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Talk with you about certain fish. Now you might know them better as tanks.
Alright, I've got my notebook.
I've made some notes about the most common fish that I've seen in home aquariums
and that I've seen in my local fish stores. Keep in mind,
this list might vary from ones that you typically see in your local fish store.
And it's also going to vary from the ones that you've seen in public aquariums,
as they're going to have a lot more space and thus can keep a lot more fish.
Now, one thing before I get started telling you about the different tanks,
I'm going to let you know, I like to break them down into two body shapes.
So first off, you're going to have the tanks that are circular in body shape.
And then you're going to have the ones that are a little bit more oval body
shaped. This is something I'm going to talk about a little bit later.
So keep this in mind as I'm going through this list. All right,
first off is our yellow tank. That's going to be a circular body shape.
Those are pretty common. Most people,
if you've heard of a Tang yellow tangs are what's your now next up is going to
be our blue hippo Tang. If you've ever seen finding Nemo or finding Dory,
that is Dory. Now she is an oval shaped Tang.
Next up our, our powder blue and our powder Brown tank.
Those are more of a circular body shape.
Next step is going to be the scope is Tang that falls more into the circular
category. After our scope is Tang.
We have the bristle tooth Tang or the Tomine tanning. Again,
that's another circular body shaped Tang.
Next we have our whole Mingey tans, a fun one to say, isn't it.
And that's going to be more of an oval shaped time. We've got purple tanks.
Those are another one that fall in that circular category.
Next is the orange shoulder Tang. That's an oval shaped Tang.
Then we've got our NATO tanks. So you've got your regular NISO.
You've also got your blonde NISO and then the unicorn.
That's another one of those names families. And if you look at the body shape,
it's fairly obvious. Those are all very oval shaped bodies.
Then we have our kind of rare is getting a little bit more common,
the gem Tang. So those are another circular body shaped.
It's a common trait of zebra Soma genus.
So we have the so Holton next.
That's another oval body shape along with the clown thing,
which is another oval shaped. Now,
something to mention about those two is they can be fairly aggressive.
So just keep that in mind, when you are putting fish in your tank,
next up we have the coal tanning.
So those are going to be a little bit smaller and are probably going to fit
better into that circular body shape category. Now,
lastly is one of our largest tanks that gives the sail fin tank.
Um, again, that's a very circular body shape for a fish.
Okay? So we've talked about the different kinds of tanks and their body shapes,
but something else that you need to be mindful of is tank size tanks
and tanks, kind of a tongue twister there. Right? Alright.
So you might buy these fish when they're small. If they're babies, that's fine.
You can have them in a smaller tank, but no lifts. Some of these get to be very,
very large. In fact,
let's see the blonde NATO can get up to a foot and a half in like that's a huge
fish. So you're gonna want to make sure you have a lot of space for them to swim
around. And teams, as a species are very active swimmers.
They need lots of space, but if you've got a foot and a half long Tang,
you want to make sure you have at least a minimum of 180 gallon.
If not larger tank now not all tanks are going to be that large.
For example, your yellow tangs, those guys are going to be about eight inches.
Um, and while you don't need 180 or 200 gallon tank,
you still need a minimum of a hundred gallons for them.
Now with your smaller tanks, like your cold tank,
they're only going to get to about seven inches and you could probably get by
keeping them in a 75 gallon tank. But I like to say,
if you can afford a larger size taken, you have the space for one,
give him a little bit more room to swim around. Alright, next up,
we're going to talk about diet.
Okay.
So we've already talked about the different shapes and sizes of tanks and the
requirements and the space they need. But how about diet?
Diet is one of the most important things that you can do for your fish?
So tangs are herbivores now just because I say
herbivores doesn't mean that they strictly eat vegetables.
A lot of them actually do in fact eat meat.
So when it comes down to feeding your tanks,
you have what I like to consider three different types of foods.
So you're going to have your dry foods, your web foods,
and something a little bit in between is those gel foods. Let's jump right in.
So let's go over the dry foods first,
right? So as always,
you have your flake foods and then you have your pellet foods.
So PE pellets.
They have a little bit more protein. They're really great,
especially picky fish. Um, sometimes you can get them to eat this,
or if you're going for a whole lot of vegetables, the new life spectrum algae,
max has a ton of veggies packed in there.
