An Informal Guide to Plants From a Master Aquatic Horticulturalist- My First Talk at a Fish Club
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2024
- Unedited and simple, this is my informal talk about plants and how to do well with them for the North Sound Aquarium Society. This was my first ever full talk for a club and it took place in a restaurant's banquet room, so there is a touch of background noise.
Does this talk get you all fired up for some plants? I started my planted tank addiction at Aquarium Co-Op... I may have even mentioned them a few times in the talk. If you're looking for plants that get converted ahead of time, there's no one else I'd recommend over them: bit.ly/2GXKHVG
As I mention in the talk, I use Aquarium Co-Op's Easy green as my fertilizer of choice - you can pick that up here bit.ly/2HedDsc and it helps the channel!
Thinking of doing CO2? Here's the diffusers I use in my tanks I mention in the talk: amzn.to/2Hifwo1
Outside the US and can't get Easy Green? Another great fertilizer is Thrive: amzn.to/2Hifwo1
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I mention the one-two punch algae treatment toward the end of this talk, here's a link to that article: www.plantedtan...
Great talk, Bentley. You make growing plants look and sound so easy.
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They are! Trust me, if I can do it, so can anyone. Trial and error taught me, so I do my best to pass on what I've learned.
@48:00 So glad that you have addressed that. I am dealing with this shock right now. I bought 3 things off monte carlo, clearly grown emersed in a pot and likely in cold water. I live in florida and my room temperature is 77. 2 months and it is not dying but it is not thriving and not growing. All other plants I ever bought grow like mushrooms because of how they are grown. This came from some guy in minnesotta or something.
Excellent talk!! I am forever indebted to Bentley, for teaching me that the Blue Spectrum of light grows algae. When I first got my Fluval 3.0, I was running all spectrums 100% and suddenly my tank was Split Pea Soup. By cutting back on the intensity and length of Blue I was using and eliminating the night time Blue light cycle, my Pea soup magically disappeared. Thank you again, Bentley!
I wish Fluval included that info, in their directions ~
Your videos have the most common sense out of all plant hobbyist videos I watched.
Loved the talk, Bentley. Thanks also for the barbecue reference. 😋
Great talk Bentley
Great talk! Thank you for sharing your insights.
Very interesting talk Bentley! Didn’t plan on watching the whole video but glad I did. Thank you for all of your time and effort you put into your videos, I have learned a lot from you 😊
Lol basement tomatoes. Loved the video Bentley :D
Very good Professor . Now I know why I get so frustrated when talking to you , You.re so smart and I'm so dumb . Keep it up I'll listen even though I don't understand . By the way I bought a Beamswork light . Continue to put truthful information out to your members and subscribers .
Nothing to do with that, it's more that via comments it's hard to give detail (and receive enough info) to give the best information possible. Plus text losing things as each person reads them, where in person it's so much easier in conversation to get clarification and answer things. Cheers!
Such a good talk, very informative. I hope you continue to educate us about aquarium plants!
I certainly plan to!
I love ths video. Keep up the good work. Thank you for sharing! - Little Bobby
Great talk! You sound like you have done many talks before. Very inspirational talk into keeping plants.
I am doing a talk at one of the UK fishkeeping societies conventions, super nervous about it.
Nervous is good! Just use that energy to be excited about it and you'll do great!
@@BentleyPascoe Thank you :) Everyone who does talks seems so calm, I guess their used to it. I am looking forward to it, still yet to plan anything as it's in March.
Finally checking this out! What a well worth spent of time.
Pogestemon octopus is bullet proof indeed I think. I've planted it into my tank and it seems to be the only plant not melting and mind you I got the plant from a different state (CA). All of my current plants came from my old tank.
Awesome you gave me a fix for sand compaction.
Excellent talk. Thanks for sharing it on your channel. Glad I got to say a brief hello to you at AGA. Wish I could have picked your brain, but you were off to eat and I was only there for Friday. Another time.
Sorry I missed the meeting, so thanks for the video.
Watched that while thing, very good.
Awesome talk Bentley!
🤘🐌🤘I started natural type aquariums after seeing Foo the Flowerhorn, LRB, Rachel, Cory, Dustin, and You (lol) I started on hard mode, with plants that I had to transition myself. Plus my lps doesn't know what they're selling. I am learning so much I can tell the store what they have in stock now! There are a lot of hard lessons to be learned in the hobby
Hey I live in AK! (>^_^
Glad I can help you on the plant journey!
Great talk! I learned a lot.
I've started keeping live plants a few months ago and I must say that I love plants now as much as I love my fish. How do I become a Master Horticulturist? I'm extremely interested in this. Thanks as usual and I'll shut up now and watch this video lol.
Usually Master certificates come from local clubs and their horticulture awards program. It's super common within clubs in the US. Basically just grow a lot of different stuff, propagate it and flower what you can as well.
The way you tell your story is very understandable and down to earth, I liked it very much. I try very hard to grow plants and have some succes but I keep failing on some species I like. Could you do a video about how you would handle a plant, for instance the species your working with now.?? I would like to see what you have to do to with a plant to " master" it.
I m ok with all easy plants but when I try a more " demanding" plant I often loose it, yes I m working on my patience( most important I think) .
Thanks so far and have a nice day.
