what an absolute gorgeous aquarium today we're going to finish the stalking to the 2 000 a gallon
aquarium why we're doing it right now you're not going to like but first let me remind you what's
actually in this bad boy so if you don't remember we began converting the 2 000 gallon aquarium
over to a community tank several months ago don't mind the lighting it's kind of like dusk right now
the lights are dimming down i'm adding them at night i'm gonna feed the fish before we add in
but uh i've got to add them now uh for a specific reason and i'll tell you here in a moment
historically when we add fish to the aquarium it's so exciting it's so fun to get the fish put them
in and we watch them etc and that's typically what we always talk about but today we're gonna
dive a little bit deeper into the fish we're getting because i haven't had some corey dora uh
easily seeable for a while and i really want to talk about them and tell you some of my favorite
things about them that i think is gonna blow your socks off excuse me chair so they are currently
in my quarantine system i don't want to get too close because there's actually fish in there that
aren't going in yet oh my lord look at you guys we actually have a uh a bunch of apistogramma in this
tank and man do they ever camouflage in this tank really well these tanks are absolutely disgusting
i know i made a video on it and why it's so great and uh they're doing fantastic with that said in
the quarantine we have a couple of festivums that made it through being added to the 2000
we also have some bleeding heart tetras as well as some san juan corydora if we can kind of
move everybody out of the way now the reason why i'm pausing everything right now because you guys
know i mean we have so much to do out here and i'm so so bogged down with so many things i want to do
but if i don't add these guys to the 2000 i'm probably not going to anytime soon and it's
really not fair we got these guys five months ago and in quarantine typically you max out at about
six weeks they've been in there five times longer almost five times longer
than they typically should trust me they've passed the quarantine they're incredibly healthy they're
ready to go that's not a big deal they deserve to go into their home but the biggest problem is
this i only have about 20 of those pep of those uh san juan corey door left and i only have about 20
maybe 25 of the bleeding heart tetras mind you i started with about a hundred
of those bleeding hearts you see what the problem is is every time a friend comes over and they got
a fish tank and we look at everything they see the bleeding hearts and they see how big they are and
how uh vibrant how beautiful they are and i'm like you know what take a few with you take i've done
that four times now and i can't stop i i just really want people to enjoy it just as much as
i do but if i keep doing that i'm not gonna have any left so let's add them to the tank but first
so we all know that corydora catfish is a incredibly popular fish in the aquarium hobby
and that's probably largely due to the fact that there's so many of them there's over 170
described species to date literally over 170 of the same fish just looking different so
much to pick from we also know for the most part they're easy to keep and relatively peaceful they
do great in community tanks we know that they are a fantastic cleanup crew for the most part
we like to have bottom dwellers that will kind of turn over the substrate kind of eat uneaten
food etc and the corydora tends to be great at that plus they'll eat darn near anything you put
in the tank they're not all that picky but for a small fish they also live for an incredible amount
of time now the average lifespan in the home aquarium could be probably anywhere between three
to ten years i mean if you kind of look around that's what an average hobbyist will see however
when you get into you know really researching it there's reports that say they can live for 15
to 25 years and that's one of the longest living fish that night that i know of plus they like they
have armor plating so they do really well with fish that might be picking at them and whatnot
however if i were those fish picking on a corydora i would certainly pick something else to pick on
and you're going to find out why in a minute when you think about corydora the name what do
you kind of think i kind of think like it rhymes with dora the explorer of corey dora but you know
corey dora if uh it's a greek name but technically in greek cory is spelled k-o-r-y and then dora
corey means helmet dora means skin helmet skin and what's a common name for the corydora
armored catfish plated catfish things like that like you would think that uh and when you look at
a catfish they do have those armored scales that protect them uh from other predators so the name
just simply makes sense i always thought that was it was kind of cute i think it i just liked
it remember that video i made on uh venomous fish that i have or i forget what i titled it but that
was actually technically inspired by corydora but i couldn't get any good videos of the corey
doors in my tank so i never included them but the corydora is technically a venomous fish i
believe most if not all are technically venomous their dorsal spine the biggest spine on their back
is venomous it injects the venom much like a freshwater stingray the spine is protected by
a sheath or like a mucus or like a skin type of thing and when that skin breaks behind that
dorsal spin spine is uh the venom pockets which go in and inject it it's not gonna kill you let's put
it that way it's gonna feel like more like a bee sting than anything but you're not gonna look at
