DEAD FISH are BEST Fertilizers for your Aquarium Plants- STOP using Liquid Fertilizers
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- What are the best fertilizers for you aquarium plants? Most recommended are the liquid fertilizers but they are NOT necessarily good for the balance of your planted aquarium. Dead fish are good? Find out in this enlightening short how dead fish have been used as plant fertilizers since centuries and how they can benefit your aquarium plants and contribute for a healthy, balanced aquarium.
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I bought your plants and iam very happy with them it was so nice getting a variety and i had enough to do my 10 gallon indoors and my guppy pond outside thank you for your videos and great deal on plants.
I got plants from father fish about 6weeks ago and they are THRIVING and growing like crazy.
I wasn’t sure what to expect.
How big, how many, and all that becuase the website only says it’s 15 types of plants with 5-6 stems each, but being new to all of this, it didn’t mean much to me.
I placed my order online and the package arrived 3days later! It was a shoebox sized box. Inside it had the plant stems were bundled very nearly and nicely with a rubber band around the base of each clump. The whole lot of them were rolled up in a paper towel and they had thrown in an ice pack too. (Oh and I almost forgot they sent a few stickers with father fish’s head on them!!😂😂)
Not gonna lie, I was a little underwhelmed at first. But I followed the planting directions in my tank and within 1 week they were all growing! After about 1 month I had to start trimming them back from growing up and out of the tank!!
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Father Fish, I've watched your videos & greatly appreciate your knowledge & sincerity & kindness that comes with ALL your videos. I had a long question as a reply in one of your videos to an individual. I don't think u seen it cause it's kinda buried in comments. U did pinn me about burying fish and circle of life. So, here goes my question and I would greatly appreciate your response. I'm moving to South Carolina at the end of July. So breaking down my 50 gallon tank is necessary. I will be taking as much original water as I can. I currently reside in Newtown,pa. I expect the water to be different. Currently, I use hang back filter, gravel, plants, drift wood & rocks. I want to use your methods when I get to South Carolina. I've watched many videos, my question is this. Soil, plain soil or fertilized soil? I understand u also add a mixture to your soil. After I add the mudd, 1 inch, 2 inches of sand, medium grade? I will also rinse the sand before I add it. Now, I have plants and hope they survive the transport, but, I will need more and plan to order from u. My next important question, I don't want to leave my fish in the buckets, can I add them immediately to the tank after it's set up? Currently, I have a betta 6 sorority, with one dumbo male. 4 cardinal tetras, 5 balloon mollies, 2 Cory cats, 1 hatchet. I want to add some blue & gold German rams but, I'll wait till after the move. Thank you.
@@FatherFish yo can I buy a plant
I bought some of your plants and I’m happy with them beacause they grew very tall
I had one of my pond fish pass years ago. I buried him under my blueberries. That year was the best crop I ever had
All fun and games till someone says they look a lil fishy when you try to hand it to them😂😂
Aye you should try this again.
i have a bunch of mature blueberry plants in my backyard, probably 15 years old, they do not stop growing and I do nothing to help them. Have to mow down the outside to keep from spreading.
@@otallonolet them spread the whole backyard then sell them or make blueberrie smoothies all summer
I can’t bury my passed fish without raccoons digging them up the same night. It’s so annoying.🙄🙄
As the famous Maui said "I took an eel,I burried it's guts. Out came a tree, you got coconuts!"
Only a Maui!
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“ So you’re welcome !”
@lemonlizard1 *sprouted at tree not out came a tree
@@TheLynxsRealm I thought it was surrounded a tree
My grandfather taught me, when you clean the fish you catch take the scraps and put in the garden. It's the best fertilizer thank you sir i always find your videos very informative.
I'm glad I discovered this fish guy for real, one day I'm gonna have a really nice aquarium
He’s not lying at all. My planted tanks already bloom more after one small dies near it. Keep up the information 💯💪🏻
“So don’t tell me you don’t have any dead fish”🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I swear hahaha unnecessary asf and much appreciated at the same time
Said it with a pissed off ass attitude
Different tank, different needs 🏃♂️🏃♂️🏃♂️
Ok, but it's going to have to be cheap fish, I refuse to buy them sushi. I take good care of all my pets and plants, but they're not gonna eat better food than me.
