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The dude has a 20+ year old tank, a tank whose inhabitants never have to be fed by him and the water inside gets 10% water change once a year....i think he knows how to make a healthy tank. Bravo sir!
I feel the need to chime in here. When I first got into this hobby I wanted to learn as much as I could and like many others used RU-vid to do that and what I discovered was shocking. The majority went on about the dangers of Nitrates, the importance of weekly water changes of 30 -50%, the importance of vacuuming your substrate, the importance of fertilizers for your plants and so on. Then I stumbled across father fish and he was saying the exact opposite of what almost everyone else is saying. So instead of dismissing what father fish was saying I did a deep dive into what he was saying and started to find that what he is saying is kinda making sense to me so I really started to dive deep, so much so that I adopted father fishes way of doing things. What I found out was that Father Fish was absolutely right, all the problems I was having started to fade away and my tank and the life in it started to thrive. When people see my tank their first reaction is wow what an awesome looking tank. I stopped doing water changes, I stopped worrying about Nitrates (you don't want to get me going about the whole Nitrate fiasco) and I stopped cleaning my tank. The tank is pristine, Nitrates are not harming my fish, the water is not going bad because I stopped changing water and you would think I spend a lot of time cleaning the tank because it's so clean looking when I don't clean it at all. I struggled with the advice of many others, it wasn't until I adopted Father Fish's way of thinking that my tank started to thrive. Now I get to enjoy the beauty of my tank instead of fighting the tank. Giving Father fish the benefit of the doubt was the best thing I ever did in this hobby, not only that father fish backs what he says up with expert researchers who have also been right and know what they are talking about. If your new to this hobby do yourself a huge favor and be open minded, it would serve you well to listen to what this man has to say. Best part is it won't cost you a dime you just have to spend the time to listen and learn. Father Fish has taught me to enjoy my hobby and to let go of some of the fears I had. I owe my success and a huge Thank You to Father Fish. If you come across someone who says father fish doesn't know what he is talking about then that's the person you should not take any advice from because they don't know what they are talking about. Cheers!
True but I have hard water and after getting away from frequent changes I found out my snails were dieing. No calcium left in the tank. I keep rainbows and religiously changed my water for years without incident. Then the city water changed and all he'll broke lose. Got a carbon filter system and the problems went away. If I go too long fish start having problems.
Watched literally thousands of channels for thousands of hours about the hobby, and Father Fish has gave me literally EVERYTHING that I need to be successful in 3 VIDEOS! Just wow!
I spent so much money being a silly dumb girl in the beginning listening to those and followimg them, went back to stores and they sold me more useless trash and giving me wrong advise on purpose, years later. I have thrown away all those useless trash and go inside the stores, buy my essentials of hardscape and soil and sand and plants and bye bye! My few tanks do great and I never lost any fish or shrimps by letting them do what they do
@@juli8vdberg562Amazing!! it's brilliant that you realised, took me a while too! It's so nice to know that our fish and shrimp are happy and letting nature do it's thing..
@@DashDrones exactly so… I now teach my students and friends as patients - people with trauma - to set up aquascapes and Iwagumi and in doing so which is way more therapeutic than anyone could ever imagine - that the entire basic of it means to go low key; low tech low cost low light low animals - a good nutrition powerhouse of a substrate and easiest plants, rocks and wood - small water changes and an all-in liquid fertiliser and low light plants and no trouble throwing in fish and shrimp or snails; all these sissy sassy boy videos on how to set up an Iwagumi or whatever is a bunch of commercial nonsense .. serves them well but not us!
@@juli8vdberg562well done and well said! They think their way serves them well but it clearly doesn't. Animal happiness and wellbeing is key along with our peace and happiness too. It's common sense but most are blinded by commercialism..
