CONVERT AN EXISTING AQUARIUM INTO A FILTERLESS, Cycled, Balanced & Established PLANTED ECOSYSTEM!

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@James_Hande Год назад

I get a kick out of what you, Lucas, Father Fish and Diana Walstad are practicing. The keeping of a natural filterless aquarium is how aquarist did it before the advent of filters. 👍

@Fishtory Год назад

Hehe yeah im a little more cautious than them i think, but in the end its all really similar. Im more picky about only doing it with small bioloaded ecosystems and no predatory fish....other than Gibson the sunfish

@Finkeldinken Год назад

See, this is why yours is my favourite aquarium channel. The scientific research backed deep dives AND the authentic lack of dogma. I've run so many types of tanks in so many ways since I started the hobby at 17, and have learnt so much - and nothing makes me back off faster from another hobbyist's "teachings" than if I sense narrowmindedness and ego. I want to see happy tanks and I want to have happy tanks, and there is a ton of ways to achieve that - and because I know we agree on that, I feel really at home here.

@mcmikey302 27 дней назад

I don't think I will ever have a full blown filterless tank but I do as much things natural as I can.. A hybrid of all the different ideas out there, but I always enjoy these natural tank breakdowns

@JohnDoe-vb5lu 4 месяца назад

I started with father fish vids. Im so glad i found fishtory now setting up a small planted nature tank. Much better information and not bullheaded arrogance lol great source Thankyou

@leviathan7332 Год назад

I like how realistic you are. Your tanks are not overstocked, full of plants, and you taper down the filter on an aged tank before going fully filterless. Good point you made, check your water and you might have to go back to the filtering if you get into trouble with water parameters.

@Fishtory Год назад

I'm a worrier lol

@shelleygallant1608 4 месяца назад

Amazing content as usual. Tha ks for all of this education! You are my favorite fish guy to learn from. Very meticulous with what you teach. Keep thevideos coming! 🥰

@ChaplainReece Год назад

Man, those filters are hilarious.

@matthewburley880 Год назад

Went filterless a few months back, added some floating plants and my tanks are going great. They already had deep substrates and heaps of plants so that helped.

@RalphRichardsonJr Год назад

This is one of my favorite Aquarium RU-vid channels because of videos like this!! You make it so easy to understand. Thank you!!

@Dave-kr9lk Год назад

I would like to add from my own personal experience. I used a bunch of smaller pieces of Lava rock for decor. Tons and tons of places for bacteria and all kinds of stuff to grow and tons of little places for your little critters to hide

@Fishtory Год назад

100% pumice and lava rock or textured stone/wood, helps a ton. Thanks for the added info. It's very important!

@aquaticsbynature Год назад

Great video Alex, I’ve been keeping tanks this way since around 2007, and it’s still my favourite way of running an aquarium. There’s just something special, and super rewarding, about being able to balance an aquarium without the usual tech. :)Plus so many small fish seem to breed in these tanks with minimal effort, just fantastic to observe. What species are those tiny red tail pencil fish? I’ve not seen those before.

@lindawynn9042 Год назад

I've been wondering this exact thing! Anxious to hear all about it. Thank you Alex!

@Fishtory Год назад

You've got it!

@rosemiller9140 Год назад

Love these shorter videos. I always learn so much from you. Thank you

@Fishtory Год назад

Haha "shorter" im making progress. If its under a half hour...edit edit edit. Haha

@rosemiller9140 Год назад

@@Fishtory I love these shorter videos so much that I joined your channel. I just don't have time to watch anything over a half hour, but I have always valued you. Now I feel I can support you.

@BornAgainFarmGirl Год назад

I learned so much from you 🧐, so thankful for your willingness to teach us newbies.

@Fishtory Год назад

Iam honored and humbled. May your fish be happy and healthy

@BornAgainFarmGirl Год назад

I am honored to be here@@Fishtory My two Nile Puffers Arrived in perfect condition today , their being drip/small water changes every 30 minuets for 2 hours 😁

@pyleaquatics Год назад

If you buy store water in bottles make sure you test it. I have bought several different brands of purified water and spring water and the TDS sometimes is very high. One brand I tested was over 400 ppm. It seems to vary greatly. Distilled water always came up zero or near that when tested with a TDS meter

@sq33qs 8 месяцев назад

Awesome video, very informative and a good listen while working on the fish tanks. I have started a small 20 gallon pond in a storage tote bin, going filterless on it, have lots of floating plants, a amazon sword forest( my son's tank has a single amazon sword in there and that plant grew enormous and has lots of baby off-shoots) planted in a deep sand substrate with root tabs and garden dirt underneath, it is currently 2 weeks old and in about 2 months i going to try to add some minnows to the pond, also and experimint of sorts. Hoping for some success.

