Below is Part 2 of changing water on sensitive blackwater species like licorice gouramies (Parosphromenus spp.) Enjoy!
Wow! Filming on my phone and then using YouTube creator is SO EASY! The video quality isn't as good as my DSLR (which I will reserve for videos that I want to be in very high quality), but using my phone is so nice to quickly capture interesting things that happen in my fish room. I made the video below in about 10 minutes! Although I am kicking myself for not insisting on a phone with higher memory storage... :( Below is Part 2 of changing water on sensitive blackwater species like licorice gouramies (Parosphromenus spp.) Enjoy!
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New YouTube Videos! Changing water on licorice gouramies and a new addition to the fish room :)11/15/2016 Gosh darn it guys, I did it again. I missed October! This semester has been a whirlwind of activity doing my credential program and traveling a lot. I went to Hawaii for a week for my boyfriend's best friend's wedding, and then went to Las Vegas for my birthday weekend. It's been a blast but also difficult to balance all of my school work! I uploaded a few short videos on my YouTube channel. I'm just realizing how decent my iPhone is at filming and it is a heck of a lot less work than using my DSLR and then editing in iMovie. I will still use my DSLR for clear shots and my special videos, but I would like to shoot just little clips whenever anything noteworthy happens. My fish room is my Fortress of Solitude - it's where I go when I want to escape. It's almost meditative :) However, if there's anything quick and fun to show, I'll try and remember to capture it :) Here are a couple quick videos on how I change water on my very sensitive licorice gouramies (key tips - age, soften, IAL treat and heat your water at least overnight). I also am very excited to introduce a special new addition to my fish room - an adorable Red-eye Red-belly puffer fish! He is absolutely adorable and very personable. I took this video the first day he came home with me, so he was still settling in. I'll definitely be filming more of him in the near future.
I like to listen to YouTube when I am working in the fishroom. I have been following these channels for quite some time, and it's wonderful to listen to fish-related content. Very inspirational :)
Fish-related Channels Aquarium Co-op | http://www.aquariumcoop.com/ One of my favorites is my friend Cory's channel. He owns and operates Aquarium Co-op in Edmonds, close to where my family lives. I did a fish store tour of it in an earlier blog post. He also interviewed me on his channel when I went home a year ago. He is extremely knowledgeable about all things fish, especially livebearers, goldfish, and running a fish store. My favorite are his Daily Doses. I have no idea how he manages to put up new content everyday, but it's a treat to watch! Rachel O'Leary | http://msjinkzd.com/ Rachel specializes in invertebrates and nano fish. She is charismatic and incredibly knowledgeable on all things nano! I had the pleasure of meeting her when she gave a talk at the Pacific Coast Cichlid Association a couple of years ago. She puts out about a video a week on helpful tips and occasional species spotlights. The King of DIY Joey is truly the KING when it comes to being a DIY fish keeper! I can only dream of doing some of the projects that he details in his videos. He often does HUGE projects (think hundreds of gallons and monster fish), but he's been moving on to smaller builds lately. His channel is also a tremendous resource for ideas for filters, stands, etc. He usually puts out a video once a week and is definitely worth checking out! Solid Gold Aquatics Jenny is one of the sweetest YouTubers ever. She is dedicated to her expansive goldfish hobby and is an amazingly creative and independent aquarist. Every one of her videos makes me smile, and I'm not even a goldfish person! Steenfott Aquatics Bob works a lot with Cory on various projects. He also has a great YouTube channel of his own! He is rapidly expanding his fish room and it's very fun to watch it grow. LupDiesel Fantastic channel for shrimp keepers! I don't even like keeping shrimp but love learning about them. He also has some wonderful fish room tours and interviews about all kinds of fish. Taylor Nicole Dean Taylor is both a passionate animal lover and a hilarious comedian. I think of her as the Jenna Marbles of animal keepers. Her videos on her wide range of animals are very knowledgeable, detailed, and funny to watch. Greg Jones Greg Jones puts out an enormous amount of content on all things aquariums. His interesting projects, tips, and tricks are well worth watching and adding to your own bag of techniques. California Betta Society We have our own YouTube channel! We try to livestream our events (although we have been doing more livestream on FaceBook because it is MUCH easier to use than YouTube). We also have a couple of useful videos taken at shows. Look hard enough and you might find a Gianne with incredibly long hair :p Sacramento Aquarium Society When speakers are amenable and the equipment/manpower is available, SAS records their guest speakers and puts them up on their channel. Some great talks here! The Fish Doctor A specialist in aquatic veterinary care, Dr. Loh is AMAZING at what he does! Endlessly educational, his videos show the extreme side of fish keeping! Non Fish-related I also like to watch several other channels while working on other things... Real Stories | My Shocking Story I love documentaries. Especially shocking ones that deal with medical conditions. I love learning by osmosis while working in the fish room, and these channels definitely satisfy that! GameGrumps My go to for comedic relief. These two dudes can make me laugh for hours with their ridiculous videogaming antics. I used to be a HUGE gamer, but obviously no longer have time for it. I can satisfy my gaming desires vicariously through these guys. Adriana Lippy | http://www.adrianalippyart.com/ My best friend from college is an incredibly talented biomedical illustrator and animator. She showcases her work on her channel. Adriana has also been featured in some incredible places - her art once graced a billboard for Seattle Biomed in downtown Seattle! She accepts commissions and even drew an amazing scratchboard of my childhood dog as a christmas present for my mom. MacGyver the Lizard I am in love with this adorable Argentinian Red Tegu. He acts like a big lovable dog more than your typical lizard. Watching him eat is cuteness overload. Mems-ogyny Shout out to one of my best friends from elementary school! Memory has some truly amazing stories to tell. Her travels throughout the US as a "dirty kid" sound like they are out of a fantasy novel. Check out the updated Betta genetics: color and form page. Researchers took some stunning photographs of early embryonic and fry development of Bettas!
