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thank you father fish, I will do that and do it right. I did sign up with discord, but can not find father fish shoal. I am not to familiar with technology . do you have any learning videos on how to get on this program? love ❤️ Sylvia
My fish loving father passed away two years ago and after recently finding your channel I have also found a renewed love of fish keeping for myself! Found one of his old tanks and set it up for myself thanks to you, enjoying the heck out of watching my new ghost shrimp babes play in duckweed. Thanks more than you could imagine 💓💓💓
🙋🏾♀️Father Fish, I bought a tank, cold water fish and a whooooooole plethora of bottles of chemicals to keep the water ‘balanced’ and the fish healthy. I was also told, don’t put real plants in the fish will eat them. Buy these pretty plastic plants, and brightly coloured gravel….and I DID. At home, water changing and doing strip tests like I understood them. I didn’t. Before long the fish were belly up.😭 I went back. Same guy said. Oh here, take these 2 fish on the house. Use this ‘Aqua clear’ it will keep the ammonia away for at least 6months, only cost £7. And get a better filter £28 So i bought them 😩. Within weeks the fish were belly up. I dumped the tank outside. It filled with rainwater. Over time, I saw the most amazing creatures thriving in that murky water…for free. I watched that tank for a year. I wanted to take it to my school children but didn’t want to disturb it. How I wish I saw your channel years ago. Every word this man says is true.
3 months ago I started in this hobby knowing nothing. I bought a bunch of fish in a tank from Petco and put it all together and put the fish in and then started watching videos. Then I realized that I made a grave mistake. I checked the water parameters twice per day and continuously changed the water to make sure the ammonia wouldn't kill my fish, I threw some mud down from a local bog and some Dead leaves that had fallen off some trees and there and within a few days my ammonia was zero and nitrites were zero in nitrates were rising. I didn't learn the other way, I learned your way. Thank you so much. I just put leaves and debris that the fish can feed on and I'll feed them brine shrimp and bloodworms occasionally but you doctor fish have made this so much easier. I don't have to worry about them because they have plenty of plants and substrate to hold bacteria and places to hide and a lot of space and everything's been Rock solid stable. My water parameters have not changed and when they come back after a week vacation my fish are nibbling on things in the tank and are hungry but are still doing fine. I've been following your advice and have had great success.
I used to be that person that did weekly 80% water changes. Now, after watching n learning the natural tank method from Father Fish…I go out to my local lake n collect leaves for my tanks. My fish n tanks are thriving so much better! I basically had to re-learn everything about fish keeping. It’s a much better n natural way! 👍🤡👍🐟🐠🐟🐠
I’m just now in the process of doing this with my 55 and 155 I’m nervous but it definitely sounds better for my fish is there anyway websites where I can read more on it?
I knew in my heart there had to be a different way than what everyone says. I struggle with very low kh tap water that typically comes out at 6.4. I’ve felt like I had to be a phd scientist to figure out how to have healthy water in my tanks. Im Just starting to learn about the father fish way, I’m holding out hope for happier fish and less labor since i physically can’t do as much as I used to lugging water around
I have to try this method. I'm so used to using these pricey chemicals,weekly water changes, and still having sick, unhealthy fish. I once brought home some lilies from a pond nearby and put them in a tank. About a month later, after forgetting about them, I found the tank thriving with all sorts of bugs and organisms. Your words make perfect sense to me, and now I know what I need to do. Thank you sir!
I used to visit father fish. He's like my mentor❤. For 22 years of fishkeeping I learned to love natural tanks now from watching here..now I have 2 natural nano tanks
I just want to say I now look at my father fish fish tank in the morning instead of watching the news and I feel so much better! Thanks father fish ! Love Mike from Welland Ontario Canada 🇨🇦
I got my first fish in my tank theyre cloud minnows and tiny freshwater shrimp, thankyou father fish 1 week no deaths!!! Theyre so happy!!! I love them also got free snails and plants from a closeby pond!!! Thankyouuuuu
I'm so thankful to be getting into the fishkeeping hobby in a time where people like you can share your wisdom. Thanks to people like you spreading this message I've already been able to keep many happy fish in natural, healthy environments. Keep it up!
I LOVE your passion! I'm no expert but have been keeping aquarium for over 50 years. I totally agree with what you say. I'm living in a 5th wheel now as my arthritis is so bad I need to be in a small environment and my house was too big. So obviously its tough to have any large tank. But after watching your channel I went out and started a few small bowls with muck on bottom and pond water and plants just to watch. Love it! Thank you for being you and sharing your knowledge!
It’s been over a month, I just started the hobby after not having fish since my childhood about 20 yrs ago. I followed all of Father Fish’s advice. Natural cycle, natural plants, no chemicals and all my plants and fish are doing well. No chemical cycles, no crazy water changes, and it looks clear and beautiful. One fish had amonia burns but then it was solved with more plants. Truthfully FF made keeping fish after so many years easy and quick. I put a fish in right away as suggested and truthfully they’re all doing great!
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Omg nature in your eye balls..love it..i just came in from gathering my micro organisms from my lake there hatching all over the bay..filled up buckets..Miskitos drive me back in the house and seen your notification and watched you vid..keep pushing father fish..let’s change the hobby from buying and killing out natural biodiversity in our tanks with unnecessary chemicals..love ya.see ya soon.Ryan.O..❤
I have made 2 of your tanks so far. I already like them more than any other tank I have ever kept. My fish seem happier too. My daughter helped me and loved making the mud pies. Thank you!!!
Years ago I had an aquarium and what you supposedly needed to do to have one felt so unnatural that I quickly gave it up. Thanks to you I now know how to keep one in good conscience!
You are such a breath of fresh air. For 15 years, I struggle with my tanks, doing what the LFS's said to do, and then I found your channel. What a revelation! I have a 10 gallon tank that I set up with your method 10 months ago, and the tank is absolutely beautiful. Now, I never do water changes in this tank, and it is thriving. I set up my 29 the same way a month or two ago. I'm still waiting for the plants to "take off", like they did in the 10 gallon, but I see some signs of this happening soon. I definitely want to do the food jar thing. I also need to feed the 29 and the 10 gallon more with dried leaves. I am very happy so far. I am soon going to setup a 5 gallon nano tank with this method to see how it goes. Thanks again for all that you have done and are doing for the fish keeping community.
