PLANTED TANK SUBSTRATE AND SOIL GUIDE - BASE LAYER FERTILIZING VS. SAND, GRAVEL
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- Why would you need an active soil for your planted tank - a so-called clay-based soil? Do you need the base layer substrate beneath? This tutorial will teach you most of what you need to know about the stuff we all put at the bottom of our tanks: the fertilizing substrate, the general plant soils, as well as the inert elements: sand and gravel.
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I like your style. You give everything very clearly, for everyone ...
Cheers Daniel, so glad you support the way I talk. You are great.
My first time to immerse into planted aquarium. Substrate is my first concern. Excited to start after watching this vid as I felt I got clarity on my questions. Thank you! More power Green Aqua!
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Awesome video! My current aquascape is missing the cosmetic sand and pebbles. I was waiting for this episode to upload. Now I know what I need. Thank you!
Cheers, you'll have to know that having these will add to your maintenance time though. Keeping the sand foreground clean takes time - more than a regular planted foreground.
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Wasn't expecting to find a comment from the one that inspired me to start ant/frog/fish keeping again, it's a great indicator for this channel in my opinion
"I have seen ppl taking dirt from outside and putting it in oven..."
I was like "Oh hello MD fishtanks xDD"
Yeah 😅
Oh yeah!!!. HAHAHA
Works lol
That’s how you make starter soil for planters
Dustin's fish tanks he uses dirt in his tanks
This is my favorite channel about aquascaping ♥️
Wow, cool! Mission accomplished, thanks so much for the kind comment.
Oh yes!.
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Same
Thanks guys, you are great!
Once again my friend, you have given us a wealth of knowledge and entertainment. Love the video, thanks again
Literally my favorite TH-cam channel, Perfect channel on TH-cam that shows you perfect ways to make beautiful nature in your home. I’m so surprised this channel isn’t passed the 1million subscribers mark , you guys deserve it
You guys support us so much, we have already went up very very fast, faster than anybody in this hobby. Thanks to you.
FIRST - i love how all of your recent videos are literally perfect for me at this exact moment as i am planning and prepping a tank to enter the IALPC either next year or 2022
3rd. Enjoy. :)
I have been away from the hobby for years. Back in and loving it, and Im very impressed at the attention to the science of it all. Bravo
You are making great tutorials! I want to start a planted aquarium and while I'm "researching" I learned a lot from your videos. And this is the video I was looking for the most (+ the one with the plants). Keep it up! Thanks a lot! Greetings from Romania, neighbour!
Thanks for your feedback and thanks for watching our channel. We only can promise more content is on the way for the upcoming months :) including several tutorials too
I always enjoyed your videos, but this one is out of another dimension! Superb job, one of the most helpful videos out there! I'm also glad to see that the number of your subscribers is growing exponentially - well deserved! Keep up the good work and best of luck!
Thanks so much, it grows because of your support, you guys are great, and your feedback is what keeps us going!
Love your channel mate. Exceptional quality, always informative and it’s the right kind of information. No filtering or interpretation needed, it’s always exactly what you need to know. Keep up the great work.
Will do Richard, thanks for the encouragement, you are great! Cheers.
Thank you. This helped me so much. Getting ready to plant my first big tank.
Sou Brasileiro🇧🇷, e desde o primeiro vídeo que eu vi no canal eu me simpatizei com você, parabéns, em poucos videos deste canal, eu tive informações que eu não conseguir achar em nem um outro canal aqui do Brasil. Conteúdos de altíssima qualidades e de grantes aprendizagens, Ganhou mais um instrito. Thank You.
You are welcome, glad you appreciate our effort, thanks for watching us! Cheers.
Awesome tutorial on soils and substrate. It’s what I exactly need at the moment. Thanks for sharing.
You're welcome, glad you can use this info! Cheers.
Thank you so much you just erase all the mistakes I've been making for over a year. I couldn't understand what I was doing wrong when I was doing everything others said would work. Awesome informative video.
That is very good to hear, good luck with your future tanks, we all learn continuously. Cheers.
Another great video! I love that there is something new to learn every week and the ability to feel a constant sense of inspiration.
Cheers
Thanks so much Taylor - good that you found this useful. Thanks for the support, you are great! Cheers.
