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Yeah warm water will kill goldfish immediately especially if you don’t acclimate them. The one floating was in shock it looked like.

When someone says “Its just a fish” “My clown detector is off the charts!!!”

When someone says “bettas are raised in tiny mud puddles”. I’m like no

I’d say I rescued a male fancy guppy. It belonged to my mom’s friend’s son and he had it in there with a male betta. I explained to him why that was really bad and he agreed to give it to me. (Honestly, he barely cared about the tank and it was being taken care of by his sister who was very upset I was taking the guppy because she wanted to see it die)

That “animal rescuer” is the kind of person that people rescue animals _from_

On the topic of everybody getting misidentified as "goldfish," when I worked at the library I kept a 16-gallon there with 6 tetras. My first 6* were flame tetras: little 1 1/2" - 2" guys with cool yellow to orange ombre action. Every other person who commented on them called them "goldfish." It really stressed me out because I worried they were going to think it was okay to put 6 actual goldfish in a tank that size. (*RIP to the flame tetras, who died young because a fool who briefly worked there insisted on feeding them on my day off. Apparently she said, "Oh, I know what I'm doing, I used to work in a pet store." I came in the next day to find the substrate practically coated with uneaten food and 6 super bloated little flamies. I scrambled to try to fix it but the damage was already done. I have never forgiven her, and I have never again found flame tetras locally. 😢)

Axolotls are good with sand, gravel is a no-no and pristine water is a yes-yes

It always frustrates me when people are loose with the word 'rescue'. It seems like every animal is a "rescue". While I don't think you have to always do something dangerous like jump into fire to rescue a pet you do however need to be saving it in some way. Like one fish I had that I considered a rescue was a goldfish that lived in 3 inches of ice cold muddy (and literally garbage filled) water that I overheard a coworker say was going to 'stuff him in the toilet' when he got home that day. Things like that are rescues. Not buying a hamster at Petco or buying a puppy from a friend.

Axolotls can be housed on fine sand if they are bigger than 4 inches :)

Fish store: u need 10 gallon of fish tank Chris: no that’s to small Goldfish: yay we have someone that actually cares

kids in the class : "That quite kid's life must be boring , he probably has nothing to do in his home too lol" Quite Kid : **Does a water change** 10:47

Sugar, I'm nearly 50 and I still get the occasional pimple. We never completely escape it lol

The 'Animal Rescue' portion reminded me of Bill Burr's Animal Rescue joke... 'Did ya? Did ya rescue her? Did you climb into a burning building, with no thought for yourself? Did you climb in on your hands and knees, under barbwire, through the mud? Or... did you just go down to the pound and pick up a free dog.' 💀

Goldfish: My life is HORRIBLE! I don't even get proper food! Betta: YOU GET FOOD?!?!?!

That multiple arowana, no substrate tank is apparently one of the things you need to legally qualify as a restaurant. I mean, why else would they be so common?

Me who put a betta fish in a 4.9 gallon tank: *Relaxed* My Security System: INTRUDER ALERT: MAN ARMED WITH ANGRY CRESTED GECKO AT FIRST STAIRWELL, PROCEED WITH CAUTION. Me: 0.0

Chirs: adopted is a better word. Parents: hi son, just a reminder, i adopted you

Karens be like: We will get rainbow gravel, a little bowl, 14 goldfish, a SpongeBob house, more sponge Bob toys, and fake plants!!

Heyo, axolotl breeder here! Extra fine sand is actually acceptable for your adult axolotl tank. Some owners prefer a bare bottom tank, and that is definitely the safest option, but fine sand works too. Chunky sand, gravel, and rocks are /never/ safe. The rule of thumb is the rock or piece of decor much be larger than your lotls head. if it is smaller than it’s head, it can and will be swallowed and can become compacted in the axolotls digestive tract. Fine sand, however, can pass through the digestive tract if swallowed. My three adult lotls are in a giant tank with fine sand as a substrate and all three are big and healthy. I keep my baby lotls and subadults without any substrate though because they are smaller and very stupid. If you are looking for a substrate for your axolotl, please do research! Some sand brands will not be safe for your baby’s home. It’s always important to check what chemicals are present and the fineness of the sand.

I'm gonna donate all my worldly possessions to Repashy so that she can sponsor the channel. I would much rather watch a sponsor by a gecko than Raid Shadowlegends or Raycons.

Not sure why chlorine (tap water) is not even being mentioned. Pretty sure that's the most common and quickest way to kill any fish by far. Goldfish are pretty hardly and they don't get killed that easily by temperature or oxygen. There would be signs first and probably could still survive a few days before dying for temperature/oxygen/cycling issues. 90% is due to untreated tap water, even goldfish could be killed within 15 mins without much signs.

