NEW MERCH CLICK HERE: teespring.com/en-GB/stores/md-fish-tanks After just over a month of having the golden nugget pleco....my plants are trashed 🤣. I'm pretty sure it is just this pleco as there were no problems with the plants in the amazon tank until i put this fish in. Hopefully things will sort themselves out. o I really like the little nugget but i never see it. Let's make a scape so I can enjoy it a bit more :) Equipment (all links affiliate): GOOD BUDGET LIGHT: US amzn.to/2MDfjk1 UK amzn.to/3iYlfQQ SMALL HANG ON BACK FILTER: US amzn.to/2Mw63OO UK amzn.to/39rx3b5 NANO INTERNAL FILTER: US amzn.to/3oxGBWm UK amzn.to/3vwIG9M LED FLOODLIGHTS: US amzn.to/3t6HOHD UK amzn.to/3orIdRv CANISTER FILTER: US amzn.to/3iNeVtW UK amzn.to/2Fo774a GOOSENECK CLIP ON LAMP: (similar as product is now discontinued) US amzn.to/2IlwLVA UK amzn.to/2LNat13 MINI WATER PUMP: US amzn.to/2oAmf5y UK amzn.to/2mjHDez TANKS: US amzn.to/2SOocHG UK amzn.to/2SPA24i STRIP LED LIGHT: US (similar) amzn.to/2SNgbm7 UK amzn.to/2Fn9aW1 ASTA LED LIGHT: US amzn.to/3k9EmpY UK amzn.to/3p5XUPY AQUARIUM RACKING: Shelving: US amzn.to/2SrYZ5k UK amzn.to/2GFWKJ2 AIRPUMP (FILTER SYSTEM): US amzn.to/31z8FA9 UK amzn.to/37GIoUa FILTER SPONGES: US amzn.to/3dQLUfM UK amzn.to/3dS2k7K MEDIA BAGS: US amzn.to/34Kaf2N UK amzn.to/3lAj3z1 STAINLESS LILY PIPES: US amzn.to/2FqHpvR UK amzn.to/2RlfrnC BOWL AQUARIUMS: US amzn.to/2M4FwFO Amazo UK: amzn.to/2Vx73CL
Hey MD thit you ever thout about an dwarf crawfish for the shrimp reck? Its an great animal that looks like an amano shrimp but orange or other colors.
I am in the states. I have had aquariums my whole life. I got big into it and got busy with life and kind of put it on the back burner for a while. After seeing your videos and the way you explain things, i have reworked and am in the process of getting everything back to what it was and better. You have reawakened my love for aquariums. Thank you sooooo much!!!!!!
MD, your Golden Nugget (Baryancistrus xanthellus) is endemic to the Rio Xingú river system in Brazil where it lives in rapids between rocks and boulders.There are no plants in their habitat, only scattered driftwood and overall temperatures are pretty high, up to 30°C. It feeds from algea and small invertebrates and crustaceans that live on the rocks. The water flows really fast. Most of the tetras and dwarf cichlids in your Amazon tank live in jungle streams and lakes (Igarapés) with lots of shade from floating plants and overhanging jungle vegetation. Also lots of driftwood and leaves in the water and sometimes submerged plants if there is enough light. Both Amazon biotopes but very different habitats. The Amazon is vast! ;) To make your nuggy super happy, I would put a flow pump in the tank, up the temp a few degrees if possible and feed it also some bloodworms, artemia or likewise because the fish is omnivorous. And it will grow big for sure. Only recently stumbled over your chanel by the way. Great work and you’re a very talented aquascaper! Keep up the good work!
I’m impressed you were able to net that pleco in that tank. Great job with the new scape. It could be a good tank for a betta fish to go with the pleco
Got one of these Beauties about 12 months ago at a reasonable price as a Stand out Pleco. And Wow like you said He/She is gorgeous. It’s grown a little but not a great deal at only about 4 inches. Master of my South American cichlid tank.
MD, I’ve never kept a Gold Nugget pleco, but the Bristle Nose, and Dwarf Gold Spot plecos I do keep are not plant eaters. Now the Ramshorn snails in my tanks are another story, they turn planted tanks into an all you can eat salad bar and trash all my plants. I’m in the process of “removing” them all now, let’s just say I have a friend with a happy puffer fish, and I have a dozen Assassin snails that are hunting down the elusive remainder. Oh,… TIMMMAAAAYYY!!!!
