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- The secret to a healthy, balanced aquarium is to duplicate, as much as possible, a natural environment. Father Fish explains the danger of creating an environment for fish that is sterile. Sterile environments are susceptible to severe infestation by dangerous pathogens. We see worse problems with pathogens in fish tanks than exist in nature. This is caused by failing to create genuinely balanced systems in which pathogens are kept in check.
Do not be afraid of natural aquariums but welcome them as the safest and healthiest possible method for keeping your precious fish.
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Thanks for saving new hobbyist from the real enemy father fish! You're my inspiration in fish keeping.
This
I second this.
Same❤
Me who would never cleaned his room- "I have trained all my life for this!" (never cleans FF tank)
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Yeah, it's pretty handy for someone who's chronically ill too & can't afford to babysit a tank.
I never felt like I want speed up Father Fish videos
I find his tone of voice very calming
Yes! Please don't edit and speed up his speech! We are here for the calming, genuine nature of FF.
I stumbled upon your channel about a year ago and realized that everything you say truly does make sense. The more we can make the tanks close to nature the better.
The greatest achievement I thought I could get would be to have the fish breed in the tank, which never happened before. Now I have 4 generations Mollys in my tank, even 2 generations of Amano Shrimp in the same tank. And the best part is I don't even have to do anything anymore. No more cleaning, no more feeding, no more water changes, no more worries, no more stress. It all takes care of itself.
You truly are the Father of Fish Keeping. Thank you so much for all the help and great advice that you give us.
The anime and fish fan can relate
Celebrate nature! Love this ff. I’m so glad to have found your channel a year ago this month. Wish I would’ve known all I’ve learned in that time all those years ago when my love for my aquariums would ebb and flow. Now I have my natural dirted deep substrate lushly planted tanks and my love for keeping aquariums has been rekindled. I have you to thank for that. ☺☮❤🐠🦐🪴
Thank you so much!!
Your Tanks aren't ugly there just natural how nature intended keep up the good work and spreading the good word on how to keep fish
I have tanks for almost 18 years. I recently started to watch Father Fish videos and learn from it more than all those years pur together. I love natural looking tanks. Thanks FF.
Nature isnt ugly, its nature, the beauty is in the nature itself, its free and wild, raw beauty
My tank is yellowish, no filter besides the plants filtering it, i try to replicate natural environments from where these fish came from, sadly some fishes aren’t used to natural environments nowadays
Did anyone else catch the ad Cory and Aquarium Co Op ran about “What do you do during a power outage?” and it was trying to sell some device that automatically switches a generator on during a power outage? You know what I do to my tanks during a power outage? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. And everyone is fine.
I also see beauty in other forms. well said.
love ya Father Fish
Thank God for your message about creation.
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I am celebrating finding you. I was frantically searching for info as someone considering getting started with first fish tank and was overshelmed by everything I heard at pet store. I am so happy to find this. You are what my nature interested kid needed ❤
His system really does work.
I was new to fish keeping in January this year. I was making the mistakes of cleaning my tank to a point it became obsessive. I was even testing the water parameters three times a day!! I found your channel, and changed my substrate to dirt and sand, bought some plants, and I finally stopped being obsessive with water changes and checking the water. I simply watch their behavior and my plants. It’s only when I started doing this that my fish grew bigger, my plants started to thrive so much that I have to keep trimming them back! I have Java ferns spawning babies so fast when TH-camrs say it takes 6 months. I don’t understand why it takes them 6 months when every week, I see new babies on my Java fern leaves. I stopped using chemicals, and I let my otocinclus take care of algae (he does a good job and I think I’ll give him a raise for his hard work😂)
I have a hard time to keep the java fern. Not sure why. May I know your environment (or water) temperature and lightning parameter?