I put some small pieces from a shrimp or any sea food. Putting some every week is enough
Only bluefin tuna is acceptable! 😉
what about sardines or anchovies
BTW the best way to eat sushi is to cook it on the BBQ with lits of sauce so it wont taste bad 😅🤣🤣
Doesn't has to be sushi but being captive held and having no way of eating what they would eat in their natural wild environment and given that the majority of humans eats foods polluted with herbicides and pesticides then 'your fish have a right to eat better than you do'.😂😂
My shrimp make quick work of dead fish.. there aren’t any nutrients left for the plants except the shrimp waste..
This is crazy work. Putting dead fish in your soil. You are one wild man Father Fish lol
Lost my betta this year. He went into my tomatoes. ❤❤❤
lol why does it sound funny?
It’s just like how my dad would tell me something. “Don’t tell me you don’t have any dead fish!”. Always a solution to everything. That’s what he taught me. he passed away this past July and you reminded me of him. I just started a loach tank and want to get more plants. My current plants do just fine with the excess food pellets but this is a great tip for healthy plants. Thank you fish dad!
@@MermaidMakes my father passed away almost two years ago and I recently got a 10 gallon upright tank it’s alive now did the famous sand and dirt substrate and I’ve been thinking about him a lot lately like ever since I got my tank to come alive with plants
I never use fertilizer. Fish poop is enough already
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Can I use a piece of fillet-o-fish? And if so, what about the tartar sauce?
Can I use a McDonald's fish sandwich
The plants use those nutrients so quickly that there's rarely an excess.
Then why do people do water changes to remove excess nitrates. Aka plant food
@@-.Meylin.- When? I have a lot of plants and never have nitrates that show up when I test..
@@otallono i understand you, i have a shrimp tank with lots of plants. One duckweed fell there and it hasn't grown since it fell there which means it doesn't have enough nitrates to feed. However most tanks aren't like that and have to do water changes to remove excess nitrates
@@-.Meylin.- because it's an old habit from keeping fish only. If you have too many fish VS plants you'll still need to remove nitrates as the fish are producing ammonia quicker than the plants can absorb. Anything over 40ppm nitrate is toxic
@@-.Meylin.- not necessarily, plants need phosphorus and potassium too. Could be a lack of either of those nutrients.
This guy knows what’s up, I’ve had so many people tell me “that’s not normal for dead fish to be an aquarium.” How do they think the environment works??? Sometimes fish just die, it’s not abnormal when things die all the time. Everytime my fish die, I never find them, and I have so much plant growth (minded that I have very good substrate) and my other fish are happy. I never water change and I never have spikes of ammonia or nitrite and hell I never even have nitrate. The natural aquariums are the best ones…..
Same thing happens to me. A cory disappears, and all of a sudden, EXPLOSIVE plant growth. I've read a research paper once that plants prefer ammonia over nitrates and nitrites to get their N, so that might have something to do with it.
yeah we get it, but you don't have to go around saying that while we all know you cannot keep your fish alive for more than two weeks
They say that because too much can overload your tank with ammonia which will kill everything.
Yeah it happend couple times a fish disappeared 😅 I was like ow huh oke I thought the other Fish had a good meal 😂🤷🏼♀️
so your fish die too?
Then the fish is going to be buried in aqua soil?
It's not toxic if you use fertilizer as it is supposed to be used... Granted you hardly need any if you have enough fish and feed them. But some people like planted aquariums that have less bioload. And even with fish, they often have the wrong kind or balance of nutrients and that is visibile in the kind of plant growth you get. And different people strive for different things in their tanks...
Plants create a perpetually increasing bioload. What ARE you talking about?
@@FatherFish plants consume nitrogen, they don't produce it. At least most plants don't take it out of the air. So it's gotta come from somewhere. for most tanks, that's going to be fish food turned into Ammonium. In a shrimp-only nano tank that's already going to be severely limited. Worse in a dutch-style aquascape. And just putting fish food in isn't going to lead to perfect plant growth, because for example there can be too little iron or too much phosphate.
