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Yes in the video is val and the light is a fluval thanks

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Thanks. I have some crypts now that are just weighed down and doing fine. Thanks for watching!

I use live chlorella, I dont have experience with live spirulina. As far as dry food I prefer just yeast. Does not need aeration does not sink quickly. In my experience spirulina powder sinks within hours if you do not add aggressive aeration. Daphnia are not found in moderate current in nature they inhabit low oxygen still water environments. Culturing them with current from air yields less daphnia in my experience and observation and all the swimming against current probably lowers the lifespan. Just my experience. I always recommend when a beginner gets a culture from me they start with just water and yeast. KISS Method! (Keep It Super Skeptical!) Thanks for watching!

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The soup of the day here for a long time is chlorella :)

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You could technically weigh down a root tab and let it dissolve into the water column to prove a point but liquid fertilizer would make most sense in a bare bottom tank however I just let mulm do its thing and if the plants new growth shows signs of trouble I’ll look at variables at that time of light intensity duration and nutrients but I don’t have any issues just using my livestock to power plants. It’s all about balance and each tank has its own

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Thanks. I think steering new hobbyist in the wrong direction to make money off them is a trend that needs to stop

I would never add fertilizer unless the plants look like they need it. But I don’t sell root tabs or fertilizer :)

You can secure plants in a fish tank by every method possible but whatever surrounds the roots will block water flow. Thanks for watching!

@@skepticalaquatics Thank you so much for your speedy reply. I'll try this new method. I feel as though you have changed everything for me.

@@hilaryschacter4072 There are many ways to grow aquarium plants. The skeptical method is the only method that does not try to sell you substrate :) are the plants we use in the hobby very basic, simple, easy to grow plants? YEP. Science has taught us long ago plants need light, c02, and nutrients to thrive. Not substrate :)

Yep I culture green water Chlorella. I think for beginners starting with yeast is easier in some ways. Thanks for watching!

I don’t see why not!

@skepticalaquatics well time to try it! It's a carnivorous plant so maybe a occasional flush of seed shrimp and cylops

@@dakotahsimonson631 I didnt know it was carnivorous. I dont have fancy plants lol. Even more reason to understand why it would not need a specific thing to hold it down as "substrate".

@skepticalaquatics I live off of fun facts lol 😆 glad to share!

Yep. Gravel works great too. A great one for you to check out is Aqueon Shrimp & Plant substrate. It’s been on clearance on Amazon for a long time. It’s perfectly round so it actually creates such a large gap between pieces that baby shrimp and snails can navigate all through your substrate to help break down that mulm within. I think Aqueon did a poor job educating the public on what the substrate actually is. Instead of rock it’s solid hard terra cotta like a clay pot, with a dark grey almost black coating. Thanks for watching!

search TH-cam “Michael’s fish room mulm video”. And start there. Blakes Aquatics videos on mulm are also a great place for a beginner. I’ve literally never removed any mulm from my ten gallon bare bottom jungle. You need reeducation unfortunately. Seeing new fish keepers get so caught up in misinformation is actually kind of sad. If the amount of mulm you see bothers you, like it makes you feel as if the tank is "dirty" then realize the mulm IS DIRT, Its like cow manure which is literally sold in heavy bags right down the street at the garden center as "organic" garden or potting soil. Thanks for watching! :)

Hey thanks! Try it out and let me know how it goes!

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Sorry to hear that! Thanks for watching!

All the usual methods used for rhizome type plants. I will also cut a short peice of plant weight and gently curl it around the base of a plant or around a section of roots. Really any possible way you can think of to gently hold it down will work. Its the opposite of land plants. Substrate holds those up. In the tank we hold them down lol.

@ I was noticing it looks like you were using small ceramic weights - was it on your jungle Val? From what I’ve found in the past was to stay clear of the lead strip plant weights if there’s shrimp involved.

@ it’s Fluval bio media pieces

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Thanks I try hard for quality videography! It’s a struggle to choose to add music or not for retention purposes. I agree it’s annoying. Will leave it out on the next one thanks for the feedback. I have live daphnia available skepticalaquatics.com

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Not sure about catching them in the wild I got my starter cultures mail order from eBay :)

Hello. If your hang on back filter is "losing prime" or even "holding prime" your water level in your fish tank is too low. Refer to your instruction manual. Most filters require the water in the tank to be within 1" or less of the outflow of the filter. When used correctly, a hang on back never has a "prime" to hold or lose. The water will stay in the intake tube with or without power applied to the pump motor, if the water level is correct. Thanks for watching!

No it did not. Theres a part in the video where I show how it discolored the whole area when i poured it in, but it dissipated pretty fast. I used a product a few years ago from walmart that dyed all the silicone light blue in the tank. I ended up getting rid of that tank.

@skepticalaquatics thank you. Yes, the silicone being permanently died is what I was afraid of. So here's a story for you if you're bored. I take in 10 Mollys to a fish store for store credit. Weeks later when I went back the owner said that every tank he put those fish in got ich. I have never seen a spot on my mollies, true they are Platinum. So I paid 20 bucks bought some ich-x. But I don't believe in treating something that I don't see, I don't know.

@@jeffschwartz3520 illness in fish tanks is very mysterious and there is alot of guess work. Treating a tank wont technically hurt anything I guess. But it does sound strange

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May be an issue with the impeller. I would send fluval a message or call they respond to everything.

Yes I do have a video on the channel about what to do with new aquarium plants where I show one method of using plant weights to weigh them down, but I need to make a video showing a bunch of different ways of weighing them down because there are many. Thanks for the idea and thanks for watching! Stay tuned!

@skepticalaquatics Thank you 😭

Pro mode. Most of the light gets diffused by frogbit just remember that it’s heavily shaded. Thanks for watching!

​@@skepticalaquatics just Pro mode? And nothing else? I just bought mine

​@@RoomCat101 i use the pro mode as a template because of the siesta rest period mid day, but you are going to want to adjust intensity and duration based on your situation. i would reduce each color by half to start and a month later see if the plants seem fine, seem like the arent getting enough light, or too much light and adjust from there. this jungle 10 is covered in frogbit at the top and that helps shade and diffuse the high lighting and i havent had any issues luckily. im sure eventually that will change nothing lasts forever lol! let me know how it works out after a month!

I would assume stagnant areas of the tank would test different than an area with more flow and oxygenation but have no way to know for sure