ACTIVE vs. NON-ACTIVE Substrates + ANOXIC vs. AEROBIC Aquasoils: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW.
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- ACTIVE vs. NON-ACTIVE Substrates + ANOXIC vs. AEROBIC Aquasoils: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW.
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Cloudy tanks, how to clear them FAST!
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So what is _the difference between life & death to my fish_ ?
Thank you so much, next the secrets about aquatic plants and what you should do when your plants arrive.
I learned the hard way how easy it is to clog a drain with this stuff! I thought I was being careful but apparently I wasn't because I caused all sorts of problems with it. 😂
Hey Alex. I really like these kind of information videos from you, they’re a little easier to understand than the very in depth ones. They’re good for new fish keepers or fish keepers who are trying the learn more about how things work, without being overwhelmed with too much information, that can become confusing. Sometimes good information sticks better if it’s said in a basic way…If you know want I mean. Great video. More please. 😊
Glad you like them!
I set up my 250L with bags of old substrate mixed with Tropica Aquasoil, kitty litter and rabbit poops capped with pool filter sand.
I was feeling adventurous 😊
Actually, I don't own a single rabbit poop free tank anymore 😅
Hahah sounds like a cool experiment tank. Let us know how it goes!
I read about using rabbit poop from an old aquarium book back when I was keeping aquariums in the 1970's. How long as your tank been set up? What is the oldest tank you have with rabbit poop in it? thanks
Great Video, FISHTORY! I have a much better understanding of these substates now. It is extremely helpful as I am planning for my 40 gallon hex tank
Glad it was helpful! Cheers
I love these videos. I wish I had watched more videos like this before I set my first planted tank up, but sometimes learning the hard way is good. I used pond plant potting soil and capped with a couple inches (at least, I might have got carried away) of sand. I think pond potting media is good, but I wish I had mixed nutrients and minerals into it. Now I'm having to figure out how to supplement it without causing drastic changes that would hurt the fish. I really wish I'd put a layer of crushed lava rock and coral under the dirt.
You could just use root tabs for aquarium
@@chrishowell4775 I do, but my tank has acidified and depleted calcium. Next time I plant a tank I will try to make the substrate more balanced to begin with.
I added crushed coral in double up layer of stocking "pantyhose" type material because I have extremely soft water. I'm new to this and I wanted a more natural way to have, keep the tank water and with/when adding new tap water to be able to slowly and from what I can assume safe way to have the water at what is needed for my fishies. Is it ok
Great topic as allways ❤ thanks for this ❤
This is so informative! Great job, fantastic reporting!🌻🌼🐝 Keep it up 🙌
Thank you! Will do!
This is absolutely powerful
Fantastic guide, many thanks!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I've been using crystal quartz in my shrimp tank and there doing great so far
Yeah i love granite and quartz sand or river rock
Neat video, live your T-shirt one of my all time favorite bands.
this is great. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
Great information thanks for sharing ❤
Thanks for watching!
I like the shorter videos. Really easier to follow. The scuds video for example, i've watched like 5 times because i forgot something and needed to find the information. Makes really easier with a shorter video. Or at least, with timestamps on a longer video, with separated topics.
Thanks for the feedback!
@@Fishtory Thanks for you awesome work. Best fishkeeping content on the internet.
Great video! Looking forward to the next!
Its up now hehe
Thanks!
Thank YOU.
So many options 😊
Really cool that they figured the optimum size, I have extruded? (Heated) clay pellets, but they are about 1/4” and they float.
Likely for bonsai and terrestrial use :)
I think I did get them from a nursery/garden shop (the clay pellets) @@Fishtory
Great stuff !
Glad you enjoyed it
Fantastic video man. Idk what it was, but this one was a absolute banger in the quality and information department. Rinse and repeat for the win!!!!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks
Brilliant info wish I’d seen these earlier
Glad it was helpful!
thank you so freaking much!!!!
You're so freakin welcome!
Great vid my friend
Thanks for the visit
Pouring old established aqua.... water to new aqua soil? Just learned something new...
I'm very happy that I found this video! So, I gather that fluval stratum is safe to use ? Confused when u said to do research on this substrate? Next, I guess pool sand ? Cam I put some rocks ?,I've got well water that is on the hard side with ph 7 to 7.2. I'm really scared to do this so I'm being very careful. I really love this easy to understand video.
So both pool sand and fluval are safe. I just meant if you try other brands look up what is in them etc. 7.2 isn't too bad you can probably get away with making any tank style you want. But adding an aquasoil like fluval, should bring the ph down to 7.0 or maybe even 6.9 ( it won't lower the TDS and actual hardness. Just decrease the alkalinity. )
Great info, when I started my 55 gallon planted tank I put 3 inches of fluval stratum and then 5 inches of sand so it’s a THICK substrate haha it is working great though!!
That is awesome. Glad to hear it. Cheers
Thanks alex
You got it, brother
My base layer for my next tank is outside in my garden in a plastic container. It's a mix of old substrate, my organic garden soil and also now my cats have decided it is an excellent cat toilet. It will be capped with sand, but for sure cat urine and poo will be a new one for me.