@@Andreas-gh6is well it depends whether you remove plant trimmings or not, if you don't then the nitrogen gets recycled over and over and any food added will mean a perpetual increase in bioload. Same thing with any leaves added, new plants added, new fish added, etc. Fertilizers are only needed when you continuously remove nutrients in the form of water changes and removing plant trimmings which he doesn't do and it isnt even necessary to do with the right substrate makeup and microfauna community.
He enjoys the process of building a functional ecosystem and id argue if there is a right way to do things his is the closest. However it takes a lot more time and experimentation to get the scape you want and this man isn't the best aquascaper, though the jungle look he gets going on always looks pretty good. The issue is his methods are pretty niche so not a lot of people do it and because of that there arent as many people optimizing it and finding ways to keep and grow things nor as many great scape examples.
The method he uses is very far removed from what most people understand, its the difference between aquaponics and a bioactive terrarium. The aquaponics relies on additional nutrients being added to the water as the plants are harvested while a good terrarium will never need anything added and plant cuttings are often left in so the only nutrients coming in will be things like leaf litter and those in tap water which is all that's needed because nothing is leaving the system so it can be recycled over and over. I am a plant person first and foremost and there are many ways to grow every plant species, aquarium plants are no exception.
Its an entirely different way to do things and one that relies on knowledge of wild systems, not only that but its a method that hasn't been fully explored I don't think. Though unlike him I don't think the more common way has anything wrong with it, the only measure of success is the health of the fish and anything from tank size to water makeup doesn't matter so long as the fish are healthy and thriving with no exceptions. If someone is keeping 3 Oscars in a 55 but they are undeniably in perfect condition with no damage then they are fine in my book, not that I've seen that pulled off more than once and it was honestly confusing. All rules can be broken so long as you understand why those rules are there and how to get around the issues associated with breaking them, there is many ways to keep life in a glass box and people will argue over which is the right way endlessly despite there being no answer.
@@FatherFishyou have been spreading a lot of misinformation like, old thank syndrome is the fish become one with the water, water change is useless and bad for your thank amd now adding dead fish into the tank. If this dead fish thing is true, why Takashi Amano never used this cheap amonia in his tank? And none of the aquascaping world champion ever use dead fish instead they recommend to remove any amonia source from your tank.
@@marjanaking404notfound3 Before you accuse me of misinformation look more deeply at what I am saying. Do not be so quick to assume you are able to criticize me without understanding what I am saying. You clearly do not!
Indigenous peoples
Nobody would give any information that you are giving pops... So glad I found you on TH-cam
“Who the hell would go to the supermarket to buy a dead fish?! They would take me for cra-… oh. Oh wait a minute.”
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My brain glitched for a moment 😂
Lmfao 😫😫
thats fine for root feeding plants but stem plants that feed from the water column need ferts in the water. i only use micro nutrients that dont have any nitrates or phosphate as the fish produce that from their poop
this also varies on location depending on the natural minerals in the water table
Not necessarily. Steam plants generally are also planted into the substrate. I find that mine do much better with root tabs than in water ferts. Epiphyte’s however, need some in water fertilizer because they are planted out of the substrate, usually on rocks or driftwood.
@@rickfromthecape3135 depends on the plants but quite a few stem plants i find have very weak or tiny root systems like Bacopa caroliniana and ive personally found them to thrive better with in water ferts but then again i also use root tabs in my substrate
Ok.....
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Oh ffs
Please!! dont put dead fish in youre tank. Bless your heart papah.
we are not talking about putting them in but tsking them out
Different method for different set up.
Tons of People have no issues using liquid fertiliser because their set up requires it.
True. Mine does not.
Exact Father fish focuses on the natural aspect of fish keeping as they live in the wild or at least as close as possible to the wild. It goes against everything we're taught in the aquarium hobby but it truly works.
I take leftover minnows from ice fishing and stick them in my lawn and garden so this make sense.
Should i remove the batter first? 🤣😂❤️❤️🇬🇧
I prefer to remove all seasonings as well.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 of course! All seasonings must be removed!!!😂😂
i theres a reason why it died, like what if theres disease
Always a good question to ask.
My cat loves it when I bring dead fish home from the supermarket. Before I cook it, kitty gets a healthy meal! Only the best - wild caught.