As a new hobbyist this is the most informative video so far... Thank you father fish❤
Baba kimsenin vermek istemediği doğal akvaryum habitatını bizlere öğrettiğin için sana sonsuz teşekkürler .Tüm takipcilerine sesleniyorum bende 60 yıllık tecrübemle baba balığın söylediklerini senelerdir tecrübe ediyorum ve çok memnunum bu kanalın tüm vidyolarını izlemeyi unutmayın çünkü size baba tüm dürüslüğü ile izah ediyor ona kendi adıma çok çok teşekkür ediyorum .ve Tanrıdan sağlıklı nice uzun ömürĺer diliyorum .
translation:
Dad, thank you endlessly for teaching us the natural aquarium habitat that no one else wants to give away. I call out to all your followers. With my 60 years of experience, I have been experiencing what dad fish says for years and I am very pleased. Do not forget to watch all the videos of this channel because dad explains it to you with all honesty, I thank him very much on my behalf. I do .and I pray to God for a long and healthy life.
Excellent !. I do not and can not understand why the sterile tank promoters can not grasp this method. I was once in the sterile tank brigade, always had sick fish and dying plants. 12 months back I stopped the water changing, the substrate cleaning, and all the other that went along with it. I have now got a tank which cleans its self , no more sick fish and the tank don't smell when you lift the lid. I just let nature run my tank now and go along with what it wants to do, I found out this from your video's FF. I Thank You so much
FF my 75 dirted tank plants are growing beautifully. I’ve already had to trim them back. Im glad I found your channel.
I greatly appreciate all your information. I’ve learned so much!!
This is so true...the moment I made my tank into a natural tank, every fish disease seem to have vanished. Ammonia and Nitrates is no longer a concern. So many still don't believe in this practice but, YOU'VE GOT TO TRY IT to make yourselves believe it.
This is a revolution, i like so much!!!
Amazing 👏👏👏
Converting all my tanks ff curbed the frequency of burnout significantly. Thank you.
You have changed the way I keep fish and since then I’ve rarely lost any,thank you Father Fish. ⭐️
Wishing you a Happy Healthy and Blessed weekend Father Fish 👍
Well said
More people in this hobby need to know that what you need to successfully keep fish and keep fish HAPPY where they flourish has already been given to you by nature/God. And you’re correct about putting everything into the tank from nature because also it STRENGTHENS their immune systems. It’s the same with us and every living being 🙏
Great video!
Your experiences and wisdom awakened me up in fishkeeping! Dear FF.❤
I just love you father fish❤thank you for inspiring to create several natural fish tanks that are thriving just like you said they would..I truly appreciate all your wisdom
I’ve been keeping a little 10 gallon tank for several years but this week I pulled out the plastic ornaments, put clean sand over my gravel and added plants. Also added some wood from my yard (had to tie down with a rock so it wouldn’t float) and although my plants seem a bit overwhelming I like it. Fish seem very happy. Now to start a resurrection jar and figure how to slowly add this to my aquarium.
You can try boil the wood. Wood naturally traps air pockets inside, which make it buoyant. Boiling helps drive out these air bubbles, allowing the wood to become denser and sink more easily.
The messy tanks are the most beautiful tanks. Nature doesnt place plants in rows or trim dead leaves, natural tanks look chaotic rather than ordered. They're beautiful because they have decay as well as new growth. They're natural.
This was either about fish, or an end of the world prophecy
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I found this sewage water canal and wow that mud had a ton of diversity, flatworms, daphnia, scuds, snails, worms, perfect for my 4 spined sickle back, I always get leaves and stuff to put in my aquarium from creeks.
Thank you for sharing your scientific speciality with such passion and clarity.
Hello Father Fish, I do have to admit that when I had my what I call my Father Fish style tank, that my plants grew nice and lush. No fertilizer necessary. Just good old natural organic dirt with a sand cap on top. It’s nice to see you still inspiring others in the hobby. God Bless and take care.
the best knowledge in fish keeping.. I'm on 30tanks now.. proud and happy.. it is so easy.. tq pops.