If someone loves their fishes , this is the way 💛. I had layers dirt then sand then gravel but it got cloudy so I put a layer of sand on top. Voila! Clear water! Next I've got to find a creek.... Thank you for sharing your knowledge which is so logical.and caring. 💛🙏💛
Father fish is like a old school preacher, teaching us why this works with facts and logic and reasoning. I can’t tell you how much I’ve learned in the month I’ve been watching his stuff. Thank you again father fish for your wisdom and kindness
Every video that I watch I become more and more aware of how I was keeping the tank from being in a natural healthy state. I really cannot say enough about how wonderful it is to feel the satisfaction of knowing that when I reset my tank I will be doing it according to the laws of nature I cannot thank you enough
My dad's kept tropical fish all my life, this is fantastic advice, I'll send this too my pops. I want a tank to replace my useless TV, it'll be much more interesting ❤
Nature IS a fish tank, love your videos FF, just set up my tank early this month using some of your methods, haven’t done a water change and fish are doing great. If anyone says your method is not backed by science, I have proof. I tested my water through this process and it went SO much faster than when I had set up my aquariums with “bottled bacteria”. Thank you so much for the inspiration to make my little piece of nature.
This is such a brilliant outlook on how to have a wonderful aquarium, this is one of my favourite videos, I have thought about this and followed this Father Fish philosophy and been rewarded with a fascinating aquarium I can’t take my eyes off. There is so much healthy diverse life in my tank it’s wonderful, I seem to discover new things most days, so many different micro creatures swimming about I love it!. The water is clear but full of wonderful life, I am growing baby goldfish in it at the moment, a happy accident, and I don’t even need to feed them, the aquarium is feeding them naturally. It’s such a pleasure. I am already planning my second aquarium, bigger and better, using of course some of the materials, substrate, rotten leaves, wood, water, from this aquarium. Cheers Father Fish, you have enhanced my enjoyment of this great hobby no end.
By following this style i have been successfully breeding native NZ shrimp in captivity hopefully i can get better numbers and colors on the next generation though
I really appreciate this video and FF's approach to keeping a fish tank. I naturally have adopted this type of approach. In my childhood my family kept a lot of fish...and the fish that did best were in the outdoor pond. 20 years ago my family was under the impression of keeping a very clean tank, but I observed as a child that my dad's overcleaning had killed our fish. Now that I'm older and have restarted this hobby again, I'm working with nano tanks and have found a beautiful and natural way of successfully keeping/maintaining 3 ecosystems. No fish deaths to date :)
Had multiple tanks over 30 years, gave up on the hobby even though I had decent success, watching these videos makes me want to tke it up again (the natural way!!!) !
I study naturopathy and this man says everything we need to do as practitioners to fix gut issues, autoimmune diseases, hormonal disorders, basically this philosophy is the way to live in harmony and bring things back to balance
Your substrate and plant method has restarted my fish hobby after many years . Having great luck so far and really enjoy the low maintenence of it all.
I am in the hobby for over 15 years. My fish in all my tanks are healthy with plants even if it's not natural. I like the modern thight scapes wich is difficult to realize on this natural way. I will start a new tank wich will be all natural tank because it do make sense what you explain. Thank you for showing me a whole new way of fishkeeping. I can't wait to start.
I love your way of keeping fish, I kept an Oscar before in a dirted basin and it never got sick. The only issue I have with setting-up a tank now is I don't know where to get the gunk. The local river near my house has people dumping everything in it.
We have had more success in our two ponds that we basically routinely forget to even check on, than in some tanks we put work into, with active filtering and water changes. I have seen first-hand how nature keeps itself by putting my camera underwater and watching for hours. It's fascinating. It may look like there isn't any life down there from the surface, but there are hundreds of thousands of **visible** creatures living down there. It's daunting to think about the ones I can't see.
Thanks father fish. Using your methods. I have revived my aquirium hobby after failing for two years. After loaing alot of money I am finally succeeding. Im glad I came across you on youtube. ❤
Your wisdom makes so much sense father fish, my first tank I ever did I had a heavily planted 5 gallon with a betta and snail, started out not doing water changes,plants were happy and fish was healthy. After 6 months I tried doing 20% water changes every other week due to algae my fish was way more stressed and plants looked so sad!
Father fish is smarter than every other you tuber out there I love this man he knows what his talking about natural is really the only way to keep a fish aquarium ever since I have started doing it his way I have never had happier fish and no death
Just yesterday I saw a video documenting the vast diversity of fish, reptiles, birds and amphibians in the still polluted Chicago River! Nature will always find a way to win.
Very nice and helpfull video, its been 5 months since im listening and doing Father Fish method, and my fish are so happy, swimming playing, water is clear, when i feed them, frenzy begins😃 its beautifull, simple beautifull...
A few months ago, I set up a 15-liter aquarium with my son, just like you explain in this video, all natural with soil, plants, rocks, leaves, and driftwood. And indeed, the fish are thriving better than when they were in the aquarium we bought them from. Mother Nature is wise; thank you for sharing your knowledge.
I have a very clear water heavy planted 75 gallon and a dark tannin heavy driftwood 40 gallon and I notice that I watch my 40 gallon far more. There’s something far more fascinating about the natural look. Though in my case I don’t need to water change either of them. I just run more filtration on the 75.
@@FatherFish is it good when in the water there is nothing, either bad like ammonia or nitrites, or good like a bit of nitrate or iron, just maybe a little too much phosphate?
Thank you Father Fish. I'm trying best to take care of my shiny 5 . Enjoy your video and learned more today. I donot want them to be stressed all the time.
