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

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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

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  • @leafystreet
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  • 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.
  • @synthicate5030
    "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.
  • @leafystreet
    UPDATE: pond 2.0 is in the works. If you’re looking to get African dwarf frogs please 🙏 buy them from breeders or true fish stores. This was a rare opportunity to buy a creature in a terrible “forever home” and document a before and after. The store has since stopped selling them. And Lebron actually came from a massive fish store in much better care
  • @river7048
    if you narrated a whole documentary like this i would watch the hell outta it
  • @way9883
    4:11 "old landlord was also a leech" yesss call out those landlords
  • @huntercool2232
    I had an African Dwarf frog once when I was a kid. I called him “Squishy” and I’m embarrassed to say he lived in my goldfish’s fish tank. Looking back I realize now the environment he was in was not suitable for him whatsoever. Needless to say I didn’t have him for long and he passed away. I’ll always regret getting him and another one after him who met the same fate. I’ll never get another Dwarf Frog again, but I’m just glad to see someone finally properly take care of these amazing creatures for once! Thank you man for giving them a great home.
  • @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!
  • @lyladepaula3291
    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
  • @xrapidfirex1695
    "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
  • @_staright_5157
    The “hey, wake up, your identity just got stolen.” Was pretty funny
  • @crossanddream2
    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.
  • @aster84855
    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
  • @tallmommy
    The "HUH" sound effects on the oblivious crab is the icing on the cake
  • @whitetober7825
    This unlocked a memory, my 4th grade teacher had one of these as a class pet. We were allowed to feed them sometimes but you were picked randomly. I just remember them being the cutest things ever and my teacher being incredibly protective of them
  • 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.
  • @septawatt
    i enjoy the way you narrate, almost like a nature documentary but (imo) better cause you know your stuff, care about the animals and environment you’re creating, and are funny. amazing work!