Fishkeeping has taught me so much about life and living thanks father fish 😊
Now THAT is what it’s all about 🙏
I absolutely love you Father Fish!! I’m learning so much after being a reasonably new small aquarium owner. Thank you for all your advice. I’m falling in love with our fish, almost as much as you love fish! 😁🥂🙌🏻⭐️ Greetings from Australia and keeping being awesome! 🙌🏻⭐️
Preach it Father Fish!
Hey it’s the psycho! Yes you have to preach 😂, also do you have any aquariums? Or do you just like plants 🪴
@@Breydwildlife Hi 🙂 I'm into more than plants, I love fish and planted tanks. I have four natural aquariums setup that I post about on TH-cam and a few more that are in the works. 😁 Currently working on setting up a 75g Father Fish tank.
@@PsychoPlantLady cool I’ll check it out
@@Breydwildlife thanks 😊
Baba balık sizin verdiğiniz bilgileri 60 yıllık akvaryum tecrübesi ola biri olarak taktir ediyor ve bu hobiyi geçici bir heves olmaması için yeni başlayanlara kalıcı tamamen doğru bilgilerle bu hobiyi sevmelerini sağlıyorsunuz size sonsuz teşekkürler .Her hobiciye sizin kanalınıza abone olup takip etmelerini önemle tavsiye ediyorum.
Nezaketiniz için sizden daha fazlaw. Hobimi dünya çapında paylaşmak bir zevk.
Whatever you said is absolutely true....you inspired me in all of my tank setup...it looks dirty but all fishes are healthy......
My tanks have always neem a little funky.. So many of my buddies poke fun at them but I've had the same fish for years and years. There's no plastic plants, fake gravel and I only have a bio-wheel and powerhead to move water in each one. I always thought it was odd to bring nature into the house, in the form of an aquarium, and then proceed to keep it as sterile as possible. Love your channel and your set ups.
Thank you father fish ever since I found your channel I don't randomly lose fish anymore following what you do. Use to do 50% weekly water changes for all 16 tanks and I tell you what the time and the money in dying fishes and buying meds was crazy. Thanks 🍻
Danke für Ihre wertvollen Videos. Ich habe viel gelernt von Ihnen. Dank Ihnen weiss ich jetzt, was ich falsch gemacht hatte.
Liebe Grüsse aus der Schweiz 😘
Insightful indeed. Well explained, shout out to Father Fish!! I've incorporated your recipe for a stable and thriving aquarium, much respect!
Amen Father Fish, trust your natural system 😊!
You are a patient teacher aren’t you. You are repetitive which my ADD brain needs 😉. And, YOU ARE SO DEEPLY INSPIRING!! I’m learning. I’ve been one of the scared ones, but I keep coming back for more, and know I’m going to get there!
Hi father Fish, I adopted your way of setting up my fish tank, and I've had it about 3 months maybe 4. Its going great, fish explore the environment, they hide, they feed from the leaves and roots. I love it. I only lost one fish , I had it probably 6 months from a previous tank with all the fake accessories. Maybe I overfed, but all the rest are alive and well. I have not ever tested the water, Its a smaller tank, so I usually change 20-50% of the water weekly. Depends on how dirty. I have a sponge filter which I have used them before I prefer them. Its raining today, hoping to collect some outside predator's to add to the tank, a Resurrections jar. I have all Neon types except 1 female Koi Betta, I would like to get a Alien female Betta, but so far have only seen males. I have 1 ground feeder , I don't remember what he is called, but he will stay on the 1 inch size. He's doing a good job. I was able to get a drift wood at PetSmart with a plant tied on it for 7.00 and already in fish water. Perfect, I love it. So thank you, Ill keep watching your channel. God Bless, bye for now , Barb
You are doing great Barb, probably do not need to change the water so much, watch your fish and they will tell you when you should change the water.
