Getting into nature and observing how the plants, fish, and rocks/wood interact has been a much needed inspiration for me lately. Big thanks to Jack, for helping me with nature footage and learning my camera better.
Yes to the moss! And this is my favourite of your tanks. Followed by the algae scape. You manage to make super natural looking environments with happy fish and still with really pleasing compositions in the scape. It’s a gift!
Very inspirational! You've actually been a big part of me getting my life back on track. You, and a few other creators, has shown me the light that i'm supposed to head for. This light is sometimes hidden by clouds of severe anxiety for me - to the point where anxiety has made me have seizures. You have been a part of keeping me focused on wellness by being you and living your life -being the crazy fish lady, gardener, mother, wife - being the tattooed chick with the mohawk - to me, being cool. I'm inspired by your desire of bringing and sustaining life. I'm the same way. My struggle continues - other people's struggles continues - as we head for a different day - tomorrow - we can start over.
@@RachelOLeary Yeah, it's nothing to laugh about. I'm going thru a funk for a while now. To make matters worse coyotes came thru last week and wiped out my flock of chickens leaving a sole survivor. 21 dead, 17 I hatched myself. :( Plain old heart sick about it. I will rebuild the flock, but free range is out of the question as my own backyard isn't safe. ;(
Freddy thank you for sharing your life with us. So many of us have conditioned ourselves to say "I'm okay" when in fact we are far from okay. I am taking Prozac for the first time in my 64 years on this planet. I had to admit that I'm not okay to get help for the depression and anxiety I've been suffering with. It's helped me considerably. Our lives have been suspended by this pandemic and the upcoming election. I can't wait until we can get back to the life we had, bad as it may have seemed at times, it was a whole hella better than this shit. I wish you good luck, great healing and speedy recovery. God loves you and so do we the people.
I love this tank. I didn't even notice the brown background until you mentioned it. In this part of Florida, all of the creeks and rivers are blackwater environments with tons of tannins from oak leaves. So the brown background looks completely natural to me, as if I'm snorkeling in a local creek. The scape in this tank is amazing and I love how you emphasize the maintenance that goes into your tanks. You don't act like, "Oh yes, my aquariums are always spotless"
Cultured mosses? Yes, please! An in depth how and where in the tank to engage mosses? Ok! A chance to see you chopping up, placing, and doing some general diy with mosses? I'm am beyond excited! The tumbleweed of Spiky Moss I have chilling in my 75g and I thank ou in advance already !
You are such a kind and gentle soul Rachel it makes me so happy that people like you exist in this world and share your love with the rest of us through your videos. I always look forward to your videos ❤️
This is beautiful!! I have felt very stagnant over the past couple of months! I have traveled back home to Kentucky this week and I'm going to be here another week! We've had a lot of rain and my goal is to get back into the waterways that I love here and basically do a video like yours! This is where the love began, this is where the fascination began, creeks, lakes and ponds! It was time for me to take a break and get back into nature! It's beautiful, it's magical, and being able to study the landscape, the plants and the environment is where the beauty is! I love the way your aquariums represent nature at its finest! Thank you for sharing Rachel! I really enjoyed the video!
Rachel, Thank you for all you're inspiration on the hobby and much needed education to all of US and to those who find you and see all your video's, We enjoy it all and look forward to the next One, in addition to the Covid19 uncertainties lock down you bring US all much needed content for the whole family to enjoy, Thank you again.. 😊👍🙏
I've always used brown wrapping paper on the backs of my tanks. Love seeing some vindication. Thanks. I have no tanks anymore. No room here. But maybe one day.
I love looking at wild water ways, and I love finding aquarium plants in their natural habitat, I've found ludwigia, dwarf hairgrass, and bocapa caroliniana growing at ponds edges as marginal plants, and I've found two species of fissidens moss, one on the edge of a stream, and the other in sandy clay soil that was nice and moist.
Love your tanks.. you put so much effort into creating a perfect scape the fish thrive in... It's the best hobby to have.. I love my fish, treated myself to some stunning black phantom tetras a few days ago. Altho quite shy as they have only lived with their own kind until my community tank. They've made friends with my orange stripey barbs and sholl around together..
This video was so relaxing. Also this is what I would really love to do if I had more space, set up environments that mimic nature for my fish. I’ve been dreaming of Elassoma Gilberti for years now and would especially love to set up a native environment for them.
Loved all the natural footage at the beginning of the video. It gave much inspiration once you showed your related aquarium. I'd like to learn more about aquatic moss, as mine seem to go for so long then disintigrate and look forward to learning about your way of cultivation.
