Discover the Revolutionary Method for Stunning Foliage Without Fert/CO2
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- Aquarium plants are a vital aspect of creating a thriving aquatic ecosystem. Whether you have a no CO2 planted tank or a low-tech planted tank, these plants offer numerous benefits. The deep substrate system plays a crucial role in sustaining their growth and overall health.
Aquarium plants not only add natural beauty to your tank but also provide essential oxygen for your fish and other aquatic inhabitants. In a no CO2 planted tank, you can enjoy a lush and visually appealing setup without adding fertilizer either. The deep substrate provides an excellent source of CO2 and fertilizer. Low-tech planted tanks are perfect for beginners, requiring minimal maintenance while still supporting a diverse range of plant species.
The deep substrate system fosters root growth and nutrient absorption, ensuring your aquarium plants flourish. Creating a balanced ecosystem with thriving aquarium plants contributes to the overall well-being of your aquatic environment, making it a fascinating and rewarding experience for every aquarium enthusiast.
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On this channel you will find scientific research as well as personal testimonials by countless hobbyists who have applied the Father Fish System and are enjoying its amazing benefits.
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I'm going to grab a handful of decaying leaves from my local clean river on my way home from work and out them in my tank today. I added 2 inches of sand over my gravel substrate tank of 3 years. Thank god I found you father fish! Thank you!
Have you had problems with your tank?
@@BarityOne as of today it is thriving. before i had to gravel vac once a week im never gravel vacuuming again. got the sand substrate over the gravel and its going great! so i always had plants in my tank believe it or not i had them in small pots of gravel on top of the gravel substrate now i have them all planted directly into my new substrate. its wonderful. i just couldnt mentally break the chains of the way i always done the hobby since like the age of 12 until i binge watched father fish videos during work. the way he broke down how nature at the end of the day is the best really put things into perspective for me of things i always knew to be true but couldnt implement.
sorry for the rant but yes the 2 inches of black sand ontop of my old layer of 1 inch of black gravel in a planted tank looks beautiful. my betta and his tank mates are in heaven. i recently added leaves from a local river bed into my tank 2 days ago or so as well.
@@BarityOne NOT IF YOU FOLLOW THE ADVICE HERE
can i add sand with fish in them already?
@@smileyone7589 yes, make sure the sand is rinsed off and then put it in a plastic bottle. Then you can pour it on the bottom without getting it everywhere.
Father Fish yet again you’re a life saver! Since I’ve capped my tank with sand my tanks health has improved tenfold. Thanks for all your expertise and advice. My fish are now breeding! 😊 your calming voice reminds me of my dear grumpy. If you’re ever looking to adopt a new grandkid … lol I’ll be here. 😋
Father Fish, you remind me of my grandfather who was one of the best people I ever knew. Tomorrow will be two weeks ago that I lost him. I'm glad that you are still around and making videos. I wish you to stay healthy and keep up the great work.
Sorry for your loss. Your grandpa sounds like a great man.
@@ryanrogers8211 Thank you. I even showed him Father Fish.
You are the Grandfather we never had , Thankyou Grandpa ! ! Lots of Love from India
I really like this channel, I am very lazy so having an aquarium that takes care of itself is perfect. I barely have to touch mine and its great! Not only that but my aquarium looks 20X better than most others, I got into the hobby through the plants since I loved terrariums, turns out an aquarium is just a very wet terrarium if you set it up right. The great thing is that many of these aquarium plants are great in terrariums when grown out of the water.
I think this has to be your best video to date FatherFish. You're doing a great service to help all of us and to blow holes into the sinking ship of conventional fishkeeping!!!
I LOVE IT!! Blowing holes in the sinking ship of conventional fish keeping!! ""MAN THE TORPEDOES!"
My new FF aquarium, is thriving ( plants). Only 2 weeks and it is a jungle in there. Your plants, additive soil is amazing ! 🩵
I'm so glad I did the father fish deep Substrate filled with plants. 2morra will be a week and I can see the plants are starting to look nice. I got about 9 baby electric blue acura fry about 3 months old in there and they are loving it all I've been feeding them frozen daphnia very little bit at a time. I'm so grateful I found father fish TH-cam channel and converted to the deep Substrate cause I was getting tired of gravel and always having to gravel vac my tank.
