what could happen if you get BITTEN by a BETTA FISH | Fish Tank Review 229

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[@FishForThought]

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[@maxkey923]

Can I have some of your spare duck weed

[@Mary-qs8hr]

My wallet after I spend $100 on fancy saltwater rocks 😦 my wallet watching me reach for the $500 set up 💀

[@nina150]

Same, my wallet watching me purchase 35 gallon rimless aquarium ONLINE. 🤝 But they're always worth it so clear and pretty. 😭

[@FishTankTopia]

My dads wallet when I said I wanted a 15 gallon tank and some live plants to put in the tank along with a heater, some stones, and the aquarium soil, for my 12th birthday😭. The betta fish I put in the tank seems really happy though 😄

[@Anubis30224]

Bro, I'm staring at an Etsy cart full of $100 worth of plants and it's so hard to not hit buy

[@KhaeLikesCoffee]

My fishkeeping horror story- One day I slept late, forcing my innocent and unsuspecting husband to feed my betta breakfast. Master, the betta, saw his chance for violence. He lunged from the water and viciously clamped his jaws onto my husband's fingertip, refusing to release him until his rage was exhausted. We thought everything would be fine, but then my husband started craving bloodworms. At the next full moon, he grew fins and a luxurious tail. We've had to install a swimming pool in the backyard to accommodate his monthly change. Being married to a were-betta is tough, but we make it work.

[@FishForThought]

lmao xD

[@Me-is-a-fish]

betta.

[@Audrina-uj6te]

Your hilarious 😂

[@garg4531]

“these fish should not be for sale in fish stores, they should be a very expensive fish you have to order in to make people really consider getting one” Preach! 🙌 If more monster fish had that applied to them so many mistakes could be avoided

[@FishForThought]

fr fr thx for agreeing!

[@garg4531]

@@FishForThought Well it’s a valid point! Part of the reason why so many beginners buy common plecos for example is because, as their name implies, they’re very common and very cheap, and every pet store seems to carry them even when most hobbyists can’t house them properly

[@nadyeszti2251]

QoTW: Back in 2006 we moved into our current house, but during the move our fish tank was damaged, so we had to put all the survivor fishes into a lot smaller one. One night our huge male ancistrus jumped out, and mom found him on the floor covered by dust and dried stiff (we were doing renovations hence the dirt). She didn't know what to do in the middle of the night, so she threw him into a bucket of water so dad or me can deal with him in the morning(knew the toilet wasn't an option). In the morning we asked her why put the fish in the bucket, why not back to the tank? Cause he was swimming like normal. Lived a good few more years.

[@Poeticfloetic]

*fish not fishes

[@KushyCouch]

So what I’ve gathered from this is leave them in a bucket longer lmao. My eel jumped after I rescaped the tank one day. Left the lids off while I napped bc I used cleaners on them and woke up to my eel stuff on the floor. Threw him in a bucket for a few mins before declaring him done for.

[@candiedragon]

I remember reading that pleco sp can survive in drought conditions for a long time actually. They can dry up stiff and everything, but once they "rehydrate" they kinda just carry on with their business. I don't remember off the top of my head how long and how they even accomplish this, but they certainly can lol

[@FishForThought]

interesting!

[@MdKarim-xx3rh]

YES ! I am so glad that somebody else nows that plecos can do that.

[@WoWHunterkari]

QotW: when i was like 7 or so, my Dad had this huge aquarium full of Neons, Mollys and Panzerwels (idk, plecos maybe? Catfish?) and allowed me to buy a male Betta. I called him Finni, and for a few weeks he was a very happy red Betta. Then my Brother wanted one too (3 yrs younger than me) and Dad said „of course, you get a female so they can have babies“. After few days together Finnis fins were torn and i begged Dad to give that girl back or for Finni to get his own tank, but he wouldn’t listen. So i had to watch my Betta die. Dads response to my tears? „It’s just a fish“

[@voluntaryismistheanswer]

A circumstance (and they exist) where the betta would have been happier, healthier, and safer in a jar. I'm sorry.

[@FishForThought]

aiya....

[@kayleemcbay1200]

I experienced this from my step-dad as a child aslo and as a kid refused to eat fish sticks lol 😂

[@candiedragon]

QoTW: I have a small outdoor koi pond that I lost like 80% stock because of invasive cane toads. In the 20+ years this pond has been running, never had issues with toads, but I guess conditions were just right and they came into my yard and bred in my pond. Didn't notice the string of eggs, maybe they were hidden in the overhanging ferns or equipment where I couldn't see. One morning I went to feed the koi and there were thousands of little black tadpoles. It didn't matter how many tadpoles I scooped out, how many water changes I did, adding salt, moving the fish to a kiddie pool, I just couldn't save them. I don't know if the tadpoles contain any bufotoxin at that stage that could have poisoned the fish upon being inevitably eaten, or if the sheer increase of organisms overloaded the system, or both, but my koi started dropping left and right one-by-one shortly after that. This happened a year or two before COVID and I still have two koi that survived, however, they were the youngest of that stock. A lot of the koi I lost were over a decade old and extremely difficult to find locally now. I have come to hate toads with a fiery passion since then. A bit of a lighter story: I once worked at a lfs and I was helping this lady buy fish for her tank. It went well and made some good selections for her tank that had been cycled for a couple months and all. After finished ringing her up I say "hope you enjoy those little guys" and she goes "yeah, hopefully my husband and his friends dont eat these ones after a night of drinking again" as she walks out the door.

