From Aquatic Plant Chump to Aquatic Plant Champ - Mastering Aquatic Horticulture with Bentley Pascoe
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- I was very fortunate to be asked to give a talk to my local fish club, the Greater Seattle Aquarium Society about how I went from relative nobody to "HAP Assassin." In my 4 years of participation within GSAS's Horticulture Awards Program, I have completed the Master Aquatic Horticulturalist title 10 times - this talk goes over what I learned and how I did it.
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What a great presentation 👏 this gave me so much information with issues I've had over the years lol
Since I work night shift currently I stayed listening to videos of Bentley over and over haha good stuff
LOl I clapped at the begining with everybody else... I'm such a dork. Watching it now, thanks for sharing, my friend!
Dork? You were enjoying yourself in your free time…don see a problem
Welcome to the club! 🤪
I’ve tried to double like the video ❤😂. I love this guy
Awesome presentation! I need to watch this again and take notes. When I setup this tank, I put a small bag of aquasoil on the bottom and capped it with pool filter sand. Then I bought a fluval Aquasky 2 weeks ago. I'm using your shallow summer day setting. I've never had crypts root and grow this quickly. My jungle Val is doing amazing. Java Fern....meh. No algae on the anubias. Even my frogbit has been getting healthy growth.
You are an absolute legend thanks for the knowledge and being simple just wow wooooooow
Enjoyable and informative as always Bentley!! And, as always, your jovial personality is on wonderful display! Thank you for sharing with us!
Oh man. I’m IN THIS VIDEO!
This presentation was absolutely Phenomenal! Everyone with even 1 leaf in their tank should watch this. So much info and knowledge. Thank you. I’m sure many hours went into this.
That was a great presentation. I learned a lot. Very well done. Thank you Bentley
Excellent and practical lecture Mr. Pascoe. You certainly did a through review of the basics to be successful.
Well done
less light longer photo period. ahhhh ha! thank you so much
Nicely presented Bentley.
I shared it on my Facebook page.
I’m breaking one of your rules, I get emotionally attached to my plants & find it hard to let go…
What a fantastic talk.
I will definitely watch this video several times. There is a lot of great advice that will save me from future headaches and minimize my failures. Thank you 😊
Two words Thank You!
Great information, as always! You covered a lot of areas. This why I’m a channel member.
Your presentation has quite a bit more polish than the last time I heard it. The crypts i got from you at fishtober fest already have new growth and are looking really good.
Thoroughly enjoyed this!
So much information! Really appreciate you sharing😊
So much wisdom gained thank you
Really enjoyed your talk Bentley it was great to be able to hear it without having to attend! In the tips for handling new plants slide what is the plant in the middle right it looks like an orange color it’s amazing I want some to try 😍
waoooo gr8 gr8 gr8 talk .... its sooooo basic and very simple .... hats off .
Incredible and super useful Bentley. Thanks so much for doing and sharing this and for all you do for the hobby. This is seriously great material.
man this is great; long but great; i have so much to learn;
beautiful presentation! i have learned so much! thank you!
Awesome presentation! Learned a ton!
What a great talk! I learned so much from this one presentation. I was actually taking notes. My project for this winter is setting up 4 heavily planted 10g tanks. Up to this point all I've ever done is hornwort, moss, Java fern and anubias. I'm about to venture into crypts and stem plants this winter. I can see multiple plant syndrome in my near future, lol. Thank you for all the valuable info in this presentation.
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O... Thanks for the talk and advice I also watched da lot of your other videos' already./ New to hobby and need to learn a lot to provide the best possible environment for fish and plants.
That was an amazing talk Bently! I've watched tons of plant videos and live streams and I truly learned more in this than ever before. I even shared it with a few friends who are struggling with their tanks and it gave me hope for my two little tiny scarlet temples I have growing.
Sweet! Great presentation!
Love it.. thanks..
Excellent presentation! Thanks for sharing on TH-cam!
Killed it 🤘 great presentation!
Thankyou Bentley, this video has really helped fill in the bits of knowledge I have been missing :-)
Great talk Bentley 👍👍
Great Info! I am going to be sharing this with some plant addicts.
