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“How many hours of oxygen did he have left?”💀

I’ve been in this hobby for less than a month. I have a red betta named Sidon and have learned an absurd amount in the past few weeks

9:51 I like how that betta recognized the hand before it even saw the bloodworms and immediately jumped right out of the water and in there

I have three kids and I let them know all the time that as long as you're trying your best it's all good. I've been keeping fish for 13 years. My stepmom had a 55 gal when I was growing up and I would just sit and watch the fish swim for hrs

I've been at it for nearly 40 years now. The hobby is always changing. About 15 years ago, I started keeping live plants in a tank, and that was a gamechanger (once I figured it out). The KZfaq pet community is responsible for the rapid growth in hobbyists who are actually doing things right (for the most part). BTW, I'm up to 10 tanks + 6 reptile enclosures, and a pond. Stuff kind a blew up during COVID lockdowns LOL.

Woohoo 🎉 Happy FTR Monday everyone!! Wishing all a radically positive week!! Go get your hands wet, get dirty, hug a tree if you want!! And spoil your pets like crazy!! ✌️

I turned 38 in July. Was literally sat in front of a wall of aquariums in my first week of life. My mom had gotten into the hobby about a year before she married my dad, so she'd only had.l stuff going for about 2yrs at that point. She bred guppies and all of her tanks and stocking came from rescuing. She sold to local pet stores at the time and hers actually got a higher price than some others because they said the quality was so much better. I remember them being electric blue and a vibrant orange. I was helping out with maintenance before I was 2. She recently got back into the hobby and took home some of my overabundance of cobra Endler's and plants

I just busted myself out in a work meeting watching this for laughing so hard when we learned it was a Chinese Algae Eater in the submarine and you said "Let him die" 😆😆🤣🤣🤣 Happy FFTday errybody!!!

You said in your commercial you don't have 80,000 anything, I bet you have got 80,000 laughs from all your subs. You make me giggle everytime I watch your awesome videos. Thanks

I’ve been in the hobby for 3 years! I got my first aquarium when I was 15 and it’s still running with most of the same fish now! It’s a planted 20 gallon with sparkling by gouramis, harlequin rasboras, and albino cories! I also have a 5.5 gallon that I set up last year with jade neocaridinas.

Fish tend to have blank stares. First fish i've ever seen with a thousand yard stare. "I have seen where the rainbow ends... and it's horrors beyond imagining..."

i was holding my breath for the rescue of the fishy. WOW that was wild. i'm coming up on 1.5 years in the fish hobby and thankfully havent traumatized any fish with power tools

I started keeping fish seriously about three years ago. We had fish as a kid but my parents didn't know anything about how to keep them properly and they never lived long. I realized as an adult that there was so much I never knew about how to care for these animals and that they can be amazing pets if you do it right - I just hadn't been doing it right before. I combined my love of fish with my love of houseplants and now I keep a planted tank, looking to get more tanks once I have space

When I was a kid, my dad had a 75 gallon with a big stocking mess of fish (a kissing gourami, comet goldfish, and some others I can't remember). He had also had a Chinese algae eater that was the meanest fucker in existence. Eventually he gave it away and got a regular pleco after the algae eater sucked the eye off the poor goldfish. I was traumatized. QotW: Not counting keeping goldfish in little containers as a kid because I didn't know better, I've been in the hobby about 10 years on an off.

Reminds me of that skit you did ages ago where your dad wanted you to get goldfish so his friends thought you guys were rich 🤣

Been a while since I watched a FTR but it's just as entertaining and informative as ever!

Happy Monday y'all. Im ngl, I actually love CAEs. I'd totally do a species tank with just one that I would spoil to death. Lol. I started in the hobby at 8 with two common goldfish i won at a fair in a criminally underfiltered 10 gallon and my parents refused to let me get a bigger tank for them. They lived about 3.5 years and were stunted to hell. Poor fish. I tried my best for them with what I had. Once I started babysitting and making my own money I ended up with about 15 tanks (mostly bettas in 5-10 gallons) and a big 75 gallon. 20 years in now and I just picked up my 6th tank (a 40 gallon for growout breeding projects)

whew that operation video was intense! qotw-- my parents had a gigantic tank of somethings when I was in kindergarten. There is a very old picture of me hanging out in my disney princess pjs, leaning into the tank and talking to the fish :D I got my first betta...2008ish but I didn't become a responsible fishkeeper until about 5 years ago. I still have that origial 3gal tall tube thingy tank and it's a great growout for taller plants and shrimp and the occasional fishmergency

