The Dumbest Things We've Done As Fish Keepers
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
- We've all done dumb things with our aquariums. In this episode John and Jason discuss some of the dumbest things they've done over the years.
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John and Jason an episode suggestion given our age.
"What's changed in the hobby the last 40 years."
Tank sizes, given advice, technology, culture, and general knowledge. Etc....
Unplugged a heater, took it out of the tank to service a pump. Set the heater on top of my printer next to the tank. Finished all the maintenance. Plugged heater back in. Melted a hole through printer.
Being a college student studying to become an aquarist and enter this industry, it’s really nice to hear two seasoned professional joke about how “they’re never gonna make a mistake again” and “those are the only mistakes I’ve ever made”
It’s comforting to know that literally everyone has those learning lessons haha
Dumb thing #1. I put a betta in an aquarium that was too large (55) and also contained giant danios. The poor guy was harassed and exhausted to the point that he almost didn't recover. Had to rush out and buy a 10g to put him in to be more comfortable.
I kept a betta in a fully planted 125 gallon with just ramshorn snails and he thrived, it isn't the tank size, it's the tank mates. He was at leisure to explore anywhere he pleased and it was a beautiful thing to see. Drawback was it was an expensive tank to keep at 80 deg.
love my giant danios but they are decidedly deviant
I could write a book with all the dumb things I've done in the 35yrs of fish keeping.
One that will always stick in my head was when I was about thirteen and I had a 29 gal community tank and had a molly holding. I put the molly in a two-gallon fishbowl with some of the substrate, and a cycled box bubbler I had in the 29gal.
I put a heater in the bowl to keep temp and forgot to adjust the heater, The next morning I woke up and the water was like bath water, the worst part was she actually had all the fry and her and all the fry were laying at the bottom of the bowl cooked.
LOVING the fish keeping stories! Really great to hear all about your experiences. Thanks to the both of you.
Dumbest thing I did was tell my husband I only wanted one 5 gallon tank..... maybe he was dumb for believing me.😂
Forgetting to plug the heater back in for near 24 hours!
Worse yet forgetting to unplug it.😅😅😅 especially the old glass ones.😅
been there done that
I’m not paying attention to the person speaking. I’m watching the facial expressions of the person listening!! Love It
Awesome, awesome video. My two favorite CZcams stars are human. 😂
Love the podcast and and I can’t wait for the next topic every week am here…😊
Dumb thing I didn’t do after getting aquariums? Tossing out any shirt with long sleeves 😂.
When i was new I used to age water for 24 hours AND add dechlorinator at the same time.
Aging water just isn’t an option with chloramines unfortunately
For the record, John, it would seem you are correct about Algae Fix depleting the oxygen in the aquarium as per Google Search...
"Before using, make certain that the pond has vigorous aeration, i.e., a fountain or aeration device to avoid fish loss due to low oxygen levels. When algae is controlled and removed by the filter or settles to the bottom of the pond, the oxygen level may drop to harmful levels if adequate aeration is not provided."
Not deciding to do aquasoil before I planted the tank, a total re-do.
Not quarantining new fish, no bad effects
Starting with small tank only to replace with larger then even larger aquarium so spent 3× more than I should have (only have space for 1!)
You should make a tank talk podcast about good alternatives to monster fish 🐟. Something dumb i don is I hade a towel on one of my lights on a open top tank and it fell in with half in the water and half out and acted like a syphon and drained half the water It was in a room with a carpeted floor I walked in in the morning and everything was soaked😅 Love the podcast by the way keep it up❤❤.
Set up hair grass and I installed a new canister cut the hoses and they were so short that the intake valve could barely reach to land right next to the hairgrass
Aquaclear filter maintenance. Took the motor off to clean and forgot to put it back before filling..
Doing a water change, I forgot to drop down or unplug the heater.
Added Duckweed to one of my tanks. It's the gift that keeps on giving. 👌
One morning getting ready to leave for work it took me 10 minutes to realize my Harley key doesnt start my truck.
I did a few dumb things.
One cost some of my fish their lives.
This i regret the most:
First time i used an active soil i just added it to an established tank.
Didnt know it would release ammonia.
