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Hey guys! I already got married and recorded this video beforehand, definitely a good idea because I'm super busy now!
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Wow, congrats!!!
Nice
You have a life?
Congrats!!
Congrats!
I just wanted to drop you a quick note to say thank you. Your aquascaping videos have been a real lifeline for me. A while back, I was in a pretty dark place, struggling with depression. I couldn’t seem to find anything that brought me joy or peace. Then, I stumbled upon your channel and got hooked on your aquascaping projects. Watching you transform a simple tank into a breathtaking underwater world was mesmerizing. It gave me a sense of calm and even inspired me to try my hand at aquascaping. But then I saw your new hairline and have been pushed back into that dark place
🤑💀💀💀
"They had us in the first half, not gonna lie."
STOP LMAOO
@@hayitsmskitkat26 🤣
Really glad to hear, thanks for taking the time to leave this comment :)
Damn I'm here after a long time and I gotta say that's a killer look! Also congrats on your wedding!
Edit : You still react to all your comments! Proud of you for keeping your word from the 10K subs range xD
tysm! wow you're an OG sub :)
For a brief second I was wondering what Unkle Rodger (youtuber) was doing on fish for thought.
Hayaaaaaaaa
Balls😂🎉😮😅
i don't even look like him!
@@FishForThoughtI know sir. Haha. The hair just though me off for the briefest moment in time in the thumbnail.
Portuguese fishkeeper here! I have to say, I've been in to hobby for less than a year, and my tank is doing really well with lots of microfauna. Also, all the plants I've ever planted in it are alive and thriving, with no deaths.
I don't know, maybe it's a portuguese water thing 😂.
Love your vids, chris!
dang! It certainly seems like a portugese thing, also I didn't know I had a long term portugese channel member!
@@FishForThought yes! I planted my tank because of your videos ahah. My betta thanks you 😆
QOTW - only 1 wedding and it's already happened. My only male cousin on my father's side. He and his husband had a beautiful wedding with alpacas at the reception! It was awesome to get to pet and hug the alpacas ❤
wow!! alpacas at a wedding!
Hey, Barnacle Boy! Congrats on your upcoming wedding! Really digging the new haircut.
hahaha thanks xD
It's true, I'm from Portugal and when i started my three tanks, i found microorganism colonies within the first month.
The water is pretty acidic in some parts of the country, a lot of the tap water comes from natural springs that are surrounded by granite, so the mineral levels are pretty good without any significant levels of heavy metals. Also the levels of chlorine are almost non existent.
This is mostly on the center region, the closer you go to the cost the worst the water parameters are usually.
I just finished a pretty long text that I wrote for a school project.
This video drops at the perfect time
enjoy :)
That first thing is a bryozoan. It's a close relative of corals, and does basically the same thing. Forms small colonies of filter feeders, with calcified exoskeletons forming an extensive shared structure. VERY hard to maintain in an aquarium, but really neat.
And for those of you wondering, I found an identical looking species in the local river water in the northern indiana wetlands. You do not need to be in portugal.
I was thinking they looked like coral polyps
Oh my GOD! I’m the one who made the detailed comment on bryozoan anatomy that made you do all the science graphics. I can’t believe my geeky comment made it into FFT!
QOTW: No weddings this summer. I’m old enough that none of my friends are getting married and our kids are young enough that they aren’t getting married yet.
I've had those hydroids on my tank too before. At first, I thought they are fungi, but then I saw their cilia move (which I thought was a mushroom cap at first). They disappear after a while though...
After much searching, I'm quite certain that they are Cordylophora caspia. They came from brackish and freshwater around the Caspian Sea, but they already spread worldwide by the early 19th century.
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Your two best options for hair are...
- Get some gel, and mess around. Just play around in the mirror until you start to find something you like, and work it through.
- Go to a salon / barber and say "you're the expert, make me look good". But you of course are taking somewhat of a risk doing that. Since you're already married - as long as your hair grows quickly, I think it's worth trying.
noice thx!
Yo olive been gone for a year but I used to watch you like 1-4 years ago and you've stayed Relevant, love ur vids and imma get back to watching you every Wednesday
nice! wednesday though?!
