10 🌿FISH TANK 🌿hacks to SAVE MONEY -🐟🐟🐟!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 มิ.ย. 2024
- These are 10 ways that I SAVE MONEY on my tanks and I want to share them with you! Many of these hacks have their own VIDEO LINK listed below in case you want to dive deeper and learn more about each topic! Hope you enjoy!
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Find Your Own Driftwood and Botanicals
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Modify HOB Filter
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I don't know what I watched to have you come into my recommendations. I have no fish tanks, and while I have house plants I have no researched anything about them. Yet, I still enjoyed your video and wrote down two tips to give to my son's GF!! So thank you for the information and happy growing!!
That’s funny 😆, so glad you enjoyed the video and found some helpful ideas ,Thank you !
my story with the aquarium began like this, first YT started showing me videos and I watched them with pleasure because it's all nice and it lasted for some time. A few months ago, I was driving my car past a dumpster in my neighborhood and there was a 60 liter tank, I didn't think much about it, I put it in the car. then I cleaned it thoroughly, found a place and started with water and plants that can have a root in the water and leaves on the outside, because I had such at home, monstera, peace lily etc. I had plants but they lacked light, so I started to combine old LED strips, different settings, installation methods, etc. All in all, I didn't even spend too much money, I try to buy in garden centers, online sales and of course DIY. My green TV :)
Just even scaping with lava rock is extremely helpful to any tank as well as having it in the filter. It such a wide surface area and nice big porous holes. Its prefect home for bacteria.
That’s a great point!
Been binge watching your videos. Thank you for making them! I've always been a huge fan of riparium set-ups for filtration!
Awesome, thank you! I actually have one of your videos on my watchlist. looking forward to it!
In my 20 long I used a long caddy I found somewhere in the bath dept. (similar to a kitchen sponge caddy that suctions to the sink). The one I found was about 2”x15”. I found smaller ones to use on the sides. I drilled holes for for water flow and used heavy duty suction hooks and they worked a treat. I filled with hydro balls topped with pebbles. My plant roots grew out the bottom holes and were very happy.
I have used shower caddies too, they make great planters, but have not been able to trust suction cups!
Love watching father fish
Me too!
This is what I have been looking for! I love your channel!
Thanks for these great hacks. The Osmocote in gel capsules is brilliant!!
I'm building my riparium too. Thanks for the video!
Thank you Thank you Thank you!!! This answers so many questions!
You are so welcome!
Great tips!! Thanks so much!
Glad it was helpful!
Your videos are the best for learning and understanding all this. So simplified yet full of usefull information. I’m so glad I found your page!
Happy to help!
youtube prob recommended this to me because I've watched many of these, but you had an interesting take on each of your tips! I also appreciate the reminder to use expired cards! lol
Glad it was helpful!
I like this guy and he has some great ideas. Cant have a fish tank without an under gravel filter though...
Glad you like the video! There are many ways to filter a fish tank. I do like modified Undergravel filters.
Great tips! Also, just noticed your flags on the shelf. I assume they were from family members in the service. Cool way to remember them in a space with so much life happening
Thanks man! Yeah, one flag is from my step grandfather, the other from my wife’s grandfather, both who served in the Navy during World War 2.
Love it! Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Getting back into tanks after a 10 year vacation…absolutely loved this video…so many great ideas…wished I did lots of these years ago, I’d be a much wealthier man today! 😂 Keep up the vids!
Thanks, glad you’re finding the videos helpful!
How do you not have a lot of subscribers?? Your videos are great. Keep it up. I love you.
Thanks! Glad you’re enjoying the channel! Hopefully more people will find out about it in time!
The sponge prefilter is the worst thing but very helpfull, if you try to take it out to rinse it, you will get all the dirt on your aquarium haha
Yeah, sometimes you can work a plastic bag or cup around it before removing it, but it can still be a headache. The smaller ones are more manageable I think.