@Fishtory 8 месяцев назад

Best of luck...sounds like a plan to me :)

@IsaacDS123 Год назад

well done another responsible and logical approach to what most youtubers say "tank with no filter, i added api quick start wow!"

@Fishtory Год назад

Lol people are so impatient ...or just want to tell you their way and only their way because it's obviously" the BEST way "

@IsaacDS123 Год назад

@@Fishtory so true bro, i might not do everything the same way as you cause i got a school of 12 wild altums but i am starting to rethink a lot of my tank haah

@lukewang1997 Год назад

very interesting video. I like your perspective, as noted in the very beginning "could it handle it? Of course it could, it would be fine, I would probably need to do water changes more often though" I only have the canister on the tank so that it can make flow and diffuse the co2, there's no media in it just so I can get as much flow as possible all the time to the co2 reactor. Definitely no lack of water changes and nutrient export in the form of trimming though, and I think more people need to filter the info that they're given so that it's actually applicable to their situations.

@MFTAQ Год назад

Hell Yeah I am looking forward to watching this one ;)

@mr_seth Год назад

This is great Alex! Thanks! I have an experiment/video idea for you, which would be to build a filterless aquarium from almost nothing. For me, it started by accident when I did a water change and cleaned a filter from an aquarium. There was a bucket containing some mulm and some accidentally sucked up shrimp. I tried leaving it for a few days. The shrimp were still alive. I put some java moss in there, and put a desk light on it. Additional mulm, bits of substrate, plants, and other critters have been added over time. When I had too much algae, I added more snails. I've kept Endlers in there too. (I recently took out the Endlers because I had tried adding some Mexican dwarf crayfish, and they weren't getting along. I may just relocate the MDC, and go back to Endlers.) When I saw your live stream with Lucas recently, the way Lucas is building things up from almost nothing reminded me of these mini projects that I have going on at home. It is evidently a slow process, but it could be a fun long term project. If you used a glass aquarium instead of a bucket, it would work better for videos, evidently. Supplementing microfauna from the beginning could be helpful. It might take a few years, but it would be incredible to build something resembling your other tanks - layered substrate, well mapped out hardscape, beautiful plants, and community of critters, but do it all slowly and in stages. That's more or less what I am going for in the long run. It would be a tremendous amount of work for one video, but you could do a few videos at various stages, and there could be learning opportunities which would lead to other videos along the way. Anyhow... just an idea for you if it happens to inspire you. Have a wonderful day Alex!

@Fishtory Год назад

Haha funny you should suggest that! I have 3 tanks being slowly built up, just like that, as we speak! Cheers

@mr_seth Год назад

@@Fishtory Wow Alex! So awesome to hear. I feel like you and I are on a similar wavelength on many levels. In about a week, I'll be away on a remote canoe trip for about a month. So when you don't hear from me for a while, that is why.

@Fishtory Год назад

@@mr_seth epic! Have a killer time!

@candysworld4u Год назад

Love that you did this video! Thank you. I have questions but I’ll wait and see if I can work it out and catch you on a live stream. ☺️ I’m just excited to see what my new river plant tank does on its own.

@melwohl37 Год назад

Yes !!!!!! Been waiting on this one!!!! ❤ thanks alex!

@Fishtory Год назад

Sure thing!

@lindataylor8302 Год назад

Thank you for your time

@Fishtory Год назад

Thank YOU

@donnywolf9250 Год назад

Great video....I have a couple tanks that I haven't done a water change in over a year. Just top offs. Small fish and heavily planted and the tanks just stay stable. No filters.....just air stones. The filters slowly jammed and clogged and so I just added an airstone over a year ago and everything has been great. I've lost only one neon tetra in that year.

