PICKLE JAR AQUARIUM | no filter, no heater, walstad method, setup 

So nice

omg THANK YOU SO MUCH i love the music in this video also ty for the whole video :) i LOVE it

very straight to the point LOVE that :D

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​@@nirmalaquarium 😊

lmao, Imagine someone forgot to do that.

@@rvxn The smell. Oh no the smell

We were supposed to take out the pickles????

@Manny Blackstar what?

Darn. I knew something was a miss when my sea cucumbers decivingly looked, acted & smelt like land cucumbers.

I can relate man, this hobby is so hard on the wallet, out of curiosity which part of the world do you find these fish just out and about in canals

@@saryans8726 Australia, we have a huge problem with invasive species. I probably should also specify it was a rainwater drainage canal in a horse paddock, not a city canal with boats and stuff. I also ended up with some mosquito fish I had to kill as they are so invasive it is illegal to own them here. The Platies are a different class of invasive, legal to own but definitely illegal to release into the wild. Neither really have any predators here and easily overtake and decimate native frog, fish and insect populations. That aside, you can totally just go collect (invasive) fish from the wild if you don't want to buy them, I've heard that some places in the US have established populations of fancy, colourful longfin platies and mollies because people don't want them anymore so they just release them and screw up the local ecosystem. The ones I have are probably several generations wild though, as they're much smaller than domestic platies--more neon tetra sized--and all grey/olive browns. Update: bought the sump tank. -$300 (to be fair thats a very good price) bought some more kuhlis, plants, substrate and water treatments: -$250 _cries_

@@saryans8726 excellent question 👌💯

Seems like you were already addicted, how do you know the names of all those species of little creatures? I have no idea what some of the things you mention are. Not that it is a bad thing. This whole concept is utterly facinating.

@@rebeccamassey337 It is common reasoning that after becoming addicted, he began to investigate what he had in his hands or simply, knowledge acquired by chance. Finally, after all those events, he decided to share his experience here.

As a kid I'd gather pond snails from the creek and raised them in all my tanks and put one in a fish bowl and watched it ley eggs and loved watching the tiny babies the size of grains of sand with a magnifying glass lol. When I found my first wild rams horn snails those became my absolute favorite cuz of their neat shape. 🐌😊

Snails are cute but when they absolutely overrun a terrarium they ccan and do become problems.

@@HidekiShinichi yeah

Saaame

@@HidekiShinichi Snails overrunning are often rather a symptom than cause of a problem - usually it's overfeeding the centerpiece animals.

Tell that to dead shrimp

@@ogueyratogeyrat7448 fun fact shrimp don’t need oxygen to survive because they make air bubbles with there fans so it’s one of the only things that can live in a eco sphere but I still won’t recommend it

@@ogueyratogeyrat7448 it say dream on dead

@@lcfishing859 ?

Are they still alive?

I can understand why you love them, but i hate them for serious reasons. And the reason is that they have got in my fish tank with some kelp and multiplied and pooped without stopping, I think their poop caused my betta fish to die, not to mention, they ate all kelp.

​@Percy I didn't see any eggs on those kelp, they came with kelp by accsident

​@Percy This kelp was bought from pet store, and the seller hasn't told me the possibility of having snail eggs on this kelp.

​@Chris Mccune it's all going under the gravel, not to mention that my filter is actually very good

@Nicholas Huang oh my god I’m so stupid. I keep researching aquarium stuff and they keep saying they add snails. My stupid ass thought they meant snake. What the hell 😂

@Richie FuckIslam alright Karen

@@qtrek985 🤦

This is a stupid comment when held in context.

You think a pickle jar is a happy space?

@@chazs6854 The inhabitants don't care about a container's former use. You could make a happy place even from a toilet seat. For snails and dwarf shrimps a sufficiently sized pickle jar is perfectly fine.

And the dead body will ruin the ecosystem and cause an algae bloom

How often do you clean the water?

I have a 10 gal tank. May I ask what steps you took to get it to filter less?