I had an aquarium years ago. It was a successful population of fish. One by one they died over the course of several years. For maintenance of that tank I did 20% water changes about every 60 days... but it was when the tank was neglected a little bit that the convict cichlids we had started to reproduce. We got a few of them out of the tank and raised them to adults before getting them back in the original tank. Unfortunately I had to abandon it and over time the fish died of natural causes and I put the hobby to rest. It started at my parents house and I didn't have room in my apartment for a 90 gallon tank. I just purchased a 40 gallon aquarium and purchased the substrate mix from your store and I'm super excited to try a natural habitat. I'm positive that your methods are so much better for the fish. It makes so much sense that supporting all kinds of life in the aquarium allows for constant food and a stress free habitat.
Yes everyone seems to forget about the mites cleaning our skin eating dead skincells, biofilm on your teeth, bacteria in your gut....When I first found your channel I had a little funny aha moment about needing to trust my gut, it made so much sense since it's the "second brain", the microbiome 😂🤔
OMG! I have been adding water from my old fountain for the past two weeks per Father Fish’s advice. I was afraid of dumping whatever larvae was in there but the fish went crazy and fish ate all the larvae in seconds. They were very happy indeed!
Learned so much from your channel even recommended you're channel to new customers. Going for the naturalistic route , thank you for researching an production of this video
Great video. I have learned a lot from your excellent advice you have gained over 70 years of fish keeping. Please never stop making these great videos Father Fish.
Thanks FF! We ran our breeding business for a long time using the old methods. Not only is it inferior but also time consuming and exhausting. Now that we are coming back to the hobby for personal enjoyment, we cant wait to get started on the natural way to make the lives of what we have left the best it can be!
You talk so much sense FF, thank you. I love my hobby again. When I’m out in the countryside nowadays - I am paying so much more attention to all the life and balance there is out there, (and looking for food web stuff) 😊
I really like your vids my friend ..so much knowledge ..I’ve been doing things this way in my tank for a couple years now and it’s the best way ..heavily planted and my fish are thriving ..add a sponge filter and that’s about it in all my tanks ..don’t cheap out on a good light and right spectrum ..6 to 8 hours of light bout 75 percent and boom happy fish keeper ✌🏻
Hey father fish, u are so awesome and I agree with u %100. The right way is mother nature. Thanks for all your videos and teaching people the right way
Thank you Father fish for existing and sharing your knowledge of nature! Your videos are very informative and I really enjoy the natural approach to everything around keeping the water as suitable as possible to the aquatic life
My first aquarium is how I discovered Ostracods and Copepods. I always get excited when I see them, and after seeding a new tank, I love seeing clouds of them in the water column.
I only scrub front of tank for viewing purposes. Never do water changes and use sand on bottom with lots of live plants. Have 4 tanks all crystal clear.
After seeing one of your other videos I subscribed and went out to the pond and put a bottle of that water into my 4 tanks. Even though it was frozen over, supposedly studies found there are more microbes in cold weather than warm. I only ever did water changes in my tanks, but I plan on doing them less often now, and adding some sand into the gravel tanks.
I love Al your work father fish I’ve learned so much from you and I hope my turtles are so much happier with their new tanks. I’m thinking about adding some fish into the tanks
One more question...What is the bare minimum percentage of plant coverage in an aquarium. I want to leave open area consisting of bare sand for the corydora's and such. Plus what is your view point on floating plants...what percentage and such and how can you mix both planted and floaters in an aquarium. No need to answer here but please make a video concerning the questions as good for me, good for you, and good for a multitude of others.
I came across your channel ths weekend, been listening to many of your videos, it makes sense to me, this July 4th I was digging up pond mud, lol , thank you for all you share, fish thank you too.
Looking sharp! Nice cut. Glad to make it into another video, I have an update to be filmed and sent in... Plants are an amazing addiction... They make the tank happier!
I love the analogy of trying to live with nature than battling with it. I used to take care of my tanks with constant feedings and cleanings and it did feel like a constant uphill struggle. I should have just had lots of plants, fewer fish, and less food. Then I could have had an almost self sustaining ecosystem like father fish.
Great video. All stuff you've been preaching for a while, but probably your best presentation that I've seen yet. Hopefully this video reaches all the struggling fishkeepers and new comers to the hobby out there.
Great wisdom being shared here! This basic principle should be applied to the whole of our current medical system. A balanced wholistic approach to life in general is paramount to keeping all of us fish and people healthy and living happily. ❤
And don't forget the symbiotic mites that live within our pores and only come out at nighttime to eat. I remember articles from people in the beauty industry and customers freaking out about these skin pore mites who were scrubbing their skin to and through as many skin layers as possible and stories of girls bleaching their skin. I personally think it's wonderful and posted this article many times a good few years back! 😊
I do not have tank. But pond or small pool. I feed Guppy and Platy. Last middle July till middle August, my fish died. So much. Thousand fish. And I found your channel. New theory for me. But Ir works. Good. Very good. My last video, 26st August is the prove. You are right. Thank you.😊
taken your advice and just left it alone three months small water changes once a week so happy my little tank is crystal clear have tons of plants growing and even the shrimp are having babies my guppies look healthy as well doing less is better
Thank you for these interesting video. U think that you are right. The fish and all what live in a tank are happyer when they have a lot of leaves and plants. I try to make it more to the nature, to mother nature. Thank you.
Gracias por la traducción al español! Es una locura lo que cuentas en tus videos todo lo contrario a lo que venden en la tiendas gracias por tu sabiduría!
Father Fish I always enjoy your videos and agree completely with your philosophy regarding a natural aquarium. So many people want complete control over their fish tank for mostly aesthetic reasons and for their own self enjoyment. Nothing wrong with this but they are keeping captive real biologic beings who have their own unspoken viewpoint. Here I am going to change the subject and suggest a video topic regarding your viewpoint on managing the plant growth in the aquarium. Obviously the aquarium can get out of control with the plants and create a jungle that hides the fish. Aquascaping properly in the beginning probably controls this somewhat but I doubt there are few experts in this area who really buy into the total natural aquarium look. Even I want to enjoy my aquarium and plan an aquarium that is both natural and somewhat controlled. Balance is only achieved sometimes with human intervention since humans are the ones who mucked things up in the first place as no-matter what we think, we are neither in control of nature nor are we Gods unto ourselves.
