Forest Bubble
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- Introducing Forest Bubble, the ecoquarium sequel to Jungle Bubble. This video explains everything you need to know to create a similar aquatic microcosm in your own home.
Photos: showcase.aquatic-gardeners.org/2017/show743.html
More photos: arweave.net/vK...
Animals: Hyphessobrycon amandae, Carinotetraodon travancoricus, Caridina multidentata.
Plants: Cryptocoryne balansae, Echinodorus tenellus, Anubias, Vesicularia montagnei, Fissidens fontanus.
Bowl: American Made Plastics, 18-inch clear acrylic globe with 8-inch opening. (amazon.com)
Lamp: IKEA Arod floor lamp (ikea.com)
Bulb: Ecosmart PAR38 1300-lumen, 5000-kelvin. You can increase the lumens if you can deal with the heat, but don't go less than 4000 kelvin. (homedepot.com)
Powerhead: SunSun JP-032 90 GPH. (amazon.com)
Top: Delvie's Plastics (8-1/2)-inch clear acrylic disc, (3/8) inch thick. Don't forget a second disc for the bottom, 8 inches in diameter to match the cork mat. (delviesplastics.com)
Acrylic bumpers (standoffs): Shepherd (1/2)-inch(homedepot.com)
Support pipe: Charlotte Pipe 4" female adapter (SKU 189200) or repair coupler (SKU 472646). Don't use anything that's not bevelled on the inside! (homedepot.com)
Cork mat: Vigoro 8-inch (homedepot.com)
Foam cable stays: UT Wire D-Wings (amazon.com)
Furniture sliders: Super Sliders or Shepherd felt slider pads (lowes.com or homedepot.com)
Forest Bubble Flora and Fauna:
• Forest Bubble Flora an...
Forest Bubble Longview:
• Forest Bubble Longview
Acrylic repair tutorial, should you need it:
• HOW TO: Remove aquariu...
How did I get here? You win again TH-cam!
I have no idea how I got here either. I think I took a wrong turn at Biosphere 2 and ended up in Wonderland...
the comment section is full of people with theoretical knowledge. I bet 90% haven't owned a fish tank or fish bowl. y be so stiff man enjoy this man's effort. He is creating such beauties
Manish Borah I have fish
n u haven't said anything bad about the bowl
I said for those who are cursing this beauty.
I'm not a fan of those bowles, but this is the best scaped bowl I ever seen. With your choice of nano fishes and your knowlegde, I think this one is doing good.
Thank you. Suffice to say that the road to success is paved with failure. And sometimes, two similar setups can evolve in maddeningly different ways. Such is the richness of life.
It's beautiful, it's videos like yours and some others I've seen that inspired me to setup my own little aquarium from a glass jar. Thanks for a great video!👍
My pleasure! I like your betta jar as well. The bioload is so small that you probably don't need the air pump. Oddly enough I started with exactly the same jar (from Anchor Hocking, sold at Target), before I swapped it for a cylinder bowl and created Ember Tepui. th-cam.com/video/YG79AXrMb5A/w-d-xo.html .
This is beautiful. Great message too. Now I'm feeling inspired to do one myself haha
Please do. I suggest you start with the mechanics: th-cam.com/video/B_Wc_ChAbvQ/w-d-xo.html
If I was a fish, that’s where I would want to live
Cyprus Hallbert thats bc you are an idiot
AngryBoy it’s true, I was born with a disability
AngryBoy u just got demolished
Thats a retarded thing to say.
This is just perfectly stunning!
Thank you, reply back here if you ever set up your own and post a video.
You should make a tutorial as you build a bowl
I have no current plan to do that because it would take months or even a year, but it would add a lot of value and I would consider doing so. For now, the best I can offer is this:
Mechanical construction: th-cam.com/video/B_Wc_ChAbvQ/w-d-xo.html
Full realization of the same: th-cam.com/video/eoEFv3qZ5Qc/w-d-xo.html
I'm working on an 18 inch glass bubble bowl right now. Its going to be soiled and fertilized with air driven sponge filter.
I'm planting pearl weed, crystalwort, hornwort, guppy grass, and keeping n class endlers in it.
Guppies are great for bowls. In some Asian cities, they have open bowls with guppies and lily pads right in front of stores on the street. I've done a few guppy bowls myself, as shown in "Rethinking Jungle Bubble". Just beware that they can reproduce like crazy. And by the way, the sponge filter will look awful and be a headache to maintain. It won't be necessary if you have enough plants and not too many fish. Try a cheap low-power powerhead instead. And I wouldn't use much soil, except at the roots. Good luck, and if you finish it, reply here with a link to your video.