I've been in this hobby since I was 31, so like 1+1/2 years ago. I took care of my neighbor's 8 gallon over the holidays and found out they wanted to sell it so I pounced. I now have a 28 gallon and a 50 gallon sitting unused in my basement for when I figure out how to create space of it in my apartment.

The $5 betta "tanks" look like a half decent setup for a drip rack to sell bettas with - bur definitely not a their own tanks. QOTW: been in the hobby for almost two years! got into it when my cousin bought a betta, neglected him then left him on her dresser when she left. I cleaned his tank (there was just piles of food floating and laying on the bottom of a half gallon plastic tank) and remembered hearing something about bettas needing 3 gallons tanks. Looked it up and the site said ideally 5, and I went out and bought him anew tank the next week. Chili just recently passed, and he was buried in my favourite plant as a thank you for getting me into this amazing hobby.

The submarine fish is why i have mesh over any holes in decorations that a fish couldnt just easily get in and out of without trouble. That way i can use decorations without worrying regardless of hole size. I also have a chameleon, and so have since learned if it is physically plausible while disregarding a few rules of physics...they will find a way no matter how seemingly impossible it may be.

I've been fish keeping for a few years (started with a 10gal my husband had when we met) but just last Christmas my husband got me a 20gal tall. So I started researching and learning more about fish keeping and realized I was doing it all wrong and that's why fish would randomly die. I was over stocking, not doing water changes, and I would completely take down the tank every few months and rinse everything 😅😅 I started watching planted tank videos and now I have a lovely planted aquarium and I do weekly water changes. 10 zebra danios/longfin, 1 juvenile black marble Angel, 1 juvenile BN pleco (I know those two need a bigger tank eventually), and a few white wizard snails. Plants: vals, Amazon sword, moneywort, cryptocoryne beckettii and anubias gracilis

Been this hobby since past 22 years. Though i myself am a 25 year old guy, i roughly remember getting a first fish bowl a gift from my dad having a betta named fred in it. Fred was with us for 2 years and now i miss him.

Aye I was just wondering where the upload was, refreshed my feed and bam

These betta fish tanks are like those memes with a mattress and toilet tossed outside as garbage. One bed, one bath $4000 a month

Whoohoo another ftr 🎉 happy Monday yall , and I've been in the hobby about 9 months now

Almost two years 💪💪 started with all artificial plants and decor, no filter or heater. Now with a black water betta tank that’s a 20 gallon long, and some guppy fry and another betta in a 10 gallon heavily planted

I’ve been in this hobby since I was 12-ish! Currently 15 now. I sent in that shrimp oto and snail tank a few episodes back! Currently working on a new tank, so expect some submissions soon…

"Maybe the sub implodes" Too soon 😂

that arwona (my spelling is horrifict sorry) tank is so pretty, it gives a natural river or habit feel, it's so amazing and cool

In the hobby for 64 years, and still excited about it. Still learning. 🤔

I got into the hobby for the first time almost 10 years ago, seriously two years ago. I was not great about researching 10 years ago 😅

Happy FTR Monday baby

QOTW - I've been in the hobby for about 5 years. I started off because people in my family were keeping a betta in a 0.5 gallon bowl, and I upgraded it to a 5gal (eventually a 10gal) after doing research. Now I don't keep fish anymore, only snails/shrimps/crays/plants. Personal preference.

I had the same decor sub and my betta fish got his head stuck in the window. I am lucky that I saw him in time. I lifted him out of the water so he got some air and I gently pushed him out. It is definately true that fish can get stuck. Please be careful of any decor you put in your tank. Thanks for all of the great videos.

been keeping fish properly since 2018 but always loved fish as a child. Sadly I wasn't the best when I was a child keeping bettas in .5 gallon bowls and even taking them out of the water :(

Had a guy at petsmart talking about how much he knows about fish and to an extent yes but then the guy who was informing me of proper etiquette turned around and told someone else that betta sororities are perfectly okay and hes had one before but "accidentally got male betta" that KILLED ALL OF THEM....dude...