We can channel nature to grow in certain places and certain ways. The Amazon jungle is the best example of this. Cultural anthropologists and environmental biologists have shown that the entire Amazon was cultivated by massive populations of people.
I fell into the super clean chemical pollutant tanks and couldn’t keep anything alive past a year. I started another tank that I decided to be more natural. Used top soil and capped it with sand. My plants grew so darn well, I believe, i had to keep cutting them weekly. Fish thrived and i had generations of fish in the one tank. I’ll never go back.
You make a lot of great points in this video! I love fish talk I think you can have a mixed approach to this type of fish keeping! I agree with most things you say!! Not to distrust the bacteria and go for a more natural tank yes. 22 years in the hobby I’ve done all approaches to fish keeping. Very true it’s all about the bacteria! but I usually don’t clean the tank I just clean my filter floss… I’ve never really done a scrub and flush. I find as long as you establish bacteria your good to go! I really just add water and clean the pad of filter floss I put in hang on backs. I’ve never once had entire tank deaths like you may claim. In 22 years I do a water change every week on my tanks and they look same as yours. I just believe there a middle to it yes you don’t have to complete sterilize the tank but I like to stay ontop of my water changes. More about adding in new water not distributing my Bacteria. Then again I’ve never once had a entire tank die like so and I keep what you probably would call overstocked tanks that do fine they are years and years old. I do completely believe that people who drain and scrub the tank kill all there fish but there a middle ground with people like me who go more natural but change water every so often
That's great but you're still doing a lot more work than he is and not providing a reason. Hm, no water changes vs weekly water changes... 70 years of fish keeping experience vs 22 years... it's a no brainer.
father fish, i really wish i'd have found you at the beginning of my fish journey.. i took in a single black skirt tetra when my neighbor moved about a year ago, knowing less than nothing about fish...a year later, he's still here, but i still don't know anything. fish came with chemicals..and i still use chemicals.. id love to have a natural approach, but can a fish that has been living in a chemical environment (for his whole life-- at least 2 years) safely make the change? i appreciate you and your channel so much! 💚
A better question is,"How much longer can he survive in a chemical soup?" That he is alive should give you confidence that you are a sensitive fish keeper. Make the t ransition and don't look back!!
Thank you I am new to this and listening to you..and you are right what you say..I remember when I was a kid and going down to the pond and it was so much fish in there..which I love to see...thank you Dan from Wiltshire uk..
My goodness I am so stinking grateful to stumble upon your channel. Now the proud owner of 4 aquatic frogs and 3 fish. And several new aquatic plants too. I think they’re so stinking cool!! Also I am a gardener. Self-taught, but know enough to understand hydroponics, soil, water, etc. I went into our local pet stores and was asking questions about pH levels and using a ppm stick, but They looked at me like I was crazy, like I was asking to many scientific question?!! Lol But I need to fully understand everything from point A to point B!! Lol Also I bought several pieces of wood from stores that was aquatic safe. But they all 100% turn my water, a funky brown color. I’ve tried it twice now and every time it turns my water. Why?? Thank you 😊
The wood is releasing tannins. A couple of water changes later the water will be good to go. My wood in my tanks did the same, I do a few water changes while setting up a new tank over maybe a month or so then it settles down. No more water changes required.
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thank you father fish, I will do that and do it right. I did sign up with discord, but can not find father fish shoal. I am not to familiar with technology . do you have any learning videos on how to get on this program? love ❤️ Sylvia
"Killing them with kindness". A great way to explain it.
My fish loving father passed away two years ago and after recently finding your channel I have also found a renewed love of fish keeping for myself! Found one of his old tanks and set it up for myself thanks to you, enjoying the heck out of watching my new ghost shrimp babes play in duckweed. Thanks more than you could imagine 💓💓💓
🙋🏾♀️Father Fish, I bought a tank, cold water fish and a whooooooole plethora of bottles of chemicals to keep the water ‘balanced’ and the fish healthy. I was also told, don’t put real plants in the fish will eat them. Buy these pretty plastic plants, and brightly coloured gravel….and I DID. At home, water changing and doing strip tests like I understood them. I didn’t. Before long the fish were belly up.😭 I went back. Same guy said. Oh here, take these 2 fish on the house. Use this ‘Aqua clear’ it will keep the ammonia away for at least 6months, only cost £7. And get a better filter £28 So i bought them 😩. Within weeks the fish were belly up. I dumped the tank outside. It filled with rainwater. Over time, I saw the most amazing creatures thriving in that murky water…for free. I watched that tank for a year. I wanted to take it to my school children but didn’t want to disturb it. How I wish I saw your channel years ago. Every word this man says is true.
3 months ago I started in this hobby knowing nothing. I bought a bunch of fish in a tank from Petco and put it all together and put the fish in and then started watching videos. Then I realized that I made a grave mistake. I checked the water parameters twice per day and continuously changed the water to make sure the ammonia wouldn't kill my fish, I threw some mud down from a local bog and some Dead leaves that had fallen off some trees and there and within a few days my ammonia was zero and nitrites were zero in nitrates were rising. I didn't learn the other way, I learned your way. Thank you so much. I just put leaves and debris that the fish can feed on and I'll feed them brine shrimp and bloodworms occasionally but you doctor fish have made this so much easier. I don't have to worry about them because they have plenty of plants and substrate to hold bacteria and places to hide and a lot of space and everything's been Rock solid stable. My water parameters have not changed and when they come back after a week vacation my fish are nibbling on things in the tank and are hungry but are still doing fine. I've been following your advice and have had great success.
I used to be that person that did weekly 80% water changes. Now, after watching n learning the natural tank method from Father Fish…I go out to my local lake n collect leaves for my tanks. My fish n tanks are thriving so much better! I basically had to re-learn everything about fish keeping. It’s a much better n natural way! 👍🤡👍🐟🐠🐟🐠
That is awesome!
I’m just now in the process of doing this with my 55 and 155 I’m nervous but it definitely sounds better for my fish is there anyway websites where I can read more on it?
@@connorlister1979 Just watch Father Fish’s TH-cam videos! He explains everything n shows you what to do!!