@@DashDrones this is why I no longer follow many of these, like certain Brits and Americans; but luckily the EU regulations writes that if they breach codes of conduct online like promoting or being sponsored by any store or brand or whatever and no longer mentioned on their content as we watch that they are breaching law since July last year and must be reported, so in France or Netherlands or Germany they have been toning it down since and are less crazy selling profiles and also breeding fish or anything without any licenses and selling online without paying taxes, is punishable
Hi Father Fish! I wanted to tell you a story. I am 26. 9 years ago when I met my girlfriend I already was in love with aquariums. So I shared it with her and placed an aquarium in her room at her parents house 😂 big layer of sand, bunch of plants and a good amount of fish too. But since then we were always at my house. So she was not home most of the time. My own aquariums at my house always had issues. Crazy algae all over the place, plants didn’t grow, cyanobacteria etc. Tried everything and bought everything the sellers offered me. Did waterchanges. But it never really worked out as it should have. But the tank of my girlfriend at her parents home, that tank was crazy. The plants were growing very well, the water was clear, no algae to see, the fish were happy and even spawned. But no one ever touched that tank. Only feed sometimes. We never knew how?? But now you’ve learned me why. Back at that time I wondered if it was because of not touching it. But apparently all those brainwashed people who told me to use this and that chemical, or to do waterchanges more often or use gravel instead of sand cause sand will get rotten over time, they didn’t know anything. Thanks you father fish. You are like a grandpa to me I never had. And also the dad I never had to share this hobby with ❤
I was very pro-plastic and pro-glow tank for a long time, and it costed me a lot of failure and innocent fish lives. I grew frustrated as I didnt know why my fish kept dying, and I came across Father Fish. I'm glad I did. I have been tuning into FF videos over the past month, and his advice has fixed my fish tank. My water was unhealthy, polluted, and was a death trap for fish - unbenounced to me. Since tearing down my tank, replacing the gravel with sand, and fake pink plastic plants with real breathing plants, I have fixed all the errors I was making, and finally have a healthy suitable home for my fish. My PH is finally stable. My KH is finally buffering out water acidity, my nitrate levels are finally in check, and most importantly, my new fish are fucking thriving in this natural, beautiful tank. Thank you for the help, FF.
I feel sick that I have been deceived for so many years. How many more precious years could I have gotten out of my fish family had I adhered to these teachings. The lesson is MUCH MUCH appreciated Sensei.
The very least I could do is thank you for all you do. It’s been 2 1/2 years now since I set up my 75 gallon using your method and it is truly balanced and teeming with life. While the computer has given us access to vast amounts of information unfortunately it has made it easier to be disrespectful to anyone whose opinion differs. Your response to the negativity and bullying was handled in the way you always take. Head on,factual,and respectful. So lucky to count you as a true mentor.
Hi, so I just discovered your channel and would like to try this method on a new 75 gallon aquarium that I just got a couple of days ago; however, I do have a question. I have already added gravel and water to the aquarium (no fish yet) and was wondering if I would need to empty the aquarium to set it up using the natural method, or is there a process I can adapt from this point?
I have learned that the palaudarium Style, low stocked and a ton of terrestrial plants that like to grow wet roots is the most stable enviroment that you can create. But its very important to always top up with reverse osmosis water!! Like nature does with the rain. I had 3 years with no water change and my fish are spwaning in the 5th generation now!
You tube is full of so called fish experts, if you notice most of their videos are of newly set up tanks, that's not a master aquarist, just a new tank set up. And most are the common gravel substrate tanks and all sorts of canister filters, UV sterilizers, protein skimmers, tons of chemicals. Who knows what, but all are the greatest latest equipment that pet stores can hype, teaching systems doomed from the get go. Father fish is a master at his hobby, I don't see none of that crap in his videos. Check back on those internet wonder wizz's, most have a sob story about mistakes and foul system. I'll stick to the Father Fish enhanced Walstad system I have 2 40 breeders, all planted, dirted, father Fish's supplements from his videos, and 1 ten gallon. All Are doing great. Got two new 40 breeders, and four 20 longs, all new, soon to be Father Fish tanks. Give em hell father fish. If I just found his system earlier I would have save myself alot of money, and heartache. Plus its easy like he said. Take my advise follow Father Fish, if you give a damn about your fish, they'll be happy too. Sometimes simple really is the best way.
We should talk about the 800 pound gorilla sitting in the middle of my fish room. Big tanks full of plant destroying cichlids. Perhaps a collab where I say to you, “I have a dozen 6-10” African Cichilds arriving on Tuesday and an empty 210 gallon tank. Okay Father Fish, on your mark, ready, GO!” 🤣👍🏻❤️
I would say impulse control and preplanning however as a fellow hobbyist guilty as charged sir. Lol appreciate your channel and content thank you my friend. You really helped me decide to give a canister filter a try as I wanted a little more flow and mechanical filtration for my hybridized Father Fish/Novak tank.