Lol well... eventually itll have lots of nitrates, thats for sure
I have a 10 inch tall 10 gallon aquarium. It's the Top Fin 10 gallon slanted front aquarium. What types of soil do you recommend for a shrimp, fish, and plant tank since I don't have a lot of heighth to work with? Oh and I don't mind if plants grow out of the top of the water. Actually I like that and may build a glass or acrylic rise to allow for the light to be raised and give the plants room to grow (I'll probably need more light then of course).
Great Video! Very informative! I already have a low KH, my Ph is always between 6.6-7.0 and I already have an Established tank. Is there an inert soil that you know of and recommend that I can cap it off with sand and that will be good for a planted tank? I don't want to use a soil that will alter my water chemistry as my water is already pretty low in minerals and Ph. I'm relatively new to the hobby and I wanted to try adding a deep substrate to my tank. Thank you in advance!
Brightwell is probably your best bet. But sand or flourite will be 100% inert
My tank crashed a month and a half ago. While I finally got my fish back in it last week, my water is still not fully clear and hasnt been for the entire time. I just started messing with my substrate, because it crashed from having water softener water and having no buffering capacity at all. I mean zero. I am slowly adding calcium in the form of crush and whole cuttle bones and wondershell for osmotic health of the fish (been talking to American Aquariums for some helpful advice for this!!) I ordered a bag of crushed coral to add to my filter a little bit at a time in a bag. I am also putting epsom salt in my tank because I have 0 magnesium. I have 75 gallons and I'm replacing my tank water with 20 gallons of fresh spring water (out of a fountain spigot) once a week. Both my waters are very low pH - my tank water is like 6.0 and the fresh spring water is at 6.5 with 0 alkalinity still, unfortunately. Florida fresh spring, so I still have to add stuff to it to get some minerals. Right now, my TDS is stupid high - it says on the meter 1770. I dont know if that is the percentage or what.
So that reading is parts of debris molecules per million water molecules. And yes, thats "liquid rock". Florida has both pockets of soft acidic aquifer water and harder ground mineral water that drains through limestone and aragonite (crushed shells and fossils).
I usually recommend going to the grocery store and buying the $2.50 5g jugs of distilled water, then adding 1 oz of peatmoss or 2 large catapa leaves and 1 to 2 cups of crushed coral per 10 gallons, for a ph of 6.8 and some tannins, some nutrients ( more build up from food and or fertilizers) and also is buffered enough not to swing more than 6.7-7.0 at most in my experience. ...if all else fails
Hi Alexander! Can you disable the mirror effect on camera?
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Oh yeah... doh!
I see your hair is growing back, in my experience, once you've got some hippie on you it's hard to get it off permanently !
What are these pellets you talk about at the beginning of this video?
Aquasoil pellets or spheres of compressed soil and clay
Question… I recently got back into having aquariums. My first one I sat up the old way of gravel, filter heater, a couple plants, cycled a few weeks and got Thomas the betta and Sally the snail. Weeks later, both are healthy and doing well. I’ve added a house plant to the top of the aquarium with roots hanging in the water (fish safe)
My brain keeps going back to the roots of the submerged plants. They are still alive and pretty green… but not thriving. I grow many house plants suspended in water… they live for years.
Will these submerged aquarium plants ever really grow in plain
gravel? I don’t move things around for fear of stirring things up.
What is your opinion of emptying the tank (saving the water and filter material) and putting down new substrate of an aqua soil and capping it. Then refilling it with the original water I saved. Am I doing more harm than good? Is it worth the effort.
I check my water parameter weekly, nothing spikes all is well, I don’t do water changes… I’m aiming to keep it this way. Effortless… but correct.
Your opinion on changing the substrate.., yay or nay??
You could do that and as long as the tank water was safe to begin with, like yours- it would be fine to do that... you could also use fluval stratum or brightwell soil and just leave the fish and snail in the tank too since those 2 brands do not contain nitrates or ammonia... plus any muddy water shouldnt be an issue, as bettas can choose to breath air at the top of the tank.
2nd
Now if your gravel ie filling with fish pop, disturbing it can kickn up nitrates pr small amounts of ammonia,.so.if thats a worry, just move them for a time. Cheers
Curious if there are semi porous gravels that could serve the same purpose as ADA style aqua soil at least in terms of allowing for formation of anaerobic bacteria without deep substrate. This would mean you could have fairly shallow substrate and utilize something like root tabs every year or two to keep plants happy, without worrying about the substrate dissolving.
I know Justin over at SF’s amazing Ocean Aquarium fish shop has filterless no-water-change tanks with happy plants that are 20+ years old. Many of his tanks are “heavily” stocked too. Incredible shop.
I mention this because he uses gravel and root tabs, but does have pretty deep gravel usually. I just wonder if it really needs to be so deep or if there’s something about the gravel itself.
Well for sure Tom had info on pumice or lava rock also...so id assume the same is true but on a slower scale and denser redox of o2
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Most dont wash aqua soils ,i find it not necessary
Long term, it's not necessary
Mistake made I killed my cherry shrimp with aquasoil , sand only for me now
Understandable
Why would that happen ? New to all this and learning.
some lower the PH and soften the water for caridinia shrimp@@4loveoffish
@@4loveoffishthese special aquasoils take minerals like calcium from the water and make water soft. Shrimp and snails require these minerals like calcium to grow properly
I've so done it wrong
I heard Anoxic means low-oxygen. Anaerobic means no-oxygen.
Correct...and aerobic means oxygen rich