@@FishForThought maybe another one of those ecosystem videos I really love those ones the video that's coming to my mind is when you went out to the ocean and to like a River pond and you try to see if there's much of a difference between ocean water ecosystems and non ocean water ecosystems which I really love that video it was awesome
5:00 NO WAY HAHA THAT'S MY POST! I knew one of my stupid posts will be in one of your videos eventually 😭😭
I didn't make that for the plants, I made it for the substrate. It was new substrate that I put into one of my established tanks so BB will grow on it since I was gonna set up a new tank 😅
No way! I got the same thing! Only now that I found out they were some rare freshwater critters. Mine hitched hiked on a water wisteria I bought from a pet shop 2 years ago. At first I thought it was hydra or some variant of it so i tried real hard on extinguishing them but they persisted, hiding in the dark spots in the tank most times attached to plants, sometimes on hardscape. I know they are still in there and now that i think about it, they never really been a problem.
dude! congratulations!!! I was about to ask how soon was the wedding if you were testing wedding hair already- so many happy wishes for you and your new wife!
ty!!
I’m a brand new subscriber and am in the process of prepping for my very first fish tank ever. I am scared lol. I really don’t know anything except what I’ve learned on various CZcams channels, so we’ll see how it goes. Thanks for helping me learn!
This FTR makes up for me going to the pet store yesterday and all their fish being in quarantine. It was super sad. I wanted some more neon tetras as I rescued a single neon from a tank someone was going to toss, its pretty lonely right now. They still were not selling fish for another 3 days. I did go home with a pure white leopard gecko that just finished their quarantine instead named snow. I already had a terrarium waiting to be set up. So far she's been doing great!
dang...
@@FishForThought She's been very happy and active at night! During the day she is usually in her hide laying in what I have read to be the sploot position. I almost thought she was dead but it turns out she's just very comfortable.
I had those on an assassin snail I got with some plants I bought and found it, thought it was dead, almost threw it away, threw it in a glass of tap water before throwing it away, and lo and behold it wasn't dead!! and I was shocked. Put her in my aquarium and in a short while noticed those on her shell. Looked them up and found out what they were. I was so happy. About a year or so later after a move I decided to get a new tank and start over. Derp. Anyhoo, I had this thermometer that showed the water temp at about 68° Kept buying heaters and it never could get into the green zone. I would check to Mahe site the thermometer worked by putting it in got water and it would go up and putting it in cold water and it would go down, so I assumed it worked. I finally got a heater with a thermostat. It showed my temp at 88.5° my thermometer so showed 68° I thought I had another broken heater. FINALLY I researched how to test your thermometer and learned how to find its cold set point which should be 0° anything under 0° is how far off accurate your thermometer is. Sad story, over the years I lost Neons I thought due to Neon disease. Ottos, Bettas, Chinese algae eaters and my assassin snail the Bryzoas. It's so sad it breaks my heart when I think it was all my fault for not learning the cost l correct way to test my thermometer and I lost fish due to I'm assuming, heat exhaustion. Now I leave comments about it because I was testing my thermometer but I wasn't testing it correctly. Always test your equipment reverb the equipment used for testing. My fish are now thriving again. I have lots of baby assassin snails and fry and Happy fish. Sad lesson learned.
My favorite thing to do on Monday 🎉🎉🎉watching your video❤❤❤❤❤
ty!!
“put an aquarium in my bathroom”
*shows picturesque aquascape*
I did not see that coming
“They’re not overstocking this tank”
But they have a single white skirt tetra in a tank that’s too small…
(^ glass half full vs half empty)
lmao true!
1 wedding! my friend's mom came to visit 2 winters ago and i showed her around town, when she got engaged she asked my friend if he thought i would be interested in coming to her wedding lmao moms love me
nice!
We have freshwater bryozoans in Pennsylvania... by late summer they've formed grapefruit sized jelly balls that look like some sort of weird coppery orange fruit. East coast has saltwater ones too...
wowowo
No weddings planned on my end, congratulations on yours!🎉
tyty!
QOTW: only 1 wedding for me this summer but as some have already pointed out the older you get the less weddings happen as all my friends are already married and Iam now in my 40s. I guess my kids and friends kids will get married next. Then I suspect as some point in my life the question will be how many funerals I have gone to in a year. Life is a wild ride!
Congratulations on your upcoming wedding! enjoy every minute of it because it goes by so fast!! 💨
nice!
You can usually find Bryzoa in lakes. It is usually the squishy stuff you step on....
How are yuouououiu!!! Dudes amazing staying faithful to his weekly upload schedule through his wedding haha. Whelp barnacle boy hope your doing fine this week!
