HOW TO 💪MAXIMIZE POTHOS 💪 in your FISH TANK!🐟🐟🐟 

I love the way your tank looks with the pothos wrapping around the tank. In my 75 gallon planted tank, I put a clipping of my grandma's pothos in it about a year ago, and now, the roots have really taken off, and found thier way into the substrate as well. The leaves are huge and green, and the stems are nearly an inch thick! I was wondering what changed, and looking back, I think you are absolutely right about the root in the substrate thing

I started doing this in 2015 and I promise you that it works. One time I took a water sample to the pet store and she couldn't believe I had 0 nitrates or nitrites. I didn't tell her that I had a Golden Pothos in my aquarium filter. As far as the actual Pothos, it grew almost 20 feet long and stretched from my living room into my dining room.

I appreciate this simple and straight forward explanation. :)

I love how calm he explains things. I'm a variety pothos / fresh water gardening enthusiast. Glad I found this channel

Great looking tank! Thanks for the help.

Very helpful. Thank you!

Hi! I think your presentation of this topic was fantastic. How to think about using pothos and anticipating roots growing into the substrate further enhancing filtration was really inspiring! I started about a month ago and split a potted "Jim" is his name (your first bonus plant) to the perfect size to stuff in the back of the tank lid. Roots are going crazy halfway to the substrate. Noticeable difference in water quality. Snails and shrimp love climbing throughout it. (Now I can't wait to see it get to the floor of the tank.) The leaf growth comparison of the plant was great supporting information and your bonus plant as well. Keep up the great work!

Great video! I’m also a plant lover for my tanks. I put syngonium in my take last summer and it went crazy. I made a video where I had to take it out an divide it because I thought it was too big. New subscriber!

Thank you for this info

I have four aquariums and my best is the one that I let the pothos root into the substrate. That tank is always balanced, low maintenance, the fish healthy and fit. Even the aquatic plants grow nicely in that tank since they feed from the water column and the pothos is feeding under the gravel. It is the perfect arrangement, nature's under the gravel filter.

Really helpfull thanks !!

your content is helpful and enjoyable

Started it two weeks ago and already have good roots growing and two new leaves 🍃 😊 Thanks

First time watching I am so happy SOMEONE put a video out on house plants in aquariums thank you.

Super useful. Will definitely use that in one of my future builds. I was thinking the same but couldn't really find many people rooting photos in the aquarium substrate.

Great info! Thank you

this is exactly what I've been needing! I've been looking at adding houseplants to my tank for along time but I don't know what I'm doing with immersed plants

Looking forward to a future discussion on natural filtration in the environment!

Your channel and info is so so good!

Very good information

All abour the plants! I agree. Thanks for your tips abour Pocos and Lilly, im going to try it in my aquarium as well :)

I never trimmed my roots! My goldfish in my tank did that all by themselves!!! LOL but super thnx for this advice! Great channel/blog! I had the idea YEARS & YEARS ago to put the plant into my fish tank and it grew so damn awesome in there & looked so pretty 😍 I kept it in there for over a decade b4 I moved out of state! Not sure if I'm going to set up a new fish tank here or not. 🙃

I planted my pothos directly into the substrate about 4 months ago. They grow new leaves just as quickly & sprout additional lead roots. So far they're doing fantastically & my shrimp & snails love it.

Great info about this recurrent plant for our fish-tanks and how to improve its growing and effectiveness. Thanks a lot, man!! Cheers from Seville (Spain). 🙂👍🇪🇦

Great info!

Thank you! You're the only person to consider doing this that I've come across... My pothos has been growing a few weeks with long single roots, so came here to see if I should prune then to make them branch, now I'm going to wait and put them in the gravel!

awesome video mate!

I have to agree I would say that even the lucky bamboo I put in a breeding basket has done better once it reached the substrate. Which is just semi-large rocks. But you can't really forget about water quality. I recently got some variegated bamboo and I put it in the 55. Mostly because it's much too young to put the stem down at the substrate without submerging the plant. It had to go with the breeding baskets. The new plant responded well to the mature tank. but then I got a new 75. Cycled it put plants in now it's got fish but it's still not a mature tank it is maybe 3 months old. One of the plants that went into the 75 is a bit of that variegated bamboo. that was doing well but in the new tank it is stalled and is struggling just to live.

Great video bro!

Hello from France , amazing vidéo , bravo !

You can also grow spider plants and philodendrons in the tank. I have the above, and pothos growing in my tank. Zero nitrates! Love this channel

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Nice channel new subscriber here❤️🐟👍

I like this video. Very informative but the audio is kinda low.

