Out of ALL The Types of Aquarium Ferilizers, What Is The Best Type? The Pros & Cons of Each Kind.
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After a while all my liquid fertilizer was doing was growing blackbeard algea. Not to big of a deal because it was cleaning up the excess nutrients. It just showed me that the tank had enough nutrients in the substrate. It is fine gravel eco complete that I put over fluval stratum. The mulm has built up enough to create a layer in the fine gravel that has basically capped itself again. Mulm is your best friend when it comes to fertilizing your plants. My plants have been flourishing because I do not vacuum out any of the fish poop or leaves that may occasionally fall off the plants. If you look at the bottom of your tank, if you can, you will see the roots branching out across the bottom. This is exactly what you want to see. I would also say that a small snail species is very necessary for your planted tank. Whether it be Bladder, Malaysian Trumpet, or even Ramshorn snails. They will help break down the waste even further which in turn help the plants absorb them even further. Yes they may be a little unsightly to some, but they will be nothing but beneficial to your plants and tank health. I have two small types Bladder and Malaysian Trumpet snails. The Bladder keeps the whole tank nice and tidy, whilst the Malaysian Trumpet snails stay in the substrate to help thing breaking down and moving in there. Let your tank take care of itself and only make adjustments as needed. If it ain't broke don't fix it. Thanks again Alex for another good topic of discussion.
Very excellent point. I use malaysian trumpets in most my tanks, no matter the style of substrate really.
All my aquariums are dirt with sand caps, live plants. When first set up I do use root tabs and liquid ferts just to jump start things. Wait till I see a bit of growth and other life forms such as snails, seed shrimp/other tiny creatures thriving. Then I cease the ferts and know I can add a few fish. I do water test for all parameters during the start up process. Slow and steady as she goes.
Alex, Btw - New Year - New tank indeed! 20 long being set up. I’m a January baby so it’s a birthday present to myself. Take care, looking forward to your next stream 😁☮❤🐠🦐🪴
Ohhh happy birthday and new years! I have mine on jan 19th as well! Thanks for sharing your methods with us... they sound very sound and likely to produce beautiful results!
Mine is the 21st! Happy Birthday to you also! 🥳🎂🎈@@Fishtory
What's up Alex! I have a dirted tank set in October last year. Late November I noticed a deficiency on potasium so I got that fertilizer specific. Adding this resulted in way better plants, I increased the light time and the algee started groing way less. It was kind of crazy more nutrients and more light resulted in less algee.
This is always my problem too! I go buy potassium and or some nitrates in the low stocked tanks... its crazy the growth you will get if the light is sufficient! Thanks for mentioning that
I had one of the worst days ever but I got to hear your voice at the end of the day so today was a good day plus I was with my Daughters but like I said I got to see you so I’ll be fine.
Im sorry to hear that my friend. Hang in there
@@Fishtory It’s so super cool that you’re able to actually respond to comments because I know you have a lot to work through in your own personal life but you still have enough to have such kind words to complete strangers. Don’t worry I’m not a crazy stalker because of course I’ll never get the opportunity to meet you because I won’t even be able to see Family in California or around Seattle until at least maybe a decade from now. Thanks to my psycho pakistani (we found bin Laden there for a reason, it’s a bad place) x immigration is giving me problems even though I’ve been in Australia 20 years & have 3 Daughters which all just means I’m totally stuck absolutely not going anywhere but at least I can fantasise about getting around California & Seattle vicariously living through you just because you’re so damn tough & so nice & so smart & so funny so it sure is nice to hear you. I have a girlfriend & we immediately agreed no one will ever be getting married, de facto, engaged, none of that shit just totally faithful without thinking we own each other. I have a fun little fact that no one cares about that for no reason at all I’ll share with you. My name was Jeremy for 19 years but then I legally changed it. Thank you for your contribution to society my friend.
Sincerely, Dellsea.
I'm a work with mother nature guy. Undefeated 💪
I just unplugged my sponge filter on my 3 gallon shrimp/snail tank. I'm going to leave it unplugged for a few days to see how my tank fares without mechanical filtration
You will likley be pleasantly surprised
I'm wishing you and yours a very nice day too 😊
Why thank yuh! It worked!