I have been in this for almost 4 years i think. Had betta, rasboras, and now only jade shrimps. They are loving their 70l tank

Started about 16yrs or so ago from a Betta, to mixed Freshwater, then African Cichlids then Reef.

I’ve had fish since I’ve been 6 years old, my mom bought me a 55 gallon long tank for Christmas. Naturally I was too young to take care of them at 6 years old but I still remember going to the local fish store. We moved alot from 8-16 so I stopped. I picked the hobby back up when I won a comet goldfish from the state fair. He died last month… I’m 21 now, I have a 15 gallon I turned into a tank for my crayfish and will be upgrading from my 20 gallon into a 55 again.

I'm 17 now and this hobby started when I was 5 years old. It all started when I spent the summer in the village and caught small fish in a net and tried to creat a fish tank from three liter jars. I didn’t understand then why the fish were dying and tried to change everything, but nothing worked. At the age of 7, my parents bought me two guppy fish and they also lived in a 3-liter jar for about a year. My parents noticed that I change the water every week, wash the jar every week and feed the fish. They decided to buy me a 40 l fish tank. I moved my guppies to a new fish tank and a couple of months later my parents bought me 2 more Corydoras, 4 Guppies and 4 Neon Tetras. They lived for about a year and I still remember their names. One day I noticed white spots on all the fish and the fish were behaving strangely. I told my parents about this and they said that on the weekend we can go to the store and get medicine. But it was too late, by that time half of the fish had died. Only the guppies remained. Due to the fact that I always separated all fry and not eutinized defective ones, most of them had problems with blindness and spinal problems. I understood that these fish were suffering and I decided to remove the two males that remained so that the fish would no longer breed defective offspring. After another two years, almost all the fish died and only a few old guppies remained. I remembered how, as a child, I tried to grow river fish in jars and decided to try putting one carp fry into the fish tank. He had a lot of personality and was not aggressive towards the remaining guppies. He lived in the fish tank for another 4 years. Then the war started in my country and I left home. My father looked after him, but as a result, the carp died after some time. I moved to the UK and bought first one and then two more fish tanks. I learned a lot about fish and plants and learned more about the nitrogen cycle. I realized how many mistakes I made in the past. Now I have one fish tank with goldfish and two with guppies and corydoros, and this hobby really helps me relax. Each fish has its own personality, which is really cool. I'm still improving my knowledge and want to create my first planted fish tank. Before this, I only planted plants in pots and did not use carbon dioxide. Now I want to try this.

I started the hobby about 1 year ago and have upgraded the tank 3 times already and am saving up for a new tank to get soon

Why are we freaking out about the big clown loach and not the cute healthy rainbow shark behind it

My first fish was a betta fish and I fell in love with fishkeeping ever since -- 17 years and still going strong. I have 8 tanks set up, from 3gal to 125gal and an outdoor pond. Love your channel and I look forward to Monday mornings so I can catch some FTR!

Im 43 and i've been in this hobby since I remenber, from the times of undergravel filters, and pumps that made more noise than a train 😂

QOTW. I've been keeping a community tank for 2 weeks now. I've watched your "you suck at fish tanks" and the 10gallon stocking video to get some advice. Best advice I've ever got. Tysm.🎉

Wasnt expecting a submarine joke right off the bat 😂

I think I was 9 when I got my first tank. Chromed metal frame with a slate bottom. The glass had so much iron in it that it was green. I've kept fish in varying degrees for the greatest part of my life. This Nov I'll be 55. Love your videos, keep going with the great fish and life advice.

The trick of preditors and prey in the same tank is the mimicri of natures cycles and having enough holes for the shrimp that the preditors can't fit

This was an unexpected laugh. I just had to remove my clown loaches favorite thing they hide in. It took me 30 minutes to get the biggest one to come out. Now their going crazy because I haven't given them their new wood piece yet. They are being so dramatic.