The fish do look healthy, imo. I would've only put a few of them in there though.
Well, I needed enough for them to form a school, but obviously there's an upper limit to what's supportable. That comes down to issues of oxygen and the nitrogen cycle. Under the conditions described in the video, they're flourishing. But for instance if there were a prolonged power outage, or period of high temperature, then I'd probably remove half the water in order to massively increase gas exchange.
Keeping a good population of snails can help with cascading death syndrome. In my tank, if anything dies, it’s immediately swarmed by snails and eaten to nothing in a few short hours. And then there’s no ammonia spike, probably because the ammonia gets released more slowly and some of the nitrogen is used by the snails.
That's a good practical suggestion. I just happen to hate the aesthetics of too many snails. Perhaps a few nerites, which will reproduce slowly if at all, would be a reasonable compromise.
I started looking at apartments in Manhattan to watching Forest Bubble.. you leasing any forest bubbles?
Well that might be a good business model in Manhattan, but I think if there's any real money to be made in bowls, it's at the exploratorium end of the spectrum. (Leasing bowls as opposed to selling them would also be too hard on the inhabitants.) Or for the particularly well funded, one could create a human version, such as the Cloud Forest at Gardens by the Bay in Singapore.
This is amazing! i love Aquascapes too but cant get the desired plants here
Great commentary at the end! I think the whole concept of maintaining an aquarium, or even a small fish bowl (I had a 2-inch goldfish live for 10 years, with frequent water changes) has died in the U.S. due to this perception of "animal abuse," but the same people with hateful comments will keep a cat locked up in their apartment for years, or will fail to walk their dog on a daily basis. To many of these haters, walking the dog is walking 20 steps for a poop outing, as opposed to walking the dog for 2 to 4 miles/daily. The irony of their logic is glaring. If we follow their logic to fruition, no animals should be domesticated as pets, and koi living in ponds is still a bigger prison!!! But luckily, the art of aquariums is not lost in either China or Japan, where enthusiasts understand the nitrogen cycle, and the delicate balance of ammonia, nitrites and nitrates, and proper water changes. Keep up the good work, and thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Well, aquascaping was never as big in the US as in Asia. Although it's certainly true that the aquarium hobby in general is slowing down here in the US while it seems to be growing steadily over there. For one thing, I think that's because people here are less affluent and have less free time than they did in the previous generation, and also because we live in an instant gratification culture which isn't conducive to aquascaping. Conversely, over that same span of time, Asian wealth per capita increased substantially, while stifling air pollution forced people to find ways to enrich their lives indoors. Let's also not forget the elephant in the room, which is the internet and all the hours it sucks away from everything else in life. In any event, I think the aquarium hobby will continue to grow, as people become increasingly desperate to hang on to some semblance of nature while it's being ubiquitously degraded. At least, it's good practice for living on Mars.
As for the animal cruelty argument, well, you can't take care of one animal without inducing the deaths of many more elsewhere, both directly, for food, and indirectly, via waste products. So there's no such thing as a closed system, despite the fact that aquaria seem to be just that. In general, it's an unfortunate irony that people who keep pets, myself included, are unavoidably defeated by this fact. By the same token, given the choice, I'd rather be a spoiled fish in a planted bowl, than left to fend for myself in a lake full of predators and pollution. Nobody ever said that life was fair. Suffice to say that it's not just that some people are hypocritical in their attacks on the aquarium hobby as compared to their own poor animal husbandry; the point is that, even if they're excellent caretakers of their own pets, they nevertheless cannot avoid the aforementioned collateral damage.
dangerousfishbowl ... Good point about animal domestication being about creating an altar to nature, while all is us are unconscious perpetrators of climate change and polar cap melting. In the end, we human animals are different from our fellow animals in that we greedily consume more resources than we need for sustaining life, hence humans’ inherent hypocrisy. PETA antics of spray painting fur coat wearers is more a short-sighted indictment of the system, rather than uplifting social awareness. To PETA’s credit, the videos of seals being bludgeoned or chickens being caged in crowded conditions causes more societal awareness than other in-your-face optic strategies. But, being human is less about being the savior to all causes than about realizing our own limits, and instead focusing on one endeavor to bring about one ray of hope to one’s life and to others lives. If creating a small fishbowl can bring enjoyment to me, and I can carry that inner joy to others, than it’s worthy of endeavor.