@Fishtory Год назад

Sounds like me lol. Nice work lol

@christinamorris2823 Год назад

My electric increases and just over all huge increases in bills and rent etc just basically forced me to just shut off most of my filtration. LOL And maintenance issues with my health.

@Fishtory Год назад

Sorry to hear that... but I completely understand. I have done the same as well, in hopes of lowering my economic and global energy use

@giftofthewild6665 3 месяца назад

Hob filters don't really use a lot of power imo, the heater is the most expensive part. I shut off my heater to save on electricity costs and stocked with only subtropical or cold tolerant fish (I live in a subtropical zone so tank doesn't drop below 18C).

@HappyOne2017 Год назад

Thanks!

@jeffkane4391 Год назад

Looking great sir! ❤ Thanks for sharing. 😊

@brandymcclain1061 Год назад

Awesome information Alex! Hope you are feeling better!

@Fishtory Год назад

I am! Thank you

@sarahenson9659 Год назад

Thank you for this video. I love planted, jungle style aquariums and am hoping to convert 2 tanks to that style. Still learning though; my established, planted tank now has green water.

@Fishtory Год назад

You can do it! Green water is perfect fot spawning nano fish hehe.. but i get it if that's not your goal

@giftofthewild6665 3 месяца назад

I'm jealous, I can't grow green water no matter how hard I try lol 😂 I keep wondering if I don't get certain algae because I live on a small peninsula surrounded by sea on 3 sides with no freshwater sources nearby (so the algal spores have to travel for miles and miles to get to my tank). I have green spot algae in the tank that gets sunlight and hair algae has come in on plants before (but dies or is eaten quickly) but I've never seen bba or green water (and I've deliberately tried to culture green water so many times 😂).

@chilirasbora Год назад

Five stars for your educational videos.

@Fishtory Год назад

Thank you. (Does this count as one of them? Lol

@dax8753 Год назад

thats what I did let the sponge filters clog completely then just chucked them

@s0yboy Год назад

Appreciating your thumbnail images🎉

@amazingaquaticsandexotics3030 Год назад

great video

@PotooBurd 3 месяца назад

Next time!

@jonathanschutz8563 Год назад

10:39 what is the name of this curled lace like rootless free plant at the botton? I have some but they are pretty slow growing and I would love to know the name. I hope I able to describe it haha

@jonathanschutz8563 Год назад

11:26 at this moment you give a close look at the plant showing the beneficial bacteria.

@IAmAKay Год назад

Im curious about the seed shrimp because in my CRS tank it got infested with seed shrimp and I lost all of my shrimp. I got a shipment of pygmy corydoras and decided to put them in there for quarantine hoping they might eat the seed shrimp and I lost 3 corydoras and their tail fins were eaten (I'm assuming by the seed shrimp). Now anytime I see a seed shrimp I freak out and suck it out and kill it.

@shelleygallant1608 4 месяца назад

So what is the point of "cleaning" changing filter media? Does that not disturb the beneficial bacteria? I am planning on not doing that, just doing water changes when needed. All of my tanks have fluval stratum and live plants. (I am new, back in the hobby after 30 years. And so much has changed. 😊

@Fishtory 4 месяца назад

It's to get you to buy more...it only needs to be clean enough, to let water pass through... so if it's not clogged, it's good to be reused after swishing it in a bucket of non chlorinated water... in fact if you have 2 pads in the filter, it's best to switch one at a time, so you aren't killing as much beneficial bacteria. Cheers

@pungr Год назад

How do you catch fish out the tanks with all the plants?

@Fishtory Год назад

Slower lol

@kdr1048 Год назад

Awesome Sauce! Blob Monster! 😅

@specfour5 Год назад

I have a question about the "deep substrate". So i have a 10gal shrimp tank, carpeted in tiny leaf grass and long hairgrass that i grew from seeds. The substrate is 2 inches of very fine sand (recycled from an old tank setup) mixed with that clay ball stuff, under about 2-3 inches of a coarser sand, with crushed root tabs mixed in. Nitrates are basically constantly zero, ammonia climbs slowly (still a new tank 4 weeks old), and theres some darkening of the sand that seems to be spreading slowly that eventually reaches the sand surface and kills the hairgrass, turning their roots black as i can see through the glass sides. What is this darkening? Anything i can/should do about it?