I knew in my heart there had to be a different way than what everyone says. I struggle with very low kh tap water that typically comes out at 6.4. I’ve felt like I had to be a phd scientist to figure out how to have healthy water in my tanks. Im Just starting to learn about the father fish way, I’m holding out hope for happier fish and less labor since i physically can’t do as much as I used to lugging water around
I live in the uk could I use stuff from local lakes to go In my aquarium even though the waters and eco system are different to lakes in the states
I wish I had a grandpa like you. I would always listen to him. Very wise and pleasant personality. 🥰
Thank you Adnan.
I was fortunate enough to have a grandfather just like Father Fish. They would of been 2 peas in a pod
I have to try this method. I'm so used to using these pricey chemicals,weekly water changes, and still having sick, unhealthy fish. I once brought home some lilies from a pond nearby and put them in a tank. About a month later, after forgetting about them, I found the tank thriving with all sorts of bugs and organisms. Your words make perfect sense to me, and now I know what I need to do.
Thank you sir!
You can do it!
@FatherFish thank you, you're an excellent teacher!
I used to visit father fish. He's like my mentor❤. For 22 years of fishkeeping I learned to love natural tanks now from watching here..now I have 2 natural nano tanks
I followed Father Fish advice and my tank has never looked better. Not one fish has died! I even got a few baby albino Cory's! Thank you Father Fish🥰
I just want to say I now look at my father fish fish tank in the morning instead of watching the news and I feel so much better! Thanks father fish ! Love Mike from Welland Ontario Canada 🇨🇦
Such a great idea- I’m going to make this change too!
Go outside, get some dried leaves on the river, then put them in jars, and under windowsill according to your wisdom. Love this kind of Mother Nature!
I got my first fish in my tank theyre cloud minnows and tiny freshwater shrimp, thankyou father fish 1 week no deaths!!! Theyre so happy!!! I love them also got free snails and plants from a closeby pond!!! Thankyouuuuu
I'm so thankful to be getting into the fishkeeping hobby in a time where people like you can share your wisdom. Thanks to people like you spreading this message I've already been able to keep many happy fish in natural, healthy environments. Keep it up!
I'm completely blown away! I will definitely go for sand and then I'll find some leaves in the river that flows just outside. This is just amazing
I LOVE your passion! I'm no expert but have been keeping aquarium for over 50 years. I totally agree with what you say. I'm living in a 5th wheel now as my arthritis is so bad I need to be in a small environment and my house was too big. So obviously its tough to have any large tank. But after watching your channel I went out and started a few small bowls with muck on bottom and pond water and plants just to watch. Love it! Thank you for being you and sharing your knowledge!
preaching the understanding that we need to worry about the fish more than a tank is wisdom, thank you
It’s been over a month, I just started the hobby after not having fish since my childhood about 20 yrs ago. I followed all of Father Fish’s advice. Natural cycle, natural plants, no chemicals and all my plants and fish are doing well. No chemical cycles, no crazy water changes, and it looks clear and beautiful. One fish had amonia burns but then it was solved with more plants. Truthfully FF made keeping fish after so many years easy and quick. I put a fish in right away as suggested and truthfully they’re all doing great!
The more I listen the more it makes sense and its making me realize, this is the very best way
Mother Nature has sent us Father Fish. Listen, study and work with Mother Nature not against it.
The lord Jesus Christ created all things , I had a supernatural experience that left me without a doubt he is God , God was manifest in the flesh ( in the person of his son) that whosoever beleives in him should not perish but have everlasting life, there is POWER against evil spirits in his name , alien abductions can be ABRUPTLY stopped by CALLING on the name of Jesus Christ. ( aliens are fallen Angel's).beleive in the LORD Jesus Christ and you will be saved. ❤
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@@rab-cnesbit4181alien abductions. Aliens are fallen angels. So what would you say about the Muslim that has had an experience that left him with no doubt that he has the right god. You are a product of evolution. No god necessary. Sure there could be some kind of higher power. Sure. Possible. Who knows? But the god of the Bible for sure does not exist. No global flood. No 600 year old man built a boat big enough for millions and millions of animals. To sail through the largest flood that anyone could imagine. Literally the flood would have killed everything if something like that happened.
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What are you doing here ?
Go to your church !
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Omg nature in your eye balls..love it..i just came in from gathering my micro organisms from my lake there hatching all over the bay..filled up buckets..Miskitos drive me back in the house and seen your notification and watched you vid..keep pushing father fish..let’s change the hobby from buying and killing out natural biodiversity in our tanks with unnecessary chemicals..love ya.see ya soon.Ryan.O..❤
You go Ryan
I have made 2 of your tanks so far. I already like them more than any other tank I have ever kept. My fish seem happier too. My daughter helped me and loved making the mud pies. Thank you!!!
That is awesome!
Years ago I had an aquarium and what you supposedly needed to do to have one felt so unnatural that I quickly gave it up. Thanks to you I now know how to keep one in good conscience!
Man, i had lots of problems with my guppies and i didn't know why, but thanks to you and your videos they are thriving.
Excellent. A thriving guppy community is a source of endless fascination.
You are such a breath of fresh air. For 15 years, I struggle with my tanks, doing what the LFS's said to do, and then I found your channel. What a revelation! I have a 10 gallon tank that I set up with your method 10 months ago, and the tank is absolutely beautiful. Now, I never do water changes in this tank, and it is thriving. I set up my 29 the same way a month or two ago. I'm still waiting for the plants to "take off", like they did in the 10 gallon, but I see some signs of this happening soon. I definitely want to do the food jar thing. I also need to feed the 29 and the 10 gallon more with dried leaves. I am very happy so far. I am soon going to setup a 5 gallon nano tank with this method to see how it goes.
Thanks again for all that you have done and are doing for the fish keeping community.
If someone loves their fishes , this is the way 💛.
I had layers dirt then sand then gravel but it got cloudy so I put a layer of sand on top. Voila! Clear water! Next I've got to find a creek....
