ECO BOWL AQUARIUM: NO WATER CHANGE Aquascape Tutorial 

👇👇MD MERCH CLICK HERE👇👇: FULL SHOP: md-fish-tanks.creator-spring.com In this video I create another bowl ecosystem. I've done this many times now with great success and each time I make improvements and get better and better. I think this is my best one yet and I hope you agree :) Equipment (all links affiliate): LED FLOODLIGHTS: US amzn.to/3m3cEz9 UK amzn.to/3orIdRv GOOD BUDGET LIGHT:: US amzn.to/2MDfjk1 UK amzn.to/3iYlfQQ SMALL HANG ON BACK FILTER: US amzn.to/2Mw63OO UK amzn.to/39rx3b5 NANO INTERNAL FILTER: US amzn.to/3oxGBWm UK CANISTER FILTER: US amzn.to/3iNeVtW UK amzn.to/2Fo774a GOOSENECK CLIP ON LAMP: (similar as product is now discontinued) US amzn.to/2IlwLVA UK amzn.to/2LNat13 MINI WATER PUMP: US amzn.to/2oAmf5y UK amzn.to/2mjHDez TANKS: US amzn.to/2SOocHG UK amzn.to/2SPA24i STRIP LED LIGHT: US (similar) amzn.to/2SNgbm7 UK amzn.to/2Fn9aW1 ASTA LED LIGHT: US amzn.to/3k9EmpY UK amzn.to/3p5XUPY AQUARIUM RACKING: Shelving: US amzn.to/2SrYZ5k UK amzn.to/2GFWKJ2 AIRPUMP (FILTER SYSTEM): US amzn.to/31z8FA9 UK amzn.to/37GIoUa FILTER SPONGES: US amzn.to/3dQLUfM UK amzn.to/3dS2k7K MEDIA BAGS: US amzn.to/34Kaf2N UK amzn.to/3lAj3z1 STAINLESS LILY PIPES: US amzn.to/2FqHpvR UK amzn.to/2RlfrnC BOWL AQUARIUMS: US amzn.to/2M4FwFO UK: amzn.to/2Vx73CL API® products Subscribe to API on RU-vid: ru-vid.com USA consumers purchase API products on Amazon: www.amazon.com/stores/page/2193F555-CE5F-4A6B-BDC4-F315CB7F175D?channel=MDTanks UK consumers purchase API products on Amazon: www.amazon.co.uk/stores/page/25663644-6C8C-432C-9E6A-0A85082C3E3C AQUARIAN® products Follow AQUARIAN on RU-vid: ru-vid.com/show-UCNxaNWKoWr_ztSgXgPj9r8A Purchase AQUARIAN products here: aquarian.co.uk/where-to-buy/ AWESOME MEMBERSHIP COMMUNITY ru-vid.com/show-UC3uQXzXSPspf2LoGdtYGiHwjoin

You inspired me to get into aquascaping I am 15 from nz and love every vid you make it makes my whole day!

My favorite path in this hobby is to create tanks with less to zero maintenance and I'm glad to see such eco systems from you mate. Gorgeous one again! 👍

Thats a gorgeous looking bowl, if I ever see one on sale here I am definitely buying it, thanks for the inspiration.

Morning mate, gonna send you a video via Instagram of my tank 😀 forgot to show you in the shop the other day 🤣🤦‍♀️

I have no aquarium and probably never will either, but I find your videos (especially the bowl ones) extremely interesting and even calming in a way. Great job! 🙏🏽😎

thank you for this video! i’m looking to build my first bowl tank soon and i’m so excited! thanks for showing me how it’s done and for typing out the plant names omg that helped so much this time around!

I love your videos! Giving me lots of inspiration for when I start my first eco fish bowl which will probably lead to having a room full of tanks down the track haha! Thanks for all your tips and can't wait for the next video (and my timmy the turtle jumper to arrive) :)

❤️❤️❤️love all the eco tanks. Thanks a trillion for all your tips,tricks and humor.

I absolutely love these bowl rebuilds! I'm going to rebuild mine today!🌿💚🌱

I have a bowl with one fry and two black shrimp - the fry is a platy that appeared after I had cleared down a tank so she is called 'Lucky' ❤️

After a couple of years of watching your videos, I've finally decided to set up a little eco system tank like these. Couldn't have done it without everything I have learnt from you. I've got a sweet little 12" x 8" angle iron framed tank set up, it's decades old and looks it, but I'm really pleased with how it's turned out. I'm wondering how small this could be scaled down to? I have a few old goldfish bowls sitting here empty, I think the oldest one is from the '30s. Would be fun to do something with them.