Nice video brother...let me try out

I have fully submerged pothos stems in each of my tanks. They are doing great. There must be enough oxygen in the water because the leaves are still beautiful.

Hiii I just found your channel and was hoping you could do a video about introducing pothos into the aquarium. Do you put substrate down first and then gravel or just regular substrate? I really want to get back into the plant hobby and was wanting an aquarium to and just absolutely loved this idea!!

My pothos is in my 75G turtle tank in my room, the plant nearly covers an entire wall that i put hooks on for it to grow and climb. Now im building a pond for the little homie in the backyard, im not sure if ill ad pathos or Lillie’s to help it out in the beginning

I think a big thing that people, or at least I did was light positioning. My lights sit on the small brackets that hold the lights above the tank rim. Aka, m plants aren't getting light. Just the tank itself was really.

Great video, very infromative. Do you know if water conditioner will hurt the plants on water changes ?

I currently have lots of plants growing riparian style like you do. I got tired of the roots getting mixed into my underwater plants and just looking messy. So I balled them up into baskets but I know they'd be happier if the roots could reach the substrate, and soon those roots will be all wild again. So, do you think I could make a wall of bamboo (dried tubes of bamboo, not live bamboo), and feed the roots down through them all the way to the substrate so the roots would be contained in the tubes? PVC might be more long-lasting, but I like bamboo tubes. Separate thought, spider plants are heavy nitrogen feeders and very happy with riparian life. I don't think I've seen you include those in a video yet. Also, begonia stem cuttings root GREAT stuck down into the top of a fish tank.

Thanks for the info, I bought some potted pathos, philodendron and calathea from Home Depot. I rinsed the roots really good and put them in my 10 gallon quarantine tank. It's been about 3 weeks so far, aside from a little melt, all is well. Anything I should be concerned about with transferring potted plant to my aquarium?

Hi love this channel! Is the sedge and lily too dirty to plant directly to the substrate of the tank? Does it grow well like the pohthos needing very little light?

Have you ever tried epiphytic plants like orchids, ferns, etc.? Also, do you have suggestions on pest management? My pothos keeps getting spider mites despite the obviously high humidity. I’m afraid to use any pesticides obviously around my goldfish so I keep having to throw them away, clean the area as best I can, and start over

Great Job sir! What about lucky Bamboo???!

Have you ever tried a money tree plant? I haven’t tried, but if it’s safe, it’ll look great growing out the aquarium. Thanks for the info

I started out with 2in of topsoil after many washing I made a square area in the center of my tank aligned it with Bosnia soil I covered this over with two inches of pool sand everything got many many rinsing before going into the tank then I added a few River Rock on top for decor I would love to put a pothos in there but there's no opening in my lid accepted the very front so I can feed them help how do you keep a lid on and a place to put the plan into

Hello my friend. Very interesting and informative video. I wonder if you could answer a question for me. I have a pretty nice section of Pothos growing across the top of my aquarium. The roots are two thirds down into the tank and hopefully they’ll keep going a couple more inches to the substrate. The issue I’ve recently noticed is thread like / hair green algae growing on the Pothos roots. Not unmanageable at the moment, but, left unchecked, I’m probably going to have a tangled mess. I’ve never had this type of algae in any of my tanks. Any thoughts on why this is happening and how to deal with it ? Thanks for any assistance !! Regards Ron

Loved the video. I just got some clippings and put them into the 4 tanks I have. I am letting them float until the roots start to grow. Can pathos grow underwater all the time? My tanks are Cora Life Bio Tank and the lid is solid cover and no openings to let plants grow out of the tank. I do have other plants in my tanks. Any help would be appreciated. This is my first time trying this to help control Nitrate levels.

Do you have any suggestions for growing pothos in my axolotl tank, where I don't have substrate? Would it help to plant the roots in a submerged pot of gravel, if I can somehow cover the gravel with something (much larger rocks maybe) to stop my axolotls eating it? I've only had the pothos in my tank for a week, and it came with a decent amount of roots, which I just have dangling in the water, with the rest of the plant draped on a grid type lid that I made. I have it zip tied onto the lid in such a way that a few of the nodes are dangling into the water, as they have some baby roots growing from them. Maybe I'll just have to be content with whatever growth I can get from it without it being rooted in the substrate? I didn't get it only to help clean the water, I got it mostly to shade the tank and I love the way it looks in my loungeroom. The nature of the waste that axolotls produce means I'm always going to have to be fairly vigilant with syphoning the bottom of their tank anyway, so I guess it's not a big deal if the pothos doesn't make much of a difference to my nitrate levels. I would like the plant to flourish if possible though, for tank coverage and aesthetics.

just bought a massive pothos plant, cut up a ton of nodes and threw them in my 5 gal lmfao cant wait for them to root and grow out

Do you have any tanks with the mini water lilles? Would love to see your opinion about that and fish of course in a fish tank..