Bought a very nice snowball pleco yesterday. But oh boy he’s uprooting all my plants and mixing up my sand and aqua soil. So here I am now planning on using my spare 10 gallon for him 😀
I am so happy I found your channel. Just beautiful ❣️❣️ I really want your fish room but smaller, with 3 tanks! And all your rock and wood. Thanks for sharing such beauty!!
From what I have learned on aquarium coop the pleco is more likely to eat soft fiber plants like econodoris and Alternanthera type plants. Thank you for all the inspiration and information that you provide on your channel!!!
Another beautiful aquarium for that naughty fish! 😍 I know it was built for him/her specially, but I would put a few nano fish in it also. Just to have a little more "life" in it... Something like a little group of Pseudomugil furcatus aka Popondetta furcata aka Forktail blue-eye maybe? 🤔😉😁
Nice scape MD! I like the cave you created with the wood! I know the joys of a pleco tearing up your scape! My bristle nose doesn’t like when I put plants around his driftwood! I’ve had to glue all my anubius down cause he doesn’t let it root to the wood! Always knocking them off! That’s a beautiful pleco though! Hope it all works out!
hey MD . I've been procrastinating on my build because you supply all your videos. BTW learning a lot of early England Hx by viewing 'The Last Kingdom" on Netflix . :D
nice job Mate....it's so hard to catch these little suckers....we recently moved our royal blue pleco and it took an hour hahaha....hopefully he stays where he is for a while....this little dude is so handsome MD....looks great where he is is know and he'll like his zuchs for sure!
They also eat protein, like brine shrimp, tubifex worm, blood worm etc. Im sure it'll eat pellets and wafers that is protein based as well. So it does eat a mix of plant and protein.
So I have a pleco, who I think is full grown? I got it when it was a baby, only a few months old, and it hasn't really gotten bigger. I have no idea what type of pleco it is but it has been doing fine in the tank have for it. However, I want to get a bigger tank and get some plant life in there and get some more small fish or shrimp or both. I came here for inspiration and I think besides inspiration, I found a new favorite animal channel to watch. I love how beautiful your aquariums are!!!
MD ,how about nicely coloured 8 to 10 thread fin rainbow fish along with the pleco in that tank? It would definitely look cool and they are suitable for nano tanks!
MD has some in the pearlweed jungle of the Asian tank. Never seen them again 🤣 But he wants to redo this tank. Curious if the kuhlis get into a new setup (hopefully with sand) where they can be seen more often too. I can see my kuhlis several times a day in spite (or because?) of the cryptocoryne forest 😀
Hi. Just a tip on these guys. You can never have a big enough tank for these guys. When i put mine in a 100L tank so I could sort her tank out she kept leaping out of the tank so I had to lid the tank. The i would hear her hitting the tank lid. I took her out of a 500L tank that she thrived in. I woke up the next morning to find she knocked the lid off and jumped out. So if your tank lid is not secure or you dont have length in the tank they will escape. She was my most expensive fish costing $200nzst dollars which is £100 which is expensive in new zealand. I cried when i found her as I had had her for three years and she was the star of the tank
you can make an 80 gallons or bigger with afrikan chichilds and this pleco but you cant put plants in there but i think you would enjoy it is something different
MD , I thought of an idea for your channel and / workshop! What if you do a livestream timeplapse thing where you display the latest aquarium build over the course of a month or two to show the actual progress in realtime (Sped up)
Generally I feed an algae wafer daily to my bristlenoses. They don’t touch my plants. In my experience, the algae in a tank alone is t enough to sustain them, they have a very high metabolism and eat a lot
The thing with plecos is that they chew on every plant. Some plants are just way better at handling it. If you compare the leaf of an amazon sword with a leaf from an anubias, you'll notice the difference; the anubias leaf is way thicker and stronger. This goes for a lot of plants, you can just feel how strong the leaves are and based on that you can get a pretty good idea of what a pleco might do to it. I havent had any issues with plants with small leaves (most stemplants) but plecos will ruin any sword or vallisneria you put in their tank. If they dont eat your vallisneria, they will break it because they munch on the very top, which causes the leaf to bend, and eventually break.
He eats your echinodorus in the amazon tank so why wouldn’t he eat the echinodorus in his new tank? Seems a little bit weird to me, but he has a beautiful tank! Great job!
