Thanks Dave its an awesome product! If anyone has questions you can visit the website and send Dave an email. Also shipping is available worldwide on the Habistax!
I've said it before and I'll say it again, PLEASE TAKE US ALONG ON BUILDING OUT YOUR GARAGE. Thanks Matt! Love the enthusiasm, the process, and the final look.
Another advantage would be easy transfer to another aquarium. You could transfer a tower to a new setup to help the new tank have beneficial bacteria immediately so you don't have to wait for it to cycle.
Kentucky says hello y'all. I saved this unique video. Partly because I had to view it without sound so I didn't wake up my Husband. I appreciate your visual description. It worked out well for me and those who are hearing impaired would still be able to learn from you Matt. Have a blessed day my friend.
For those of us with brown (aquatic) thumbs, this has the potential to be a real game changer. I truly hope this takes off and becomes available to the average hobbyist. Thank you for taking a chance and sharing this build. Very exciting🙂
If you leave the center substrate holder off, you can sink a small sponge filter. It would actively pull the water through the roots on the way to the filter.
Man watching guys like you and MD setting up tanks with what seems like an endless supply of any and every plant in the hobby makes a regular aqaurists like myself really jealous. But i do love watching. These towers seem really intriguing.
I love the fact that you can move your plants to another tank without really upsetting them at all, great idea, much nicer than terracotta pots, especially for bare bottom tanks.
Matt, that is EPIC for smaller aquariiums. The opportunities for rescaping are endless and so simple! I do hope we are able to get them in the US. Happy Saturday .
This product is a great innovation for the aquarium hobby, but I'm thinking to take it a step further. Add a sponge filter concept, where debris is drawn in and trapped around the plant roots. The air tube could be where the aquasoil is kept, and then put the aquasoil where there's currently dead space. As long as it was full of plants, it's theoretically a sponge filter that never would need cleaning.
This concept but as a rectangle that is meant to fill up the back wall of the tank. Would make giving a tank some height in the back super easy. Going to support this product for sure.
Although I have not been able to keep fish tanks for many years, even I am excited by this innovative product. Wishing Dave and Habistax all the success!
Matt, I’m a Brit currently living in NZ, have kept fish for nearly 50 years yet only just, in the past 2 years, got into aquascaping thanks to you and MD…..and it’s going well. When I saw this Habistax product, I was blown away! What a great invention. I went straight over to the Kickstarter page and made an early bird pledge to support Dave in his venture. Without you urging or recommending others to support in Kickstarters, is there anything else you ( and maybe MD too?) can do to give this product more exposure. As in your video, it adds a number of new, fascinating aspects to Fishkeeping. Well done for making the video! Keep up the good work!
TBH I was skeptical at first.. I mean ugly black plastic in a tank?... but then after you planted them and added sand/hardscape, I WAS CONVINCED! Tons of practical applications for it. I've actually seen farmers a few years back growing plants vertical without soil and only coconut hairy thing and liquid ferts. Time to bring it to our hobby! cheers!
Hello from Missouri. As a cichlid keeper i can attest to the frustrating nature of trying to keep live plants in their habitat. Every single day I look to see what they dug up and thus need to be replanted, I agree that these can be a game changer. Great job Matt. I hope these get fully funded!
What an awesome idea! No more Cory’s sifting up the sand around my plants and up rooting the new ones! The possibility’s are endless, I hope they are available in Australia 🇦🇺
Oh my gosh! I am soooo excited for this new product! I hope I am able to get in here in the USA! You blew my mind mentioning all the appropriate applications and scape options! And I live how it looks like a wall of variegated plants!
What a brilliant idea Dave and the Habistax team has come up with! Thanks to them, and to you Matt, for showing us such an awesome product! I noticed that the towers are also able to block the filter's flow a bit, for the Betta, who likes a more calm water flow. Ideal solution to that problem I've had with a filter pushing my Betta around! Sweet!
I SO love this idea! I see a tower of different anubius! Very curious to see how the stems do in the follow up to the follow up! Cool stuff Matt, thanks! Great new product!