It freakin' triggers me when one of the members on our FB group were lectured about how overstocked his aquarium was and all he said was "it's fine, it's mine anyway"

Chris and the first fish tank is like Sherlock and a guy who has a serial killer in his room that wonders why his roommate died...

“ hey guys welcome to insecurities review “ -Chris, 2021

I got a 5.5 gallon tank over the weekend and decided to get a betta, today I'm going to local pet store( not a chain store) to look at some bettas and pick up some plants, gravel/substrate, and decor.

For once, I caught FTR the day it released! I always admire the tanks in the background, as well as the ones getting reviewed. This is a good way to get the weekly (or daily, if watching old episodes) dose of pretty fish and plants without committing fish crimes due to not having the knowledge or time to maintain my own tank.

The turtle that they had could’ve been a snapper. They need a larger amount of food so you are incorrect on how no turtle would eat all of that. I do agree that they shouldn’t do it, and plus, half of the turtles fun is swimming around and catching them

My cousin has a black Betta fish. He kept the Betta in a 1 gallon fishbowl. When he first bought it is was so beautiful and cheerful. But two weeks ago when I went to his house, his Betta’s fins were thin and the colour was so dim. The water was so black and cloudy. He only cleans the fishbowl once a month . He also has another tank which contain 5 glow fish and 1 Platy. Whenever I mention the fishes to him or if I go near his tank, he would either drag me away or tell me to keep quiet. I feel really bad for his fish. I wish they had a better home

Me -buys a 2.5 Gallon without a filter, people at the petstore - staring at me Me- it's for shrimp!!!

It's my dream to eventually be able to take up fish-keeping and aqua-scaping. For now, I will sit and admire all the beautiful work that other people can do, as I am unable to take on such a heavy responsibility at the moment. Keep up the amazing work Chris, and I'm glad I get to watch someone so entertaining and skilled actively share and lift up other people in the community!

I haven't rescued fish, but I've brought two back to a healthy condition. One was from Petco, and he was so skinny and small compared to the other goldfish that we bought. I waited with him for hours until he would come out of hiding so he could get some food. This went on for months before he learned it was okay to come up for food instead of scavenging for what was left (I think he was bullied in the other tank, it was like 20 young fancy goldfish in a five gallon). And the other I got from a local fish store, he is a feeder fish, and obviously got sick. But we luckily had a spare tank and quarantined him. He got better within a few days to a week, and is now the biggest fish we have

That first tank seems way to familiar…

Chris : notices the Pokemon card first then realises the pile of dead fish All dead fish : bruuuuh... Me : subscribed

5:15 I own a couple axies and the fine sand is actually the best option (the next being either extremely large, unattractive stones or bare-bottom), they can swallow small amounts and pass it through without any issues and it promotes bioactivity. Larger grains are dangerous since they can be sharp and potentially shred up their vulnerable digestive system, and gravel is a sin in the axolotl community for very good reasons, so are those flat glass marbles and really anything they can fit in their mouths, they are forever dumb babies (very precious though)

I fully support stealing bettas from chain stores that neglect them. Take their money away. Animal abuse is a much worse crime than stealing, and doesn’t deserve to be rewarded with profit.

When your just vibin watching this vid and then chirs says welcome back to the end of the video. Proceeds to stop vibin

Chris: Why am I still getting two High school kids: Uh what do you mean we have hundreds

"Every time you steal something that's on your conscience" 😂😂 'conscience' never heard of her

I mean... if it's to improve the animal's quality of life I'd say stealing is okay. It's fairly obvious the owner doesn't care and the fish are suffering for it

Im in my 40's and still get spots. I didnt even start getting them until i hit my 30's either - was fresh faced as a teenager and young adult.

I’m sure the reason that person’s fish died because of not liking Pokémon, not being boiled alive in the tank.

just so you know, arrokuda and barraskewda are the arowana pokemon , introduced in gen 8, took them long enough tbh

yea in my opinion not enough people know what they are getting themselves in when they are buying fish thats why parrot fish are sold as goldfish and some of the fish that is on a bigger side get placed in like 20-30 gallon tanks

Let’s be honest though sometimes you are rescuing a beta or something like off of OfferUp there was this girl selling 3 betas in like a waterfall cube tank thing that’s a rescue I don’t careeeee

New Vlog Video Idea: Chirs gets a haircut.