@@jjr2568 I have a soil sand capped 20 gal tall with live bearers but not a true 100% FF tank. I also go "deep substrate" in my other tanks to try and nurture a stable BB colony. I'm in alignment with FF in a lot of areas. A 100% FF tank in the future is not out of the question.
I had a few tanks but gave up the hobby over twenty years ago. About six months ago, I was going to create a new tank so read a book which made everything so complex, I decided it was too much work. A few weeks ago, I found this channel and cannot wait to set up an eco system aquarium. Thank you Father Fish for passing on your knowledge and igniting my interest in this wonderful hobby 😀
You will find that once you get it going that it will be a lot less work than you think. Yes it was little bit of work in the beginning but now I do very little. I add top up once a day and change a small piece of filter pad. Oh and I feed every other day, that's it. I just enjoy the tank and keep an eye on things. Good luck and welcome back to the hobby!
Good luck! It will not be easy, there is no magic, it will anyway go through all the cycles aquarium must go through. You will have to solve problems and learn a lot, that's is what this hobby is for... if you think you can do it without learning, it's wrong. As every individual Eco-system, each aquarium is different, only common rules are the same. One plant can thrive other can die, algae booms will happen for sure. It is not just put some soil, sand over top, plants and tree leafs and all will go fine. You must understand the processes that are happening in your aquarium, and learning and trying to understand this is best part of the hobby. It is learning nature... And most importantly patience... in natural aquarium all things go slowly.
I’m going to be fifty soon. I see through most of the nonsense in the world and I see people buying into the nonsense. I manage to control getting crotchety most of the time but no always. Sometimes, I have to say what’s on my mind even if I get a lot of blowback for going against the prevailing wisdom. So no need for an apology Father Fish.
I'm stumped here, I've never spoken anything but high praise about you and in my video I stated you're absolutely correct. Maybe you're not talking about me here, I don't know.
I think he referred to the Kaveman clown that called Father Fish lazy and allowed mockery and disrespect in his comments. You said it right imo. Maybe it's best to just distance your name from the whole issue?
I referred to you as reasonable and thoughtful. What triggered you to be so distraught? The beginning of your vid sounded like you were going to blast me. You did not. You said that was intended as humor. Sorry, I do not know you well enough to understand your sense of humor.
Wow. My eyes have been opened. This approach makes TOTAL sense and all of a sudden the aisle after aisle in the big box pet stores seem like just another scam. Which they are. Creating problems then selling the so called solutions to the problems the original chemicals caused. Thank you for sharing this wisdom and approach with the world. Be well everyone ☺️🍃
I work as a cashier at one of those big box pet stores, and I’ve started recommending Father Fish’s channel to the customers buying fish. 😬 Might not be good for business, but it’ll make the customers happier!
After 50 years of being obsessed with this hobby, I'm loving being a new fan of your channel, sir! That's always so much to still learn, and I enjoy smiling at listening to fellow old-timers bring back things we were mostly all doing back in the 1970's, and the wisdom of the day was about stability and balance.
These other RU-vidrs get popular by jumping on whatever topic has gotten views recently on RU-vid just ignore them father fish and keep on creating these great videos . Cheers
I love this way of fish keeping. Haven't done a water change in months since first watching Father Fish, just top off the tank every once in a while. My fish have never looked happier. And they seem to live longer too
So just recently my tank with 1 goldfish and 1 weather loach burst. But just before it did I'd been wondering if in fact my tank was the healthiest it had been in 7 years. The reason was the tank had got dirty a couple of times but life had been too hectic to fix it immediately, and at least once it was because the filter had stopped working....however ehen i managed to get round to cleaning it i found it much cleaner and the filter was running fine again. So i left it a bit longer and it just got better! Granted having watched a couple if Father Fish vids tonight i admit it could have been even better. Only had gravel (all muck on the top....though by the time I am referring to here the gravel seemed to be mostly on top!😮) No plants....the loach had torn them all up months earlier.... Unlike the description 'Weather loach gets active when a storms ' due....nope all day every day. Honestly i think he thinks hes a goldfish😂) Anyway now trying more plants in new tank (old filter so that helped) new rocks, SAND (first time ever and possibly not enough, did it before i saw this, but nearly 2 weeks in now, and thanks to a diff FF vid less cloudy😊 Hoping now to get this tank as stable if not better than the last....and definitely gonna try the jars. Got my own little pond already well established so plenty of life in it.
