What's up, fish tank people? FishTankTV.com, Dustin's Fish Tanks, bringing it to you on
a Sunday. How is everybody doing today? Gorgeous, gorgeous Sunday, it is Species Sunday. I am
going to give you a Species Sunday and then give you a tour of this beautifully cleaned
up greenhouse. My man, Bryan Campbell, came over yesterday and did a lot of work making
everything look great. I am real excited about it.Today's Species Sunday is about a fish
that I never get to see. I don't know if you guys have any of these, but I want to talk
about a species that is great for a plant tank. They root around in the roots and substrate;
and it is always good to get that stuff kind of mixed up. It is like how earth worms are
good on garden soil and aerate it. This is a similar kind of thing with a plant aquarium,
go figure.
I want to talk today about Kuhli Loaches. Obviously, I am not doing video of my actual
Kuhli Loach because I have one and you can just barely see it. I did see my Kuhli Loach
the other day and I want to talk about them because I think they are pretty tight. Kuhli
Loaches come from Indonesia and the Malay peninsula and they are mainly nocturnal. I
saw mine in the early morning after I did a feeding. They say that they can live up
to ten years and I have mine for five years since I got it from a guy named John. He was
like, "Yo, I got this cool Kuhli Loach". My Kuhli Loach—and you will see it in the video—see
how they have this gray pattern here? These patterns vary. They have some with all spots
and some with all lines and I don't know if they are bred like that or captured. Mine
is actually all pink, so it has a bar right here and then the rest of it is all pink.
So it is pretty crazy looking because it is just all pink. I don't know if it is a recessive
gene or if it is just crazy looking. They do come in a lot of different varieties and
they can handle a pH of 5-7 and I think I have seen mine in 8. I didn't really notice,
but they have spikes underneath their eyes and you see this in a lot of the loach species.
I had a botia angelicus—and I would love to get another one of those, by the way. And
they have the little spikes that pop out if someone gets near them. That is a fish that
is more out there and not as nocturnal as the Kuhli Loaches. They are egg layers, they
cruise around and are really beneficial in a planted tank. I highly recommend them. They
like to be, not in schools exactly, but they are a social fish so I have seen them swim
around together and it actually looks pretty cool. You see them swim together, in and out
of each other, which is not really a behavior you see a lot with fish. I may get some more
of them to see if they come out a little more. Definitely pretty cool. A tip for you all—if
you want to catch your Kuhli Loach because it is hard to see them and you can rarely
ever catch them. This is how they do it at the breeders by the way. Get a big, long,
skinny PVC pipe and cap one end of it. Put a tiny little hole so that the water can go
out, but the hole is smaller than the Kuhli Loach. Put a tiny little hole there and then
put some food at the bottom of that. So what you will do is have a big, long tube with
a cap on the end and a tiny little hole that the Khuli Loach cannot get out of, put food
in the bottom—and this works for all kinds of bottom feeders by the way—the fish will
swim in there and you will lift the other end of the tube. The water will run out and
you will have your fish caught in there. It is definitely easier. I have tried it just
once or twice because I don't move those fish that much. So that is what's going on. I am
excited to show you guys the greenhouse because it is looking pretty good right now. I will
grab the old camera and show you what is going on.
We will start with the first tank over here because you guys just saw that one. Let's
get the tripod off here. So Bryan deserves all of the credit. I am trying to get Bryan's
bio up on Aquatic Jungles. He has just done such a great job and I have to give him all
of the credit in the world. We started this tank from nothing. We have java fern, ludwigia,
wisteria, rotella, all will be pearly in a little bit. I wanted to show this to you because
this is something that I do. This greenhouse gets way, way, way too much light and in a
tank like this it will just bounce off the bottom or whatever and cause a lot of algae
problems. So we have that covered, but you can see that that tank is looking pretty baller.
We have some swords over here and some elodea and some rainbows. I need to bring more rainbows
out. And we've got some anubias that we just got in which I am really pumped about. We've
got some great looking species. Those of you who are friends with me, Dustin's Fish Tanks
on Facebook, give me a like for the picture of Bryan holding all this anubias. Gotta give
the man credit. If you need more anubias, I got you, bro. This tank we actually have
covered as well and this other fish tank over here, I just love it. Ack, I hate that glare.