I love love love my new fish room! I'm having so much fun working on it. Special thanks to my dear boyfriend for letting me take over half of the study and for filming :) Hello everyone! Wow, I can't believe I missed a month! I think I've only done that twice in the past two years. Moving an entire fish room is a crazy endeavor and I was so blessed to have my AMAZING friends to help out! And a special thank you to my wonderful boyfriend, who let me fill his apartment with tons of living things. The fish room is a constant work in progress, but working on it little by little in between my summer job and now the Fall semester of my credential classes has been very rewarding. I LOVE my new little fish room (technically half of it is my boyfriend's computer room as well!) and it's turned into my little haven to get away from the world. Cheers and I hope you enjoy! I'll be making a new fish room tour very soon :) Love my old blue gularis. I am glad that I had such a long time to be with him. He passed away right before I moved into my new apartment from old age. I'm so so happy that he was able to pull through his scary dropsy episode a year ago (something that I never thought I would be able to cure. Full-on bloat and pineconing - and yet he lived! Medicated the heck out of him with kanamycin, metronidazole, salt, and heat. Lesson learned - never overfeed a begging blue gularis with blackworms ever again). He was rather silly and jumped a lot when I was close. One time he actually jumped vertically in the air about 2 feet during a water change and smacked me in the face! First and last time I've ever screamed doing my fish hobby!
Goodbye dear friend. I hope that one day I can keep another. This is an amazing species and everyone should keep one at least once! I just wish that they lived longer :( I have big news guys! I'M MOVING!!!! D: Ahhh!!!!
I'm really excited to be moving in with my boyfriend! Stay tuned for updates on my new fish room! Unfortunately it won't have nearly as much light, so my carnivorous plants will have to find a new place to stay (going to try the living room). However, there is enough room in the new apartment for me to get a large rack system, so I can play around with figuring out how to work with a giant air pump, LED light system, and um...just a couple...more...tanks...if...they...fit... :D I will also learn what the agony of not having a big wash basin right next to my room will feel like hahahaha. I'll make it work though ;) Have a betta day!!! Hi all! Ah, the freedom of summer break! Fish room update that I actually filmed in February but just now got to edit. Enjoy! I made a "Keeping and Breeding Pygmy Sunfish (Elassoma spp.)" video because I was getting a lot of questions on how to care for these little gems at the San Francisco Bay Area Killifish Association meeting last Saturday (PS YOU GUYS ROCK!) The species I keep hasn't been described yet - it is Elassoma sp. affinis evergladei Three Mile Creek, Elberta, Alabama. For such a little fish, they have a couple of big challenges you must address: 1) They will only eat live food. I've had this particular species for over 6 generations from wild-caught and they still won't take anything that isn't moving. I feed primarily grindal/white worms to adults/sub-adults, and BBS and walter/banana/micro worms for the babies. 2) They are shy. Set the tank up so that the feel secure - LOTS of live plants, mops, pots, dark gravel, etc. No sudden movements near the tank. Mine come right out when they see me, but that trust was built over time. 3) The fry are TINY. You need to provide them with lots of microscopic food. I stuff their tanks/jars with lots of fine-leaved live plants. Having a timer or putting the tanks in natural light helps a lot too. |
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