Thanks man I have been telling this to alot of people but they see me as a young kid who dosent know anything. I love fishes I have been in this hobby for 8 years. I started when I was 10.my father taught me everything before he died
You Go!!!!!!!! Preach that truth!!!!! Love the message. You never stop learning, at 72 yrs old and never had an aquarium I was given the responsibility of keeping my 5-year-old granddaughter's 25-cent feeder fish alive she won at a school fair. Well, 4 years later and 3 tank size upgrades our beloved Cupcake is going in a Father Fish dirted tank. Cupcake is 9 inches long now and here's hoping her many more years to come.
keeping fish should be a relaxing stress relieving hobby. Many have made it quite the opposite. Have a Betta 10gal heavily planted. No filter, and I've never had a healthier Betta fish before. I've always stressed on my paramaters. It's relieving when you realize nature knows what the hell to do.
Lol, I haven't seen the hysterical response, but I did see KGTropical's video yesterday and I think it was pretty "measured" and reasonable- he does have a point about the typical fishkeeper out there, but hopefully those peeps will get tired of changing water and start learning about how to keep a balanced ecosystem. I have a bad back so water changes are a rare for me, although sometimes it is required, but I wouldn't do it without testing and knowing exactly why I'm doing it. I have 6 mos. old turtle that is using more calcium than I would have expected so have needed to add calcium and a little fresh water helps with that. I'm not sure why anyone would bother to set up a tank if they weren't interested in learning anything, but people are strange. I guess controversy leads to more exposure too , huh?
Interesting how you explain that carbon is food for trees, plants, etc.. in the atmosphere but at the same time, there are these governing bodies, the ones that dictate how we run our cars and lives in general, Saying that we all need to switch to electric non polluting vehicles (non polluting meaning non co² emitting) vehicles. What a pile of nonsense! Like you discussed what happened to lake Tahoe, the same will happen on a much larger scale to this planet if we rid the co² in the atmosphere. This discussion can go on for quite some time but I'll end my comment by saying that you bring up a very good point about carbon. One that NEEDS to be considered.... very seriously.
I m currently tryn hydroponics for the benefit of of plants for fishes health..with low light house plants .too bad economics got caught up in hobby..ppl just take for granted the benefits of it..gardening livestock keeping and less invested in economics and politics.
Stop polluting your tank and the issue will be resolved. It is not the water that is the problem. It is what you put in the water that makes you throw it out.
I killed so many shrimp when I did the recommended water changes and cleanings in my planted shrimp tanks. They only started to live when I stopped all that...My planted dirt tanks had the biggest plants and growth ever.
I have a 23gal tank, fully planted and botanical tank it’s a self sustaining ecosystem. I haven’t done a water change in months but the tank is so clean and healthy and my fish are thriving. Just goes to show what happens when you let Mother Nature take her course.
What do you do when you need to add water? Also, do you have a filter? I just started watching FF and I really like this way of going about a fish tank. I am about to get a 55 gallon tank and will be mimicking FF's way of having a self sustaining tank. I don't know if to get a filter.
[thank, you for you're video I've got a 200 gal fish tank and I have fresh water fish In the tank I, have brim rainbow trout sea bass and catfish and live plants I use a commerical swimming pool water filter and the water stays clear all the time]
People trying too shoot down another way of doing things often are just ignorant, often too lazy to research or have some other interest going..... Over the decades i have tried /played with different methods guess what ? There is more then 1 way to be succesfull which then is the best ? That as it does with so many other things humans do depends..... If what you are after is a stable (for as far that is truely possible) relatively low effort planted aquarium particularly if you have the long term in mind to keep and enjoy in your home. And are willing to adjust your choice of animals and plants. I feel this is the way. If you want too be the next world champion aqua scaper Then another route is perhaps more suited For the "game" of today. But when i look at pics from the early days of the Dutch planted tank traditionj. (the one that effectively kicked the whole thing of) it is clear that with these relatively simple methods succes can be achieved. Perhaps many people in the hobby today should more often ask themself Best of better for WHAT ? I can get fun and enjoyment out of messing with a fully belled and whisteled set up but also with the natural aproach....
