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indeed, I'd say I mainly got encouraged by him and his attitude as well. Now, don't let the following discourage you, just as a precautionary comment: if you wanna start with it, start with a bigger tank (more water means more forgiving in terms of parameter swings), and make absolutely sure you cycle it properly. I've started about a month ago and had major heartbreak after the tank had a nitrite spike (I thought it was cycled) and had to quarantine the shrimp to a different tank. sadly, about 2/3rds died (on the other hand, of the remaining ones 2 are carrying eggs).
MD back peddling hard when he said he was gonna keep a tank for a year lol I love your low tech style. I want to do something similar for my living room.
Bro, I started watching your videos like 6months ago and now I have a 10gal Cherry shrimp/fancy guppy tank. A 30gal preacox rainbow fish/neon tetra tank and a 20gal pangio kuhli/serpea tetra tank🤣🤣 Still trying to get my scaping skills fine tuned, but you've been a serious inspiration and a large amount help. Keep up the great work and much love from the States!💯👍
I love those small details. When I was a child I liked to take (without mother permission of course xD) tadpoles to raise them up. I guess I was already interested in aquariums back then and I was reading about bio balance of the water so I knew that only tap water was not enough so I always took a 1,5 bottle of water from the same lake they came from and dirt, plant matter from the bottom and I loooved to observe those little creatures inside. I liked it so much that sometimes I was just taking this dirt from water just to observe what I got this time xD
Hi it's been a few months. Could we get another update? I just love this and i absolutely can't wait to try this myself! I'm learning as much as i can so that I can do it right from the start and not kill anything! thanks for all your videos, we're all learning so much!
FISHSTORY is another channel you can learn a lot from. He prefers tanks with little to no mechanical filtration and little other than balanced ecological processes. And you'll learn more tricks and technical stuff than you can handle! Sometimes his tanks are messy looking but his fish are always happy and healthy.
I miss getting these type of vids on my recommendation it's so relaxing ( now I just need vids from drawing and sculpting, very relaxing/amazing to watch the process )
@@MDFishTanks thanks mate yea had to take a bit of time out with the family but back now mate and enjoying it again thanks mate deffo have to catch up at some point this year thou
I love this bowl, it's a stand out piece in your collection, I made an eco one myself after watching your build video around a month ago, I test everyday and have good parameters however the adult shrimp don't seem to be doing well as the young ones, I often find a few dead adults in the morning with the babies doing just fine.. Baffles me! Keep the videos coming, I never cease to get inspiration from them!
Sometimes I find this with a new set that I add to a tank, the adults breed and die off and the offspring and generations to come are bulletproof. I guess it could be the paramaters shift that shocks the adults over the long term with moulting perhaps.
@@MDFishTanks There's hope for me yet then! I'll keep doing what I'm doing with the tests and hopefully as you said I get some tough young shrimp! I've seen that you've also added nano fish to eco tanks previously, something I'd love to do and just wondered if you manage to do this without a heater and if so what temp is your room temp at if you don't mind me asking?
@@andystokes8702 Hi mate, no I'm certain they're dead shrimp, I have four other tanks all with shrimp in but running with filters and they're all sound, just my bowl I'm struggling with 👎
Firstly check if the "dead adults" are not just the shedding of exoskeletons. If they are really dead it could be an oxygen issue. I had an oxygen issue in a shrimp tank and only the large shrimp died.
Bowls rightly get a bad rap because it was common to just plonk a goldfish in a bowl, doing a bowl set up that has a balanced system like this is no different than setting up a glass box with the same contents.
I'm all about building eco/bioactive systems, and I am learning so much from your channel. Tips and tricks that I've never heard of before. Gorilla glue sticks to moss? Who knew!
Thanks for the update and the maintenance tips! About 1.5 years ago one of your earlier bowl videos inspired me to make my own. I've had huge success, and my shrimp colony is thriving. However, moss is definitely the bane of my existence! It keeps growing long, not carpeting and will eventually strangle all other growth if I don't trim it back. When I trim it back though, it sinks and starts creating a new mess of long moss a month later. Maybe a moss planting and maintenance focused vid one day?
