WHY SUBSTRATE COLOR MATTERS! How Color Impact Your Aquarium Ecology. Fish & Shrimp Vision & Behavior

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The HUGE Impact Of SUBSTRATE COLOR On Your Fish, Shrimp & Entire Tank. Why COLOR MATTERS.
WHY SUBSTRATE COLOR MATTERS.
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@donferguson4238 Месяц назад

Brilliant topic, thank you! Way back in the 70's, I got a job in the new (and only) pet shop in town. I talked my way into managing the ~70 freshwater tanks. All tanks had undergravel filtration. It didn't take too long to figure out that the tanks with natural gravel seemed healthier and happier than the ones set up with dyed/painted gravel. In my own mind, I put this down to the porosity of the natural substrate vs. the lack of porosity of the color coated gravel. The outcomes were: 1. Always recommending natural gravel to our customers; 2. Having nothing but natural gravel in my 27 home aquariums. Keep up the great work, Alexander, best channel ever!

@Fishtory Месяц назад

I never considered the porosity...that is a great point to factor in, as well. Thank you!

@wheelbite14 Год назад

I have a tank of lambchop rasboras, and luckily someone posted a video of them in their natural habitat. It was all murky and the riverbed was basically 100% huge crypts. I don't have those specific giant crypts, they just aren't available here, but I do have a lot of crypts spread throughout the tank, and it made me happy after seeing that video. Like I accidentally made at least one right choice for my fish.

@Fishtory Год назад

Right on!

@jaydobbyn3975 5 месяцев назад

Those glow fish are not genetically modified they are injected with needles to make them glow. Do not continue this cruelty

@ashenwalls3558 26 дней назад

Woa, it's crazy that black sand can have that much of an impact in heat! I never would have thought it would matter.

@Fishtory 25 дней назад

Nor did I until anecdotal reports from viewers, then reading research papers

@ctm75 Год назад

CLOWNPUKE gravel is a must in every tank..........

@Fishtory Год назад

All hail clown 🤡 puke gravel 🙌

@lifewithnikka7440 Год назад

Finally! Have been waiting for you to attack this topic. Great job as usual!!

@Fishtory Год назад

Thank you kindly. Im glad you enjoyed it!!

@sleepytasmr 2 месяца назад

When I first got into the fish hobby I bought about ten kilos of white sand and later regretted it. I realised I preferred dark substrate, so ended up topping it with dark substrate over time and now it's about 30 cm thick, lol. After three years I finally have my tank the way I like it... and I'm so relieved because I would obsess and stare at it and change it constantly. You know what's cool though, there's white patches and swirly layers of white underneath the dark making it look unique.

@Fishtory Месяц назад

I feel your pain

@MimicNature Год назад

I've never been much of a "go with the flow" kind of person, but in regards to creating mini ecosystems, I think it's great advice. 👍

@Fishtory Год назад

Haha you have no idea how true that statement also describes me. Lol

@volcanixthanksyoufortheviewz 2 месяца назад

Just had a 10 gallon fail, front pane bowed pretty drastically, so im gonna use a black sand, with redish color rocks❤ thanks for the video, it really helped!

@Fishtory 2 месяца назад

Glad to hear it. Sorry about your tank!

@patrickjvanhuffel 19 дней назад

Tank should look like gramdma's house: beige and brown and plants all over the place

@maxxedtfout Год назад

I feel like you read my mind 😭 I was searching this info all night

@Fishtory Год назад

Oh whoa! Well im so glad to hear it. Cheers

@PotooBurd 3 месяца назад

I like having crushed oyster shells as a substrate topper for my invertebrate tanks. Algae grows well on it before the algae gets eaten. The shells last quite a long time as well. Great job, fantastic reporting!🌻🌼🐝 Keep it up 🙌

@FatherFish Год назад

Fascinating Alex. Nicely done.

@Fishtory Год назад

Thanks Lou! I miss you and your crew over on your channel. I need to make sure i catch some streams again soon.