In our province they bury bodies as fertilizer to crops😆
I do not want to know where you are from.
If Santa Clauses think their 5000 year old techniques are the real deal...
After me and dad came back from fishing we kept the bones and guts and dug a big hole in the garden and put them in there for strawberrys and it worked realy good
You can go to your local bait and tackle shop ask them for a few dead fish tell them what you need it for you may have to give them a dollar or two
Planted tanks have been made so complicated and tech heavy that it gives me a headache whenever I think about starting a planted tank. Most pristine planted tanks that are shown by professionals are not realistic to maintain for a hobbyist.
Nor are they maintained by professionals. They are kept for a few months. The natural system will last with minimum maintenance and expense for many years.
beginner here, and I promise you its not that hard to set up a healthy planted aquarium, use aqua soil if you can afford plant heavy from the start, and carry out daily water changes for the first week, you will be ok!
I just used dirt (with some epsom salt, peat moss, etc) capped it w sand, added plants and drop 4 little snails. Never done a water a change and it's full of microorganisms and the plants are healthy
Native americans*
I am a native American. My tribe has been here more than 300 years.
if I do water changes weekly won’t that keep the levels down? I find your videos very fascinating though. one day I hope to have a tank like yours that’s a literal ecosystem, but I have to work up to it
yes. Plants and biology do it better.
@FatherFish true, but measuring your ammonia, nitrite, and nitrite levels will determine if you have enough plants to fit your bioload. A simple strip test kit will do. If at the end of the week, you don't have nitrates, you do not need a water change. If at the end of the week, your nitrates are high, do a water change. Depending how much nitrates you have, that will determine how much of a water change you need
This is why when a fish dies in my aquariums I leave it be. Why would I deny the plants an good wholesome meal..! 😅
The plants and every other living critter in the tank
I have so many shrimp I've hardly ever even seen a dead fish in my tank and I've surely never taken one out. I let the tank do all the work.
unless the fish died from velvet
depends on your plants honestly. Stem plants will thrive with liquid, root feeders won't. Know your stock
I’m sure this guy has plenty of dead fish….
Just kidding. You seem like a really smart guy
Interesting. Unfortunately I found one of my new gold laser corys dead on the bottom yesterday. My bristlenose pleco hadn't gotten to him yet. I've got 3 more of them though....and 8 other species of corys in that 55g. Lll...yeah I'm a cory fan
I dose liquid fertilizers every day-and do no water changes fertilizers good👍ded fish bad👎
If I gotta dead fish in my aquarium, it’s likely died from bad water, disease, or a killer in the tank. Or a combination of these things that can’t be expressed in a video short. I do consume your knowledge like many do.
But I wouldn’t recommend using a diseased dead fish as fertilizer unless you want nothing but plants in the tank.
This guy has good tips but a lot of his information is simple minded, straightforward thinking, inconsiderate opinions.
When I sow this video 2 days after one of my fish was k.i.a and then I decided to but it in my substrate and I did.then I read some of people's opinions on this and everybody disagreed with father fish method.
So long story short I decided to get it out😅
Oh my god I made a mess in my tank and I couldn't get it out😁😅
But after a month I find out this was absolute good idea and my plants on that spot thrived💯
Now I know father fish was right and I mess my tank for no reason 😭
I thought I was the only person who's done that!! I buy mackerel & tilapia for my dogs all the time & leftovers, I chop up & feed to the predator fish & the rest gets tossed into my plant tanks as fertilizer.. i don't even push it into the sand lol I just toss the chunks in & let it break down..
No , it doesn't build up with regular waterchanges
you no say!
Say I say!
I try to have my tank set up so if something dies the tank takes care of it, I got a colony of snails and shrimp, a bristlenose plec 2 dwarf frogs a syndontis some kuhli loach and like 5 platys that occasionally breed when I allow it, anytime I have dead fish it's eaten before plants get much of a chance, three days max and a fish the size of your thumbs gone, helps having sand cos it covers most things
.. this is a bit too much... I'm outa here
What's wrong? Scared of replicating nature in your tank? All life feeds off death. Why flush a dead fish down the toilet when you could bury it in the garden or in your tank to give nutrients to plants?