I see a massive trend with your tanks, they are incredibly green. Amazing to see how good the tanks run in your care, BUT I do have a question. Have you ever made a salt water tank or tanks themed off of a place you'd see in the wild???
wow! this is so amazing. I have 5 cats, and I want to make a water ecosystem for them to drink out of. definitely will have to substitute shrimp for a pump. your ideas are beautiful!
I always follow your videos. I personally feel your aquascapes are the best in the world to be honest. I like simple but neat n beautiful scapes, which you do actually. Thank you very much! Love from India.
I'm new to your channel. I watched your reef tank videos from 3 years ago then this, and I gotta say you've gone a long way on the Aquarium journey and getting so good at it.
So I have to ask. What's the point in the soil if all the plants are epiphytes? You mentioned roots penetrating the bag. I'm trying to figure out which ones considering they don't like roots being buried. For the record, love the channel. Just an honest question.
I love this bowl, it's a stand out piece in your collection, I made an eco one myself after watching your build video around a month ago, I test everyday and have good parameters however the adult shrimp don't seem to be doing well as the young ones, I often find a few dead adults in the morning with the babies doing just fine.. Baffles me! Keep the videos coming, I never cease to get inspiration from them!
I was recommended your first video of this bowl and I enjoyed it. Then this update popped up. I love the way your shoot your content and you Sir, can have my like and sub. ✨💕 Love your content, love how you shoot your content.
I love this. I have a Walstad 10 gallon for my cherry shrimp that has been going for about 5 years now. Depending on how much the water gets tinted by the tannins, I may do a water change once a year. Otherwise, I just top off.
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I'm super inspire to build a eco-bowl tank like this. I recently purchased a 3 Gallon Bowl. I am a little afraid of the process. Will adding Chili Rasbora be too much for the ecosystem? Please keep the bowl longer! I would love to know if the bowl is great long term. Thank you for the video!!
3 gallons is borderline for a school of chili rasboras. There are two things to consider about volume for fish: bioload (nitrogenous wastes) and behavior. Chili rasboras are schooling/shoaling fish, so you’ll need a minimum of 6 fish. That’s about all the bioload a 3 gallon planted aquarium can handle. Behaviorally, 3 gallons is not much swim space for even chili rasboras, one of the smallest fish in the hobby. Can you keep chilis in a 3 gallon? Yes. Will they be happy? Maybe. If you’re already nervous, stick with snails and shrimp. Much lower bioload and activity level.
Hiya! I've set up a version similar to this. But I'm having issues with low oxygen levels. I've fixed this with an air stone but it's not something I wanted to be using long term. Do you ever have issues with low oxygen or does your planting manage this? I have a good number of plants in the tank already thou :/
What happen with the blue acaras ? What happen with their babies ? What happen with the babies that you took away from them ? I know so many questions !! sorry is that I just love your videos. Keep up the great work
I’ve received a comment regarding selection of shrimp. The comment suggested keeping to a single color of shrimp, otherwise, due to breeding, over time, all the shrimp will be of a single dull color. What are your thoughts on this?
MD, I wanted your thoughts on using a coffee mug heater to heat a bowl tank in a normal home. Also, do you ever deal with melt back when you use your plants from storage that aren't submerged.
For those of us with less than balanced bowls... surface agitation gets rid of the slick on the surface. I put an airstone on a low stream in mine and it disappeared within a day or two.
I'm really getting into these kind of set ups and filterless, no heater nano tanks lately. So much you can do with them and they look so good. Thanks for the inspiration. 👍❤👍
Hello Really love this tank, so natural, beautiful and clean. Want to start one of my own. Live in Canada, first time trying this... really like the idea of aquaskaping. Really into Zen and plants. Have a house full of them. Want to dive into water plants...and make this my new thing. It's great to watch you...you are very good at what you do. Tuning in for more of your tanks, but really want to start a bowl of my own..like now. Just looking for the right bowl. Should the bowl be a certain thickness?
love your channel, very inspiring work. I am thinking of doing an eco bowl like this myself to put on the bedside table, without having to deal with filters and them. if I plant a bit less (so that i can see the fish), put in 5-10 shrimps and a couple of snails, do you think a bowl like this can keep a betta healthy? or is filtration mandatory for betta?