@FatherFish Год назад

@@Fishtory Likewise, Alex. We are both bust trying to get to a support level. You are doing very well. Here's a fun vid. Meet Henry and Matilda: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-J2rWFh8qYwM.html

@AquaticMoose Год назад

Awesome, so much more info than just why the color of substrate matters! Well done.

@brianbuczynski3555 Год назад

Fascinating! Thanks so much for this amazing educational talk!

@Fishtory Год назад

Im so glad you thought so. It's always amazing to understand the creatures we keep in new ways!

@Sham7711 Год назад

Always excited to see your video notifications pop up since I subbed. Very informative, keep up the great work!

@Fishtory Год назад

Awesome, thank you!

@rabidrabbitsmokingneonlights Год назад

Been waiting for a video on this keep the info coming brother 🙏

@Fishtory Год назад

More to come! Thank you

@gretchengengo4068 Год назад

So many ppl say dark substrate brings color out. I had just set my mind on and organic soil base and that black diamond blasting sand for a cap. I'm just cycling a 75 gallon tank, bare bottom, planned for rainbow fish and friends. That black diamond sand is a bit reflective but prob not well enough? I'm back to debating on a lighter sand now 😅 My main goal is colorful, happy, healthy fish and plants.

@Fishtory Год назад

Dark soil contrasts bright fish better.... but technically eliminates the fish less

@DidisFINDen Год назад

awesome information. even though i was aware of the top view and predators i had no idea about the bottom substrate and when they can do....as always Alex, you bring so much light to the story...thanks

@malissastafford3323 Год назад

This was sooo good and informative. I really like the depths you went into here.

@Fishtory Год назад

Thank you kindly

@assiahinarkansas Год назад

Another great video. Enjoyed it. Thanks Alex, @Fishtory

@Fishtory Год назад

Thank you. Cheers

@billmeyer4773 Год назад

Magnificent video and very educational .Keep up with the Fantastic educational videos. I think you are the very best video out there and channels You have thought about this for awhile Excellent job. Thanks for Sharing with your inspiration.

@Fishtory Год назад

Thank you so much for noticing. I try and work on videos for a few weeks or months until im sick of the topic...then ill go back and make the actual video haha

@MrRoberto167 Год назад

Awesome video Alex, got me thinking about my choice for substrate, I'm gathering many items with the goal of putting together my fist Father Fish tank, and I was thinking about capping the dirt with black silica sand, mainly because of the striking look. Now I'm not so sure if using such an unnatural color would have any negative effect on the tank as a whole.

@javelinjohnson9669 Год назад

Awesome videos as always. Your videos are always about really unique subjects and i appreciate that.

@Fishtory Год назад

Thank you kindly. I try. When they get too weird youtube wont even tell my subscribers lol so feel free to browse the back catelog sometime haha

@Auditing.northern.N.Y. Год назад

The thing I love more than watching fish is the science behind it. Love your videos man.

@Fishtory Год назад

Glad you like them! Thanks for commenting and watching as well. It helps the channel and is so very appreciated.

@CricketsMa Год назад

Makes total sense! Thanks

@Fishtory Год назад

Sure thing! Thanks for watching

@T.J-and-Soul Год назад

What a clever topic mate ✌️🤎🍄

@Fishtory Год назад

Thanks my man! Ive been thinking of you. I hope you're haning in there and taking things a day at a time. Cheers, mate.

@T.J-and-Soul Год назад

@The Secret History Living in Your Aquarium my chemo oncologist doesn't want to treat me yet because immunotherapy makes me so sick. I have got a referral to a great radiologist I see him Thursday wish me luck young Son

@adieaf61 2 месяца назад

Excellent as always.

@erickborling1302 8 месяцев назад

Great info. I was hoping for a greater focus on aesthetics and such. You know, simple stuff like... putting black fish in a tank with black gravel. Bad idea, right?

