DIRT *BETTER* THAN AQUA SOIL?? low tech planted aquarium || MD FISH TANKS
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You can buy the bowls i use here:
Amazon UK: amzn.to/2Vx73CL
Amazon.com: amzn.to/2M4FwFO
Gooseneck Clip on lamp (similar as product is now discontinued)
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Mini Water Pump:
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MD would like to help me please. I made planted tank but don't know what kind of hob filter use to in it. My tank size 1.5ft * 1ft * 1.5 ft.
shubhankar shaw just from what I’ve heard and from experience if you have the money to spend I recommend the Aquaclear line as you can choose different filters for flow rate and their filters are very good.
MD Fish Tanks would you ever get a flowerhorn as a show fish as they have great personality and it would be cool to have a main fish as well as aquascaping.
What is the pH of the soil you put in there? 🙂🤔
Go with a dwarf African cichlid tank. I think you’ll pull it off nicely.👍
can you give me examples of the fish you would choose??
Here here totally agree, sorry for butting in, was thinking the same though.....Dwarf Mbuna I have or had are saulosi, red top Hongi, rusties. little buggers but bags of personality.
Go tanganyikan! Get some shell dwellers and a bunch of big snail shells, I love Occelatus. Get some Calvus or Compresiceps, they're slow growing and absolutely the coolest looking cichlid. Get a Juli Transcriptus as well you'll love how it explores the tank. Then throw in some smaller cyps to cruise the top as a school, it will be very enjoyable.
@@luisg1653 very good plan, I totally agree to!
@@GEORDIESCAPER Isn't the length of the tank not still too smal?
I set up two tanks at the same time, one with fluval stratum, the other with tropica aqua soil.... both are heavily planted, but the aqua soil has massive algae growth.
I’ve always had incredible success with organic potting soil capped by sand. It’s really the king of low tech substrates in my opinion. It’s cheap, easy to work with, and readily available anywhere. I’ve grown way better plants in that than I ever did in aqua soil or Fluval Stratum.
How do you treat the soil? Do you sif then bake? And is the sand on top very fine or more coarse? Looking to get into dirted setup
@@Miraklum why would you bake soil?
@@TheSunIsMyDestroyer people say because of pests but I really am a noob in this matter
@@Miraklum same
Do you also bag your soil?
I would love to see betta fish in the soil vs aqua soil tanks I think u would make it look great!
I really think you should go with pecock cichlids since you don’t really want to keep saltwater fish but you like the coloration, these guys would be perfect since the are very colorful don’t get that big but a little. And are easy to care for! And just saying love how much you listen to us in the comments! 👍
yeah sounds good. Would be nice to have some colour fish
Some more! Don’t forget pumpkin!
@@MDFishTanks I thought green algae was a sign of good water quality, no?
Doing a tank with anoles, endlers and lots of plants would be amazing! I had an aquaterrarinm set up like that years ago. Anoles ate the endlers and the endlers bred like crazy.
Go for the Tanganyikan cichlids if you intend to keep cichlids. Get 3 different species in there. You'll love it !
Every episode has a very great background music plus the best aqua scape I ever seen😎😎😎😎. Keep up the good work. Greetings from Honolulu,Hawaii😎😎😎😎
A group of Blood Parrots!! They’re so much fun and have THE best personalities! Watching them all cram into bed of an evening is always lovely 😊
Keep up the good work brother. Lovin your tanks, makes me want to start one of my own.
Do it.
could you maybe do a ph test on your garden soil? i like this idea but i think the clay mess i call soil here in yorkshire might not have the same results. great channel btw big fan
I wonder if the difference between the tanks could have something to do with the light/dark substrates. Maybe the light sand in the dirted tank artificially creates more light by reflecting it back up?
Thats what i thought, at least it seems much brighter and that must be from the Sand reflecting the light
if anything, the higher light tank would cause algae rather than be the reason there isnt any...
My thoughts too. The dark substrate would adsorb light and the sand reflects
Same idea. The reflection is growing healthier plants, therefore is taking all the nutrients. Algae can't grow
So exited for the future! You inspired me to start scraping my tanks
Yes, aquascraping is the best ;)
@@Huipie81 i love scraping tanks. Theyre so beautiful
Loving the videos pal keep it up . I have been keeping cichlids 15 years and in my opinion i would go with mbuna exclusive tank and overstock it. I have a 240 litre woth 24 mbuna in it at the moment with 2 externals and 60kg of texas holey rock . 2 Anubias plants between rocks also .
