of the bright red ones too I plan to stock my 20 long with a handful of male platies, get lots of color and activity going without having to worry about overpopulation I think it’d also be a nice idea for the family to go out and pick which platy variety they want in the tank, and I even plan on letting my little brother come up with names for each of them, which I’m sure he’ll love doing

[@user-bj9nw5wf5n]

My favorite livebearers are by far Endlers.

[@BloodOcean666]

11:10 ❤❤❤❤ I love this. I wouldn't have it close to the couch but imagine this with more plants around it and different colors colored rice fish instead of koi ❤ I'm looking for something like this for my balcony but it's too expensive for my wallet.

[@BloodOcean666]

Lol I'm not even editing this out for others to laugh "different colors colored fish" 😂😂😂 In my defense I fell asleep uncontrollably 10 min later xD

[@shreyasmaiti2754]

My favorite livebearer is the Limia melanogaster. The courting behavior is super interesting

[@FishForThought]

limia are awesome for sure

[@kiki29073]

I also used to raise and breed several different species of gouramies(sp). They were little characters.

[@BENfromSUNDIAL]

That sunset gourami is the same colour as my bike, but my bike is a Marlin.

[@FishForThought]

haha nice one

[@spiderlee5585]

I've bred my pygmy corys and had one little flame tetra fry work out (using a lazy method so it wasn't a sure thing), and I'm chuffed every time I see 'em. They're almost big enough to be catching and moving to their parent schools now. Favorite livebearer currently is lyretail mollies... but that's because I'm biased since I got to get a rehomed pair and they are such lively little dudes, grazing at the bits of hair algae I was having issues with and being very chill neighbors with the panda corys and flame tetras in their big community tank. They're gorgeous! Hopefully they will have babies sometime soon.

[@That-No-Moon]

That intro picture had me confused for a sec, until I saw the fish in the mouth. Reminds me of my last weekend, were I finally found some more threadfin rainbowfish, to go into my aquarium. They were young fish and I have full grown dwarf neon rainbowfish with full grown threadfin rainbows. Sadly, my neons thought my newly bought threadfins were "Fancy food." First time I've wanted to woop a fish ass.

[@voluntaryismistheanswer]

My neons are like little piranhas, ate all but two of my molly fry

[@FishForThought]

ah shoot

[@hysteric_dreamerdink942]

One day I might have a live bearer tank. My 10 gal is done cycling but I'll be putting chili rasboras, otos, and shrimp. I'm just dealing with a hydra outbreak atm. Overfed the tank when ghost feed cycling and paying the price for it. Hopefully paraguard works, it seems like it is, did the first dose today.

[@bethanyreid839]

3:20 damn chris!! those biceps lookin big these days

[@ethanmccorkle6693]

Let’s go FTR with my lunch!

[@FishForThought]

hope u had a wonderful lunch man!

[@spookydad7389]

i recently found out that halfbeaks are livebearers! i loooove those guys, even before knowing theyre livebearers,, such wonderfully shaped fish!

[@MarnieWithSnakes]

QOTW I know it’s a basic answer but honestly endlers guppies are the superior livebearer in so many ways. So hardy, so beautiful, so peaceful (generally)

[@kiki29073]

Agree about the angels. I used to breed them many years ago.

[@TheDarkEclipxe]

Uhh about the angelfish thing i had something bad that happened similarly that ended in tragedy. So, i had adopted a female betta that won't colour up in a petstore, it was fine. I kept it in a tank with Boraras urophthalmoides like what i did with my male betta which they lived fine. One day i got back home from school to find the female betta that was just barely bigger than the rasbora attempting to eat it, however it had choked on the fish before i was able to do anything. I have never seen a fish more greedy in my life ever (ps i also just fed the betta the night before)

[@FishForThought]

oh dang

[@TooSloFr]

idk if they are my favorite live bearer, but blueberry snails are really cool!

