okay so if you guys been following this channel for a while you'll remember
that there was some frontosa here at one fish two fish um in diamond nova scotia my local fish
store it is the black widow fronton and when i saw them for the first time you guys were
like oh joey you got to get them you got to get them but they've been here for about a year and
it's probably because they're expensive they're obviously um not cheap but man are they ever cool
now there is six of them here and i have seven at home but my seven i like these guys here the
more classic uh frontosa every time i come here i look at them every time i see them i want them
today's the last time that's going to happen we're getting them now one of those 180s is going to
turn into a lake tanganyika community we're not only doing frontosa but we're adding in some shell
dwellers not all of them some of them and then we'll get something else and that's where you
guys will have to come into play is uh what do you recommend for a lake tanganyika community aquarium
with frontosa as well as african shell dwellers and for those that think that the shell dwellers
will just get eaten we've already done this in a 120 it didn't happen as so long as i provide
the proper environment they're going to be fine now another fish that i'm thinking about getting
and some of you guys would be like no joey don't do it
is the common convict cichlid a central american cichlid and i'm thinking about putting them in
the 40 gallon right here we already have a pair i love convict cichlids but because they're so cheap
and so readily available i think they're just slept on so much but you'll notice right away
why i like them they're black and white for the most part just like my rays i'm color blind so
i don't see the colors like you do i'm not i don't see like black and white like a dog
but i just really really these are black and white are my favorite colors and look
they're already protecting um some fry that's the female i just think they're absolutely gorgeous
i think they're so subtle and so simple and contrasting they breed readily they're just a
fun fish to have so what do you guys think if you guys if you guys think i should get these guys and
i really really like them i'd probably put them in a 40 let me know in the comments section below
i really like these guys too this is like a breeding group oh that one that that one's holding
see how it's not like cheeks and everything are kind of puffed out and underneath of it
yeah look at her looks like it's got a big mouth of food he's got a mouth full of eggs and babies
gorgeous yeah i said this is a breeding group for sure confirmed so active so colorful
so interesting just fascinating group of
what you fish in here dragon blood peacocks
needs more plants almost all the plants are sold these never last here whenever
he gets a new plant shipment and he'll get in hundreds of plants they're gone like right away
yeah i keep gravitating to those two over there and look they're only nine bucks cheap
downside is when you get them it's tough to have anything with them however in a
long enough tank i think this is a 33 or 55. they'll just push everybody to the other end
like the mail is going after them now keeping everybody in line
these guys would do fantastic in a 40 gallon i think i think i want to do it and give them babies
even the mom's protecting them it's just awesome i mean you can sit here and watch this all day long
beautiful i love it you see the little babies little miniatures of their parents
more of them they're just so cute downside is they breed so readily and it's not exactly easy
to like get rid of them or to sell them or to move them i mean maybe you could do it once but after
that i mean you'll flood the market i think that has a lot to do with it too people breeding them
they just have nowhere to put them there's just too many of them oh yeah check out the
1350 we didn't really get to look at the size of these frontosa i put him in there in the oscars
these guys aren't that big they're pretty big
tinfoil barbs are huge clown loaches are huge the balush axes the front toes are huge
the oscars still have a ways to grow some of these frontals as well
i don't know how many he's gotten here but definitely has a few
which is an interesting combination to say the least the iridescent sharks in the back
but this is you know although a lot of these fish don't come from the same locations
look at the females trying to open that shell um having a big tank like this and a massive amount
of like big large fish randomly is i still think it's really cool i really really like it reminds
me of the 2000. get away from everybody so i just messaged jeff and i was like how much do
you want for all of those uh all of those fraud toes uh he's like well how much are they and um
how much are they how much are they and how many are they like how much is it listed because he's
not in the store he lives in pei and his store's here in nova scotia uh so he says so i said
there's six of them 99.99 each he's like you want them all i said yup he said i paid 60 for them
back a year ago at one third that size let's say 200 for all of them i was like wow i was and then
i thought like 60 bucks and you're only selling for a hundred i always thought like well there's
a high end that's pretty expensive for wholesale 60 bucks each he's like actually [ __ ] it i don't
even care just take them that's what jeff's like when i deal with them i offer to pay and he's like
nah just take them whatever it doesn't happen all the time but when it does i always appreciate it
