[Music] so recently my husband Mr Gamer asked me if I was afraid of losing my job at a Aquarium
Co-Op because AI or artificial intelligence has been used to write blog posts which is what I get
paid to do so I decide I'm gonna challenge ChatGPT with five of the hardest questions I've gotten
about fish keeping recently hi I'm Irene with Girl Talks Fish and question number one is how do you
cycle an aquarium I picked this answer because there are like so many ways to do this and the
internet and beginners and veterans often don't agree on what to do so let's see what ChatGPT said
wow okay first of all it is a step-by-step guide to you know kind of explains what cycling is a
little bit their method is set up all the equipment fill with water oh I don't know
ammonia source so they're going off with fishless cycling which is the current favorite method on
the internet um by using ammonia pure ammonia a fish food raw shrimp some kind of organic source
for beneficial bacteria to break down however they do not mention adding some Source like
a seed source for the beneficial bacteria which will really help kick-start this method otherwise
you're gonna be waiting forever fishless cycling are using just ammonia has never worked for me
at least within the time span of two months so I personally nowadays like to put a cycled Sponge
Filter or filter media into the new aquarium I will add in Fritz Zyme7 which is another source
of beneficial bacteria to again seed the tank I will put in a live aquarium plants which is
another form of biological filtration it's also a lot prettier than looking at an empty tank and
then finally I will slowly add uh the animals and not like dump all of them all at once just
to make sure the system is can handle it question two how much food should I feed my aquarium fish
I find this kind of hard to explain to beginners sometimes so maybe the computer can do better wow
okay so that's a lot of instructions like we're talking about Parts one through eight I told you
this is hard to explain to beginners but basically it says start with a small amount feed what they
can consume in two to three minutes variety is important okay I'll give it points for that one
so the problem with the package instructions of feed what your animal can eat in two to three
minutes is some fish are like piranhas like my platies, they will eat everything in seconds and
I'm not going to keep giving it food until they you know what they can finish in two to three
minutes that'd be way too much food versus other animals maybe they're very shy they're nocturnal
and they only come out at night to eat or they like to graze all day that they're not gonna eat
anything in two to three minutes in that case I recently made a video on how to properly feed
your fish and in it I describe basically you do what you do when you go to the vet office and
they see show you that obesity chart for dogs and cats and basically when you look down at them you
want their abdomen area to be kind of slightly rounded and not too much not too little so same
thing with fish I would start with a small amount if their belly gets kind of more of a sunken look
I would increase the portion size if their belly is way swollen bloated and they're not sick then
I would decrease the portion size but yeah you want that slightly rounded abdomen for your fish
let's go away controversial how much nitrate should be in an aquarium okay so it is saying 40
parts per million for freshwater tanks and Below uh for sensitive species maybe 20 PPM or below
so I made a video if you didn't see it about nitrate and in it I referenced a research article
where basically after you convert the scientific measurements into hobby measurements for nitrate
the guppy fry reach lethal levels of nitrate at around like 800 to 1000 PPM of nitrate and again
that can really vary for species but that kind of tells you how much nitrate uh ballpark is
considered lethal and so I personally will change water absolutely if it's like 80 to 100 PPM for
animals but let's get a little more specific and see what it thinks about nitrate for planted tanks
so if you didn't know plants actually need nitrogen and nitrate is one of the sources they
can consume and so this article is saying 10 to 20 parts per million I actually personally and again
maybe it depends on the fertilizer you're using I'm using easy green all in one and I will dose to
like 20 to 50 PPM is kind of the nice area where I like to make sure my plants have not only enough
nitrate but also all the other Trace elements and macronutrients that the plants need in order
to stay healthy so bottom line you do not need to keep like zero PPM nitrate in your aquarium
especially if you have plants unless you're keeping some kind of crazy specialized species
question is not common per se but I've seen it as a recent internet Trend so I want to know should
pea puffers be kept alone or in a school this is interesting I think it's kind of a
balanced answer more in line with what I believe but basically saying they're kind of aggressive
and territorial even toward their own species especially the males so they recommend keeping
them alone or maybe a pair with one male or female uh and then if you do want to keep multiple people
first get together to get a larger tank with more volume plenty of hiding spots visual barriers so
absolutely agree with that last point the general rule of thumb I've heard has been like your first
pea puffer gets five gallons and then three gallons for every additional pea puffer so maybe
a 10 gallon tank could have three dwarf puffers and then a 20 gallon maybe six to seven puffers
it mentioned a one to one ratio of one male to one female I would like to see more of a one male to
every two to three females those males can be a little nasty but unfortunately when you go to buy
pea puffers in the fish store they're usually all juveniles and it can be harder to sex them and so
you'll bring a bunch home and then you know you've got to re-home any extra males that you have it's
like this whole ordeal which is why I put pea puffers on my top 10 list of intermediate fish
because they do come with some caveats that you should be aware of so this question is a doozy
I have not really heard a good answer for this even from a vet talk that I heard about fish on
how to treat this particular disease but I want to know how ChatGPT treats velvet or gold dust
disease for freshwater fish [Music] okay this is another really long answer with eight part steps
okay quarantine increase the temperature to speed up the life cycle
dim the lighting okay we agree on that treat with medication so what do they recommend
malachite green copper sulfate or formalin so what I've usually seen on the Internet
is people recommending UV sterilizers and then yes stronger medications like copper
based ones that are usually pretty harsh on fish and can be detrimental to them
especially if the fish is already weakened I personally have not dealt with this disease
but Aquarium Co-Op uh Cory our founder has he had some glass catfish and he treated them by
I believe a blackout of seven days you basically wrap the whole aquarium up in a trash bag or some
kind of tarp because the juvenile one of the juvenile phases for this external parasite is
photosynthetic so they require light to grow he also treated the water with salt so normal
sodium chloride salt not Marine salt and he did one rounded tablespoon per one gallon of water
or one cup of salt for every 20 gallons of water and that was able to cure them so not foolproof
this is just his personal experience but pretty exciting that he tried something and everybody
has access to salt and some kind of you know blanket or tarp just be aware that some fish
are sensitive to salt like anchor catfish so if you are afraid you might want to like slowly ramp
up that salt amount so how did ChatGPT do well I think AI is really good at combing the internet to
find out what the most popular opinions are but well as we all know the internet is not always
right especially when it comes to controversial issues where people have many differing opinions
and experiences on what worked best for them so you let me know what you think down in the
comments whether I'm in danger of losing my job otherwise I'll see you guys in the next video bye