Also I just realized that I’ve seen a Candy darter up in my creek! Should I report it? Either that or a rainbow darter maybe there the same idk ( also you should make the discord free heheh)
Qotw: like two lol
haha I plan to stay faithful to everything xD
Imagine the bamboo shrimp wasn't making a nest but was farming 😭
Great haircut, love your videos, happy Monday Chris 😊
tysm!
QOTW: none this summer but my daughter just got engaged so I get to help her shop for a gown. I'm so excited!
perusing the comments and just had to say congratulations!
@@Lauraetcetera thank you!
woohoo!
I live in Portugal and I do not have that in my aquarium but the briozoa live in my pond in Czech Republic and they live in giant reef like culture they look so cool if someone what I can sell it
Hey Chris! Love your content I also have bryozoans in my tank! I thought it was algae until I saw your video. I live in central Washington using well water, just top-ups no changes I wonder how they spread around? Pretty cool I hope you continue making my Mondays worthwhile😅
o shoot!
Congrats on the wedding!!! Like the hair. If you want another suggestion, i think a wolf cut would look nice on you. Congrats again🎉
coool thx!
This hobby is very interesting. I started with a planted tank and wanting to have a super neat shrimp tank without any of those copepods but now I want to have them knowing that it is an indicator of a very healthy and established tank!
very nice xD
Dang you gotta be kidding. I had that thingy on one of my crypt leaves and I had no idea what it was so I just cut the lead and threw it😭😭😭. My tank didn’t even have a dead betta it’s just a shrimp tank that I only top up and feed every now and again hopefully it comes back and I’ll leave it in next time
Love your videos man! I should submit my 20gal tank that about 6 months old, haven't had fish in 20+yrs.
wow! welcome back to the hobby
My place is having a water restriction now because the pipes exploded. Now my fish tank water levels 👇😢. Still gonna take another 7 days
It will keep them happy till your pipes are fixed at least
oh boy :((
that bamboo shrimp majored in underwater basket weaving
8:25 THATS ME!!!
I bought a baby koi turns out it's a common carp??? Like 😂😂😂
oop
@@FishForThought AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I’m working on making a 400 gallon indoor pond and don’t know what I’m going to decide on I’m between doing a map turtle pond a cichlid pond or get a few guppies and mollys plant it to the nines before hand and let them breed like crazy
I needed this today tbh
good to hear
QOTW: No weddings at all. They fell off as I left my 20s, but then I left my religious group and I haven’t been to a single wedding or funeral since. I still have 20-year-old evening dresses in my closet.
But I can still enjoy the beauty of my aquarium.
I thought this was a whole new person omg!
lmao!
The portuguese fishkeeper is probably a guy that doesn't do frequent water changes.
I've seen a lot of life develop when setting and forgetting a tank
that's the secret I guess!
QOTW: Going to one wedding, and flying to the other side of the world to attend. Be nice to see people - haven’t been back since 2016 - but not looking forward to the flight.
awesome!
I’m pretty sure that the call me stupid guy was growing them immersed, you can see the waterline up top
ooo i c it
Got a 72 gallon aquarium still deciding what to stock with heavily leaning towards community tank 1 fish on my radar is the rainbow shark but that is just 1 fish since they are aggressive towards other sharks if anyone had ideas let me know i have a few already still have to set up tank and cycle so will be awhile. Most likely going for heavily planted Walsted method so probably steering clear of cichlids.
No weddings, no funerals ever never
I'm currently setting up a 5 gallon aquarium for either shrimp or beta or both and I'm about 150 bucks in and still need plants and fish and a CO2 system 😅 I'm like halfway there 😅
HIII I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS SO MUCH LOVE FROM GREECE ❤❤❤
woohoooo! shinamoroll
Looking good, Chris! If you are open to pomade suggestions, clay pomade works really well for styling and doesn't leave your hair feeling crunchy or shiny afterwards.
noice!
im not going to any weddings ever - i saw a public proposal once and i yelled at her to say no.
oof
I live your videos! My first tank was a bowl with a goldfish he lived not long it was when I was like seven I had probably about six bettas over a year they all passed. When I was eleven I was gifted a betta and a not even one gallon my parents wouldn’t let me buy a larger tank but at the end of his life I got him a five gallon now I have a female Betta two guppies and two snails and I’m getting another male betta soon
tysm!