I’ve had my current Betta since August (five months now) in a bowl by my bedside. No real plants, filters, or artificial lights. However, I also want to eventually make a natural eco bowl for him. So, I’m wondering a similar thing… between the live plants and other organisms, will he remain healthy, especially in a no filter tank?
We have 4 of these ecosystem bowls in the office. Once a month we give them a little trim and top of the bowl. About 3 months ago, one of the bows was out of harmony and we got an excess of nitrate, so we started to do some water changes. One night I came back in the office and saw a whole bunch of neon tetra's swimming around. I was told that breeders have a kind of difficulties breeding tetra's. I have the solution! Breed them in a bowl instead of a tank. Because we only put 10 in, but we removed 12. I guess most of them were hiding during the day in the greenery or should I say nursery. After we removed about half of the fish and put those in a normal tank near the reception, the bowl started get into it's old groove again and parameters started to stabilize again... I love these ecosystem bowls and tanks. They are very low maintenance once they are really up & running and they provide green & life into the office... We have in our living room two large L-shaped couches back to back and between we've placed some side tables and they 'separate' the sitting area from the TV watching area. Now I've created a 10 by 2 ft tank (30" total height, water level should be around 27-28") ecosystem tank. But once I build the tank from 1/2" glass I started to realize how massive this tank was. Total volume should be around 330 gallons. Under estimated that a lot and it's very heavy. When we placed the tank on the current side tables, it started to make some weird noises. So now I've created a cabinet that should act as a base for the tank. The front (which is the 2 (w) x 2.5 (h) ft part) has some storage area's for tools and food. Growing the plants in tubs is great. Basically these tubs are also mini ecosystems, they have substrate, aqua soil, plants (no real hardscape or sand) and they got a handful neon's swimming around. So about month I can now create a new tub and probably near the end of the year, we have enough gravel, aqua soil and plants for the main tank. I just hope my gf doesn't change her mind about the tank between now and then... Thanks for your video's, I learned a lot from them!
Watched a few of your videos, and I am amazed... and ashamed of my own tank. I started a year ago, having nonidea what I am doing, listening to advice from the hardware store where I bought the equipment and the fish. It is horrible by comparison. The fish are doing Ok, I think, but there are way to many. I have algea all over the place and can't get rid of it, probably because to much nutrients? The ground is a mess, parts of the aqua soil is peeki g through because I have been water changing and trying to clean the fish dirt (as I was adviced to do).... there is just so much wrong that I really really want to start over. I wish you would write a book or something where you explain all those little details.... I would buy it in a heart beat!
Hello what a wonderful build and I am a new subscriber to this amazing channel. I am planning to build something like this is my apartment, so may I know the light source that you are using there? How long the plants are getting the lights per day? Thanks
I've had an aquaponic system running for twenty years without* maintenance. *Water needs topping, fish need feeding. It's also quite heavily stocked. This is not an experiment. It's a copy cat of systems you can find all over the world. Plant really heavy. Let the microbes cycle in. Stock really light. Job done. That's all there is to this.
You seem to know what you're doing, my fish tank has this issue with brown algae. Also known as beard algae. It's taking over my tank and I can't seem to get rid of it. The quality of the water (nitrate etc) seems to be in order. Any tips on how to get rid of it? Do I need more fish? Right now I have a 125L tank and only 5 algae eaters (cause I'm waiting on my main fish). Any tips?
Fertilizer really is the main problem when growing plants for me. It's when I learn that I only needed water and light that my plants started growing well.
I’ve heard that Java ferns don’t do well in water without agitation. Why do you think yours have done so well despite there not being any filter in this bowl?
I did a similar bowl (fairly large) with a filter and lots of substrate. But plants don’t seem to do well, and often die. Especially less robust plants. ammonia always seems to be higher than it should. Idk what to do anymore and I kinda wanna give up (it’s not stocked yet) anyone have advice ?
