Over the last few months
We've set up any number of aquariums out here in the aquarium gallery and every time I set up a new aquarium
I state that this is now my new favorite aquarium now that we've had them set up for quite a while now though
What is my favorite fish,(pls be frank) and this one's kind of controversial for me?
And you know even talk about top five
Simply because there's so many more fish coming out here soon a lot of these tanks are getting additional fish added to them and will
Be basically more than doubling the amount of fish out here soon
But what I'm trying to get at is it almost depends on the time of day or the day of the week that it is
That some of the fish are some of my favorites for different reasons so in today's video
I'm going to talk about what my top five favorite fish are in the gallery?
Right now. I'll tell you what they are and
Why they're my favorite right now, let's start off with?
These African cichlids up here now these guys are always a crowd-pleaser
Extremely active very colorful and since I have all males. We don't really have any aggression I
Enjoy them for a number of reasons
mainly because they're so simple to care for yet look so visually appealing these guys are certainly a
Crowd-pleaser for example you know a lot of people struggle with feeding their fish what they should give them and so forth
But what I find with these guys is regardless of what I offer them
They just go nuts for the food which is always a plus
It's always great to have you know healthy fish that are vigorously eating and you know attacking the food
There is a couple of fish in here with a little bit of tattered fins
But you know that's going to happen on almost any aquarium with cichlids
Is there's always gonna be some buddies that that is the boss but for the most part these guys are all in perfect shape?
I'm really enjoying them and
One of my favorite things to do is actually feed them. There's certainly an aggressive feeder and to be honest with you
They'll eat. Just about any food that I offer them and what I give them is just pelletized foods directed towards African cichlids
I don't feed any specific brand or type. I mix it up and give them something that will promote color
There's a bit of
Spirulina in the diet you know just something well-rounded now
I don't really have an order of the favorites of course we started with the Africans because they are right there
But I do have a number one favorite that we're going to talk about at the end
But for now let's move on to the next favorite, and this one's kind of easy now
I gotta give Frank a shout out, but I'll be entirely honest with you guys
I actually don't like him in this aquarium because he's I don't have the chance to interact with him
And he's such a personable little fish the bichir is in there somewhere by the way he's still in there
He's still okay, but you know for Frank
He needs a personal aquarium
He needs his own time with me, and you know I really can't you know express how excited
I am to get him back to the way
He was and the reason why everybody loves him in the first place
Which is the fact that he's just such a fun and personable fish these days though
I don't know if he's looking to bite me or he wants to play
Unfortunately, I'm not going to find a hotel
We get him in a new aquarium
But I do know if I didn't give Frank a shout-out or give him a little bit of show on the camera here you guys
Are going to start a riot!
My next favorite fish out here in the gallery is my wall root tank in fact
This is one of my favorite aquarium period but the wall row of course if you've watched some of my past videos
And I've kind of explained why I got them what they mean to this channel and so forth you will truly understand
But I really love this tank
Especially the Uaru who are kind of hiding right now because I just shine some lights on them, and you know jump down here
But you know this is one of my favorite tanks for a couple of reasons one
It's one of the most natural in my opinion the background by aqua decor is absolutely stunning and truly
Complements the real wood out front, and you know to be entirely honest when people come over like friends and family
And they see these aquariums and see these backgrounds for example. They have no clue that. They're not real
That's you know the camera's never going to show that but you know it's absolutely stunning
And the wall route I actually wanted to do something for you guys for the first time on camera and the first time for me
in about 10 or 12 years which is
Feed these guys a specific food that I used to love feeding them
We'll get to that in a minute, but these guys are my favorite
Fish right now or one of my top five favorite fish in the aquarium gallery right now
simply because they you know they have such a strong meaning to but also because
The metamorphosis that they go through in terms of their color changing in patterns
Not to mention that well now that I've been sitting here for a couple of minutes
They're extremely personable and friendly in the tank which is kind of rare for Uaru at This size. They tend to hide a lot
But these guys are out a whole lot of course when the lights aren't on
It's it's they're far more active and whatnot but this tank alone in my opinion again