Hey I’m impressed by the garden soil growths, IV done it myself and now I see between my tow tank a big difference with how fast the plants are growing !! I think you really should do a cichlids tank there is so much fish to choose and so much colour ! Wish I could sent you some pictures of my cichlids tank !!! If you have a email !
Love your videos. I wonder what affect the lighter vs darker substrate has on plant and algae growth based on light reflection from the substrate.
You can also freeze some cubes of organic potting soil and use that as fertilizer for your substrate/gravel.
The river tank is the best! For the new big tank...Maybe focus in on a particular cichlid flock for a breeding tank? Cichlids as a mixed group are pretty and active...but I think show much more interesting behavior in a species specific tank. Kribensis for example have interesting parenting behavior...but the ones I like most are dwarf Cichlids, so that huge tank might be sort of wasted unless you did the big mixed flock. I think, someday, that tank would be great as an amazon darkwater biotope pauladarium with dart frogs. Ha!,challenge set...
sounds like a cool idea!!! Love the idea of dart frogs. Would the top need to be covered??
It’d help, but i mean once you have high humidity, and some means of not letting them jump out then it could work
A couple things to consider when comparing the two. One is the dirt is broken up more and releases its nutrients into the water quickly but may not last as long as the aqua soil and the other thing to remember also is you used white sand on that so light is reflecting off of that sand and hitting more of the plants than the black aqua soil probably. But dirt works great, aqua soil is basically man-made dirt. also you have to consider where you get your dirt and make sure it’s not a yard where they’ve been spraying pesticides and herbicide‘s a lot and dirt is going to be different quality all the time, some areas might be very rich and perfect and some might be very washed out and have almost no nutrients. I know a lot of people use miracle grow organic potting soil and that would be at least a little more consistent.
Shelldweller Paradise!!!! Towers and caves created with rock with a deep sand bed and multiple types of bottom dwelling shell dweller colonies with fast swimming cool schooling fish above!
those little corner filters work great.
10:47 Hope you can make Betta Sorority(6-9 female betta) Planted Tank..
This is just my idea..
I really like that idea...
That's an awesome idea since cichlids do uproot and destroy plants
@@MDFishTanks Interested in selling the piece of toad wood?
@@MDFishTanks Remember how you said you didn't want to get 2 turtles because they can be fine for years then one morning you wake up to a blood bath? Same risk with betta sororities. Or a lot of African cichlids as far as I know. I'm not saying it can't be done, just be aware of the risks.
@@fantasyfanvii4449 ok cool. thanks for the advice
That goldfish looked awesome, like a flame brilliant orange and black. If y'a get it name it dragon or something cool like that. And a cichlid scape would be banging!
I'm surprised you didn't realize that the algae was an aspect of difference between the two soils. Garden soil is already "digested" by microbes, so you won't have a spike in nutrients like the artificially made aqua soil that leads to an algae bloom. Also, I think you have a rare plant that's called Limnophila Sp. Dwarf Bonsai. The regular strain gets big...fast ! I've been looking for what you have for a while here in the states. Do you sell ?
cichlids and angelfish sound awsome
For the cichlid tank Id recommend yellow lab cichlids. They can be mixed with other African cichlids.
If you wanted dwarf cichlids German blue, gold and electric blue rams are beautiful but they are not that Hardy, well established tanks with 26c-28c water is recommended for them. Apistogramas or bolivian rams could be other options and are quite hardy. (some apistos are really cool) you could probably put some apistos in the angel tank.
For angels my favourites are the koi, gold and platinum ones. ;)
OSCARS!!! Oscars are my favorite fish and your tank is just big enough for a pair if you do a relatively bare tank. They have a great personality and would be a great addition to the channel!
Glad I'm not the only one who can't begin to pronounce the proper names of these aqua plants 😁
Maybe it is a good idea to use powder food for the bamboo shrimp, for them to filter out of the water. And I would like to know how Captain Redbeard and the puffers are doing. Love your chanel❤️!
I really enjoy your videos and part of the reason I subbed up is because of the variety of fish and animals you keep. If you want to introduce some reptiles into the mix I say go for it. I’d be interested in checking them out and learning a thing or two. 🌱
I love your videos! Not trying to criticize your experiment becuase I love these types of videos, but I think for this to be a fair test you would need to cap the aquasoil also. Or you could just run the dirt tank without a sand cap. I believe the algae in the aquasoil tank comes from the aquasoil being directly exposed to the aquarium water, if the dirt was directly exposed to the aquarium water i feel like there would be either the same amount of algae or maybe even more in the dirt aquarium. Definitely looking forward to seeing what these tanks do long term!!🙌👌
For the cichlidscape you can use valisneria as a plant so you don’t have only rock
Hi MD,
please give pancho more plants for to hide in the aquasektion (like the old tank), i think this would look better and pancho are happyer.