@3:40 I believe you are mistaken, anaerobic bacteria do not convert nitrate into ammonia, they turn nitrate into atmospheric nitrogen. That's why sand tanks work just fine. However sand only tanks don't provide nutrients, which is I think the main difference
Would you recommend topping the sand with aquasoil? I have aquasoil that sits for 2 months so it will not leech ammonia. This guy above is saying it is bad if sand is below and soil is on top@3:40
@@jayson9363 depends on your goal, if you want anaerobic bacteria then sand should go below aqua soil, but I think generally people put sand on top of soil because they want the nutrients to slowly release, and if you have plants, the plants can use that nitrate/nitrite/ammonia from the soil and biodegrading organic matter
@@alexcp929 i have several plants and i have soil that release little to no ammonia called controsoil
Wish this existed when I first got in the hobby
Just love this. Started this hobby 3 weeks ago and glad I found this channel.
Welcome to the channel! Cheers.
This is honestly the best video I've seen about this topic! Thank you so much. I've looked at so many videos and I feel so much more informed after this particular video. Thank you!
You are welcome, glad you found it useful.
Such a beautifully designed and photographed video! One suggestion would be to have the names of the items printed on the screen. At times showing the fish and tanks was lovely!
We try to avoid distraction as much as possible, you'll see all details in the description and can check out the products one-by-one on our website. Cheers.
It would be very nice if this video shows up 3 years ago, haha.
My first planted tank used the ADA Amazonia Light without fertilized substrate. The tank worked very well in the first three months(with pressurized CO2 system of course). Then, the plant stopped growing even with the liquid fertilizer (all in one fret). At that newbie time, I thought the Amazonia Light should contain lots of nutrients that supported plant growth at least for one year. After some searching, I realized the Amazonia Light may loss its nutrients, so I inserted some root tab near plants. Then, the plants started thriving vigorously for one year.
With this lesson, I rebuilt the tank with Tropica growth substrate at the bottom, and covered with clay base soil which has CEC( Cation Exchange Capacity) about 50 meq/100g. Now the tank has lasted for a year with good root development.
The soil and substrate DO play important roles on planted tank, and this video provides good suggestions for beginner to build the tank.
Yepp, you really have the experience with soils then! :) You now know what to do, good luck with the future setups!
@@GreenAquaShop Thanks for your kindly reply. I learn a lots from this high quality channel, especially the trimming section. Maintaining a planted tank for a long run is more difficult than setting up. The trimming section provides the experience that you already have, but I don't.
Well, the more you do the better you'll be at trimming, I promise. :)
Excelente trabajo,esto lo tenias que haber publicado hace 3 años y no hubiera mal gastado el dinero muchas gracias por tu trabajo
You're welcome, sorry for being late ;) Anyway, good luck with your future builds, I'm sure they'll be really cool. Cheers.
Thanks for the life-saving tutorial for the beginners (including me)!
Cheers, glad you found this useful!
Awesome information to novice people like us. Can you do one tutorial on refreshing soil which is more than say year or so.
You guys are doing wonderful job.
Keep scaping keep educating us
Cheers
I personally don't like the idea of soil refreshment, I would want to rescape the whole tank from scratch - to have new inspiration, a new living nature in my home - I know I'm a bit different...
@@GreenAquaShop Yes agreed... By starting from scratch you can develop your aquascaping skills also. Off course I am talking about ourselves and not pro people like you ;)
Well, my goal is for everybody to get to my level. Many have already done so, and many have done better tanks!
"Corys would not like to be in the sand, they would be hurt by the sharp edges"
I think you meant the sharp edges off the pepples, sand is perfect for the corys.
Just to avoid any confusion here.
Yes, that's what I meant - also, there's sand that has sharp edges, not rounded...
its often a quick DIY to get play ground sand, this can have sharp edges, depending on it its collected or manufactured. having a close look at the sand you can tell pretty easily.
green aqua is very right about sharp edged sand.
Great, great, great, great VIDEO of Aquascaping. THE BEST OF THE BEST!
That is so cool to read, thanks for the comment!
Exactly what I was looking for all over the internet. This answered many of my doubts. Thank you 👍
You are welcome, glad you found this userful!
Hello guys,
While I appreciate your high quality videos and the many updates on this channel.