[@FishForThought]

nice for including a lighter story xD

[@m.ceniza4688]

I SWEAR WHAT IS IT WITH ALCOHOL AND THE URGE TO EAT AQUARIUM FISH?! I’ve seen a story of a guy whose pet clam got eaten by his father after a night of drinking. Sashimi is much more pleasant to eat 😳😳

[@feuerling]

​@@m.ceniza4688 I read a story of some drunk guys swallowing live fish as a drug-fueled drinking game, and one of them ended up with a cory firmly stuck in his throat (because of the barbs) and needed surgery to have it removed.

[@laurabustos6560]

Fish for Thought, hosted by a gecko (insert Repashy love🧡) makes my week!! Wishing all a radically wonderful week! Go forth into the world FTR crew and spread the good animal husbandry! 🙏💙✌️ Edit; Chris, you know we don't just want, we need a no water change ecosystem vid. We need all the vids! 😉 Edit#2;QotW; I bought a few orange Sunkist Neocaridina shrimp from a lfs, quarantined and added them into a Skittles tank in my kitchen. Like a week later (heavily planted tank so I didn't see ev shrimp ev day) I saw one of the orange guys with a tiny green scale on its belly, weird but I've seen green eggs before so maybe... Nope, it was the dread green fungus/ parasite/ disease Ellobiopsae! 😱 Deep substrate, over $120 in UNS ControSoil and at least $100 plants, not counting livestock in that tank and I can't put anything in or take anything out with the possibility of spreading the dread green Ello spores(?) So my tank sits in limbo a year later. All the remaining shrimp are healthy, wild style by now, but I'm scared to touch anything in there. It has it's own tweezers, net, water top off container etc. It's a radioactive tank just sitting in my kitchen...😬

[@FishForThought]

dang that fish tank sounds crazy!! haha

[@mittenista]

My guy and I have a deal - I don't ask how much he's spent on decades old computers, and he doesn't ask how much I spent on rocks and twigs. He even helps me move the heavier pieces. Get you a man who supports your hobbies, folks!

[@FishForThought]

yes!

[@tonyadams4726]

Absolutely I would love to see more about self sustaining aquariums especially since I feel like you will completely break it down. Just make sure you keep the same thought process when your judging tanks because I am noticing that as I research it more there is a lot of people that say they are doing it and they aren’t at all.

[@FishForThought]

yikes!

[@brandoncoburn820]

Spaceman here. My son was very excited to see his tank on your channel. He was even more excited to see the rating. The plant on the right is Lobelia Cardinalis. 7:33. He had a little guidance with the placement but he did pick all the hard scape and plants himself. The tank has gone through a few changes and has moved on from the guppies that began to overpopulate the tank and now has a beautiful male samurai betta and some snails. I may have to resubmit again with the updated tank

[@FishForThought]

great stuff man! thanks for the comment and clarification on the plant

[@lawfulsoup8335]

I finally decided to get into the hobby after researching and watching both your reviews and serpadesign. Unfortunately for me, the nearest pet store is 3 hours away driving time. It's taken over a year to get everything going with cycling the tank and sourcing live plants for the aquarium. Now I find myself sitting and staring at my tank for an hour as it scratches that itch in my head that needs relaxation. It was worth it in the end, and thank you, Chirs, for getting me into this wonderful hobby.

[@FishForThought]

aw man, proud of you for making it work even when your LFS is 3 hours away. People do much less with much more convenience. Amazing to hear!

[@jamesfranklin2120]

My fish keeping horror story: I've been in the hobby for about two years, and I'm up to 7 tanks. When I was starting off I had a 20 gallon long, with a betta, three khuli loaches and a school of rummy nose raseboras. In the 40 gallon, I had a school of neon tetras two angel fish, corys, ottos ect. I was unaware that you could actually over clean your tanks, so I spent six hours every Saturday cleaning these two tanks, which are fully planted. One day I woke up and just about every fish was dead. Khuli loaches, the betta, six neons and one angel where all that was left. lost about 820 dollars worth of fish overnight. Then I dropped my phone the same day. I've come along way, and I've even managed to breed shrimp, kilifish, and guppies.

[@psy_99]

5:50 carpet algae is the dream. It's so nice to have in a goldfish tank. There's a youtuber out there with a step-by-step guide on how to grow it.

[@ItsLaurenE]

It look magical. Of course green is my favorite color. 😂 imma have to look for this other video.

[@candiedragon]

do you know the name of the ytber by chance?

[@psy_99]

@@candiedragon goldfish corner

[@FishForThought]

yeah fr...

