Nano blackwater aquarium build with neon tetras
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ส.ค. 2024
- This is my first attempt at a blackwater tank, and I promise this one will stay a while so we'll see how it develops, ill do an update video on it very soon, so please like and subscribe.
After a week the tannins aren't quite as dark as id like them to be so I'm going to add some bark, and other things such as seed pods that should darken the water a little bit more and will make the tank look really natural!
Links to all equipment in the video below:
The Blackwater Aquarium: amzn.to/2nON0Qg
APS HOB Filter: amzn.to/2ARJTvl
LED lights: amzn.to/2BojWJ3
Dennerle Heater: amzn.to/2oeevCR
Substrate: amzn.to/2odNuzp (mixed with builders pea gravel)
Fluval food: amzn.to/2wfigwu
Hikari food: amzn.to/2PJxAtp
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Music:
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Tank looks beautiful you did a great job and was so cute the way your existing Tetra was schooling with the new ones whilst they were still in the bag!
Thank you! Yeah haha that was so nice to see 😊
I'm glad you have ample room for them. Far too often ppl have fish in a grossly undersized tank and it's depressing.
I totally agree i😊
I also use pothos in my tank. I’m so amazed by them. I have a densely planted tank but small bubbles still occurred due to frequent fish feeding. Ever since I put pothos into the tank water surface the bubbles are gone!
It’s a great plant isn’t it!
What are those bubbles for?
very nicely done! I love how the tannins made the water look! Love this tank as a whole
Thanks man!
Simple. Practical. Beautiful.
You made my day, bro
Thanks man!
I like the natural look of the Aquarium 👍🏻
Thanks!
your tank looks amazing and it seems really spacious for the fish. I like how it’s like looking into a little stream :-)
Thanks 😁 yes it’s doing well
Beautiful tank ! I tetras are so entertaining to watch always chaseing each other
They are!
Wanted something relaxing to watch before bed, this was perfect :) Your tone is very calming too cheers mate nice job
No problem! Thanks a lot
I like your accent. Man, it's relaxing. Good video -
Thanks! Means a lot 😊
Your tank just looks so nice with just a few neon Tetra's.less is definitely more .😃
What a fantastic blackwater nano! Congratulations.
I had to start using a lid for the fish tank as fish do jump 3-4 inches out of the water, if you wake them up and turn lights on in the middle of the night. Fish can get startled. Just wanted to give ya a heads up.
That’s exactly what happened to me on my big tank lol, a huge Siamese Algae Eater jumped vertical out of a gap and landed on top of the lid. I was staring into the tank during the night and it freaked out 😂
Nicely done! A very well done tank, and a pleasant, calm video. Many thanks.
Thank you!
Thanks for the video! I modeled my 10-gallon blackwater tank after yours - pothos, water lettuce, and everything. I really appreciate it!
Very nice! Hopefully it goes really well
Hey dude, my water lettuce isnt looking so great, and there's like this, like, layer of slime at the surface of the water. The fish dont appear to be affected, and my water levels are all perfect (as of my test yesterday). Any suggestions?
I think it looks really good !😍
Baby not as Good as you.. mmmmmm😋
Now this tank is sick
Thanks man
That’s a clean tank.
It's looks very nice great job
It looks good. Fishes tannin party started.
Beautiful blackwater aquarium with neons. The tank turned out really well in the end. Subscribed to your channel
Yeah luckily! Ha, thank you
Definitely something I need to invest in, I am sure my betta would love is own long tank, a 20-30 gallon would be great with some corydoras too! :3
It is a very nice sized tank, great for the smaller amount of water but longer swimming length, panda corys would be ideal because they’re small
Very nice! Your tank stand is fine, I have a 20 gallon tall on a solid low bookcase and it's fine. Plus your weight is dispersed over a larger surface area. If the table is real wood, you will be fine. Looks to be 20 gallon long?
I’m in uk so not sure, 60 litres, 80cm long. Yeah the table will hold 😋
Dammmmn! I've a huge crush on your tank.😍😍😭😭
Haha thanks!
Absolutely in love w this setup! I'm just starting to experiment my own as well :)
Thank you! Yeah it’s good fun 😋
A beautiful aquarium. Well done. I will recommend your channel.
Thanks so much
like ur voice too! really calming!
Thanks!
this is awesome my friend! you should check out somphongsi rasboras and also neon green tetras along with purple tetras
Purple? 😮 haha
very nice tank..
Thanks!
nice tank and fish
Im getting some guppies white cloud minnows and some neon tetras this week end I’m sooooo exited!!!
Nice job mate!
Thank you! 😁
amazing setup! i really love this setup and will definitely do this for my betta
That’s great to hear, thank you!
