Where Your Pet Fish Live in the Wild—DIVE INTO THE AMAZON RAINFOREST!

How Do Your Aquarium Fish Live in the Wild?

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In this video, we'll explore the wonder of the Rio Negro River, one of the largest blackwater rivers in the world. We'll see many familar aquarium fish, including angelfish, south american cichlids, cardinal tetras and rummynose tetras. We also get a few appearances from catfish like plecos, discus fish, and even a freshwater stingray.

[IMaqua]

This video should be mandatory to watch for all the novice and first time fiskeepers.

[MW-utdk]

Wild discus look so much more natural and real than all the flashy hybrids derived from them-wish someone would breed more of them.... maybe it’s just me but the colors are much more balanced and complementary. Looking forward to the biotope tank!

[turanyaren]

that first 150 gallon tank looks soooo gorgeous, its perfect it looks like animated at this point. Plants are perfect and fish are so calm and swimming around like they don't fear anything. It is marvelous.

[ryanrogers]

Please add leaf litter to the bottom of your tank. It really helps with the biodiversity of things.

[mvhpets]

neon or cardinal tetras are basically blue lasers underwater!

[SassyHippo]

That was beautiful. I’m so glad you were able to have that experience. Thank you for sharing with us so we can enjoy it from afar.

[chadtitan]

I like how you talk about the fry hiding in the leaf litter. This brings up a good point. When you change your water don’t toss the muck bucket right away. Toss a heater in it and let it sit for a day or two. You might be surprised at what you may find. Happy tanking keep up the Vids.

[aaronfiddy]

And gulper catfish love mine he's in black water awsome fish

[Fire-Fox]

One thing that stuck out to me is the placement of the Cardinal Tetras in their natural habitat. I knew they and many other tetras came from blackwater systems rather than the crystal clear ones we set up in our homes. But I had never seen them in the wild like this before. I realized how quickly they seem to 'disappear' into their surroundings, as fish with red markings often do in dark water environments. It reminds me of the deep ocean, and how many animals down there are colored red in order to become 'invisible' to their predators. I have to wonder if they are trying to deploy that same tactic here. Even with that bright blue neon streak, it makes it a lot harder to pick out the shape of the fish in such tea-stained water, while perhaps allowing groups to still see each other enough to school.

[SMDoktorPepper]

And sadly, almost all of these can be found all over Florida.

[zaki_]

I never followed the parameter stuff and yet my fish survived for a long time. This videos proves it.

[audiiulmer]

I would love more videos like this! I love seeing fish in their natural habitats, and South American fish species are my favorites. This video left me with some inspiration and tank ideas to help me with my upcoming projects.

[ashinraheem]

The quality of your content in unparallel! Just amazing ❤️

[dennisbinkhorst]

The beauty of that river system... No words....

[PlantedAquaria]

This is amazing. Going to leave this on auto play in the shop

[krispy]

Well I did amazing. Almost all of my tanks, including Betta look just like these. I even use leaf litter from local streams.

[Venger]

I've been to the Rio Negro in 2008 it was amazing... saw so much life... Spent one day there fishing for so many species of piranha.

[honkerman]

That is so cool! Seeing neons in their natural environment was shocking really.

[FinsAndFauna]

Yes!! Been looking forward to this for so long!!

[matthewbeckwith]

This was cool! My graduate work was in River Ecology and I'm a fisherman. Also, my father owned a tropical fish store when I was young. He bred Discus and he must of been a member of some club because I recall various awards displayed around the place. Anyway, this video puts my father's hobby into an incredibly interesting ecological context. I needed this today and didn't know it 🙂🙂🙂