Elon Musk might be peeking in to learn the basics of a closed system to carry over into terra-forming Mars...
@@dangerousfishbowlchannel Beautifully stated point, and your bowl is a lovely environment. There may be a lot of fish, but they are a the right type to be together, and are in good clean conditions with hiding places and natural landscape. Its the bigger fish that dont do well in these sized set ups, even if its only two.
I just came here to know why the fishbowl is dangerous.
Wojtek Mazur lol
There is actually an answer to your question. It will all make sense if you have a look at the very first video I posted.
Well said mission and values statement at the end. In regard to the tank, it's exquisite!
Wow! That's cool and crystal clean,What filter media you installed in it?
None, just a powerhead.
Plant even on the equator do not get 12 hours of direct sunlight as the earth rotates on its axis and indirect lighting happens due to clouds, trees and sshadows from other structures near a wild stream or pond it is suggested youonly give 8-10 hours of light to plants in an aqaurium. You also might want to add a few cattapa leaves, aka almond leaves, as suggested by Rachel O'Leary.
I don't want to add leaf litter because my planting area is so severely limited. I do alter the lighting angle at least once a day in order to get adequate illumination. 8 hours might cut it, but I tend to be up around 11.
I can understand that, but place 1-2 behind your driftwood.
SSOOOo bautiful!! Congratulations! ♥
Thank you, reply back here if you ever set up your own and post a video.
Oh yes for sure!! OR do as I did and create a group on Facebook and that way you'll attract more people!! :-) (I've got 3 running!... ;-)
If it's an aquarium group, go ahead and reply with a link so others can check it out.
Beautiful
its beautiful you are an artist
looks awesome
That’s a beautiful aquarium
Beautiful, great job!!
Thank you. It's not so hard to do, actually. It just requires giving nature a little nudge in the direction you desire.
What do you recommend for a beginner to start with? I really enjoy the Bubble look very much.
Me too! There's something inherently appealing about the entire bubble concept that eludes precise description. Below, I've listed the 2 videos that you really must see in order to understand how to make a bubble and how to maintain it. The first video deals with a cylinder, but the concept is very much the same for a bubble. I would recommend starting with a glass bowl simply because you don't need to build your own base for it. "Forest Bubble" and "River Bubble" have all the materials linked in the description. I always encourage my subscribers to reply with links to their own bowl videos upon completion. Meanwhile, I'm happy to answer any questions if possible.
th-cam.com/video/B_Wc_ChAbvQ/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/t0LkI7A8z94/w-d-xo.html
Thank you very much.
How are you maintaining a consistent temp in your bowls? They don't appear to have heaters/heat mats, nor have you mentioned heaters in the comments. Thx.
Steve Goodwin I would have to assume the heat from his lamp heats the water sufficiently and as he said it is on for about 12 hours a day. The temperature drop in the evening would probably mimic that of nightfall with no lasting effects on the fish.
Good question. I keep my place in a tight thermal band 24/7, which is completely compatible with my fish. Actually, the light adds essentially no heat at all because I keep it at least 10 cm from the bowl at all times (for safety reasons) and the hot air it generates escapes upwards.
I feel like a dunce. I can't find the globe on Amazon. Would you mind posting a link to it. Or the ASIN number for it. When I search for what you describe, all I get are Lamp Post Globes and they mostly are not clear and have their opening on the side (and smaller too). I have purchased a 19 inch glass bubble bowl from Events Wholesale, but I am interested in your acrylic bowl. Seems safer and easier to work with.
www.amazon.com/18-Clear-Acrylic-Globe-3202-18020-017/dp/B00435J8HO
This vídeo has some time but Im setting a planted fishbowl and i have a betta ,you added 1ml of urine per liter to fertelize it xD didnt harm your fishes ?
Nah, it's just not that much nitrogen. It's also better to do that before adding any fish, so you can gauge the effect on your plants. Definitely back off if the fish seem stressed.
It's beautiful!!!!!
Thank you for the detailed info
As much as I listened to the specifics about the setup of your tank, I listened to what you said about the environmental side of the hobby. Keeping enclosed animals is a double-edged sword in that it is limiting the individual animal's freedom, but teaching the hobbyist valuable skills and concepts, perhaps (or hopefully...) leading to a more sustainable lifestyle. High hopes, of course.