Did you mean amazoning setup?🙃
Really good idea ! Bravo !
nice. good deal on the thermometer
Very nice set up...add some bottom feeder fishes too
Thanks! Haha you think?
nice job with the pothos. would look great with shrimp too.
Yeah you’re right
For me, I would of have the pothos to cover and hide the filter/heater a little, instead of hiding the veiwing area... But thats me!
(I would also recommend upping the shoal size, for further impact! Even adding 4 more may make a difference, and would not impact water quality or tank maintenance schedule... )
I tried that.. it got in the way of the filter and impacted the flow. At the other side it never has to be moved out the way. It’s a good idea though and maybe could work if I changed a few things. Don’t tempt me to add more fish 😋
@@KieransFish Really? I wouldn't of thought the case, especially if the majority of draped over the HOB! (Maybe consider growing it inside the hob, or on one side of the HOB?)
Temptation for more fish is needed! I have a similar setup, but instead have a (large school) of ember tetras, and habrosus cories in a 100L tank (basically mine's 45cm wide, and slightly taller) and my waterchange schedule is either when TDS is over 100 or I remember to change the water; which can vary weekly from weekly to ever few months - in most cases, I just preform top offs.
I think you could add java fern, they’re really good with any lighting too. You should try it and you could just tie it to the wood in your tank or you could just squeeze it in between crevices of like the rocks. Don’t plant it in the substrate though the roots would rot because it’s not planted that way so as anubias.
I have lots of big Anubis in my other tank, Java fern is a good idea
the one usually doing these least amount of work is the boss ;-D
Really love the way it’s set up
😚😚😘
This is so pretty.
so beautiful tank
You can use peat in your filter to bump up the tannins. It's cheap in the bag at most home and garden places. Just be sure it doesn't have any chems in it.
Yeah that’s a good idea
Sorry for the ignorance but what's peat?
Nice job mate....
wow this looks so good, love what you did with the tank! :))
Thank you
Cute video!
Thanks thanks 😁
an apistogramma pair would do great in that, beautiful tank
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Very nice tank 🤗 Thanks for sharing 😀
Thank you for watching
@@KieransFish you're welcome 😉
Good video mate. Thanks for sharing.. perhaps add some shrimp?
What's Blackwater
@@richardpost8789 water with tannins
I got my first tank last week and it was full of tannings and dark hiding spots and moss. As soon as I put my tetras in they started mating! Yours look they are doing their mating dance too.. (then they will go to a bush and wriggle beside each other)
I just was wondering if you/anyone knows a way to do water changes after this?
It’s day seven and I noted some Teeny tiny specs swimming around but it’s hard to tell if it’s the tetras.
My tank is new and although I cycled it for more than a month and had it heavily planted (also added sea hen stability) I’m anxious about a ammonia spike.
Put a sponge on the end of your syphon, yeah mine do the whole mating ritual but never had any babies. Did you find out if they were babies in the end?
Love your tank and those plants are perfect:-)
Thanks so much
Kierans Fish Your welcome🤗
Love the scape man.
Thanks!
@@KieransFish, Np :)
DIY for your water not to be cloudy while putting water just put a plate or plastic cover to diffuse your water gracefully to avoid cloudy water
Your Neon tetra are beautiful! How do you clean the tank? I have trouble cleaning mine...
I don’t clean it, just water changes. And maybe use a toothbrush to clean to the glass if there’s a lot of algae
Great video!!!!
Thank you
That looks awesome 😊
Thanks!
Apparently you can use rooibos tea bags to really ramp up the colour. It's safe for fish because it's naturally decaffeinated 👍🏻
Cool tank dude
U have a very strong accent
Thank you
Love the accent
Haha thanks
Very nice!
Good build video. Nice tank.
Thanks!
I love bubble wands
Me too, pumps are noisy though
Yes! Was waiting for this :) Great upload as always. Still I think that the water is to clear for a river biotope
Thanks 😁 the water is definitely more dark off camera, but you’re right it needs to be darker, I’ll be adding a few more things to it, thanks
If you’re following my instagram I got loads of different pictures and videos of this and you can see the tannins a bit better on some of them @kierans.fish
You can brew up some Rooibos tea and put in the water to increase the tannins/darkness of the water.
I really enjoy your channel
Thank you 😁
nice setup
Very nice aquarium. Really like how you set it up. Subbed to you
Thanks man! Appreciate it
Great video👌
Thank you
Nice, beautiful
Thanks
Mate I love your tank it's great.can I just suggest a couple of things if you put 3 or4 almond leaves in a jug and add boiling water like a t bag they release more tanned and you can add as little or as much as you like.also if you look up pondguru on TH-cam he has lots of tips on how to upgrade your job.please don't take offences I'm only trying to help.john
I’d never take offence to a helpful comment so thank you 😊 however if I add more leaves I’ll just wack them straight in as leaves at the bottom are the natural look I’m going for, Iv already added 10+ large leaves, and they’ve decomposed. I’ll add more at some point. Thanks again
Guys, just curious to know..does the decomposing of leaves affect the fish in any way or is it good?? Greattttttt video btw
If you have cherry shrimp they love the decomposing leaf litter.you can take leaves out or leave them it will not harm the fish or water parameters.
