Aquarium Plant Farm Tour, Experiments, and Updates!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2024
- A casual tour of the aquarium plant farm as it is today. Some updates, some experiments, and discussion. This is a more informal look. Any questions about my aquarium plant farm? Comment those below. Make sure to like and subscribe for lots of aquarium plant farming and low tech planted tank content. I release new content every week!
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I love your unconventional approach to propagating plants and moss.
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Love the set ups man. I've learned more from your channel then I have on my own in 10 years.
Thank you :) Im glad you are learning something from the channel. We are always learning, through trial and error 🌱
Same here, it is great he shares his experience
This was very enjoyable to watch, I can't believe how much your operation has grown over the past year! I remember finding your channel when you were just a dude trying to grow some extra plants, now you're running a aquatic plants farm! Awesome stuff, keep up he great work!
Thanks for following along :)
They look great. Love the experiments. 🐸
Thank you! I love the experiments too, I am always tinkering :)
I like this style of tour. Good to see where everything is at and how it’s all coming along. 🌿
Thank you for your input! It seems that lots of folks enjoyed this video. Ill have to do more :)
Great share. I'm just starting a grow set up for crypts. Don't have much space so it is all in a rack in the shower. (I don't use the shower for me) My plan is to use dirt with gravel cap and water to top of gravel.
Love your content, man. Keep at it. Trying to save up some money to buy some things from your website. Best of luck, brother!
Thanks for watching and for thinking of me for your next planted aquarium project! Cheers 🍻
All of those systems look so cool! I wish I had enough space to have my own farm!
Thanks! Even farming on a small scale with a single tank can be very rewarding :)
@@AquariumPlantLab yeah, I have a few submersed jars of plants and it's really fun to try to engineer them to make them better
Awesome man! 🌱 that’s what it’s all about 😊
Great video! Love seeing all of the different systems for growing plants.
Thank you! I have more systems to experiment with :)
Yup I like this 😬😬💚
🙏 thanks 😊
I love your content. I have a couple similar tubs going and some of my own experiments my riverine tank I use bottom 1/2 gravel and fluvel stratum as top soil a small heater to raise humidity and I run my water just a little higher than high enough to moisten the stratum this works well for buce green wavy, anubias nana, crypt parva , I have frog bit in the free spaces to pull excess nutrients to slow algae.
Thanks for watching :) Sounds like you have an excellent balanced system!
Like the long video
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Duckweed is crazy when you put in a pond like they reproduce fast😊
Yes it does :)
Good stuff
May I suggest that you change the output of the pump in the riverine system to a spray bar that spans the width of the tank? I'm pretty sure the current is somewhat channeled and there's an oily film on the surface.
It’s just due for a water change. After a water change there isn’t much algae or film for several weeks. That said I have wanted to experiment with an automated spray/mister system, similar to a spray bar. Would work excellent for Anubias and essentially automate foliar spraying. Just not in the budget at the moment 😊
@@AquariumPlantLab I'm just talking about a piece of pipe or hose with holes (if you like the idea).
Still, pretty cool. I'm starting my emersed Java fern box based on your videos.
The pump is the issue. It doesn’t have enough flow to generate the pressure needed. Would still probably be an improvement though!
Awesome! Good luck with your ferns. What kind of substrate?
@@AquariumPlantLabAbout 60% soil + peat moss, 30% vermiculite and 10% fine sand. I just recently started experimenting with vermiculite I really like how it prevents moist soil from caking. Over the years I've found that a pinch of fine sand helps preventing clumping, which is kind of the same as caking but on a smaller scale that happens between the cake-breakers (gravel, perlite, whatever). And of course, peat is king in water retention and nutrient binding, and I think if gives off some CO2 as it slowly breaks down.
Cool man. The plants are fresh, healty. Great
Thank you! And thanks for commenting 😃
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Thanks for watching :)
This is super cool. Just found your channel 🤙 love the experimentation and testing
Great work Will !
I breed black molly and the only plant that does well in my tanks is a stem plant that I don't know the name of. I've tried other plants with no success. I introduced anubias a year and a half ago and they are still doing good. I will be buying plants from you soon.
