Tropical Fish Information

An old programme hosted by Joe Yaiullo made in the late 80s covering the essentials for setting up a freshwater aquarium. Also covers a variety of tropical fish types, basic maintenance, and how a wet/dry filter works. I decided to upload this because I got tired of watching all the so called “expertvillage” videos with all their inaccurate, misleading information. This segment is far better in terms of properly educating potential aquarists. No copyright issues intended! I just wanted to share an educational video.

This is an update to a previous video after 8 months of improvements and iterations to the setup. The idea of the setup has always been to create a healthy, long term supportable environment that is low maintenance, low budget, and low tech. A lot of research, trial and errors went into this setup. No major hazards or changes made since the beginning, so this setup can be used as a proven guide that’s been running for a year. Suggestion to viewers is to take an aquarium setup serious, as there are many right ways as there are wrong ways. Summary of what I learned in the process, and where I want to take it in a future aquarium is as follows: – General rule of thumb in an aquarium as the size of tank increases setup cost increases, maintenance cost increases, but maintenance effort decreases. Yet bowls, vases and such are hostile to house fish in and are even illegal to do so in some European countries. – An aquarium should always be amongst the highlight of a room, so position, stand, dimensions, filter noise, colors, and illumination should be well thought ahead. – Inside an aquarium consider type of substrate, background, light hood, heating, filtration, and how to conceal them the best. Try to balance color contrast with dark colors on substrate and background, with green of plants, and bright colors of fish. Read about “Aquarium Golden Ratio” for layout. – As setup time progresses many types of algae is part of natural occurences, by no means are harmful, but can be …

My Freshwater Aquarium with Sand and real Plants. Just changed from Gravel to Sand. If you have a question, drop a line. Will be glad to help. I do this for more than 30 years.

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Just a Quick Video of my latest Tank setup Contents 1 – Bristlenose Catfish 5 – Angels 4 Red Tuxedo Platies 4 Silver Wag Platies 12 Serpae Tetras 4 – Neon Tetras 15-20 Danios ( Zebra, Leopard ) 15-20 Candy Snails Live plants