Well bye!
Is it too hard to learn unconventional things that actually work?
I had a small tiger barb die and pushed him into the sand. Didn't have a problem with water quality.
I set up a Father Fish style tank as instructed and now I have a lot of white algae on the bottom. How do I clear it up naturally?
Not algae but fungus. Snails and fish will eat it as it is nutritious.
@@FatherFish ahh ok great 👍🏼
Spread the gospel father fisg my gosh aquirm coop are 🤥 liars 😢
Lol
Liquid fertilization only builds up if you don't process water changes, which is what I believe you teach. Google the EI method. More advanced hobbyists toss loads of fertilizer in every day with no ill effect to the tank. Actually, quite the oppisite. The plants grow like crazy. But if you're not processing water changes, then yes, you can run into issues long term.
ferts also prevent the plant from generating hormonal growth.
@FatherFish Ingeresting. I've never heard that before. Do you have a source for this information?
This is a no water change channel. He dunks leaves from streams or lakes into the tank to add a variety of beneficial bacteria.
Sadly, one of my guppy's died. By the time I found him the snails were eating him, so I just left him there.
Crazy old man...
like a fox
What’s the real spindley plant in the back left?
My parents bury fish waste because it'll smell in the bin.
Fish waste often doesnt give all micros and macros. And not all plants are root feeders
Yea they did put fish in the soil if you payed attention in 8th grade you wold know guys 😅
i had success on growing amazon swords vallis and some other plants without aquasoil or any nutrients.. i use well water and my tank has a sand substrate.. and my plants grew well even tho my polar parrots tear them time to time
I burried my rtc last month under my thin- small orange tree (idk its orange or not) and now my tree become larger and larger
I disagree my plants are absorbing it with test strips you can clearly see this over the years I’ve dosed this same tank with no build up what so ever I don’t get why you tell people there doing it wrong when there not doing it your way
You are impossibly hostile. I NEVER said this is the only way. Only that it is a great way to maintain an aquarium.
@@FatherFish You start off every video in a pretty hostile tone. Seems very strange for the Pot to be accusing the Kettle here.
@@MrCopenhagen113I have to agree with you here
Hahaha true😂 i had put my dead triops in the earth of my Room plants. They never grew better😂😅
My betta just passed. Cant with this though😂
I dont even have a fish tank.. but i feel like ive been lectured 😂
Father fish! PLEASE HELP 🙏!!!!!
I'm confused on how to feed my Java ferns! They are dying! (I cannot afford any type of fertilizer) I'm from India and everything in here related to aquarium is darn expensive
Create a food web. It will increase nutrients in the water column.
@@FatherFish what does that mean? Do I have to put more food in the water!?
Awesome advice, please remember they weren't 'Indians' though
Liquid fertilizers are not made for low tech or walstad tanks. You can not attain real colours of plants, especially red plants like Ludwigia without using this. A dead fish contains N, P, K ,ca, Mg and many more but it does not contain chelated iron which is required for vibrant plant colours. It is the choice of the Hobbyist how he or she wants to grow plants.
Iron is an important ingredient in our supplement.
Easy green from aquarium coop has every micro and trace element your aquarium plant needs and is safe for fish and shrimp
Singular they is a thing
Why are you here if you don't like it? No one said you don't have a choice, arguing such a thing is extremely childish. No one is breaking in to your house and stealing your liquid ferts lol if it's the choice of the hobbyist then let people Not use liquid ferts if they don't want to and you do you.
@@otallono I am really a child 😁👍
that's interesting because in my tanks the way I have it set up I get less algae and better plant health when I put fertilizer in my tank and I dose very 2 weeks or so.
That’s using chemicals and supporting the industry which doesn’t want you educated about the natural aquarium and how fish actually live
Can i put dwarf hairgrass seeds in my aquasoil before I cap it with sand, and let them germinate before I flood my tank? I want a cap to stop leaching, but I also want a carpet. My tank is 129 gallons with 2 canister filters if that matters@@FatherFish
@@FatherFishan aquarium isn’t natural😂
I used to think dead fish would crash my tank. When I leave them in nothing bad ever happens.