MD you should do a new project with the plan to keep it long term. I know that's not your thing but it would be cool to plan it in a way you could enjoy watching it mature overtime. I saw a 21 year old tank the other day, so cool!
May i ask silly question. I have seen a lot of your videos. and i see similarities. All of them are thrive and no co2 pressurized. Even rotala macrandra doing very well in rainbow fish tank. And almost all of them have floating plants on it. My question : are you using liquid co2 supplementation? Does floating plants increased co2 level of water?
I wanna do this but I’m a beginner and haven’t done one yet, I’ve got a place here in Australia near me that sells neo caradina, and I have the substrate available but I don’t really know where to get some aquatic plants, would you recommend what places to look for?
You have become my favorite aquarium hobby channel.. i literally get so excited when i see a new upload, then slowly fall into a md fish tanks rabbit hole lool..
So let me get this clear. There is no filter, no heater, nothing else than water, light, plants and the inhabitants and all you did was the perfect soil? Maaan im struggling with my unheated tank for month since the plants wont grow. And i did pretty much the same soil layers except the coars gravel. Whats your magic source XD? Am i doing the wrong lighting? I just use a simple LED strip.
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Hey, great video, do you have any follow ups on this Bowl?
heyy do you know the price range on the whole thing i would love to make one myself but i’m not the richest person 😅
What I love about this channel is the humble and “this is fine”- attitude from the author. Feel less anxious about embracing this hobby now.
indeed, I'd say I mainly got encouraged by him and his attitude as well. Now, don't let the following discourage you, just as a precautionary comment: if you wanna start with it, start with a bigger tank (more water means more forgiving in terms of parameter swings), and make absolutely sure you cycle it properly. I've started about a month ago and had major heartbreak after the tank had a nitrite spike (I thought it was cycled) and had to quarantine the shrimp to a different tank. sadly, about 2/3rds died (on the other hand, of the remaining ones 2 are carrying eggs).
Yeah he really shows that you can have pro level setups with pretty low tech if you just study and practice!
What’s wrong with doing this
@@ElvianEmpireI have no idea what you just said.
@@SoloHiker1what do u mean
MD back peddling hard when he said he was gonna keep a tank for a year lol I love your low tech style. I want to do something similar for my living room.
Bro, I started watching your videos like 6months ago and now I have a 10gal Cherry shrimp/fancy guppy tank. A 30gal preacox rainbow fish/neon tetra tank and a 20gal pangio kuhli/serpea tetra tank🤣🤣 Still trying to get my scaping skills fine tuned, but you've been a serious inspiration and a large amount help. Keep up the great work and much love from the States!💯👍
I love those small details. When I was a child I liked to take (without mother permission of course xD) tadpoles to raise them up. I guess I was already interested in aquariums back then and I was reading about bio balance of the water so I knew that only tap water was not enough so I always took a 1,5 bottle of water from the same lake they came from and dirt, plant matter from the bottom and I loooved to observe those little creatures inside. I liked it so much that sometimes I was just taking this dirt from water just to observe what I got this time xD
Hi it's been a few months. Could we get another update? I just love this and i absolutely can't wait to try this myself! I'm learning as much as i can so that I can do it right from the start and not kill anything! thanks for all your videos, we're all learning so much!
FISHSTORY is another channel you can learn a lot from. He prefers tanks with little to no mechanical filtration and little other than balanced ecological processes. And you'll learn more tricks and technical stuff than you can handle! Sometimes his tanks are messy looking but his fish are always happy and healthy.
I miss getting these type of vids on my recommendation it's so relaxing ( now I just need vids from drawing and sculpting, very relaxing/amazing to watch the process )
No4. Just ask md he is the man 👨 your tanks and bang on mate
nice one james. good to have you back posting again
@@MDFishTanks thanks mate yea had to take a bit of time out with the family but back now mate and enjoying it again thanks mate deffo have to catch up at some point this year thou
I love this bowl, it's a stand out piece in your collection, I made an eco one myself after watching your build video around a month ago, I test everyday and have good parameters however the adult shrimp don't seem to be doing well as the young ones, I often find a few dead adults in the morning with the babies doing just fine.. Baffles me! Keep the videos coming, I never cease to get inspiration from them!