Woohoo!! another fantastic video.... This was so educational and absolutely enjoyable... Thanks a million father fish!! You are simply amazing...😁👍💯🤩👌
I had a 125 long fully planted co2 injected jungle with angles rams and a bunch of smaller fish. Broke it down when I moved and never set up another one because it was too much work. Kept the 55 gallon sump just in case I got the itch again. That was 3 years ago but I’m dusting it off and buying the father fish substrate supplements and the dead leaf starter thing. Thank you for restoring my interest again!
It's going to be amazing!
Ultimate satisfying aquarium setup is father fish principles.
I have converted one aquarium to natural aquarium with pond plants, pond fish (gambusia) and natural sunlight . I am happy and stopped spending money on fish and aquarium products
Another great tutorial on a natural balanced aquarium..without human interjection..😂. Spot on fatherfish.❤
That was absolutely amazing. Excellent work, as always!
Thank you for explaining this. I could never explain why my plants has always done good and I don't use co2 nor use fertiliser in my aquarium but I do have a deep substrate and I do have a lot of fish but I have never had to do any water change . I only top it off once a week and my water has never had any smell. I do have a lot of plants per aquarium and all seems to be happy
Now I understand why. Thank you sir for explaining it to us. You are awesome
Brilliantly presented Father Fish! I took notes lol Thank you so much! ❤️
Thanks father fish for all the correct knowledge you share I'm changing my substrate this week from gravel to sand as I was tricked into thinking gravel was the best substrate I'm now a true believer of what you do and just wish I knew all about this before I did my first anitial setup
Tore down my 3 year old 75 gallon Walstad theme tank today. Repurposed it with the father fish method complete with supplement package and 3 inches of sand. With way less feeding and no addition of fertilizers I look forward to watching the transformation unfold. Thanks Father Fish for all your knowledge. 😀
How’s it going?
@@Darnss123 couldn’t be better. How about you?
@@kenrooke9047 I’m doing well 😂. I meant the tank but thank you.
@@kenrooke9047 does the substrate really work?
It certainly does 13 th will be two months in. I am on discord now. My handle is h20insanity. I have both a video and a pic of my tank there. Everything is filling in and the trimming is taking place on a regular basis. Especially the limnophila sessiflora. Nice chatting. Glad to hear you’re ok😉
Amazing advice. Thank you
Awesome to see my lil Scud/Blackworm/Microfauna tank in there!
Great video @FatherFish !!
WOW! This is another one of the most helpful vids! 👍🏻
Brownian effect is amazing, thank you Father Fish!
Thank you so much FF. You've debugged another fundamental step in the process! 🙂 🙂 🙂 👍👍👍
Grandfather fish thank you for your information at how to keep a natural fish tank...I am so looking forward at starting mine once my pocketbook starts filling up again.
I wish you healthy long life Sir! Thank you for sharing tons of priceless information.
Thank you Father Fish, this is very interesting!
I love your channel and your message of natural tanks. :)
Fantastic video.. thanks so much for sharing your knowledge ❤
FatherFish I hope you do not mind me giving you the label of GrandfatherFish, you have much wisdom with much care and love for nature. I thank you sir for this.
Thanks, this reminded me to buy green manure seed for my garden beds
You are the frontier of aquarium science father fish. Please don't stop pushing the boundaries of knowldege
my plants are thriving in the sand , also you can see how the detritus is sucked down and becomes green like on the dirt bottom part creating gases that realease from time to time
You have such a good clear voice I can listen too you at double speed
Goodnight from Sweden ❤
Good night from South Africa
goodnight from USA
Live plants are so much more rewarding than plastjc 🤓🐠
Thank you so much for your wonderful videos! I can't even begin to describe how much they have helped me in my fish keeping journey! ☺
Your understanding of plant biology is astounding, Father Fish. Wow... 😮👍
Mm from India ..and use your method to set up my tank...thanks for all this knowledge
Is that you Uncle Fish? P.s I should’ve looked through your post for this specific video because it was what I needed.
recently upgrade my plastics 108 L TUB to a 42 gal aquarium , i got TONS of fish like 60 at this pont in there , i got , swordtails, platies,mollies,guppies,rainbow sharks , guoramis , discus , electric blue ramirez , legion of shrimp and snails i think thats it for 1 of my 5 tanks , thank you father fish , water is clear with no smell no bad coloration and no water change just filter cleaning and top off.
i do have and over crowed koi tub that i have to change water every 2 days but is cuz they eat a lot and they get the water rich with amonia in no time . but after that , no smell , crystal clear , the water just becomes a little smelly and i know is time also a little yellow
alll this is cause for heavy feeding for koi in a small tub for them , but man you have see the colors the got now .
