The Water Box is all about the Way of the Aquarist. This is a channel dedicated to aquariums and fish tanks! Tons of Tank Builds, Tutorials Reviews and vLogging about the Journey to ultimate enlightenment (well ok, the last part is a stretch). Focused mainly on planted tanks and aquascaping but do other hobby related content. Check it out and sub if you're into the Aquarium Hobby!
For this kind of setup, I think ISTA is better and cheaper than this fluval 20g. It comes with an insect repellent or aerosol paint can and you only need to push it to fill up the co2 chamber
I confirm they do explode. In the past days, I always raise the heavy ball when the gauge reaches 2. Now, I forgot to raise it. Then suddenly I hear something exploded.
Echinodorus Hormanii, Looks like really really big Jungle Val, it also can grow big rhizomes that will make daughter plants. Needs a big tank mostly to itself, the other nice thing about them is they're rather tolerant of cool conditions being from Southern Uruguay and Northern Argentina so they would be good in a cool-water tank for Goldfish.
Omg 😂😂😂😂 thank you so much for being real about this. I have just gotten into ponds and fish, aquatic plants and now aquascaping aquariums and I have not felt zen yet lol. I love it and find it interesting, love learning and finagling with things, but my husband swears I am hating every second! 😅I keep insisting it’s part of the process and it’s fine, I just haven’t reached the zen part of aquascaping yet! I just added seiryu stone to an already set up tank 😭 and it was probably four days of my messing with the rocks on the table before I decided on an idea, then another 40 minutes staring at them in the tank and moving them around. Still not 100% sold on the layout but I figure I just need more plants! But I’m glad I’m not alone and a pro like yourself can admit this is frustrating rather than pretending it’s so easy like you see in most videos. Also, can we talk about the aquascaping tweezers??? I am about to toss mine out the window, all they seem to do is hook on to my plants for dear life and bring them back out of the substrate! I’m usually griping and grumbling at the tank asking them “are you serious???” And end up jamming my whole arm in the tank to fix things 😅
What a hard work and amazing channel, I hate it when a good and really informational people like you, the knows how to explain things naturally, just stop making videos, it's non of my business for sure, but that's a community lost 100%.
how long soil lasts also depends on other factors of your system. Where your filtration takes place. What you do with trimmed plants. your animal stocking. Your type of cap. In a really strong tank, your depleted soil will be refertilised naturally, as droppings and decaying plant matter falls back through your cap into the dirt layer. This happens differently depending on the grit size of your cap, and what organics are decomposing.
one trick I've learned is that you can freeze mud into ice cube rays, then plant them like root tabs, slowly so as not to get your tank too cold. If you started with just inert fish store gravel or something, you can plant mud cubes, and then pour in sand on top to make it a proper deep cap substrate, very easily.
do you have any more videos on DIY CO2 setups? wanting to start one but not sure where to begin. I understand the basics of it, mainly worried about pressure regulation. Don't want my bottles blowing up
I am new to it. Setting up my tank soon. Got my Co2 regulator etc. I have got a 55ltr tank, want to do Aquascaping. Then of course precious fish but first the plants need to grow and everything must be ok for fish. Can I aswell have 1 bubble every 2 or three seconds and so on? My friend said 1 bubble per second is too much. I am confused now. Can you help please? Thanks.
Wow.. much appreciated ! Just what I need. So we need a month after dry-planting Monte Carlo along Java Moss to start rooting, and another month to grow at its full potential.
😂 Thank you for pointing out the obvious. The only problem is that you don't understand the process of gas exchange, carbon, minerals, in nature vs what happens in our aquariums. I used to think the same until I used CO2. Anyways have fun in Flat Earth land.
I'm confused...Fluval Stratum advertises it has nutrients. Anyone know what this is about? Also, EcoComplete says same. Maybe they just don't have enough nutrients or ???
I dunno why this video popped up for me to view, I guess because I watch allot of fish channels lol... Anyway, right off the bat I noticed something wrong with your video... I'n the first part of your video, you have your drop checker right beside your defuser, sooooo your getting false readings then, and your not getting enough Co2... Because your readings are right AT your defuser that'll make it higher than it really is, and you're not getting a whole tank reading... You put the drop checker AWAY from the defuser and then you get a correct reading of the whole tank lol... Of course it's gonna be higher like you have it set up, because the actual Co2 bubbles are going right into your drop checker... Move it away and get the correct "whole tank reading" lol...
I have a 16" Stingray on a 5.5 gallon aquarium. I too thought the legs and their connection to the fixture were the weak point, but it hasn't been a problem. I just keep the legs in mind when I handle the fixture. The Stingray's light output does make the aquarium look great.
