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Can I clean lids the same way?

My favorite carpeting plant is pearl weed. The easiest plant out there to carpet bar none.

My local fish shop gave me 9 neons and a cardinal by accident😮 just one on its own! He seems fine and does school with the neons! Very odd lol

I feed my darters shrimp flakes. I buy dry shrimp and ground a couple up and sprinkle it in

Can I plant these in an established aquarium??

In the past, (and now) I have kept many wild species. Creek chubs(NOT community fish!), blunt-nose minnows, southern red belly dace, green sunfish, blue gills, green-gills, orange-spotted sunnies, long-ear sunnies, spotfin shiners, rainbow, Johnny, banded, greenside and fantail darters. I have also kept both the common and brindled madtom catfish along with a smallmouth bass briefly, but they need a much bigger tank than I have. So I have a good knowledge of keeping wild fish. My biggest problem is keeping the water crystal clear as you do. Currently I have a 29 gallon tank and no longer have the sunfish, only 4 spotfins, 4 blunt-nose, 4 banded, 1 rainbow darter and 1 brindled madtom. What can I do to clear up my water? All of my fish eagerly eat frozen fresh blood worms and my shiners and minnows eat flakes. Lastly. Raccoon creek. That is the name of the creek behind my house. I found a colonial American pipe head in this creek.

My green side started eating flakes in 3 days.

I have some monte carlo in 2 tanks..i dont use co2 and i have really good aquarium lights i added..the monte carlo just doesnt seem to want to do much.

What does fizzing mean? If I have a limestone rock from my yard (Miami, Florida) and it fizzed a little does that mean it’s no good? I’m confused on the rules 😅

Mr Birkholz i miss you. it’s my birthday can i get a shoutout 🤗

Thanks for sharing your expertise. I have some rocks I would like to try in my aquarium and now I know how to make sure they are safe for my fish. Thank you again

Looks like the beginnings of a great setup. Good luck to you!😊

Late to the game, but a simple, helpful video. Hard scape looks great with the accent foliage.

This is why we are blessed with good quality all-in-one liquid fertilizers... It takes billions of miles of guess work out of trying to get it right! Noy sure what you use but i mix mine with two different brands... THRIVE ALL IN ONE W/ MICRO AND MACRO NUTRIENTS as well as API's LEAF ZONE. I will dose one day with thrive... wait 24 hours and add ½ the recommended of API. It's like going to a glove manufacturer and having a custom pair of gloves made JUST for your own hands...

my mbunas eat every plant including the java moss, java fern and the first one you mentioned. I decided to get a 12" plastic set-in tank for the plants, this should help with the over stocking of mbunas

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We have a hidden canyon with 60 to 100-foot walls with a wide rocky shallow stream here in Northeast Ohio that very few people know exists. It is the upper headwaters of the Grand River and it is teaming with Darters, crayfish, Sculpins, and other small fish. There is nothing more fun than wading around in it trying to catch them. You have to outsmart them, Darters are very fast and scury under rocks. If you place a large aquarium net behind the rock and lift the tock from the back the Darters will often swim right into your net.

czcams.com/video/lfC-CG217g0/video.html Hi Kiwi, I am an old guy (69) and have been an aquarium hobbyist ever since my mom gave me a 5-gallon fish tank when I was 5 or 6. One of my very early fish was a crayfish. I put a flat rock up along the front glass along with a big sea snail shell that was about 5 inches in diameter. My little crayfish dug under the rock in the gravel and it wasn't long before he had a large home under the rock and as he dug it out he moved all the gravel away from the glass so that I could see in. He dug over to the large snail shell which was also by the front glass and it became his most favorite place to hang out. He would go around inside the shell until he came to where the top of the shell was broken off and he would sit there with his claws sticking out and his feelers sticking up and watch everything in the world outside his little home. Sometimes my baby Bullheads (black and very cute) would swim back under his rock and nip his tail and he would back down till he could turn around and go after them. Sometimes he would tear off a piece of their tale but it didn't stop them from tormenting him. As a little boy with an aquarium in my room, I think I spent as much time watching my aquarium as I did watching TV. My crayfish got used to me watching him but if I came to close to the glass he would raise his pinchers at me but never retreat into the shell. One of the most fascinating things about watching him was how industrious he was. He would use those front claws like a bulldozer moving out gravel from beneath his stone and piling them up around the opening that lead into his lair under the rock. It was fun watching him search through the gravel with his eight legs and feet for food and hand things up from foot to foot. I suppose calling them feet is an inaccurate way to describe them. It seems if I remember the back four legs ended in little pointed spears that the front four had little tiny pincher-like ends that worked much like hands to hand the food up to the two tiny little spear-like hands up by its mouth. It was fun to watch them use these legs to search through the gravel for food. They are terrific scavengers and bottom cleaners. The fish that are most vulnerable to them are smaller fish like black tetras and smaller Angelfish that tend to sleep near the bottom. I remember as a little boy I would come to watch my fish at night with a small flashlight and catch my crayfish in the act of carrying one of these small fish across the bottom toward his cave. I rescued a number of small fish from him. Faster fish like white clouds, zebra fish, common minnows, are much less apt to be a midnight snack for him. A crayfish will love you if you give him a live earthworm. I can't believe you getting yours to crawl up your arm and also letting you brush him with a toothbrush but I guess if you spend time with any animal you can tame them. I had a pet snapping turtle when I was a kid that I became great friends with and he would take raw hamburger right from between my fingers and never try to bite me. He only tried when I first caught him but after that every day I would catch him bugs and crickets and feed him raw hamburger and we became great friends. Of course, I never approached him carelessly like grabbing him but if I respected him and picked him up gently he was fairly tame. I took him back to the lake and let him loose in the Fall and watched him swim out into the lake and stop and look back at me before continuing back out into the wild. Crayfish are so interesting to keep in an aquarium. I think they prefer shallow water especially when they are small and I have had better luck with them in smaller tanks. It could be a water pressure thing. Also if you have an open top tank or even a covered tank with just a small opening they will often find the opening and climb out. I enjoyed your video.