Hey, MD! I absolutely love your art. What is that contraption I see you use to get water in and out of your tanks? Custom hose attachment or something I could find in the States?
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After just over a month of having the golden nugget pleco....my plants are trashed 🤣. I'm pretty sure it is just this pleco as there were no problems with the plants in the amazon tank until i put this fish in. Hopefully things will sort themselves out. o I really like the little nugget but i never see it. Let's make a scape so I can enjoy it a bit more :)
Equipment (all links affiliate):
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NANO INTERNAL FILTER: US amzn.to/3oxGBWm UK amzn.to/3vwIG9M
LED FLOODLIGHTS: US amzn.to/3t6HOHD UK amzn.to/3orIdRv
CANISTER FILTER: US amzn.to/3iNeVtW UK amzn.to/2Fo774a
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You should get phantom plecos next their awesome.
Hey MD thit you ever thout about an dwarf crawfish for the shrimp reck? Its an great animal that looks like an amano shrimp but orange or other colors.
I hope you see the pleco more now MD.
Can you show a video where you show your plant storage tanks. I am setting up a farm so.😀
Epic vid
I am in the states. I have had aquariums my whole life. I got big into it and got busy with life and kind of put it on the back burner for a while. After seeing your videos and the way you explain things, i have reworked and am in the process of getting everything back to what it was and better. You have reawakened my love for aquariums. Thank you sooooo much!!!!!!
that's great kathryn. nice one :)
MD, your Golden Nugget (Baryancistrus xanthellus) is endemic to the Rio Xingú river system in Brazil where it lives in rapids between rocks and boulders.There are no plants in their habitat, only scattered driftwood and overall temperatures are pretty high, up to 30°C. It feeds from algea and small invertebrates and crustaceans that live on the rocks. The water flows really fast.
Most of the tetras and dwarf cichlids in your Amazon tank live in jungle streams and lakes (Igarapés) with lots of shade from floating plants and overhanging jungle vegetation. Also lots of driftwood and leaves in the water and sometimes submerged plants if there is enough light. Both Amazon biotopes but very different habitats. The Amazon is vast! ;)
To make your nuggy super happy, I would put a flow pump in the tank, up the temp a few degrees if possible and feed it also some bloodworms, artemia or likewise because the fish is omnivorous. And it will grow big for sure.
Only recently stumbled over your chanel by the way. Great work and you’re a very talented aquascaper! Keep up the good work!
Awww hopefully you'll get to see more of the little guy now!
yeah for sure. Seeing him loads already. More to come :)
Please bring a long Cinematic Video on the Amazon aquarium, it feels like heaven
plecos like places to graze on algae and hide from traffic. Love the fact you share your positive and negative experiences as you have them.
every time you are renovating a aquascape, its looks like new
Crime: Eating plants
Suspect: Gold Nugget Pleco
Verdict: Guilty
Sentence : his/her very own tank
@Star Shine thank you for recognising this and for recognising that nb people like me exist.
@Star Shine oh god,WHERES TRUMP
The easiest sentence ever. Custom made solitude. 🤣
@Star Shine your either he or she. If your Male I will use Male pronouns and female pronouns for females.
LOL. Nailed it! :)
I’m impressed you were able to net that pleco in that tank. Great job with the new scape. It could be a good tank for a betta fish to go with the pleco
You are so talented, all the scapes are next level
Got one of these Beauties about 12 months ago at a reasonable price as a Stand out Pleco. And Wow like you said He/She is gorgeous. It’s grown a little but not a great deal at only about 4 inches. Master of my South American cichlid tank.
MD, I’ve never kept a Gold Nugget pleco, but the Bristle Nose, and Dwarf Gold Spot plecos I do keep are not plant eaters. Now the Ramshorn snails in my tanks are another story, they turn planted tanks into an all you can eat salad bar and trash all my plants. I’m in the process of “removing” them all now, let’s just say I have a friend with a happy puffer fish, and I have a dozen Assassin snails that are hunting down the elusive remainder.
Oh,… TIMMMAAAAYYY!!!!
Holy shit, even your simpler scapes are really good ! You really are a great inspiration to many aquascapist around the world. Keep up the good work !
MD getting giddy about the Pearl Weed growing out of water was great content 😂👍🏼
Beautiful pleco fish, beautiful planted tank, I love everything about this hobby
It's always a good day when MD puts out a video!