This video especially feels like a forced marketing for 'Soil' and conceals sadly many facts.
While on the surface you described the different properties all these aquarium substrates, you mostly only call out the positive things about soil and only said the negative things about sand & gravel....
I have to add for most beginners especially, sand will not always be a problem even if it is put as a 'Bottom Substrate' under other substrates like the speaker told in this video, because it depends on how big the grain size is (still, just use it as a standalone substrate or cover layer as most would recommend).
So Sand with higher grain size or even gravel also lets your aquarium have an active and biological ground layer. Even more Sand also has advantages for many fish species like Corys or Discus. There is a reason nearly nobody will keep these fishes in fish tanks with soil as substrate. At last there are good and bad anaerobic microorganism, so not all of them are bad like the speaker here tries to tell you, go research why some people even want to have anaerobic microorganism in their tanks....
Soil also has big disadvantages the speaker in this video did not tell you guys. Two of the biggest would be that it decays into fine powder over time (which will condense the ground, which the speaker called a big disadvantage of sand) and that the fertilizer within the soil will be drained in 1-2 years of normal use. So think again before you want to start a 1000 liter Discus fish tank, because it will most likely be a bad, bad idea in reality and you most likely don't want to completely replace your substrate in your tank every 2 years?!. Another disadvantage of soil would be the problem you get with it at higher temperatures and its algae problems, which you need for some species like Discus and Altum fish.
Well, I know the guys on this channel want to market their stuff but please try to tell these beginners all facts. There is a reason why there are still much more fish tanks with sand or gravel as substrate than all these hyped products like soil, volcano minerals, clay etc.
Wish you all good success with your tanks, peace.
Peace Andreas, thanks for expressing your opinion.
Which roottabs can you recommend? And how many do i need in a certain area like an eleocharis lawn or dense stem plants area.
It's usually written in the box, we like ADA, Tropica, Seachem.
Thank you for sharing your expertise!!. You have been an incredible teacher throughout your videos.Thank you always!!!!stay well and safe🙏❤️🤗
Thanks for the kind comment Mary - as always!
One of your best educational videos🌱
I learned much of things.
13:55 first time I've ever heard somone say sand is not good for corydoras.
Like play sand or blasting sand. Oolitic sand is good. Very tiny oval shaped granules.
I remember rinsing my flourite black substrate for hours, lost alot of good minerals haha
Haha, now you have it. :) Just fill the new tank with water slowly! That is the key to not having cloudy water from day one.
@@GreenAquaShop Do you have a suggestion for how to add water slowly? Is there a cheap tool or a DIY tool that can be made? (I'm trying to build my first planted tank right now.)
@@tcr7 You can use your hand to restrict the water flow or use bubble wraps/other materials and pour the water directly on it
Amazing video, actually have to watch it a couple times to really absorb all the knowledge you shared with us. THANK YOU
Welcome to our channel Alejandro 😄
Absolutely in agreeance with Hobby Scape. Awesome tutorial on soils and substrate. 👍🏽
Cheers, thanks so much for supporting us with the feedback, much appreciated.
Exactly the kind of overview that I love! Very helpful!
Glad to read this. :)
Cheers.
Really very professional, thank you for the amazing video
Good thing about quarantine days is your videos every week without fail. Love you guys : )
Thanks so much for all the support!
Your information was excellent, got me to where I need to get my new tank started right, Thanks alot.
Thanks for the details information! a newbie like me really appreciate it, as I want to start this hobby with a 40x25x25cm tank and want to avoid so many mistake while setting up for plant and hardscape. keep it up!
You are welcome! Cheers.
Wow, another great video as always. Thank you for sharing the info.
You are welcome, thanks for the comment! Cheers.
Great idea with the substrate presentation. It looks fantastic!
Glad you appreciate our effort - we worked like almost two days to get them like that... Haha.
Amazing free advice! Thank you.
You're welcome, glad you found this useful!
First time back to tanks in a long time. This was really informative
Glad to hear it was helpful in some ways 👍
Crystal details... thanks bro..!
You guys are really doing an awesome job making some of the best Planted Tanks. videos out there thank you. 👊🏻
Cheers, you were always supportive of us, much appreciated!
Everything's i needed to know before switching for active soil, thanks !
Glad to read this. :)
Thanks for watching us.