@@Fishtory 👍 your welcome
Omg I was just scratching my brains about this topic ! Thank you so much Alex ! 😊🎉
You're so welcome!
Awesome content Alex! Great footage and so much knowledge. Thank you! I am really looking forward to your channel in this new year!
Awesome, thank you! Im working on the visual and audio quality. My medical bills have just beat me down so many years, its been a slow process, so i appologize
Great information and just scratched the surface. Thanks for sharing
Glad you enjoyed it
Love your videos they are the best on the internet, so informative and sensible
Glad you like them! Thank you
Love your tanks. So vibrant.
Great upload, Alex 👌
Glad you like it!
Great information. I love root feeding plants and love root tabs.
Me too!
Excellent as always Alex!♥️♥️♥️
Thanks again!
I am loving this❤
Great information Alex! Thank you
My pleasure!
YOU are causing me a problem. Just when I fix a TOP TEN BEST from Fishtory, you knock someone out of the list!
With all the 'false gurus and mis-information out there, its another Fishtory master tutorial delivered on point.
I find myself preaching about the differences between the different fish parishes, approaches and methods with unending rambles, and you nail it down, hard and clear, in one video! Well done.
Its clear I need to expand TOP TEN BEST to TOP TEN TWENTY... JR
Haha you are far too kind. But ill take it 😄. Thank you
I use aquarium co op root tabs once in a while. And api leaf zone has been a game changer for me. Truth
Thanks for your experiences!
Great tip to @ a channel and look up a certain term. I had no idea you could do that and I’m a TH-cam nerd!
I figured it out accidently last week hahaha
Muchas gracias Alender, saludos desde Costa Rica!!!
Gracias mi amigo 🙏
Love and Respect from Pakistan.
Thank you kindly. I return the same compasion to you and yours!
Another great video, Alex!
Thanks again!
Excellent tutorial Alex. Love the cat cameo at 11.57 😊
Haha thank you... she says... "meow".
I love the catchy picture. Good tactics.
Thank you haha
Really good stuff, great illustrative tanks. Realistic, achievable - not super pristine high maintenance display tanks. EI is a bit much for most of us so glad you skimmed over it.
My one tiny caveat would be that CO2 is often deficient in tanks - especially if using certain types of filtration - and perhaps more importantly if your tank contains water that is hard. In lower light tanks, even low levels of yeast and sugar generated CO2 diffusion will keep plants healthier and they are more likely to out compete algae and suck up undesirable Ammonia, and high Nitrate and Phosphate levels in your water and make maintenance easier.
High light, soft water tanks with CO2 injection require a lot of trimming, that is for sure.
Keep up the good work.
Great tips i just left out a lot due to time, but your points are spot on and great for others to read here. Thanks
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I've recently read for high ph tanks, dosing micro nutrients in the water column is basically useless as the elements settle out and become unavailable to the plants within hours. Just thought I'd share that info. If I'm mistaken, please feel free to correct me.
That is correct. Over 7.6 or tds of 250ppm it's not necessary because the minerality of the water hardness also holds a lot of those trace minerals. (Micro nutrients). But once the water is too hard.... most plants won't grow, so its a little tricky. Also ammonia is far more toxic in tanks over 7.0 ph... so the same amount of ammonia that is just below toxic at 6.5 or 7.0 is deadly at like 8.0. Essentially every point of ph it gets 10x more deadly
Hornwort, Vallis and Amazon swords should thrive, the latter if Iron is provided in the substrate, but all need adequate light. It takes a lot of light energy for plants to extract CO2 from the carbonates, in hard water I would recommend maybe 1 watt of LED per gallon for 8 hours a day.@@CodeNo.5H4H5
think I caught a Carolina pygmy sunfish today, Elassoma Boehlke. In a ditch attached to the upper Waccamaw river in NE SC. he is hiding in my aquarrium now, hope to get a better look tomorrow. he has blue fins even though I carried him in a sandwich bag through the woods for a mile. kind of excited, no one I know gives a crap about fish unless you can eat them. LOL
Those a great little aquarium fish! Beaitiful too
Another smash hit! Thank you for this one! Do you/would you still set up dirted tanks or are you moving to aquasoils?
I prefer aquasoil.... but ill always have a place in my heart for dirted
Awesome video brother
Do you have a more detailed video regarding potassium/iron etc for plants?