Number 3 and 4 should be inverted, otherwise, it spells chaet. :P Great info Bentley. Thanks for sharing your information and skills.
I have learned so much! Thank you
Side mote... You've talked about "charging alternatives" substrates. I would love a how to video on that. Thanks again for all the helpful videos!
Great job on this talk! Went back and watched all your milestone videos! Big fan!! Are you selling pairs of your Hawaiian guppy’s?
For those interested in trying co2, check your lfs. Mine will sell you a full tank. You get the deposit back for the tank when you're done. :) No need to buy one. You get the full amount back.
Love the video excellent 👍🇬🇧
You put on a great lecture, bro! I've researched aquarium plants pretty heavily. Read and watched quite a few things, and you just doubled my knowledge on plants.
Thank you so much!
Lol C.H.E.A.T. love fact you did your run as C.H.A.E.T. Cheat,Hack,Avoid,Extract, and Trade. Love it.
I wish I had an aquarium club and or group to attend where I am from
Hi Bentley love your work.
Do most stem plants feed from the water column or from roots?
In other words do I need aquasoil or couldi just use some rootabs
They feed mostly from the water column, but also from roots when healthy roots are established.
@@BentleyPascoe ok great so if doing some basic stems can just use gravel with root tabs?
Bentley
What is this brown slime algae in my reineckii red plants ? How can I get rid of it ? Using Seachem dosing chart. Use Fluval 3.0 lights. On 8 hours per day with one hour ramp up and one hour ramp down. Light settings: Red-87% Blue-5% whites-100%. I feed my discus 2 times per day. Can’t seem to keep it away. Ph is 6.2 to 6.8. Water change 50% once per week. Gh/Kh 4 to 6. Nitrates Nitrites Ammonia all 0. Heavily planted tank with co2 injection.
Do you mean by spreading out fertilizer I put the same amount as I do once on weekly basis over a few days. Ex. I add 20ml to a tank once a week upon weekly maintenance and water change. Instead I must add like 5 mil every few days adding up to the 20 ml weekly. I do not have algae problems, but start to notice that plants do not perform and grow as in beginning. All my tanks is more than 6 months old some even 1 year and couple of months. Myself not even 2 year in hobby and sit with 14 tanks. Loving it like crazy. Regards fertilize questions. My tanks are fairly over stocked with fish. I use a All in one liquid from local fish shop that works out most cost effective currently regards to dosing all tanks. According to some research it looks like I need more Potassium and a bit of Iron.
Also I need to know about increasing fertilizer dosing. In beginning there was slightly less plants. As weeks and months progress I kept on adding more plants. All easy light kind of plants as I run very low-tech. I started to reduce my lights strength as I noticed one tank where plants grow well the light is not as strong. But I do not see difference yet. Therefore thinking of adding more potassium and iron separately. Do I need to increase dosing of all in one fertilizer. My product mentions how many ml to add to liter volume of tank. It does not say because there is more plants I need to double dosage. Example. Is stead of adding 20ml weekly like mentioned above. Do I need to start to add 40ml weekly?
Let me try to answer this in a couple parts. So your first question about spreading out the fertilizer. The way that you described is exactly correct. If you need a 20 ml a week and you spread it over 5 ml doses for times a week that's more in line with what I'm describing.
Now as far as your increase dosing question, you don't necessarily double but what you might do as your plants are growing out is say increase by a percentage. So let's say again, you're using that 20 ml a week and your plants have about doubled in size. Then what I would start doing is looking at instead of dosing 20 milliliters dosing either 25 or 30 ml per week. What we're looking to do is make sure that we're not putting so much into the water system that the plants are no longer consuming it and that algae can then take over, but we need to boost it a little bit to make sure that we don't run into some kind of deficiency.
Just keep in mind when you trim your plants back. If you're not replanting the trims you'll need to bring that dosage down a little bit because you don't have quite as much plant matter anymore. If you are replanting the trims then stay at that slightly higher amount. One way to make this really easy is just use a simple test strip and monitor your nitrates. If your nitrates start climbing a lot, you're dosing too much. But if they stay relatively stable, say somewhere between 10 and 40 parts per million that's perfectly okay for water quality.