@Fishtory 8 месяцев назад

I mean, it is all personal choice... but yes, i would say you lose the fish the less contrast there is 100%! Sorry i didn't focus on that part much

@lsp0116 5 месяцев назад

Thank you for talking about this! I had been wondering whether a black or white sand would be best for the growth of my aquarium plants, this video answered all my questions 😄🎉

@Fishtory 5 месяцев назад

Stay curious isn't he motto here. Cheers

@regosilver1147 Год назад

Awesome video great info to know

@Fishtory Год назад

Glad you liked it

@johnnybest6386 8 месяцев назад

I am gonna learn today.

@ianfire-water685 Год назад

Very interesting topic, never thought of this!

@Fishtory Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@thehairywoodsman5644 Год назад

tomatoes produce better if planted beside or above something red.

@Fishtory Год назад

Whoa! Fascinating! Thanks for sharing.

@voluntaryismistheanswer Год назад

Yup, they sell red plastic mulch for underneath, it just looks too awful for the garden lol; I have enough tomatoes

@thehairywoodsman5644 Год назад

@@voluntaryismistheanswer I plant my tomatoes on the south side of our bright red barn.

@williambarnes5023 Год назад

I use my financial statements from my taxes, bank, and credit cards as mulch under my tomatoes. Never seen them get so huge.

@janecourtenay3676 Год назад

As always, Alex, so much fantastic information ❤

@Fishtory Год назад

Glad you think so! Thank YOU as always for watching

@janicelundberg1956 Год назад

Great info as alway Alex! I want natural looking sand but can’t figure out which one to get. The availability is limited here in MA

@Fishtory Год назад

I like fluval stratum for dark and hth for pool filter sand for a natural looking light yet inexpensive sand.

@Mifiboi 11 месяцев назад

Love your passion, its infectious!🥳

@Fishtory 11 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoy it! And caught it

@lkawaiteacher Год назад

Good to remember that it’s not nice to fool Mother Nature. Keep it real as much as possible. Great content-thank you.

@Fishtory Год назад

Always! Thank you

@vids595 Год назад

Great stuff as always.

@Fishtory Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it.

@MissChelle Год назад

Interesting topic, thanks Alex ❤️🇦🇺

@Fishtory Год назад

My pleasure!

@nicolem376 Год назад

Me wanting to breed fish: Red gravel Red plants Red background 😂😂😂😂 just kidding

@Fishtory Год назад

The heart wants what it wants

@James_Hande Год назад

Nice video Alex, full of great info. I remember growing up as a kid we were taught that black (and dark colors) absorb heat while white (light colors) reflect the heat. I figured that wasn't quiet true. Walking bare foot across the parking lot yes was hot. I couldn't wait to reach the beach sand in hopes of cooling my feet. Nope, just as hot. LOL Depending on the type of inhabitants I want to keep in the tank plays a big role as to what color substrate I'll use. Take for instance the False Julii Cory, on a dark substrate it's background color of white/silver darkens to more of a gray due to it's camouflage tendencies. On a lighter background it shows it's true color. I found the best overall substrate is the natural river pea gravel. It contains an assortment of colors from light to dark. 😉

@voluntaryismistheanswer Год назад

I went crazy with different glacial gravels from Pisces lol, it's all natural with lots of blended colors, but all looks like crap with mulm 😄. There's a pale whiteish with jade tones that looks cool in a blackwater scape with my paleatus corys and golden wonder panchax though, he pops (as does the dark driftwood and anubias background). There's a gunmetal gray that's so hard to work with (big and chonky) but looks so cool, a midnight with gold tones that's yummy with glow light tetras... Yeah, I kinda like my gravels.

@James_Hande Год назад

@@voluntaryismistheanswer Not necessarily the brand but these are my usual go-to's. CaribSea Super Naturals Jungle River Aquarium Gravel. CaribSea Super Naturals Peace River Aquarium Substrate.

@Fishtory Год назад

Great examples. Thanks for commenting my friend!

