The greenhouse, totes, and pond are looking great Greg! 😁 all caught up, and can you give us a reminder about the fundraiser in a couple of months. I'm an HVAC tech in Northern Wisconsin, winter is the money maker season for me. 😊
You gave me a pretty good idea. I don’t need fish to grow and eat, I can buy um easy enough. I was thinking goldfish, but then I heard minnows. It would be bad ass to have a minnow farm, goldfish would be good to grow for bait if they reproduced easy enough. I love catching big ole fish out in nature.
Rainbow shiner are very aggressive egg and fry eater, so it may be hard for the fry to survive. Your basket would have work for the white cloud if you add some moss or a large spawning mop in there with them
I saw a video where there was an alder tree growing on the concrete of like the walls they put up in Chicago? On the river, no substrate, just growing on the side of the concrete. Very riparian plant it seems.
Amazing system! Just incredible. I’m trying a few little tubs outside for the first time this summer, with endlers, white cloud mountain minnows, and guppies. The dwarf water lettuce is doing great for me, the salvinia is too, but the Frogbit has tiny bugs on it. Strange!
Since you asked about fish pond plants... I like water lettuce as a floater, and have use frogbit before as well and liked it (may try to get some again). Tried water hyacinth this year, wasn't impressed. I get cool nights for most of my season, so it was slow to take off and when it did grow out I found that it formed really dense mats that were almost impenetrable to fry. Don't think I'll use it again. I run my tubs differently than you do: still water with no air lines or pumps and lots of emergent and trailing plants (I've got a bunch of videos on my channel of my setup). My favorite emergents are Juncus rushes, umbrella grass, and water celery(I've got a bunch of videos on my channel of my setup). I've also had good luck with Marsilea mutica, a plant that puts up four-leaf clover like leaves that float on the surface (I had one that filled an entire 110 gallon tub last year). As for trailing plants (ones that are planted with the crowns above water and the vegetation grows into the tub) I like Creeping Jenny and almost any of the mints. Both will throw down aerial roots into the water, but some mint cultivars will make especially dense root balls that are good for mop-spawning type fish. This year I had good success fabricating little planters by sticking a length of 3mm aluminum craft wire through a pot to hang it off the side of the tubs. As for fish, I keep several varieties and medaka (Japanese rice fish), and have started doing some of my own selective breeding with them. I also like pupfish type things like Aphanius and Florida flag fish. Have also been trying some livebearers (both goodeids and poecilids) outdoors this year. Anyway, love the tubbing videos and would like to see your results with the fish when you end up breaking stuff down in the fall.
One day I want to add a bog filter with some bog plants. I tried medakas last year with no success but my daisys blue do great indoors. One project for the fall is figuring out a good way to over winter more types of pond plants, lack of space and time though
@@gregjonesonline I'm surprised you had trouble with medakas, they're one of the most reliable fish in my tub setups. Last year I produced 100+ medakas out of a single 40 gallon stock tank! Did you have them in one of the Laguna tubs or an IBC tote, and did you have surface plants in with them?
@@bathyphila I had them in an IBC tote, if I try them again I'll put them in a Laguna tub and use yarn mops or floating plants, I had no luck with the brillo pad mops
@@gregjonesonline Yeah, I think if you try them in one of your Lagunas with floating plants you shouldn't have any problems getting them breeding. I suspect the "Brillo Mops" were the main issue, to me they seem like a solution in search of a problem. Wild medakas deposit their eggs in the roots of vegetation and/or filamentous algae and they love using water lettuce, to the point I often transfer plants to tub to increase my yield.
Nice Greenhouse, but you need bigger pipes for the drainage from the fish tanks. Normaly I would recommend to pump 1,5 times per hour the total tankvolume - and the pipes will not even allow for 1 times per hour - which is the least you should circulate - otherwise Ammonia can get really dangerous and your nitrification is far lower as it coud be.
Wow I just found your channel in love plants in my tanks. I wish I would have found your channel sooner I would have bought some water lettuce. I am in NYC. Where are you located? I am a new subscriber and got into the hobby of fish 🐠 because I collect plants. Can I still purchase the water lettuce?
i can't really ship plants at the moment and i live in MA which is likely too far of a drive. I will be bringing some pond plants to the keystone clash this weekend in morgantown PA