And i lost half of my fish.
I still get sad and angry at myself for that.
As a kid i collected rainworms and dumped a jar full of worms and soil in my turtle tank.
My dad just cleaned it.
Whole tank dirty.
Whole living room stinking.
The others all involve water.
Syphoning water in a bucket
Getting distracted
Water on the floor.
Making a mistake putting the pumphead back on a filter
Water on the floor.
Leaving the hoses too long
Water poors out of the filter cause too much pressure.
Water on the floor.
Thank you! I dropped a HOB pre-filter into one of my 60 gallon tanks while cleaning and not wanting to get up to my arm pits wet right then decided I would get it later. One of my bristle nose plecos decided it would make a great cave. Needless to say it took forever with tiny scissors to free him from his cave. Lesson learned ... Laziness has no place in this hobby!
I have a 20 gallon tank with 1 male betta, I went shopping and decided it would be a good idea to get my betta another friend. I got another male betta. When I came home from work I saw a dead (new) betta.
Awesome! You ate the catfish!
One that happened to me. We had just moved into our new home, and had several longfin tetras, mix of black skirt and white skirts, as well as a couple corys. We moved them from the bucket they were being transferred in to a tank. We underestimated that the Metairie Louisiana municipal water is a lot hotter than the Mandeville water out the tap, and even after letting it be treated for awhile, it was too hot for the fish. Someone did confirm they should've been able to survive it, but between the stress of being driven over 30 miles, and the sudden temperature shift, there were no survivors....... neither of us, myself nor my gf, have really forgiven ourselves.
Being new to the tank, perhaps the green rasboras were being chased by the other fish and their inclination was to jump out of the water (not understanding they are in a small glass box).
Dumbest thing I've done, put an angelfish in a tank with a castle decoration with too small of opening that the fish got stuck in. This definately shortened the life of the fish from the damage caused.
Well I've been in fish keeping for a week and killed 8 fish. I dont think I did a proper cycle, and did not but an airstone. They suffocated. I feel terrible went out got test strips and some seachem and restarted the cycle. Also bought an airpump and airstone
@PrimetimeAquatics. Jason, you have beaten me thus far. Of 8 brilliant green rasboras, I've only had one jumper lol😂
Me and my friend owned a snakehead back in high school(still legal in the 90s) and had it in our Bio teachers 75gal classroom tank. We had a couple of kids in our class that were pretty much jerks. They were determined to see how “tough” the fish was and wanted it to fight. Without our knowledge they bought a tri colored “shark” to put in the tank with him. As soon as that poor shark hit the surface of the water…the snakehead ate it. Over in milliseconds. Huge mistake
Thanks guys. Many many years ago before CZcams, I had a 75 and purchased Mubunas. Tiny colbats, albinos, red zebras, a blue eyed pleco and this one really cool looking white, black and yellow one. As they grew up I added a blue lobster. He didn't last but a couple of days. They devoured it. But it gets worse... Some months later the cute little multicolored one turned black. Yes, a male auratus. Eventually he killed everything in the tank. I was so pi$$ed I sold the tank and vowed I would never have fish again. Thankfully, I stumbled upon you guys a few years or so ago. 4 tanks now of Mbuna, Tanganika's, and shrimp. NO Aratus!
I also took my heater out for whatever reason (during a water change) and didn't unplug it and caught my rug on fire then panicked and put it back into my take for it to shatter into a million peaces😂
Came home from vacation to find I had plugged the filter into the timer instead of the light. Fish had 24 hours of light and 8 hours of filter for 10 days. Unbelievably there were no casualties.
When i was in high school i just had a 10 gallon and didnt know better, so I had a pictus catfish in there. Im at the fish store and I see that they have a glass knife and figured that should go in. Didregarding the tiny tank, the pictus killed the knife that night.
Awesome video! Been watching you both for a while now. I really liked last week topic, but couldn’t related to both of your fantasy tanks because they were so large, could you guys do a video for a dream tank at 55,75 and 125 (what I think most above average fish keepers own)? I would love to hear both of you opinions on this podcast! Keep up the great work!