@hugomouteira7015 Год назад

Hey Alex! Question. I have a 200 liters (abou 55g) planted tank with co2 injection and wanted to switch my hob filter for a canister filter to have better co2 dispersion. Saw a great deal online of a used fluval fx5. Do you think its too much for a 55g tabk that has nano fish and shrimps? Regards from Portugal!

@Fishtory Год назад

Its a great filter. Its more than you need, but that means less maintenance and you can Always upgrade tank sizes without worrying too. If its a good dealz id get it

@mattbatcher802 Год назад

Creepin Jenny? I have a ton of it, it can grow submerged?

@Fishtory Год назад

Yes indeed!

@mattbatcher802 Год назад

@@Fishtory haha, my tanks are about to get a lot greener:)

@DEXTER-TV-series Год назад

Hey. How do you heat 🔥 the water in aquarium without water flow ?

@giftofthewild6665 3 месяца назад

You can heat the whole room or keep an unheated tank I suppose.

@sevcents Год назад

I am currently working on a small blackwater tank with no filter. Hoping to add some licorice gouramis someday. Would love some suggestions for plants that can thrive in low ph soft blackwater.

@Fishtory Год назад

So the ph levels that licorice gouramis live in naturally... they are between 3.5 and 5 ph and no real aquatic plants survive that, that i know of. But many plants like any of the genus persicaria will grow roots and lower shoots in that water, as long as some of the leaves are above water. Ludwia and rotalas generally do well also... mayaca, lilies, and floating plants are most realistic

@KoroWerks Год назад

Utricularia Graminifolia and Aldorvanda vesiculosa are both aquatic carnivorous plants that do well in soft, acidic waters, and I have had some mosses thrive in blackwater acidic setups, I think Christmas moss? But I would look for plants that are naturally distributed in peat swamps and bogs, like carnivorous plants and floaters.

@sevcents Год назад

@@Fishtory thank you! Will focus my attention looking into those.

@sevcents Год назад

@@KoroWerks thank you I will learn more about these

@pacae911 Год назад

Hey guys I have a question 🙋‍♂️ … I want buy 2 assassins snails , but I have 11 amano shrimp …. My question is , the assassin snail can eat shrimps ??? 🤔🤨🧐

@nikkig3677 Год назад

Hi @Fishtory, a really interesting video, thanks. Could this be done with an external filter? I have an eheim classic 600 for my 5ft x 2ft x 1½ft tank (~400 litres). The tank currently has only 2 odessa barbs in it, and I'm looking for more energy efficient and natural ways of keeping them, and this method really appeals to me. It currently has 3 real plants in it and lots of fake logs/stones/coral/ plants, etc, as well as 2 large real logs, where the plants are growing on. How would I go about moving it over if it is possible? Less (or no) filter cleaning would be great as I'm struggling to find time for it lately, so it feels more like a chore than it used to. Only running lights on electricity would be great, too. The setup has 2 5-foot lights (1 blue 1 white)

@Fishtory Год назад

Yes the main issue is fish that need lots of o2...rainbows...discus, loaches and the like. But it works well if you have at least 70% plant covering surface areas when looking down. Below that density, it's a game of water changes and or light stocking and feeding slim. But with good lighting and lots of plants...it usually works vert well

@nikkig3677 Год назад

@Fishtory I've actually measured my tank properly, and it's not as large as I'd thought, so it's only 263 litres (~70 US gallons). Sorry for all these questions, but i really do appreciate your advice. I'd be happy to use airstones if it meant I could get rid of the filter. My stocking is very low as I only have 2 odessa barbs, each around 2 inches long. Can I just switch the filter off once I've planted the tank up to 70% to 80%, as you've suggested? Or do I need to allow it some time to settle? I'm guessing that the bacteria in my filter sponges and media are different from the bacteria that will grow in/on my substrate and on the tank surfaces, etc, as those bacteria require flowing water (& therefore high O2) to survive, whereas without a filter running, there won't be any flow at all, just some localised water movement from the airstone? I could add a few airstones spaced out around the tank if that would help? If so, would it then be beneficial to put the filter media and sponges directly into the aquarium for a few weeks so that these bacteria seed it? Or is it reliant on anoxic and anaerobic bacteria within the substrate to break down the fish waste? I thought I could maybe add a couple of zebra Nerite snails to help with any algae issue that might occur on the glass, and if they'd get on with each other, 1 Siamese Algae Eater (reticulatus). Is there anything that these fish (and my barbs) won't eat, that will itself eat fish waste, or should that be vacuumed occasionally, or just left for the plants to utilise? I have access to a wildlife pond that supports newts and pond snails, so I could add some of that water to my aquarium if you think that would help? I do have a heater, but it's only on in winter as my house is pretty warm in summer (up to 82°F max) and rarely drops below 68°F in winter. I only use the heater when it drops below 70ish°F in winter. What should I add to the substrate to help support this ecosystem? If you can link to your videos that explain how to set one up from the start, I'd appreciate it 🙏🏻 Thanks.