So that pretty much covers the dry foods.
Let's jump in to the wet foods.
Now there's a lot of different frozen foods out there,
and it really depends on what you're able to find. But LRS, for example,
has herbivore frenzy. It's made with those tangs in mind,
but Rod's foods has another great herbivore blend.
You can look for ocean nutrition.
They have blister packs that are a bit smaller.
This will come in like a big full-size food,
but you can get those blister packs for individual feeding.
If you have fewer tangs next up we have our
gel foods are the foods that you are going to kind of
DIY make yourself. So first up is this.
Mastic. It comes in.
And it looks like little gummies. So what's,
you're going to do when you get these at you're kind of gonna smush them and you
could stick them on the glass or you can stick in the rock work.
And they are fantastic.
When it comes to providing a natural simulation of what your tanks would be
doing in the wild. They're always going to be picking an algae,
getting all of that stuff off the rock work.
And this is great for those grazers. Now I mentioned DIY,
so you like spectrum is another one of those companies out there that offers a
gel mix that you can make, or dr.
Tim's has these awesome foods that even give you the little containers,
you mix it up and you make it yourself. It's chock full of veggies,
a great option for tanks.
Now this is what you probably are all familiar with is the Nori and the
seaweed, right? So seaweed comes in a variety of different options.
You've got your red seaweeds, your greens, your purples.
So there's a bunch of different options out on the market that you can go for.
But one that I particularly enjoy and appreciate is a rods.
Three. We blend, it's got the red, the purple and the green.
But what I really like is that it's got the big sheets,
but it's also got the shreds of seaweed.
So something I didn't mention when it comes to picking out pellet food,
and this goes for any food,
you don't want to feed something that's bigger than can fit in your fish's
mouth. Your fish has to be able to eat it. So this offers a great option.
If you've got those larger tanks or those smaller tanks,
like those Tomine tanks, a little bit of variety for everyone.
No.
I just gave you a bunch of different options for feeding,
but how are you going to feed, right?
So obviously if you've got the pellets of the flake,
you can do the salt Bay thing and sprinkle it in the tank.
But if you're feeding anything else, you might need a little bit of assistance.
So you've got a bunch of different clips and pouches.
So first off is the innovative Marine Grazer thing.
And yeah.
What you do is you put the food in here,
you clip it closed and it's magnetized, and you put it on a tank. Now,
something to keep in mind with this magnetic products and other magnetic
products. For example,
the two little fishies clip is that these aren't going to work on tanks that
have really thick acrylic or glass.
It's just going to be too much for the magnet to handle.
So it will usually say on the product or in the description,
what size thickness that you need to look for.
So if your tank is thicker than that,
you're going to go for something like these little clips with the suction cup,
it works great in any system. Just remember with all of these clips,
you need to take them out after 12 hours after your Fisher done eating,
do not leave them in, take them out, clean them.
So they're ready to go for the next time.
Now I've worked in public aquariums before,
and I will say when we feed our tanks, there's a lot of them swarming about.
So these feeders like this one from two little fishies and this innovative
Marine feeder are great opportunities for enrichment and your fish
will love them. So you can put them in different spots around the tank.
If you have more than one,
and it offers an opportunity for a bunch of different fish eat all at the same
time without crowding each other. All right, that wraps it up for diet.
Let's move on to the next. All right.
We've already talked about what good nutrition looks like for your tanks,
but even with that good nutrition, they can encounter some health issues.
So here are some of the common ones that I have seen with tanks hole in the
head, head and lateral line.
Now that can be caused by a lot of different things.
And one of them is poor water quality.
So make sure that you're doing your water test,
doing your water changes as needed to make sure your fish have good water
quality. Now, sometimes even with good nutrition,
those fish need just a little bit extra.
So if your fish is one of those that does need a little bit extra,
just consider adding some amino Amiga is bright by
Brightwell, but there's a whole bunch of different ones out there on the market.
I like to use this one for me, my tank.
It just gives them those added aminos that helps to boost their immune system
and helps to brighten up their color. You could add some vitamins too,
if you'd like, I really like to add some vitamin C. Um, if I see my fish,
his colors are a little bit Del. It really helps to brighten them up.
Keep them healthy.