@laurabustos6560 Год назад

I really thank you Alex, for this vid! So interesting! I absolutely do not like the brown Contra Soil or red Flourite. It looks so unnatural to me, even though my local soil is pretty reddish and I love that. Maybe I was a fish in a past life, and like you said, I never saw it in riverbeds while I whiled away my days doing fishy things...🙏😉✌️

@voluntaryismistheanswer Год назад

Perfect, I'm trying to redo a tall hex tank with black sand, and no idea where to go with it, it's hard to even see the moss balls, with the black back. I considered blending it with white sand, I wanted to do the gray dragonstone, I am so confused, just glad to be moving out the current inhabitants and starting fresh! Maybe just a better light will help 😄

@Fishtory Год назад

Yeah theres also some fish that color up brighter against contrasting colors, and others that try to blend in. Its tricky.

@minikdam4617 Год назад

Great content 🤟😎 More please 🤩

@Fishtory Год назад

You got it!

@leo2o915 Год назад

Amazing video

@susanmooreguppies6009 Год назад

I love this video!

@Fishtory Год назад

Thank you

@BrodysBettas Год назад

I didn't even think about the luminosity 😅 great video!

@Fishtory Год назад

Heh i didnt either until some optical and physics reading hehe

@BrodysBettas Год назад

@@Fishtory I'm so glad you read these things! Your videos make me sound so smart to my friends and family 😆

@melwohl37 Год назад

Darn so close to being first lol 😂❤ thank you for another great video! ❤

@Fishtory Год назад

I think you may be first, .actually! Thanks regardless ☺️

@Gettingshrimpy Год назад

What a great video!

@Fishtory Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@MorningDriftwood Год назад

In short, consider also the exposures for pictures and videos when choosing substrate. My experience: On my latest re-scape, I switched from a white sand substrate to a natural river sand which is grey. The reason is that I document the hobby frequently, and when it comes to getting proper exposures, the reflected light from the white substrate just blows out the image, may it be a still picture or a video. My tanks always have these shaded areas due to the plants and hardscape where details get hidden if I try to expose properly for the substrate, and if I expose for the shaded areas, the bottom just becomes a glowing area of white. It also becomes a problem if the fish I'm trying to document is darker overall or has a dark structure. Whenever they're directly on or just over the white substrate, the same thing happens. Expose for the fish and the glow just blows out everything in the image, expose for the substrate and the details of the fish get hidden. The only fish that gets properly exposed while on the white sand are the albino BN plecos.

@ImpulseHobby Год назад

Try to use an exposure bracketing

@karenhann8956 Год назад

Very interesting video. Slowly I've been getting together the items needed to create a multi-betta tank. Bought the Fluval Stratum for planting as you recommended ~ should I cover it with sand or small gravel? 🤔 (I'm planning to use an UG Filter ~ sand may not be a good idea? Any thoughts on the UG Filter?) Thank you! 🤗

@Fishtory Год назад

I think it would work with or without UGF fine. For bettas it's personal taste of the owner than any fish relatrd upsides

@cory_aqua Год назад

Good notes, reef fish protected by reef are fully colorful, open water species are more light bellied.

@Fishtory Год назад

Makes logical sense. Thanks for sharing

@pavelrak8906 11 месяцев назад

The video was great :) Only one thing with heat - any substrate would not have heat capacity as water. Those small volume in comparison with water I would not consider at all. Good example of colour are codoras - some are not showing nice colour on bright surface and also looks they are shy, try to hide i shadow. Overcome this is possible only is bigger group, whre they feel better, but never will be fully coloured. So I would recomend darker botom, only the choice is harder. For fish which do not care (poecilia) is the best - chepest sand for filtration which is almost white silica in most of hobby market 25kg quize cheep :)

@livefortoday2127 2 месяца назад

please do a video about plants

@Fishtory Месяц назад

I have over 50 on plants :) what specifically did you want to know?

@marthanewsome6375 Год назад

I prefer a darkish natural mix of very fine pebbles, almost sand like, 1mm. I find it acts like sand, but it resembles a natural river bed, plus the darker tones absorb more light allowing me to have my lights on longer without having an algae explosion. Light colours tend to cause more green algae.