Just added some of my Jar to 3 heavily planted tanks, its full of micro fawna, crud and compost, its wonderful
Like everyone else, I battled algae, green water, fish diseases, cyano. 25 years into the hobby you name it, I would have seen it all almost. Lost countless fish and also fought to keep fish alive. Until one day, I decided to let it be and not fight back. What the industry calls ugly is simply nature's work of putting things back into balance and without death there would be no life. I ran a tank for a year without water change, plants thrived and fishes were breeding. The best thing to do sometimes is to be patient and let the tank do its thing. Of course provided you give the tank the necessary input or you'll be stuck with an unsolved equation in the grand scheme of balance
Everyday? You have an interaction every single day where someone cries out "aren't you afraid of germs!?;? Aren't you afraid of parasites?!?!"
Yes, I do. Every day. YOU are today!
Thank you SO much for your teachings! I have 8 tropical tanks running. I only have 2 dirt/sand. The others have river pebbles. I haven’t done a water change since mid-February (1.5 months).
I wanted (still want) to convert my pebbled tanks to dirt/soil but I have SO much life in the tanks, I think it’s impossible now. I added a ton of plants, thanks to you, and my water is clear and the creatures/plants are thriving 🤷🏼♀️
That is awesome!
My tank is doing great! All I do is feed the fish and change filter elements. The rest takes care of itself! Thanks Father Fish 👍🏼
Beauty of nature.❤🙏
FF.... You where preaching again! And I say a biggg Amen!!!!
I like you Father Fish, you're alright. What you speak of applies to a lot of systems where growing is important. Unfortunately, people like to have a blank slate or perfectly blank canvas to work their art, like a Petrie dish. There is an old saying; Nature abhors a vacuum. A perfectly blank canvass is the vacuum that attracts whatever comes along, good or bad.
If you've ever lived in an urban area where graffiti is a problem, you notice that walls painted white to cover graffiti rapidly get tagged again, yet, when the community comes together to paint some murals, they are more often than not, left alone by the vandals.
Great video.....please continue to tell the truth for the hobby. I'm tired of hearing young children say I got fish for my birthday but they all died in a few weeks.
Wonderfull father Fish ❤❤❤thank you. ❤😊
Another great and inspiring video FF! I’m sooo happy I found you a couple years ago on here it truly has changed the way I look at and obviously maintain my aquariums. 😁👍
Fish Father for President 2024!
Hey father fish hope u good. I just wanted to say I think your tanks are so beautiful, and u such a awesome man. Thanks for all your wisdom in teaching us the right way. Have a great day father fish ❤
Makes absolute sense, i used to clean my tank once every month and a half, with about a 40% water change, abd without fail id loose some or theyd be stressed as hell, especially my oldest survivors, if i do water changes now, its no more than ten percent and MINIMAL cleaning of the gravel and next to no cleaning of the filter, and they are absolutely thriving.
Love to see the notifications from a new father fish video
Very true, I have been telling this for a long time ,
Some aquarium filters clean the water almost upto drinkable condition 😂,
It’s all become a business,
For example in AROWANA farms, they breed them in muddy ponds & say Arowanas should be kept in crystal clear water, 😂
Hi father fish absolutely love the videos im so glad to see someone making videos on natural tanks
I am so Greatful and proud my self as you are my main mentor of my aqua life as a teacher, i accept your advice and it happen to me a sucessfully keeping my all fish in my tank with great natural and make me more easy and easy to keep fish tank more natural like your ,love you my mentor such an Honer to you long live ( FF)
I truly love watching your videos...my tank is heavily planted w 3-4in deep sand it's a jungle n took over a year to grow in...I live in the northwest n am afraid to put matter from outside in my tank...should I use matter from the north west in a south American warm tank?...all our ponds n waters are cold n not the same eco system
Well, who knew. My mucky outdoor tub is just fine. I clean it maybe 3 times a year. People say I'm lazy but it never needs cleaning. The pet shop is always happy to buy my fish because they are disease-free.
