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Thats my cave tank !!!! I set it up at my old job. It’s 60 x 45 x 30 cm and was eventually stocked with checkerboard cichlids, pygmy cories and lots of clear shrimp. Hoping to get some honey blue eyes in there soon as well. If anyone is in the area, you can go see it at Pet City in Mt Gravatt in Brisbane. Thank you so much for sharing it!!!!
Can u make a vid on how to build one?
@@PeterRobinson. I will eventually, but it was a pretty expensive and labour intensive process so it may take a little while 😅
Holy moly !!! You need to drop the tutorial.
We will watch a 109 part series on how to build this, make those videos lol
Noooooo, I moved to Adelaide a few years ago from the goldy, spewin!! haha
How do you clean inside the cave? Is it just a huge insert of something, how does that work?
I feel bad for those bettas. I went to my local mom and pop fish store over the weekend to get a new betta for my 37 gallon/walstead method/community tank and I told her my old betta went crazy and kept throwing himself onto and sticking to the glass on the inside of the tank and eventually just died of his injuries. Before that he'd happily make bubble nests all day. Any way she told me my tank was too big for a betta and they had 1.5 gallons that were better suited. People are crazy! It's so easy to educate yourself and yet...no one does!
Get him a mate next time
Sadly some bettas get overwhelmed from being in a large tank after spending all their life with barely any space
1.5 gallons is a *heck no* though, five is bare minimum (10 being ideal), anything less is just cruel
while 1.5 is obviously too small, you can get too big with a betta. 5 gallons is the smallest id put them in and 20 is the biggest id put them in personally but im sure there are people who have had good experiences with a bigger and smaller tanks
@@HatsunePeeku Exactly, and same here
Yeah I know one person who seemed to have success with keeping a betta in a 30 gallon by himself (at least by himself until some amano shrimp and otocinclus got added)
But I'd definitely feel safe having a 20 long as the 'maximum' size. Plenty of space for them to roam around and enjoy, and for a few suitable tank mates, but hopefully not *so* big as to be overwhelming for them
frustration
"They're so nice until you die" cut to my cat in the corner of the room practically grinning at me
LMAO
I mean, you're not using your flesh anymore, so why shouldn't they help themselves to it?
Okay, I have never seen a cave system in an aquarium before. It truly is next level aquascaping and I would luv to see how exactly it as designed and set-up.
same here
@@FishForThoughtyou could ask the sender!!
I've seen a few videos where they use like a foam block and carve into it. Taking away what they don't want. Then you paint it to water proof, color and maybe texture.
@@AlthosWTFYes I came to say the same thing it’s preform or carved/modelled
Sapphic sentinel here, bit of a miss communication they were actually Kuhli loaches not yo yo's, unfortunately that tanks heater broke while i was away for a week (i live in the north of the uk and it was dead of winter) and the yo yo's passed , it now has a few cory's still and some hatchet fish, a few green tiger barbs and some Amano shrimp, plants growing in is still a process I'm trying to balance, thanks for the feedback.
I feel like we all need an in depth tutorial on how to make that cave scape. Not that all of us will make it, just to watch someone achieve such an incredible feat.
QOTW: found beach pebbles, found driftwood (freshewater, no salt, sundried)... and a shipload of cherry shrimp that have evolved through a couple generations back to wild type, mostly (still have some colorful ones and the odd one that's gone dark with a stripe down the back that makes it look like a piece of random pine needle).
Also the fathead minnows, a native east coast fish that stays under 3" and is super hardy.
Elodea canadensis is also hardy.
No heater required for any of this.
ah yes elodea is unkillable!
My favorite feature of my tank is this tiger nerite that's been chilling in the tank since the beginning. The thing has survived a period of neglect due to depression that caused the tank to crash and is the sole survivor. So glad to see it thriving even now with pristine conditions. It's about 3 or 4 years old, maybe even 5 by now.