@spoiltpig5638 Год назад

Hey Alex, what water parameters are you looking for when you’d advise to only do top-offs. Is it just the nitrate levels or is there anything else to be looking out for ?

@lindawynn9042 Год назад

Yes, I would like to know that too!

@Fishtory Год назад

Good questions, sorry i didnt mention that! So i look for a ph thats slightly acidic and more over...stable... so 6.5 to 7 with 6.8 being where mine tend to sit. I usually add a lb of crushed coral to the substrate per 10g of tank, to buffer ph. Then i look for nitrates staying the same...be it 0- or up to 40ppm. You can go much higher, but fish fet sick easily in high nitrates. Tds sits aroubd 130 to 200 in most the tanks. Ideally you just want the nitrates to not build up over time ..so a system that uses whatever you add as fertz, or fish food snd decaying plant matter/mulm

@spoiltpig5638 Год назад

Thanks for replying and sharing your wisdom ! Think I’ll make that bold step soon, but it somehow feels illegal not to do water changes

@mattbatcher802 Год назад

Can the Apistogramma raise fry in that 50 gallon with the angels? Can the angels?

@Fishtory Год назад

Both have at different times...they hide back in the plants

@Chompchompyerded Год назад

I am preparing to jump into the hobby. I'm going to start with a nano aquarium to see if I can keep up with it. I'm hoping to have a small school of celestial pearl danios, a two or three dwarf corys, and a hillstream loach. I want the tank to be planted as well, so this video and some others you've done should come in very handy. Unlike your water source, our water is exceptionally hard, mostly with calcium. It almost seems so hard that if you want a drink, you should bring a hammer and a chisel to break enough off. I do have one question which came up during the video, and anyone who wants to chime in may do so. He mentioned something called an ROI unit. What is a RO unit? Thanks in advance to anyone who responds. In closing, thanks for making these videos. I for one appreciate them greatly!

@zeb33369 Год назад

Reverse Osmosis 😉

@Chompchompyerded Год назад

@@zeb33369 Thanks mate! I appreciate it!

@upsadaisy11 10 месяцев назад

Wonderful work you are doing here. Everything that you do is underpinned by research and you also promote system thinking, which, from my experience, is lacking and much needed in the field. My tank is 4 years old and has been filterless for the past 2 years as a result of an accident, really, when my chamber filter just detached. I planted some vallisnerias in its place and just let the tank be. Since the ecosystem was already stable, most likely the filter was not needed in the first place. My 3-year-old loves learning about the tank and she is actually the one who acclimated the amanos. Our tank: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nWSpcYk6mbI.htmlfeature=shared Cheers from England!

@Fishtory 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for sharing and for coming by! Cheers

@Noelsfish_and_more Месяц назад

What is that grass looking plant in your aquarium!?

@Fishtory Месяц назад

Dwarf hair grass

@Noelsfish_and_more Месяц назад

@@Fishtory thanks mate, that’s what I thought but it seems a little bit tall

@fishtropiccanada4747 Год назад

Lol 😂

@johnnybest6386 Год назад

Who is better. Than u?

@Fishtory Год назад

Nature.. most japanese and german aquarists lol

@dellseasandoval8187 Год назад

This is super cool 😎 . I got in with the 21st thumbs up before you started getting your many thousands of thumbs up because I got the video only 26 minutes after it started. Time for me to go to bed 🛌 though because I’m down under 🦘. I like how you do the multiple hands on the video thing that people first look at to go to it. I thought it was fine and creative.

@Fishtory Год назад

Sweet dreams and thank you