Raising a Grocery Store Eel as a PET | Fish Tank Review 264

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[youtubeisvideocloudstorage]

When I was younger in China my grandpa bought an eel and put it in a spare aquarium. I bonded with it. A few days later it vanished and there was a long, skinny piece of meat at the dinner table. I cried

[Rudiarose]

I was at a repair shop and in the waiting room was a tank that was covered in Algae and you could not even see the fish. I came back later and brought my algae scrubber. I brought them a magnet one. Then showed them how easy it was to clean off the Algae. They put up a sign that said. " Bored use magnet and clean off Algae" The tank looks better. lol

[mikelotsofrandomnumbers]

Everyone saw Leon the Lobster and is saving grocery store seafood.

[MammaDuckk]

I got my turtle at a grocery store. He cost five bucks. Best five bucks I've ever spent. I glad he come to live with me. I'm not creative, so I named him Kame.
There is a crazier place that I've found duckweed, but this is a family channel. Seriously, I don't know how it got there, but I'm glad I showered soon after I changed the water on my aquarium. My husband would have been dismayed that evening if had I not.

[MammaDuckk]

My Mississippi river tank was intentionally the worst tank possible. I used real Mississippi river water sourced downstream from some sort of a chemical plant. Whatever was in it etched the glass in the aquarium I kept it in. I put a number of aquascaping features in the pure Mississippi muck also sourced from the actual Mississippi River. I put in it a part of an old tire, a broken bottle, a bottle cap, a rusty old hand gun, a dead cell phone, a pair of sun glasses and many other things which fall into or are thrown into the Mississippi River. I added some chemicals, some motor oil, and an already dead and rotting fish. I also put a large wreaking mass of cyanobacteria slime. Other than they cyanobacteria, I put nothing living in the tank, because that would be cruel. I also put a current generator in so that it would keep the sediment stirred up. There was never a time when you could see all the way through it. I then sealed top shut because I could not stand the smell. The crazy thing was that even in this heavily polluted anoxic environment, some sort of critters eventually emerged from the muck. Whatever they were, they managed to live quite well until I took the tank out and threw it in the tip three years after I started it. I didn't stick around to see what would happen when the trash collectors put it in their truck and crushed it. I'm sure they would have cursed the day that I was born even in my absence. That thing was a toxic waste site deserving of an EPA Superfund clean up. The poor blokes who picked it up probably spent the rest of the day with burning eyes and vomiting up everything they eaten for breakfast, thereafter experiencing hair loss and dry heaves.
I wonder what those critters were that came out of the mud? They looked alien. One was a flat worm-looking thing with what looked like a medieval night's morning star on the end of it. Everything living in there looked nightmarish and alien. Thanks Mississippi river for that once in a lifetime experience. Thanks Canadian border guards for letting me come home without checking what was in my car too closely. You probably wouldn't have let me bring that stuff in if you knew about it, in spite of the Yamaska River being almost as polluted as the Mississippi. Heavy industry isn't supposed to be dumping bad chemicals in the water in either country, but we all know that they do, because government can't always be checking up. That's why every now and then a river catches fire and burns to the ground. Also both rivers are full of e. coli due to sewage treatment plants that aren't up to the task, and dump excess untreated raw sewage directly into the Rivers. Maybe someday I'll try to make a Yamaska River aquarium. It will be pretty nasty too. I remember driving by it once and seeing a bloated dead cow floating in it just downstream from a packing plant. Way to go guys! Glad you didn't butcher it and put it in our meat supply. Even the scavengers were turning up their noses at that cow. I don't blame them.
So yeh. That's my story of the worst aquarium that I've not only ever seen, but that may well have ever existed.

[faultofdaedalus]

there IS a cuteness bias in conservation, but a lot of the animals that are chosen as species that we want to save - tigers, pandas, whales, ect - are also good strategic choices, because they have huge ranges and complex interactions with their ecosystems, which means in order to protect /them/, we also end up protecting all the other things that share their range, which includes the weird and "ugly" invertebrates that are foundational to the ecosystems they're part of. umbrella species ftw!

[roh_needs_coffeee]

common plecos can get hooked on eating slime coat, but I've mostly heard of it happening in goldfish tanks (plecos are horrible tankmates for goldies). I've been told that adding more driftwood and better hiding places can help get the pleco to chill tf out and stop trying to gum its tank mates to death.

[thefishchannel]

I have two channel catfish in my Koi Pond. I got from the Chinese supermarket since they are the suppliers to my parents restaurant. They were nice enough to sort through the catfish until they found two that were the right size.

[Noobskers]

One of our neighbores invited us to their house and i saw a 20 gallon fish tank with 3 AROWANAS 3 IRIDESCENT SHARKS AND 2 BALLAD SHARKS

[Lauraetcetera]

"How are you supposed to be friends with the pieces?" 🤣💀

[Grand_Touring_Boi]

Killifish are invasive where I live so I netted some and added them to my tank. Since they’re wild, they’re relatively small, especially in comparison to my guppies.

[moonsong]

The only 2 hitchhikers I ever got were 2 tiny baby shrimp turned into a beautiful chocolate sakura and the other was a blue one. In both cases I was very happy. :)

[junglebright]

The worst tank I have seen IRL is sadly my own... though, not by my choice. I couldn't bring my 20 gallon aquarium with me on a move, so my parents held onto it for me. Bacterial bloom killed everything. Parents kept putting fish in it, they all kept dying. One parent put in a single-tail goldfish. I moved back 2 years later. Aquarium is completely green with algae, the brown substrate has turned black, and it reeks. Goldfish is 6". So much fake decorations it barely has room to swim. I resumed ownership of the tank. Luckily, my husband knows someone with a pond who was willing to take the goldfish. Completely stripped the tank since, and have resealed it. New build in progress.

[jokerrfox]

Worse tank I've ever seen irl is actually one I made as a kid. You see, there was this one settling pond in my neighborhood that was stocked with goldfish. I lowkey think the goldfish were there because of people abondoning them. It was a common activity to go to the pond and feed the fish old bread. Every kid always dreamed of catching one, but never figured out how. I was the first kid to figure out a way to catch the fish, by using a bucket filled with rocks tied to a string. Truly a big brain moment for me. Anyway I caught the goldfish but I didn't think ahead. So I kept it in a liter soda bottle cut in half and fed it bread crumbs. I only kept it for like, 2 days after I realize that i couldn't keep a fish like this, so I returned it to the pond

[buddysdz]

5:12 As a french guy, this is funny because in our language "duckweed" "lentil" and "contact lens" have the same french word "lentille" : "lentille d'eau" = "water lentil/lens". So i gonna make a french meme typing under this photo : "wearing your lens, you are doing it wrong" LOL!

[Inthegayreboot]

Our local grocery store has live frogs seasonally for frog legs. We bought one to be a pet. I told the butcher to give it to me live because I wanted to prepare it later that week and needed it fresh lmfao

[oye_shuklaa]

Thank you Chris thank you so much for finally being someone who said "Naan bread" is just them saying "Bred Bred".
THNAK YOU MANN FR

[Echo-jdxk]

My only hitchhiker is a little endler guppy the fish store accidentally put in once, his name is timmy and he is quite happy in his swarm of ember tetras :)

[cryptocorner]

True eels, true crabs, true spiders and their corresponding false versions make me question if my dog is a true dog. Thanks, Chirs and Clint's Reptiles. Still need the Epic Rap Battle between Chirs and Clint.