Im going to try it. My filter is acting up

@@gainswithkathy use a ton of substrate for starters. The first tank I used shrimp stratum, which looks like little balls, so tons of surface area. I used about 2-3 inches of that in a ten gallon. Then I planted the tank pretty heavily. I bought a plant pack off Amazon, I believe it was a "Texas aquatic plant" starter pack. I couldn't tell you the names of the plants anymore, but it came with about ten different varieties. I also added a proper grow light. I picked the NICREW led lamp, also on Amazon. I used a HOB filter in that tank at the time, so I switched that to a sponge filter, and I just set the dirty filter cartridge from the HOB filter in the tank. Then I waited. The plant collection I bought had 2 species that grow incredibly fast, so as they grew I'd cut the top half off when it reached about five inches and replant it. After 30 days the tank was very grown in, that shrimp stratum is insanely good. I had a huge algae bloom at about ten days, so I added five ghost shrimp. It helped a little, but not much. Since then I've learned a better way to prevent that which I'll share next. When I set up the 30 gallon tank, I tossed the sponge filters and my old HOB filter media back into the ten gallon for about a week. Since the shrimp stratum is so expensive, I decided to just do dirt and gravel for the 30 gallon. I bought organic top soil without fertilizer, and "washed" it in a bucket one or two times. I did this because it has a lot of mulch looking wood pieces that float and look bad. So I'd fill the bucket with water, move the dirt around, and scoop out the wood chunks. I didn't get them all, but I got most of them. Then I put about two inches of the washed dirt into the tank, and capped that with about 1.5 inches of black gravel. I made a mistake and used fairly small gravel, so don't do that. Use something chunky. With fine gravel, if you have to move the tank, or if you have snails that burrow, the gravel falls through the dirt pretty easily and you end up with gravel below the dirt instead of on top. Not the end of the world, but it makes the water cloudy and makes it harder for root plants to get nutrients since they end up rooting in gravel not soil. Also, don't use sand. Capping the soil with sand will choke the roots, and it won't allow the gasses from the bacteria to escape as easily, which is probably my favorite part about the dirt tank. I love watching the bubbles just shoot up out of the dirt all day. Once you have the dirt and gravel cap, you can plant the tank out. I just took cuttings from the fast growing plants in my old tank, I usually end up with enough stuff to start a new tank every single month that I just end up throwing away. Also, I used root tabs. But only when I initially planted the tank. The plants I have will grow roots above ground and feed there if needed, and the other plant feeds on the water column only, but I had them so I used them. Then I filled the tank half way with water, added a splash of liquid aquarium fertilizer, and let it settle for the week while the sponges and stuff sat in the old tank. And here's the trick I learned to prevent algae blooms. Use a shit ton of floating plants. Like cap the entire surface with them. Make a ceiling. Floating plants use so many nutrients that the algae doesn't stand a chance. Also keeping the water level at half to start seems to help a lot. At the end of the first week, I tossed the dirty filter media into the new tank and I put a couple pinches of fish food in it (no fish yet). Then I added a couple ghost shrimp. Waited again for the plants to grow enough that I could propagate enough to properly fill the tank, which took about two weeks between the two tanks, and then I added my fish, filled it to the top, and removed about half the floating plants. I only keep labrynth fish these days because they don't bother the plants. I did have two gold fish in a 50 gallon planted, filters tank years ago, the largest one grew to be almost six inches and he would constantly eat the plants. So now I stick to gourami and Bettas. They're also naturally suited to more stagnant (as in not circulated) water. As far as cleaning the tank, I don't. If I'm REALLY, really bored, I'll do just along the front edge. But honestly, maybe three times a year. That's also the only time I do water changes. Other than that, I just feed them and add water as needed. I have 2 Bettas in the ten gallon with 3-5 shrimp and 2 nerites, and in the 30 gallon I have a blue gourami (who is a dick), 3 sparkling gourami, 2 ghost shrimp, 4 assassin snails, and anywhere from 15-40 "pest snails" because they seem to explode overnight then die off. Oddly enough, there aren't many shells in the tank - I think the other snails or shrimp must be eating them.