I'm in the process of putting together a tank for my kids. I'm not really a hobbyist, very new to aquariums in general, but I do do my research to understand before diving in... The one thing thats been holding me up is the substrate layer(s) along with the plants to use, and I stumbled across this video this morning... What a gold mine of information! I now know what I need to be ordering for the final few bits before I can start actually setting this up! Thanks!! #excited
Glad you like the video. 👍😁
Very common and important questions. Thanks you for answer them.
Cheers, glad you found this useful!
truly informative for beginners! thank you!
Thanks so much for your feedback 👍
Love this guy....good he can give such good advice and also have a little laugh as well.
Thanks Francine!
That was so wonderfully informative. It clarified so many things about this topic for me. Thanks 😊
Glad to hear it was helpful, thanks for the kind feedback. Cheers.
beautiful and professional
Cheers, glad you liked this tutorial.
Very helpful and thorough.
Happy to see that you like the video. 👍
Nagyszerű videó! Zseniális!
Köszi, András!
Excellent explanation for people new to aquascaping
Glad you found this useful, thanks for watching!
Fantastic video,so many choices out there,all explained very well and how it all works,great job 👏👏👏
Thanks! Glad you found this useful Stephen!
Thank you very much for your videos! also thank you for the opportunity to read subtitles in your own language! your videos are inspiring! I wish you development and prosperity!
Glad you like our automatic subtitling, we do everything for your comfort. Cheers.
Thank you for briefing this topic:)
Great comprehensive about substrates/soils/cosmetics.
Glad you found this useful, thanks for the feedback on this one too!
Yeeeees you are the best guys!!!!! Best videos!!!!
Cheers, so glad you like our videos, cheers!
This is my favorite channel about aquascape
That sounds really cool, mission accomplished for us! Cheers.
Green Aqua 🍻
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Very well explained 👍
I just look forward to your videos every week 😁
That is so good to read, thanks for the kind comment and the encouragement! Cheers.
Watching this guys relax me so much. You guys make a great job there at Green Aqua. Best regards from Romania !!
Thank you. I was just thinking about this topic yesterday :) You really helped me to make a decision :)
That is cool to read! Cheers Anna!
Exellent video, this is a must for anyone getting into planted tanks/aqua scaping.
Thanks so much, glad you found this useful, thanks for watching and commenting. Cheers.
Loved the substrate tutorial! Again, placing the soil in those beautiful Petri dishes was great! Made it seem like they had been brought back from alien planets.
And it took almost 2 days to finish - don't ask. Haha. Glad you appreciate the idea.
Man, I learn allot from you channel! Thx for yet another great tutorial!
You're welcome, glad you liked this!
Very informative. Thanks!
Thanks for watching us. :)
Brilliantly informative video. Love ADA's La Planta sand.
Love to hear you enjoy the content. La plata is our fav too. Looks so natural 👍
Parabéns pelos vídeos! São de altíssima qualidade. Aprendi coisas muito importantes que jamais ví aqui no Brasil. Muito obrigado pelos ensinamentos. Abraço 🤗👏
Thanks so much for the kind comment, glad you appreciate what we do. Cheers.
Olé olé!!!!!!! Ese sustrato bueno, muchas gracias por el video un crack.💃💃💃💃🙌🙌😘😘😘😘 seguir así makinas.
Will do! Thanks for the kind comment!
just on time, i needed that so bad
Good that we could be of help. Cheers.
Underrated video right here
Thanks a lot Cheesy. :)
I have really started to anticipate your GreenAqua videos; they are so professional, beautiful to watch, and informative. I especially liked this video. I know it's not everyone's favorite topic, but I think it is one of the most important. This one and the one on filters ROCK! Well, I drool over the 'scaping ones as well, for sure. Thanks!
Oh, that is so kind of you to write, glad you hooked up onto the channel, and hope you'll enjoy it for a long time, a lot of effort goes into the production with many good people helping indeed. Cheers Roxanne.
I am someone who enjoys the plants perhaps more so than fish; depending of course. A beautiful school of cardinal tetras is a rather different observation from a two foot long central American cichlid; and also something less of a hardship on a planted tank !
You truly stand-out from your contemporaries. You do very good work. Thank you.
You are welcome. Cheers!