Is you know one of the more natural looking tanks? I still think that
The Uaru will have a long ways to grow they're gonna get to like ten inches or so
So we'll only be able to keep maybe four to six in here
Maybe just a pair with a ton of tetras or something like that
I'd love to show you guys the breeding process of the wall roof
Back one before I was on YouTube I bred wharoo and is absolutely amazing to watch
Well, let's feed them something. I haven't fed them in a very long time, and I'll admit right now
It's probably the reason I wanted to make this video. I just wanted to feed them to show you guys it
I had to come up with a reason why I'm making this video in the first place, so let's talk about top five okay
So these guys are pretty much well camouflaged if you could see them. They're in behind the wood right now most of the time
They're out with the tetras
These tetras acting as a dinner fish making sure they seem like everything's okay in the aquarium
However being a cichlid you would assume that they would have like a high-protein diet
and you know they're kind of in the mid spectrum you would feed them like you would Africans or
even
Tropheus for example you would want to feed them a vegetable type
Diet and one of their favorite meals and this is gonna be so corny to so many people
But I love feeding it to them is
Romaine lettuce
So back when I had a bunch of adults
They would go absolutely
Nuts for this and don't be confused Uaru still have a nice set of teeth on them as they get bigger
They might be a little too small to eat this right now
But I'm gonna go ahead and drop this in the tank and just kind of set it on the lid here
and we'll come back to it in a little bit and
See what they've done
Okay, so I know that a lot of you are thinking the discus has to be one of my favorite fish in the aquarium Gallery
Right now, and then I top five they're simply not in fact. They kind of reminded me why I got out of them
At this size, they're a little bit
Shy they rarely come out they can be difficult and finicky to feed they're sensitive to water quality
Which is the difficult all around a fish to keep if you're not used to keeping them, but you know what I really like
The angelfish right now are really doing it for me these guys are such an amazing contrast with this aquarium
And you know I kind of planned them out to have a dark scape tank to contrast with their color
But I didn't realize how good it was truly going to look with that set at nighttime when all the lights are off in here
These guys are still glowing
They look like a bunch of floating ghosts inside this aquarium, which is kind of appropriate with Halloween coming up?
but
These guys are absolutely stunning and what makes them better is they're not skittish at all these guys are always out
They never hide and they'll readily eat watch that go up here
They know something's coming
you guys hungry, so these guys just get a flake food or
You know small pellets sometimes. I'll give them some frozen foods
I like to keep their diet a bit varied, but these guys are such a
Pleasure to keep they're so easy to maintain and take care of and they look absolutely stunning
This is one of the tanks that most people that visit the gallery friends and family of course
Enjoy the most now
I know a lot of you must have guessed the next favorite fish on the list
Has got to be the rainbow fish, and if you did you're absolutely right?
these guys have
quickly become one of my favorite fish in the aquarium gallery for a number of reasons one they signify to me that it's
Okay to keep little fish in really big tanks
I've always kept really big fish in really big tanks
But you'll this one has been equally rewarding and since moving this aquarium up against the wall
I'm really enjoying the depths that this aquarium has mind you I have not adjusted or changed the wood at all yet
I still have to make some adjustments
It's kind of just it's just looking sad collapsed in place
But you know overall these guys are just a pleasure to have they respond to feeding beautifully
They're colouring up nicely and again
They still have a ways to go in terms of coloration as well as size keep in mind
They might be really narrow right now, but they will grow in depth as well like their height and be a much more
Larger looking fish in here for sure you know in time
I think what I could even possibly do is switch out the type of rainbow fish or
Potentially just add you know maybe a thousand or even two thousand Cardinal tetras, or you know?
Anything in here. It's so posh. There's so much possibilities in here and I think
Moving forward that this big tank is certainly going to remain a little fish tank
Because I think that it's just absolutely stunning to see how so many
small little fish interact and shoal together, or even sometimes school depending on the species of fish
But these guys are my favorite for it. Just feels like they're so in tune with me
Clearly all I am is to them is that is a meal. They know what I'm doing the only thing
I don't like about them and the reason why I've been putting off fixing the wood is because I literally watch this I
Can't put my hand in the aquarium without them eating it
and I don't like the feeling but
Those who didn't take drop by hand in there
They'll bite at it a bunch of them will but then you know they realize okay?