A little support commentary! Thank you so much for your videos! I am fascinated with aquatic ecosystems for some years now and dreaming of the day, when I'm finally at a place to get a good start into that hobby!

YES. FTR is just what I need in a Monday

I'm 25 now so I've been into fish keeping since I was 10 years old. The FTR ep was superb as always :)

That poor fish is simply doing its job of cleaning every nook and cranny of slime and algae.

I have 3 fantail goldfish and one has suicidal tendencies! He had got stuck in the pleco tunnel, got squidged behind filter and rocks. Luckily each time i was at home when it happened and he seems to have wised up now!

I have been in the hobby for 8 months! I am learning new things about the hobby everyday!

NOOO NOT THE FISH AT THE BEGINNING 😢

QOTW answer: as a young kid(3-9), i had plenty of goldfish, some living up to 4 years! Then i made my first native tank with a baby bluegill in a 10 gallon. after i accidently squished him (RIP skipper), i took a 5 year break before getting back into it with 2 yellow bullheads and another goldfish. The yellow bullheads are doing great(besides mini chad, who died tragically a month ago), and my goldfish is as hungry as ever. I am also the sole caretaker for the 100 gallon tank at my school(currently being redone because the previous person who made it had no idea what they were doing). I am a proud fishkeeper and i intend on continuing for a long time.

Your operating table comment made me laugh. I had a massive blood clot in my lung and they needed to put a hose into me to dissolve it. They took me in the operating room and put a tarp tent over me. From there they started blasting Linkin park in the operating room. The doctor and nurses were singing and cutting up as they numbed me up and put the hoses in. I found it relaxing tbh and felt better. Needless to say I'm doing ok and came out great.

I was drawing water out my hundred gallon tank out my apartment window neighbors kids being loud af comes running buy takes a nice long drink before going back to play tag. I laughed so hard

first fish tank was the obvious goldfish at like 3-4 years old, started keeping tropical at 5/6 years old and moved onto marine at 10 now keep a 50/50 mix of marine and tropical tanks

That last one looks like a fry box that you put in your tank to stop the fry from being eaten

Watching this before school makes my Monday better

I first got in this hobby when I was 10. I got my own 25l tank and even at that age I knew I couldn't keep much in there. i got a bunch of shrimps and they bred like crazy. About two years or so later I gave the tank away. Buuuut now - 14 years later - I'm an adult with adult money. And I got back into that hobby last November (Thanks to Fish MD xD). And I'm really invested. I even went to a fishkeeper convention in March! It started with one tank. I was in the market for a better 25-30l tank, for shrimps. I bought a 60l one instead. I got it - and all the necessary stuff one needs for a new tank - cheaper, because I worked in that store. Shortly after I got a 30l tank. First I bred shrimps, then I rescued a Betta and moved him in. His name is Ominis and sadly he has issues with his swimm bladder. I hope he bounces back. But I also got another 100l tank. Never planned on getting 2 tanks, let alone 3, especially big ones. Weeeeeellll, fish happened xD

Aquarium water in my house goes onto the Apple Tree and Maple Tree in the back yard.

POV: Chirs becomes the best counselor at 12:42

Ahh, FTR. One of the highlights of my Mondays

It started with 2 goldfish that my daughter got for free 8 yrs ago. Now I have 4 tanks and 85 fish, shrimp, and snails (the ones worth counting)! Nothing has been free ever since those 2 goldfish!😂

I got my fish fish tank when I was about 10-12. I don't remember exactly cuz it was so long ago! I'm now 61. I've had at least 1 tank almost constantly ever since! Just finished setting up 180g a couple months ago. A big tank dream come true! Thanks for another great FTR!

Oh man, Chris. Its my first day of high school. Thanks for making it a little better! And i noteiced that your mic cut off at the end?

I think i was more scared about an electric saw in the water 😂😂😂

0:32 ouch, look at that scale damage.

Chris went hard on that submarine bit ngl but this is what I’m here for. Thank you chris

How long I was in the hobby depends on if you would count falling into my grandfather's Koi Pond at three or four years old. Lol. But I have had my own tanks on and off for about sixteen years. I found the aquarium community on KZfaq when I found a baby turtle in my grandfather's Koi Pond, and I wanted to know how to take care of it.