Yes, that's precisely the tradeoff. If we maintain a completely "hands off" approach to nature, our cognizance of its importance will wane in our collective mind, thereby accelerating the demise of the wild. And eventually, when the oceans are full of pollution and garbage, there won't be any alternative to capitivity, but extinction. Sorry to be so pessimistic, but frankly I see no reason for optimism in trends which have persisted for centuries.
dangerousfishbowl
Half hearted justifications abound, but we all know it is not ethical to trap an animal in some tiny little habitat for your entertainment. Not fish in bowls, elephants in circus tents, or whales at amusement parks.
I think if you take such an absolutist stance, you'll end up stimulating the dangerous disconnect between humanity and the rest of nature, which will do far more damage than keeping some tiny fish in a planted bowl.
dangerousfishbowl
We dont need to put fish in bowls, whales in pools, or lions in cages to preserve a connection to nature. I could certainly see putting an animal in temporary captivity to nurse it back to health or something, but thats not usually what zoos are, or circuses, or aquariums. Theyre just little prison cells, which lead to physical and mental problems for the inmates. All so we can see the pretty animals up close for a few bucks.
I understand where you're coming from, but the reality is that distancing ourselves from nature reinforces the narrative that we are somehow separate from it. This fosters a lack of regard for environmental destruction. Nonetheless, keeping aquariums is merely going to slow the process down. The list of species which _only_ seem to exist in captivity is growing year by year. (Today, this is mostly certain types of killifish.) And when we colonize space, there will be no alternative if we want to bring our friends along for the ride. We have to be careful not to superimpose our own intelligence on these creatures, who do have some smarts of their own, but don't necessarily realize that they're in "prison". And remember the alternative is exposure to predators, wild virusses, and pollution.
That is sweet. I wonder how it does over time ... not much surface area for gas exchange... though I don’t know what that would mean either...
It really comes down to bioload. If you notice that your fish are all kind of listlessly hanging out at the surface in the morning, that's a sign that your water column is not being sufficiently oxygenated. You can then lower the water level and/or improve circulation. Of course, powerheads aren't necessarily a robust solution because they can become clogged.
Wow that looks so cool 👍👍👍
That is lovely!
Wonderful, verry nice bowl!!!!
I have a dirted 2.5 gal fully carpeted with micro sword. It's very simple maintenance. I also have blackworms living in the tank and am thinking about adding scarlet badis to the tank
co2? lighting?
pmang6 I'm in college and The tank is at my parents house so it's just in a windowsill now. Just micro sword and black worms. Letting it fill in all winter so when I come home in summer it should be filled in and I can add fish. Natural light and no co2. I'll add a 6.5k bulb during summer when I am home
2.5 seems toi little for the fish you want to add would recommand maybe shrimps , snails , maybe a betta ?
It is very beautiful but isn’t it too small?
I've addressed this many times before in these comments. The short answer is no. Fish behavior speaks volumes.
Gorgeous. Well done!
Can I buy one from you with a care manual what would cost be it’s beautiful 😍
I would like to know As well.
Thanks for your flattering question :) I actually considered making a business around this, but no one is willing to pay what it actually costs. The value is in the natural art, not in the materials. What would several months' labor of love be worth? To me, a fortune. To the market, a few hundred bucks.
dangerousfishbowl sad about it if you can come up with a reasonable number ( meaning one I can afford ) please let me know
Again, I'm flattered. But in all honesty, it would be cheaper to make one yourself using the materials linked in the description. The shipping alone could run into the hundreds of dollars, depending on where you are. For this sort of composition handmade by a master, $2000 would be a reasonable price. One of my friends suggested that I start a bespoke bowl business for those wealthy enough to afford them, but the market is small so I would rather just contribute my expertise as a public service, in the hopes that people produce and share their own astonishing compositions.
dangerousfishbowl fair enough I just might try to do it myself it’s truly beautiful and a work of living art amazing 😉
Do the plants pearl much with that light? I just switched to the 5k led 1600 lumen bulb and it seems like the plants pearl less
My personal opinion is that pearling is a misinterpretation of bubbles adhering to the surface of plant leaves after a water change. (Takashi Amano popularized the notion that it's actually due to oxygen escaping through the stomata of the leaves due to heavy CO2 fertilization. I think he fell for the aforementioned illusion. But I'm open to being proven wrong.)
dangerousfishbowl You can see the difference between bubbles that come from the water change and bubbles from pearling. When a plant pearls you can see a steady, regular stream of really small bubbles which can go on for hours
I think that's due to trapped air in the leaf escaping through a breach, after a water change. I don't think plants produce oxygen that fast.
dangerousfishbowl I can only really speak from experience here, but I do have a completely sealed tank with no fish in it- just shrimp -in which you can see the oxygen coming off the leaves when I place it in direct sunlight, I've not opened this tank for any reason for several months now.