[@anishastoneystars1685]

Oh my God an early video what am I supposed to do on my 15 minute break at work now I don’t know but I guess I’m gonna watch while I get ready

[@unicorndreamer8361]

My fish keeping horror story is my heater shorted out and fried all my fish. The tank temp was way over 100. Not too hot to touch. But a good hot shower type of temp. I was so upset and did extensive research on the best heaters. I spared no expense on my new tank heater. Never had any issues after that

[@empressireneabitfishcrazy]

Attention, fin enthusiasts! It's FTR time - fins in the air! 🐟 Brace yourself for an incredibly entertaining experience. Now, let me share my recent fish tank horror story. During a routine weekend visit from college, I discovered my dresser infested with mold and wood bits due to a long-forgotten water spill. The moisture wreaked havoc on my 37-gallon tank stand, leading to cracks and soft spots. Cue panic as I relocated all my aquatic buddies to a hastily acquired 20-gallon tank. The aftermath? A wardrobe in disarray and a tank now residing on the floor. Stress levels: through the roof!

[@ItsLaurenE]

I can only imagine, things like that cause my anxiety to skyrocket. Sounds like you handled it well considering everything. Hopefully you won't need to do a water change while it's on the floor, i had my 30 on the floor while fiance was building the stand for it, I absolutely loved laying on my livingroom floor at night watching them no lie there; however if you already know or not SLOWEST WATER CHANGES EVER due to the fact the water levels of the tank and bucket on floor don't have enough space for water to suction and flow out.

[@empressireneabitfishcrazy]

@@ItsLaurenE oh yeah, I can’t use my python siphon anymore because it lacks the proper height. Now I have to go back “old school”. I was a crying mess, but in the end everyone is back safely in the tank.

[@FishForThought]

oh sheeeesh!

[@DeepOnes420]

Love the show Chris! Keep it up! I hope one day to submit one of my 20 tanks, or one of my daughter's three tanks (she's three). But I am banned from Reddit, so.... FISHKEEPING horror story: I had a huge mystery snail in a 20 gallon tall with a single female betta fish. One day I came home to find the snail had yeeted itself out the back of the tank and all it's vital fluids had drained onto my floor. R.I.P..

[@voluntaryismistheanswer]

That's why our Creator gave us sock accounts lol

[@FishForThought]

oh gosh yes those are the worst to find on the floor :(((

[@wheelbite9]

QotW: My aunt was supposed to come over and feed my fish a few times while my family was on vacation when I was young. She saw the heater light on one day and thought that she needed to do something to fix it. Long story short, all the fish were slow cooked when we got home. RIP angelfish.

[@FishForThought]

oh goodness gracious. poor fishies x x

[@snakewithapen5489]

Anyone who's kept clownfish before knows that those SOBs can get extremely territorial when fully grown! I love them to bits, but my current female has drawn blood on me by biting me before when i try to do water changes 😅

[@FishForThought]

yeah for real! I've def heard bout that before

[@kaizakim4612]

Fish Keeping Horror Story: One day in middle of night woke up to find an assassin snail ambush my cherry shrimp and suck the life out of it. I was stunned cuz shrimps are supposed to whoosh when touched. Another story: One of my guppies in the tank myteriously died. I woke up in the morning as usual to check only to find out that the shrimps have sucked the guppy out and only skin and frame of it remained. The Food chain in a tank works in mysterious ways.

[@Bluerobot95-oz8iz]

Just finished cycling my 10 gallon planted betta tank, just added the batts. So far so good! Timing was amazing!

[@asharkhan8175]

WAIT You added "bettas"

[@Bluerobot95-oz8iz]

No just 1

[@Bluerobot95-oz8iz]

Sadly I can’t edit for some reason and I have a typo : (

[@FishForThought]

was confused by batts too xD

[@gooferedits]

Wassup Chris im the guy who posted the Betta bite and its crazy that I got featured in ur video cos I been watching your vids for like 2-3 years now Also Im not 8👺👺👺

[@HopeB555]

My fish keeping horror story happened when I was 17 years old. I had a beautiful 75 gallon african cichlid aquarium with several VERY EXPENSIVE cichlids (on top of the more "normie" ones). I'd been searching for a female melanochromis Aururatus to pair with my beautiful male. Couldn't find ANYWHERE as my lfs didn't carry them because they were too aggressive. 🤷🏻‍♀️ My dad decided to go to *redacted chain pet store* the afternoon I went out of state for a church group trip for 5 days. He found a little juvenile auratus there and put it straight into my established tank (rather than the quarantine tank literally a foot and a half to the right). By the time i got home I had several dead fish (including my wild caught Tanganyikan that I still to this day have never seen for sale again over a decade later) and the rest riddled with columnaris. I lost over half my tank. But that stupid new fish SOMEHOW was one of the survivors. Would have cost hundreds of dollars to replace all the fish that died. He still to this day insists he did nothing wrong and it DEFINITELY wasn't the fish he added that was sick. 😭 I'm not bitter at all. Nope. Not at all. 😭😭😭😭

[@FishForThought]

redacted chain pet store xD oh boy. sry to hear that

[@tracynevins5118]

QOTW: Unfortunately, I had to learn a lot of hard lessons. Two big ones were to cover the aquarium co-op heater with a mesh baggie because my shrimp would go in between the cracks and fry themselves, and the other was to block my intake valve with sponge because my favorite Mystery snail got stuck on it and his insides got sucked out😢

[@voluntaryismistheanswer]

I had that fluval CO2 tube and lost my favorite betta in it, he survived a little while but he'd been stuck too long. Large tanks can hold a lot of hazards for bettas.