i always pay for everything now these guys are a lot bigger than mine probably twice the size
um of my piranha and we might end up eventually picking them up if they're still kind of kicking
around uh however once i get mine into a 180 mine are going to be around that same size as well
and when they get to this size they're a little less skittish and a little and i've got what 20
of them and i plan to add in like 100 or 200 tiny tetras as well and the piranha won't eat
them it's very common combination to add in like neon tetras for example they don't view them as a
food source they're too small to even chase around or bother piranhas in the wild will technically
go after if they are going to eat anything is probably already dead or injured or sick
bigger fish that's when you know if they're going to eat anything else they don't typically go after
small little tetras that are perfectly healthy now if you guys remember when i went to the
local fish store one fish two fish in dartmouth nova scotia um i originally went there and uh
we removed the barb from that fresh water stingray that pearl that video was filmed the same day
the frontosa i did get them i did pick them up and they are doing absolutely amazing
they went through the quarantine process and then for the time being just for a few more days i've
added them into the aquarium with the rest of the frontos that i already had look at my big daddy
that's me that's joey i'm not that big i'd probably be like this little shrimp
in real life but for now that's joey uh yeah i added them in there there's 13 total now
um and i thought that it was going to look really weird to have a combination of black
widows as well as you know regular burundi type deal uh frontosa with the the regular stripes
you know just regular six stripes um but to be honest with you the coloration is identical
and i think it fits in nicely i think i think the black widows which have been in the hobby
for quite some time i had no clue because i've been out of the frontosa game for a while
um i kept frontosa a long long time ago and i mean like uh like 15 years ago or something
like that but anyways everybody in here is doing just amazing everybody's getting along
um joey is the big dominant male uh mind you they all get the same amount of food everybody's fed at
the same time but that male is just growing so much faster i do believe that there's at
least three males in here which isn't ideal however the males do seem to be other burundis
so i'm happy with that it doesn't look like any of the black widows are uh male and that's great
because if they end up breeding which they will uh i think that we'll get you know some i don't know
the genes or the genetics or how the black widow came to be but obviously they're selectively bred
um but who knows what the fry will look like but it'd be absolutely fascinating bottom line
is everybody's doing absolutely fantastic they're gorgeous shout out to jeff for giving me free fish
um you know as uh as guilty as i still feel jeff knows i i've paid tens of thousands of dollars
worth of fish from him over the last few years so this is just like a nice little kickback you know
buy buy fifty thousand dollars worth of fish get two hundred dollars free what a deal jeff
i know he's watching laughing his butt off too um but yeah these guys are gonna look absolutely
phenomenal in their aquarium mind you their aquarium is already escaped and i went ahead and i
mimicked what a lake tanganyikan uh wild aquarium would kind of look like with the with almost the
identical rocks and sand i mean i guess i kind of screwed it up and it doesn't look exactly how
it needs to but in my opinion it's really close and it's absolutely fascinating now here's the
fun part we're going to have all of these frontals are 13 of them and then we still have to consider
the shell dwellers it looks foggy it's not it's just bacteria detritus growing on the glass
i haven't messed with it these guys are doing whatever they want in the tank we're taking half
of this colony and by if i stand back like this you don't really see many fish but we have a lot
of african shell dwellers and they've maxed out for this tank i mean it's going to be fascinating
to see so what i'm going to do is i'm going to take half the colony of here and half the
shells and put them in with the frontosas and the 180. mind you we've already did this before
in a 120 but what i want to do is compare uh the prosperity between the two colonies do they do
better in a tank with literal natural predators or do they do better in a 40 gallon all by themselves
how do they act did their habits change did they breed more do they eat more aggressively how do
they perform in the aquariums this is what gets me going with the aquarium hobby and i can't wait
to run those types of comparisons and i know you guys can't as well so if you're excited to see
this and see the new scape that i've just recently set up and gonna move the uh i'm
probably gonna move the shell dwellers over first so they can be established and then the frontosa
uh it'll all be in the same video but i'll stagger it uh days and just film it differently but
um if you want to see that you're not subscribed to this channel yet make sure
you do it you're gonna miss it or uh a month ago or a month and a half ago something like that
the members only section already saw the scape for the new tank and if
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before anybody else anyways guys hope you enjoyed today's video and i will see you in the next one