Plants consume carbon dioxide and thus produce oxygen at varying rates depending on species and surface area. There's unfortunately not much specific data on these rates and factors, especially for plants grown underwater. I've had to do many of my own calculations independently.
simply exquisite!
a bowl to aspire to my friends
I enjoyed that! Awesome.
Where do people find these large glass bowls? How much water in there? I want one lol
The answers are in the TH-cam description and the video itself. And by the way, it's acrylic, not glass. Let me know if you have further questions.
dangerousfishbowl thank you! I've been looking for on of these for awhile! Just worried it wouldn't be enough water space for my fish. Very interesting! It looks beautiful
dude...
1. i don't know who told you pissing in your fish tank can increase ammonia content... in your urine, there should only be water, salts containing sodium, potassium etc and urea. you liver converts ALL ammonia into urea. if there's ammonia present in your urine, that's a sign of liver failure. in nature there are microbes in the soil which converts urea back into NH3 or NH4+. otherwise you can heat urea to 350 degree Celsius to turn it into ammonia. so, pretty sure adding piss in water ain't gonna do shit. PLEASE just dose the tank with fish food or something like normal people.
2. long illumination period + low CO2 (aka not dosing CO2) = algae going nuts. just look at the brushy shit on your plants dude. if you don't wanna dose CO2, that's completely fine. but you NEED to cut the lighting period (and possibly intensity as well) IN HALF at least. i nearly shat myself when you said you have your lights on for 12 HOURS a day in such a setup...
3. you need more intense water movement on the surface or your fish will suffocate. i can see there's a thin bio-film covering your water surface already. chemically it's harmless but it will prevent gas exchange. that means your fish won't get as much O2 and your plants won't get as much CO2 therefore not producing much O2. these 2 effects combined will be disastrous for your fish. if you want to keep this setup low-tech and don't want to add a surface skimmer, you can reroute your filter outlet to the water surface with a tube or something.
1. Yes, I forgot about that. But urea should still work, and empirically, it does.
2. I get your point, but it's actually the phosphates in the local tap water that drive most of the algae growth. However, in this case, the "brushy shit" is blackbeard, which I'm intentionally maintaining. I don't get any significant green slime or green water. The lighting isn't as significant as you think due to the difficulty of getting wide coverage, although one needs to be careful not to heat up the tank by putting the light too close to the top.
3. Yes, this is a risk, given a sufficiently thick biofilm. All I can say is that I haven't had any dead fish from lack of oxygen in the year that it's been up. It's actually more of a concern with the shrimp, as they tend to spend more time near the bottom. The bigger concern, actually, is not having enough light during power outages to maintain sufficient O2. In that case, I would just advise draining off several centimeters of water so as to increase the surface area. You concerns are valid, but are most easily addressed by simply not overstocking. Yes, surface perturbation would also help, if you want a higher bioload and can tolerate the noise.
first time i've heard someone say he maintains his bba, lol.
Youn Kim I enjoy black beard algae done in the right way, I have it growing on a large piece of driftwood in my main tank. If you've not seen it before take a look at some of rachel o'leary's older videos, she had some awesome bba in her monster tank. Bob from steenfott Aquatics also keeps some in one of his scapes.
Yeah I grant you that this isn't exactly a common practice. My personal opinion is that it's quite beautiful when it's short, sort of like an anemone in a marine tank, but like any other plant it can get out of control. It's an aesthetic judgment call.
good job man !
oooh really nice. too many fish though. has anyone ever recommended a betta instead?
Thank you. Actually, there aren't too many fish, based on what the bowl can sustain. See my other comments about this. Of course, with fewer plants or less light and thus less oxygen, you would be right. A betta would do fine in there, but do you really want to support an industry that keeps fish in tiny cups of water? An exception would be responsible breeders like Inglorious Bettas.
actually, I have thought about that. Most people tend to believe that it's ok to keep bettas in the tiny containers, which is why I tend to just breed them myself or buy them from breeders that I know personally. At least I'm glad you are aware of the fact that the tiny plastic containers that bettas are kept in are unethical.