@@johnbowering658 thanks John :)
This is such a lovely wee tank, thanks for sharing 👍 ps i use redbush Tick Tock teabags in my filter lol. The tannins look so good, my tank is literally black when the lights are out. Think ive went a bit over the top though haha
Thanks a lot 😁
@@KieransFish Ive heard Rooribos tea works well for coloring the water and isnt harmful
lovely good job I got 6 neon tetras and 2 corys in a tank I always use almond leaves they really good I have 2 betta fish a well in 2 five gallon tanks lol yeah they do that a lot of fighting in the tank the neons
Very simple but nice.
Great vid. I'm not big on small rocks but I want to try this with Sand black or brown and see how it comes out
Need about 6 more in there and the fighting will stop
Yeah true, however I think it was just them establishing the hierarchy
My Blackwater tanks get considerably darker and I'm able to grow most plants.
That’s interesting, I wanted to keep mine strictly floating plants for low maintenance
@@KieransFish Also I think the Auto White Balance of the camera didn't give a true representation of just how black that tank is.
So amazing, the view is natural like river or stream.
Top down view is great on this tank
Good. Job mate nice and simple setup like Ur video 😘😘👍👍
Intersting, very nice video.
Thanks again 😊
Thank you for metrics. If i were you i would cover the hang on back with pothos... Be careful that mat can actually cause your tank to break... I didnt even know its possible to replicate black water in captivity as someone told me this... Can you please speak a bit more about the black water
If I add it at the back the sunlight from the window won’t get to it, and some of it will probably die off. Everyone uses a mat I think it’ll be fine, it’s better then no mat lol, you’ll have to let me know it a mat causes one of your tanks to break. I removed the blackwater in the end, it wasn’t for me. I did a video on it
Love how you're using a 15 gallon aquarium for neons which is the minimum tank size and not a 10 gallon. Of course this is debatable XD
Thanks! Plus it’s 80cm long so plenty of swimming room
Brilliant!
The tannins aren't quite as dark as id like them to be so I'm going to add in some more materials, this will give it even more of a natural look too.
Put a black background
And low yellowish lightings would look good too for darktanks.
Kevin Venzon there’s a sofa the other side, it’s a three way viewing tank
Cool then. Those brown leaf fits very well also. And makes the water brown colored.great scape by the way.
9:48 thats so cute, how they watching each other^^ :D
Haha I know!
Thank you for the good video
Thanks for watching
Pretty tank 😂
I really like this tank. Very refreshing. I didn’t realise that tannins are not good for plants! That actually really sucks for me because I’m in the middle of setting up a heavily planted nano tank which has a giant piece of mopani in it. Do you think I’m going to struggle even if I change the water frequently?
I think you’ll be fine. The only issue with blackwater is that it blocks the light from reaching the plant. After a while your wood will release less tannins so you’ll be fine I think
Kierans Fish that’s a relief thanks 🙏
@@KieransFish There are several plants that do just fine in low light as well, so it depends on what you're planting. Java fern, anubias and some other amazonian plants are all good options for blackwater.
Just seeing your videos, makes me wanna add drift wood to my fish tank , I do have a question, if I get drift wood from a Random place do I have to Boil it for 2 hours before adding it to the fish tank , good video we like long videos thank you 🙏
Thank you 😁 yes I would if it’s from a random place, will help make it sink too. You could even pour boiling water over it and let it soak
Nice ...simple 👍👍👍
Thanks!
Black WOAH-TAH
Hi what heater did you use? It looks great! Like your tank!
It’s a Dennerle 50W.. thanks!
Where did you buy yours Sir?:)
might aswell pop in a betta :p
Could do 😋
@@KieransFish Never do that . Bettas are slow moving whereas Cardinals are fast , they would unintentionally irritate the Betta fish . Also , Betta fish need lots of plants unfortunately . Don't mess it up with plants , biotopes look good this way only . Let it stay like this .
Nice .
Largest nano tank I've ever seen. You know what 'nano' means, right?
Well it’s only 24cm high, I wouldn’t consider it a suitable sized tank for most fish, hence the few neon tetras.
@@KieransFish nano tanks are small fishtanks that fit everywhere
A practical low cost low maintenance tank..
Exactly.. 😋
Nice job.... will you put any cories in to scavenge? I’m setting one up and I think I will use Chili Rasboras , cories nd maybe a few nitrite snails... what do you think?
No just neon terras live in this tank, but yeah small cories and Nerite snails are a good idea
Nice aquarium I liked