I love the fact that you talk about the ecosystem part of planted tanks instead of the high tek expensive stuff. New subscriber for sure

WoW thats awesome mate😱

Your trick with the aquasoil in bags, I think, is going to be a tank-changer. Lol I have been searching for low to no-tech ways to set up for things like bowls and I know that lots of plants and lots of fast growing plants are key, but I can never seem to get enough plants in any of my tanks (they're so expensive!) to properly balance out and I'm always having to refresh my tanks completely. I love how you said you're a lazy fish keeper! I am too. Lol I'm also a lazy gardener, so I hate having to do a lot of maintenance on anything. I want things to take care of themselves. And during gravel vacuuming, my substrates are always mixing. I've been trying to figure out how to stop that, for one, while still allowing plant roots to reach the things they need. The bag seem like they solve that problem! Thank you so much. I can't wait to do this in not only my little tanks, but my big tank as well after my fiancé and I have moved. ❤️

Another cool one! My family will be moving soon and we are so inspired by your videos to try something similar. Thanks for the friendly, informative content!

MD I want to thank you for showing me a hobby i had no idea if id be good at let alone have fun while doing it. Here i am doing both possibly even for profit soon.

Each time I watch your channel I have another idea for a tank. Awesome as always. Gina Hetlage

The original bowl video got me back into the fish keeping hobby after a decade, keep doing great things love the channel

Very nice, mate. Cheers!

Love when u scape the bowl!

The shrimp & snail bio-load is insane! Get a 50gal sump to deal along with those water changes! To be fair? I have learnt some gems here... Why I am supporting the channel!

Great scape! Gotta love the bowl builds. I think the polysperma and especially tripartita are gonna give you some headaches later on with maintenance tho ;)

Awesome bowl, looks stunning. Wondering how much does your fish room cost to run and maintain, obviously sponsors make that way easier. It would be really interesting to get an idea.

love that bowl..... but Mats tank was awsome. Funny how we rarely see a tank with one plant. Thanks mate! Si

Excited for this one. Had to go from ipad to tv.!

beautiful. That wood piece is godlike

Hi MD! Please, consider doing a planted salt water tank, I think you could rock it, too!:) I remember you had one at the beginning but lost interest. But it was not planted, so try one with algae…? Just saw The King of DIY’s seahorse video, got me thinking you should try planted salt water tanks, too.

Thank you so much for this video MD. I love all your videos but the tutorials are particularly helpful for those of us just starting out.

Love them!

My bowl has arrived this morning 30cm light arrived last week aqua bags just need soil substrates and plants

I like the shrimp and snails in a bowl much better than a beta!!

Nice bowl. Quite good!

yay finally another ecosystem bowl

Chuck it in!! Gets me everytime😂

I have been following this series because I would like to create one.. But dang! That grass really grown a lot 🤣

The fish bowl was epic, but I noticed that you really control yourself not to over plant it huh, it's not you at all 😄. Anyways I just wanna say thank you, cuz just by watching you sir MD gives relaxation and fun vibe to me, and you're also the one that inspires me to create my own dream fish tank soon..💖 keep it up sir, unknowingly your making someone's day by your video 💖😌

Love this bowl! It might be my favourite one yet!

Still obsessed w ur bowls 😍

I love to scroll through MDs thumbnails and see the same cutout of him in each one

Love me some Matt

I previously have gotten into making aquariums and have gone threw almost $100 worth of plants in my tank because I added ram horn snails i tried different variety of plants esc. The would eat the big leaves and the stems of the finer leafed plants and I had to completely start over several times and monitor heavily to ensure no big snails I recently switched to mystery snails because of this and I was just wondering how you are able to have success with ram horn snails without them destroying your entire scape?? I would love some advice!!

I love your vids sooooooo muuuchhhhh!

Hey gey's, it's a very nice and simple tank. I love it. Please tell me, how often you change the water and how many...

You don't have any problems with placing plants from emerged to submerged, the plant is damaged or what your method is, everything is very beautiful.

Love this bowl aquarium

Hi MD, love yours videos. How many gallons or litters this bowl has ? Thank you!

This is a great build but I think you you covered up the coolest part of the wood with the plants. I think the roots should have been left a little more exposed to watch the shrimp swim/crawl through

17:09 my blue plakat looks shockingly similar just with a different color arrangement and a ton of blue. started as a fish that was nearly all white

Is the orange fish in the bottom left corner at 6:00 a discus?

Awesome as always, MD. Keep up the great work.

this may sound like a dumb question but im new to the hobby and was wondering whats the difference between the aqua essential and quick start? love the vid as always :)

Beautiful work if I can ever find a bowl like that I would love to have a go

you heard about the ecoaphere? a small cristal ball, sealed, with some red shrimp, a piece of wood, small, and some filamemt green algee, and its never open, it comes like that, from the brand, i had 1 few years back, basicaly its an ecosystem everything equilibrium to feed the shrimp etc. but had to keep it in light few hours and mantain 25c

Those jade shrimp were sick never seen them before

That one bogwood at the start looked like yodas hand. I hope you use it in something else! As always, great video.

Was it just me or did someone else see the discus? 😍

An early upload? So excited for this!!