Keeping my tank healthy has gotten me through some tough times. Nice to be back o the sunny side of the street.
The cave system was probably done using a very slow use of aquarium foam, although I imagine it took weeks to finish up by letting it dry, adding more, and making sure they didn't have to trim anything. The reason why it looks like they used real rocks is because they did, and looks like they sprinkled substrate over the final job to give it a grainy and more realistic feel
I was thinking if using Styrofoam, carving the rough cave scape then using real rocks and dirt to get the realistic look.
6:08 air tight betta TANK, to keep the betta fish FRESH 🤌
oh man
fermentation
0:20 few problems with this, though...
1. How do I do water changes inside the cave?
2. How do I feed the inhabitants in the cave?
3. How do I make sure the inhabitants supposed to be on the upper half dont go to the cave?
4. How do I make sure the inhabitants of the cave dont go on the upper half?
5. How do I get oxygen in the lower half?
6. How do I even get the fish down there?!
This is my cave scape, there is a whole big enough for me to get my arm through at the top of the cave, where all the light is coming from :) the fish can go in and out of the cave
That cave tank is at my LFS here in Brisbane, so I see it regularly. Was there at the weekend and it did have a few nano fish in the cave but I cant recall what they were. He goes into detail in the reddit post about how he built the cave (was built outside the tank). Very skilled and knowledgable staff there.
nice. Would like to see the reddit post. I wonder how they keep the cave clean?
no wonder it looks so familiar! Pet city
@@theheyhowsitgoing that's the one!
The way he said "definitely all of your frys are DEAD" I died 😂
Happy FTR day everyone!! Wishing all an amazingly positive week! Sending virtual mom hugs if you're feeling down. Unless you're skipping tank maintenance, then it's a disappointed mom face first, then a virtual hug. ✌️💙✌️
QotW; my favorite tank in general is a weird one. I have a kitchen shrimp tank, heavily planted hybrid Walstad deep substrate, natural light, and my son temporarily has me fishsitting his golden white clouds. Every day in the late afternoon the tank gets a bit of direct sun and seeing those golden white clouds swimming through the mass of plants and the dappled sunlight coming through and making them glow, literally glow! is an experience that some might call magical.
really good vibes with that ray of sunshine coming thru the tank!
That very first clip of the Kuhli loaches hurt my heart, I miss my little noodles 😢 Been trying to get them again but I already had to order the last ones years ago, broke currently so can't afford the shipping right now. And I found out recently that the Big Al's that I basically have to go to won't even order them in because they just die for some reason, but there's something weird about their water because they also only sell Nerites, the occasional Wizard snail, and marine snails because they said Mystery snails and such don't survive quarantine usually. And where I am in Canada there is literally 1 true LFS a half hour away, anything else that's not a chain store is almost a 2 hour drive each direction, and I don't have a car so trying to convince someone else to drive that far for my obsession is hard, even with gas money lol.
aw, i luckily still have my 3 noodlies, but i dread the day they go into their kuhli dimension and never come back.
I gave my leopard gecko, who we got from my brother's friend, a 40 gallon tank over the weekend because we wanted her to feel more secure. She was in a 20 gallon when we picked her up and its been atleast 2 months since we got her, and although she may be a bit spoiled, she doesn't come close to how spoiled our blue tounge skink is
3:00 That snail is HUGEEEEE
it's craaaazy
The fact about Kuhli loaches being super Hardy is SO true, one of my loaches, he’s been through 3-4 tanks, he’s 9 years old, my mom even gave him to me because she was getting rid of all her tanks! He’s still going strong- a round of applause for my kuhli loach!
That cave system tank is incredible!! Adding it to future tank goals
Always get a case of the Mondays until lunch where I get to watch FFT. Recharged tank!
lets gooo!
My favourite feature of my tank is the fact that i have kept my betta from jumping out 😆 No but actually i love my floating elodea, absolutely stunning!
Love your commentaries. They can be both funny and insightful. Thank you for your videos.