Great tank and video! Love brown/tan sand! Your tips on breeding white clouds has paid off for me... having success breeding Gold WCMM in tanks and a pond now... THANK YOU!!!💕
I like the brown background on the tank. Where I live, there are a lot of rivers and streams that either flow through or drain marshes and wetlands. Most of the local lakes are also associated with wetlands, so the waters are pretty high in tannins. I've been meaning to test the pH of some of the open water to see how it compares to my city water, which is 7.8 pH, with 15-200 TDS.
I really love your rack. I meant to mention that earlier in a video where your husband was welding and putting it together, but, you know... squirrel! I've always stuck to single rows because I don't like not being able to see into the tanks on the top and bottom rows, but that doesn't seem to be an issue for your setup. Well, other than the one tank that was so overgrown with plants that you couldn't see the fish, but that had nothing to do with placement 🤣 I'm still not a huge fan of the species you (mostly) keep, but they're growing on me. Especially when you keep big schools of them like you do. I think that's why I've never been a big fan in the past. I've always been stuck with less than a handful and it's hard to get excited about something so small. Granted, that's on me. With just a little more work (and a lot more money), I could have that schooling aspect that looks so cool. I don’t know if you follow Cory from Aquarium Co-Op or not but, when he showed off his school of a couple hundred cardinal tetras... wow! That was amazing. Anyway, good to see you posting again. I certainly hope whatever it was that had gone sideways in your world has been righted again with a little (or a lot) of outdoor water therapy.
Really great to see more vids from you, and right off the top...You Look Marvelous!!! Love the new do...! 😁. Any vids you would like to put out is OK with me, enjoy and learn from each of them. 👍 And I haven't forgot your plants, just lots of sidetracking with all that's going on. Thanks Rachel for sharing this with us. Patiently waiting for your next vid to drop. 👍👍👍
This is a sweet video. I appreciate your timing with the slow motion, and the mellow background music. It is peaceful to watch. Love that your inspiration comes from nature - it grounds us all, whether we identify it or not. Keep up the good work - your hard work inspires us.
Great...love this tank and giving me inspiration for my new 140 cm tank. I like the colour background....paint polystyrene a similar dull green on all my tanks
Looking forward to the possibility of getting a starter colony of shrimp from you...was really impressed with ur video on outdoor shrimp harvest..i think it would be worthwhile for me to incorperate this into my angels and rams....
Loving the nature videos, and the hillstream tank has been my favorite from way back when you were out and about collecting hardscape for the initial set up. 👍💓👍
@@RachelOLeary I know. I swear it wasn't that long ago when you were in Canada visiting Joey, and he was talking you into setting up a TH-cam channel. Glad you did. 👍💓👍
So nice to see you smile so bright. My dog had trouble walking so I haven't been to the creek or beach . After she passed I took a friends dog who's comforting me to the beach . I got a plan for my next project. I'll be going back to collect red rocks I know are safe because I have them in my most prolific shrimp tank . I might go to the creek tomorrow or work in the yard, possibly both . Some people are coming to pick up a dream tank that just doesn't fit in my house. I'll use the money to order some plants probably order a co2 splitter and shrimp minerals too. I'm holding the fort maestro in these troublesome times . Upwards and onwards
Great video ! I love this tank, so beautiful and does look very natural which I love in tanks. That waterfall you showed near your home is so amazing i could just sit and watch it and relax !
Hello Rachel! I was hoping you could answer a couple questions for me! I live somewhat in your area, and was wondering if you've ever been the 'That fish place' in Lancaster, and what you thought of them? Next question, do you think blackworms or whiteworms would be small enough for chili rasbora? If not, I'll happily start up a micro worm colony. You are the primary reason I am getting into fish keeping. I am getting ready to start up my first tank (29 gallon), and plan on having it planted. You've been a huge inspiration.
Getting into nature and observing how the plants, fish, and rocks/wood interact has been a much needed inspiration for me lately. Big thanks to Jack, for helping me with nature footage and learning my camera better.
I really appreciate the work that you put into these videos for us. You truly inspire me to make my tanks as natural as possible✌️♥️🤘
A small plecos species might be really cool in the 150
To be honest I think you nailed that background. Really subtle and blends with the planting more.
Thanks for the great video. I would very much like to see more of the natural habitats which you caught on film. :-)
That's a beautiful looking tank rachel😃.
Yes! I would definitely love to see you do all you can on moss!
Same!
👌👌👌👌
me too!