At 75, I think I out dumbed you both together. Had no internet/computer till 55. What I knew was from brother bringing me to someone selling fish from his house that Blue fished and made his own lead anchors and flies(which was the most positive knowledge I'll never forget, his name was Mr. Johnson), department stores fish, turtles and gators. Going to stores that would sell you anything .... and we had many(one thing that I miss today) no mail order anything if it wasn't from the Sears, Montgomery Ward or J&J Smith jokes and tricks catalogs !
In the late 90’s I had an African cichlid tank, but I didn’t know the difference between Peacocks or Mbuna. The store just said African cichlids. So I ended up with both kinds and the Mbuna went to town on the peacocks. I only recently got back into Africans after watching John’s video on how to do it right.
In NY we call them roach Clip scissors
I don't know much about salt wat but if you not quarantine then you could have put them in a box with holes in either in the sump or the tank unit they were bigger maybe
@KGTropicals Should have left the 125 next to the dumpster. I have a 20g that came from the dumpster corral at my friend's apartment complex. It was crusty and I was sure it would leak. But it didn't and it cleaned up beautiful.
When I was younger I had a mabuna tank I had raised these fish from nothing to around 4 to 5 inch hadn't done a water change ever decided I wanted to clean up water cleaned everything in the tank did a 75% water change filled up from outside in the middle of the winter and those started dieing I lost every single one of those fish I was smashed couldn't figure out what I did until I mature in the hobby I realized I didn't a bunch of things wrong!
Would algea fix harm plants ?
@KGTropicals for your salt water tank is it on a sump? Could be a grow out area when you need it.
One of the dumbest things I have done was make a diy sponge filter out of a onion powder container. Had no idea that onions have a chemical that is toxic to fish and shrimp... Long story short, all of the color and behavior was fine. Shortly after adding Tetras and a few new shrimp, things started to not look right even though their color was still good. Everything died, after ruling out everything I could rule out the only factor that could be related was the powder union container, did a quick search and found out about onions being toxic. The plastic must have absorbed some of the toxin and then slowly released it into the water. My other tank that had a diy sponge filter made from a water bottle.
Cleaning the tank without moving the light first. 💦
I’ve made the beginner mistake of trying to find my own tank mates for Victorian cichlids and I spent hundreds of dollars trying to do it, I figured there has to be a way to understand the fish, and the truth of the matter is I was not listening to advice being given. Otherwise Dumbest thing I ever did was consider quitting, today I have 14 tanks with over 500 fish, so my advice is don’t try to reinvent the wheel! Stay happy and healthy my friends! 😊❤
As a Professional Idiot, I have done many dumb things.
A couple that come to mind for fishkeeping.
A a high schooler I had a 10 gallon tank overloaded with fish that should not be together. A Betta and a Blue Gourami along with many other fish. This was long before the internet and it was word of mouth. I think back on that tank and shudder.
More recently I had 16 gallon that I cycled for a Betta. I had heard change water but not filter without listening to the part about how to do this. This did not end well. I gave up the hobby until KG Tropicals got me back in.
I also try too justify this as it is a learning experience and sometimes you do dumb things. If you learn from them it is not so bad.
had a 15gal with guppies... entertained the idea of feeding zucchini, cucumber, and other soft veg. Once you try out a few it is natural to try out what else can be fed... Long story short Watermelon does not work in the fish tank...
The water was foul the next morning... it was like milk with a sweet smell to it...
Watermelon was probably the worst I tried and the last one... back to the cucumber and professional fish food after that...
Dumb think #1 of 5000. Trying to keep up with Joey King of DIY ridiculousness. Epic fail
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My first tank was a 55 gallon discus tank and I lost 6 of them in a moth to an ammonia spike... from an uncycled tank... I THINK I WIN 😂for the biggest idiot
John, the worst thing you ever did was when you did not quarantine your yellow labs before putting them in your brand new empty 240 gallon ! Lol 😆
Why does it take you guys show so long to get into the subject it's like 15 minutes of talking about what you're going to talk about
Love the podcast and and I can’t wait for the next topic every week am here…😊
Dumb think #1 of 5000. Trying to keep up with Joey King of DIY ridiculousness. Epic fail