I clearly remember the favorite feature of my fish tank eight years ago it was the Amazon plant something. Looks natural :)
The guppies are thriving. Memories
Cris I am a big fan of you and your fish tanks !I’ve been watching you for a year🙂
I love my moneywort plants. As long as they're in water, you can't kill them. You can easily take them out if you want and they aren't pesky.
The first tank is from my local pet shop in Brisbane you can even see the bird cage section behind it
My favorite feature is the granite rocks I collected for my scape.
I got them when we traveled to surprise my BFF and photograph her engagement to her partner.
The tank is still cycling, but a bunch of ramshorn and bladder snails are breeding in there. The little hitchhikers have turned out to be some hilarious little dudes.
Qotw: I love the algae and moss that's attached to the rocks in my aquariums it looks so natural I've spread it across my other aquariums.
It's my pleasure to inform you I have joined the cory gang
Not gonna lie I'm kinda jealous of that cave tank. Looks like that is another one to go on my fish tank bucket list.
QOTW: my long fin cherry barbs. New twist on a classic. Didn’t even recognize them when I saw them in my lps.
Also the tank with the cave. WOW 🤩!! Guy needs to be a professional. Gorgeous.
Thanks for inspiring my renewal in habitat around, from tank to the real world of ever expansivness.
9:35 they ate my fry guppies. It was funny watching one shrimp with a small fry in it's claw swim around the aquarium chased by 3-4 others... they were regulary fed and there was some algae.
QOTW: I have a really nice spiderwood piece in my betta tank. It’s covered in algae, which I know most people don’t like, but I adore it. I think it looks so natural and beautiful. I love a wild looking scape.
same same!
That looks exactly like the cave aquarium at Petcity in Brisbane Australia!!,!
current favorite feature is a giant fluffy green algea thing growing where its getting too much light (i'm working on it) and all my cherry shrimp lounge on it adn it looks so soft and cozy. they look like a happy little xmas tree blob
mmmm cladophora
The way I’d have stole those bettas when I checked out 😂😂
As a kuhli loach I can confirm, my mouth was watering at the first tank…
qotw-- I changed up the lights on two of my tanks and I've got some epic jungle scape going right now. Red root floaters out the behind in one tank, with ludwigia reaching for the sky and constantly growing out of the water. The other is a 40 tall, and also hella covered with red roots, frogbit, and salvinia minima and of course ye olde duckweed. I'm obsessed.
AND- for the very best of all, I've realized that dry duckweed looks really great in resin jewelry. Saving me money in buying tiny greenery for the jewelry and finally not fuming about doing water changes and coming out plastered in duckweed. Win freaking win.
super cool
Omg I need to see someone make. The cave scape so I can copy them!
Khuli loaches are my absolute favorite fish. So many people say "you never see them!!" but I saw mine all the time every day, all day! Just have to give them lots of hiding space so they feel safe.
You have included a lot of information in this video in detail, thank you for making more videos like this ❤
Thanks for brightening this drizzly Monday morning, Chirs 🐟
we stay wet
My partner and I stopped by petco just to look at the fish today. I havent been feeling great and fish tend to make me feel better. It was sad. There was at least 20 dead fish.
The kuli loaches are awesome, I love the dojo/ weather loaches are great if you have the room, so much personality, like puppies in your fish tank lol
My fav part is my auto lights. I do not have to worry about remembering to turn off tank lights. In my Opae Ula tank my hula girl statue and my out of control algae ball that is growing so big. The plant in there is better at keeping a live then my other fresh water plants with my betta.
yesss auto lights are a win
The cave scape made me so jealous. It is so beautiful, absolutely stunning that cave scape. My favorite fish right now is probably my galaxy rasbora. I need to get him friends. All his friends died. I need to get more so he can boss around his fellow little galaxy rasboras around instead of picking on all the other fish in my tank like he is right now.