Thank you for replying!!!!!
personally enjoy the unkempt hair look but lookin' fancy right now. QOTW: Slowly creeping up on 40 and aging out of wedding season...so none. Everyone I know is either already married or...probably never will be 😅
Fresh haircut. Congratulations bro
thx Ian!
Portugal: stupid great tanks when they show up
Me: *cries in not even being able to cycle tap water for 2 MONTHS with like 4 kinds of conditioners without it k1lling my shrimp and moss balls*
YOU GOT ME INTO FISHKEEPING!!!
i really love your channel, but i have a question . i have a tank its about maybe 5-6 gallons and there were three guppies. they were all males because i didnt know how to controll all of the birthing and stuff😭 but i was told it would be okay, and i was going to get a bigger tank in the future. i dont know if its because of the tank size, fighting over food, or something else. i have plants and do regular water changes. i got them last week (they are all male guppies) and one of them has been showing signs of aggression, hes been chasing the other fish and head butting his reflection, so i tried to keep the lights a little dimmed, but ofc that only helped with the reflection. after one of the fishes died, i didnt know what to do. i separated them, but they are schooling fish. neither of them are eating after separating them temporarily because my mom is out of town, and i dont want to put the two together because i dont want them to die😭
(i have two betta tanks and they have lived for about 5 months)
I NEED ADVICE BECAUSE IM NEW TO THIS
maybe some more decor and plants for hiding. They aren't really schooling fish but do like to be in groups. Increase group size will help with aggression too
@@FishForThought ohhh i thought they were schooling fish😭
thank you, though! and the fish are doing okay for now! and you are helping me understand and learn more!
SHEESH CHIRS LOOKING FRESH OUT HERE.
ayyyy
Love your channel
tyty!
That kind of algae just does that. It clumps in places and wisps in others. The bamboo shrimp got lucky lol
oh icic so they not out here making nests like birds LOL
@@FishForThought I kinda wish they did though =)
I didn't even see this first thing in the morning in my recommendations
c'mon what is youtube doin!
I went to a wedding in February and I'm going to another one in November. Vegas is too hot for nice summer weddings lol
Hey, just curious, is a 2.5 gal tank enough for a betta? Just want to know, cuz I have one betta in one rn. Let me know what I should change!
Still waiting for you to cover the dude grew weed in the substrate of his beta tank
What really?!? Is that safe for the fish if so.. go ahead 😅😂
i gotta find that one haha
I went to a edding last week and Ive got 2 more weddings this summer
STOP CHRIS ARE YOU A LINKIN PARK FAN?????????? THATS SO HYPE‼️‼️‼️
I got my army cut again. But a nice curly iron would help. And hair wax to get that shiny look. I miss my old hairstyle ;-;
I’m also thinking about building an in wall shelving for my 75 gallon community tank
do it!
La notification du plaisir ^^ Little hello from France ^^
bonjour!
Happy Monday everyone
I use pento, love it
Can you put a nerite snail plus some cherry shrimp in a 2.5 gal
QOTW, No weddings for me (that I know of) At my age it is more funerals than weddings.
Ha, I love my Zojirushi appliances singing to me. All appliances should sing, not beep.
true
QotW: One, i think it’s the first wedding i ever got invited to (I don’t have many friends and the few are not the types that marry). My cousin will get married and I’m already nervous 😅 still got a month for getting clothes xD
When I got hydra i just left it cause all i have are snails rn and they just went away after a few weeks
The rap at 7:05 was incredible! Had me bopping my head 🕺🕺🕺🕺
hahaa tyty
@@FishForThought take a bow take a bow 😂😂😂😂
I only know a fish died in my tank after a few days of not seeing it. Lol
Qotw: no weddings (unless someone has a surprise wedding, I guess,) but I am going to the ocean for a week or so. It's extra exciting because I've been to the camp before but I was sick for most of it last time.
hope u enjoy it this time!
@@FishForThought Thank you! I'm hoping for cool fish decor at the tourist shops.
does anyone know if he has any suggestions with snapping turtle aquascaping? any strong plants that can handle the waste from the turtle?
Ahoy hoy and happy FTR day everyone!! Wishing all a super de duper week! Let's all meet back here next week too.
Chris; honestly all you need is a visit with a good stylist and go with your hair like it always is and tell them you want that, but more formal. Because I am going to agree with another commenter that whoever did that style made you look like Uncle Roger. Another thought is take your fiance with you and have her tell the stylist what kind of style she would like on you. You don't want her to be forever embarrassed to show her wedding photos because of your hair, right? So her input would be good!