[@FishForThought]

i never even heard of them! will check them out now

[@FishForThought]

they look sooo cool

[@zacharylancon1126]

My favorite live bearer has to be goodieds I breed them for conservation efforts since I live in the tex mex border it allows me to keep a pretty healthy year round pond for about 50 of them but they also make a great dither fish and I'll normally add them to a new tank before introducing other fish to start with that its ok to be out here behavior

[@AquariumServiceTechnician]

Chris please consider expanding your horizons and keeping species of fish that you normally wouldn’t. There is a whole wide world of cichlids that you’ve never dipped your toes in

[@easy_fishkeeping.]

QOTW: I've only kept the most famous once but among them it's gotta be platies. They are small, don't breed totally out of control and both males and females are colorful.

[@NamelessNancy1312]

your QOTW, whats my fav live bearer, Endlers. I was SO geeked when i saw my 1st baby arrive. Now i have hundreds just a couple months later. And the older ones are starting to get their color, which will be my favorite part of this project.

[@FishForThought]

ENDLERS YES~!!!

[@swiss8654]

Watching this at 3 o'clock in the morning 🫡

[@Tinsleys_Creations]

My dad had 2 angel fish in a 40 gallon and add 50 little tetras and after an hour they were all gone

[@artchic528]

Congrats on the wife-ing of your girl! Also, I got shrimps for my tank today!

[@FishForThought]

tyty Congrats to your new shrimpz~

[@Fish_N_Shrimp-d6c]

Finally a gourami like I don’t see them often in ftr I myself have a honey gourami Can’t wait to move to 29 gall this week I’ve been working extra at work to get sufficient money

[@liamvail3362]

pike livebearers are some of the coolest fish in my opinion. Looks like a gar mixed with a guppy!!

[@starr_ship]

Automation and designing for easy cleanouts are critical to long term success for me. A little more work up front but easily worth the investment.

[@kirabowie]

QOTW: Guppies!! My first tank was stocked with them and it wasn't long before those first 3 became a tank full. 🤣

[@FurScalesSkinShells]

Can do a tank tour of all your pets or maybe a daily routine? ❤

[@darkoise]

Ngl you’re. more experienced than I thought I subscribed! 😊

[@FishForThought]

hey thanks man, 19 years into this hobby and counting!

[@Veritas1980-Chill]

giant danios make a great dither. they are cheap, get to a decent size, will school tightly, and are very quick and agile.

[@The_06_drummer]

My Siamese dwarf rasboras aswell AS my neo caradina Just breed few weeks ago

[@maxngwen5]

Getting in that patreon for the dedication (and also for help scaping my first frameless tank lol)

[@FishForThought]

wooo thank you thank you!!

[@Cubinh_inc]

First day of school with ftr 🔥🔥🔥

[@FishForThought]

lets gooo

[@LS4te]

My favourite livebearer has to be mollies because they're thic they atac, they protec, but mostly important: they are less likely to eat their babies than other livebearers and just as a plus that actuslly matters a lot to me I think it's so beautiful when male mollies show off their dorsal fins almost like a peacock showing it's feathers, and I also love how chubby prengnant mollies look and how derpy they are overall, plus they are larger than most livebearers. I love mollies

[@Jack_Splendens]

QOTW: Nowadays I keep 6 Mickey Mouse platy fish in 20g tank and I like them a lot, but when I was a kid my fav was the normal guppy. Taste can change if someone keep fish long enough.

[@kris3937]

Halfbeaks are pretty awesome livebearers

[@jamessaunders7931]

That trolling snail... 😂😂😂

[@FishForThought]

xD lmao

[@TSA595]

Wen u find ur jewel cichlids guarding their eggs. Absolutely amazing

[@z.memon1]

i didnt know it at the time but i had like 15 neons in my discus tank, they kept disappearing lmao

[@einfachjannick6804]

I have two full grown angelfish and they are like the most peacefull fish

[@ashagalvan4500]

QOTW: My fav live bearer is the least killifish (heterandria formosa) I just love how tiny they are AND that they’re native to Florida!

[@graysonsmaglinski7616]

Even if a tetra is big enough to not fit in a large cichlids mouth doesn’t mean it still can’t get bullied/killed

[@MrCreeperrr]

Yooo under 100 we lovw ya Chris

[@des10e31]

Florida Least Killifish - tiny livebearers, love 'em!

