HOW TO LOWER NITRATES WITHOUT CHANGING WATER! ADD POTHOS PLANT TO AQUARIUM! 

Love pothos nitrate magnet, don't even need to buy it, someone you know has this plant hanging out at the house or office, just need a nice cutting

Thanks , Michael. Never heard of this plant before.

I have it in my mini pond in my deck and it grows like crazy. The roots on the water is massive and dense. Helps keep everything clean and also looks great!

Great video, I am going to try to find me some devils ivy at Lowe’s down here in Florida. Thank you for the great information a big thumbs up to ya!

Long time no see such healthy guppys! Good job! I can tell (after 50 years or so of fish keeping) that you know what you're doing!

What I did for my tank, I bought one of those clear plastic draining sponge holders that suction cup to the side of a sink and stuck it to the back of my tank and put a couple pothos stems in it. The roots eventually grew out through the drain holes in the sides and bottom. It actually looks pretty cool and my fish love to hide in the roots.

Thanks for sharing this awesome info! I’ve gone back and forth with trying some of this in one of my tanks

Thank you so much for the information. You may have just saved my tank. I can get everything else pretty well in check but couldn't figure out how to control the nitrate's.

Good topic, thanks for sharing! Hope you’re doing well!

Love Your Honesty And Videos ❤️

3:40 "Big and strong like me" LOL. Love this video

Thank you for advice 🙂

Great video I used pothos in most of my tanks

Fish are looking good Michael. Can't believe how warm it is where you are

Thank you~! I searched Nitrates on your YT videos and cam up with this......I am going to get some right now~!! Honey bun and coffee~!!

Awesome video man

Got my pothos today and thanks!

You are so funny my friend, plz keep those videos coming 😍😍😍

Pothos is my go to in all my Betta tanks . Best natural filter anyone can use . Good topic

I'm growing marble queen pothos. love it!

Woooo brutha it's so clean!!😎😂

great vedio . very informative❤❤

thanks for idea, I'll get myself one. I like your java moss bush

Thank you for this information! My 55gal is doing great... aside from high nitrates. I was doing water changes, but it just wouldnt go down. This is great!

Such a good video ;)

Good to know! Thanks.

👍nice tanks dude

Love my pothos in my tanks! I never tested to see if they work, I just trust they work. Thank you for testing

I've watched a few videos now and I love them! I love the humor; delicious fry, and coughing I'm okay guys don't worry about me. I lol'd at that! What kind of guppies are at 7:17, when you tested the water? And where is a good place to buy that moss at? I have tons of pothos cuttings, I'll definitely have to add some to my tank in the meantime while I find moss!

I love a good guppy tank! Fun video. So glad I discovered your channel :)

You are something else 😂you are just so cool. You are one of the best. I love your details and explanations.

I hit the sub button, I hit the bell, and the thumbs up. I love this plant. This how I filter my betta tanks.

That java moss looks beautiful

Thank you. More subscriber to come.

I have lots of pothos and peace lilies in baskets with holes at the top of my fancy goldfish livestock tank and it helps immensely!

Hey man, i love watching ur vid. Anyway, quick question, do u turn on the lights 24 hours for your fishes

I use it on my fish tanks to i really like the plant!!!

Oh your pelvicachromis pulcher aka Kribensis are gorgeous ! I am interested by them !

I have the same neon potho's in every single tank and my fish room is like a jungle, but I always have 0 nitrates and it since I work it stretches my water changes out to every three weeks, instead of weekly. But this only happens after the roots establish well, so don't expect much when you first add it. My cat and dogs both can get at if they want, but they are too well fed to worry about thinking about eating it. I have to say too my tanks are also heavily planted as well, much more than yours.

Hi! Great video, very informative! I was wondering if I add a pothos, will it slow the growth of my other aquatic plants? If I understand correctly pothos uses a lot of nutrients from the water and I’m scared they’re won’t be enough left...! Thank you!

Royalty 😂 nice info mate, just ordered some pothos myself from ebay.

I just want you to know that I’m a new subscriber and im going all the way back and watching you from the start. I really enjoy you man.

Lay those long pothos runners across the top of your tanks and you've got pothos in them all...very cool

Devil's Ivy is just as aggravating as tilapia , Oscars, plecos taking over Florida... come on down get truck loads of it, while you're here make the manatees happy and take some plecos with you.....