[@FishForThought]

oh no :(((

[@MandyJane123700]

I am getting into the whole self sustaining fish tank thing, but I don't think I'm quite there yet. I would love for you to make a video about it.

[@FishForThought]

I would love to. people are rly holding me on it now. I just needa magically make more time out of no where haha xD

[@Spinofaarus_boi]

Guys help I got bitten by my fat goldfish 😭

[@kingcherryblossom2059]

My one horror story is when I forgot to put a pre filter sponge on a canister filter I had recently gotten for a shrimp tank… I noticed shrimp in the tubes and panicked! I got a bucket, emptied the tubes, then looked inside the filter to see a bunch of dead baby shrimp :/ This was a a year or so ago, I’ve stuck to sponge filters when it comes to shrimp ever since

[@rootyful]

The other day I saw a couple at the pet store buy a piece of wood the size of themselves for like 200 bucks. I didn't catch if it was for a terrarium or aquarium, but that thing was a beast.

[@FishForThought]

holy cow... it sounds big and maybe even a steal at 200 bucks

[@rajgill7576]

6:15 finally a proper 5/5 Edit: MAKE A VIDEO ABOUT WALSTAD METHOD PLZ i have a 3.5gal with a school of tetra that has never had water changes people never believe me. Plants plants plants babyyyy

[@BENfromSUNDIAL]

Yes I'd like to see more about your tanks without water changes, and without gravel cleaning.

[@FishForThought]

might have to make that video sometime in the future!

[@hurricanevolf7165]

QOTW Answer: I have 5.... One time I dropped my goldfish from my hand trying to put him back in the tank from a bag he landed in a bucket after hitting the side and he had a cloudy eye for 2 weeks. I have never used my hand to do again. Then I had another goldfish jump from a net on to the floor. I had 5 Angelfish in a bucket getting ready to go in a tank, we got a cold snap and when I went to feed them they were all so cold and dieing! But I was able to save all 5 by putting them in a bag and putting it in the tank and putting the tank water in the bag slowly and then I let them sit in the bag for an hour checking on them every 10 to 20 minutes. I had a Betta that I needed to pop something on her side, I had her in my hand and she jumped off and I COULD NOT FIND HER I was so scared "oh no did I step on her?" Was going through my head but then I finally found her this was maybe 20s but it didn't feel like it. And my most recent one... I was charging the water and for some reason one of my Betta girls decided she wanted to go down the tube, I LOOKED AWAY FOR JUST 1 SECOND AND NOW I HAVE I FISH STUCK A TUBE!!!!! I had.......to blow on one side and suck on the other, but I got her out. The things we do for our pets.....

[@gracenavin2588]

QOTW: I had my own 10 gallon aquarium at like age 10 with some mollies. I had fake coral as decorations which were open/hollow from the bottom. After cleaning and rearranging my tank, I noticed one of my fish disappeared. Couldn’t find it for weeks. Maybe three weeks later, I rearranged again and suddenly that poor Molly appeared from under the decoration. Pale, but somehow alive and well.

[@SamscrewuGaming]

On the topic of aquarium expenses: I have a 4 year old 20gallon that over the years I have put quite literally thousands into.... Densely planted, like 5 pieces of spider wood weaved together to make an explosion of wood, though I've never paid for a rock.

[@FishForThought]

it must be AMAZING!

[@zebedeemadness2672]

9:16 The Red tailed catfish could be a wild one caught in its native land, could have been caught by travel fishermen, or caught by locals for food.

[@FishForThought]

good take

[@leilaclarridge5807]

3:52 Man, that reminds me. I wish I could just use the free stuff right on the ground, but I live near the Tennessee River, which is notoriously polluted and might actually be getting worse, I don't want to get in trouble for taking stuff from the local parks, and we live on a slope so I can't trust the people above my house to not be using pesticides. 4:43 I have the feeling that they don't have a betta fish, but rather a guppy...

[@The_Stars_Shine]

Can glass catfish live with jewel cichlids? Google won't tell me and i want a 40 gallon Blackwater community tank

[@easy_fishkeeping.]

QOTW:- i had a cherry shrimp tank. I have low GH so i add some CaCO3 after every water change, it worked for me for months but one day i decided to add fertilizer (i never added it before but for plants i decided to add) and boom! My cherry shrimps were dropping like flies. It was too late to realise to do water change because nealy all were dead within 2 days! I was able to save 4 adults and 5 babies but it was indeed horror 😦

[@FishForThought]

great saves though!

[@CatladyKiefFingers_deLarios]

Idk Chris. I know of some drug addicts that spend ALL of their money on rocks 😶

[@CallMeMark_]

Hey Chris! It’s been a while since my last aquarium, I think about 2 years. It was when the FFT Mc server had just started. It’s been rough, but I finally managed to get my hands on a 20 gallon aquarium and a bunch of supplies. I’m going to start cycling it around Saturday, a day after it arrives!