Yes, if you search @fishtory "iron and aquarium plants" or whatnot. Ive covered both a lot in other plant episodes that may be tagged...but more over- ive discussed if iron really makes plants red or what makes plants colorful and it's not usually iron, it's ultra low nitrates and high light
@@Fishtory most of my tanks have shrimp. Any down side to iron with shrimp. I know copper isn’t so good but iron?
I take advantage of this video to wish you the best new year for 2024.
How come on vacation we are even busier than usual...
Haha no vacation for me, unless im in a hospital 🙃
Thanks so much for sharing! Great info! Can you recommend a book for us newbies?
Probably the website of 2hr aquarist... the tom barr report blog... and then the Bible of aquatic plants... christel kasselman's 2019 english edition of "Aquarium Plants"... which is getting hard to find, but my friend's store redfishbluefish.net sells the book at retail still. Ive seen it on ebay for 150 or 200 lol
I have a question. How can I stop making jungle style plant packed scapes?
In the case of dirted aquariums even with no water changes I don't have a problem with keeping the water clean. BUT I find it hard to create negative space in my aquascape. I want to see bare sand sometimes. It's more inviting to the eye, maybe a valley in the middle and a beach on the front.
I can only think of understocking and putting a bunch of algae and detritus eaters in to maintain the balance in the absence of plants. I don't mean no plants but almost half the plants I normally have.
I think this is a nice conversation to have about low-tech aquariums. From my observations the real advantage of high tech tanks is that you can have more negative space in your tank. Not the water parameters or the water clarity or fish health. How can we emulate that in low tech?
You nailed it 100%. That and controlling flowering and emersed plants... that's the big advantage to high tech style tanks. For folks like you ( and most my tanks)... you simply gotta trim trim trim. And then use a small gravel vaccuum or turkey baster to manually clean the negative spots
@@Fishtory oh! Emersed plants could be the answer. Maybe like a riparium with fast growing terrestrial plants? In the past my only successful experiment was with blackwater. Thanks, you were the right person to ask.
It wasn't successful for long to be honest
I just got my thrive plus in and my Bacopa isnt melting away anymore, Hell yeh
Alex, can you please share us your knowledge on various lasagna substrates and the ideas behind them?
Yeah im waiting on some substrate ingredients... and then ill make that video when i set up my 40 breeder ...hopefully next week!
@@Fishtory Thanks Alex. Will be waiting for it.
Hello Alex sir
The rummynose tetra tank is absolutely beautiful 😍
Few questions
1 I made 3 ponds on my terrace using potting soil/garden soil
I have noticed in winter the plants grow very slowly even if I make the substrate very nutritious adding vermicompost, egg shells and other diy stuff but when the summer hits all the plants get nuts 😂
I can't control the growth because of the direct sunlight hitting on the plants leaf 😌
I tried with only potting soil no additives but still plants prefer light over humanly additive nutrients !
That's what I faced from last year to this
And now plants doing okayish but they are sending runners stems and waiting for Feb to explode 😂
❤from india 🇮🇳
100% you are totally correct. No fertz will compete with quality sun...yet without fertz, quality sun is limited somewhat since plants can only grow as fast as they can access their nutrients
@@Fishtory 🙏
do you have any tips for adding water to a tank without distrubing the mulm, added a gallon of water to top off my tank and i moved a decent amount of mulm around, do you think this would be an issue over time?
Get a strainer for pasta and just place that in the water and pour into it...even like a dish will work
I've been using Aquarium co-op liquid fertilizer, and seachem root tabs. I figure they are good brands, they aren't expensive, and they are easy to use. All my plants were doing really great, but after a year some of the stem plants aren't growing as well as they used to. I wonder if I should pull them out and replace them with some type of sword plant. The bacopa is still very strong, but the rotala takes for ever to grow back after being trimmed.