@plantlfeproject -I have seen pothos recommended widely for better water quality and i have also read quite a bit that pothos are less demanding when it comes to special care, nutrients etc , typical hard environment kind of plants, however i always had this thought in mind that in ordinary conditions when we plant pothos in a garden, pot etc we give ordinary water, may be some fertilizer ,etc but in fish tank it is very different like a chroline free water, various water conditioners , may be medicines etc , so stil pothos can overcome all these and flourish well?

How did you put the peace lily in

The lids on both of my fish tanks keep the tank completely closed up I have a little compartment that opens to the filter how will I put plants in there and keep my African dwarf frog from jumping out

I have a 29g, will the roots eventually grow deep enough to reach the substrate?

What light do you use for your devils ivy?

I just took my pothos out of soil and the roots are still dirty? Will it hurt my batta. Any suggestion? Im soaking them in water now.

Hey mate hoping you reply, what's the other plant on the right hand side with the elongated leaves?

Newbie here….so the roots of the pathos, are they just in the water, no soil? How do you do that?

I wish they had this plant in the UK

I haven't been able to get my pothos roots to grow long enough to get to the substrate. Any tips to help with that?

how do you hang the plant though?

How do you attach the Pothos or other plants so they aren't constantly falling over or into the tank? This is my struggle. There are no videos explaining this part.

So can the peace lilly be ½ submerged, even the leaves, and stem?

So if I put a cutting into my tank it’ll help clear the water over time? 🤔 I don’t wanna cut my pothos but seems like it could be a good idea!!

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i tried growing pothos in my outdoor pond but failed miserably. is it only an indoor plant? i took it indoors and it started to grow better. but seems to do better when i have a heater in the tank. is that the case or am i only imagining??

Thank you for this now i know how plant put my betta fish acquarium

I've had a couple of leaves in my tank for close to a year and roots haven't gone further than 2 inches long .lol.

can you submerged the pothos underwater? will it be dangerous for the fish inside the tank?

Hi, how many hours of artificial light do you recommend that these plants get per day?

How many pothos would I need for it to filter in my 3 gallon tank

Can some of the pothos leaves be completely under water like the leaves at the bottom of the stems?

So the whole pothos including the leaves will be in the water?

Does it work for marine tank?

So you plant these all the way at bottom of tank into substrate and the entire plant is submerged? I thought the leaves and most the plant was supposed to be out of water and roots are only thing in water?

I would love for this to happen but I don't see it happening in a 210 gallon? I mean time will tell and if it does I would be awesome

i will ask a question, how to avoid fungus or bacterial growth in pothos? do they cause fungus or bacterial growth?

Can I submerge my pothos plant in the tank?

I RECENTLY PUT POTHOS IN MY FISH TANKS....BUT ALL MY FISH TANKS ARE BARE BOTTOM....IS THAT OK????? I HAVE NO INTENTION OF PUTTING ANY KIND OF SUBSTRATE ON THE BOTTOM....

I dont use any soil in my tank, does it matter for the plant then?

I have dirted tank capped with gravel. I’m worried if I let the pothos grow into the substrate it will deplete my substrate. Unfounded fear?

My pothos have been sitting on top of my 180 gallon for years. The roots don’t have a chance to reach the substrate 24” below because my fish eat the roots. Frustrating!

Good info. I do not think the concept of a water column exists in a home aquarium. It is a deep sea term.

I thought pothos was toxic to cats

Your fish tank gets extremely durty Way faster.. Have a Aquarium in my reservoir, it circulates the water into 25 Cannabis Cultivars.. No Pac lo , No chemicals, no salts... All goodness from the gods.

Relax people he has like five guppies in the tank. The plant will help but most tanks have way more load than the plant can sustain.

Plants do NOT NEED A SUBSTRATE TO GROW ? EG DWC AIROPONICS NTF HYDROPONICS all have no substrate

Hi, congratulations for your contribution. Can pothos roots damage aquarium silicone?

Great info! Thank you