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Awe Shucks man! Thanks D! Truly owe a lot of success to watching your channel and you putting up with a billion of my questions. This is the first time since starting planted tanks that I can keep all my plants alive. Before now I'd just kill Risone, floating and medium to high light plants. You should have showed the tank I had right before I met you lol huge difference! Also I'm loving the 55gal 😍 It reminds me of the forested areas here in Seattle
Beautiful tank gfamily! I hope to have my tank so full of life soon! My Java fern are doing well and sprouting in my tank, my green wendtii is doing well and sprouting, but my anubias are having a hard time. The rhizomes seem to almost be rotting and the leaf stems are falling off. I've been using plant food in the water for the rhizome and using a coral feeder to put it directly on the rhizome. Kind of sad to see since these were my beginner plants before adding my others.
I was having that problem with 3 of my Anubias. They're a tropical plant. They definitely prefer warmer water. I remembered my problem started when I removed the heater. I did this because I knew I was going to make it a Caridina shrimp tank. Once it dropped below 70° rott started. Rooted plants are fine with that change. The dirt keeps the roots warm. I turned my heater back on for a bit. I'll definitely let you know if that helped stop the melting. Once the Rhizomes go soft. It's game over for Anubias. As I mentioned in a prior video. I'm experiencing the same thing. I will find a solution. Plants are my #1 upmost importants; I'll definitely keep you posted. My Advice, start with want I'm doing. Jack up the heat to 80°
@@yourtap thank you, I knew you were having a similar issue with your coffefolia so I figured I'd ask. My tank is currently kept at 79 degrees for my angelfish. Hopefully we can figure this out together. I really enjoy the anubias
Thank you Uncle Jerry 🙂 Have you tried cutting away the affected areas of rot on the anubus? Hope you can save them. I only have one anubus left from my disaster months ago. Seems to be hard to come back once they start melting 😕
@@gfamily1943 I have not, I will try that with my larger anubia, the smaller one lost everything completely so I removed it in case it would harm anything else. The larger one has 2 leaves left so I'm hoping to save it. I look forward to checking out your videos as well! Dustin's videos are my favorite on TH-cam, so I'm sure I'll be a fan of yours as well!
Look into breeding scuds to feed the pea puffers, I think all you need is a tank to throw plant clippings in and a sponge filter, and some scuds. I was feeding mine scuds from a stream in my dad’s yard but that is a huge parasite risk, and my puffers ended up dying from parasites I presume.
Thanks. I actually already did that. I was doing daphnia too. 5 gallon buckets. My wife didn't want to accept insect breeding. My snail population is pretty good in all my tanks. Once every other day, I'll scrape out a dozen and drop them in. My peas take about 48hrs to hunt them down. On day 3, they get bloodworms. I believe I've created a solid variety of food. They need the calcium from the snails and the protein of blood worms. They do actually nip at water lettuce roots. I'm confident they get the fiber they need from that. Feel free to disagree and give your opinion. I'm not a perfect fish keeper. I usually learn from the death of an animal.
@@yourtap that’s cool, the snails went extinct in my 75 gallon and it became stressful getting food for my puffers. I ended up feeding mosquito larvae and that didn’t end well with mosquitos flying around my house 🤣
@@k9feces hahaha!! Honestly. That tank in is a storage room 14 feet below the ground. On occasion I'll see a spider fall into a tank and it's essentially rated R material in the fish world! Lmao!
Hello I am a new sub I had a question I was looking to get like jungle look and with some ferns and vals (cockscrew) with some more not yet decided I have like a 100 ltr( I'm not sure in gallons) sorry planning on rescaping my old setup Would poor man's EI dosing help if I am having a low tech setup
That type of dosing is for High tech aquariums. You dose everything in massive amounts while injecting CO2 and blasting your lights. If you're referring to a different method my apologies. I do all low tech. I use organic soil capped with sand. The soil provides massive amounts of Nitrogen phosphates and potash without creating a debacle in your aquarium. Welcome to the community. I'm happy you're here Nik 🤙
Thx for the warm welcome I get your point But don't you supplement some liquid ferts to help them grow better Also doesn't the sand compact itself making it aenorobic (hope I spelled it out correctly) seachem is out if am gonna keep vals I looked up your vids And yes when I used to have a high tech tank I used to have the same problem of my vals and ferns dying rest of them thrived and even though my macros and micros were in the proper range I never thought of checking for the black rope thingy on the ferns and me dosing liquid carbon weekly after a wc would be the cause😤 anyway it's a lesson learnt I'm back after a long hiatus into fish keeping and am going to try a low tech setup this time
congrats on winner
Awe Shucks man! Thanks D!