I am a nearly 70-year-old guy who has been keeping fish since I was five or six when my mother gave me my first 5-gallon aquarium. I have always enjoyed keeping wild little fish that I have caught in creeks and ponds. Ever since I was small I have enjoyed catching little fishes for my aquariums. From a very young age as with many others in the hobby, My addiction to the hobby has led to me acquiring more tanks. Over the years my aquarium hobby has waxed and wained but never died out and Its waiting has been more due to other obligations and money. Even now in my old age with a shoestring budget I have a fish room down in my dungeon basement with bargain second-hand aquariums and cleat plastic tubs full of fish and aquaponic plants growing out of them like a literal jungle. Over the years I have kept minnows, Bluegills, baby Bullheads, baby channel cats, and of course Darters. Once I brought home a bunch of minnows and put them into an overcrowded 40-gallon long tank with a large number of guppies. One of the minnows was not a minnow but something much bigger, perhaps a chub. I don't know. I soon found it was eating other minnows as big as it was and it would swim around with the other fish'(continued)s tail sticking out of its mouth until eventually it could swallow it all. Honestly, I don't know how it could do it. It must have been all stomach. It may have been irresponsible but by the time I got around to catching it out of the tank it had eaten every other fish and was about 7 inches long. I took it back to the same place I had caught it and let it go and watched as it swam away up the creek. (continued)

Fantastic looking tank. May I know the height of your tank? I have a 2 feet tall tank and the stem plants try to grow taller than bushier.

Love the video keep it up

Nice!

Where is the care for Marimo ? Where is the care for marimo from your own experience in this video ?

Good info, thank you! 😁👍

Go Blue! Everyone knows Ohio State fans can’t keep fish alive 😆.

Redline darters, rainbow darters, warpaint shiners, mimic shiners, scarlet shiners!!! I love my native tank!!!

Great video. Very informative. The music was a bit irritating, though.

The clear thing that was on the glass is either some kind of flatworm or a leech. (Almost definitely the first one)

Cheers to the supportive spouse. Happy wife / Happy Aquarium Life :)

This is Really late comment but how many bags of substrate did you use?

Pretty uneventful. Don't see the point..

Welcome back!

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CREATIVE, I like the idea, hopefully will try it very soon

Hey bro, nice to see you back, blessings

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Let me know how it works for you and what you catch!

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would not be better to detect deficiency by measuring with test kit in stead of guessing by comparing it with a drawing?

Pretty cool to watch. Can't wait for the "reveal"! 🐛🦋

Why didn't you film some of the other fry, too? Or is that the only one?😊

I must say u explained it well i have been researching alot and i finally got my answer for my low tech

My sparkling gourami croak and yes, have heard them.... is the croaking the same as the sparkling? ✨️

Entire world within a jar. Truly remarkable.

NOT SEEN YOU IN YEARS HAVE YOU BEEN IN JAIL ?

Have you ever created an enclosed ecosystem in a jar?

Mine eat brine shrimp and blood worms there beautiful

Would endlers and Cory’s be okay tank mates for rainbow darters?

Looks great

🌿🌊🐟🌊🌱 Thank you brother! 💥🤙🏼