Just added two of those thermometers to my cart! I’m so tired of the little suction cup ones that always end up falling off and floating around in the tank so this will be a great addition to my fish room

Sand is actually okay for adult axolotls. As long as it’s fine enough for them to digest it’s all good. Gravel on the other hand is a big “no-no” There are 3 options for substrate with an adult Axolotl: Sand Large rocks (I mean LARGE, must be bigger than the Axolotl’s head otherwise they might try to eat it haha) Barebottom, but I feel that axolotls don’t get enough traction on the bottom of the tank. The one problem with sand for an axolotl is that ammonia an build up faster, but that isn’t a problem if the tank is large enough and you are keeping up with maintenance and not over feeding. :) It’s worked fine for my Axolotl and I, but I do very frequent, small water changes to keep the water quality pristine. :D *key word ADULT. Baby axolotls can’t have sand. :)

I’ve been wanting to submit my zen tank, but I’m so scared of being roasted by Chris 😂 plus my Cory’s keep messing up my substrate so I have a limited time after water changes to take pics.

i remember seeing that first video on tiktok and they made response videos pretty much saying tbey dont care since they’re just feeders but i mean.. If it’s going to your turtle.. should still take care of them

Ball Guy just randomly in the tank full of dead goldfish is the cherry on top of a very chaotic sundae.

I join your channel 1year ago to learn how to build my 1ºtank, a 50l aquarium, now i got 250l in aquariums, all planted, and got 3 friends to the hobby that now got even more tanks then me, 1 of them 1 is getting a gheko thanks to your gheko breeding video! keep up the good work!!!

Longhorn cowfish: Society: you identify as goldfish

Chris fine sand is the best substrate you can use other then bare bottom. Thanks keep to fish tanks and fish haha 😂 live the content

When Chris talked about the tank that wasn't cycled I remembered about how me and my mum were arguing about when i will get my tank and she said for x-mas and i tried to tell her that i need it now or before x-mas cuz i need to cycle it..she didn't believe me until she called her close friend who is a professional and she told her thats true I'm getting my tank in a week :')

"Why did my fish die?" *Keeps fish in 1 gallon tank*

Arowana? No, it's aroma a! I'm wondering if there are fish abusers with aroma a floaters out there, I mean, we've seen fish substrate before.

*At **11:37* *Me:* Dang that's a weird plant right there. What is that? A dandi- *Chris:* That's a dark betta *Me:* Oh-

I own 2 axolotls and I did lots of research before purchasing them, sand is okay but the axoltol needs to be bigger the 4 inches or it could damage their skin. Sand is a good substrate for them because it gives them grip to the ground, they can eat it but make sure it is fine sand and not from your local warehouse.

When you're in college so you still need to skip to watch FTR

There is actually an arowana pokemon! I think it's just spelled differently. And I wanna get a good carpet, I'm struggling to get good substrate in my tanks though :/

Repashe is always so chill I wish I had her level of chillness😂

I know this is an old video, butt ... The taxidermy creature at around 7 minutes is a whitetail deer butt. They're sometimes called "asssquatches". People actually do some pretty cool/interesting things with them. Actually takes a bit of skill. Taxidermy is pretty difficult to do. This would fall into the rogue taxidermy category.

When I was younger I was taught to wait a few hours before adding fish, test the water until it is good, and to only add a few fish at a time. No more than five (depending on side of tank and size of fish)l this was back in the early 2000’s things change even from that. Now it can be up to more than a day.

Ah yes, the Pokémon card, my favorite fish tank decoration

Bruh... Goldfish literally have Gold word in it and somehow some people still didn't know what color gold is 😵.

I typically skip through the advertisements in most videos but these thermometers are absolutely epic. Plus one to your "sold a thing" counter 😆

Bro I started at a live plant level. First thing I made was a golfish pond with live plants. I got the plants (as well as snails, shrimp and small feeder fish) from the natural environment. Now I have 10 Goldfish and 8 koi in there, as well as an eel-tailed catifish. They all survived an entire year without me feeding (whilst growing in breeding in that time so not underfed) living only off the plants, feeder fish, shrimp and bug larvae that naturally multiply in the pond. Since adding the koi though I now feed them pellets

Hannah Feders axolotl tank on Reddits Shitty Aquariums. Now that's a big surprise. I for sure thought her Betta tank would have made it first. Oh well

Great video as always. I’m getting into aquariums and you’re a big inspiration.

I rescued some fishies once, I don’t know why I’m mentioning it, just wanna flex, lol. It was a ditch after a bad storm and the small amount of water they had was drying up, it was maybe 25-ish guppies from a overflow pond I’m guessing, brought them to a decent sized pond with lots of plants to hide in, I keep checking and I saw smaller ones this past spring, I think they had babies.

5:03 I didn't watch The original video, so I'm not sure what the context is, but, sometimes, when you "rescue" an aquatic animal, depending on the circumstances, you can't prepare a suitable aquarium from the start. I've been through this, I tried to do the best I could, with what I had in my house.

Well now I know there's a goldfish hell😬

Is killing fish prior to feeding turtles common? I would just put live feeder fish in my turtle pond and the turtles were perfectly able to catch them.