I love your channel because you give only genuine and very practical advice which all level of auqascapers can follow.
Thanks! Glad you find our advice useful. Cheers!
Green Aqua thanks man. Cheers!
Extremely informative video......this help to solve my lot of unanswered doubts ...
Good to hear that, glad you found this useful, thanks for watching.
Thank you very much.......much needed informative video 👍👍👍
Glad you found this useful. You are welcome!
im so exited cuz this video cover's everything i'v been endlessly researching. i go back and forth A-LOT on what i want to add to my tank's as substrate so i really needed this help...thank you so much for the well-done explanation, I'm thinking about trying out fluval stratum with pebble type rock above for added weight holding down new plants tell they get rooted nicely. i will definitely be subscribing! cant wait to see more :)
Thank you for sharing your experience
Thanks for the watching. :)
brilliant I love watching you videos and learning
That's great, good luck with your future tanks!
Thanks for sharing dear friend great Explanation.
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Thank you for these great tips! It's exciting, inspiring and very instructive for me to follow your videos :-)
Cheers Lise, glad to hear that! Thanks for watching!
One word: Great!
One word, thanks!
These are the best aquascaping videos i had ever seen..very interesting.. and his presentation also very clear and perfect...my suggestion is for the beginners watch all tutorials ... can learn many very important things about aquascaping...perfect video... good luck....
This is very informative and helpful! Thank you :) !!
Thanks for the watching.
Lóri
Hi Balazs, wow , what a great finish to the tutorial series .
Your explanations of , what a lot of people may struggle with was excellent .your unique and dare I say laid back style will help countless aquascapers. You are a natural in front of the camera.
Thank you very much .
Cheers, I'm not a natural at all actually, Terry, it might sound strange but I don't like to be in front of a camera. :)
@@GreenAquaShop Well ,in my humble opinion, you do it very well.
Thanks! I really like when Viktor or Tommy take over. :) I can direct than, I love that more than anything. :)
THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO!
Thanks Green Aqua! I have learned again a lot with this video!
Good to know. Thanks for watching and really glad you found this useful.
Wonderful and outstanding work
Glad you found this video useful, thanks for watching!
Excellent information
Glad you found this useful!
thank you for another great video. as always sir thank you for furthering my aquascaping education
I love all the knowledge you share
You are welcome, thanks so much for the kind feedback!
Me gusto mucho el video,saludos desde Perú
Another great video Green Aqua Team! I've had a tank going with Amazonia mixed with Eco-complete for years now (between the two tank set ups its been in, over 5 years) and my crypts still go hog wild in it. Great substrate combo.
Thanks for that feedback, good to know that it worked. You know your stuff!
What ratio did you use for the mix of Amazonia and Eco-complete? I am thinking of doing the same thing. Also do you have any pics of your scape? Thanks in advance!
@@thedoc7717 one to one by bag, large bag of Amazonia to eco complete. Layered or mixed is fine.
Great insight for the future scape. First real try in a much bigger tank
It was a lot of trouble, but it was very helpful.
I think I can make the fish tank prettier in the future.
Thank you for a good video.
Yeah, tell me about trouble. Just organizing those jars took two days, haha.
Great video!
Glad you liked this!
Great Video as always and a lot of useful information :) Thank you for that! My 60P Tank that I setup 15 days ago is doing fine and is looking great thanks to all the stuff I learned from you guys :D I decided to go high tech for my first tank, and I don't regret it :D
Cheers and keep it up.
Yeah Kevin, this is very very good to hear, good luck with your tank, I'm sure you'll enjoy it a lot, please don't get discouraged by the eventual appearance of algae after 3-6 weeks.
@@GreenAquaShop I'm already seeing some green string algae :) But I'm not too concerned since I have alot of plant mass and sone algae eaters in the tank. The only thing that bothers me is the rise of nitrite (I have to change the water every day and add seachem prime). I'm following the 90 day program of Tropica and added the lifestock pretty early, not too happy about that though :( I only added 12 small shrimps and 3 otocinclus (which poop alot, since I have a lot of bacteria apearing on my morewood) as cleaning crew. I have good filtration and high quality filter media (Matrix). How do you guys from Green Aqua cope with the nitrite during cycling? I would love to hear what you think :)
Cheers from Switzerland