Been in this hobby for around a month with a community tank with gouramis neons khulis and a golden Apple snail, I also have a separate tank with 2 frogs in it.

Chris: You know, I'm something of a Chinese Algae Eater myself

I remember seeing those "betta" tanks being advertised years ago. the spout is for water changes. you just tilt the tank to the side and the poo will be removed since the spout pulls from the bottom. Just another piece of the long line of abuse bettas have faced :(

This is great! Made me laugh after a crummy few days, my inner car girl had to come out the the "ford bronco" thing in the promo, that's a Jeep Gladiator lol, both badass cars! QOTW: I got back into fish in 2018 (I was 23) after getting a Walmart Betta that was half dead on Black Friday (fun fact: they didn't charge me for him, charged me for the emergency tank stuff because I wasn't planning on a Betta). My family has always had fish though - my dad had a 125 gallon in their bedroom (built into the wall) and a Koi pond, my Papa used to breed Jack Dempseys for years until he got sick and passed away. He left them to me at the time, but I was like 9 and had no space for them so they got re-homed.

I've been in the fish keeping hobby for almost 12 years, January 24th of 2024 will be my 12th anniversary in the hobby.

I had an angelfish that wedged itself in a plastic rock while I was on vacation. I came home and thought it had jumped out until I saw it peeking out of a tiny hole in the rock! I ended up cracking the rock open with a pliers to get the angelfish out.

finally upgraded my filter for my 55-long community tank. got rid of the internal canister, the h.o.b., and the sponge filter. Swapped it out for fluval fx-4. so much cleaner looking organized and quieter. I've got about 60 micro fish in there. so the extra room and filtration is appreciated

I’ve been in this hobby for . I got my first fish, a betta, in . Since then I added 2 more tanks, each bigger than the previous :)

Just leaving a comment to say hi to the guy I met at the wedding who also watches your channel!! Hiii!! This was your bartender!!!

I've been in the hobby for 30 years but still looking for new ideas. Enjoying your videos Chris 👍

The real proletariat sub struggle

Last month marked 2 years in the hobby. Started with 2 goldfish in a 10 gallon when in japan, now working on a live planted 40 gallon for my classroom - planning on populating it with shrimp, a couple snails from my hime tanks, a few guppies and some rasboras.

We went from fishtanks to therapy lmao 💀

When I was about 4 my dad's friend gave us a fish tank with guppies and corys, we had it for like, 12 years. After a few years I started the hobby again on my own, about 10 years ago, still going.

QOTW I have been keeping fish for 50 years. In that time, I have seen many changes from internal air driven filters, under gravel and canister filters. I'm a fan of hob filters myself.

I've been around it since childhood. Started my first tank back in like...2015 or so, but it failed. The last batch of fish I got, one was a killer and killed everybody. I didn't do my research, I just listened to the people at the store. So, now I'm trying to not do too much research and pick from too many "experts" online, I just want something simple and to keep them like my Grandpa and Dad did when I was a kid. Neither is here now to ask.

Best part of this vid, two unskippable ads in the middle of a ridge wallet ad read. Excellent work KZfaq, 3.375/5 keep it up! 👍🏻

I've been around fish keeping since I was small, but I've only been getting serious about it in the past few years. I grew up with a decent 20-gallon molly tank my dad kept, but now I only have the space for one small tank that I am redoing since the last fish I had passed. I plan on getting a planted 5, maybe 6-gallon with a betta. I hope to get set up and start cycling in the next few weeks and I am continuing to learn wherever I can in order to improve my husbandry. FTR has been both informative and entertaining. Keep up the good work!

Love seeing some fish tank review posted while I'm on break at work

the title and the first clip is crazy at this time chris lol LOVE YOU CHRIS

Been at this for 10 months and learned a lot and have a lot more to learn. Would love any and all tips

13:04 A bit off-topic, perhaps but appropriate and well stated ❤

65 years, off and on. On now, 10 tanks.

5 year on this hobby, one of the best things that happen to me ❤

Chris didn't noticed the bristlenose next to that krib in that planted tank with glass cats !! 😮😮 1/10000000 chance lol !!!😅😅