I've been keeping fish tropical and marine and I've never seen anybody do a video that talks and explains it in easy to understand and so much sense I love this guy well done Father Fish thank you
Wow! I had aquariums in my teens. Then in my 20's I got a 55 gallon. Always did plastic plants, water changes etc. I swore I would never never get an aquarium again. Now I am about to retire and am contemplating getting back into it. After watching numerous videos of aquarium care, I had decided I didn't want the hassle to keep a tank, even if I have time. After watching this video, I am once again thinking I will give it a try this way. It all makes so much sense.
Just stumbled onto The Good Father's channel... and my head is spinning! After nearly 20 years of struggling to keep tanks clean, nitrate-free, crystal clear, and free of algae using as many of the techniques and equipment from the modern Aquarium Industrial Complex that I could afford, I gave up. I couldn't keep a tank healthy for more than six or eight months. And I "knew what I was doing." Thanks Father Fish! I cannot wait to try again!
I just wanted to leave my 2 cents here as well. My 20gal with plants was doing rather well & I did my 20% or so water change like I have had drilled into me to do to keep my water from going south so-to-speak. I lost a few of my fish and my plants are now withering as well as having algae run amok. Which is fine, I have shrimp. I decided to really start watching and listening to your videos & I have come to the conclusion that you have covered in this video & have decided to let nature do it's thing! As for your way of keeping fish? I am on board & am thankful to have found your channel. I was skeptical at first (which was about 3 weeks ago?) ... anyway, off to get some dead leaves from my oak in the backyard. Be blessed and ty!
I love hearing you preach not changing your water all the time and not siphoning the gravel once a month stuff. I have always maintained my planted tanks for years on end without doing massive water changes weekly or monthly and never siphoning the substrate. I only add new water when the tank evaporates too much. And my tanks have thrived. The Plants grow and spread my fish get fat are healthy snd start making babies. My friends always ask me how much time I must spend taking care of my tanks. Lol. The only time I spend is cutting back over grown plants or planting growth in a difficult section. I still use a filter but I also don’t change the media once a month. Depending on how much silt has been stirred up my filters can last 6 months or more before I start changing them out.
You have a very strong message father fish, and you do an amazing job at spreading it. Every time I see one of your videos I feel newly inspired again.
I started keeping fish in the late 70s when I was a kid. It is funny all the advice I got from the fish stores. Some people said you have to do partial water changes (back then it was more like of 10% of the water each week or daily partial water changes for Discus). An old Scottish shop owner told me never change any of the water. He said. "the older the water; the better". In any case, it is funny to see how things go full circle.
I'm 60 years old and have been keeping fish pretty much my entire life. Found the Walstead method about 10 years ago and between that and Father Fish I have fallen in love with fish keeping all over again after tiring of doing constant water changes as I thought I had to do.
@@FatherFish Exactly, the secret to life is learning to relax. There is nothing more relaxing that sitting watching my tanks so why let them stress me out to begin with? Fish keeping doesn't have to be stressful and in fact should not be stressful.
My fish die when I mess with my tank , I don't do water changes any more , it's well over a year since I even cleaned my filter ,,,,, grow plants and you can't go wrong , fish love plants , you water will love the plants ,and you will love the plants ,,,,, throw some almond leaves in, job done
I discovered your method by accident. I have been keeping fish my whole life. my tanks would last 1 year then everything would die. One day I was hiking in the jungle (I live in Hawaii). I noticed that the river soil looked like ada soil. The pools here are full of prawns and fish all year around. My brother decided to go get some soil and take it home. We set up a tank and then abandoned it. I maintained my tanks like crazy but the algae never stopped. But then it hit me his tank was amazing. He never changed the water never only topped it off. From that point on I've never had a tank crash. My tank only has a small pump feeding a waterfall.
I AM BLOWN AWAY! And very excited to use this method! It makes complete sense. As someone who has spent a lot of time outdoors, I have seen crystal clear pools, vernal pools, tiny puddles of water in a tree trunks, THRIVING with life! I even came across a vernal pool with little brown freshwater clams in it! It was in spring & it was in a tire track (power line maintenance) in the mud on a mountain! While exploring an abandoned, dilapidated house I found a trash can filled with water.( and some trash, lot's of leaf litter) it had a beautiful green moss that grew under & outside of the water. (I actually took some home & added it to my paludarium tank, where it is thriving) That trash barrel was teeming with life! Little crustaceans, etc. I plan on following Father Fish's advice. No more partial water changes? Healthy thriving fish & plants? I'm in!