Kudos for your good judgment! Let's stop buying weak bettas in cramped containers from breeders who don't care.
this is great but i think i should mention that before you do this you should consider the fact that round bowls distort the vision of fish and can really disorientate them
This has been discussed before. I don't think it's a significant issue simply because the fish show no signs of navigational problems or emotional disturbances after such a long time living in there.
woah why the hate. if i was going to create something like this i would want to be informed of anything that could potentially hurt an animal
Ad hominem attacks will be deleted on this channel, which is why I deleted Trey Peters' comment even though I respectfully disagree with your theory. I have robust tolerance for dissent, but zero tolerance for purely personal insults, whether or not those insults support my own position.
I will do this! Thanks for the video.
What are u using for substrate?
Pool sand. FYI it's an inhalation hazard when dry.
Great work, I hope I can do one myself.
You can! See the description for sourcing info. Of course, you might have to improvise, depending on what's available to you via shipping. But be patient. It took me a long time to grow it out and stabilize it sufficiently well to the point where I could introduce fish.
Did you have to clean it often
I wipe off the algae and trim the plants every month or so. I was lazy for a while so Java moss took over the place temporarily!
That's so cool!
Lovely!
I have problem with woods it after two week covered with jelly white some kind of algae I guess ,how I can fix it
Fortnite vids to this not sure how I got here 🧐
You're supposed to boil the wood so it doesn't float, but hey crafter by a "master"
Areed. Boiling for fungi or mould is best if you can, but I had to soak mine in a large garbage pale in the sun during the hot summer months as it was too big. It will not take years to water-log a piece of wood; it took maybe a couple weeks to a month for a large piece in a 50 gallon I had. Otherwise, really nice setup.
Boiling to remove unwanted microfauna and fungus is probably a good idea, although drying in the sun seems to work well. I don't worry about waterlogging, though, as I just use caulk to fix the wood to the bowl when both are sufficiently dry.
how u clean this bowl
The same way I clean this one: th-cam.com/video/t0LkI7A8z94/w-d-xo.html
SENsational, thank You! =)
What filter do you use?
See the video. It's just a powerhead.
love it
unbelievable...wow
Looks nice
Cool
That is soooo many fishes for such a small space...
K.J. i haven't done a water change in 2 months. 15 gallons 6 otocinclus, used to have 2 corydoras, 1 betta, 3 ghost shrimp 1 got eaten by the betta and 5 snails 4 red ramshorn and 1 zebra nerite. 0 ammonia 0 nitrite. Alot of plants so i assume below 40 nitrate
They're still schoaling happily...
well thought out
Do you think you can hook me up with any aquatic plants
Try aquabid.com .
Try Rachel O'Leary aka MzJinks.com or the H2Oplant guy or Cory of Aquarium Co-Op. All are on YT.
Nice!
I need one
Yeah tell me about it! It takes considerable restraint to not put bowls all over the house just because I can.
Then how could we clean the bowl or wash it
See here for bowl cleaning: th-cam.com/video/t0LkI7A8z94/w-d-xo.html
Neat!
Bhai, eto batela keno?
भाई, आप क्या कहते हैं?
How big is that bowl?
40cm across 40 litres in volume
Very pretty but too many fish. Five would have been plenty.
Well, probably not. Embers need friends to feel comfortable. But OK maybe 10 would have sufficed.
keep the thickness of the caulk uniform... teehee....
Yeah, this whole video is full of unintended double entendres. Like "try not to splatter your caulk on the visible part of the bowl".
is there filter in it?
a filter is still needed, the amount of plants compared to fish does not allow for enough ammonia oxidation
Simbarashe Kadirire nope, that's literally the point of this method
Oui, it seems that there is a filter, look mouvements of plant leafs
No, just a 90 GPH powerhead.
How do you keep the oxygen level balanced when you turned off the lights?plants do need oxygen when nighttime
Good question. I have no idea, but the plants have never suffered for lack of oxygen, so far as I've been able to discern. It probably comes down to low bioload and moderate temperature.
my plants die
Wow so cool
Just make sure the person donating the urine isn't on medications that might be urinated out!
How many gallons?
It's about 12 gallons.
Aren't there too many fishes for this little environment ?