You're videos always cheer me up no matter what's going on in my life, Thank you!
wahooo!!
240, blaze it
I haven’t seen you in a few years for reasons I cannot understand, but yesterday I thought abt you and all the sudden you show up on my feed.
I love the random clips you added to this week's episode
QOTW: My favorite feature of my 20 gallon is the hand-made rock cave that the corys and clown pleco sleep in. I made it from shale in my backyard
thx!
"Definitely not average" had me wheezing! 😂
Am I listening to Kerning City background music?? What a throwback to the v62 days
QOTW: I have a Paludarium in a 55gal and built an extension to go above it and give my gecko more vertical space. And theres a monstera growing the water all the way up to the top and it has big beautiful leaves. That probably my favorite feature rn.
that snail in the cave scape is cute
I want to thank you to make my monday happier.
Thanks for always starting my... week off a little good.
This is the first video I've seen of your it just popped up on my feed. Going to subscribe and see what other fish content you have. Keep up the good work 👏
My favorite feature of my fishtank are my borneo loaches. Like Hillstreams they are so cute and fun to watch. Hardy little things too. For the most part. Sadly I had an ich outbreak in my tank recently. One of the loaches had ich and it didn't show until weeks later in the tank. I'm treating now, but my two other loaches are doing good. I honestly just want a tank with borneo and khuli loaches at this point because I love the baby stingrays and the noodles.
Don’t you worry you exist on Thursdays too I watching today
My first video of you I found on a Wednesday this is great! ❤
Was sick today this helped me get through it 👍
hope u get well soon
Thank you so much!@@FishForThought
Thanks!
thanks so much for the super chat!!
@@FishForThought Absolutely. Happy to do something to help the channel.👍
Great video format and the comments are spot on. 5/5
I used to have dwarf rasboras. 14 of them, with 1 betta, some snails and shrimp, in my planted 10 gallon. After having them for about 3 months, all 14 of them died in a 48 hour span. Everything else in my tank was just fine. I never figured out what happened.
I recently lost my 5 blue neon rasboras overnight, i think that family of fish is pretty sensitive to ph and bacteria
This is the first Fish for Thought video I've come across. Very funny. I used to have snails in a giant wineglass not unlike the giant teacup on temu. It's an unbelievable pain in the ass trying to get a bubbler and a heater into a spherical vessel and hide cords. 🙄 It's utterly unfit for anything. ❤ Very fun show.😊
Yea thats pretty much how my lil basement apartment looks. Its more narrow than that layout but i have a 220 gallon, two 75 gallons and a 30 gallon all reef tanks plumbed together that takes up about 1/3 of my place 😅.
Right now my favourite feature is the Christmas moss. It’s fluffed up so much since I planted it. Currently getting a 15 gallon ready for my betta, I’ll probably post it myself when it’s ready so maybe I’ll end up getting rated in one of these
My favorite feature of my tank was there were a fake logs a corydora would go in sometimes sadly while moving the tank shattered while the fish were inside and i didnt notice for atleast 20 minutes
100% agree with you khuli loaches are super amazing. I would love for a tank with onky cory's and khuli loaches. Love those fish
I dont have a cory gang, i have a cory army in my 75 gallon paludarium, my 2 males and 1 female turned into countless corys. I have seen 9 different sets of eggs laid, the oldest set are now 1/4 grown, and the second set finally came out of hiding, second set still has their baby spots. 1st set all are emerald like their dads. Help i need homes for all the babies lmao.
My favorite thing about watching these videos while having no knowledge about any of it is the random vocab that'll bump around my head because of it.
Tetra tetra tetra!
*NEON* tertra
Loach?
Anubis??
Corygory?
Cycling?
Substrate?