I really like this idea, can do!
Bentley Pascoe look forward to it. Thanks
Team Crispy
Thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge on aquatic plants. Really enjoyed the talk. Do you sell plants?
I do! Typically best to contact me via email (bentley.pascoe@gmail.com), but I also have a small store on GetGills.com - that all being said pretty wiped out right now after AGA.
Great job man!
Par: photosynthetic active radiation
Pur: photosynthetic usable radiation
also, great talk Bentley. we need more people in the plant side of the hobby. i just decided to go crazy in plants and experiment. for example im cloning plants WITHOUT STERILE MEDIA OR STERILE ENVIRONMENT. stumbled on that sweet spot out of curiousity one day trimming some plants i like. trying to turn a leaf into a plant from flamingo, and nurii
Good luck! Let me know if you crack the code on those
@@BentleyPascoe I did. I'm sure this will blow you away, but you take a leaf, make sure the stem part is still in the leaf and alive. Stick it in a good substrate and do not touch it. Leave it totally alone. You can do this with any stem plant, and I have successfully cut a stem off a sword plant and cloned it this way too. Nurii showing some success as well. Flamingo too early to tell. We need an aquatics horticulture FB page to chat and discuss these things.
@@BentleyPascoe your lucky you have a fish club near you. I don't. I'm thinking of starting one, but not many people around me are too interested in fish tanks. Maybe I'll make a group, and post a flyer at my lfs
@@ugnuggets I've done this on accident recently 😅 a couple leaves fell off on a a couple different plants, I left the leaves in there, and was surprised to find roots on the end of of the leaf later.
Congratulations
Love in it
I've recently purchased bunches of Cyperus Helferi, sadly I didn't find many guides on it online maybe because it's not that common or popular in the hobby yet. It's like Valisneria nana but it doesn't spread throughout the tank which makes it very manageable. Are you experienced with this plant?
I've got it in the past and usually the way you would propagate it is by separating it at the root so you literally kind of pull it up. Almost like an eriocaulon, separate the child plants away and replant everything. In general. It's a relatively easy grass type plant and doesn't take anything too complicated to grow. It does appreciate more like medium light but that's about it.
@@BentleyPascoe Thank you king 💪they're in my quarantine tank right now, I'm not going in by much so any kind of knowledge about this plant is very useful to me 🙏
Hey Bentley, great video for us beginners.
I have a question: "Does airpumps affect plant grow or in any other way?"
Keep it up, and thank you for sharing. :)
It should not
@@BentleyPascoe Thanks a bunch :)
I love you Bentley
52:40 haha. Stress them the.... bejimminy out ! Nice save
Cut it close
G'day from Australia Bentley... I keep Uaru and severums and I'd love to keep plants... Any you could recommend that the fish won't eat??
Java fern and Anubias are your best bets
@@BentleyPascoe thank you sir.. ill try it
Dang 1000 guppies in a tank!
24:30 Not true - The Zalthanians from the planet Slighzar 7b are silicon based
what was the plant that you said you like and kept alot of at 22.48 ?
Pogostemon Stellatus 'Octopus'
@@BentleyPascoe thank you...great talk
Have you got a cure / remedy for blue green algae?
Cyanobacteria aka blue-green algae is usually best taken care of by dosing erythromycin into the tank. We call it algae, but it's actually a bacteria. Longer term prevention is all about water quality and high oxygen ratios in the water.
@@BentleyPascoe my tank has only been set up around 3 weeks. Is this likely to be a startup issue ?
@@craigmetcalfe4 It can be, though usually you see cyanobacteria over time when parameters get out of whack. That being said yes, it can happen on newer still getting established tanks.
@@BentleyPascoe thanks for your reply. I know you dont have to answer comments, Much appreciated.
A neat trick for getting a nice looking CO2 tank (when you start with a shiny new one) is be a woman, tell them it’s for your planted aquarium, and ask for a nice one.
Realistically, I haven’t tried being a guy and just asking for a nice one...
Smart idea!
18:50 How dare you
As a scientist, the “dirted tanks are sub-par” bullshit is just sad. I’m sure you think that, but have you ever really bothered giving it a try? Did you do it correctly? Many experts recommend it, and I have had exceptional success with it. Aquatic plants don’t care about low oxygen levels in the soil, unlike terrestrial plants, and so they don’t mind the compacting. Aside from that, soil doesn’t compact underwater. It does the opposite. But go on, feel free to keep paying hundreds if dollars for soil that someone has ground, rolled with clay, and then compressed into pellets for your ease of use 🙄
Also, you haven’t gone collecting, have you? If you did, go look at the substrate these plants grow in in nature.
Given that the vast majority of aquatic plants grow emersed, not submerged, I think your near antagonist approach to comments is off base. Have I tried dirt? Yep. Dealt with a number of problems. You say experts recommend it, yet some of the absolute best plant people in aquaria, Karen Randall, Christel Kasselmann, Cara Wade all actively use and suggest aqua soil. These are professional botanists. People who are at the forefront of collecting in the wild.
IA ? What that means ? 🧐🤔 you talk about artificial intelligence 🤖 ??
No.
easy green is EI FAIL!!!
It's an all-in-one, so technically not EI. It's designed to be...well as the name says... Easy.