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Hey, good to know you think I can save on a stock video subscription! $$$

I do get that showing a kid crying can be disturbing. Thanks for the feedback.

Haha, thanks. Tryin to keep it real.

Glad to hear you’ve figured out a system that works well for you! That beta sounds like a lovable menace, haha!

From my experience so far, he’s achieved that goal! I’m really grateful for the people like him who figure these things out for the rest of us.

I also agree! The APT Jazz root capsules are amazing too. I use these in clients tanks without any soil, just gravel and plant growth explodes. Another big fan of Dennis and his team and work! Great content in this video. No BS, and very comprehensive info! 👍🏻

You’re totally right. I messed that up. I’ve seen it used kind of like an all-in-one, but it’s not a true all-in-one.

Thanks for clarifying about Leaf Zone! I see I was incorrect about that. I’ve seen it being used like an all-in-one, but you’re totally right: they only list potassium and iron. It seems this would only work well for a tank that is pretty heavily stocked. Glad to hear that you seem to be enjoying the Easy Green!

Thanks for sharing your experience! I think changing one variable at a time could work if the aquarium is almost balanced already, but if a tank is way out of balance like mine was, I think it’s a different story.

Thanks for sharing that your experience matches mine. It helps bolster the theory for all of us. Phosphorous appears to have been the nutrient my tank was lacking most as well. When really assessing the ingredients on the bottle, I discovered that Seachem Phosphorous is even more diluted than their other ferts. It’s basically bottled water. I am actually considering adding more phosphorous to the tank in addition to dosing the APT as my easy baseline. Thanks for the recommendation to consider GLA. I might make an update video if I try this.

Sure! Here you go: www.chihirosaquaticstudio.com/products/chihiros-dosing-pump-system?srsltid=AfmBOoqdmUvkjA5X1ZUH9ZI-_agKv1QktzfaLRNIBkizqCyvEo5iswxm

@@undr_life You're the best. Thanks!

@ Happy to help! It’s a great product in my opinion.

@@tannerbroadwell5488 That’s awesome that you’re having such great success with a minimal setup! I actually have one plant that completely died in my tank with added CO2 but is thriving in a different tank of mine with no added CO2. Adding carbon dioxide is pretty much vital in the tank I made the video about, but definitely isn’t needed for certain plants and setups. Also, I haven’t heard of Thrive. I’ll look them up!

I love a good low-maintenance tank. Costs are a lot lower now than they were with the old fertilizer. The doser was around $100 I think, but that’s not really needed when dosing only about 1mL per day. If I had switched ferts earlier, I probably wouldn’t have bought the dosing pump.

Thanks for weighing in! Those three factors are important according to my research and experience also. I’ve got my light set to just 25% and the plants still absolutely chow down on nutrients. If that light was set to 100, I’d be doing my water changes with pure undiluted fertilizer, haha!

There are wonderful successes without supplemental co2.

@@toddbigeasy I totally agree. I’ve seen plenty of awesome tanks that don’t use added CO2.

@@toddbigeasy sure, animals in the tank produce CO2, after all. Your light intensity just needs to be adequate.

Glad to hear I did NOT get to a flawed point! 😉

@@undr_life deflection wont make it better, buddy

Just having some fun! I get that you didn’t like the video. Thanks for the comment and I hope you have a great day, whenever it is that you read this.

Thank you! 🙂

Haha, good call. I knew that if I didn’t mention dry salts, I’d get ROASTED in the comments. I’m sure it’s a perfect solution for many tanks.

Thank you so much! I’m really glad you enjoyed the videos. By “water soluble fertilizer” are you referring to the method of mixing dry salts at home?

Thank you! I’m glad to hear this was helpful to you.

Haha, I’ll give you that. If it makes you feel any better, the stock footage description said he was just crying due to a bug bite on his eye.

@@undr_life yeah this is the world today... a bug bites the eye then let't keep him crying while we get the lights right and take his shirt off and make some stock video....

Thanks for sharing what works for you! What medication do you use? Something like Flourish Excel?

@undr_life I used an interpet product, I'm from the UK.

@ Ah, that’s a brand I don’t think we have in the US. Glad to hear that worked for you!

