Hobbyist Fish Room with NO Water Changes | Full Tour 

This man is so relatable in terms of “I will try everything to not do anything”

I can't get enough of these long fish room tours!!! It's great to see other Aussie fish nerds. Loving the content Nick

Nick's face when he learned Bladderwort is carnivorous! I love that no matter how deep you are in this hobby there's always something new to learn. Matt, thanks so much for showing us around. Beautiful fish & plants!

I like his "lazy" style lmao but with that many tanks, ponds, plants, chooks, im sure it's still a LOT of work

you are right, white clouds are egg scatterers, tell him to get a tray of marbles in that outdoor tub asap and toss the mop. i raised 300-400 of them in an IBC tub this year with a bare bottom, feeding off infusoria from decaying leaves. nature is great!

I love his fish keeping. Fish tanks are healthy and he uses natural balancing of tanks to upkeep instead of fighting nature to keep it looking scaped. I'd love to see more fish tanks like this simply because a pristine looking tank does not mean it's a healthy one! He is keeping very happy fish and I'd love to him and his collection from time to time

I love this dude, at the end, he was like I can go on all day if I had enough space.

Love these long tour videos. I can sit down, watch these fish, watch my fish, and learn a thing or two! Great way to educate. You ask so many great questions, great guide! Thanks a ton.

Great interview Nick, Love Matts attitude. Im a lazy plant grower and its nice to hear such a successful breeder say he works the lazy way.

These tours are by far and away my favourite FishTube content atm. Learning so much and find the longer form, conversational style, really relaxing! Thanks so much!

Very cool video tour Nick, and thanks for sharing your space Matt! Really enjoy these behind the scenes, inspiration and information both.

Another awesome video. Thanks for highlighting other fish breeders in your area. Wishing you great success

So much life coming from this video, the tank, the plants, its so satisfying and therapeutic to see these amazing established tanks in the form that they are in... i love this hobby more than words can describe!

Matt is my fish guy 😁 has always been so helpful, never have enough time with him lol all of my fish I've gotten through him, bloody legend

I rarely have the time or ability to stay focused on long fish Room tours, but the stars aligned today and I really enjoyed your tour of Matt’s home and business. Living in an apt, I can only dream of being able to have room to breed and geek out fish. My only outlet is watching my neocaridinas proliferate.

What a bright guy! I love his outdoor setup. Thanks for this amazing video.

I love love love this guys set ups! Hearing about all the plants was very nice and than seeing his beautiful backyard with all his plants was very refreshing! I’d love to see a video going through those as well

Totally enjoyed Matts home tour, what a nice guy. It must be nice living in the tropics with so many plant varieties and the ability to have fish outside. Thank you for sharing.

I'm a total newbie to fish keeping, but i'm binge watching as many fish related videos as possible and this is one of the best yet.

Awesome video. It's so cool how you are bringing light to other people. Love Matt's guard chickens, lol

goodness.. so much knowledge, and such a good attitude, thanks for the tour!

Love the head bump and how you left it in there lol. I just started a 75g shrimp/small fish tank so your videos (multiples) have been super clutch for me. Keep up the good work!

Such an awesome video, so much information and tips to take away from! SO MUCH INFOMRATION!😊

We are pretty much setting up the same aquatic garage shop as part of our expansion from our reptiles in South Africa. So w e enjoy watching what and how others have done theres, keeping it simple is always key to success.

That was an information goldmine. I probably got more out of that than all of the videos I've watched in the past. Good sharing.

Amazing to see the fish surviving in these conditions. Probably more natural for them that the pristine weekly water change tanks. Shows how well the plants and algae can keep the water safe for them.

Enjoyable and SOOO full of great information! Loved watching the two of you talk shop!

I really enjoyed the tour and learnt a lot about different fishes and aqaurium plant types and their functions. Thanks a lot for that bro. ❤️ from India. 🙏🏻

Love what you're doing Nick keep up the great videos! Much love from Perth

What an incredible set up! Thank you for showing us around.

Wow! I can't believe that the madness continued into the garden lol. Truly amazing 😊

Thoroughly enjoyed the tour, particularly the outdoor garden area. Mesmerising.

Super Awesome video guys. It’s cool to see behind the seems of breeding and the successes and failures. 👍🏼 Keep up the great work.