Greetings from Austria
I think you should get some shell dwelling cichlids from lake Tanginika, that would be awesome, love your channel. you have an awesome setup and you are very entertaining to watch, take care dude.
I would love to see a cichlid scape, I know this is an old video, and I saw your newest videos where the ram freshwater reef tank didn’t work out, but I LOVE African cichlids, and I LOVE your channel. So I personally would really love to see how you’d do an African cichlid tank.
So beautiful vedio ..dirt tank looks fantastic...plants well settled and so healthy...all tanks are so beautiful..
I think that 270 liter tank needs a Senegal bichir in it. All these little fish are cute, but you need one monster. And when you start expanding your reptile collection, can't go wrong with an Eastern indigo snake. One of the most beautiful snakes in the hobby.
Do a combo of everything. Do a ciclid tank(I prefer dwarf species) thats a paludarium with tons of plants coming out the top and just hardscape below.
If your doing cichlids it is to be a large group of Apistogramma there small colourful you have plenty space for them in that tank and you need to keep that lovely planted scapes it could have a rock only scale could be nice 👌😍
yesssss cichlids!!!! love you're videos md
Yes mate cichlids please, Malawi, Victoria or Tanganica Lakes, big ones
I want to do a monster dirted tank. I think it would be fun.
Hi mate. Welcome. Yeah I'm really toying with the idea. And just dutch it right up with only a couple of pieces of rock...
I just absolutely love the tank with the missing shrimps.
I think u should get a few more bamboo shrimp, since they are more prone to feel comfortable in groups
Yes please do a rock only cichlid tank with mbuna xx
Hi M.D. here's 3 ideas for tank setups 1 African flooded Savannah (like the okovango delta)2 a marine setup 3 an Asian flooded tropical forest.
Absolutly an ciclid mbuna rock only tank, also good for your channel with new people watching😉
Do you think it could be that the dirt tank has more limnophila which is absorbing more nutrients and keeping any algae at bay because it's a faster grower?
It's possible ....but most of the algae was contained to that wood which is making me think it's screwing with everything. All interesting though...
@@MDFishTanks Yeah, it could be that piece of wood is decomposing faster than the one in the other tank. I've had that happen to me before :) Looking forward to seeing how they develop. Enjoying your content MD!
Yes please do a malawi ciclid tank
I want to fully enjoy the aquarium in this wonderful country👍😊
I got so much algae when I tried a dirtied tank... I also had a crazy light. I switched back to CaribSea and lower light and my tank is beautiful again. Just using root tabs for my rooted plants. Cannot be bothered with CO2...
Loving your channel bud... cichlid tank will be cool... perhaps limited in scaping and plants when doing african cichlids but perhaps rams will look good... golden, electric blue and german blues....
Loved the vid! What kind of light did you use?
What ever breed you want. But maybe medium growth fish so we can see them better. You have lots of small fish most the time. Except ranchu crew. Just my opinion. Love your channel very much. 😀👍
yeah agreed :)
I would love to see bolivian rams or blue rams or apistogramma cacatuoides. Maybe combined with some tetras.
what light is that you are using at 1:30
Lizards and/or snakes would be cool. So would a ciclid tank. I like Pancha's new tank, but her old tank made her stand out more and all the plants were a better "frame" for her. She fit better with them. But that's just my opinion. 👍🍄😎
Wow very nice
Maybe a tank in South America style would be nice, with an army of cute corydoras species, digging around in the sand when it's feeding time. I love the look of the aqua soil tank a lot better after the change. Love the dirted tank also. My cheap aquarium lights from AliExpress for the big fish bowl are finally here. It gives good light for 6 watt and I hope it is sufficient. I have bought 2 of them, just in case.
Do you have an updated link to the one two filter that you use in this video. I am unable to find it online.
That cichlid tank would be ideal for the shell dwellers.
Your dirt must be magical like your water is.
Could it be that the dirt is capped with sand, but the aqua soil is in contact with the water column? How do the water tests compair between the two tanks?