Sometimes I find this with a new set that I add to a tank, the adults breed and die off and the offspring and generations to come are bulletproof. I guess it could be the paramaters shift that shocks the adults over the long term with moulting perhaps.
@@MDFishTanks There's hope for me yet then! I'll keep doing what I'm doing with the tests and hopefully as you said I get some tough young shrimp! I've seen that you've also added nano fish to eco tanks previously, something I'd love to do and just wondered if you manage to do this without a heater and if so what temp is your room temp at if you don't mind me asking?
Are you certain the shrimp are dead? - You could just be looking at sheds rather than dead shrimp?
@@andystokes8702 Hi mate, no I'm certain they're dead shrimp, I have four other tanks all with shrimp in but running with filters and they're all sound, just my bowl I'm struggling with 👎
Firstly check if the "dead adults" are not just the shedding of exoskeletons. If they are really dead it could be an oxygen issue. I had an oxygen issue in a shrimp tank and only the large shrimp died.
this is unrelated but i am so glad that your channel comments section isnt filled with people saying its not a mistake its a masterpiece
Bowls rightly get a bad rap because it was common to just plonk a goldfish in a bowl, doing a bowl set up that has a balanced system like this is no different than setting up a glass box with the same contents.
@@77slate true
I'm all about building eco/bioactive systems, and I am learning so much from your channel. Tips and tricks that I've never heard of before. Gorilla glue sticks to moss? Who knew!
You’ve convinced me not only to get / make a fishtank, I’m appearently also gonna fill it with shrimp instead of goldfish !
You are delightful. You bring so much passion and humility to your work
Thanks for the update and the maintenance tips! About 1.5 years ago one of your earlier bowl videos inspired me to make my own. I've had huge success, and my shrimp colony is thriving. However, moss is definitely the bane of my existence! It keeps growing long, not carpeting and will eventually strangle all other growth if I don't trim it back. When I trim it back though, it sinks and starts creating a new mess of long moss a month later. Maybe a moss planting and maintenance focused vid one day?
commenting because i also want to know as well, very interested in starting one
That's very helpful. I was thinking of getting moss for my new fish family.... now I won't! Thank you! :)
this bowl is really nice. so many beautiful plants and a very nice hardscape. not to mention the fuzzy water lettuce
my school has something like that. not a bowl full of water but a big closed bottle, its been untouched for 43 years. and there is still life in it.
Never even knew things like this existed… just wow
Lovely photography! :D Not only was this interesting to watch for the subject matter, but visually the video is very pleasing to look at.
I see a massive trend with your tanks, they are incredibly green. Amazing to see how good the tanks run in your care, BUT I do have a question. Have you ever made a salt water tank or tanks themed off of a place you'd see in the wild???
He did have a saltwater tank, he didn't like it.
wow! this is so amazing. I have 5 cats, and I want to make a water ecosystem for them to drink out of. definitely will have to substitute shrimp for a pump. your ideas are beautiful!
That’s such a nice idea
@@stadtjer689 maybe you could make one like that and record a video 😜
Thanks for the update, still looking fantastisk. I have just made a 19L bowle last weekend. 🤩
C'mon MD, keep the bowl going for six months then see how things are working out. Keep us up to date with this project.
I always follow your videos. I personally feel your aquascapes are the best in the world to be honest. I like simple but neat n beautiful scapes, which you do actually. Thank you very much! Love from India.
My mother and I knew a man who made these in lamps. Entirely closed, no need to feed or anything. His name was Shepard.
I am here to say those mesh bags work wonderfully yasss 🔥. The only problem is the plant just grow so fast
You should make a livestream of your favorite tank so we can watch it as the fish/plants grow
I have a 40 gallon for guppy breeding and it's going on 2 years no water changes and it's doing great
I'm new to your channel. I watched your reef tank videos from 3 years ago then this, and I gotta say you've gone a long way on the Aquarium journey and getting so good at it.