Truly owe a lot of success to watching your channel and you putting up with a billion of my questions. This is the first time since starting planted tanks that I can keep all my plants alive. Before now I'd just kill Risone, floating and medium to high light plants. You should have showed the tank I had right before I met you lol huge difference!
Also I'm loving the 55gal 😍 It reminds me of the forested areas here in Seattle
Congratulations to the winner.
Awesome tank gfamily 👏👏
Dirt for the win. Greatness again Dustin 🤩
#doingsomethingaboutit
Love the positive affirmations! Sending love from one sub to another! 🤙
@G Family
Beautiful tank gfamily! I hope to have my tank so full of life soon!
My Java fern are doing well and sprouting in my tank, my green wendtii is doing well and sprouting, but my anubias are having a hard time. The rhizomes seem to almost be rotting and the leaf stems are falling off. I've been using plant food in the water for the rhizome and using a coral feeder to put it directly on the rhizome. Kind of sad to see since these were my beginner plants before adding my others.
I was having that problem with 3 of my Anubias. They're a tropical plant. They definitely prefer warmer water.
I remembered my problem started when I removed the heater. I did this because I knew I was going to make it a Caridina shrimp tank. Once it dropped below 70° rott started. Rooted plants are fine with that change. The dirt keeps the roots warm. I turned my heater back on for a bit. I'll definitely let you know if that helped stop the melting.
Once the Rhizomes go soft. It's game over for Anubias. As I mentioned in a prior video. I'm experiencing the same thing. I will find a solution. Plants are my #1 upmost importants; I'll definitely keep you posted. My Advice, start with want I'm doing. Jack up the heat to 80°
@@yourtap thank you, I knew you were having a similar issue with your coffefolia so I figured I'd ask. My tank is currently kept at 79 degrees for my angelfish. Hopefully we can figure this out together. I really enjoy the anubias
Thank you Uncle Jerry 🙂
Have you tried cutting away the affected areas of rot on the anubus? Hope you can save them. I only have one anubus left from my disaster months ago. Seems to be hard to come back once they start melting 😕
@@gfamily1943 I have not, I will try that with my larger anubia, the smaller one lost everything completely so I removed it in case it would harm anything else. The larger one has 2 leaves left so I'm hoping to save it. I look forward to checking out your videos as well! Dustin's videos are my favorite on TH-cam, so I'm sure I'll be a fan of yours as well!
Look into breeding scuds to feed the pea puffers, I think all you need is a tank to throw plant clippings in and a sponge filter, and some scuds. I was feeding mine scuds from a stream in my dad’s yard but that is a huge parasite risk, and my puffers ended up dying from parasites I presume.
Thanks. I actually already did that. I was doing daphnia too. 5 gallon buckets. My wife didn't want to accept insect breeding.
My snail population is pretty good in all my tanks. Once every other day, I'll scrape out a dozen and drop them in. My peas take about 48hrs to hunt them down. On day 3, they get bloodworms. I believe I've created a solid variety of food. They need the calcium from the snails and the protein of blood worms. They do actually nip at water lettuce roots. I'm confident they get the fiber they need from that.
Feel free to disagree and give your opinion. I'm not a perfect fish keeper. I usually learn from the death of an animal.
@@yourtap that’s cool, the snails went extinct in my 75 gallon and it became stressful getting food for my puffers. I ended up feeding mosquito larvae and that didn’t end well with mosquitos flying around my house 🤣
@@k9feces hahaha!! Honestly. That tank in is a storage room 14 feet below the ground. On occasion I'll see a spider fall into a tank and it's essentially rated R material in the fish world! Lmao!
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This is the link to gfamilie first video.
Hello I am a new sub
I had a question I was looking to get like jungle look and with some ferns and vals (cockscrew) with some more not yet decided
I have like a 100 ltr( I'm not sure in gallons) sorry
planning on rescaping my old setup
Would poor man's EI dosing help if I am having a low tech setup
That type of dosing is for High tech aquariums. You dose everything in massive amounts while injecting CO2 and blasting your lights. If you're referring to a different method my apologies.
I do all low tech. I use organic soil capped with sand. The soil provides massive amounts of Nitrogen phosphates and potash without creating a debacle in your aquarium.
Welcome to the community. I'm happy you're here Nik 🤙
Thx for the warm welcome
I get your point
But don't you supplement some liquid ferts to help them grow better
Also doesn't the sand compact itself making it aenorobic (hope I spelled it out correctly)
seachem is out if am gonna keep vals I looked up your vids
And yes when I used to have a high tech tank I used to have the same problem of my vals and ferns dying rest of them thrived and even though my macros and micros were in the proper range I never thought of checking for the black rope thingy on the ferns and me dosing liquid carbon weekly after a wc would be the cause😤
anyway it's a lesson learnt
I'm back after a long hiatus into fish keeping and am going to try a low tech setup this time