So rotalla needs high light. Don you have a coop light? I prefer the fluval 3.0 for growing colorful dense plants.... also rotala benefits from co2 massively. Low or medium light rotalas and many other stem plants, kinda just get scraggly and slowly pick up algae
@@Fishtory I have a budget light. I think it's hygger, but one of the less expensive ones. I was having terrible algae problems, but I turned off the blue lights and the algae finally went away... well, I also stopped leaving them on too long, too. lol
Hygger is judged to have a high PAR but honestly, I find a standard outdoor floodlight better, say a 30 or 50 watt LED. Dirt cheap, great penetration and so long as around 4,000K absolutely spot on in spectrum. Blue light is needed but not in excess, replant your trimmings and throw away the stalks and roots every so often for stem plants, treat them like culinary herbs and consider CO2, even a low tech sugar and yeast system will make life so much easier, tanks are often devoid of accessible CO2 within hours of the lights having been turned on. Hope that helps.@@MandyJane123700
With the limiting factor, if you are missing ONE element nor not having enough in your all in one f=liquid fertilizer, does that mean you will have a algea problem? Or does the algea also work under the limiting factor so you will be ok utilizing a all in one fliquid fert according to the manufacturer? It is very hard to figure what work and what won't in our tank.
Algae has a limiting factor as well, but it's almost always below that of the plants...so a plant may need 20ppm of nitrates a day... algae may need .5 or 1ppm of it. Great question. I have some other videos on how we take out algae either wirh cutting the lights since they cant store energy more than a day, and plants can for weeks... OR by raising light and the speed those limiting factors are consumed
Will you be live Tuesday night Next week?
Most likely
You need to do some "your mulm"-jokes 😛
Oh man! Yes... yes i sure do
Thank you. "your mulm is so flat... you couldnt grow anubias"
I was hoping to use plants that dont need to be planted to help clean the water but now you are saying i need to place liquid fert and still need to do water changes. So how many fish would i need to balance things out or at least be close to the proper balance for a 29gal tank. I had this tank for many years and just did monthly water changes. I have even stopped that beacuse i only have 4 fish. One fish keeps killing new ones i put in. Hoping to start adding fish again. I know this is a complex question but can anyone give any advice to adding none buried plants. I have gravel now and one sad looking amazon sword.
Um id say 15 to 20 inch or 1.5 inch long fish like tetras or danios, rasboras etc would work. Or the 20$ liquid fertilizer and a test kit for nitrates.
Ok. Thank you for the advice. I am planning on also getting 10 cherry red shrimp. Still trying to figure out what plants to get also. Have it narrowed down to Java fern, Giant Java moss, Anubias (smaller and larger size) 3 each of those, Water sprite. Banana plant. Still not sure on getting a top floater one. I have API liq. fert already. Still need to get a test kit. I hope that should be ok plant wise. Thanks again.
Can too much nutrients in deep substrate kill plants? Somehow my swords looks like dying. There is sufficient light . And corymbosa stem is rotting.
Yes thats called "running too hot". Without extremely high light or gas exchange in the substrate it can cause strong fertilizers or very acidic things like peatmoss to harm the roots...while in the right ratio they help the plants
Stupid Quick question? What is the difference in the end, with 2 identical tanks with the exact same elements like fish, feeding , light, ect... but 1 has anoxic filtration with a plenum and the other has a hang on back filter but has a load of plants like Pothos and peace Lillys ect...with there roots submerge in the water column taking the toxins out for the fish?
So pothos wants ammonia, its roots will reach down to the substrate if you watch closely... it isnt very good at eating nitrates like most aquatic plants can. But if you have aquatic plants instead... vs the plenum .... then its all the same essentially
Ok, thanks
You are not really wrong, but this video is too short to cover evereything. Just one example, ammonium is basically non-poisounus in a pH under seven. Lowering the pH to under seven will make a huge difference in plant growth. Not only because of the ammonium, but iron and manganese will also be a lot more available for the plants at a lower pH. BUT. Making a huge water change with tap water (so the pH goes over seven), might kill all your fish. Another thing to notice is that much underwater plant growth in nature, is close to a spring. The oxygen levels will be low, which means nutrients are available. Managing anaerobic/aerobic spaces in a tank might change everything. But then - everything also changes when the plants grow really well.
Then we have all the different plants and what they actually prefer. Floating plants is in another league than rooted plants - they got access to carbon from the air. Inbetween plants are for example water lilies, which behave completely different as soon as the have leaves on the surface. One might see that with tons of other species too, if one lets them grow over the surface.