Thanks for the tips, really appreciate that. But, I have a question, how the plants get light if you capped all water surface with floating plant?

Yes , i am also want to know

The answers to your questions are on the Father Fish RU-vid channel.

Hi! Great video! I have some question. Is necessary change the water after some months? Did the plants needs some fertilizer or the shrimps' poo is enough? Can you keep the cap closed? Thank you

Do you change the water sometimes or does it not need a water change?

Does the shrimp can survive ?

Tiny seahorses ?

What can I do if I don’t have aquarium water? Can I fill it up with tap water or bottled water? How long should I wait to put shrimp and snails in?

U still gonna clean it tho every other day cuz smaller aquariums takes more effort to maintain. Just with water cleaning

@@lasseel3724 every other day?

@@kal5214 Yes. The smaller the aquarium is, the harder to maintain. A breeder told me that and he said: If you put a slice of bread in 1 gallon of water, it will kill everything living there. If you put it in a 100 gallon, it won't be that bad. So, the smaller the tank is, the more dangerous the animap waste becomes.

Turkey baster? Lol

😂

I'm not the creator,but yes there's a lid and the jar is sealed

Could you explain more.. Do you drain the water only

@@ablejose6171 I think they mean they drain around half and add more

Do you use a bubbler or anything pumping air? Or do the plants give enough oxygen? I’m new to this Thx

How many of them can live in a 1 gal aquarium?

@@Mervo3o none

I was more concerned with the aesthetics. Maybe fishing line woulda looked better?

@@sarahdee374 Might look better because you can't see it as much. Still no healthier for the environment. And what if algae grows on the elastic, and the animals eat the algae and end up ingesting pieces of it?

@@watchensee A lot of fish keepers use fishing line, it's perfectly safe, others use dental floss as well

@@muunii6801 😐 Wow well as long as the keeper knows what they're doing, it's okay. Unflavored original dental floss might be a better/safer option? 🤔

Yes!! No fish in something this small so many people want to do this with fish

I think you could keep a few shrimp in there. Though shrimp would probably make tons of babies and overpopulate it very quickly, if you move the babies into other tanks having like 2-3 shrimp shouldn't be that bad.

Thanks for watching 😁 the snails won't eat plants, no. You can feed them vegetables too if you like. They may lay a lot of eggs but without enough food the babies won't grow up into adults.

@@AquaViva1 my pink snail eating the plant, I end up removing them from the aquarium to other aquarium. :(

Snails will eat plants as they're leaves start to die

@@SuperMeanny then you don't have algae in there for them to eat likely. Are your plants even thriving?

@@SuperMeanny if the snails are healthy they will just keep the algae at bay, so it appears but they consume it before it gets out of hand. If you are not getting enough algae bloom on the sides of the jar then put it in the filtered sunlight or shine a lamp on it for 24 hours and that will start it growing.

What fish??

RIP THOSE PICKLES AYEEE

Yes

ik its been months but i looked up the pickle brand and it's 2650mL or .7 gallons. keep in mind if you do something that small, waste will build up quick. your water parameters and stock will be more sensitive to any changes

@@reese8120 no its the Large jars you get the bulk pickles in, look at their hand inside of the jar.

You can use bleach but check to make sure.

i used to love letting snails crawl on me when I was a little kid cause I liked it when they sucked the dead skin off my hands and left them super smooth, also I learned their slime, mucus whatever it is has a lot of good things in it that are healthy for your skin, people even do snail facials where they let them crawl all over their face 😳

They arent necessary as the water stays perfectly clean and clear. I do one every month though just to replenish some minerals

@@AquaViva1 how do u change the water

@@BRISKIVLOGS siphon with airline tubing :)

Well, the snails do most of it but i used a toothbrush to take out some algae. Thank you!

@@AquaViva1 but the snails also shit so much 😳 how do I handle that?

@@m.a.2098 mine eat it lol

Did you ever get that figured out?

It looked like potting soil out of a bag to me, but be careful of additives like fertilizer.