[@FishForThought]

woweee, the fft mc server xD that's a throwback! awesome Mark, great to hear you're coming back to the hobby

[@shinygems739]

I'm an Aquarium gal AND a Rockhound gal. The amount of money I spend on pieces of rocks is insane. But I mean, I've started using my self-tumbled stones in my aquascapes so that works out I guess

[@voluntaryismistheanswer]

Girl I did a tank bottom all in Idaho river garnets, with a purple porphery stone I found myself in Oregon. I feel ya. I have glittering schists from NZ glaciers, home creek schists I still intend to etch with muriatic acid (I made a henge in a 20 tall!), of course the pagoda and ohko etc. It's crazy how having a passion for rocks, fish, and plants can coalesce into something so marvelous.

[@FishForThought]

sheesh haha

[@legionaquatics]

6:59 I have tasted my fish tanks water a couple times when starting siphons but the weird thing is it never tasted bad... Might be because it was in a planted tank

[@FishForThought]

hahaha might be

[@PomeloYT]

FTR definitely helping my crappy Monday end a bit better (though the Sandy Cheeks Sleep Paralysis Demon didn't help). QOTW (warning, graphic story): Used to live with my aunt and uncle who had a community tank with some goldfish. Since I was cleaning my own tank that day, I offered to clean my uncle's tank too. Went to use the gravel vac & one of his goldfish got too close and got sucked up against the vacuum cleaner. The suction ripped its stomach open and all its insides were ruptured. It died maybe 10 seconds later. I felt absolutely awful and cried the rest of the night. RIP poor goldfish.

[@FishForThought]

ah sheesh... rip lil goldie

[@Glidefang]

Great start to the week keep up the great work

[@FishForThought]

tysm!

[@TaijaT76]

My horror story is I accidentally flushed 1 baby cory to the drain when it was stuck on a sponge glass cleaner and I washed it on the sink. 😢Since then I always check my equipment and before washing and my plant waste so nothing living is going to drain. I regret that to this day. What a horrible way to go.☹️

[@yourlocalwill88]

Betah feesh (noms noms) (edit I know I spelt it wrong that was on purpose)

[@Halfbread14]

Yo my brother goofer edits is the guy who posted the pitucre where he got bit( click on newest)

[@derk7853]

once again another great video to make a great monday! I don't think the store I work at has sold red tailed catfish thankfully and I'll make sure we never get them in lol. we sell big wish like arowana but it gets annoying when a dad comes in damanding to buy one for there son when they have a 50 gal, "we'll just upgrade we'll just upgrade when it gets bigger". sorry pops I'm not selling you it till you get a 150 at least loll. have a great monday Chris!

[@FishForThought]

tysm!!!

[@wendyhere7204]

My horror story is the first time I tried a Co2 system years ago (one of those super cheap DIY ones) and gassed my fish overnight. I had no knowledge of how any of it worked. However, I bought all the supplies I need for a good setup last week and will give it another go (rip my wallet)! Can't wait to start scaping with some cool, more difficult plants!

[@FishForThought]

dang... it happens. glad you're trying again!

[@la_muertaJ]

I have a black helmet snail! It's from the nerite family and native to SE Asia. They kind of have a purple sheen to their shells at certain angles.

[@FishForThought]

super cool... purple sheen, dang that's rare

[@groooooog8315]

When you have 3 different hobbies all on that meme… 😬

[@elixs5380]

My fish keeping horror story happened a couple of years ago. One morning one of my tanks started leaking in one of the seams. I quickly emptied it and moved my fish into a temporary container. Upon further inspection there were several seams that were leaking so I opted to get a new tank instead of fixing it. Little did I know this was just the start of the disaster. I set up the new tank, adding back the fish after a while and so on. A few weeks later in come *cyanobacteria* 😢. I desperately tried to keep it under control by cleaning and blacking out the tank but to no avail. Eventually I decided to completely restart the tank with fresh materials. So back into the temporary tank the fish go and I spend a whole day emptying and rescaping the tank. Now two important details before the grand finale. The tank shelf's for the glass lid about 5 cm down from the top, and I'd just gotten a fluval nano led, which is screwed onto the tank glass 😳 See where this is going? I finally finish the damn mess and put back filter heater, and.... Lamp. So because of the lid shelf I only had five cm to push the light onto, this made it quite unstable so I tried screwing it on tighter to get it to hold... Well the whole fucking back of the tank just cracked and a I sang a very beautiful song of curses before throwing out a second tank into the recycling room. Yeah I was very intense considering throwing my two other tanks out of the window after this but I pushed on and now I have 6 lovely tanks and am more into the hobby than ever 😊

[@FishForThought]

oh boy... that is a tragedy, what that tank went through :((( Glad you pulled through and now with the 6 lovely tanks :)

[@elixs5380]

@@FishForThought Yes, quite stressful 😳 Let's just hope I've had my dose of cracked tanks for a good while *knocks on wood*

[@KushyCouch]

My aquarium horror story is pretty basic but still tragic. This is a few years into fish keeping so I should’ve known to quarantine new fish but nothing bad ever came from not doing it yet. Got a yo-yo loach, I think, from petsmart and threw him in my 55g community that had about 40 fish total. The new loach showed signs of ick the next day so I ordered medicine after seeing two spots on just him, started treatment two days later and most of my tank still died. I went from round 40 fish to only have 7, my eel, dwarf gourami and 5 otocinclus.