I moved a few of them to another bowl, mainly as a precaution in case my assumptions are wrong, but no, as long as there's adequate circulation for gas exchange, they should be fine. (I recommend fixing the powerhead in place with caulk on the suction cups during construction, so it won't fall off and fail.) Even today, they seem quite content and behave similarly as in the video.
I am not talking about gas, I am talking about their living space. If we put you in a cube of 5m³ all your life, I don't think that it would be a good treatment.
Well fish don’t have the same mentality as humans so that’s not a fair statement.Though I do agree it seems to many for such a small space but it should be fine if the plants produce enough oxygen and keep it clean , the fish will be “happy”.
May be I am wrong but fishes are animals that are used to living in huge places (Like the ocean for exemple). Just sayin'. If you take them in a confined space, I am not sure that they would apreciate it. It's not because they can't express their feelings as us, humans, do that they don't have any.
This has been discussed many times over in these comments. Your concern is rational, but it comes down to behavior. After so long in that bowl, they're still healthy and swimming around normally. I know what it looks like when a fish is nervous or freaking out. They don't look like that. And bear in mind: the diameter is like 25 times the length of their bodies! I don't think my own home is anywhere near as large.
and that's why i torn down my reef tank.... had it over 10 years.. constantly doing maintenance. This sphere tank is just the same... I think i rather have just one gold fish and a glass jar for now..
Fghj GHJjjy Gold fish are pretty high maintenance though man, they live a real long time and get quite large. I'm a big fan of them personally, but a betta might be better for you, their so fun to train and just to admire aswell.
Alex Caffrey
trust me i had it all.., i had over 100 kois, they aint fun to take care of..
all my kois were at lest 30 inches or bigger...
If your talking about keeping a goldfish in a jar then I am not going to "trust you"
GoldfishRescueofWisconsin Yeah, it's pretty basic knowledge that you don't keep goldfish in small tanks because of how big they get. I think somebody here is playing pretend.
Alex Caffrey
i had a 6,000 gallon water fountain koi pond with over 100 different kois. Also had 100 gallon reef tank L.E.D setup system over ten years. Also had a salt water predator tank...I'm just saying, it's all fun at first but after a couple years... u wish you had just a gold fish in a small bowl.
Very Nice, But Very Dangerous for Fishes" They Become Blind!
Thanks for your feedback, but I see no evidence in their behavior which would suggest that.
yes, fish don't live in such bright conditions. Very stressful,they prefer a more subdued lighting.
Very pretty but it should be all about the fish.
It looks very cool, but im not ab big fan of those tiny aqariums or terrariums. I mean, there is life inside, an every (or most of it) want to discover there surroundings... but after a couple houres, the fishes and crayfishes have seen everything, and thats it. For the rest of there live, they must live in this boring, "always the same" place. It looks good/great for us humans, but i think for the creature inside, it must be like tourture.
EnergYbomB Fish like these don't need rigorous stimulation like most pets :) places to hide, fish to interact with, things to eat and even items to play with is all they need. Your compassion is absolutely a wonderful trait to have, but fear not!
Exactly my thoughts! I couldn't bare to have a living organism contained in that sphere! It would be a torture for me...
I've discussed this at length, and I think your heart is in the right place, but this sort of analysis needs to occur in the context of fish brains, not human brains. In the absence of fish psychologists, the best tool we have is our own observation of their behavior. In that regard, their stress level in this bowl is no more than they would have in the wild, and certainly less than they would have in the everyday presence of a predator. They aren't hanging out depressed and bored at the bottom.
Their stress level might be low ok, but wouldn't they swim more if they were in the wild? Ok these fish are tiny and I can see what you mean, but do you believe that if that bowl was a big aquarium they wouldn't spread to the whole area of it instead of being all the time so close to each other? Im asking because I want to get informed, this has been bugging me since I was a kid and they bought me a fishbowl...
I respect the ethical motivation for your question. So, yes, they would spread out more if given more space. But that could occur merely due to the randomness of their migration. For the sake of safety, though, they would probably still tend to stick together, like "bait balls" of sardines in the ocean. The real question we must answer is how much space, and moreover what sort of environment, they require in order to be comfortable. I doubt that they're capable of the mental abstraction required in order feel imprisoned in my bowl, if their behavior is any clue. I'm open to being disproven on this, but absent a deeper understanding of fish neurology, all we have to go by is their behavior. And from that basis, they hardly seem to have a care in the world. The fish are acting the same these days as they did when I shot this video back in July. They're not sulking on the bottom or frantically darting around. Frankly, they're behaving as though they own the place and I owe them a living! :)
It's beautiful but really too little for the number of fish in there . Plus bowl are known To drive fish crazy so wouldn't recommand this fish bowl To anyone
why do they drive fish crazy?