I grow Pothos in my tanks and my Riparium, as well as other plants both in tank and in Riparium. I am heavily stocked, feed heavy, haven't done a 'REAL' water change for months. My Nitrates are >5 in my bigger tanks, and doesn't register on the smaller tanks. I'll send you a photo, so you can see, and .. well so I can show it off :) I've started to sell some on NZ's auction site, and will post part of the ad, it has info about the pothos... Golden Pothos - Epipremnum Aureum (aka Devils Ivy or Money Plant) Grown in my Aquarium. Great for reducing Nitrates. Also said to purify air. Leaves should be above water, roots in water, but can be potted in soil as well. If in soil it prefers well drained and allowed to dry out a little. It will tell you when it's thirsty by leaves drooping. I dip my potted Pothos in my aquarium about once a week. Easy care. Not fussy about light, but prefers indirect light. If light is very low, it will still thrive but may loose variegation. My Mother Plant is in a west window behind nets and gets late sun for about an hour or so. Has vines over 9 feet. Grows as a vine, and can be trained to grow up and down and around things, or left to hang down. I've had no problems with fish nibbling, but it can make cats, dogs and kids sick if eaten, so I'm told. ... Oh, west window in New Zealand means late afternoon sun.

put some d.i. in my tanks today, looking forward to the results. thank you.

i don't watch him anymore either.........but I do watch you...keep it real amigo

Great video thankyou! Do you think with enough pothos we can consistently keep the nitrate ammonia levels to almost zero? And also if youve done a before after pothos test results do share pls :) thanks!

Nice video my friend! I'd love to see a side by side like 6 month chart of the nitrates in 2 "control" tanks that are essentially stocked the same.

OMG WOW thanks 💞🥰💕💖😇🔮☯️🥇

Thanks for the information. Have there been any scientific studies about how many plants it takes to lower the nitrate levels X ppm in a X gallon tank, for example? Just wondering how many plants to get.

Excellent video, what size tank do you use in inches long x width x high please, you have a new subscriber, thanks.

Hello Nice video and info. Please advise me what is the best easy keep floating plant for discus aquarium. I want the plant to help me reduce nitrate. I am very beginner in keeping plants . Thanks

do you have to root the pothos first before adding to the tank or can you put a cutting in the water straight away? i have a pothos plant and i'd love to try this.

I am setting up a tank at my work. It's a 60 gal. I personally maintain a saltwater tank at home, but I love the freshwater plants, so I wanted to make it more of a garden with fish. Do you recommend using soil for a sub base and then rock? Is it impossible to achieve a lush tank without CO2? What are easy/hardy beginner plants? Thank you in advance for any help

Do you use clippings or rinse off the dirt really well before putting them in the tank? Thanks for the video!

Do you have a pleco care video on bristles I want a 55gal tank for a britsle nose I wanted to get the albino one in your fish store but I cannot find you'r care video my fish community dosent have a date guide either I need info from water to food I just can't seem to find it

Awesome video Thanks for sharing FishFam NJAE19

LMAO "Considers himself royalty" is that a reference to Uaru Joey a.k.a who now calls himself the " King of DIY"? Great video either way!

I have a maybe unrelated question about my 5 gal betta tank. I have been testing the water daily because there was a brief nitrite spike last week. I’ve been doing 30% water changes and the issues resolved but now my Phosphate levels are off the chart. Everything else ammonia, nitrites, nitrates is zero. I can’t figure it out! Should I add plants? Right now I only have silk plants, and I added one amazon sword plant from my other 10 gallon tank which has white cloud minnows and snails. That tank doesn’t have a phosphate problem. So I know it’s not like I’m doing the test wrong.

29° and windy here in N/E WI. At least it quit snowing. I gotta find me some pothos for my goldfish tank.

Subbed cause you imitated peta rage on your Bèta. Nice vids man.

This guy has my kinda fishroom. I don’t test water, I do maybe 2 water changes a month IF THAT, and I just ensure I’ve got a shitload of algae and moss, with a low stocking (2 fish for every 5 gallons) and I don’t have any issues. Tested water for the first time in months and ammonia 0, nitrite 0, and nitrate 10. Balance is everything! Put your plants to work. It will make a world of difference

I got mine 2 for $5 at Food4Less a few weeks ago 😅 I'm a bit surprised they looked so good considering how severely root bound they were. I don't think they're the golden pothos. Label said "Cory pothos" and they don't have the vining behavior shown here. However... They converted a week ago and the separated one has grown a lot, new leaves, new roots, longer roots; this one seems to be developing more of a vine. The other one in there is just the rest of the pot, which turned out to be several cuttings planted together to look like one whole plant... They are mostly submerged with the tallest leaves emerging from the water. All I have is 2 zebra nerite snails in there for now as the tank has been cycling. I left the soil on the roots and put one of them in a pot with slats on the sides for the roots (sorta like an aquaponics pit, but came with a self-watering pot) to grow through and put in the tank. There's soil strewn about the gravel and looks like mulm, and the perlite looked like snow swirling around from the air stone until it settled, but I don't mind. My only problem is that my lid is one piece of glass on a rimless tank, so I don't put it on all the way for the pothos. However, this seems to release some heat and evaporation, plus any time I can't find a snail, I worry it crawled out. Additionally, the lighting sits right above the lid, whenever I want to "open" the lid, say for water changes, I have to remove the whole piece of glass, which releases a lot of heat during the process. It's really annoying and I want to look into alternatives.

