Not quite sure I understand why CO2 is worthless if you have sponge filters. I have a sponge filter on each end of my 20 gallon long, and I just bought a co2 system. Don't tell me I have to switch to a different filter..... please help!
The thing with sponge filters is that they continuously produce oxygen bubbles, which break up the water surface tension. When that happens in an aquarium, CO2 escapes extremely fast. It might not be completely worthless, though. I'm sure it'll still improve your aquarium.
I'm not sure about home depot but I know for sure Lowes has white food grade buckets with lids in 5gal and 2gal (the latter of which I prefer for maintenance bc they are easier to move around when full)
Interesting video. I can understand doing this if you want a massive amount of filtration, but cheap canister filters are pretty good now and that bucket doesn't offer much more than an allpondsolutions 1000EF as filtration goes. If you could scale it up to plastic bin size, then I could see this saving a lot of money, but not on this scale.
Hey, thanks for watching. The principle applies to any kind of container you want to use. The bigger the container, the larger the volume of filter media you can use, hence more filtration.
Some other major factors are: having your lights on too long; adding too much fertilizer, or having plants that grow too slowly to use up the nutrients.
Wow! So much great information. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience. Your videos always have facts and information that other channels don't. Thanks for your consistent output 🙏
A bit of algae is not bad at all! A lot of people do like the clean tank look, which is my preferred type of aquascape as well. But there is nothing wrong with algae in a tank if you don't mind how it looks :)
Maintaining 74-76 F very hard on India climate - even on winter water max temperatures goes 25-26 Degree , on summer 28-30 degree is ideally also below 24 degree am notice white spot disease to Fish 😅😑
Thanks for watching! If you want to bring down the temperature, aiming fans at the water surface of the tank usually helps as well. I haven't personally experienced white spot disease with cooler temperature, but thank you for sharing!
Hi bro ,plese help me...I have a current aquascape of 2months and I had planted rotala hi red in it(small stem cutting) I am providing CO2,I have a tropica soil,japanese aquasoil capped with sand substrate,and I don't dose any fert,my rotala is growing stunted and producing small leaves...I need help
Stem plants mostly gain nutrients from the water column through their leaves rather than from the substrate through their roots, ive found i need to be dosing liquid fert for rotala to thrive :)
Hey, thanks for watching! I do recommend you start dosing fertilizers. In my 30-gallon tank, I have red rotalas and I'm dosing Niloc G Macro and Micro, using one pump of each twice a week. You can start slow, you don't have to use the recommended dose, and increase as needed. Hope this helps and good luck!
Angelfish are semi-aggressive and you should NOT put them and goldfish together. Goldfish are cold water and angelfish are tropical, their temperature requirements are far too different to house together. And I would only recommend dwarf gourami if it comes from a reputable breeder, as they are very very prone to Iridovirus dwarf gourami disease, a result of severe inbreeding. It can spread to other gourami species, such as honey gouramis, bettas, sparkling gouramis, etc, and can decimate your populations.
Started with 15 cherry barbs in 2018, there're more than 50 since 2022... they're funny and males like to get a little territory in order to 'hunt' females...
Are you having Snowball shrimp and Amano shrimp in the same tank? I have a 10 gallon with 4 male and 1 female Amano shrimp. I am thinking about to add Snowball shrimp, will they get along well? How many I can have in 10 gallon since Snowball can breed.
I'm sorry, that was my bad. When I made that video I thought those were Snowball Shrimps. But they're actually Snow Amano Shrimps. Snowball Shrimps are Neocardinas, and they're significantly smaller than Amanos. You could keep them together, it all depends on the other fish that you have. If they're too big, they might eat the small Neocardinas.
Many aquarists even experienced ones don't know that o2 level decreases significantly during night time or when the light is off in a planted tank. Very informative indeed!
I'm not sure that the quarantine point makes sense without mentioning treatment. If the quarantined fish are able to manage a disease/pathogen etc, and so look healthy during quarantine, when you add them to the community tank they will still carry the disease and potentially harm your livestock? It might have been better to mention treatments at the QT stage...great video btw!
Good advice. As an additional note to the filter, buying new gaskets to the filter cost a small fraction of the price of a new filter, often around $5-20 instead of hundreds of dollars!
I recently reset my main tank but before I did that I started up another tank which I filled with as many plants I could (for cheap of of fb marketplace, and other 2nd hand sell websites). After that small tank got completely overgrown (thanks to a simple diy system I made too) I transfered atleast half of these plants and put them into my main tank plus the plants it already had. It's filled with plants now and fish and I almost have no algae. So in short. Grow out a ton of plants before you start up with your eyecatcher tank. It will save you a lot of money
Keep the aquarium away from kids, they are very curious and very destructive when stimulated. I've seen kids grabing fishes, yanking plants, pouring juice in aquarium, breaking glass.... Monitor your kids, teach them well and don't allow them close to aquarium.
Fantastic video. I used to be impatient when I first entered the hobby and dumped fish straight into an uncycled tank (1 week was not enough) and then 5 days later all my guppies were dead. Another good tip is to buy the best light possible from the off. I have spent hundreds of pounds on lights now and I wish I just spent the money from the beginning on my Chihiros RGBW Pro 90cm. It is all the light you will need for the size of tank I have and I only use it to 50% capacity.
@@underwatergardens709 I have only discovered your channel but your videos are so helpful. Even though I have been keeping plants for 4 years now I'm still watching all your videos. They are very scientific but so easy to understand. Good job. 😀
You should never let kids play near your aquarium! 😂 They can dump anything, ANYTHING, in there the moment you let your guard down! Seriously, you're lucky if they only dump an entire bag of fish food. I've heard stories of kids dumping ashtrays, Kool-Aids, salts, ketchups....
Try to use fert that don’t have ammonium in a tank that has more fishes eg.a few people who are new to planted tanks tent to use apt EI instead of apt 0 with so many fishes thing they could get their plants grow faster and vibrant thing to understand here is your live stock already produces ammonia so u don’t need to add them if you go for EI with so much live stock it will lead to algae bloom
Schöne, informative Tipps gerade für den Anfänger in unserem tollen Hobby! 👍Beim wöchentlichen Teilwasserwechsel nicht vergessen vorher den Heizstab auszustecken! 😉
As you said in first tip last Friday I just changed my fertilizer regime currently I am using apt complete but due to wrong guidance I added flourish trace to it and immediately all my shrimp died any how thanks for your advice sir thank you love from chennai India ❤
what if i have lumen aquatech lumen light 120cm/ 257wats/12800 lumens/ over 500PAR in 120x50x50, 300 litres tank? i have to turn on 100% because lumens but there will be too much PAR, if i want at least 90PAR at the bottom i have to set maybe 50% of light intensity but theres not enough lumens. If i set 40% of light ai already have algae, so what should i do?, plants in tank are most demanding
Hey man thanks for watching. If you have a way to know PAR, you should use that, it's the most accurate reading. If you're getting algae, there's probably a different problem. Likely filtration, CO2, or temperature related. If you fix that issue, you should be able to have the highest intensity light, and still have no algae.