@@rerhodes1 imagine yourself looking in a bowl you wouldn't be able to see your surrounding as it is constantly shifting and being deformed as you move .. fish see the same as us and as it make them confused and lost they will stop to move as to stop their vision to constantly being deformed .. you can sometime see this comportement with bettas that Will become lethlargic in bowl . Try to look in a glass your vision will be deformed imagine seeing like that for the rest of your life and worse some people put their fish an empty bowl so they cant look at anything without their vision being fucked up
@@pixazelz bullshit
NO BUBBLE FOR FISH !
It's fine, the plants give the oxygen.
What fish do you have in here?
Read the TH-cam description.
You could have just told him
he could have just read the description
Žiga Strmšek but as a TH-camr it's supposed to be your job to inform even if the information is already told, not everyone has the time to stick around for every detail
I'm not the one that uploaded this so it's not my job
"has the time to stick around for every detail" So he doesn't have the time to read the description, but has the time to ask a question and wait hours or days for a reply?
Dirty mind test 💀💀💀💀💀💀😂
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cooper paine lmao how
its very cool to see it but ...sorry but enought space for ur fishes
I'm not going to criticize you for having empathy, but there are nuances to this issue which I've addressed many times in this thread.
jean claude douaumont I disagree
too many fish
This has been discussed below ad nauseum...
DO NOT KEEP YOUR FISHES IN A BOWL
gniewomir is it bc bubble makes fish crazy? Maybe it's ok if they are this tiny?
it damages their eyes, and inhibits their proper growth, also fishes naturally like to hide in corners, which there are none
Do you have research reference to back this up? The view we see when looking through a tank like this is not representative of the point of view inside the tank. From inside the tank, all that matters is the angle of the glass relative to the fish's eye, and that's going to vary quite a bit in both round and regular aquariums. The image fish see outside is always distorted. There is a reason why fisheye lense is named after fish's eye.
I believe the issue is more that round tanks tend to be smaller and too often placed centrally so fish have less hiding spots and more activity around them. Yet there are plenty of hiding spots inside this particular tank because it's scaped.
There's also the issue of smaller surface area which is actually mentioned in the video itself.
why do i bother with you people and your delusions, but ok www.petguide.com/blog/fish/cute-but-deadly-the-truth-about-fish-bowls/ www.aquariadise.com/goldfish-bowl-banned/
That article is about keeping *Goldfish* in unfiltered bowl which shouldn't be obviously done. This guy is keeping ember tetras, dwarf puffers and amano shrimps in a passively filtered bowl (powerhead + scape). All which do quite well in room temperatures by the way and grow less than 3 cm in size except for amanos. There's a HUGE difference.
Of course a fish that grows the size of bowl is going to get stunted. Hell goldfish are really pond fish and should not be kept in aquariums at all since they grow size of up to half a meter in ponds and only about half of that even in BIG aquariums. That article is poor argument for not keeping small fish in large bowls. This one is 45 cm diameter which makes it 45 liter tank. For some reason people have issues with large bowls and not with smaller 20 liter rectangular or hexagonal tanks (which are actually illegal here since minimum tank size according to my country's laws is 40 liters) .
Anyhow. At its widest and tallest this forest bubble has over 15 times length and height of adult fish kept in it. Sizewise it's perfectly fine for keeping nano fish.
or you could just leave the fucking fish in the river.
yeah so can I maybe ill go shit in your fridge....
dog, what the hell?
call me a dog you fucking mongoloid!
Get your panties out of a twist man.
Your trippin balls man, I'm the straightest girl you know.
tourture
I don't think you can honestly say that if you look at how the fish are behaving. It's not about human perception. It's about fish experience. The best clue we have to the latter is behavior, and they don't seem to be freaking out. Quite to the contrary, actually.
Stupidity.
total ignorance JC
Beautiful
Get Off Your Bass And Lets Fish h
what kind of fertilizer?
CO2 and nitrogen from the fish. One could also add trace minerals from time to time if necessary.
that's what you put in the bottom when setting up the tank?
i guess, i was just wondering how to prepare the sand/soil/whatever when setting up the tank.
i bought a 12-gal cylindrical tank ... was going to try to make it self-sustaining.
haven't got all the components together, as yet.