Ditto!
Yes to the moss! And this is my favourite of your tanks. Followed by the algae scape. You manage to make super natural looking environments with happy fish and still with really pleasing compositions in the scape. It’s a gift!
Very inspirational! You've actually been a big part of me getting my life back on track. You, and a few other creators, has shown me the light that i'm supposed to head for. This light is sometimes hidden by clouds of severe anxiety for me - to the point where anxiety has made me have seizures. You have been a part of keeping me focused on wellness by being you and living your life -being the crazy fish lady, gardener, mother, wife - being the tattooed chick with the mohawk - to me, being cool. I'm inspired by your desire of bringing and sustaining life. I'm the same way. My struggle continues - other people's struggles continues - as we head for a different day - tomorrow - we can start over.
I am so glad that my story helps you with yours. Anxiety and depression are no joke.
I suffered from anxiety and depression for many years! A whole-food plant-based diet (vegan) has helped my physical and mental health a lot.
@@RachelOLeary Yeah, it's nothing to laugh about. I'm going thru a funk for a while now. To make matters worse coyotes came thru last week and wiped out my flock of chickens leaving a sole survivor. 21 dead, 17 I hatched myself. :( Plain old heart sick about it. I will rebuild the flock, but free range is out of the question as my own backyard isn't safe. ;(
Freddy thank you for sharing your life with us. So many of us have conditioned ourselves to say "I'm okay" when in fact we are far from okay. I am taking Prozac for the first time in my 64 years on this planet. I had to admit that I'm not okay to get help for the depression and anxiety I've been suffering with. It's helped me considerably. Our lives have been suspended by this pandemic and the upcoming election. I can't wait until we can get back to the life we had, bad as it may have seemed at times, it was a whole hella better than this shit. I wish you good luck, great healing and speedy recovery. God loves you and so do we the people.
Always love ❤️ your videos
It took you 5 years to stock this aquarium, wow.
A like 👍 for your patience and dedication.
Hope to see the moss scaping soon! Moss is something even I can grow 😂
I didn't even notice the brown background until you mentioned it, that's how natural it looks!
I love this tank. I didn't even notice the brown background until you mentioned it. In this part of Florida, all of the creeks and rivers are blackwater environments with tons of tannins from oak leaves. So the brown background looks completely natural to me, as if I'm snorkeling in a local creek. The scape in this tank is amazing and I love how you emphasize the maintenance that goes into your tanks. You don't act like, "Oh yes, my aquariums are always spotless"
Cultured mosses? Yes, please! An in depth how and where in the tank to engage mosses? Ok! A chance to see you chopping up, placing, and doing some general diy with mosses? I'm am beyond excited! The tumbleweed of Spiky Moss I have chilling in my 75g and I thank ou in advance already !
That fish tank looks badass. I’ve never seen such a realistic fish tank and the brown looks really nice. Good job.
Thank you!
I was out observing the fish in our stream today and all the wildlife that it attracts. One of my favorite tanks.
You are becoming Ivan Mikoji of Pennsylvania. Stay in the hobby! Thank you for sharing!
You are such a kind and gentle soul Rachel it makes me so happy that people like you exist in this world and share your love with the rest of us through your videos. I always look forward to your videos ❤️
This is beautiful!! I have felt very stagnant over the past couple of months! I have traveled back home to Kentucky this week and I'm going to be here another week! We've had a lot of rain and my goal is to get back into the waterways that I love here and basically do a video like yours! This is where the love began, this is where the fascination began, creeks, lakes and ponds! It was time for me to take a break and get back into nature! It's beautiful, it's magical, and being able to study the landscape, the plants and the environment is where the beauty is! I love the way your aquariums represent nature at its finest! Thank you for sharing Rachel! I really enjoyed the video!
Tbh you look like you are at peace when you are in the streams. Wishing I was there too,
I truly am.
absolutely outstanding Rachel!
Thanks biggs!
Rachel, Thank you for all you're inspiration on the hobby and much needed education to all of US and to those who find you and see all your video's, We enjoy it all and look forward to the next One, in addition to the Covid19 uncertainties lock down you bring US all much needed content for the whole family to enjoy, Thank you again..
😊👍🙏
Oh yes I love those mini rapids and contrasting calm waters
So great to see you smile! Nature works wonders on our troubles doesn’t it ? ❤️
This tank is my greatest source of inspiration.
Being locked up in my house, incredibly jealous! Fantastic- this is the very fundamental of aquascaping.
The high speed footage of the feeding frenzy is a great idea - so cool to be able to follow what the fish are doing.
