HOW TO DIRT for a Planted Aquarium 

OMG! I love Marnice! "There's GOO." "It smells bad..." Hahhahhaa. Best...Video...Ever...! (drop the mic). AND VERY INFORMATIVE!

I've always capped my dirt with a half inch of sand to prevent Making any mess. It's always worked great for me

After this video everybody wants to be your neighbor. Lol! Loved it!

FANTASTIC show for a dirted tank. GREAT tips. My shop had your plants in 200 dirted tanks. WOW!! I have eleven dirted tanks now that are 10 yrs old. NOTE: Sand is far superior to gravel as a cap for dirt. No need to drain and refill.

I love my dirted tank! I followed the Father Fish method and everything is thriving.

I love an old school style DustinsFishtanks video.

I found an aquarium in Manhattan last week. Beautiful shop. They had a whole set-up of just plants, all from you. I had to pick up a few for my new dirt tank I set up. I’m very excited to have plants from one of the best!! Thanks

Great Video! Much love from Canada!

I'm just lovin how happy everyone is

The master and his art.

This was throughly enjoyable :) thank you

perfect video! super informative

Great clip great info!

Take it to the next level!!💪🌿 You go girl🙌👍 I'm preparing for it in the near future! I have a low tech deserted planted tank with a beginners plant package from Dustin and it's doing well! 💪🌿💚🌿🐟🌿

Dirt tank + crypts and crinum = AWESOME!!!

I needed this weeks ago

GREAT PRACTICAL EXPLANATION VIDEO :) I DID A THUMB-UP ABOUT THE VIDEO :) THANK YOU FROM ISRAEL :)

excellent

Thanks for sharing 💪 ✌

Great video and information 😃👍 I'm starting a fish room lol

Best video. Thankuuuu

My first tank I did dirt it’s still good it has been a adventure

Lol great video!

Hi Dustin, 👊 from Montreal Canada

This stuff really works

Right in time lol wanted to start my first dirted in a 20

Dusti D the Dirt king rocking his Dirt. Luv u man when I was in school I saw ur old Dirted tank video got inspired now I only Dirt my tank.

I watched the OG video of your neighbor and you setting up the tank! I forgot about it. Let us know how the plants grow and if she's happier being dirted! :D

Dustin this is a cool vid. Made me think about something. I'm about to re-scape a little 10 gallon. Full aquascape. It is dirted and capped. The gravel will be pushed back and high. Should I mix the dirt in with the gravel? It'll be capped by aquasoil and cosmetic sand. Only running for a year so I think it's still viable. I wanna keep that dirt is all!

Good video, how many gallons is that tank? I want to get a similar one.

I may try this again later, but it was a bad idea for my first tank. I was so focused on organic and low phosphate that I missed the perlite. I've been using a turkey baster to suck it off the surface. Then I bought a super high tech lighting system, but the blue tooth requirements are so high that I can't find a phone that can handle them so they are stuck on high with no way to dim. Then I added Corys who dig all night. So this whole aquarium venture has been a nightmare. Soon I'm taking it down and just using sand and fertilizer for a while. I just need to be able to sit back and enjoy it for awhile.

I love her stand…..where can I get one like that?

I want to make my own dirt. Besides clay for iron what would you suggest I add to it? FWIW, Local water here is liquid rock.

where is the link to the dustin dirt pack how you made them?

So I used aquarium soil (it's a Japanese brand of bio soil that helps break down waste from what I can translate...) is that kinda the same as dirted? Or is this b/c it's different nutrients all together and actual dirt? My plants seem ok in the aquasoil so far. I don't use fertilizers. I have crypts mostly, some epiphyte plants, and some random ones that I don't know names (again, in Japan haha).

Is this a glass aquarium ? I see the suction and return attachments from the bottom, what type of tank is this.

I hope she doesn't have any cuts, that can be a nasty infection. I had to use pool filter sand due to living in the desert. Dustin, this would be a great opportunity to show pumps and gang valves and explain the difference between pumps.

What light is being used on the tank?

What's up Dustin have a question for you the water that comes out of my tap is very hard and alkaline what kind of aquarium plants do best in hard alkaline water great video Dustin thanks

is it safe to use organic compost/dirt substrate covered with gravel for cory dora tank? . I heard the compost is very rich in nutrient.. is there a chance cory would end up sucking particles or concentrated compost water..

Damn I wish u were my neighbour 😂 I don't think I'd ever be at home

Grayson Kentucky is bad with the chlorine to

You realize your going to have to donate that first knuckle to the Smithsonian as it is now a measuring standard ;)

I use organic Peat Moss under gravel in all my tanks. Plants grow so fast I have to replant after 2 to 3 years. One tank no longer has fish because it is packed with plants.

Old guy here. I've been using sand and root inserts for decades. The same sand has been re-used for many set-ups and never washed. It's not as messy as dirt when you tear it down.

What video has the way to make the dirt they added?

Can you link one of the Dirt preparation videos pls ?

Where does one purchase the dirt? And what kind?

Should have let her borrow the python. Such an exciting process

Help!! I can’t find the video on how to make the dirt. Can someone help me? Dustin?? Haha

Can we please get an update in 2weeks

I caught the chlorine comment, and yes, if there's ONLY chlorine in your tap water you can just let it sit out for 24-48 or fill up a giant tub & run an air stone & small filter just to circulate water & the chlorine will evaporate. But! Allot of town/city water now also has chloramine in it and that WILL NOT evaporate. You'll need conditioner to remove chloramine

Somebody get this lady a python.

Get this woman a python water changer kit pls .

Yes, you definitely need two cats involved. 🐈 I have only one, but, you need atleast one 🐈‍⬛🐈 involved.

Where's the python man???

Not till you mix the dirt with water do you understand lol

Hey you forgot the crushed coral on the other side oops

very bad idea, you are pouring water from that heavy bucket while using the glass rim as a pivot.

I wish I had half her energy!

You need sand not rock and lots of it.

planted yet??

And when you say “dirt”……your not using dirt at all but a purchased processed soil type…🤷. Dirt is soil, ground, out of the garden or paddock….natural. 🤷. How about doing a vid using real dirt 🤷 s

Ya lost me at "church". Ohh ffs you Americans and church.. Bye