My plants dont grow at all MD 😂
Rubbish, your tanks look amazing. 😂
So I have to ask. What's the point in the soil if all the plants are epiphytes? You mentioned roots penetrating the bag. I'm trying to figure out which ones considering they don't like roots being buried. For the record, love the channel. Just an honest question.
Love the tanks as always. And those subscribers are growing! Congrats
these update videos are really good
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Hey, All the respect. Can you PLEASE test your TDS and water parameters from your tap. I`m really curios how soft is your water. Have a good day sir.
Your tank very beutiful and relax to see😃
I love this bowl, it's a stand out piece in your collection, I made an eco one myself after watching your build video around a month ago, I test everyday and have good parameters however the adult shrimp don't seem to be doing well as the young ones, I often find a few dead adults in the morning with the babies doing just fine.. Baffles me! Keep the videos coming, I never cease to get inspiration from them!
I was recommended your first video of this bowl and I enjoyed it. Then this update popped up.
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Love your content, love how you shoot your content.
Need a tiny scoop net in my life. Mostly for the bath 😄
I love this bowl so much! Love to see its progress and random shrimp.
Unfortunately, I prepared my nano shrimp aquarium a few days ago. Thanks to this informative video, I can still make a few changes.
I love this. I have a Walstad 10 gallon for my cherry shrimp that has been going for about 5 years now. Depending on how much the water gets tinted by the tannins, I may do a water change once a year. Otherwise, I just top off.
This is a great vid of yours and I've watched a lot of what you've done but this is great the way you explain. Cheers Mate!
Simply stunning 🤩
just found your channel... you're doing a great job my friend ...
I found new fish store in the Bay area California awesome place. They have everything. Not as big as your store but still amazing place (San Mateo aquarium) of anyone else lives in northern California SF area
Did I just stumble across a legendary channel
Love the platy aquarium
Please revisit the lamp and IKEA vase, no filter tank. I’d like to know how that’s doing. Thanks
Get well soon
Nice mate
One tip... The fishbowls are super delicate. One hit with the scissors and it will crack...be careful
I've found a shop that sells an 88L fish bowl and it's taking all my restraint to not buy the damn thing...MD you are NOT helping!!! 😂
I love this bowl. But I wanted to sit and watch it for five minutes after the vid. Ecosystem Bowl live feed! :)
I would love to have a tank like this in my home!
I'm super inspire to build a eco-bowl tank like this. I recently purchased a 3 Gallon Bowl. I am a little afraid of the process. Will adding Chili Rasbora be too much for the ecosystem? Please keep the bowl longer! I would love to know if the bowl is great long term. Thank you for the video!!
3 gallons is borderline for a school of chili rasboras. There are two things to consider about volume for fish: bioload (nitrogenous wastes) and behavior. Chili rasboras are schooling/shoaling fish, so you’ll need a minimum of 6 fish. That’s about all the bioload a 3 gallon planted aquarium can handle. Behaviorally, 3 gallons is not much swim space for even chili rasboras, one of the smallest fish in the hobby. Can you keep chilis in a 3 gallon? Yes. Will they be happy? Maybe. If you’re already nervous, stick with snails and shrimp. Much lower bioload and activity level.
I have a quick question because i feel like starting something of my own. On average how much does it cost to make a decent eco system tank?
Plants are expensive!
At my nearest store, the plants are like $10 each, so besides the tank/bowl that's where most of the money goes. Shrimp and fish are a bit less each
About 200 with bowl, plants, interior and animals
Hiya! I've set up a version similar to this. But I'm having issues with low oxygen levels. I've fixed this with an air stone but it's not something I wanted to be using long term.
Do you ever have issues with low oxygen or does your planting manage this? I have a good number of plants in the tank already thou :/
I'm curious about that too, though I'm curious if it could be low light?
What happen with the blue acaras ? What happen with their babies ? What happen with the babies that you took away from them ?