A bowl like this seems like it would be good for a college dorm tank

Lovin it!

Well done sir I'm so inspiring about your aquascaping 😊

my eco tank has been going strong for 3 months now no chicken dirt, no gravel, just white sand. quite small 17cm by 76cm tank, and about 18 shrimpies & 63 guppies. i added coontail and some cow grass.

can u please do a video with an iwugami tank ( only rocks ) can u also put a carpet in? I think it will look 🔥

I live in a very hard water area. I can grow many plants really well but some, even pearl weed can be very slow. I wouldn't mind having a go at this 'eco system' idea and wonder if people have had success with it in hard water areas? I don't want to use RO or even mess with the water. The completed bowl look so beautiful.

This was fun

Beautiful.

Only for you does twelve months equal 'long term'. ;) Ah well, my favorite tank lasted seven months which is better than average Come to think of it I've been following the channel longer than any of the tanks have been running, counting the ones that I presume you still have at home. The new version is lovely but the overgrown weed farm had charm - and I was rooting for the poor thing. Who knows? Maybe this version will survive eight months! You do realize that the most dangerous thing to the long term success of your tanks is you, right? One moment of boredom and the whole thing gets taken apart! And yes, I'm just giving you a hard time about it. I've learned not to get attached to any of your tanks. My last favorite is gone now. See you next week!1

Stunning as always..challenge is to balance out the zoom in effect due to convexity of the glass when you scape a bowl

Looks amazing. If anyone knows where u can buy those big bowls could u please let me know. Just started a shrimp only tank myself and I love it

NICE AQUARIUM, i think you should make a turtle tank tho

I saw a discus in the background

Ngl not having the pebbles underneath the wood might’ve looked abit cooler! Just an opinion tho, still looks really nice!

Seeing this grown ass man whose arms are the size of both my legs struggle to lift this bowl, makes me think I deff want a smaller one for my room and first aquarium. Or I need to work out for like 3 years before I can get one this size. Baha jokes aside, awesome video and love the end result

Every time MD says “just chuck it in” do a shot

Yeah!!!! More Shrinp

So amazing I'm actually going to try this. My question. You have shrimp and Ramshorn snails which breed a great deal, is this something you're not concerned with and should I, someone that is not trying to breed, steer away from? I like the shrimp and the snails because of how they keep the ecosystem in check but I don't want make more of them :-) Thanks you!

definitely a great way for people who are new to the hobby to get started

I've just set up a 8 ltr mono tank There's no substrate in it I've put broken slate in and have wedged plants between the slates Eventually I'm going to put 3 _ 4 elders onto it Do I need to put a plant feed into the tank Please advise You gave me the idea Thanks

Hey MD, i made my 3 feet tank learning from you, its ecosystem. Survived for 1 year and 2 days ago the tank broke. Its really sad seing it all gone just like that. Gonna take a break from the hobby now. 😔

bowls!

That thumbnail makes the bowl look massive haha

Do one high tech tank

Do kray fish soon please ,any colour kray

15:59 is that an orange discus back there?🤔

I have 2 large spots that are cabinets under my 125 gallon I wanted to get 2 cube tanks to start trying my hand at tanks like this. But I can't seem to find tanks that are 20L x 15W x 17H. The hunt is still on so I can take the information you've shared in many videos and apply them myself

Very nice md did I see a discus in that tank behind you 🤔

Hey where do you buy that thing that you do water changest with

Don’t the shrimp go walkabout? I went into a LFS the other day & saw a bunch of dead little guys on top of the tank lid. I couldn’t see any gaps so they must have guns 💪 like you! It actually bothered me, because it was late arvo…… obviously been there at least all day. So sad 🙁. You hit it out of the park again! 🇦🇺❤️

What about air pump,not required even for shrimps ?

This might be a silly question, but I was wondering with wood and plants sticking out can shrimp and snails escape? I really love your aquascaping and I love the way it looks the stuff sticking out. I was just wondering if it's something I need to be mindful of if I want to do something like that?

Another amazing bowl scape! Thanks for sharing MD

I am surprised to see that you never drip acclimate cherry shrimps before putting them into the new home. How do they survive such an abrupt change in water parameters?

is that a DISCUS in tank on the left??!! 15:57

Hola me podria decir por favor que mayerial coloco en las bolsas?

Great bowl! One quick question: do you think a small pump, just to move water a bit and spread nutrients, would be any beneficial in a small tank like that?

Yaaay, new one

Love the project and will try soon. Was there snails in the first bowls. It seems that the shrimps were saved, but what about snails?

what do you do when the surface starts to look like an oil ( that are bacteria )?

MD "Tip number 1, don't put pearl weed in there" Me: laughing so hard tea snorts out of my nose!

Thanks for another awesome video mate. Does anyone know a good video / tutorial on how to build a DIY aquarium stand. Simple but solid (400kg+) 💜