This is a hand and it doesn't taste that great
So they stop, but you know these guys are just a blast to have everybody loves them feeding them is fun
Let's go ahead and feed them
So these guys get a number of foods in pretty much the same as the angelfish to be honest with you
They'll get some tiny tiny pellets get a variety of flake foods and even some
Frozen foods just to kind of mix it up but
Recently my aquarium box sent me some a bunch of food to try out
They're launching a new food and one of the ones that caught my eye for these guys is the brine shrimp so
This is going to truly help with coloration, and I'm just kind of trying it out, and I actually like that
It's a red color is
Indicating that there's definitely going to be a ton of a stacks thin in there or however you pronounce that which is which is in
brine shrimp, so
Plus is high in protein. We'll see what happens, but I'll feed them this bag
see if there's any improvements with them or anything like that, but again these guys are always a ton of fun to feed and
It's so much easier to feed a fish. That's you know will accept and eat anything so
It's just fun to watch them
So now we move on to the number one fish. I know what some of you guys are thinking
It's got to be this guy at the Asian, Arowana and to be entirely honest with you
Absolutely not. Well. It is a pretty fish
It's just too small to be my favorite. Just yet. I will admit that she's a great eater. She does really well in this aquarium
But I'll admit I miss buddy.(RIP BUDDY) I miss my big
blue bass cross back swimming in this tank and while she will end up being a beautiful fish and will it end up adding some
UV lights in here eventually to tan her she's just not up there just yet
So my favorite fish in the aquarium gallery right now
And I got to be honest probably always will be are my freshwater stingrays I absolutely am so
Enthusiastic about stingrays that we could argue the fact that I wouldn't have began building large aquariums
Or even made this channel to what it is today if it wasn't for
freshwater stingrays
Now these guys are clearly just you know still babies at this size. They're not sexually mature
We have three black diamonds as well as a pearl
And I know that they look quite small in this aquarium right now
But again these guys are gonna grow to be absolute monsters
And eventually we will have to take out this wood,
I do want to add in more fish some of the fish that I planned on adding through into here
simply didn't work out in terms of
Availability and being able to get them in the quantity as well as size that I wanted to but I'm always on the lookout
so stay tuned for
additional fish being added to this in the near future and
Of course we can't forget about the little pearl ray over here in the rainbow fish tank still doing excellent eating doing really well
Exploring the tank absolutely loving it
Not worried about him at all or sorry her at all
Of course it will be a while before she gets into the bigger tank but right now
You know she's doing really good in here and clearly there's tons of space
But there you have it that is my top 5 favorite fish in the aquarium gallery as of right now today
with that said like I mentioned earlier the numbers of fish out here are soon to
Double, and there's already hundreds out here
I should give an honorable mention to the trophies that are actually looking absolutely stunning right now
and there's a few other little fish in here that you guys haven't seen yet, but
again, so many more fish will be added shortly, so let's call this part one of
fifty or something like that because clearly you know on a day-to-day basis my
Opinions, and what's my favorite? What's not is certainly going to change, but we'll have to see over time
I'd love to know what you guys think were your favorite of the fish that I've shown or even your favorite aquarium
So let me know in the comments section below
Alright, just a quick update on the romaine lettuce situation. I seen a couple of the Uaru up They're nipping at it
I don't see any bite marks out of it. Just yet, but they certainly are exploring it. You know
I just came back over to the aquarium now, so
They're not too excited about me being here
but
You know as soon as they?
Discovered that they can eat this romaine lettuce these guys are going to start attacking this like a pack of little
Piranhas and the good part about romaine lettuce is you know I can leave it in the aquarium overnight
It's not going to rot
You know it does take quite a while to do that, so we've definitely got plenty of time to work on that
Plus the fact that you know it's such an affordable meal for them that
You know it's only gonna cost me pennies to add in a leaf of romaine lettuce every other day and let them enjoy it
But as you can see they'll even nip out wood
Anyway, it's just a quick update on that