Bought a very nice snowball pleco yesterday. But oh boy he’s uprooting all my plants and mixing up my sand and aqua soil. So here I am now planning on using my spare 10 gallon for him 😀
Finally he gets his own tank🔥
I am so happy I found your channel. Just beautiful ❣️❣️ I really want your fish room but smaller, with 3 tanks! And all your rock and wood. Thanks for sharing such beauty!!
Wow this Tank has really come Together!
Love your passion for the hobby, you got me into planted tanks, from Aussie living in France.
Just a beautiful specimen!! I agree, it’ll be cool to see what plants get munched on and which ones it’ll leave alone! ❤️❤️
You have a video for every fresh water fish😂. I’m trying to make my bristlenose pleco more happy and I just knew you’d have a video 😂
From what I have learned on aquarium coop the pleco is more likely to eat soft fiber plants like econodoris and Alternanthera type plants. Thank you for all the inspiration and information that you provide on your channel!!!
I'm sure that most of us can relate to the excitement in your voice when you caught the pleco.
I love watching your build videos! Helps me be more creative in setting up my own aquariums!
Its always good to see you upload videos
Haha look who predicted the pleco incident....... BTW nice scape as always
my bad lol.
Glad too see more pristilla maxillaris out there!
Superb content MD :) This bloke needs a million subs man :)
Such am awesome fish, love the scape u made for him. Hope to see him more often now, another great tank MD👍👍👍
Timmy is my spirit animal
I have one and they are amazing
3-18-21,MD put in more plants. That is a beautiful fish. I might get one, William
super nice! heaven tank for any pleco :)
maybe floating plants to dim the light... cuz they don't like over brightness
Another beautiful aquarium for that naughty fish! 😍 I know it was built for him/her specially, but I would put a few nano fish in it also. Just to have a little more "life" in it... Something like a little group of Pseudomugil furcatus aka Popondetta furcata aka Forktail blue-eye maybe? 🤔😉😁
So happy your making a pleco tank 😊 long fin bristtlenose are great too 😊
Nice scape MD! I like the cave you created with the wood! I know the joys of a pleco tearing up your scape! My bristle nose doesn’t like when I put plants around his driftwood! I’ve had to glue all my anubius down cause he doesn’t let it root to the wood! Always knocking them off! That’s a beautiful pleco though! Hope it all works out!
What an incredibly gorgeous fish!!!
MD, The King Of DIY set up a podcast channel you should be on it
Love the gold nugget pleco it looks soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cool!
Gosh I love your videos so much! After just one video I definitely had to subscribe!
Omg MD another great aquascape
hey MD . I've been procrastinating on my build because you supply all your videos. BTW learning a lot of early England Hx by viewing 'The Last Kingdom" on Netflix . :D
AMAZING as always MD!
great scape again there MD
What a cool looking fish!
Nicee!! You managed to catch the pleco😅😅 Your content is really good!! Keep up the good work MD🐟🐠🐟🐠
nice job Mate....it's so hard to catch these little suckers....we recently moved our royal blue pleco and it took an hour hahaha....hopefully he stays where he is for a while....this little dude is so handsome MD....looks great where he is is know and he'll like his zuchs for sure!
That was nice. He really is a beautiful fish.
I’m so happy I partiley guessed it
Great looking aquarium!!!
Wow. Another video from you MD Fish Tank. ☺️
When are you doing the buddha tank update? I love your chanel it's super informative!
Awesome tank and pleco !
Yeyy!! Pleco
Very nice tank! 🥇
thank you
You should make an aquarium for the red rail shark, would look really nice in a big planted tank as the main centre piece.
I hope you get him lots of buddies, feel kind of sad that he's all alone now :(
They also eat protein, like brine shrimp, tubifex worm, blood worm etc. Im sure it'll eat pellets and wafers that is protein based as well. So it does eat a mix of plant and protein.
Another inspiring video... MD you are a living legend
Could paint the back of tank with mirror paint. Then you can always see him if he's hiding around the back.
So I have a pleco, who I think is full grown? I got it when it was a baby, only a few months old, and it hasn't really gotten bigger. I have no idea what type of pleco it is but it has been doing fine in the tank have for it. However, I want to get a bigger tank and get some plant life in there and get some more small fish or shrimp or both. I came here for inspiration and I think besides inspiration, I found a new favorite animal channel to watch. I love how beautiful your aquariums are!!!