Thank you for sharing your knowledge which is so logical.and caring. 💛🙏💛
The Fish Whisperer Knows Best, Thank You Father Fish... 👍👍👍👍👍
Father fish is like a old school preacher, teaching us why this works with facts and logic and reasoning. I can’t tell you how much I’ve learned in the month I’ve been watching his stuff. Thank you again father fish for your wisdom and kindness
Isn’t he just the best father anyone could ever ask for! Lots of wisdom and experience which cannot be replaced.
@@paulm0573 Technically THE father would be the best father..
And literally is a preacher also!
Every video that I watch I become more and more aware of how I was keeping the tank from being in a natural healthy state. I really cannot say enough about how wonderful it is to feel the satisfaction of knowing that when I reset my tank I will be doing it according to the laws of nature I cannot thank you enough
My dad's kept tropical fish all my life, this is fantastic advice, I'll send this too my pops. I want a tank to replace my useless TV, it'll be much more interesting ❤
Nature IS a fish tank, love your videos FF, just set up my tank early this month using some of your methods, haven’t done a water change and fish are doing great. If anyone says your method is not backed by science, I have proof. I tested my water through this process and it went SO much faster than when I had set up my aquariums with “bottled bacteria”. Thank you so much for the inspiration to make my little piece of nature.
That is awesome!
Diversity is a good thing everywhere, including outside our fishtanks, friend! Keep strong and congratulations!
Found your channel a week ago and I am now a loyal Father Fish follower, you’re the coolest dude!!
Welcome aboard!
I have been using your method for 2 months,,,,, and I LOVE IT.....really you change this hubby from being pain to fun!
This is such a brilliant outlook on how to have a wonderful aquarium, this is one of my favourite videos, I have thought about this and followed this Father Fish philosophy and been rewarded with a fascinating aquarium I can’t take my eyes off. There is so much healthy diverse life in my tank it’s wonderful, I seem to discover new things most days, so many different micro creatures swimming about I love it!. The water is clear but full of wonderful life, I am growing baby goldfish in it at the moment, a happy accident, and I don’t even need to feed them, the aquarium is feeding them naturally. It’s such a pleasure. I am already planning my second aquarium, bigger and better, using of course some of the materials, substrate, rotten leaves, wood, water, from this aquarium. Cheers Father Fish, you have enhanced my enjoyment of this great hobby no end.
By following this style i have been successfully breeding native NZ shrimp in captivity hopefully i can get better numbers and colors on the next generation though
I really appreciate this video and FF's approach to keeping a fish tank. I naturally have adopted this type of approach. In my childhood my family kept a lot of fish...and the fish that did best were in the outdoor pond. 20 years ago my family was under the impression of keeping a very clean tank, but I observed as a child that my dad's overcleaning had killed our fish. Now that I'm older and have restarted this hobby again, I'm working with nano tanks and have found a beautiful and natural way of successfully keeping/maintaining 3 ecosystems. No fish deaths to date :)
@humbertovargas1211 yeah! Very happy with all this newfound knowledge. I feel much more confident caring for my fish!
Had multiple tanks over 30 years, gave up on the hobby even though I had decent success, watching these videos makes me want to tke it up again (the natural way!!!) !
I study naturopathy and this man says everything we need to do as practitioners to fix gut issues, autoimmune diseases, hormonal disorders, basically this philosophy is the way to live in harmony and bring things back to balance
Your substrate and plant method has restarted my fish hobby after many years . Having great luck so far and really enjoy the low maintenence of it all.
I am in the hobby for over 15 years. My fish in all my tanks are healthy with plants even if it's not natural. I like the modern thight scapes wich is difficult to realize on this natural way. I will start a new tank wich will be all natural tank because it do make sense what you explain. Thank you for showing me a whole new way of fishkeeping. I can't wait to start.
I love your way of keeping fish, I kept an Oscar before in a dirted basin and it never got sick. The only issue I have with setting-up a tank now is I don't know where to get the gunk. The local river near my house has people dumping everything in it.
set up a pool in your back yard and grow your own.
We have had more success in our two ponds that we basically routinely forget to even check on, than in some tanks we put work into, with active filtering and water changes. I have seen first-hand how nature keeps itself by putting my camera underwater and watching for hours. It's fascinating. It may look like there isn't any life down there from the surface, but there are hundreds of thousands of **visible** creatures living down there. It's daunting to think about the ones I can't see.
Very true! Sounds wonderful.
Thanks father fish. Using your methods. I have revived my aquirium hobby after failing for two years. After loaing alot of money I am finally succeeding. Im glad I came across you on youtube. ❤
Your wisdom makes so much sense father fish, my first tank I ever did I had a heavily planted 5 gallon with a betta and snail, started out not doing water changes,plants were happy and fish was healthy. After 6 months I tried doing 20% water changes every other week due to algae my fish was way more stressed and plants looked so sad!
Father fish is smarter than every other you tuber out there I love this man he knows what his talking about natural is really the only way to keep a fish aquarium ever since I have started doing it his way I have never had happier fish and no death
Just yesterday I saw a video documenting the vast diversity of fish, reptiles, birds and amphibians in the still polluted Chicago River!
Nature will always find a way to win.
Very nice and helpfull video, its been 5 months since im listening and doing Father Fish method, and my fish are so happy, swimming playing, water is clear, when i feed them, frenzy begins😃 its beautifull, simple beautifull...
A few months ago, I set up a 15-liter aquarium with my son, just like you explain in this video, all natural with soil, plants, rocks, leaves, and driftwood. And indeed, the fish are thriving better than when they were in the aquarium we bought them from. Mother Nature is wise; thank you for sharing your knowledge.
this video is so important. I am shocked it does not have more traction. thank you for posting this!
Trying to get the right title
I have a very clear water heavy planted 75 gallon and a dark tannin heavy driftwood 40 gallon and I notice that I watch my 40 gallon far more. There’s something far more fascinating about the natural look.
Though in my case I don’t need to water change either of them. I just run more filtration on the 75.
Keeping the water clear of nutrients is the key to never needing to change it.
@@FatherFish is it good when in the water there is nothing, either bad like ammonia or nitrites, or good like a bit of nitrate or iron, just maybe a little too much phosphate?