It was snowing in southern California last week. But anyways... As far as Nitrates go, I think it's more of a hindrance to the fish's immune system. I used to have my main tank that ran at 40ppm, which was working fine, but some fish were just succombing to some illnesses easier. But I'd say 40 it's where you should start to fix things, but I wouldn't fight it too hard unless it got higher. But that's my viewpoint

So correct me if im wrong... the more plants you have in your aquarium, the less nitrate you have and the less water changes you have 2 do?

South Jersey ! Grew up next to Ft.Dix !

Do you have heaters in all your tanks and do you use the air pump no return valve?

I have a giant leaf that I am going to try out. How often do you change out the water if at all.

Any idea how long it takes to start working? Have 3 smaller cuttings with roots in my tank now (have had it in there about a week)but no change yet. And how quick does it grow?

There are so many different pothos plants. Just about every tank I have has it. I have some in filters and some that is just in there. I have gotten this plant to grow under water.

Silver Pothos is my favorite. There is even a pink version. Flamingo Pothos maybe?

Have to agree with everything said about pothos. When I started my tank I had a terrible experience, got rid of my 10g and upgraded to a 29g. I modified a China double filter (Mike did a review on one) connected it to a breeder box, and I'm using it as a 'windowsill style' planter. I have several pothos plants, as well as wandering jew for added color. Zero problems with nitrate levels... 6 barbs, 2 denisoni barbs, a common pleco and a clown pleco, a redtail, and 2 giant danios, along with numerous aquatic plants (too many to name) if I had to take a guess, I'd say probably 10 different pothos plants, 5 different wandering jew, and a peace lily along with 7 aquatic plants.

OMG that Betta is going to have psychological issues, like fear of giant vines. Have to make fun of it as it gets so ridiculous sometimes. Sounded like you just named him, "Bliss". Good live stream last night. It was hard for me to keep things moving while doing marine water change, but I did what I could.... ;-)

I’m thinking of getting the little beta tank to start. I’m assuming I need to have a plant with roots to start it, correct? Educate me! What’s stage should the plant be in when i put it in the tank? ☺️

Michael, what do you feed all your guppies?

IMO call the betta Obiwan! stay with the Star wars theme!! Nice video :)

@1:45 LMFAO!!!

Just found your channel by accident...love it! New subbie although a reefer gal; I going to do an fw small angel tank in my bedroom and molest a huge Pothos 'cause I wanna...lol👺TFS

Thanks for the video. Can I use pothos to reduce ammonia? Any idea how long does it take to reduce it? I

What size boards are you using to hold up those tanks? Between the 3 tanks per gap, it's about 480 pounds right?

I have done more, I have experimented with the total immersion of the entire plant in two aquariums photos... I must say that he has been living very well for more than three months and with the right hours of light he and my fish are happy.... Community Verified icon

So you have a filter for ammonia and nitrites and plants/waterchanges for nitrates?

Good job! I’m 65 had tanks for47 years I use all kind of plants in my tanks!! Never check water! Natures way! I also don’t use filtration on my garden ponds I use plants water is crystal clear

Will it compete with frogbit and red root floaters in nutrients and kill them off?

I put several in my fish tanks . How long does it take to start working my all ready have roots

Is there a plant that you can recomend that other than pothos? We. have a cat, she loves the top of the tanks. Thank you

As an experiment I put some pothos completely submerged in my tank planted in the gravel (manly because I can't do it any other way with the lid on the tank) and it's slowly growing new leaves and roots underwater and still alive after several months!

Will it work so well with monster tanks having American Cichlids like Jaguars?

Fish don’t mind muck as U say. But does the muck cause nitrate and nitrite issue?? Keeping in mind that the muck builds up. Would it be best to remove it partially at each water change? I have tried the pothos but it kept melting Temp 25c water hard... none of the roots look nearly as healthy as ur plants

Don't complain, we'll be opening ponds early this year. Been using pothos for years

I am new to the fish world. I had one of these plant sticking out of my tank and over time the leaves were turning yellow and the roots seemed to be rotting. However I think it was keeping the nitrates down. Any suggestions?

Any idea if you have enough of this if eliminates the need for water changes?

Got my betta in a 1 gal bowl with a pothos he seems rly happy very active eating right and his fins are growing although the pothos is growing stringy brown algae I don’t think it’s bad for my betta since nothing seems wrong with him it’s just rly ugly n I’m trying to get rid of it how do I go about this

Don't even need the plant roots, any cutting with enough stem in water will grow. Each little knob on the stem is a root ready to grow when it sees water

I am actually going to quarantine my new betta in a 2 Litre jar. If I add the plant (already with roots) will it be enough to change the water every second day? 🤔 Thank you

How often do you change the betta fish water. I have one of mine in 1 gal tank, change the whole water every 3/4 days still his fins are ragged. How often and how much do you feed him?

I went to a green house place where I live and got 2 starts for $1 each, I think I will like them

Also you better watch out for those pothos people who might be watching this saying, “ how dare you have that pothos in there with that disgusting fish! It’s plant feet are in that gross fish feces!” - those same pothos people also apparently have never kept plants before to know its good for the plants :)

I'm in South Jersey and got snow. Is it going to be another year with snow in April?