I hope that helps!
@@BentleyPascoe Thanks for the info and advice. I'll start doing as you say and hope to see a change for the good. Have a wonderful day and thanks again for your channel and great content over all.
Bentley, I was watching a Co-op video a couple of weeks ago. Cory said he uses food or "Over Feeding," to help feed his plants. Do you have thoughts on that? I love this presentation. Was thinking of a 100lb bottle of CO2 on two very large tanks, would last for awhile. Thanks Bentley!
I don't think what Cory is saying is wrong, but there is a risk of having excessive phosphates using that method and that can lead to things like diatomal algae or several other types of algae. Also if you aren't supplementing at least with micronutrients then you run the risk of a lot of other potential deficiencies down the line.
@@BentleyPascoe understood. You would still need a regular fertilizer then. I think that was Cory's intention.
The biggest benefit of dry ferts is they are cheap. You don’t need to dose them at EI levels either. All in ones are great, but I can’t justify the cost.
Overall, great great presentation, But I myself thought it was too short😂 (seriously, I'm not being sarcastic) . A few things i would of liked more information on was what aspects of plant growth does the other spectrums of light affect (pure white, warm white and cool white) And also the easiest way to supplement calcium & magnesium. Would cuttle bone in the substrate be an option for calcium?
Cuttlebone and crushed coral are really good options.
Thanks! I have crushed coral in there but mostly to buffer my kh, maybe ill make a few spikes out of cuttle bone and put it in the substrate for plants roots. Any good easy ideas for supplement magnesium?
Fire extinguisher company will refill not exchange
how to go by for lighting when you have epiphytic and stem plants in a aquarium
So in general, most of the epiphytic plants prefer low or medium light. Stemplants tend to prefer high and medium light. So it depends on the stems and specific epiphytes you using. You likely can get away with just having about medium light levels. And that should be sufficient for all of your plants. But if you have super high demand stems and then a bunch of the newbies, what you need to do is make the stems shade the anubius so that you can run highlight on the stems and that shading will bring it down to like medium or lower levels of light over the anubius as an example
So basically when you buy plants you should acclimate them to your tank before planting them
That has been what I've found to be most successful in the past. There are some exceptions, but those are typically only aponogetons.
some lights have UV like Week Aqua Z200 Pro P600 Pro, what does it do to plants, algae, fish?
No help, UV is out of the PAR range, usually UV is used to deal with parasites, but continuous UV in a light is risky
can i grow my rotalas, using a budget full spectrum led light?
Some yes, some no. Many of the rotalas in red colors or non-green rotala require high light to color well and many budget friendly lights just don't have enough power for them
Bentley, I’m following your “shallow” settings and have a runaway jungle now. The dwarf (my ass) Sagittarius is over 18” just to name one. Tank is a fluval 32.5 with two lights, seachem substrate(deep) no co2 and sporadic fertilizing. A high bio load. Did I hear you say in another video that cutting the dwarf real short for a while will train it to stay short?
Not really, that's with lily plants
@@BentleyPascoe thanks I’ll keep researching. They’re really out of control.
@@damiangrouse4564 to keep dwarf sag low you need higher light usually, lower light it will reach, but it usually looks great!
@@BentleyPascoe really appreciate you taking the time on this. I guess overgrown plants is the price I’ll pay for less algae. Nothing is free…
what do you use to test your water?
API liquid kits and Co-Oo test strips
All that carbon. What about using charcoal then?
Charcoal removes nutrients. I would never use carbon unless I was dealing with fish heal problems or trying to remove medicines/chemicals
@@BentleyPascoe yeah, I know. I hear it all the time but I think its that quality that makes it so good. Back in the day I started a tank with the carbon filter to guard against that ammonia spike that can happen when adding fish. But then the carbon filter fills up and begins feeding the bacteria.
If plants need carbon ( I was thinking of burnt wood) but those diy tabs release to much ammonia why not combine the two and end up with a chunk of charcoal (actual chared wood not activated charcoal) in the substrate with ammonia in it that the plants can digest?
Idk. I might try this just to see.
Just get good substrate; ferts are overrated imo