[@alexanderwitte4347]

My absolute favorite livebearer are halfbeaks :D they just look so derpy

[@FishForThought]

halfbeaks are so amazing, but yes also derpy looking haha

[@claree.5407]

I do wish aquarium store keepers would give you more info about compatibility besides just aggression. I was recently advised to put a few guppies with pygmy corries in my 10 gallon, and I’m having a hard time making sure the corries get enough food because the guppies try to eat everything in sight.

[@FishForThought]

very true. I tried to do that at every fish store i worked at, and people mostly always left with more knowledge than they came with!

[@lloydvickroy4152]

I am setting up my first tank since I was a child (so really my first tank ever in consideration of labor) and I am getting a japanese trapdoor snail (which is a live bearer) as soon as the weather cools down enough to survive the shipping.

[@FishForThought]

awesome

[@icegypsy99]

Have 1 angel in my tank. he's about 7yrs old now. He is generally very peaceful, but he has had his cichlid moments. bit the tail off a hillstream loach once....loach is fine btw. Also caught him munching on an old cardinal. Not sure if he killed it or it died from old age. He was actually munching it through the middle like corn on the cob.

[@FishForThought]

oh man xD

[@brittanycollier2320]

Have a question, setting up a cresty tank (18x18x24 zoomed) how long and how often should i set my misting timer? Trying to grow out my plants before i order a cresty.

[@FishForThought]

it rly depends how long of the mister depending on your humidity of your house and how many plants, etc. try it out, it doesn't have to be the same especially at the beginning. cresties are generally quite hardy and can tolerate a range of humidity conditions. Just don't want it to ever be bone dry in the enclosure. always at least a bit of moisture.

[@brittanycollier2320]

@@FishForThought thank you. I used to breed cresties 10 years ago, but we had the old school reptifogger and a hand held spray bottle back then. Im just new to the misting systems they have now.

[@eonbree8593]

dang im jealous of some of the tanks in this episode. startinglyearly's panda garras and that 36bf keyhole cichlid tank looks so good.

[@FishForThought]

same saaaame

[@truthbetold89]

I have a well planted 3 meter aquarium with many places to hide with 5 Angelfish, 15 neon tetra, 3 small redtail shark, one rainbow shark 9 guppies, and 4 mollies I feed my fish every other day and never had such an issue. 2 of my angels though keep harassing my mystery snail, which is something I never see anyone talking about.

[@ChristineSG19]

I do not have and have never had a fish tank but I still love this series

[@Cat_bones151]

Hair is looking nice brother! QOTW: I literally have no idea what that is but I’ll go study in some of your videos loll🖤💗

[@FishForThought]

tyty!!!

[@TSA595]

Bronze Cory are so cute. They used to be like 30 ZAR back in 2018.npw they are 70 ZAR

[@Rosewood22]

I love Japanese blue albino and blackmetal lace guppies

[@Doomcubus]

fav livebearer would be Platies there so perfect for beginner's and nano fish keepers

[@FishForThought]

true!

[@Doomcubus]

@@FishForThought Finally Chirs replyed to me.... : )

[@CheezpUff_02]

7:34 Why this guy so relatable tho 😂

[@FishForThought]

ahahaha thanks

[@CullenJowell]

I keep angels with neons/cardinals and they don’t have issues.

[@ryancook4771]

QOTW: It’s a tie between guppies and trumpet snails. Congrats on tying the knot, man!

[@FishForThought]

heyyy i'm similar xD thanks!

[@ryancook4771]

@@FishForThoughtyou can’t go wrong with snails in my book!

[@rickardrocks2160]

endlers are my fav livebearer, smol is good

[@sakuramidnight5230]

Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉❤❤

[@EssiBrownlee]

Favorite Livebearers? Oh no. Tiger Limia is up there. I adore sailfin mollies. Guppies and endlers are wonderful. But man, there's something about those limias 🤩

[@FishForThought]

tiger limia very cool

[@zimrandavid3878]

"Stalking matters" ~Chris 0:22

[@FishForThought]

lmaoo

[@gazmicjaz4951]

Borneo redline halfbeak! (On further notice, found out it is egglaying, but its still a beautiful fish that deserves more love)

[@FishForThought]

halfbeaks are sick!