Love too watch ur videos I have gold fish turtles n guppies in different tanks
I wish I can do ur decorations like u u r amazing thank you 👍🏻
MD ,how about nicely coloured 8 to 10 thread fin rainbow fish along with the pleco in that tank?
It would definitely look cool and they are suitable for nano tanks!
Beautiful fish!
when i watched started to watch this video there were 17 views after nine minutes there were 410
ps. love your aquariums
Yay MD, was just missing this :) 🤗
I knew it ...... he’s going to be a great fish to grow out 👍🏻
u do such a amazing job
A kuhli loach tank would be cool
MD has some in the pearlweed jungle of the Asian tank. Never seen them again 🤣
But he wants to redo this tank. Curious if the kuhlis get into a new setup (hopefully with sand) where they can be seen more often too.
I can see my kuhlis several times a day in spite (or because?) of the cryptocoryne forest 😀
Hi. Just a tip on these guys. You can never have a big enough tank for these guys. When i put mine in a 100L tank so I could sort her tank out she kept leaping out of the tank so I had to lid the tank. The i would hear her hitting the tank lid. I took her out of a 500L tank that she thrived in. I woke up the next morning to find she knocked the lid off and jumped out. So if your tank lid is not secure or you dont have length in the tank they will escape. She was my most expensive fish costing $200nzst dollars which is £100 which is expensive in new zealand. I cried when i found her as I had had her for three years and she was the star of the tank
Wow, good idea for pleco..
The whisper subscribe from AntsCanada 🤣✌
Pleco are lightening fast 😮 I have one and he/she zooms around when they want to like mad!
This tank with less plants is definitely one of my favorite.
Less to know the pleco fish to not getting hidden behind plants
Thanks
you can make an 80 gallons or bigger with afrikan chichilds and this pleco but you cant put plants in there but i think you would enjoy it is something different
I've got a 7 inch salfin and a 4 inch Bristlenose pleco they love my plants 🤣
MD , I thought of an idea for your channel and / workshop!
What if you do a livestream timeplapse thing where you display the latest aquarium build over the course of a month or two to show the actual progress in realtime (Sped up)
You should get a tank and fill it with rainbow fish that would look amazing 🤩
Its zucchini in Australia too
I didn’t see Pumpkin in the goldfish tank. Did she pass away:( ?
I like the uk drill music 😂
Generally I feed an algae wafer daily to my bristlenoses. They don’t touch my plants.
In my experience, the algae in a tank alone is t enough to sustain them, they have a very high metabolism and eat a lot
Smart fish. He knew what had to be done to get its own tank.
The thing with plecos is that they chew on every plant. Some plants are just way better at handling it. If you compare the leaf of an amazon sword with a leaf from an anubias, you'll notice the difference; the anubias leaf is way thicker and stronger. This goes for a lot of plants, you can just feel how strong the leaves are and based on that you can get a pretty good idea of what a pleco might do to it. I havent had any issues with plants with small leaves (most stemplants) but plecos will ruin any sword or vallisneria you put in their tank. If they dont eat your vallisneria, they will break it because they munch on the very top, which causes the leaf to bend, and eventually break.
How do you kept the plants so green? 😃😃😃
I've just set up a 130l shell dweller Aquarium maybe that's something you could try buddy
awesome!
Nice video
I like it bro 👌.
Hey Mike, how are things going in the UK? I really like your videos. Keep up the good work.
Get a leaopard frog pleco for the tank as they’re carnivorous
Hey md could you do a scape for a pleco tank 7 bristlenose and Cory's so no plants
I loved the white danio tank - can you do something creative like that again soon?
white danio tank?? I think you have me confused with someone else lol
I think Cobi meant white cloud tank.
What happened to the white clouds?
Have you considered a Brackish setup?
He eats your echinodorus in the amazon tank so why wouldn’t he eat the echinodorus in his new tank? Seems a little bit weird to me, but he has a beautiful tank! Great job!
He wants the pleco to be able to eat plants...just not the plants in his showcase tank!
Maybe as well in the plecos own tank he can also more easily supplement his diet
Need one or two smaller plecos for the tank. Would look nice
Could s/he have some shrimp friends and/or an aquatic frog to share the tank with?
Review on the sparkling gourami tank ??
Hey, MD! I absolutely love your art. What is that contraption I see you use to get water in and out of your tanks? Custom hose attachment or something I could find in the States?