Very nice explanation of the plants. Would be great if the father fish store had more of an explanation of the description of each plant's for sale.
I will try to do that
@@FatherFish thanks
@@FatherFish I LOVE HOE YOU USE A PICTURE OF LAYNE NORTON ON YOUR SUPPLEMENT.
Great video
yeh I still remember the aquascaper who told me his 2.5 ph swing from lights on to lights off wasnt stressing his fish lol
I love him❤❤
I set up a tank doing this method on January the 7th in a 75 gallon, about 5" substrate, 3 of dirt and 2 of sand (some parts may be 2 dirt 3 sand, i'm not one for precision)
I've never known plants grow like it outside of a CO2 injection system, stems and crypts have been growing at about an inch per day (so much so that I can cut them once per week and spread them around the tank, we went from 5 crypts to 18 in three weeks) , amazon swords have been putting out pups within 3 weeks of being in a brand new tank. My hairgrass hit 4 inches within 2 weeks and is spreading like mad and even pearling. Everything is growing like a weed! If this was common practice 12 years ago i don't think I would have stopped.
the best channel on TH-cam
Its correct name is "Brownian Motion" and is caused by the molecules vibration (due to temperature) between water and various molecular sized particles.
Right name is stochastic integral markov process, but most just say brownian motion
Thank you. I have been thinking about co2. It wasn’t something I was going to run out and buy. However, I have been looking into some home made ones. I won’t be looking into it any further.
I've taken my co2 system off. No plants have suffered. I now believe you only need co2 if you want your plants to grow fast but then you're trimming all the time so whats the point.
@@matthewburley880 thank you. You’re right I don’t want to be trimming all the time. Plus I hate cutting healthy plants and throwing them away. I have no choice with hornwort but even duck weed I give to my boyfriend his cichlids love to eat it.
@@crystalgrzelak sounds like you need more tanks so you can plant your trimmings into them 😉
@@matthewburley880 lol yes. I currently have a 15gallon and a 10 gallon. I’m setting up a 20 long in a few weeks
Goodnight from France 😊
you are not sleeping yet!
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@@AlinefromToulouse not yet 🤪
@@hendroval 😀
goodnight from USA :)
Love the high-Quality Videos and editing Keep it up
Thanks! Will do!
Your knowledge and tanks we all look up to. But I do wonder have you ever considered doing saltwater tanks also? Or will freshwater be what you wanna focus
My intent is to do salt but I am living in a tiny place without the ability to have more than a very few tanks. I am hoping this channel and my store grow to allow me to move.
My guppies and Endlers seem to love eating Hornwort. They have eaten it all!
I am thinking of growing Hornwort in a tank by itself, touse as a food source gor the the fish.
Have you seen this behavior with hornwort as a food source, with your guppies and endlers?
Okay. Should I sell my co2 and my automatic Doser for fertilizers? I guess I am overstocked with technology. 😢
I would love plant package sold in EU! 😊
He has a video showing him building one of the packages. You can follow along sms get everything exactly the same
@@ryanrogers8211 it's about getting all those plants locally! I found only three available in local online shops!
@@iwanjirkuw8596 oh shoot, I hope you can find some good aquatic plants
Awesome! I was wondering about this. I had a tank crash. I'm in the process of moving the plants to another tank. I was debating whether I should add a liquid fertilizer or not after seeing one of your videos in which you discussed not planting too deep to force the plants to grow their roots to reach the nutrients. Although I didn't know about your supplement package I did do some additives such as finely pulverized egg shells and compost. About an inch and a half of soil, an inch and a half of sand capped with another inch and a half of natural stream gravel. Methinks I'll hold off using a fertilizer.