@Fishtory Год назад

It looks nice as well! Thanks for sharing

@DEXTER-TV-series Год назад

Pebbles? Baked clay?

@AquaLady153 Год назад

alot of my cichlids change color depending on the subsrate and backround. i try to keep things balanced

@Fishtory Год назад

Yes, very true. They do it all according to the luminosity of the substrate and decore, rather than the color, but obviously black vs white substrate tends to be darker and encourage brighter colors...where as white sand washes them out, so they feel blended in well

@cbcsucks2205 Год назад

I do minimal water changes with a deep substrate and a heavily planted tank. I have Happy Fish, how worried about stress hormones should I be?!?

@terrycrynant9777 Год назад

Nice video, totally off subject, during your different researches have you come across any information on the metabolic pathways in tropical and cold water fish? Are there metabolic pathways which allow certain species to live in cold water that are absent in tropical species? Is it possible to select for cold tolerance in aquarium species? As most commercial fish farms are situated in warm places there probably has been no incentive to try. Thanks Terry.

@Fishtory Год назад

So yes. There are entire evolutionary chunks of thousands of mutations that can explain wll the different life processes and functions of cold vs warm water fish. What is tricky is finding the 200 or maybe 350...400 things that all help. My guess is researchers would focus on one key trait like the antifreeze cells in goldfish and ricefish... or the retention of oxygen in warm water...or torpor reset genes. But this is all just an assumption on my part, i haven't seen it worked on yet...beyond pushing fish to their temp limits and selecting the moet healthy individuals annually.

@terrycrynant9777 Год назад

@@Fishtory thanks for your reply. I've been keeping fish for more than 50years but only found youtube during covid lock down. I have colonies of Corydoras which are about 25 years old and I'm sure they have self selected for higher tolerance to nitrates and less than ideal conditions, they have survived many occasions when I have not switched the heater and filters back on after tank maintenance. The local fish stores like my fish because they are tougher than most. I have a colony of about 40 Corydorus trilineatus that are producing eggs nearly every day, its more fry than I can grow on so I plan to slowly reduce the temperature and maybe I'll get future generations which are happy and breeding at lower temperatures. Thanks again for your reply Terry.

@francorosales3716 Год назад

where are you recording right now?

@Fishtory Год назад

My backyard lol

@kinglyzard Год назад

16:29 Fruity Pebbles??

@billmeyer4773 Год назад

I use a all naturally pea rock in alot of my tanks, so it has browns,black, white, quarts, tans, done this for years now and my fish and plants seem to do better. I don't get hardly any fish loses from this. If they do its because they eat each other and that's natural life in 🎉a tank.

@Fishtory Год назад

Very nice!

@SemiFeralJill Год назад

Color also helps with lift. Birds use this principle.

@Fishtory Год назад

Whao! I had no idea...but it makes sense. Thanks for the cool info!

@booperfumprdink859 Год назад

How do you feel about colored aquarium gravels? Are they truly aquarium safe?

@crawfordwice Год назад

They are painted then varnished. They scratch the varnish off and it leaches into your tank. It's bad stuff. Plus you can't grow plants .

@chia_pet7121 Год назад

So what you are saying, Substrate is a reflection of light, rather than the reflection of the fish tank owner? 🐟

@Fishtory Год назад

Hah sure

@Sco1ful Год назад

Multi coloured gravel, also known as clown vomit 😂

@squirming_squirrels Год назад

My two hobbies are fish keeping and hifi. I’m not sure which is more full of bullshit. No. Your aquarium substrate color does not matter.

@Fishtory Год назад

Put some shrimp on dark vs light substrate then get back to me. Many fish can see all the light spectrum we can...Plus uv, reflecting light impacts their behavior immensely

@chia_pet7121 Год назад

1:41 Not sure Neon counts as a camouflage unless you are in Las Vegas? 🗼🏜🛸

@Fishtory Год назад

Yes, it would work well there.