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I bought a 3.50$ fish and I’ve spent over 150$ now I’m like what did I just start.

This is definitely one of those hobbies that never is very cheap but more knowledge means saving money where it counts.

the bad part about keeping extra tanks around is then you want to get more fish and set up another aquarium.

Thank you for recognizing that the casual, probably 1 tank aquarium owners, are the bulk of what is out there. It always gets frustrating when channels think the crazy obsessed are the majority when that isn't really the case.

Lol Freshwater fish hobbyist: "fish keeping is expensive"..... Reef keeper: "hold my debit card"

16:04 alien keeping a human as a pet: "humans are from Africa so i replicated the serengeti for him." human: "uhhh but i'm from new york."

It took my anxiety away so it worth every dollar.

Filter cartridges is one of the ones that I really agree with. When I first started out, I bought a 10 gallon kit. The kit came with a filter with nothing but one of those cartridges. Not being experienced and fish keeping, I read the instructions included with the kit and it said that the filter cartridge needed to be changed once a month. I didn’t know any better, so I set my tank up and cycled it, then I did exactly what I had been instructed to based on the instructions that were included. I wondered why my fish died constantly. Disheartened, and nearly ready to give up on fish keeping all together I did some research. I discovered that what I was doing was basically throwing away my biological media every month. Meaning that my tank had to cycle constantly, and the fish couldn’t handle it. I finally replaced the cartridge with media from an aquaclear filter, which absolutely changed the game. I have a sponge, bio balls and carbon in that filter, and it works like a charm! The filter is a cheap filter, and it hasn’t let me down in three years. Even during power outages it generally will start back up fine. Since then my 10 gallon aquarium has been one of the healthiest tanks I have. Most of the fish in that tank are over two years old, and one is over three. They are doing incredible! It was a combination of learning how to set up a filter to maximize my bio load and mechanical filtration, as well as how to select tank mates that would be compatible and would also help the aquarium as a whole. I’ve since added three more tanks, and I use the same filter design in each tank. Now I am looking at setting up a tiny nano community tank, and I am looking into sponge filters for that.

To add on to #3, my grandpa got me into fishkeeping and one of the things he told me that has always stuck is "You can never have too many tanks, but you can certainly have enough".

When John said something along the lines of “we’re crazy! We’re the ones who have 20 tanks in our house and watch videos like this,” I was in the middle of feeding my 5 tanks of fish...and that’s just in one room. Maybe we are crazy, and maybe we spend and sometimes waste a ton of money, but I think we can all agree that this hobby is immensely satisfying, it has taught us all so much, we have become experts in fish keeping, and fish are some of the most diverse, versatile, and beautiful creatures. Life is never boring when caring for 5-10+ tanks of fish. Life is good when all of our fish are happy and thriving, and when our tanks are well cared for. For that reason, I’d say we aren’t crazy...just passionate :-). We’re passionate about animals that are prevalent but incredibly misunderstood.

The only complaint I’d like to address is the fish community who seems to want to shame us little 5 gallon lovers into going out and buying some 10 or 20 gallon tank. 1. Don’t want a big tank, 2. In my little apartment?? 3. My property manager would beat me over the head if I dragged some huge tank in here 4. If I had the money I still wouldn’t want some huge tank and the water mess they’d make.

"Four hundred dollars on a canister filter that they put on their 75 gallon tank." me looking shifty with my 20 gallon

I watched one of your videos before letting my daughter get a beta. Now I have a 5/15/29/2x55 gallon tanks. a warning that fish keeping can be addictive. Thank for all your help you and all the you tubers have made this so much more enjoyable.

I feel attacked lol. All 10,000 of my tank decorations are necessary !

My dad got a 50 gallon tank at an auction for $5. I’d say that was a pretty good deal.

OMG! I thought I was an average aquarium person, now I find out I'm a crazy - "up a level crazy." Haha! My wife tells me she already knew, others knew. I was apparently the last to know! Thanks KGT!

When you go into the LFS thinking you'll only get one or two things and then you come out with a $100 receipt.

"I wont mention any names" B rolls to Fluval....

I’m honestly not even that into fish. I think they’re cool and everything but I only own them cause I got a tank for Christmas. Turns it’s not a choice if this becomes a hobby or not because keeping these little dudes alive takes EFFORT. Your YouTube channel is by far the most fun to watch and most interesting out of all the fish channels I’ve seen. You are excellent at explaining these things. You’re keeping my fish alive almost more than I am. Thank you very much and way to go 👏