I mean who wants to be lazy, right?
Glad you didnt listen to them. Let them be stressed out 😅
I love you thank you Father fish
Thank you 🙏 I was planning on getting a fish tank soon your videos help me understand
You tell em Father Fish!!!
Another beautiful video I absolutely can't wait fir your live stream with Tony Phillips 2day father fish
Thank you so much for sharing all this knowledge 🙏
great video FF! Awesome points! 👍
I have seen so many people who keep doing water changes every week, then complain there fish are dying, I haven't changed my water its been 3 months and fish are thriving im following your advice and its worked,one question i would like to know is how often to clean the filter, mine is still going strong so not done it yet.thank you for your videos I follow them alot.❤
clean thefilter when it becomes too clogged to work
Thank you its fine at the moment ❤
This is exactly what I do... so exhausting and lots of dissapointment... the knowledge of having a planted natural tank is not existed in the aquarium pet store.
Fantastic video and what a great speaker! Love your passion ! I would love to come up this Wednesday and share my two dirted tanks with you!
Please do. Watched and subbed this morning. Sorry I did not catch up with you earlier. Excellent channel.
@FatherFish thank you I appreciate you
To mi się zaczyna podobać ,szukałem takiego akwarium bo to dość czyste u mnie dawało mi zmartwień a nie radość
Broadly agree, the mulm and substrate must not be sterile. However Ich can be successfully treated with commercially available products - one of the few diseases the off the shelf bottles will actually work effectively on, and prevented with UV water treatment. Most fish do not die of Ich itself, other diseases that take advantage of the weakened fish, think of a human who is immuno-compromised dying of pneumonia after being successfully treated for heart disease.
Ick infestation is deadly. 87f stops it.
@@FatherFish Indeed Father Fish, though I have only used higher temperatures to accelerate the parasite's cycle, to hit it with UV when off the fish, but 87, is a very high temperature for many fish, many barbs would be distressed, and would require a lot of oxygenation to prevent fish loss. Kindest regards.
In Belgium we now have to ask permission to the municipal office to buy any fish since 2023. If you don't have the paper you can't buy fish. Also it's illegal to take anything in the rivers, even stones or branches in the forest. Gold fish and Guppies are considered as domestical animals, so when you don't treat them correctly it's legaly as bad as bad treatment on a dog or a cat. The only problem is they don't control anything, you just ask the paper and bring it to the store, but at least the city knows you have fish in your home and can get data about the amount of fish fans there. Also it's illegal to put fish as gift at fairs when it was traditional here. We can't have wild animals in circus anymore (since 2014, so no more lion, tiger, elephant, just horses). Also we can't have hedgehogs. They also increased the skills of the stores, now they display the origin of the fish and the temperature of the water, last time I bought a cold water fish and a warm water one and the seller asked me if I knew what I was doing (I have 2 tanks), the main problem is the price, it's super expensive, 2.8€ per Guppy (cheapest fish of the stores), and about 15€ for each tiny plant.
Tyranny of government controlling access to Nature is demonic. It is in fundamental conflict with God.
@@FatherFish The problem is we are too many in a small territory, without control there will be no more nature, butterflies vanished in the last 10 years here, bees are getting very rare, even snails and slugs are getting rare in gardens, our local fish are strong because we have massive wastewater treatment plants, but there are no more bugs crashing on our cars at night, they are gone, nature can adapt but this is going too fast, I see the collapse, common species are getting extremly rare and young people don't understand what we lost, most people don't even think fish feel pain and most of them even think they aren't meat, they think fish are decoration, that's why they needed this law or people started to think gold fish lived a few weeks... We need a fatherfish here 😟
Happy Friday Father Fish! 🐡🐠🐟🌾🌱🍄🟫
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Sir, really u r an excellent senior fish keeper
I love how you read and heart out comments
I call it biological competition the more diversity in microbiology in the water the better
Lately I haven't had time for my aquariums believe it or not they are doing better now that I only check up on them evey 3 days. The water becomes healthier
Just for the record I keep having baby rainbows hatch in what I thought was a dirty scud tank. I understand how they survived, but don't really know how many hatch each time.