[@FishForThought]

oh man :((( rip sry tohear that

[@acomapper]

I can't belive sombody survived a bite from a BETTA!You betta belive he is survivor!

[@happycamperslivehere.6101]

My fish keeping horror story is from about 30 years ago (sad but true). I was a mom of a toddler working about 60 hours a week, nights and weekends. I had a 20 goal on long with guppies, neon tetras and a few other fish. The tetras and guppies kept having babies despite the fact that I was not able to properly care for the tank. There were probably 50-60 fish in the tank. One night at about midnight, after work a twelve day, I decided I had to clean the tank. Unfortunately, I made too big of a water change before falling asleep on the couch somewhere around two am. I woke up a couple of hours later to find that EVERYTHING in the tank had died. I left the couch and went to bed. When I woke up a few hour later I hoped that it was all a terrible dream. Unfortunately it was not, and I gave up fish keeping for a couple of years. As it should have been. Poor fish; and all those babies. 😢😢😢

[@FishForThought]

aw man... I do hope you one day get back to the hobby

[@happycamperslivehere.6101]

@@FishForThought I currently have two planted tanks, a 20 and a 5 gallon. Each have a Betta and mystery snails. After 5 year of limited success with fish in my 20 gallon, I started my first planted tank about 8 months ago. I LOVE the planted tanks and my 5 gallon is my favorite thing. I really enjoy your videos.

[@zisaletter4602]

i would LOVE to a video on self-sustaining fishtanks. that's like one of the only types of fishtanks i might consider making and i'd like to see more on how to actually do that

[@FishForThought]

I should probably rly make it happen then!

[@γαϊδοφάγος]

is it just me or does repashy look more colourful?

[@FishForThought]

maybe flared up and annoyed at me

[@graceanderson16]

What happened to Repashy's tail? Love the vids

[@miashadows]

Mine is from a long time ago. We had a 55gal cichlid tank with a decent sized jack Dempsey named Lucifer. Our well pump went out and it took them almost a week to fix. So we had to use tank water to flush the toilet! The poor fish must have thought it was a drought or something! But they all made it through with like a quarter of the water left. Btw, the tank was called Hell 😂

[@FishForThought]

Hell LOL

[@Mossywall]

Qotw: My first tank, was a disaster, put some plants in with a grow light, no heater, really strong flow with some guppies i bought the same day I set it up Everything died I learned, I now have many beautiful tanks, with proper husbandry, all fully functional ecosystems. Learn from your mistakes, they are valuable

[@FishForThought]

very true

[@riosulysto2068]

1:30 fun fact: in Indonesian Betta is called cupang which means hickey. When they fight with each other, they are trying to give each other hickeys

[@riftwilliams]

BettaMan: Betta Help those Citizens

[@cassiopeaknack]

I’m overly cautious and very new to the hobby so I don’t have any real horror stories but last night I dreamt that my tank leaked out 80% of it’s water so do nightmares count?

[@FishForThought]

yes nightmares count hahaha

[@TerrariumCartel]

Fun fact: You can water change without sucking

[@notkkd1786]

good morning it is 00:01hours here

[@smashingamin]

2nd? Anyway, idk how to treat ick in Canada... THey banned all the good medications. Any advice?

[@melissadalke6548]

I’m in Canada too and I have used API super ick and turn up your tank temp

[@k1r1.00]

take yer 5 mins here ticket mate 🎫

[@Boom-Talk]

YEAH, IT'S MONDAY! Thank you for all of your entertaining and very funny videos. It is greatly appreciated!

[@FishForThought]

thanks so much for enjoying!

[@cathyhendrix7552]

I was soooo happy when I seen your thumbnail in my notifications. I needed a laugh for today. Even though it's only 10:35am. YEP. It hit early. I already needed laughter on my Monday. So thanks for another GREAT video.

[@Greenhenben678]

Have corys fry 😮😮😮

[@The1stCroc]

WAS THAT THE BITE OF 87?!

[@Mizuki-qv9rt]

Bite of 87 moment!!1

[@maddie8829]

The only two weekly things on KZbin that I look forward to every week: Smosh Reading Reddit Stories on Sundays whilst I do my water change.... and Fish Tank Review on Tuesdays (Australian). Thanks Chris ☺💕

[@FishForThought]

it's an honor to be part of your two weeklythings!

[@NightmareEclipse]

Qotw: I still feel guilty over this one. So I had this little tiny black and silver platy in my tank. Dude was still very little but he had been showing some signs of illness. He also blended in with the substrate and had been hiding near the bottom. When I was doing a water change, he had practically buried himself in my substrate and had gotten sucked up in the tube. While he was definitely smaller than the tube and didn’t seem to be damaged by it, the stress of the incident combined with him being sick (I was actively treating him at the time but wasn’t quite sure what was up with him) he ended up passing the next day. I’ve never gotten a platy again. My poor little guy was the last straw for me combined with knowing that the pet store ones all seem to come in sick 😦. As for more positive fishtank updates: I got the nano fish I was hoping to get for my smaller fishtank! They immediately went to hide in the massive Java fern when I put them in the tank yesterday

[@FishForThought]

aw man, thanks for sharing

[@NightmareEclipse]

You’re welcome! I almost never share the story so this is one of the first times I’ve shared it on a larger/more public platform.