I know so many questions !! sorry is that I just love your videos. Keep up the great work
Amazing intro 👏
I’ve received a comment regarding selection of shrimp. The comment suggested keeping to a single color of shrimp, otherwise, due to breeding, over time, all the shrimp will be of a single dull color. What are your thoughts on this?
Also my experience that slow growing plants are fine with fast growing plants. Also reduce maintenance 👍
MD, I wanted your thoughts on using a coffee mug heater to heat a bowl tank in a normal home. Also, do you ever deal with melt back when you use your plants from storage that aren't submerged.
Wow didnt think of using one of those.. hopefully someone will chime in with some info
Beautiful
Absolutely adore the bowl. It's so beautiful to the eye. Could sit and look at that all day.
For those of us with less than balanced bowls... surface agitation gets rid of the slick on the surface. I put an airstone on a low stream in mine and it disappeared within a day or two.
So cool. Love it.
I'm really getting into these kind of set ups and filterless, no heater nano tanks lately. So much you can do with them and they look so good. Thanks for the inspiration.
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Hello
Really love this tank, so natural, beautiful and clean. Want to start one of my own. Live in Canada, first time trying this... really like the idea of aquaskaping. Really into Zen and plants. Have a house full of them. Want to dive into water plants...and make this my new thing. It's great to watch you...you are very good at what you do. Tuning in for more of your tanks, but really want to start a bowl of my own..like now. Just looking for the right bowl. Should the bowl be a certain thickness?
love your channel, very inspiring work. I am thinking of doing an eco bowl like this myself to put on the bedside table, without having to deal with filters and them. if I plant a bit less (so that i can see the fish), put in 5-10 shrimps and a couple of snails, do you think a bowl like this can keep a betta healthy? or is filtration mandatory for betta?
I’ve had my current Betta since August (five months now) in a bowl by my bedside. No real plants, filters, or artificial lights. However, I also want to eventually make a natural eco bowl for him. So, I’m wondering a similar thing… between the live plants and other organisms, will he remain healthy, especially in a no filter tank?
We have 4 of these ecosystem bowls in the office. Once a month we give them a little trim and top of the bowl. About 3 months ago, one of the bows was out of harmony and we got an excess of nitrate, so we started to do some water changes. One night I came back in the office and saw a whole bunch of neon tetra's swimming around. I was told that breeders have a kind of difficulties breeding tetra's. I have the solution! Breed them in a bowl instead of a tank. Because we only put 10 in, but we removed 12. I guess most of them were hiding during the day in the greenery or should I say nursery. After we removed about half of the fish and put those in a normal tank near the reception, the bowl started get into it's old groove again and parameters started to stabilize again...
I love these ecosystem bowls and tanks. They are very low maintenance once they are really up & running and they provide green & life into the office...
We have in our living room two large L-shaped couches back to back and between we've placed some side tables and they 'separate' the sitting area from the TV watching area.
Now I've created a 10 by 2 ft tank (30" total height, water level should be around 27-28") ecosystem tank. But once I build the tank from 1/2" glass I started to realize how massive this tank was. Total volume should be around 330 gallons. Under estimated that a lot and it's very heavy. When we placed the tank on the current side tables, it started to make some weird noises. So now I've created a cabinet that should act as a base for the tank. The front (which is the 2 (w) x 2.5 (h) ft part) has some storage area's for tools and food.
Growing the plants in tubs is great. Basically these tubs are also mini ecosystems, they have substrate, aqua soil, plants (no real hardscape or sand) and they got a handful neon's swimming around. So about month I can now create a new tub and probably near the end of the year, we have enough gravel, aqua soil and plants for the main tank. I just hope my gf doesn't change her mind about the tank between now and then...
Thanks for your video's, I learned a lot from them!
Watched a few of your videos, and I am amazed... and ashamed of my own tank. I started a year ago, having nonidea what I am doing, listening to advice from the hardware store where I bought the equipment and the fish.