@@AlinefromToulouse Maybe a little!! lol
@@FatherFish I suppose it is better than too much.😄😒
Thank you Father Fish. I'm trying best to take care of my shiny 5 . Enjoy your video and learned more today. I donot want them to be stressed all the time.
I had an aquarium years ago. It was a successful population of fish. One by one they died over the course of several years. For maintenance of that tank I did 20% water changes about every 60 days... but it was when the tank was neglected a little bit that the convict cichlids we had started to reproduce. We got a few of them out of the tank and raised them to adults before getting them back in the original tank. Unfortunately I had to abandon it and over time the fish died of natural causes and I put the hobby to rest. It started at my parents house and I didn't have room in my apartment for a 90 gallon tank. I just purchased a 40 gallon aquarium and purchased the substrate mix from your store and I'm super excited to try a natural habitat. I'm positive that your methods are so much better for the fish. It makes so much sense that supporting all kinds of life in the aquarium allows for constant food and a stress free habitat.
Yes everyone seems to forget about the mites cleaning our skin eating dead skincells, biofilm on your teeth, bacteria in your gut....When I first found your channel I had a little funny aha moment about needing to trust my gut, it made so much sense since it's the "second brain", the microbiome 😂🤔
OMG! I have been adding water from my old fountain for the past two weeks per Father Fish’s advice. I was afraid of dumping whatever larvae was in there but the fish went crazy and
fish ate all the larvae in seconds. They were very happy indeed!
Learned so much from your channel even recommended you're channel to new customers. Going for the naturalistic route , thank you for researching an production of this video
Great video. I have learned a lot from your excellent advice you have gained over 70 years of fish keeping. Please never stop making these great videos Father Fish.
Father Fish at its best. So happy to have found you. You're giving fishes a better life!
Thank you Barugon
I just started my journey to natural aquarium, two days ago my progress is in my channel thank you father fish for educating us.
Ive been in this hobby for years and this is the best advice ive seen yet!
Thanks FF! We ran our breeding business for a long time using the old methods. Not only is it inferior but also time consuming and exhausting. Now that we are coming back to the hobby for personal enjoyment, we cant wait to get started on the natural way to make the lives of what we have left the best it can be!
Yes. Farming takes the joy out of the hobby. It is not reasonable to raise millions of fish in natural systems.
You talk so much sense FF, thank you. I love my hobby again. When I’m out in the countryside nowadays - I am paying so much more attention to all the life and balance there is out there, (and looking for food web stuff) 😊
I really like your vids my friend ..so much knowledge ..I’ve been doing things this way in my tank for a couple years now and it’s the best way ..heavily planted and my fish are thriving ..add a sponge filter and that’s about it in all my tanks ..don’t cheap out on a good light and right spectrum ..6 to 8 hours of light bout 75 percent and boom happy fish keeper ✌🏻
Hey father fish, u are so awesome and I agree with u %100. The right way is mother nature. Thanks for all your videos and teaching people the right way
Thank you Father fish for existing and sharing your knowledge of nature! Your videos are very informative and I really enjoy the natural approach to everything around keeping the water as suitable as possible to the aquatic life
My first aquarium is how I discovered Ostracods and Copepods. I always get excited when I see them, and after seeding a new tank, I love seeing clouds of them in the water column.
Excellent
I only scrub front of tank for viewing purposes. Never do water changes and use sand on bottom with lots of live plants. Have 4 tanks all crystal clear.
Does this work with goldfish?
Thanks to you Pops! Havent changed my tank water in 2 months . My plants are turning green now and fish are happy.
After seeing one of your other videos I subscribed and went out to the pond and put a bottle of that water into my 4 tanks. Even though it was frozen over, supposedly studies found there are more microbes in cold weather than warm. I only ever did water changes in my tanks, but I plan on doing them less often now, and adding some sand into the gravel tanks.
I love Al your work father fish I’ve learned so much from you and I hope my turtles are so much happier with their new tanks. I’m thinking about adding some fish into the tanks
One more question...What is the bare minimum percentage of plant coverage in an aquarium. I want to leave open area consisting of bare sand for the corydora's and such. Plus what is your view point on floating plants...what percentage and such and how can you mix both planted and floaters in an aquarium. No need to answer here but please make a video concerning the questions as good for me, good for you, and good for a multitude of others.
minimum 50% plant. Flopating is ok but can take over and shade the rooted plants.
Local fishstore owner told me F. Fish was crazy. I agree & told him I'm too...😂
Tks for one more wise video man. Keep doing it. We'll love it.
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I came across your channel ths weekend, been listening to many of your videos, it makes sense to me, this July 4th I was digging up pond mud, lol , thank you for all you share, fish thank you too.
Looking sharp! Nice cut.
Glad to make it into another video, I have an update to be filmed and sent in... Plants are an amazing addiction... They make the tank happier!
Can't wait!
I love the analogy of trying to live with nature than battling with it. I used to take care of my tanks with constant feedings and cleanings and it did feel like a constant uphill struggle. I should have just had lots of plants, fewer fish, and less food. Then I could have had an almost self sustaining ecosystem like father fish.
Thanks father fish for your advice. I have 3 years keeping my aquarium healthy but always loose the battle .
In a natural aquarium the system constantly improves.
Great video. All stuff you've been preaching for a while, but probably your best presentation that I've seen yet. Hopefully this video reaches all the struggling fishkeepers and new comers to the hobby out there.
I hope so!
I am so thankful I found your videos sir... I was doing what you said but I did a water change yesterday which killed off most of my smaller fishes.
father fish is so easy to listen to. great teacher!!! thank you sir
Thank you, I finally understand how I should look after my fish and make them life happily
Great wisdom being shared here! This basic principle should be applied to the whole of our current medical system. A balanced wholistic approach to life in general is paramount to keeping all of us fish and people healthy and living happily. ❤
The only sane political ideology is the one that is forbidden.
I am so glad i started out in this hobby using your methods
I can't wait to try this. It makes so much since to do it this way. Thank you
And don't forget the symbiotic mites that live within our pores and only come out at nighttime to eat.