Thats real time!
@@RachelOLeary I said it backwards - I meant the slowed-down feeding footage 😅
@@DanLizotte aha! Makes more sense! Glad you like it!
I've always used brown wrapping paper on the backs of my tanks. Love seeing some vindication. Thanks. I have no tanks anymore. No room here. But maybe one day.
Those shiners are ELECTRIC! All the fish look so healthy. Hope you’re enjoying the late summer weather, Rachel. Stay safe!
This is a beautiful tank and I agree it looks like a beautiful chunk of a nature ... it’s nice to see you back posting videos ✌️
Beautiful natural scape. Happy fish too. Looking forward to your Moss project. 😊👍
I adore browns. I have one of my tanks all brown/gold with the wild plants. Awesome!
You’ve got the magic touch. Nice to see your happy again😇👌💕😎
Getting there!
The tank looks fantastic and I love you got your inspiration from nature
I love looking at wild water ways, and I love finding aquarium plants in their natural habitat, I've found ludwigia, dwarf hairgrass, and bocapa caroliniana growing at ponds edges as marginal plants, and I've found two species of fissidens moss, one on the edge of a stream, and the other in sandy clay soil that was nice and moist.
I love the brown background
I love mosses and am interested in your method of propagation. I watched on replay because I missed this.
Love these shots! Back to nature!
The hillstream is my forever favorite :)
A beutiful aquarium. Those fish are well and happy
Love your tanks.. you put so much effort into creating a perfect scape the fish thrive in... It's the best hobby to have.. I love my fish, treated myself to some stunning black phantom tetras a few days ago. Altho quite shy as they have only lived with their own kind until my community tank. They've made friends with my orange stripey barbs and sholl around together..
i love the accuracy and speed of the Danios
Beautiful tank fish look happy and healthy 👌👌👌
Would love to see the technique on moss paste/where it is blended and applied to a surface. I feel like it would give such a nice lush coat to a log!
I feel inspired now.
This video was so relaxing. Also this is what I would really love to do if I had more space, set up environments that mimic nature for my fish. I’ve been dreaming of Elassoma Gilberti for years now and would especially love to set up a native environment for them.
Same on Elassoma gilberti (or evergladei).
Yes, please, would love to see how to culture mosses, both aquatic and terrestrial.
Thank you Rachel! I love this tank.
great watching
Absolutely love this idea. Thanks for all you do!!!
Loved all the natural footage at the beginning of the video. It gave much inspiration once you showed your related aquarium. I'd like to learn more about aquatic moss, as mine seem to go for so long then disintigrate and look forward to learning about your way of cultivation.
Oh my gosh! I am loving the slow motion footage! I can see their colors, their fins and even their cute little faces!
Would love to see more of the natural waterways near you! And your fish rooms too of course!
Got my big tank of minitur fish happening now. I picked up the dwarf rainbows and dwarf corys today oh so so cute.
Awesome tank and fish Rachel!! 😊😊😊
I like the brown background on your Hill Stream aquarium. 😊
I'd be interested in a video about moss.
Great tank and video!
Love brown/tan sand!
Your tips on breeding white clouds has paid off for me... having success breeding Gold WCMM in tanks and a pond now... THANK YOU!!!💕
I would love to see the moss culture! That sounds so cool!
I like the brown background on the tank. Where I live, there are a lot of rivers and streams that either flow through or drain marshes and wetlands. Most of the local lakes are also associated with wetlands, so the waters are pretty high in tannins. I've been meaning to test the pH of some of the open water to see how it compares to my city water, which is 7.8 pH, with 15-200 TDS.
Thank You.
I have always loved your hillstream tank. So, so beautiful.
Great video! Thanks for making these videos! I appreciate your work and inspiration! Have a great Labor Day weekend!
Love this aquarium!
Yes. More moss
My favorite aquarium of yours!! I love moss. Your tank is a natural habitat ❤️❤️
Welcome Back!
Great video. Aquarium is relaxing to watch.
I really love your rack. I meant to mention that earlier in a video where your husband was welding and putting it together, but, you know... squirrel! I've always stuck to single rows because I don't like not being able to see into the tanks on the top and bottom rows, but that doesn't seem to be an issue for your setup. Well, other than the one tank that was so overgrown with plants that you couldn't see the fish, but that had nothing to do with placement 🤣 I'm still not a huge fan of the species you (mostly) keep, but they're growing on me. Especially when you keep big schools of them like you do. I think that's why I've never been a big fan in the past. I've always been stuck with less than a handful and it's hard to get excited about something so small. Granted, that's on me. With just a little more work (and a lot more money), I could have that schooling aspect that looks so cool. I don’t know if you follow Cory from Aquarium Co-Op or not but, when he showed off his school of a couple hundred cardinal tetras... wow! That was amazing.