Nice. You may need to add a bit more sand..
what is your advice for saltwater? does a dirted bottom w/2 inches of sand atop it also benefecial for saltwater tank?
I wish i found your channel 8 months ago when I started a planted tank now ima try it again with your advice
Wow father fish thank you for explain this c02 topic for plants injection of cO2 is dangerous for fish i should know i kill my discus some months ago not understand c02 bravo father fish 🎉❤
Awesome video!! Do you think It’s important to add shrimps to my tank for breaking down the fish waste? Thanks a lot! Great videos
yes
Ooo!!!.Father fish with no beard. Then it's time for me to trim my beard
I use your method with my 55g planted tank. Unfortunately I started it before I found your channel, but I did start with sand, but no soil or compost. I did incorporate your dead leaves and creek or river water tips. Haven't had to do a water change in months. Only top off every other week or so. Tank is very healthy. If I bought the supplement package you sell, how do I get it under the 3-4 inches of sand substrate already in place.
freeze it into cubes and slip them to the deep.
I was aquascaping & thought I bought sand but it's crushed coral ment for salt water aquarium. I just noticed after having my aquarium established for 2 months. Will this live crushed coral negatively affect my freshwater 5 gal aquarium?
Add an inch of sand on top of it to slow the buffering.
@@FatherFish yes sir & thanks for all your knowledge ✌️ hello from Texas
Dear Father Fish, I like it very much your nature setup system however if we need to frequent uprooting and pruning the plant does this system still suitable? my main concern is when we uprooting the plant the soil underneath will came up and creating a mess.
Do not uproot the plant. If you must then jiggle it lightly to shake off the attached dirt before slowly pulling it out
@@FatherFish Thank you for your kind reply. Will follow your recommendation for the next setup🙏
Hi father fish! Great stuff!! Is there anyway to add the supplement after a tank is started and planted? Or did i miss the boat on this tank?
you can freeze it in cubes and press them into the substrate. Imperfect but it works.
This is why some of the greatiest aqua scapers in the world use ferts and co2. They do this to posion there aquarium.
precisely. Their scapes exist for a few brief weeks or months, long enough to achieve perfection and get some pictures. Then they are destroyed.
Hey FF, brilliant videos mate!!
Does it matter what type of sand I add to the tank?
I live in the middle of a pine forest and the first layer is sand before soil, so wondering if I can use that for my tank?
Yes you can
Legend!
Does anaerobic stinks like rotten egg?
When I buy the plants. How long do I have to put it together before it dies.
Thanks father
Father fish where can I buy your soil for my 10 gallon tank
Can you cap the dirt with Fluval Stratum/Amazonia or their fine powder versions instead of sand? @FatherFish
Have not tried. Would like more testing. Any nutrient level will make it problematic.
Very nice indeed. I’m sad of hearing the co2 bit because I bought a system a while ago 😢. One question is still in my mind, do plants that have a red coloring will still be red by doing the deep substrate?
With adequate lighting,, yes.
@@FatherFish I do have a very good light… but I’m also afraid to try it out
Hey I’m planning on rebuilding my 29 gallon planted tank it currently has eco complete substrate. All my stem plants are deteriorating from the bottom up. I was thinking about adding an inch of organic potting mix and capping it with the eco complete and then cap that with black blasting sand, do you think that’ll be fine for guppies? The tank also has a large piece of driftwood
Add a portion of my supplement to insure long lasting fertility. Sounds perfect.
@@FatherFish okay thank you so much. Also will a HOB filter be necessary if I have a sponge filter that’s rated for 40 gallon? I’m worried about dead spots in the tank but the flow from a HOB is too much for my floating plants
Me gusta mucho estos videos lastima que los canales en español no hay nadie que te hable sobre tener un acuario al natural ❤ todo se reduce quien tiene mas dinero para gastar en el sustrato y el filtro mas caro posible
Conviértete en la voz que quieres escuchar y otros acudirán a ti
¡No soy un experto en español, pero estoy aprendiendo fluidez y me gustaría hablar contigo sobre el pez natura!!!!