Thank you for this enjoyable and informative tour. Matt seems like the nicest guy! Thanks, Matt for showing us the ugly tubs, too!

I love this cause everyone’s story/journey of fish keeping/breeding usually starts when we are in our single digits of age.

Matt! It worked!!! I used Siamese alge eater, Amano shrimp, plattys. But the ROSY BARBS did it!!!! Thanks guys......

Great video and nice to see you connecting to other fish enthusiasts

I am speechless 😊 and amazed how much he has cultivated in his living space . Lovely video 💖✨✨✨

Your content is just what I need after a long hard day on toxic fishkeeping subreddits. Always so inspiring. From a fellow Aussie, keep up the good work!

I love these long video fish room tours. I always find something new and useful. Cheers Nick

Wow, what an incredible set up! Loved the plants too.

I loved "Goldfingers" knowledge and enthusiasm of the hobby, lil dumpy was a great fish im glad he kept him haha, also man definitely knows his plants which is a cool crossover.

I dream of having the same setup and lifestyle as Matt that was a magnificent setup and amazing 🤩 video thank you for sharing this with us ❤

What a cracking video Nick 👍 Matt sure has a great setup. Hope you're well. Stay safe (Keith from the UK).

Amazing fish room tour nick! This guy certainly has some amazing setups and some super healthy fish. Thanks for sharing 😊

what a great video what a great bloke both of you are thank you so much

Love it!! It was so cool seeing the chickens and outdoor plants too

I always killed off any inverts hitchhiking on my plants with a few days in a container with some malachite green. Makes sure there's no parasites or snails on my plants before I wash them off to use in the tank.

Love it when you do these types of videos!! All of his stuff is so awesome and so cool to see how he grows everything! Amazing!! Even loved the chickens haha!!

This was a minted video, i live in Scotland and can only dream of having so many fish outside as it gets real cold up here, my goldfish are real hardy, i see 5 or 6 inches of ice on top of my ponds some winters so only goldys & rice fish are hardy enough to stay outside, cheers from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I love the passion all these hobbyist have for their fish.

So good. I grow my one plants and sell exclusively what I grow submersed and loved hearing him validate all my thoughts. Lol

Yep, I’m growing more medaka here in Texas. 😊 I had them next to the window, this morning there is a big sack of eggs. 😅

Matt is so passionate, love it!

Loved this! What a fun tour!

Another great tour video mate, need too start a weekly tour series keep up the good work 👍 🤙

Another cool video Nick, add this guy to a place to visit if I ever get there! Well done!

Great Vid, had to watch it twice. Great example of keeping it simple.

I really like this guy, I've watched this video 3 times. Very inspiring stuff

What a great and informative tour! I know it's been 5 months since you've made this video, Matt, but my Vietnamese Cardinal Minnows--which I believe are the same to breed as White Cloud Mountain Minnows--need heavy floating plant cover for the babies to survive, in my experience. I know you're looking for eggs, but I wonder if they're even very visible? They're the smallest fry I've seen! They hang out at the top of the tank or tub for a good many days, sticking themselves to the side or anchoring themselves in the roots of the floaters. I keep an opening in the plants with a floating ring, and when I see the fry beginning to gather in the clearing I scoop them out and put them in their own grow out tank or tub.

Excellent content. Love this style of video. Already on my third time watching this video.

This is where you got the “bunning’s” fertilizer idea from and then passed on to us. The Osmocote root tabs, Awsome! Gotta find them or equivalent in the U.s.

I absolutely love this guys style his aquariums look so natural I love it

White Clouds were the first egg layer I ever bred - about 60 years ago, long before the long fin variety was developed. I had them in a 4-5 gal bucket in my bedroom (I was in high school) with a small box filter or maybe just an air stone, unheated. The bucket had plenty of plants, water sprite and maybe something else. No heater with my bedroom in the winter around 65 degrees F. At that time what I was reading was they did best at 60-70 F and never ate their eggs or young. I kept them for 2-3 years before moving on. 48 years ago I moved into a location with hard water and stopped trying to keep aquariums. That was after breeding Angel Fish for about 15 years. Very interesting info on the plants. I never had much success with plants and am just now learning why.

Fantastic. I'm inspired! Thanks from Minnesota USA.

