Making my Prison Frogs a Real Ecosystem (1 year experiment)

An aquatic ecosystem fit for three little kings... but along the way this fish tank evolved into much more and we got to watch shrimp, snails, microfauna, crabs, and various fish interact with their environment as the tank evolved over one year. guest appearance from @TheDrPlants

a true low maintenance, no Co2, no fertilizer tank for the people. I'd love to make more

[leafystreet]

gnppponenoppg TOES get off the keyboard. Thanks guys:)

[hollisterlasers-ion]

You adding additional creatures to eat the black worms felt like that folk story where they got spiders to eat fleas, snakes to eat the spiders, ferrets to eat the snakes, and so on and so forth.

[tanksfornothin]

Dwarf frogs with monkey screeches give me inner peace

[river]

if you narrated a whole documentary like this i would watch the hell outta it

[khm]

The “huh?” from the crab each time cracks me up. 😂

[IsaacDaYtuber]

40 years later: The wolves have been eating all the foxes so I decided to add a brown bear

[darrinstamand]

You should add a bear to the ecosystem

[ItsNiash]

For a second I forgot I was watching a youtube video and not a documentary, the amount of effort and passion put in these videos is incredibly impressive!

[jeanninefourtwenty]

I found one of these poor frogs in a tiny tank just like this at a Walgreens back in the year 2000. I immediately removed him from the tiny tank and put him in a big tank. He became a happy frog with a nice life, especially after he got some snail buddies in there to keep him company, and later, a neon tetra fish as well. His name was Froggy, he lived until he was 12 years old. After he died, I buried him in his own special painted frog coffin, under a tree, in Golden Gate Park near a pond. He was a great frog.

[MiddlePath]

I had one of those frogs with an extra leg sticking out of his head. He was perpetually waving as he swam around. It would get a little bit stuck as he navigated the plants, but it never really slowed him down. We had all the same little guys, badis, skrimp, black worms, gammarus, and a rock bass. We got a jug of water from a local source, and my girlfriend was convinced this tiny see-through fish that we found when we got home, it was just a tiny mosquito fish. I told her it was going to be a monster and we need to go back and let it go. She insisted on pouring it in the tank. So I bought a kiddie pool and started naturalizing that with substrate and guppies and the knowledge we basically just had a kid. You're never going to believe what happened, we found out the miniscule clear fish was just a baby bass. This guy, he was a machine. We got him basically week one, and we were never scary, we were the source of treats. So he would put on quite the show for us

[SkyGodHQ]

Its good to see so passionate about aquariums care because everytime I see a pet store, the aquariums looked almost empty and it makes me wonder what else those fishes do other than swim

[lyladepaula]

There are professional nature documentaries with millions of dollars budgets that are not half as compelling as this. Incredible work I hope Helen, Keller, and LeBron enjoy their home

[xrapidfirex]

"I had to move because my landlord is also a leech"
'til then it was really calm and relaxing but I just spit out my drink hearing this

[aster]

I can't express just how much i love the cinematography and sound design of your channel. Came for animals, stayed for animals and camera work and sounds and structuring

[JesScarlet]

*sees frogs in store*
“Oh cute, I’m going to make them an awesome home”
*gets distracted playing with ecosystem for a year*
“Hey bruh I got a home for you now😅”

[cloudgoose]

the editing and scripting in this is so charming. I love those little red shrimps and their Animal Crossing voices. ❤️

also, I had two African dwarf frogs as a child that my parents got me from a very upsetting retailer called Grow-a-Frog. these dudes came through the regular mail, as tadpoles, in a plastic bag sealed in styrofoam. somehow, I lost one of three, but kept two alive through my college years. the last survivor lived to be over 20. I had no idea what I was doing and didn’t feed them the most healthful diet or keep their tank as clean as it should’ve been. I’m still so thankful for the years of companionship they gave me despite my poor stewardship. and I’m so thankful for what you did for your lil frogs. it’s really beautiful.

[crossanddream]

I've owned a clam as a kid from a fishing trip with family friends, I had been walking around the lake since I didn't want to fish. I ended up seeing something near the shoreline, I thought it was a rock but after my mom got it out of the water. It was a clam, my mom ended up letting me keep it. The clam ended up living in a 20-30 gallon tank all by itself and followed my mom whenever she was.

If she was on the right side so was it and same for the left, it was werid to me as a kid since I never saw it move. Well it ended up passing sometime later, i believe from old age ans my mom decided to extract the pearl from inside of it. It ended up being a light pieple nearly white pearl, super beautiful.

[dangerxbadger]

Watching the Assassin Snail swirl its creepy little proboscis around in the victim's snail shell was definitely one of the coolest things I've ever seen.

[synthicate]

"Getting views on YouTube isn´t worth bad animal care"
WORD! Sadly so many people on Social Media need to be taught this.
Thank you for this extra careful approach to anything.

[cachalotreal]

I love your choice of background music especially at 1:41 it gives a sense of amazement and discovery, like jurassic park or indiana jones