There is that glare on there. But, yea, the goldfish tank is just looking great. Bryan
came over and he was just, "Yo, we got to get these swords sinking better." We were
putting the weights on to sink them, but it just wasn't working very well. So we just
slightly rubberband-ed it to weighted down PVC pipe and the goldfish just love it. And
I love staring at it. I keep the top open just because we are using the camera. I normally
keep it closed because the goldfish come up—of course not now because they won't on cue for
the camera—and they are like, "What's up, dude? Feed us." So you can see all of the
poop they have there on the bottom which makes it really easy to clean. By the way, when
cleaning these tanks we used big, huge water changes and let them sit for five minutes
or so. Here is one of the Gerbers I got up in Dayton. We'd let it sit for 5-10 minutes
or so and then scoop up all of the stuff that settled. I think that is important as well.
I had a little debate between Bryan and I on this tank of whether to put the anubias
up here. You wanted the anubias up here, but I thought it got too much light so we put
in the dwarf sag. And I just put in some of it, but it is not for sale because I am going
to really let it get growing here. So that's fun.
Oh! Then, so yesterday, epic, epic day. Look, this is for the 14/15 year old young guys
who are always like, "I got no money, whatever, whatever, whatever". This is important. During
the summer, get up early, get ten bucks in your pocket and get on your bikes and get
to the garage sales. Get up early, you'll thank yourself later. Get up early and get
to a garage sale. Look what I scored yesterday at a garage sale for a total of 15 bucks.
For a total of 15 bucks. I got this 29 gallon tank with the gravel—I actually added a
few pounds of black gravel that I already had—with this lid that I don't like because
it's metal, but I am using it so whatever and with this filter which is actually working
all right. I got this tank, filter and lid for 5 dollars. Like uno, dos, tres, quatro
cinco. Like five bucks, okay? Five bucks. You got to find them and negotiate like this.
If they are not marked, you should ask what they are asking for that and have a number
in mind for what you really want to pay. I was going to pay five or ten, so when he said
five I was like sold. A lady from Lexington, Paula, also looked at the fish tank and the
guy was like, "Sorry, I already sold it to this guy."
It doesn't stop there, folks. The fun continues, right? I was running in the morning up the
street because I've got to get my energy going and I found this at a garage sale. Check it,
check it, check it out! I didn't even need it because I have enough stuff going on, but
I had to have it. And you have no idea what I paid for it, folks. Ten bucks. Ten dollars.
So I am going to dig it in when I get the time and have a little extra goldfish so,
ten bucks folks. Go to garage sales. You owe it to yourself to go to garage sales early
in the morning and find the deals. Ask them if it holds water and if you can, have them
fill it up with water there. Garage sales are where you find good deals, so I can't
believe I didn't start talking about that stuff earlier.
So then I want to show what else we got going on here. We have the crypt tank that I threw
a bunch of crypts in and have some lotuses. I am actually going to be selling some lotus
out of my 220 which is looking good by the way. Crytocoryne, Usteriana, we've got some
Bolbitis over here that I am real pumped about as well. And then I wanted to show this as
well. We've got two separate java moss tanks. I've Taiwan moss and flame moss in. So I am
fixing the flame moss and the flame moss has already started to grow so I am really pumped
about that. So we just really did a good job. Bryan just really nailed it. He cleaned out
every tank and got everything looking real good. And of course we have jungle val and
I have giant sag in the back there separated out real nice for you all. So just really
excited and I just had to show the tanks looking as good as they are. And I've got star grass
in here separate because when I usually get star grass, it sucks and withers back. So
it is in its own tank so if it melts—which it will and this tank isn't dirted by the
way—it will only mess up this tank. So we will just have to clean out this tank and
we won't have to have the star grass mess all over everything else. So this is just
going to be a beautiful day, early morning video, frolicking in the greenhouse. Just
great looking swords, great looking anubias, great looking sunshine on my face and I am
excited about it. I hope everyone is just having a great week. If you like this video,
give me a like and subscribe. Hit me up on Facebook and I am having an absolute blast.
I love y'all, make it a good week. Later!