You should get lake tanganycan Shell dwellers
If U went with dwarf cichlids u could do rams. Midnight rams are some of my favourite. They like the water around 80 at a minimum. 82 is best. If u go with larger cichlids,u could do a basic African cichlids tank. Also it looks nice with them u could get a 3D background. Just ideas. In that large of a tank I would do Africans but. U could put a pair of midnight rams in a 10 gallon so.
5:11 How I pronounce all the plant species at my local fish shop and somehow they know which one I'm on about 🤣
You should do a collaboration with Dustin of Dustin's Fish Tanks. He's the king of dirted tanks. It looks like the dirted tank is doing better overall for sure, but I would say the hair grass is doing better in the aqua soil.
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DISCUS! 💙💙 Those would be awesome... ☺️
You should do the cichlid tank!!
maybe forest themed with rams? :D
You could have cleaned wood B and put it in tank A. Tank A's wood go into B.
Either way I can tell you,dirted tanks get exhausted as everything the plants need to grow is leached out and lost with water changes. Then,you are back to the real way of growing plants...nutrients added. Iron gluconate being the one that makes the biggest difference to the point others are not even needed. Plus,Iron boosts plants and not algae. Just when you thought you need more light?..turns out it's the right amount of iron you needed. I had enough light all along.
Aquatic gardening IS hydroponics all the way. Substrates are for anchoring plants mostly(plant tablets will also do fine as the enriched substrates go inert). It's what you put in the water that they absorb with leaves,stems,and roots that cause plant growth..along with the right light of course.
But you have a ton of tropica dirt tanks with wood!!! So I’m trying one 😱😱😱
Hi what plants would you advise for a discus tank with C02 bearing in mind the high temperatures. G
Dont forget to feed the bamboo shrimp, baby fish food helps......
I think you should get another ranchu. Maybe the black one and a really reddish one. Cichlids are ok but kind of overdone, every other doctors office has one. Lol. Kinda seen it all. Do one with all weird fish. Khuli leaches she stuff.
So what turned out to be better? The dirt or the aqua soile
I would do a Tanganyika tank or a mbuna tank for that tank.
an african cichlid scape would be liiiit
I like your idea to go for cichlids. I am thinking to setup a new tank with cichlids as well. Have to find a spot to place it though. I do not have a cool fishroom like you, my (currently 3) aquariums are in the livingroom of my appartment.
You should buy shell dwellers and make a scape with that tank you have
How many hours of light do you give those two tanks?
Hi MD, love your channel, what are the model filters that you are running on Dirt/Aqua Soil tanks, thank you
so what was best? aquarium soil or garden dirt for no money? :P
Dirt means ... raw soil from ground ... right ?
The paper towel probably fell! 🤣
I set up a planted tank with a well liked substrate and its basically failed, everything kind of died and is slowly coming back as if a shock phase. I'm going to try the garden soil method now.
Could well have been shock. A lot of the plants sold, especially online are grown emmersed, so not under water. They do this to speed up the growth, then when you put them in an aquarium with less CO2 etc they die back, this is a big problem with Crypts, but eventually they'll grow back.
@@saxon3980 a few plants were growing back very slowly. I tore the tank down and restarted with processed garden soil and a sand cap, got some new plants to add to my old ones and they have new leaves already. Dirt works.
Maybe you can turn one of your nano into a killifish tank!!
might be a bit on the small side?
Idk, but I love your tank and the killifish so it'd be great to see
what company makes the rimless tanks you use?
Can you use Peat moss?
Definitely a cichlid scape 😍 another awesome video!
Love the idea of an angel tank! Go with South American cichlids. Every other channel has Africans. Keep on making awesome videos.
When I looked at the link for the nano tanks you are using from allpondsolutions it appears to have braces on the corners, do you just take these of with your tanks?
Yeah I just pulled them off. Not needed.
Do shell dweller Cichlids
IMO the algae is just a result of not having the so capped with sand in the aquasoil tank. If the soil wasn't calling the dirt it would probably do the same. I'm guessing if you capped the aqua soil then it would be similar as far as algae anyways.
Finaly cichlid's ! Looking foward to it. malawi mbuna maybe? Small aquarium not that great due to aggression but had good results putting them all in at ones .
And load of female so they dont get all the attention for a male
Fairy Cichlids!!!
Do u have co2 for this tank
love MD! Great content, seems easy but I guess it's not! Ditch the crazy no mustache beard.
Do A Shell Dwellers Tank :) There Are Always Loved
TH-camrs are spending so much money on substrate when they can just use dirt and have a better outcome.
Maybe I missed it but what happened to the 3 gold fish
Matthew Aquarium Chocolate died 😥
😢😭