“Lil poops” haha! Thanks for sharing your methods. I have a tank in another room that I treat pretty similarly to what you described. Picky plants like Monte Carlo don’t survive in that tank, but that aquarium is also much simpler to care for. It’s nice not having every aquarium be high maintenance - I don’t have enough time for that, haha! Also, I’ve never tried giving my aquariums seasons. That’s a cool concept. Do you mainly alter the temperature and light duration to simulate the seasons, or is there more to it?

@undr_life Monte Carlo is indeed picky. I loved using it on some dragon stone that peaked out of a small mini pond. Kept moist but also flourished due to the emersed growth! And as for seasons...for a rest period I do no dosing of any kind which includes minerals for shrimps/snails. I decrease tanks temperature a bit to lower any fish breeding behaviors, feed a little less as well. Ultimately, I found the behaviors of fish more favorable...less aggressive than if you kept them in a tank suited for summer/mating time.

@@AquaJoyClub Thanks for the information! I'm always learning.

@@undr_life Me too! My style is a blend of Father Fish and George Farmer...natural ecosystem, but also kept scaped/maintained. Father Fish goes as far as not needing to feed any of the fish since all the food source is built in the tank, but I find his tanks a lil too messy for my taste...I believe you can have organized mess...it's lived in, but not a hoarder house :P. I like to look at my tanks that way...am I building a nice condo...who could inhabit this condo..or am I building a low-rise apartment complex :P.

@@AquaJoyClub I appreciate tanks all across that spectrum. The fact that everyone can have their own style is a sign that aquarium keeping truly is an art form. It’s nice that you’ve found a style you enjoy most!

Wow, good to know that our experience lines up so closely! Knowing that, we can apply what we’ve learned to future tanks with all the more confidence.

Thank you! I don't post videos super frequently, so it's a slow build. Thanks for leaving a comment!

@@undr_life become a fan dude after watching your videos

@@egalgo Thank you! That really means a lot. 🙂

I think you’re right - it was mostly because of the bounce effect. If I turn off the frame lights and just turn on my warm room lights, the frame still looks fine.

Yeah, it’s like real-life Pokemon Go, haha! I got obsessed with that game for a short time and it was the same addictive feeling: “What will I find if I walk juuuust over there?…I’ll search just five more minutes…” I’m glad you dig the cool white frame! Couldn’t stand the yellow, haha!

@@undr_life That's a good comparison! You need to find yourself a Megalodon tooth for the next frame!

@IndoorEcosystem That would be epic!

Glad it made you laugh! My brother delivered that one-liner out of nowhere, haha! Yeah, New York can be such a strange place sometimes. Thanks for your compliment on the final look of the frame!

If a job ain’t bringing your trousers down, you ain’t breakin your back enough.

Thanks!

Thank you!

Thank you! Really glad you enjoyed it!

Haha, thanks Trisha!

Well, this is where all the fish do their business. So for them, yes. It is totally a sewer.

@undr_life i love it tho, its a beautiful sewer (seriously i love it)

@SADCAH Haha, thank you.

Yeah, they're not limited to being for fish. Using these for geckos sounds like an awesome idea! Check out this video from Indoor Ecosystems where the modules were incorporated into a vampire crab ecosystem: th-cam.com/video/KQiObZoB8BY/w-d-xo.html

Good point - this is probably the only case where plastic plants could be used without it being noticed that they're fake. I hadn't considered that.

Thanks so much! I drew a lot of inspiration from architecture when designing this.

Thank you!!

Thank you! They’ve become one of my favorites!

Thank you!!

I think it was to eat the mold, not to keep them in there

Exactly. I scooped the isopods out as I filled the aquarium with water, and the springtails became live fish food, haha!

@@undr_life I also add springtails for the same purpose before I filling the aquarium with water

Thanks so much for the support!

Thanks for the kind feedback! 🙂

Yeah the plan was to make the Modules look architectural rather than trying to create fake plastic rocks or anything like that.

Thanks for the suggestion! I’ll likely add more sizes sometime in the future.

Thanks for your appreciation of the build! It’s been more than 6 months since I set up the aquarium and there haven’t been any problems with the Modules. The spider wood twigs I used have degraded quite a bit, but not the 3D prints. I have another aquarium with a PLA print that’s been unaffected for more than 2 years. I can’t speak for every filament from every manufacturer, but normal PLA only breaks down quickly if it’s processed by an industrial composter.

Thanks so much for the appreciation! I’m hoping to have them officially for sale by some time next week. I see that you shared your email so you can be notified. Stay tuned! 🙂

Yes sir! Right away sir.