Anyway, good to see you posting again. I certainly hope whatever it was that had gone sideways in your world has been righted again with a little (or a lot) of outdoor water therapy.
Yes please, on the moss techniques! I'm about to start creating a moss wall, and while I think I know what to do, I'd appreciate the tips and ideas.
That tank looks great! I have also done some Native PA. tanks.
Really great to see more vids from you, and right off the top...You Look Marvelous!!! Love the new do...! 😁. Any vids you would like to put out is OK with me, enjoy and learn from each of them. 👍 And I haven't forgot your plants, just lots of sidetracking with all that's going on. Thanks Rachel for sharing this with us. Patiently waiting for your next vid to drop. 👍👍👍
Thank you for sharing this❤️
Rachel it is good to see a nother awesome video and I would love to see the moss thing! I also would like to see the nature trips too!!!
This is a sweet video. I appreciate your timing with the slow motion, and the mellow background music. It is peaceful to watch. Love that your inspiration comes from nature - it grounds us all, whether we identify it or not. Keep up the good work - your hard work inspires us.
Great video Rachel, thanks for sharing
Beautiful
My favorite type of fish keeping, very large tank with micro sized critters an fish from same habitat, biotope if you will
I love how you prioritize the fish and scape your aquariums around that. You’re an inspiration. 💚
Wow
Looks awesome, as usual. I think the moss video would be very informative.
Great...love this tank and giving me inspiration for my new 140 cm tank. I like the colour background....paint polystyrene a similar dull green on all my tanks
Beautiful video.
Top shelf content!
Looking forward to the possibility of getting a starter colony of shrimp from you...was really impressed with ur video on outdoor shrimp harvest..i think it would be worthwhile for me to incorperate this into my angels and rams....
We were just at Rickets Glenn State park ....the water falls are beautiful and the hiking trails are great....I think you would really enjoy it 💗😊
Its on the list, just has been so crowded
@@RachelOLeary yes,it has been pretty crowded on the weekends.... during the week it's not as bad
What a beautiful opening picture of you, totally at home with mother nature.
Awesome 👍
yes the moss will be great information
Very awesome tank looks great as always 👍
Thank you for this Video. 👍
Love the brown background! I would of never thought of that. I would love to see your moss tricks!
+1 for moss videos!
Loving the nature videos, and the hillstream tank has been my favorite from way back when you were out and about collecting hardscape for the initial set up.
👍💓👍
Hard to believe it has been nearly 5 years
@@RachelOLeary I know. I swear it wasn't that long ago when you were in Canada visiting Joey, and he was talking you into setting up a TH-cam channel. Glad you did.
👍💓👍
I would definitely like to know how to work with moss and would be happy to see you do some videos on that.
yes, moss my fav, besides ferns.
Thank you for this update! I’m glad you are feeling refreshed by your travels! Your aquariums inspire me!
Rachel you are amazing ,I love your videos and your spirit.
Nice rachel!!!
My Betta would love a mossy bed. Yes please show more on the moss techniques.
Wow, this is so nice. Thank you.
So nice to see you smile so bright. My dog had trouble walking so I haven't been to the creek or beach . After she passed I took a friends dog who's comforting me to the beach . I got a plan for my next project. I'll be going back to collect red rocks I know are safe because I have them in my most prolific shrimp tank .
I might go to the creek tomorrow or work in the yard, possibly both . Some people are coming to pick up a dream tank that just doesn't fit in my house. I'll use the money to order some plants probably order a co2 splitter and shrimp minerals too. I'm holding the fort maestro in these troublesome times . Upwards and onwards
Great video ! I love this tank, so beautiful and does look very natural which I love in tanks.
That waterfall you showed near your home is so amazing i could just sit and watch it and relax !
I'd definitely like a moss video.
Hello Rachel! I was hoping you could answer a couple questions for me!
I live somewhat in your area, and was wondering if you've ever been the 'That fish place' in Lancaster, and what you thought of them?
Next question, do you think blackworms or whiteworms would be small enough for chili rasbora? If not, I'll happily start up a micro worm colony.
You are the primary reason I am getting into fish keeping. I am getting ready to start up my first tank (29 gallon), and plan on having it planted. You've been a huge inspiration.