Dan Hiteshew

[darkness975]

I apologize if this is the wrong forum to post this but I have to get something off my chest.

I have been following Dan Hiteshew's videos on Youtube for quite some time now. His videos are overall entertaining for the most part, but I cannot help but cringe any time an avoidable accident results in the death of one or more of his fish. A lot of the factors, such as having open topped tanks or medicating an entire tank without isolating the suspected ill specimen are things that have resulted in tragedy that I feel could have been avoided with simple actions like isolating sick fish in a quarantine tank or covering an open topped tank to prevent jumpers.

Is anyone else here familiar with his videos and feels similar to me?

 

[dr exum]

it’s sad what folks will do for attention...

i’m not familiar with the person you’re speaking of, I did meander over to you tube to check out something another member mentioned in a similar thread...

it’s all pretty unfortunate....

 

[rayoddballfish]

I watch Dan’s videos and he’s a genuine guy and has healthy fish. Don’t think it’s for attention, just habits that may not be the most ideal. He’s kept fish that are approaching 10 years old so I don’t question his experience. Just some of my thoughts!

 

[Gourami Swami]

Doesn't seem nearly as bad as the young "influencer wannabee" crowd's videos that I have seen and have been mentioned here before. We have all made poor judgement calls that have led to fish death at one point or another, I know I have. Though, I do try to learn from my mistakes and don't take unneccessary risks, so with something like open top tanks with notorious jumper fish, I could see where you have a problem with it.

 

[Galactik]

I agree with others. He's not the worst, and at the very least you can tell he's trying.

But Wwhat makes me cringe is when they make it seem like they know what they are talking about and give out bad advice to others, thus causing more harm than good.

I've seen a few of his videos were he shocks his tanks with different medications and chemicals to get rid of parasites or bba among other things; and then follows up with dead fish update. Only to follow that up with him adding more wild caught fish to the main tanks without a quarantine process.

 

[FESHMAN]

Haven't checked on him for a while but I used to watch his videos and I liked them. Not sure what have he done but I'm sure that there are many douchetubers that have way more reach than him that have done it worse. He seems like a good guy with good intentions.

 

[FESHMAN]

medicating an entire tank without isolating the suspected ill specimen

I could see why some people would do that. One specimen showing signs doesn't mean it's the only one infected, others too could've picked whatever parasite or disease but they don't show signs yet. So many people feel safer treating the whole tank just in case others might have been infected. Just my thought

 

[darkness975]

My OP was on a bad night and I probably should have added better details.

I don't think he's a bad guy and certainly not the worst fish keeper I have seen. I have seen far worse for sure.

But what I was griping about in my OP was basically avoidable incidents that are mentioned by both him directly and by many commenters on the videos only to have the fish die anyway due to whatever the subject of the video was and it all could have been avoided if he listened to the posts that said "isolate the fish" or "it might be so-and-so disease look it up on Google" or whatever.

I think the videos that sparked the post I made in my OP were the two recent videos that depicted the Diamond Tetras jumping out of the open top "office tank" and half of the albino millennium rainbow fish dying conveniently within a week of medicating the whole tank for some supposed parasites that the clown loaches in the tank in question MIGHT have had.