It is horrible by comparison. The fish are doing Ok, I think, but there are way to many. I have algea all over the place and can't get rid of it, probably because to much nutrients? The ground is a mess, parts of the aqua soil is peeki g through because I have been water changing and trying to clean the fish dirt (as I was adviced to do).... there is just so much wrong that I really really want to start over.
I wish you would write a book or something where you explain all those little details.... I would buy it in a heart beat!
This is all cool and stuff. But the cleaning would be tedious
Love it! 👍🏻😍
Could this house one betta and 5 or so shrimp?
My only problem with bowl tanks: you cannot use an algae scraper XD
Good
Hello what a wonderful build and I am a new subscriber to this amazing channel. I am planning to build something like this is my apartment, so may I know the light source that you are using there? How long the plants are getting the lights per day?
Thanks
I've had an aquaponic system running for twenty years without* maintenance. *Water needs topping, fish need feeding. It's also quite heavily stocked.
This is not an experiment. It's a copy cat of systems you can find all over the world.
Plant really heavy. Let the microbes cycle in. Stock really light. Job done. That's all there is to this.
Thanks for your comment. May I ask, do you do any water changes at all? Any specific light requirements? Thank you, Tamara.
You seem to know what you're doing, my fish tank has this issue with brown algae. Also known as beard algae. It's taking over my tank and I can't seem to get rid of it. The quality of the water (nitrate etc) seems to be in order. Any tips on how to get rid of it? Do I need more fish? Right now I have a 125L tank and only 5 algae eaters (cause I'm waiting on my main fish). Any tips?
Can someone tell me the name of the plant at approximately 06:48 when MD is taking the mini water lettuce out
Always fun to watch your video's. I love the bowl. I was wondering how big this bowl is. Is this bowl in one of the links available?
Beautiful tank but you shouldn´t hide it in a corner... That´s a centerpiece and should be viewed from all angels🧐
Do you use plant fertilizer on you're eco system set ups?
Fertilizer really is the main problem when growing plants for me. It's when I learn that I only needed water and light that my plants started growing well.
I’ve heard that Java ferns don’t do well in water without agitation. Why do you think yours have done so well despite there not being any filter in this bowl?
I'm a newb. Do the snails climb out?
When are you going to start selling your own eco aquarium kits :)
I did a similar bowl (fairly large) with a filter and lots of substrate. But plants don’t seem to do well, and often die. Especially less robust plants. ammonia always seems to be higher than it should. Idk what to do anymore and I kinda wanna give up (it’s not stocked yet) anyone have advice ?
It’s been like a month or longer of cycling but it hasn’t seemed to balance.
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MD you should do a new project with the plan to keep it long term. I know that's not your thing but it would be cool to plan it in a way you could enjoy watching it mature overtime. I saw a 21 year old tank the other day, so cool!
May i ask silly question. I have seen a lot of your videos. and i see similarities. All of them are thrive and no co2 pressurized. Even rotala macrandra doing very well in rainbow fish tank. And almost all of them have floating plants on it. My question : are you using liquid co2 supplementation? Does floating plants increased co2 level of water?
Liquid co2 is only good for killing algae. .theres no such thing as co2 in liquid form.
Would you please do an update on the ram tank
its possible to make one but, whitout the animals?, sorry for my bad english, New sub from argentina!
I wanna do this but I’m a beginner and haven’t done one yet, I’ve got a place here in Australia near me that sells neo caradina, and I have the substrate available but I don’t really know where to get some aquatic plants, would you recommend what places to look for?
That's incredible and a lovely bowl! I'll be bragging about it if I successfully build something like that
You have become my favorite aquarium hobby channel.. i literally get so excited when i see a new upload, then slowly fall into a md fish tanks rabbit hole lool..
Do you not have a heater inside? What temps you keep it at? Nice setups.
So let me get this clear. There is no filter, no heater, nothing else than water, light, plants and the inhabitants and all you did was the perfect soil? Maaan im struggling with my unheated tank for month since the plants wont grow. And i did pretty much the same soil layers except the coars gravel. Whats your magic source XD? Am i doing the wrong lighting? I just use a simple LED strip.
My question - but without filter how the water stays crystal clear?