@@brittniebeeman2833 claro cualquier consejo me sirve de mucho 🙂
Very interesting, reminds me of sandponics. Father Fish what is your opinion on sandponics?
similar to aquaponics, my use of the deep substrate natural tank is virtually the opposite, requiring no ferts or injections. The use of sand is significant as it demonstrate the value of sand as a vehicle for nutrients.
"bye for now" really hits hard if your a ff fan like me❤
It is heart felt.
I've been watching the channel for about 8 months, which is how old my beginner tank is. I have maybe 20 plants in a 20 gal tank but just gravel. I don't have mud or humus , just the gravel. I'm wondering if I should start over with a better base, or just get to adding sand on top of the gravel. Tank is healthy, just some algae that build up on the glass, wood, rocks, and on the leaves of the anubias. What should I do about the substrate? Thoughts and comments are welcome! Cheers, and thanks for the content Father Fish. 😊
You can just add sand on top of the gravel. About 2” will do.
@@FatherFish thanks!
Would love to follow the recommendation but what about tanks that does not have the substrate as you recommend, is there away to archive recommendation without having to rebuild the tank?
add sand
@@FatherFish thank you for taking the time to answer my question
I love patriotic. I didn’t know you were on there :-)
Is there any odor associated with having a tank set up like this? It all makes so much sense, and I would love to do this, but I am worried about it smelling like a mucky pond. Thank you so much for sharing all of this knowledge.
There should not be an odor.
I would like to know if I could turn off my hang on filter ( full of ceramic and sponges) wich is working with 1 ( for 40 gal) sponge filter in 50 gal tank with plants, deep substrate ( dirt) and sand (2 inches), 26 livebeares. Im thinking about having an ammonia peak. What do you think teacher?
tyr it and see what happens
Im wondering if i use pond soil at the buttom and cap it off with fine sand would it not be hard for the waste to pass through the fine sand in to the soil and roots?
no. DO NOT use 100% pond mud unless you cap it with 3x the depth of sand
So 1/4 is pond mud and 3/4 is sand?
Hi father fish, do you have a video you could point me to o that talks about what happens when my mome gets really deep? I mean, does it just keep getting deeper indefinitely or does it slow down? I don’t feed my fish but a pellet every three days.
Add another inch of sand. The substrate is not deep enough to handle the bioload.
FATHERFISH ARE YOU AWARE OF ANY FISH THAT CAN BREED WITH A FRONTOSA THAT ARE NOT JUST OTHER COLOR VARIANTS?
Dear Father Fish I have a question. I have a small 5 gallon of which the largest inhabitants are shrimp, there are no fish in it but a huge variety of critters. It is completely covered in plants. Now I have the following problem. Over time my PH always seems to keep on rising until it starts to affect the life in the tank. Recently all the snails have died and I measured the PH at 9.5 in the late afternoon. My tapwater is around 8 but I mix it 50/50 with reverse osmosis water. It used to be stable at around a ph of 7.3 to 7.5. With some googling, my hypothesis is that the ph rises due to co2 depletion. Do you have any suggestions on what I can best do now to remedy the issue?
Yes. Start building a food web./ The leaves will force the Ph down and reduce buffers. The problem is increase in buffers.
How to switch an established tank into a planted tank...have to remove all the fish and shrimp first??
Can bagged soil be used??. In in the desert.
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Are pine needles and pinecones ok in the aquarium?
Provided they are naturally dried, yes.
I don't see the link, to your store.
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How do i store the substrate supplement if i dont use it all at once?
dry.
Can someone suggest plants I should buy for my brand new 10 gallon aquarium? I just started it today. The water is really cloudy and I don't know which plants I should start with. I was thinking about the 59.00 package but it might be to many for this small tank. Any feedback will be helpful because I don't know what plant does what. Thanks from son of FF.