your corydora the same way after you know that and that might be a little more common knowledge but
what this is is not in some circumstances the bronze corydora its mating rituals and mating
habits are a little different from others when the the bronze corridor is mating i always found
this funny i never talked about it because this is largely a pg channel i always knew about it
the the the mail will present okay i don't know how to say this without being so
explicit i'm gonna try i'm gonna i'm gonna try the bronze corridor will display its
belly and when it does that it's displaying it to the female the female will put the male's
sexual organ in her mouth and he will inject his sperm into her mouth
which she immediately swallows and digests it so fast that when she passes it on the end
it's still viable that's when she lays her eggs as well and that is how some corydora reproduce i'm
not making this up on the note of corydora being venomous yeah they're venomous do you ever meet
an animal that can be venomous and poisonous at the same time the corydoras some species can be
some corydoras species can be self-poisonous they'll excrete uh uh throw throw a mucus out of
their gills a poison that will poison the fish in the immediate surrounding area almost immediately
killing them the downside to that is it mostly almost every time kills the corey dora as well
so it's not necessarily the best self-defense mechanism because they die too but it's one of
them so it's fascinating to me because a lot of the times some people's fish will die unexpectedly
and i sometimes one of the things i'll look at is do you have any corydora in that tank because
i'm always wondering if that's ever happened to somebody in the home aquarium and i'll pass this
question on to you guys is if have you ever had mysterious fish deaths and there were corydora in
the tank corydora lived everything else died you just felt like the corydora were hearty
let me know in the comment section below i'd also like to know if you know about this stuff
and if you have any further information on it i'm not gonna elaborate too much but i'm gonna get
the ball rolling for you did you uh finally i think i'm just gonna do top five finally
do you guys ever hear about the theory of evolution by natural selection
you know i believe somebody named charles darwin might have come up with that
did you know he discovered the peppered corridor literally one of the most popular corydora in the
aquarium hobby i think that what i'm trying to get it is next time you look at the corydora it's not
necessarily a beginner's fish anymore you have these stories to tell somebody else that comes
and looks at your tank be like oh fish tanks are silly and then you can tell them these types of
things because that's what i do and people look at them differently and they're more fascinating
they're more interested and none of these stories are boring especially the reproduction never mind
okay i got all the fish in the bucket it's not as many as i thought it was going to be but uh it's
the final stocking for the 2000 some more corydora you know and over the next few months or years
look at the steak there's so many fish it's it's so cool there's only a few hundred in there but
anyways this will be the last stocking and the last fish that we add to this aquarium and then
we're just gonna leave it alone we'll come back and do an update like there's so many things i
want to show you an update we have to build a whole brand new filter for this to accommodate
all the other fish that's added plus the asian arowana which is over that tank right now has
to go up here still um and with all that extra bio load the the the filter that's on it right
now i'm just not incredibly comfortable with it but for example like i ended up hiding everything
in that tree it's literally now the tree of life without the pumps that are in there
everything shuts down um anyways everybody's a little active right now because it is dusk
and this is going to offer these fish which are considerably smaller well the quarry door
is the ones that i'd be worried about the most but having them lighting in there is going to
allow them to kind of maneuver throughout the aquarium a little easier and get away
and do just fine let's just go ahead and get them look how big like look at this big bugger
all right he doesn't want to be picked up and i don't blame him i wouldn't want to be picked up
either all right let's just get them in so oh all the lids on this aquarium i'm changing out
everything these lids are going to be to every aquarium but i'm building new lids i'm building a
new almost everything out here in the days to come the reason why i could take this bucket of fish
and just dump it in without acclimating them or anything like that is very simple and we've
talked about this before i don't have to acclimate the temperature or water parameters everything out
here for my freshwater tanks match besides the salt water obviously they're a little saltier
so i can technically just take this and dump them right in come here and look
nothing too impressive where is everybody oh the corridor of course went right to the bottom
the fish are eating all the debris that was in that tank so those bleeding hearts will settle
down a little bit they're a little panicky right now kind of swimming all over the place um but
once they settle in they're gonna be absolutely gorgeous in here corydora will do fine as well
yeah they're going to do just fine corridors are so active right now i don't blame them everybody's
wondering who's in here it's almost like they could taste the other fish that are in the tank
right now okay very next day in fact it's the day we're uploading this video so we're not going to
