2022 has been a really good year for my hobby I feel like because there's a lot of firsts you
know I got my first 20 gallon long which I put my first African cichlids in I also got my first
killifish first pleco so I figured this would be a good time to show you all of my aquariums that
I have so you can kind of keep up with it and yeah I hope you don't mind the super casual you
know no makeup look I'm using my cell phone to film but I figured it feel more in person
let's go so this is my 20 gallon high Back-to-Basics planted tank named so because
I have many beginner plants in here like anubias java fern bolbitis dwarf aquarium lily as well as
some floating plants and it's been running for two to three years now I don't know I'll put it
up on screen here but if you saw my recent video I did lose my centerpiece fish Unicron the powder
blue dwarf gourami and so remaining in this tank include kuhli loaches a mystery snail cardinal
tetras and pygmy corydoras and amano shrimp I think that's it oh and a clown pleco he's new
and I he or she is new and I don't have a name for him yet but anyways I have been thinking of maybe
um converting this tank into more of a warmer water tank and so thinking of I don't know
something that would go along with the cardinal tetras and then keeping animals that normally
like higher temperatures that I haven't been able to keep before but at least for now I'm fine with
the way the tank is I'm not really doing anything special with it I've kind of gotten my sights on
other projects which let me talk about in my next segment and over here in this corner this is my
kitchen where I have my 20 gallon long breeding tank and since the beginning of this year I have
some multies - Neolamprologus multifasciatus shell dwellers that I got from Zenzo from Tazawa Tanks
um his channel link is down below but he was able to mail these fish and mail me these fish I think
I started off with was it like six of them and you can see they've obviously multiplied and I also
like how since my last video about shell dwellers I was saying how there used to be a mountain
about this high on the left side just covering everything and since I kind of rearranged the
shells a little bit you can see they've downgraded to two little smaller hills and so we've come to
a happy compromise I really really like these fish they're very cool I'm always looking at
them looking at the babies getting all excited I know that eventually I do want to breed other
fish in this tank though and since I typically only limit myself to three tanks that would mean
moving the shell dwellers off so I'm not sure I don't want to you know necessarily like dump flood
the market and dump all of these multis in one fish store I don't think anybody would take them
um and I know my local Aquarium Society they have a couple of major auctions throughout the
year so that might be a good place to say goodbye to them so I don't know you guys let me know what
you think in the comments because there's lots of things I could bring to this tank Maybe [Music]
bristlenose plecos I've never kept that before some kind of read some kind of Pseudomugil
rainbowfish that would be neat I've always wanted to breed hillstream loaches as well so there's
a lot of possibilities but again I'm gonna keep them around for as long as possible because I've
got other projects to show you and finally this is my third tank that you guys rarely see the
five gallon office tank and yeah it I really like it today's actually a good day to film it because
it's kind of cloudy outside right now so it's not having crazy reflections on it like I normally get
but as you can see I've got some new inhabitants here we've got some red cherry shrimp which
are technically Bloody Mary shrimp which means supposedly their meat or muscle is red and the
shell is more translucent instead of their shell being red and then their body being more you know
not red underneath at least that's how I've been heard all I can say is they look really really
vivid scarlet ruby red and I absolutely love them they've already had babies since uh I got them and
then recently I added from quarantine some clown killifish which took me a while to source and I'm
so excited they're all juveniles for the most part but I've started seeing one of them display some
of that rocket fiery red looking tail that you normally see very colorful rainbowy tail that you
normally see in clown killies and I unfortunately found out they probably don't live very long so I
may put kind of in this empty area over here a yarn spawning mop and see if I can extract
some eggs that I could breed maybe separately in a little grow out kind of container of some
sorts but if you have any experience in that let me know down in the comments let me scooch down
on the ground right here okay so I know I said I normally only have three aquariums but my daughter
Gamer Girl recently said she wanted to set up a fish tank for the first time so I was like wow
she's the first family member who's ever asked me to do that uh we don't really have any space
in our homes so the only place I could think of is in the kids bathroom there might be some room like
the biggest take I could fit is this 15 gallon like some kind of cube like aquarium and so and
the closest thing to that I could find in my local pet stores was the Fluval Flex now I am not a big
a fan of some of the features of this because this is an aquarium kit that comes with certain things
and I just like to customize some stuff myself uh so I will be doing some modifications to this tank
which I will show you guys later on but I think this will be a really fun mommy/daughter kind of
project together where I can kind of show her the whole process of how do you research fish and how
do we know you know what's appropriate to fit in here how to take care of them and then since
it's gonna be in the kids bathroom it'll be really easy for her to do water changes herself so wish
me luck uh as for me how I have been doing this year besides fish stuff like obviously I love my
job I love working at Aquarium Co-op doing YouTube for you guys um I actually do have a life outside
of YouTube and fish and all that so this was the first year that I went on a backpacking trip with
my church group I also climbed my first 14er which is climbing to the summit of a mountain that is
14,000 feet or above and that was really really hard I couldn't see why you know people trained
for that kind of thing and I accidentally dehydrated myself and experienced like the worst
ever elevation sickness but I survived and it's definitely a check off of my bucket list other
things that happened were oh I got a dog uh a new dog so Kelbi unfortunately passed away if you're a
member of the channel you know that that happened this summer but we actually have a new dog let me
see if I can get him to come over here oh no so this is Odo he is a mutt and I know he looks a lot
like Kelbi we didn't get him a black dog another black dog on purpose but they think he's a half
Corgi since the giant ears and half Labrador Retriever and he's just kind of a shy boy he
he we call him our chicken dog because he's very very uh yeah just nervous about anything new but
that has been my year so anyways uh let me know down in the comments what kind of cool plans and
interesting things that you guys are doing in 2023 in your aquarium keeping hobby otherwise
I'll see you guys in the next video bye I totally forgot to mention but if you like
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