Thank you Holy Father and keep doing what you`re doing .😍
Greetings from Brazil . this man is absolutly right. i leave my tank alone. just add whater when it needs. add plants, dry leafes wood etc and let it go.
For a 125g with canisters though?! I gotta change the canisters sometimes the filters get full of poop.. & I only do like 25% water changes not often though
Your plant deal just arrived & everything looks great!
Can't wait to get this new tank planted & cycled!
(I wanted a natural system for my bettas, so I got a couple of long tanks to mimic the muddy streams that they love so much.)
Awesome! Thank you!
Biotope tanks are all the rage now. Seems you've been doing them for decades! 😊
Great video FF.
Thank you father fish
Please don't edit FFs speech. I understand that TH-cam demands constant attention, but it's honestly harder to focus on the content when it's sped up. The slow speed helps people understand all the information that is being said. It's also distracting when you're used to hearing him speak normally, and you can tell it's unnatural and sped up.
What’s going on?
@@Breydwildlife I think the editors are removing gaps (silences) in the audio to speed up the delivery of information. It makes his speech sound sped up, and unnatural. We're here because we love all that is NATURAL.
There is nothing ugly about natural things in a natural enviroment. Its what creates the very best enviroment for the fish, and whatever other life comes along with it. That, is whats most important, and is why people end up getting frustrated and give up. Theyre missing the point and are allowing their need for a spotless tank to prevail. It never works in the long run. Theres only so far life can go doing it this way.
Ok i saw some of the videos but i do have a question:
I have African Cichlids. Substrate current is the "classic", alcalline sand and Rocks with places to hide. How would i apply your method to this kind of fauna? They dig the substrate, so the sand layer on top of the soil would be gone in a week. They destroy every plant and would devour any micro fauna.
How would that work?
There are several considerations: you can place flat rocks on the top of th sand and pants many plants all around and some hearty ones along the back wall of your aquarium. Secondly, it may be that since these fish have never had plants, they will continue to tear up plants. Thirdly, you may find after planting plants that the fish has one plant they like to tear up, so you just keep replacing that plant.
my enemy of fish tank keeping is my back pain tho
Also, another thing I want to add is the tank you’re describing that is more ideal is also more ideal for bottom feeders like otocinclus. I spent money on buying those stupid algae wafers and it did nothing! He only wants to eat what’s on the leaves and tank walls. When you let nature happen, your fish will be so happy! I think the other reason I am able to break the rules about putting bettas (both male and female) in one tank is because I created a natural ecosystem in my 40 gallon tank. They all coexist peacefully, and I love watching them foraging for food. It’s much more interesting to watch rather than what it’s like when the tank is sterile!
That’s awesome, my tadpoles also like to naw on the bottom and leaves, you could also just leave the algae waiters on the bottom or crumble them up and leave them on the bottom
FF was a bit heated in this one. Get some, FF!!
Father Fish: if you'll permit an off topic question.
In order to save a bit of money, I recently started gathering my own dried leaves around the apartment complex where I live. I have been adding these to my FF aquarium on a weekly basis. I have noticed that, unlike leaves I have previously ordered from you, these locally collected leaves seem to dissolve almost instantly like tissue paper in water.
My theory: I believe these leaves may be from softwood trees. Would you recommend I seek out only leaves from hardwood trees? Or what am I doing wrong? The leaves seem to help the tank all the same, as the snails and fish still love them. I just wish they hung around and decomposed a bit slower.
we recommend a variety of leaves.
Ive spent many years out fishing...we are talking about 10s of thousands of fish caight. Not once did I ever come across a fish with ick. Never. Even though you know its in every body of water.