@@FatherFish going to the local river today today to gather some MUD, sand & leaves to transform a 6 gallon betta tank. I am moving soon & will set up ALL my tanks with your recommendations. Very excited about this. THANK YOU!!
i havent changed my tank water in 5 years. just top offs. one tank is a ten gallon with 17 blue acaras. yup. no plants just a pothos hanging out of it. not even a huge gravel bed. the biofilm is taking care of it. just a sponge filter as well. ZERO WATER CHANGES. never had one health issue with fish. i did try to sell the acaras but the lfs wouldnt buy my fish....smh. i also have a 40 gallon no water changes. huge gravel bed. maybe one or two plants hanging in therfe. cause the fish eat the plants. anyways yeah, no more water changing. i mean zero
I had a slight ammonia spike and my plants and animals were all in good shape the water was a bit cloudy on and off first 2 months but all other parameters were perfectly fine I reigned in my anxiety and let it go. Almost all of my basic plants and shrimp are reproducing, after ammonia clouding it cleared up in 2 days, and I got more plants and it has turned out awesome and even though my anxiety doesn't help i have restrained myself and it worked out better than introducing chemicals and doing 30+% water changes. Water clouds a few days, my shrimps and snails and betta and plants didn't get upset and actually thrived. Water cleared in less than a week. Natural >than artificial. I had one leaf die from my anubias and was about to take it out, but just let it sink and my tank cleared up in less than a week.
I know u didnt wanna say it so i will , aquarium co-op and kgtropicals need to mind their own business. Funny how its the 2 people running their own fish shops or fish supply shops who are complaining about this. Not to mention they are already making a disgusting amount of money from making the same videos over and over again lmao
All i do is top off my tank waters evaporation with pure fresh clean rain water i collect in multiple 5 gallon buckets outside. Which is kind of tricky lately with less rain as of lately. It saves on my bill as well😆
Father Fish is the reason why my tanks are a success. I have been in this channel since it started. I am so proud to see how much this channel has grown. From 100 member to 54K!!! Amazing!!!
We live in a society based around making money. Setting up a natural tank doesn’t cost much money. Leaves, rocks, wood and dirt are free if you get them from a stream or pond. That’s what I did. My tanks have come alive! I used to do weekly water changes and fight with my tank almost every day. Now I just sit back to watch the life explode in my tanks. I love the hobby more than I ever have thanks to Father Fish. Please keep delivering your wonderful videos on Discord and RU-vid and we will keep on listening and learning. Thank you FF.
@@FatherFish Hello Father, what would you suggest for fish like Oscars? I've had quite a few in the past and they are a very rowdy lot. They tore up anything I put in their tank and plants would never work. I could only use hardscape like a rock and plastic tree ornaments, which they also broke.
@@redarmysoja in that case you have basically two options (really three, I'll explain). Water changes, or a sump system where you have a dirted deep substrate system and plants in the sump. Keep a deep sandbed substrate in the tank with the oscars, but you can prevent most water change needs by having the sump full of plants. You can also maybe get away with some plants in the tank with the oscars. Father Fish says in another video that all freshwater fish, with the exception of silver dollars, will tolerate some plants. I used Bing AI to find a couple of articles for you to check out: aquagoodness.com/can-you-put-live-plants-with-oscars/ www.fishaholic.net/2021/05/Oscar-Fish-Tank-Setup-Plants-Filter-Lights-Care-Guide.html?m=1 fishkeepingadvice.com/oscar-fish-care-guide/ www.aquariumsource.com/oscar-fish/ From those sources, Bing recommended banana plant, java fern, java moss, and salvinia natans as options if you place them strategically in the aquarium.
@@redarmysoja also if you want a reply from Father Fish directly, he doesn't always get notifications of comments on comments so he's unlikely to see your comment (personal experience). Make a comment on the video directly to make sure he sees it instead of replying to another comment.
Thank you Father Fish for what you do for the fish community. I'm lucky that I found your channel and thank you for helping us fish keepers on how to setup and how to take care of a natural tank. 👊
Tree leaves are absolute pure gold It's quite hilarious how blinded ppl are by these general fish stores , and how others think they know it all only driven by their ego obssesed with keeping an aquarium soo sanitized it's insane yet they forget where these fish/plants came from. Thanks for all you have said , it's 100% true no matter how much these clowns try to complain and act like freaking chemists and some sort of aquarium professionals 😂
I always say, nobody is going around changing the water in ponds and lakes to lower the nitrates. The entire purpose of an aquarium is to replicate an ecosystem, so why not mirror what happens in that ecosystem? Seems pretty simple to me.