I remember articles from people in the beauty industry and customers freaking out about these skin pore mites who were scrubbing their skin to and through as many skin layers as possible and stories of girls bleaching their skin.
I personally think it's wonderful and posted this article many times a good few years back! 😊
I love it. Bugs on girly girls. What could bee better.
@@FatherFish true 😂
I do not have tank.
But pond or small pool.
I feed Guppy and Platy.
Last middle July till middle August, my fish died.
So much.
Thousand fish.
And I found your channel.
New theory for me. But Ir works.
Good. Very good.
My last video, 26st August is the prove. You are right.
Thank you.😊
Thank you , one of the best videos I’ve seen . This video should be the first video a new fish keeper should see .
taken your advice and just left it alone three months small water changes once a week so happy my little tank is crystal clear have tons of plants growing and even the shrimp are having babies my guppies look healthy as well doing less is better
Thank you for these interesting video.
U think that you are right.
The fish and all what live in a tank are happyer when they have a lot of leaves and plants.
I try to make it more to the nature, to mother nature.
Thank you.
I hope more people start making natrual aquariums like us
Gracias por la traducción al español! Es una locura lo que cuentas en tus videos todo lo contrario a lo que venden en la tiendas gracias por tu sabiduría!
Wow so many light bulbs are going off for me right now 😂, wow 😯. Thank you !!!
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Father Fish I always enjoy your videos and agree completely with your philosophy regarding a natural aquarium. So many people want complete control over their fish tank for mostly aesthetic reasons and for their own self enjoyment. Nothing wrong with this but they are keeping captive real biologic beings who have their own unspoken viewpoint. Here I am going to change the subject and suggest a video topic regarding your viewpoint on managing the plant growth in the aquarium. Obviously the aquarium can get out of control with the plants and create a jungle that hides the fish. Aquascaping properly in the beginning probably controls this somewhat but I doubt there are few experts in this area who really buy into the total natural aquarium look. Even I want to enjoy my aquarium and plan an aquarium that is both natural and somewhat controlled. Balance is only achieved sometimes with human intervention since humans are the ones who mucked things up in the first place as no-matter what we think, we are neither in control of nature nor are we Gods unto ourselves.
We can channel nature to grow in certain places and certain ways. The Amazon jungle is the best example of this. Cultural anthropologists and environmental biologists have shown that the entire Amazon was cultivated by massive populations of people.
I fell into the super clean chemical pollutant tanks and couldn’t keep anything alive past a year.
I started another tank that I decided to be more natural. Used top soil and capped it with sand. My plants grew so darn well, I believe, i had to keep cutting them weekly. Fish thrived and i had generations of fish in the one tank. I’ll never go back.
You make a lot of great points in this video! I love fish talk I think you can have a mixed approach to this type of fish keeping! I agree with most things you say!! Not to distrust the bacteria and go for a more natural tank yes. 22 years in the hobby I’ve done all approaches to fish keeping. Very true it’s all about the bacteria! but I usually don’t clean the tank I just clean my filter floss… I’ve never really done a scrub and flush. I find as long as you establish bacteria your good to go! I really just add water and clean the pad of filter floss I put in hang on backs. I’ve never once had entire tank deaths like you may claim. In 22 years I do a water change every week on my tanks and they look same as yours. I just believe there a middle to it yes you don’t have to complete sterilize the tank but I like to stay ontop of my water changes. More about adding in new water not distributing my Bacteria. Then again I’ve never once had a entire tank die like so and I keep what you probably would call overstocked tanks that do fine they are years and years old. I do completely believe that people who drain and scrub the tank kill all there fish but there a middle ground with people like me who go more natural but change water every so often
What is the purpose of weekly water changing?
That's great but you're still doing a lot more work than he is and not providing a reason. Hm, no water changes vs weekly water changes... 70 years of fish keeping experience vs 22 years... it's a no brainer.
😊 That’s right. 😄 Listen to the old man’s wisdom. 🙌🏻 Thanks 🙏🏻 you’re very valuable 😃
Thank you very much sir. Your Video helped me understand what a natural ecosystem should be like. Lots of love from India…
father fish, i really wish i'd have found you at the beginning of my fish journey.. i took in a single black skirt tetra when my neighbor moved about a year ago, knowing less than nothing about fish...a year later, he's still here, but i still don't know anything. fish came with chemicals..and i still use chemicals.. id love to have a natural approach, but can a fish that has been living in a chemical environment (for his whole life-- at least 2 years) safely make the change? i appreciate you and your channel so much! 💚
A better question is,"How much longer can he survive in a chemical soup?" That he is alive should give you confidence that you are a sensitive fish keeper. Make the t ransition and don't look back!!
Thank you I am new to this and listening to you..and you are right what you say..I remember when I was a kid and going down to the pond and it was so much fish in there..which I love to see...thank you Dan from Wiltshire uk..
My goodness I am so stinking grateful to stumble upon your channel. Now the proud owner of 4 aquatic frogs and 3 fish. And several new aquatic plants too. I think they’re so stinking cool!! Also I am a gardener. Self-taught, but know enough to understand hydroponics, soil, water, etc. I went into our local pet stores and was asking questions about pH levels and using a ppm stick, but They looked at me like I was crazy, like I was asking to many scientific question?!! Lol But I need to fully understand everything from point A to point B!! Lol Also I bought several pieces of wood from stores that was aquatic safe. But they all 100% turn my water, a funky brown color. I’ve tried it twice now and every time it turns my water. Why?? Thank you 😊
They are not collecting well aged natural wood from creeks. Get out and do your own collecting.
The wood is releasing tannins. A couple of water changes later the water will be good to go. My wood in my tanks did the same, I do a few water changes while setting up a new tank over maybe a month or so then it settles down. No more water changes required.
Or steap it outside in a barrel for a while, also helps it sink.
@@FatherFish This is exactly what I just said to my husband. Lol It makes sense!! I love your channel. I wish you were in Alaska. Just thank you.🥰🙏
@@matthewburley880 thank you 😊