*depends*
Why’d he laugh when saying Indians 🤷🏻
How about dead slugs?
nasty
Are you in America or middle eastern country?
Also one more comment my rams horn snails and other clean up crew living in my Aquariums usually take care of any dead fish that occur in there before I can even have a chance to discover it maybe just see a little bit of the carcass left behind
ya but wouldn't that absolutely spike your ammonia levels?
Not in a food web system
I don't use liquid fertiliser I use fish chlorine I remove my fish in a bucket of water then put the chlorine at the dirty water without the fish
Please explain what you are doing. sounds interesting.
Can I use MycoSupreme in my planted fish tank? I do have wonderful snails and 3 guppies. I have some moss and leaves from our local lake- Springlake IL.
Yes you can
"HECK, THAT'S WHAT THE INDIANS DID."
GOATED
This seems a little irresponsible to post without context of what you do… can you imagine someone putting chopped fish in their substrate and they don’t have all the wonderful microbial activity that your tanks have??? Now that would be a rotting nightmare! 😂 love your channel! Please keep bringing us more!!!
Context is everything.
Father fish how do I dirt my tank if it’s already setup and running for several years. Heavy aquascaped and planted
simply add sand
I used liquid fertilizer for year always had good results
If they can be avoided to the benefit of the plants it is more desirable.
rubbish, some plants have nutrient deficiencies, and are more demanding than others, show me them stunted stem plants @@FatherFish
@@JFScapes Yup, I love and own a walstad tank, but somehow none of the "ecosystem" aquarists never show their stem plants that look like yellow wet noodles.
all my dead fish are buried in my garden 👌🏼
Dead fish,insect larvae,worms,leaves from the river.....And You re building a swamp beside your bedroom😂😂😂
You got something against swamps?
I think if you're telling people to put dead fish in their tank you should be very explicit about ammonia and it's effects on tank inhabitants. When fish break down they release ammonia which is highly toxic to your aquarium. Considering Ammonia wasn't mentioned once. I wouldn't trust this guy.
You not only do not trust, you do not understand
anyone know what that dead fish called?
Wedge terracotta clay, worm castings, and osmocote slow release ferts. Press to 1/4” then break up. Slides into the substrate and won’t float up.
This is absolutely wrong. Dead fish equals high levels of ammonia and once it rots it can cause fungus/molds/bad bacteria outbreak. Fatherfish is just crazy with his recommendations without elaborating. Maybe it will work for his long seasoned tank with lots and lots of plants and years of microfauna but to other fish keeper with younger tanks and different setup this will cause ammonia spike.
Fatherfish just seems to be extravagant with his “advices” but completely wrong.
Especially buying fish from supermarkets? It could be carrying loads of bacteria/disease.
Father Fish is not nearly the fool you make him out to be. Your fear and loathing of nature is bristling in your every word. A deep substrate breaks down waste. THAT is its primary function. A small, dead fish pushed into the substrate is perfectly safe. If you ever get rid of your gravel try it. You will be amazed.
Please can I ask you then, how can I make a homemade natural fertilizer for my aquarium plants? Because I can't find any pet store selling those here where I live!
Dammit I just flushed my dead fish 😭
Maybe this is why my tank never crashed. I have a lot of plants but I can never find my dead fish
I disagree but the nice thing about this hobby is that there are so many ways of doing it. And there is no wrong way untill you do some stupid stuf that is bad for the fish. Like fishbowl with goldfish. Or no water changes with low amount of plants and filtration.
Or constantly changing polluted water.
Don't laugh about India
I'm sorry but for a heavily planted tank this information is just incorrect.
Not in my tanks.
@FatherFish the Fertiliser I dose is taken in by the plants. If I test my water each night I have zero ammonia, zero nitrite and practically zero nitrates. I'm.doimf 90ml of Fertiliser daily in my 400l Planted aquarium and its Immaculate. The fish are a picture of health too.
@@naturescaper201 No one said anything about ammonia, nitrites or nitrates. That should be the case pretty much no matter what if there is beneficial bacteria. That has nothing to do with excess nutrients in the water.
ammonia nitrites and nitrates are nutrients?@@otallono
of wich kind?@@otallono
That’s why we do water changes