I was immature and had a beta in a 4 gallon tank and thanks to you I’ve realised and it’s now in a 15 gallon and I also have a 55 gallon for some kribensis and angel fish

This kinda reminds me of a betta fish I had to rescue from a spoiled kid. It was kept in one of those half gallon Walmart plastic containers with what I thought was brown gravel (it turned out to be white) and those cheap paint peeling Walmart plants. The poor betta's fins were torn to shreds because of the poor water quality and he had a bacterial infection. I cleaned his tank gave him better water and medicated with my own fish meds. Then I lit the fire underneath this kid and explained why he needs to consistently clean his betta's tank with partial water changes every week/twice a week in such a small container or put it in something bigger. Than his mom hit me with the "well the fish is fine now it'll live if we put it back where it was." She also told me to not tell her child what to do. I face palmed and tried to explain to her that I know what I was talking about since I keep a fully planted tank and bettas. She wasn't having it and not even a week later they fully changed the tank and killed the fish. Mind you I told them to do slight water changes, but they took the betta out of it's water and into fresh water. No acclimation at all. So yeah needless to say please do your research when getting a pet and don't expect an eight year old to know how to take care of a pet. Case and point. I don't normally rant about stuff like this but fish are usually always the butt of neglect because they are cheap and "kid friendly ".

Imagine, a life without fish abuser's

hey chris, what is the main plant in that tank on your left

Sand is okay for axolotls over 3 inches long. They eat everything , but at that size it can safely pass through them . Gravel is a big no , anything larger than sand needs to be larger than their head to be safe .

9:58 my man become the friend who gives the live plants to the friend.

I just realized that the “secret comment” needs a good sanding substrate with cute 🐼 corys💡

Just imagine if someone messed up so bad that they made a arowana substrate.

Growing up, we had a red eared slider in his 20's that could easily eat that many goldfish in a day.

6:51 that taxidermy is made from a deer's rear end. They make them like this on purpose. I think they sell them if I remember correctly.

Me: watching my first episode of FTR My beta, in his 2.5 gal: 👀 Me: starts shopping for a 15 gal "I'M SORRY"

I don't care what kind of turtle you have they aren't going to eat that many feeder fish laughs with 50lb snapping turtle in back yard they totally will eat that many fish

I have axolotls, don’t get me wrong I definitely don’t do everything right. However I made sure to cycle my tank for at least a few days before adding them. Fine grained sand is okay for their tanks however they need to be larger than 5 inches before adding sand, so their body can pass any ingested grains. Sand can cause impaction in general, so insuring proper size and the right type of sand can minimize the possibility.

From what I have read, sand is a pretty good floor for axolotls because if they swallow a little it will be fine and they can get good grip to walk around.

When the Arowana doesn't get any substrate: >:C

First tank looks like they did not add dechlorinater.

The first video happened with me, all the new guppies I bought died by the next day, 10 or so guppies. Before that, I had other fish in there that were thriving. Talked to the pet store and apparently they also just had those fish shipped in that day and seeing as it was only those fish that were dying, we concluded it to be the high stress levels they had to go through, especially since a lot of petsmart employees are not too good with acclimating the fish sometimes and didnt even think about the amount of stress put on those fish from putting them in and immediately fishing them out with those nets, especially since theyre not too gentle with them in the first place. My water levels were safe too, tank was super clean and clear with a bit of algae for my plecos, so that was the only other explanation. In this case

Maybe chlorine in water? I usually set my gallons aside for one week and I add chlorine killing conditioner, I also always add fish anti stress salt in case they get stressed from traveling.I also have lots of plants both plastic and real in tank, they love plants, is how they get privacy. Mine were dying when I first started with fish, over feeding them. Not anymore.

I watch the person who forgot to cycle her tank. And somehow I didn't realize the issue. of course, I blabbered in her comment section and have unsubbed to her until she fixes the tank. And yes, luckily, she does rescue many animals correctly but they are mostly rodents/mammals. So I can see that she doesn't have very much experience with water animals knowing that she also kept a betta in a fishbowl which made me VERY MAD and (i'm guessing I blabbered more in that video's comment section). Anyways, there was my rant for the day

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I’m a “animal adopter” my terrapin was given to me by someone who wasn’t looking after her. And my snail I got from a store selling them as food.

5:20 you either need to use no substrate and only rocks that are too big for them to swallow or sand, but only adult axolotls can have sand

a big mistake that new fish owners make is the stones or sand when you get new gravel or sand you have to rinse/wash it it has a bunch of artificial colours and chemicals that will just soak in the tank and eventually make the fish sick and die just rinse and shake them once with hot water then 2 again in cold water that way you know they're clean

I have birds also. I always have bird poo on me. My conure has finally learned to get off me when he needs to go. If he can't make it off he will aim where it doesn't get me. He taught himself more than I taught him. My budgie hasn't learned this but hers aren't as bad. His is wet but hers are solid unless she has eaten fruit.

Axolotls can have fine substrate, not gravel or coarse sand.

Honestly Chinese restaurants do that a lot cuz they only see fish as moving decos and it’s kinda sad