The package will be perfect for a 10
So I went out to local ponds got Samoyed leaves and sticks. I put about 2 in in my aquarium and on top of that two to two-and-a-half in of white sand. The whites and now has dark gray streaks along the size of the aquarium and the mud has a weird orange color along the sides of the aquarium. Sometimes there's a weird smell. I bought three feeder fish they did well for about a month so I bought three Guppies. Two days later two Guppies and one feeder fish died I checked the ammonia it's okay don't know what's going on. I do wonder why the whites and has turned dark along the sides and why the mud has turned orange is this some kind of weird thing that is going to go away
Try some watercress. They love it 😊
Which product of yours do you recommend and where do I find it. I'm assuming you frown on all liquid ferts like seachem and thrive
No fertilizer needed
Where do i find your supplements @@FatherFish
Father Fish, your discord link says its expired! When you are copying the invite link there is an option to make it permanent. Your content and information is fantastic. Thank you.
yes! TY discord.gg/G4fkAE6qNw
With the dirted tank method does it mean we need to replace the layer of dirt after a few years? If all of the aquarium is covered with sand then how can fish waste and detritus reach the bottom to reinvigorate the dirt layer?
It happens after a couple of years, that is why you overdo the dirt with fertiluzers so it can support plants till that time.
Just moved to York pa & want to start breeding Guppies ❤. Any guide lines?
Join a local guppy club.
Hello @Fatherfish
What if I want to lower my pH? I keep (German) Discus and I have extremely high pH 7,5-8 (hardwater). With CO2 I lower the pH to 6.8 and the plants seem to like that and the Discus lay eggs at about 6.8 pH as well. I only know how to lower it with CO2 (and keep it steady because of a pH sensor that supplies more or less CO2)
As soon as the CO2 supply stops, it slowly goes back to about 7.5 and swordplants / hydrocotyle / vallisneria dont seem the like it as much as near neutral pH.
The tank is more than 1 year old with about 1.5-2 inches of natural mulch plant fertilizer, capped off with about 2 inches of white inert sand
Indian almond leaves and drift wood lower ph so does peat moss. Father fish may have some better options. Botanicals help a lot
@@crystalgrzelak I tried the natural method already by adding a whole log of dead mangrove wood and dried catappa leaves. The water still goes up to 7.5pH without supplying CO2
It's good advice, but I already use it
Mind you its a 600 liter tank (about 125 US gallons?)
@@EuroGupper I honestly don’t know. If you found a way that works best thing would be stick with it. You tried everything I would do. You must just have really hard water. My water is very soft I added some kind of rocks that raise it and keep it stable. I’ve heard of using reverse osmosis water but then you’ll have to spend money on the system plus find a way to store a whole lot of water.
@@crystalgrzelak You must be psychic 😳. I am installing a softwater filter installation connected to my main waterline next month. It has a bypass to also get hardwater if i need it.
No tank needed for storage. It instantly supplies softwater with negligible less water pressure
Father Fish
Can you please tell me what is the best lighting for plants ?
any satrong light. LEDs are my favorite, floods at 100Watt.
whats your thoughts on Purigen
Honestly, I used it for years. It’s great at first, really polished the water but it breaks down every time you clean (bleach) it. And every time you do it you get diminishing returns. Eventually you have to refill the bag and it’s expensive stuff. It’s works great but not a long term fix in my opinion.
@@mrpunchyface774 ah but i just recharged it like 4-5 times... it really help me to remove tannin, bcs i got big wood in my tank. im just afraid it will disturb "natural aquarium" style
It is a resin that absorbs organic material. It can be recharged with saline solution. I prefer to keep the organics as nutrient for bacteria, fungi, and plants.
How did you recharge?
@@FatherFish when I used it you were supposed to use a bleach solution to recharge it. It would break down the purigen over a few recharges and you’d have to buy more.
I have a planted tank about a month now. My plants seem to be disappearing, I don’t know what to do. Should I remove them I guess I should let them be and see what happens. Any advice?
Plant more. Do not remove them they may be growing roots and not leaves.
Father Fish are you aware of any dwarf cichlids that can do well in hard water? All the Apisto's I've been researching say they need soft water. Even on the websites where I can buy them they are saying this. I don't really care for Tanganyikan dwarfs to be honest.
The. The Central American dwarf cichlids,:aequidens, and ramerizi; in Africa the Jewel and kribensis. These will tolerate hard alkaline water.
Try A Scarlet badis
@@KrZYMaN would love to get some females.
@@KrZYMaN thank you for the suggestion. I've got two dwarf flag Acaras doing great with a bunch of green neon tetras and also some celestial pearl danios.