You already know about the Walstad method, but worth mentioning is Tom Barr´s "Estimative Index". Both methods are for the plant nerds. I have even seen tanks (at Tropica) where they starved the plants of phosphorous. They got the plants to grow very low and very compact. But phosphorous is a nutrient that many plants like to get from their roots. You can put it in the water column, but then say hello to an algae bloom.
To keep it simple for a normal fishtank, just add some (less than recommended) micronutrients when you do a water change. Most plants will love it and start growing. NEVER add macro nutrients. They are already there.
I touched on all you mentioned briefly and explained Tom's method in short...but i have videos on the ph and Ammonia/ammonium and phosphorus cycle and carbon cycle, on and on. Color enhancing ...low tech, no tech, high tech hehe. But yeah it was really hard to cram what i did into this, let alone all the exceptions and techniques out there. I just wanted folks to understand how the basics worked in this one
Hey Alex, I enjoy your videos and learn a lot from them.
But I suggest you try shortening them/being more concise. I think they would do better.
It's not a huge deal, but for example the first 8:40 could have probably been compressed to say 3-5 minutes.
Just a suggestion !
Im terrible at it... and the funny part is, people also have complained i skipped over some details lol. So sometimes i feel like i cant win... i highly recommend listening at 1.3 or 1.5 speed though lol 😆
lol. transparent fish. never saw such as it.
Can anyone join your discord server? If so, how?
They will be able to, but i haven't launched it yet, there's a fb group, and I'll let everyone know when i finally make the move. Hopefully soon. I'm a dummy with discord, so im kind of waiting to work with a friend on the structure
Ah awesome, thanks for letting me know. I'd love to create a tank like yours, but would love to talk through it with you or someone. Loving your videos by the way. Love learning about the ecology of these more natural tanks.
Comercially awailable agricultural products is the best fertilizers. Dirt cheap, easily awailable, possible to adapt every single nutrition according to current limitation and it makes you understand excactly how every nutrient affect the growth. No reason to use specific aquarium fertilizer.
Wouldn't some of them be dangerous to shrimp and fish?
@@forteanfish Some of them, yes.
If you know what you are doing...i agree 100%
@@Fishtory I guess know what you are doing is important no matter products used?
Some products are rich in Ammonia, which is okay if buried under sand, but if added to the water column as is pointed out in the video, disaster lurks. @@greenmachinesweden
so what is the best type? why u ask us back?
Did you watch the whole thing? Theres a best type for plants with roots, high light, low light and rhizome plants
Dead fish! According to Father fish 😂
Its funny but probably there is truth to it
Yes dead fish is good until one of your pleco or the cory army dug it up
@@wabalaka1565 What fatherfish said is to bury it into your substrate
Knowing him, he has at least 4 inches of sand/soil
Don’t believe the holy man.
@@aquaracer65 He explained that this is how Native Americans fertilized their soil. By adding dead fish for it trace elements
@@EuroGupperHe can say whatever he wants and I’m usually ok to agree to disagree on certain points. But ever since one of his latest videos (Nature is victorious it’s called now) in which he tells several blatant lies, I am totally done with this guy. In this video he tells his followers that CO2 emissions have gone down worldwide since the 1950s and that the Great Barrier Reef is doing fine and uses graphs and fragments totally out of context to ‘prove’ his claims. He basically tells his sheep that there are no climate issues. He is preaching fake news. When I responded with facts that proved his lies, he blocked me from commenting and renamed the video several times. Probably because I sent a message to TH-cam about this misinformation. Father Fake.
I have a 20 gal long and I have java moss and anubias and 1 Nana anubia. What type of fertilizer would you recommend?
So youll only need a liquid fertilizer. Likely without nitrogen if you have a decent number of fish... your light im guessing will limit the nutrient needs before it gets very high since none of those plants have roots in the soil.
Perhaps 1 time each water change add a pump of one of the all in one formulations... aquarium coops works but has nitrates, so just keep an eye on those getting too high ( i change water at 40 ppm or so usually). Or i belive brightwell has a high potassium...no nitrate all in one liquid... flourin i believe is the name... id recommend that the most probably. Most companies instructions over dose the fertz ...cause they want to sell you more lol
Hey alex, do you have a discord group? Thank ya
Not yet... working on it as we speak though! There is a Facebook group for now also
Fertilizers are still such a headache for me 🥲
I understand