A good way to get rid of most snails is dunking the plants a few times in warmer water, they just let go xD or a slice of cucumber on a stick theyll bunch up and are easy to pick out 🥰

This was the best information and so happy it's Australian based.. loved it

Matt's a great guy. Been to his place and video doesn't do what he does justice. Loved meeting a fellow low tech person to gas bag too.

I couldn't get my White Clouds to breed so I relegated the tank to an inner wall facing east that received sunrise only and pretty much forgot about. The water had dropped down to 20cm depth when I remembered the 7 Clouds. I checked to see if they were still alive and they were but I also had about 500 fry also. When I analyzed the tank as to why they did so well it reminded me of a small forested freshwater stream. Low dappled light, shallow water, crazy

Thanks Matt! Thanks Nick!

Cool to see a plant breeder.

Awesome Video!! Living in Brissie I'll need to check out your store soon

Really cool and informative video. Thank you guys.

I just switched over to the Father Fish method myself! All except for one small tank, which has so many plants growing in the gravel, it is clean, and stable, with no algae!

Very cool set up. Feeling inspired for sure

Great video can see the guy is passionate about his fish room

Love this! Great video.

Love these aussie legends your finding in our backyard, keep up the good work

That's amazing how much stuff he has.

I love this guy and all he is doing! Would love to meet more fish and plant people my friends and family don't really like what I do and it gets depressing.

Well, this is a true Fish Guy. Tks, grateful for this video

Awesome tour cool setup. Would love to hear the logistics and behind the scenes business side of the project to get a feel of how I can start small?

Aquarium Co-op C.A.R.E Forum introduced me to the most effective way to eliminate hitchhikers and algae on plants: Reverse Respiration I intentionally encourage ramshorns, greater radix, Malaysian trumpet, hercules and assassin snails. The first 4 keep the substrate turned over while also preventing any algae buildup (including eliminating hair algae) and pruning back melt. The assassins keep the snail population balanced. I also establish healthy colonies of black worms & amphipods in my tanks before introducing fish. Pretty much all I do is add food during breeding season and prune back plants, plus top off tanks (~13 tanks right now, plus an outdoor apartment porch pond) I use duckweed to reduce evaporation, and probably top off ~10 to 15 gallons each month. 8 of those gallons go to the outdoor pond

Another awesome home set up and great vudeo

bladderwort is nearly impossible to get rid of once its there but honestly I've never had problems because of it, my shrimp tank with them is still thriving, I think they dont have a real impact on predating on fish and shrimps maybe only micro organisms. I love this guys setup, and you can see he has all the rare guppy strains. He also makes a very good point that isn't mentioned often - guppies etc have better colouration and growth when they're exposed to natural sunlight, somewhere on youtube a guy did a side by side comparison of this.

Love the vids. Re plants, Immersed is the same as Submerged. Emergent is growth above water. Good to see more Wholistic/Natural setups. Closer to a real ecosystem.❤

a very clever and talented young man

I used to have a big snail problem as a kid in the 90's with my tanks. I did some research at the library at the time and picked up a botia of some sort, can't remember what it was but it had some weird hook like thing under its eyes. It went to town hard on the snails. I would hear it cracking snails for days. Then down the road I had no snails at all, they were all gone. I couldn't believe it. The problem with the botia(not sure what breed it was) was that quite territorial and somewhat aggressive toward other fish. I had it alongside guppies, platys, mollys, plecos and a bunch of other fish I can't remember. One day it managed to jump out of the tank and that was the end of the snail eater. I had a really cool looking fish that looked like a smallish dragon that always swam close to the surface, it had a huge mouth. It was fairly calm and never left the surface, always swam up top.

29:07 convicts, my favorite fish to breed. NICE

Amazing tour

the white clouds may do better for you in cool water in the shade with some almond leaf and more plant cover.

Great video, thank you!

Alweer een leerrijke video. Dank u wel Nick.

AMAZING VIDEO. Could you please do more of these?

Yess, so excited for a new vid 🔥🤙

Love these videos Keep up the great work👌

Hey I am a huge fan it would make my day if you resound but have you ever thought about making a series mixing different guppys like you did with the shrimp.

Aussie legend ! Best of luck with the venture.

I think I'm moving to Australia. These two are adorable. 🥰

It's awesome almost all of us in the US have a back yard of some kind and we should use it to the best we can to grow food this guy is on a new level of nature with natural.