This is the type of video that the bigger fish youtubers wont put out because they want you to spend MONEY on their sponsors and products
bro ur the man 😍,every other video i see they spend a lot of money on aquarium🙄
Thanks! Yeah, this hobby can get expensive quickly, I’m always looking for ways to save money
Great video and Thank you first for the future when I save a few $ in the future !!! Also if you have any more information about collecting dead wood I would love to see it in a future video 🤞
Thanks and you’re welcome! I have a video on driftwood, botanicals, etc. that you may find helpful th-cam.com/video/J2lJEfENXzM/w-d-xo.html. It’s also included in the description of this video.
Thanks so much. Where did you get black eggcrate? I'm using deep substrate with soil and sand and I will never do anything else.
I got egg crate panel from Home Depot, spray painted it with Krylon fusion spray paint.
Check out this video th-cam.com/video/4Zv6VIbRrms/w-d-xo.html
Surely this will be one of your top videos!
Thanks! Should have made this video like a year ago!
@@plantlifeproject inertia starts slow but the algorithm is noticing you. A worthy channel indeed! There are an overwhelming amount of diy aquarists that need channels like yours. And I include using plants as filtration and beauty as an aspect of diy aquariums. Always excited when you post.
Also try a static timeline post like text or a picture. I don't have a channel so I'm not sure how it works, but it would be a good gauge of engagement!
@@rickspringer4814 I appreciate your feedback!
@@rickspringer4814 not sure I understand the static timeline, do you mean chapter markers for different sections of the video?
@@plantlifeproject no, not that. I mean sometimes on the TH-cam homepage, especially on mobile, you see a "post" from a channel that looks like a regular social media post. Usually a picture with text and subscribers can "like" the post.
Don't know if that makes it any clearer lol.
If you really wanna save money, put that tank near a window , no filter , no heater no, no lighting, local fish in your area or fish that are hardy to temp, grab dirt and rocks and put it on the bottom. Hang the plants on the edge just sitting there(you can use a strip of tape it’ll still look good) no electricity needed, fish fertilize the plants and your good, just feed them every now and then
[edit] lots and lots of shrimp and nerite snails for algea
A credit card is also good for safely removing corydoras eggs.
Good to know! Thanks
So i have a 70 gallon.
No chemical filtration, use a double sided HOB filter with a course and fine filter(bought in bulk) and some bio rings, also with a sponge on the intake. Havnt done any water changes. Would it be smart to leave it as is or make one side filter material and the other side lava rock.
The set up is 3 layers coarse,fine then a small baggie of bio rings where the spinning bio wheels used to be at
I think either way would be fine. If you want more debris filtered from the water, use the sponges, if you want more bio filtration, add the media. It’s hard to say if one way would work better than the other, maybe experiment with each and see if there’s a difference over time.
Appreciate it sounds like a plan.thank you
so all these plants in the tanks wit the roots in the water do they not drown the plants? they thrive in the water like this? im interested in making a blackwater tank with the plants hanging off the back like you have
The roots stil have oxygen in the water so they can live and thrive. They adapt to the water and grow new roots. Of course not all plants can grow like this, but many can.
@@plantlifeproject basically I should be able to go to home depot and try any of their plants with this setup theoretically?
@@ty8012 Pothos and peace lily are 2 good beginner plants, check out some more of my videos, I have plenty on growing houseplants in aquariums.
How would the Canna Lily grow in a Fish tank.
I have canna lily growing in my greenhouse tank that is around 15 months (?) old. Haven’t grown it inside in a while, It will definitely need a lot of light!
Just add some Bristle Nose Catfish and some snails to control algae.
Can I put goldfish in a riparium?
Yes you can, however, some goldfish may damage the plant roots if they dig around a lot or try to eat them. If that’s the case, it is possible to protect the roots, check out this video link
th-cam.com/video/qG_pSlXQN-0/w-d-xo.html
Do I need a lid?
It’s up to you. I have lids to reduce evaporation mostly. Some people have fish that like to jump.
That intermittent clicking sound is driving me nuts.
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Fish people are cheap ,that is why you never see a aquarium in rich place
Aquariums can be cheap… or expensive. I think It is what you make it, and what your budget allows. Personally, I like to save money where I can!
@@plantlifeproject good point