I have been unsuccessful two times, losing all my fish while trying to maintain a sterile environment for the fish. I felt bad with cloudy water, so the next thing I did was change the water. I only replaced 30% of it, but within the next two days, all the fish were dead. I've just subscribed and will try to follow this; it makes much more sense.
You should have done a 100% water change. Whatever was in that water was still in there when you only did a 30% water change. What you should have done was clean out the whole ttank and start fresh to make sure the tank does not get cloudy again. And if you don't have any established water from another tank to use, I'd suggest getting those quick start bottles and use it once to cycle the tank and start it up again.
I've only seen the KGTropicals video, but I feel like they were very reasonable, they said they agreed with your methods, just warned people to actually watch the video and understand it rather than just read the title. Can't wait to implement some of your practices in my tank
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Father fish I bow to your knowledge on you can be but unless you have that applied and you have a lot of that knowledge and I plan on applying it to my aquariums. These other channels have the sponsors that's why they go by these water treatments parameters I agree let mother nature take care of.
I'm so glad I found Walstad's book and learned about the natural method of fishkeeping, which is in line with what you talk about here, Father Fish. If not for that, I wouldn't have fish anymore, due to chronic health issues that make constant water changes out of reach for me at times. It's only through learning about natural, balanced ecosystem tanks that I'm able to have fish at all, and it's even healthy for my fish! Win-win. Thanks for working so hard to educate folks, and don't let the naysayers get you down. They don't deserve the emotional energy it would take to deal with their negativity and know-it-all-ness, especially when it's not even based in SCIENCE and nature. BTW, because of one of your more recent videos, I got my hands on dried oak leaves. I was already using almond leaves, but now I've added oak leaves to my tanks, too. One of these days, when I get the chance and can drag hubby out with me, I'll go down to the river and get some water, mud, and leaf litter and see what sort of little organisms are in our local water. I'm willing to set up a small tank just for that, so I can harvest the microorganisms for my other tanks. I'm excited to try that!
It makes a lot of sense. What better environment for a living being to thrive than in its natural one, only without any predators to worry about? You can tell Father Fish has a lot of wisdom from years of doing this, and I’m glad I came across this channel. I will be using this channel to guide me through my entry into the fish world.
I have 3 tanks, 2 of them are high tech tanks and 1 is lowtech tank. I only do water change for the 2 high tech tanks to reset the nutrient levels, the lowtech one's i did none but only top off
[got, to have some bacteria inside the tank to make things work just like nature is. I, have not ever had to change the water ever. now, the catfish are bottom eaters so they keep things cleaned up]
I've been following father fish for over a year, everything he sais is true, recreating nature in a glass box is the answer never had an issue with my tank since adopting his methods
I’ve learned so much from you in the pass 2 days. I gave up keeping fish years ago because of all the money it cost and labor. Water changes, ph chemicals and all kinds of other crap. I’ve always wanted to go natural and everything you’ve said has been 100 accurate and makes complete sense. I definitely use to over feed and over chemical.
Just have a look at MD fish tanks channel, he makes the most insane tanks with just a tank and a light. My tank has been balanced from the start, but I put the time and effort in to learn how.
I have a 30 gal community tank heavily planted with a sponge filter and a powerfilter to get rid of big stuff me and my sister set it up about 6 months ago now we had no cycle just got into it after buying a 50 gal tank off someone it came with a 8 inch pleco 2 platys 1 guppy 3 adult Molly's 9 molly baby's and 1 zebra danio the 50 gal didn't work out space wise so the 30 it is we have everyone schooling to be happy and we do weekly gravel vacuums and territory changes to keep things nice in the tank am I doing to much? Should I start letting it go? I don't use carbon and have a large piece of driftwood I got from Petco that makes the tannins quite high it's also lowering the water hardness so water changes are needed for the mystery snails. But if you would recommend anything I would be very greatful
Great video glade to see your channel is growing the more popular you get the more you will find people trying to stop you from informing the aquarium hobby about your knowledge of it keep going father fish 👍👍