[@moditorplayz]

Mcdonalds people: I ONLY SPENT 150 DOLLARIDOOS FOR THIS 5 GALLON TANK WITH 1 ANUBIAS AND ONE CHERRY SHRIMP 🤑 Jollibee people: for 20 us dollars, i made a 20 gallon tank with anubias nana petite, cryptocoryne wendtii, cryptocoryne parva, java moss, amazon sword, cabomba, dwarf saggitaria, monte carlo, pearlweed, 3 kilos of dragon stone, and 100 cherry shrimps

[@sawyerpack4908]

WEEK 42 I WILL NEVER STOP WATCHING FTR Yes I have been watching just I had parental controls that wouldnt let me comment

[@acidbyt.30]

I just rescued a dozen tiger barbs and a PLECO from a kid with a MAYBE 5 GALLON TANK 💀💀💀💀 Well They are now in an impromptu scaped 15gallon(small ik but the only one i had😟) But i mean jts better than 5gallon

[@Graysharkieboi]

QOTW: Last year I bought a pair of guppies (You know exactly where this is going) And they had babies, two months later I had hundreds of guppies, even my baby piranha didn't know what to do with all of them

[@FishForThought]

haha guess that baby piranha is growing up fast

[@Graysharkieboi]

@@FishForThought She is, she has agreed to only live with my assassin snails Bonnie and Clyde. She kills everything else

[@Greenhenben678]

The end💀☻️☻️💀

[@AruelRiel]

So... I want to preface this horror story with: I'm an elder millennial first born first generation immigrant child who didn't have internet access until age 11. My parents bought a silver colored gold fish when I was 6 to foster an air responsibility. I named him Itchy. We had a one gallon tank and no filter, no light, no heating, no plants, and we fed him every morning until he was about the size of a silver dollar. As scary as that sounds, it wasn't the worst of it. Mom decided one day to clean the tank... with bleach. Itchy SURVIVED, lives for another year without incident. We know because my parents wouldn't have bought a replacement and his coloration was rare at the time. Mom decides he needs friends cus he looks lonely. She buys 25 FEEDER FISH, doesn't acclimate them half die on impact with the water. Next day we have 25 corpses as Itchy decided to eat them all. Itchy lives another 6 months without incident. Mom takes us on a trip to her birthplace and dad is left in charge of Itchy's care for the month. He proceeds to dump a third of the fish flakes into the tank because, and I quote, "he looked hungry there all alone". We were not apprised of Itchy's trip through the porcelain gates until we returned 3 weeks later. Rest in power Ichthiosaur. I did so much research when I got my much younger sister bettas to avoid such smells and sorrows. They died of old age in their fully aquascaped separate 10 gallon tanks spaced apart with no view of each other to avoid unnecessary aggression. Rest in power Onyx and Opal.

[@Luciferkrist]

I guess I get lucky with most of my tanks, since I only ever 'have' to do water changes in 2 of them. My other 8 just need some scraping, topping off, and about once a month to clean or change the filter media. My 210 only requires bi-weekly duckweed removal! Or I am just Lazy. Lucky or lazy.

[@stuartdawes3133]

QOTW: Probably a common horror story. Got a neighbour to feed my 6 foot cichlid tank while I was on vacation. Gave him very specific instructions which I believe he followed to the letter. Except I forgot something obvious to me but not to him.....turn the light on while they are feeding. He was feeding after hours in the dark. Very little of the food was eaten, the tank got seriously polluted and and 75% of the fish were dead when I returned. Sad day. Plus wife not impressed I'm doing a full tank clean before I unpack from vacay.

[@AnoraJohnson]

The "gravel cleaner" is actually beneficial bacteria. Love that it's being marketed as a cleaning product. Best kind of clean for fish.

[@IrisSonata]

QoTW: Hooo boy. Strap in for this one X.D True story. Though I'll make it pretty short and simple. Basically: i've always been into tanks even when I was a kid. My, 'Grandma' (we'll say since i can't exactly remember who) got me a 20 Gallon fish tank and stand! I used that tank for many years after~. Anyway, to the story. I want to say I was probably. . 14ish. Middle school I know for sure at least. And I came home one day after being out I think all day with my family. It was roughly afternoon/evening. I went to my room to say hi to my fish: ". . . MOOOOOOMMM!" I yelled across the house to get her to come: and see that the tank was *barely* even 1/8th or even less full. I had a few random easy fish, and a betta. And the betta, well, it was in 'time out' in a little 'nursery basket' you use for baby fish at the top. At the time, neither me or my family knew that Betta's were aggressive since the hobby back then wasn't as popular to get much info at a pet store- thus it was in that basket in the tank. I thought it was dead because it was the first outta water for probably awhile now, and the rest of the fish barely had water to swim with the gravel taking up the last of the room, some already flopping on taller gravel parts. Come to find out, the bubbler's tube separated from the air pump. And aaaall that water, had basically siphoned out since that morning onto the carpet below. We learned right after to get a piece that prevented the tube from being able to siphon if it happened again. And the Betta: miraculously was alive. I dont even know how. For that much water to siphon through a tiny tube, I'd have thought that would have at least took 2 or so hours, but I assume it must have just happened in an hr or even less for that betta to be alive. Now to this day as a horro: my constant horror on my back, is just sometimes imagining my tanks bursting or something and water going everywhere. . Idk why that'd happen and not just 'crack'- but something about a tank 'bursting' haunts me X.D..