Bamboo shrimp def didn't build nests to breed that I've seen. I think what is more likely is it's using it's fans to build up the algae into a solid perch because that's where the flow is and they need that flow.
QotW; a big fat zero. I don't have a social life beyond work and my fish club meetings so no weddings for this old gal. 😅
oh gosh I don't wanna look like uncle roger hahaha
Guys I have a question, I have a 55 gal and I won’t to put a 10 gal under it for a grow out/ shrimp tank but idk how to connect the two. I’m guessing something like a sump but they’re confusing and I can’t find any good fish keeping forums to help.
Hey, just curious, is a 2.5 gal tank enough for a betta? Just want to know, cuz I have one betta in one rn. Let me know what I should change!
"Weddings are just funerals with cake." -Rick
That almost empty tank is a biorb (made by oase a German company). They are expensive for such small tanks as they are acrylic and marketed as high end designer tanks. They aren't easy tanks to maintain and plant though. Kind off sad since the bigger aquariums that oase makes are user friendly and off high quality for mass produced tanks.
true they look like a headache to work around the scape with
@@FishForThought My LFS got so fed up with them that their biorb showtanks are now decorated with the biorb decor but have no water and fish in them.
Having filter feeders in a tank is a goated strat for clear water.
truuue but if the water gets too clear they might die off
@@FishForThought so true….
6:20 - I’m sitting on the throne at work watching reviews of fish tanks in bathrooms
hahaha that's how it's done
Hey Chris, do you think adding 6 pepper corys to a 20 high with 6 guppies and a dwarf gourami would be overstocking? Tank is well planted with some tannins. Parameters are okay. Really just worried about bioload and space.
Overstocking doesn't exist. Complete myth
@accelerationquanta5816 can you elaborate please?
@@AgxntOrange The more animals there are in an aquarium, the more nitrogenous waste they'll produce. The more nitrogenous waste they produce, the sooner the concentration of said nitrogenous waste in the water will reach harmful concentrations. All that means is that you'll need to perform larger and/or more frequent water changes to maintain water quality. Daily 50%+ water changes aren't unheard of in setups intended to maximize growth of young animals.
If there aren't a lot of animals, and/or there is a lot of plants present to absorb nitrogenous waste, you could achieve a setup that requires no water changes, or only needs one every few months, but most people don't go for either of those extremes, and the norm is weekly to biweekly water changes of 20 to 50%. How quickly nitrogenous wastes would accumulate in your setup is ultimately guesswork, though there are online stocking calculators that'll give you an idea, and you'll have to actually create it and monitor nitrogenous waste concentrations with test kits to know how frequently water changes will be necessary, keeping in mind that a new aquarium will only show ammonia, and it will take a few weeks to two months for bacteria to turn it into nitrates consistently. Since yours is probably already cycled, you'll just need to look at nitrates and probably have to increase the water fraction removed, or the frequency of water changes, somewhat to compensate the new bioload. Space is less of a concern because guppies and Corys hang out in different parts of the water column for the most part.
TL;DR think about how frequently you change water right now and ask if you're comfortable doing a bit larger volumes or a bit more frequently
Sometimes I listen to tetra in my car on the way to my job at the local fish store 😂❤
awesome haha puts u in the mood to work!
I was invited to like 3 or 4 this year but could only make it to one cause all my friends live like 500 miles away 😢
Hey xchris im going to get a rescue betta any advice???
HI CHRIS!!!
heyhey!
HERE THE PUERTORICAN BOY READY FROM PHILIPPINES 😂😂😂😂BIG HUG BROOOOOOO
Congratulations Chris! I also like the new look. (QOTW: None that I know of)
tyty!
A Maplestory reference. Bro. Thats my high school obsession.
yeah same! I still play lmao
@FishForThought it got so crazy compared to my mid 2000s time. We only had 4 classes way back then! Now there's so many
You're going to 4 weddings just this summer? I don't even know 4 people.
Maybe I'm just crashing them ;)
QOTW: I am a wedding videographer so I've already been to 9 weddings this year, with 3 more planned before the end of summer. (It was a busy spring lol)
daaaang
@@FishForThought Gotta pay for that hardscape somehow 💪
Hair clay is what my stylist recommends but I have white boy hair
Bro got his hair cut from 12 pell 🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯
what's that xD
@@FishForThought that's a CZcams channel about haircut and They have a salon in NYC.