Now next step it's something I'm sure you've all heard of is [inaudible] or
cryptic carrion. Now there's again,
a lot of different products out on the market medication-wise that you can use
to treat them.
But one thing you can always do for your fish is to dip them and
quarantine them. Before you put them into your main system,
that's going to help to keep them one from spreading anything to any of your
other fish and just making sure that they're healthy before they go into the
system.
It's a lot easier to treat one fish in a quarantine tank than it is to worry
about treating a whole tank. So this one right here, quick cure.
I've used this a lot, um, on my tank, just if you use this one, be careful.
It does stain. Um,
another thing that tanks can, um, issues that they can have,
it's called leukostasis. Now this isn't just tank specific.
A lot of fish can deal with this, right? It's kind of like a blemish it's fuzzy.
It will look almost like it larger. So it it'd be a small pinprick,
but yeah, limp is a little bit larger and it's going to be a fuzzier mass.
Typically you see on the fins of the fish. Now, uh,
one other thing that I see often in tanks is obesity.
And to combat obesity, you can do it a couple of different things. One,
you can make sure that they have a lot of swimming room and that you're not
overfeeding them. Also,
you can make sure that they have a power head.
So a power head is going to provide current and encourage them to swim around.
So make sure that they've got that room to swim and that you're not overfeeding
now, something that you can do to help your fish live their best lives. Yup.
There it is. Again, I said it is to enrich them, right?
So you have all sorts of hobbies that you do. That's not just, you know,
your nine to five job we'll fish like having things to do.
They like things to be different and to challenge them. So I mentioned earlier,
when we talked about feeding, you can have these different kinds of feeders.
You can put them multiple places around the table at the same
time. Yes. Can again, change those powerheads directions and flows.
A lot of them, the powerheads on tanks now have programmable features.
So you can do on for 30 seconds or off and program.
Those features something else when it comes to food. Again,
those gel foods are things like mastic.
You can stick them in the rocks and encourage that natural foraging behavior.
In fact,
I leave some of the algae on the back of my tank for my tank to graze when
he's just hanging out.
Something else that you can do is making sure you've got a lot of rock work and
places for tanks to hide, especially blue hippo tanks. I've seen a lot of times,
they like to kind of wedge themselves into little Rocky holes,
just hanging out there and chill out.
So make sure you have lots of spaces for them to hide something else that you
can do is redecorate or reorganize your tank.
Now I realize sometimes that's hard to do when you have a coral system,
but if you have a Fowler rock only tank, it's a lot easier.
You can also add artificial inserts, um,
just to give them some variety in their life. So it's not just the same old,
same old swimming around in the same hundred gallons. All right,
lastly, let's talk about tank mates, right?
Cause that could go to enrichment as well. What are the chances,
unless you're Frank, you're probably gonna have more than one fish in a tank,
right? So if you remember at the beginning of the video,
I talked about those different body shapes, correct?
So we have the circular and then the oval shaped tanks.
Now this is what I was taught as a rule of thumb. It's, you know,
there's always exceptions to the rule, but this is, this is how I was taught.
So you can mix different body shapes, not an issue. Yeah.
If you want to have multiples of this stuff, same body shape.
You need to have more than two. You can have one, you can have three, five,
you don't want just two because it's real easy for them to pick on each other.
And you'll probably see a lot of fighting. Now, if you know,
right off the bat that you want to have a lot of tanks in your tank,
you can add them all at once. I wouldn't recommend adding them slowly over time.
If you add them all in,
it's going to give them time to adjust to the group that they're in and,
you know, find their place in the tank. Cause tanks, as I mentioned before,
some of them like the clown Tang, like the Achilles Tang,
sometimes it's so whole tank. They can be very, very aggressive.
And once one establishes dominance or it's spot of the tank,
it's going to be very aggressive towards others.
So putting them all in together is really going to help for success.
Now beyond tanks,
they're pretty compatible with a lot of other different fish out there.
But one key that I always use is the fish compatibility chart.
So as you can see,
you can look and find tangs on the chart and then you can look all of the other
different species of fish that are out there that you might consider putting
them in the tank with. You can see if they'll be compatible with the tanks.
Another good thing you could do is always ask your local fish store,
but you do want to make sure you do your research before you purchase any fish.
All right. That sums up this video all about tanks.
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