[@MetallSpoon]

Imagine being a Betta, and you decide that *THE HAND* looks like another Betta 💀💀💀💀

[@ottr765]

My fishkeeping horror story is that when I got a 16 gallon to replace my 8 gallon (only a few months after starting to keep fish), I had the moronic idea to build a filter myself to save money, using plastic parts bought from eBay. The plastic wasn't fish safe and killed everything except 4 neon tetras, including a gorgeous red tail shark that I got together with the 8 gallon (second hand) and was trying to give away for obvious reasons (shame on whichever store clerk suggested this stocking to the previous owners). Traumatic is an understatement. If it weren't for the 4 tetras I would have quit right then and there.

[@DragonLady465]

Fish keeping horror story When I first started fish keeping I wanted to set up a glow fish tank (original I know lol). Picked up my 30 gallon tank, set it up with plants and everything, let it run for about a week (per the advice of my then bf) before stocking it. Started with a handful of snails, waited a couple weeks and they seemed to be fine so decided to add my first fish, 5 glo tetras. 2 hours after I added them they all died. Called the pet store, they told me to bring in a water sample, asked all the usual questions about stocking, acclimation and how long I had it, told me I was doing everything right and proceeded to send me home with 5 more telling me it was probably bad luck. Spoiler alert they all died hours after being brought home as well... After hopping online for some research because niether my bf or pet store had any idea why this was happening (pet store just told me I probably needed a different kind of fish...)I found out that this has happened to quite a few people. A couple years and many hours of research later (thank you fish keeping KZbin) I can now say I have a much better idea what I am doing and have some very healthy angel fish.

[@TheRealTMar]

Maybe that's why that Belgian woman picked up rocks while on a holiday in Turkey which turned out to be archaeological treasures and was detained for a couple of months. Mind you, they were marble! MARBLE IN YOUR AQUARIUM! BRO! SAVE SOME MONEY ON MARBLE FOR YOUR AQUARIUM! You know, maybe she should just have looked for someone with a TARDIS and grab some from the famous marble merchant in Pompeii who looks like a younger 12th Doctor!

[@MdKarim-xx3rh]

I got bit by a fish part 2: Guys I got bitten by a Glofish! Am I going to be okay *brother walks in * Noooo. You're going to turn into a Glofish and start glowing all over the place. Really! NAH bro trippin

[@Redd07]

Ahh my mondays are always better after a good ol dose of FFT

[@FishForThought]

ty!!!

[@basket_headvr]

💀POV: you come across a person who is also a fish keeper but when you look at there aquarium /jar you see rainbow gravel with 10 goldfish in a 5 gallon aquarium they got off of the black market.

[@thepuffer]

update i also got a 20 gallon with royal tetras,swordtails ,guppies and a crayfish,15 gallon still not setup,and today morning,[i live in oman] i thought my cray escaped but we was under some driftwood, btw my crays name is pirate bob

[@chloejackson1628]

QOTW horror story: My first freshwater tropical tank when I was a teenager. I went away to a festival for a long weekend and asked my mum to feed my fish. When I got back, almost all the fish were dead. Mum claimed the tank heater had malfunctioned and over heated, though I never quite believed this as it was working fine again when I returned. The horrific part of the story though, was that she had kept all the dead fish in a bucket in the garden 'in case I wanted to say goodbye to them'. Sweet thought, but it meant I came back from my trip to a stinking bucket of decaying fish!

[@turtlelyy]

Fish keeping is definitely a form of drugs

[@FishForThought]

fr

[@caitlynnbright84]

Yes please a video on doing less to no water changes

[@FishForThought]

mhm

[@voluntaryismistheanswer]

That's funny as I just posted on a Father Fish video how I'd been ready to do a small water change on a four year old never changed deep substrate 20 tall and I tasted the water, and it was sweet like from a spring; I couldn't do it. When it works, oh boy, it works.

[@yoshinowa1]

QOTW: Having the glass of a 1000L (264 gallon) aquarium crack, the aquarium was on the 1st floor (upstairs) in my house. :p

[@Chaotic4Exotics]

Hey now as a reptile WOman I spend so much on wood and rocks and FAKE PLANTSSS!! I go bankrupt for scaly babies❤

[@EeveelutionStorm]

I love your little microphone buddy. lol I got bitten by my betta fish, it was funny. He'd bite my fingernails.

[@InkedGamerWolf420]

That table 5 minutes in gives me super anxiety because I’ve had a 55 gallon aquarium bottom out on a table meant for only up to 40 breeders. Learned that the hard way