be able to uh uh do too much of an update here or anything too crazy but i just want to kind of show
you all of the fish and how they are all actually doing the bleeding hearts are mixed in with the
oh here they are they're kind of staying together which is super super cool i'm starting to think i
should have just did like 300 of the same texture but this is kind of cool too it's just so much to
look at and so many different types of fish etc the uh i just saw a group of corydora over by
the wood here but they're with the auto sync list if you don't remember we got a ton of auto sink
listen here these corydora are doing absolutely fantastic the uh san juan corridor are less shy
than the other ones that are in there but i'm thinking it'll bring them out the other ones stay
amongst the rocks and well they don't go in the tree as much as they once were because now
there's pumps and uh circulation within there but everybody else is is is like seriously doing just
phenomenal i gotta do a big water change on this tank it's a little cloudy um but you know things
like that will will uh wouldn't even wow that they're all just swimming together it's so cool
this is such a cool tank in person i'm telling you it's just absolutely gorgeous and amazing
interesting to see how everybody's acting though the more fish i put in here the more out and
open they will be however you'll see them a lot of the times when i'm filming they'll be over
here but that's because i'm over here and they want they want me to feed them they're like um
just like my cats won't leave me alone they just want food from me feed me feed me feed me yeah
look at all these guys these guys are just hanging out in the bubbles and stuff that's pretty cool
there's a couple there's a mixture of uh tetras over here sort of it's interesting to watch them
playing that though we gotta do a feeding video on this uh tank here eventually there's quarry
doors over on the wood here they're everywhere no matter where i look in this tank there's action
and activity i mean um these bleeding hearts oh look at the quarry door like swimming with those
bleeding hearts over there you see that it's a little too dark sorry um a lot of the times i'm
looking at the tank and not looking at the camera to see what it's capturing because i'm enjoying
this just as much as you although i'm being a little selfish because i get to see this every
day and you're just getting to see it for a few minutes on video whenever i decide to film it but
discus are good um over there in the corner here a few of them um yeah no fighting
nothing everybody's in perfect shape there's one of corydora um it's just interesting to see
and we gotta wait until everybody grows out and gets absolutely enormous there's i mean
even the angels are getting bigger and bigger and bigger everybody's just becoming enormous
look at some of the uh the severums we'll just go over the stalking real quick so we've got walrus
amphicanthoids we have uh heroes severus or the severum we've got uh you know angel fish we've got
denies and barbs we've got uh some some rainbows we've got uh blue tetras we've got do i say
festivums we've got vestibulums and we've got uh tiger barbs and uh what else is in here
we've got red eyed tetras we've got bleeding hearts we've got corydora two different species
of corydora we've got uh discus we have oh shoot what else do we have man the the bleeding hearts
are just like sticking to i love it man i kind of think i should have just did a 2
300 of those i don't know i like this too what do you guys think do you think we should have went
with more um numbers of individual fish or do you like the way this has turned out i think in
time it's just going to get better and better mind you we still have to move the asian arowana to his
throne and these lids i'm replacing them every lid in here will have the exact same lids as
what's on the 375 even the 700 all the 180s the 120s everything it's already ordered but you
wouldn't believe what i got to pay for acrylic and whatnot right now it's uh absolutely ridiculous
yeah just awesome awesome tank there's just so much going on it's so active i never really see
such a monstrous aquarium with such a variety of fish in it
but i do love it i'm not completely satisfied with the clarity of the water but
i like it so that it looks like the fish are literally floating in the air
anyways hope you guys enjoyed this video final stalking for the 2000 oh there's a sunshine pleco
in here too well i think it's seen we've seen it earlier in the video oh some corydora right
there is that which species is this two different two different what are they saying no those sand
wands okay yeah just just fascinating no matter where you look in this tank something's going on
and the uh there's a mono shrimp in here as well they hang out on and in the tree
um usually once the lights come on i literally just turned them on so we can finish filming here
nothing else is on out here just this tank um but uh yeah it's a couple hours after the lights come
on you'll see the more active and whatnot i don't know why these these uh couches are over there in
the bubbles maybe they just like them yeah such a cool tank hope you guys enjoyed the video that
was the final stocking to the 2000 if you're not subscribed to this channel yet you don't
want to miss any of these things i'm telling you this is like nothing oh there's one of the
old ones i'm just keep spotting fish i haven't seen for a while it's so cool it's so awesome um
okay i'm gonna end this otherwise i'm literally just going to babble and babble and babble
like i well typically do hope you guys enjoyed the video though i'll see you in the next one