And I can't forget about the god of abused fish: bettas
Love it
hahaha yesss
I think for me my favorite feature in my tank well i have two and they are both java fern on wood but one looks like a big tree and the other has lots of holes in it for the fish to swim through and its all twisted and gnarled . Its great
the tank at 7:19 has to be my favorite on todays list just because it stocked some garra and thats a fish im going after
QOTW: I made a driftwood shelf cave for my 20 gal. It holds half of my "skeletal band" decorations and is the favorite place for my black khuli loaches to hang out. I have marimo moss balls tucked in the crevices to give is an overgrown look.
Nice cave aquarium! Reminds me of the one featured in episode 187 :) Which I will say, is still running strong, but mine isn’t as good as the one featured here
My favorite feature of my tank is that it has no water, no fish, but a hognose snake named marshmallow
dang xD
@@FishForThought water chemistry was hard for me to keep up with lmao
The sarcasm is strong with this episode. I'd laugh but I'm too sad for the fish.
very true
I once bought some Kilifish and forgot to put a lid ontop and of course they jumped out, my cat had a gourmet dinner that night. Then I got another pair and they started to harass my danios, so now they live in a giant tank with four big goldfish, hopefully they'll learn their place there...
Very happy fish CZcams led me to your channel
My shrimp have survived 9/11. I have a colony of red caridina, blue caridina, and amano shrimp that survived a cycle crash (rip wcmm and cories) and have turned the focus of my hobby to shrimp scapes
My favourite feature of my tank is definitely my khuli loaches, they’re so silly
for sure!
I'm interested to see how it goes cleaning the cave portion of glass
0.33 Wow thats the winner
I got about 15 of the golden wonders and once they get grown adult guppys are definitely on the menu
Kuhli loaches are my favourite and I used to have them in my tank years ago but they could fit through the gaps into the filter compartment and kept getting sucked into the filter 😭 was horrifying hearing my filter churn them up and then watching it spit out the poor things - I stopped getting them after I realised where they were all going 😅
The Stardew Valley Soundtrack in the background really adds to the vibes of this channel.
Mmm for QOTW... right now I love my 10 gallon. It's intent is to try and breed wild betta species. Currently we have 2 betta siamorientalis in there. They are on the more aggressive side as they re from the splendens complex but neither has serious injuries and I'm hoping as they get older they will consider breeding for me. In with them are pygmy copies and 2 parosphmenus sp Bintan, a type of licorice gourami. They are both males and came from a fellow member of the local aquarium club I'm a part of so there won't be babies but they are fitting right in and the dominant,male, when he displays, is GORGEOUS.
Thanks, Kid!
I needed that!
See I bought a sick betta a few days ago and while I know this one might not have the best space, at least he’s not not in that small cup anymore, he’s in a 5 gallon tank and my other one is 5.5 gallons, one is a black crown tail and the other one is a mustard betta, I feel so bad looking at them in small jars especially after I rescued and rescued my black crown tail
Speaking of neon tetras I bought 5 to add to the 5 I had. They were bagged in what I assume was quarantined tank water. I made the mistake of putting the water in my tank along with fish and now 1 week and 2 days later, all of them are dead :(
You put a Kobe shout out reference, I will like and share that video every time.
SherpaDesign sitting on his cave ecosystem throne
Those Betas on that desk!!😭😭😭😭My favorite fish now are my Rummynose Tetras. They are fabulous!
QOTW:I love how all the fish and shrimp in my big boi aquarium are so comfortable .
It was already coming, but I hit the like and subscribe early so you could afford algae wafers for the adorable kuhli loach. 😁 I'm really enjoying this video and looking forward to watching more.
Hey Chris!! What do you think about this stocking? 20G tank. Ten kuhli loaches and ten cardinal tetras. I’ve had multiple people tell me this is ok but if you say it isn’t I won’t do it
That Monday comment was wiiiiild. Today is Monday hahaha
The cave scape is incredible, how did they seperate the levels?
"And don't forget to get your bed wet"
I have some questions, but I also have some ideas. LoL
ahahaha
@@FishForThought hey man, what's your local fish store that you like to frequent?
I shop at April's Aquarium in South Van.