The plants look great! I want to do something like that in my garage but the summer months down here in FL are brutal. I would have to add some kind of climate control during those months. 🤔
Thanks! I have the opposite problem up here. It is expensive to heat the "warehouse". We had several weeks this winter in the teens. Energy bill was not ideal. I was heating the space until recently when I switched over to heating the individual tubs. Far more economical that way.
I suggest that you put some dwarf shrimps so that algae minimize in spreading around you hydroponic set up
That would be cool but shrimp would not do well in the hydroponic fertilizer solution 🌱
Definitely enjoyed this style update video. Question if I may. What, if any, melting occurs with moss grown emersed when it's submerged?
Need more content!! How to convert Ludwigia before mailing/selling?
Great video,s iv been in the planted tank seen a while now ...Any tips on growing riccardia moss emersed.
Thank you for sharing…it is very informative👍 If growing Java Fern in soil……do you plant with the rihzome under the soil??
Rhizome on top of soil 👍
I've watched all of your videos and love your content! Just wondering what strength the nutrient solution is in terms of EC/PPM. I have been growing anubias in a system similar to your riverine setup but growth has been a bit slow, I've never had any issues with algae so honestly think I'm being too conservative with my nutrients. I don't live in America so I have been using a generic dry NPK and trace element fertiliser. Any advice?
I don't monitor EC, though I want to try monitoring that at some point in the future. I just don't have the cash to afford a quality instrument at the moment. What I do is monitor nitrate. With hydroponic ferts you can assume that all of the necessary ferts are there in balance, but you need to maintain concentration. I shoot for 50ppm or so nitrate in the water, then assume everything else is balanced. Regardless of reading I typically change water 100% every 3-4 weeks.
What is the ambient temperature bro, also the temperature in riverine, petite setup, dirted and static hydroponic setup, appreciate your answer as always
Regardless of type of setup I always try to keep the temps between 70-80F higher while lights are on, lower while off.
@@AquariumPlantLab Thank you bro, i restarted my anubias trial setup with 5 varieties would be glad to show you , as last time I had root rot issues all over in tank
thanks a lot. that was very helpful. I have 2 question:
1) is the best color for hydroponic system white?
2) could we use aquarium fertilizer instead of hydroponic fertilizer in hydroponic system ?
I will really appreciate that if you answer my questions.
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I’ve done some research and I don’t believe there is much of a difference between white or purple grow lights, that said I’ve never personally tested them. I mainly go with white because I make these videos and purple would be harsh on camera. You could certainly use aquarium ferts in a hydro system, however, they are much more diluted than hydroponic ferts so you’d have to use way more to get similar results. If you want to make your money go further I would invest in a small thing of hydroponic ferts. Much more economical that way.
@@AquariumPlantLab thanks. I made it. have tested with aquarium fertilizer and it worked well. unfortunately the "DYNA_GRO" fertilizer that you've showed or all of hydroponic fertilizer brands are very expensive. at least 5 times more expensive than aquarium fertilizer. its my honor to have a corporation in order to produce hydroponic fertilizer. I live in Iran (Tehran).I'd like to know your idea about the investment heartily.🙂
Hydroponic ferts are far more economical for the concentration of fertilizers you get. Might be more expensive per ounce but you’ll get far more gallons of water treated to equal ppm values. There’s some math involved but ultimately if you want say 100ppm nitrate in your water, hydro ferts will be wayyyy more economical than liquid aquarium ferts. Take a look at maxigro. That’s a good economical option.
@@AquariumPlantLab thanks 🙏
You're right
Bro in the hydroponic system in the warehouse is the water standing? Do u use air stone? And after how long u change the water
I have lots of videos on that setup. Basically yes, about an inch of standing water. No airstone. Water is changed about once a month. All of the plants are sprayed with a hydroponic solution daily.
Hello how do you remove those excessive water in each container ?😁😁😁😁
Syphon for big containers and a turkey baster for the smaller ones 👍
hi Will. I have moss infested with algae. if I do the same method as you describe at 2:01, will the algae die out? Do I need to spray them with H202?
I have anubuas with algae on the leaves too. I really want to revive them :(
I have a question regarding the in line tubing you mentioned in another video. I'm wondering if you set up it like that, is the humidity compromised?
13:45 polycarbonate?