To learn more about aquariums, watch here: ruclips.net/video/JhBM3EbL8g0/видео.html Link to Ryo Watanabe's world-ranking aquascape: ruclips.net/video/Y93H4eCEA6c/видео.html Easy Root Tabs Fertilizer: www.aquariumcoop.com/products/easy-root-tabs?_pos=1&_psq=easy%20root%20tabs&_ss=e&_v=1.0 Aquarium Plants in this video: www.aquariumcoop.com/collections/plants Easy Green Liquid Fertilizer: www.aquariumcoop.com/products/easy-green-all-in-one-fertilizer?_pos=1&_psq=easy%20green&_ss=e&_v=1.0 Planting Tweezers: www.aquariumcoop.com/products/planting-tweezers?_pos=1&_psq=tweezer&_ss=e&_v=1.0 Scaping Scissors: www.aquariumcoop.com/products/curved-aquarium-plant-scissors?_pos=1&_psq=scissors&_ss=e&_v=1.0
Thank you Zenzo, I hope this video can help other aquarists out there. Patience really is important and also adjusting to problems along the way. Even in my own aquascape that you showed here, I had a huge staghorn algae issue in the second month and it took me weeks to get rid of.
I 100% agree and I learned this lesson HARD! When I first started, I spent 1,100USD (equivalent) on a really well designed aquascape. I'd been saving money for a looong time. Only three months later I felt so dissatisfied I tore it down. Looking back now I really regret it because I can see it was beautiful and only had a tiny amount diatom algae. At the time though I hated and resented it and was so stressed out... I really had to learn how to be patient with myself after that. Today, even my 'weakest' aquascapes are still 6months+ and I love them all and continue to work with them towards satisfaction. Be kind to yourselves! Aquariums are dynamic. They're going to change over time and so are we and we can use the opportunity to grow alongside them!
Zenzo those tanks look great! In 47 yrs of fishkeeping I finally bought my first live plants EVER! Java moss and hornwort..and this has happened this year, summer of 2021.🙂
Thanks so much for showing your "under construction" tanks! We see so many completed perfect aquascapes, it can get really discouraging when we don't get perfect results immediately.
Thank you. I think this is a very important message that new aquarium keeps need to see. Watching what happens overtime is one of my favorite parts about aquarium keeping. If I have a problem, I really enjoy watching the problem go away overtime after making a change. This might take months in some cases but it rewarding and you learn a lot along the way.
This hobby definitely teaches you abt patience. I appreciate your transparency on the tank that you are working on and informing us on the journey to get to your end results.
It’s very true. My first attempts at planted tanks and aquascaping I thought went awful but about 6 months later (no co2) everything started looking a lot better. Time and patience with some care and everything can look very close to how you envisioned it
This is great encouragement! My tank is no where near where I want it, but every new leaf on the anubias or new stem on the water sprite has me excited!
You are so right! I manege an aquarium on a office and half of the plants looked half dead until 6 month of establiching. It also had a lot of algea, but now after 14 months the algea are gone and it is just more and more beautifull everytime i see it
I’m so glad you posted this. It’s so true that many of us lack patience! Seeing your tanks in a less mature state reminds me of how I feel when I see models and movie stars before and after hours in the makeup and hair chair. You can really beat yourself up over aesthetics until you realize it’s work, time, and patience to get there. You are a very thoughtful fish keeper! Subbed.
I really enjoyed this video and I think you speak to it perfectly when you say we live in an instant-gratification world. I'm new to planted aquariums and it has been fun learning as I go. Love to see that new leaf sprout here, disappointed to see my mystery snails decimate those leaves there etc. Being impatient can ruin the journey.
Zenzo, thank you for showing those three aquariums! #1 they don’t look bad. #2 they make me feel like, with time, my aquarium can look better. It is about the journey, not the destination. I have been following Ryo for a while now. He is pretty amazing. I’ve learned a lot from him, too. I’m never going to have the kind of fish rooms you, Ryo and others I follow have, but I enjoy my little aquarium and love seeing yours!
All 3 tanks look great zenzo for being up and running such a short time. This hobby definitely makes you learn to have patience. I have little and learning to have more.
Patience is the bane of my existence with aquariums and plants, but learning this has actually helped me have patience in other areas of my life...enjoying the journey instead of rushing towards the end process. 👍❤👍
Thank you this good information for any new aquarist out there I'm a newer aquarist and I went for the planted route and let me confirm this it will take time
Everything is looking awesome i just barely missed meeting you and cory at the shop recently. You are a great influence on the hobby and ive learned alot from you
Awesome video, I used to work at a big box pet store and trying to explain to people that aquarium take time and patience was definitely one of my biggest struggles.
Thanks for showing us your tanks in their current state of growth. A lot of us think we can get a "show" tank instantly. Just hadn't made this connection.
Great reminder. My 3 nano tanks were setup on almost the exact same schedule - this makes me feel better about their progress. I do have them all stocked with fish/shrimp/snails and they are happy. Looking forward to where they will be by holiday time.
Thank you for this video! I am new to the hobby myself and my tanks are right around the 2 month mark as well as far as my plants go and they are also far from where is like them to be. It was so nice to see that it takes a lot longer than a couple of months to get a planted tank to look the way you would like it especially without using co2. Also, like you, I like tinkering with my tanks as well which is why I started getting into live plants after I've been keeping fish for a few months. I feel like once you stock your tank with fish that's it but with live plants you can continue to play around with your tanks for so much longer with all the adding of new plants, moving things around, trimming and propagating.
Very well said - patience is needed in every aspect of the hobby. We are absolutely a creature of convenience society. Many new innovations that were intended to give the hobbyist more time for their stock, created a false sense of regular maintenance. We can look at bacteria in a bottle, extremely helpful but has also helped with the "right now" mentality. Nothing wrong with taking the time to do it right and know what it takes to do it right. As always, good stuff Lord Tazawa!
All three look fantastic! I WISH I could keep live plants! Some day I will but for right now my tanks are filled with HD pooping machines. I have to do 75% water changes w/total gravel vacuums once a week. Those two tanks, a 65 and a 90, take me a full 6 hours each Sunday to maintain. My fish grow like mad and are very HAPPY.
Started in the hobby with discus/angels, fancy plecos, and rams in planted aquariums. Then started making natural water for them with rodi. Then quickly got into saltwater too as I have an rodi filter. These all taught me from early on to take everything very slow. I didn't have a early beginner easy fish stage in the hobby were i could rush anything and have the fish live.
Awesome 😎 Video Zenzo This comes at the Right Moment Patient is a Journey when keeping up the Aquarium, I’m learning that waiting or Thinking 🤔 things out Thoroughly is a Trait that comes from being involved with your fish and learning their habits and moods, Thanks and keep up the Good 👍🏿Work
I started my first planted tank a few months back and still has some way to go. I too generally don’t have much patience but like you said it’s about enjoying the process not just the end result. In fact once I’ve hopefully reached the desired result I’d be looking to start a new scape 😊
Zenzo, those tanks are very pretty though. You are so right about this hobby- you got to have patience. I had to learn that. Fish grouping definitely requires patience.
Great advice. Definitely something I needed to hear actually. I just started putting plants in 2 of my tanks and I’ve definitely been impatient lol. I love that guppy tank by the way even though it’s not where you want it :)
I know your joking but god I hate the look of ada tanks in the long run. The ugly light backgrounds, and the unrealistic amount of plants ruins the look in my opinion. I like blackwater with lots of branches, and a few big/small plants like in real nature, with alot of floater plants above. This makes such a nice realistic river look for the fish.
Nice video! This is something not many have touch on extensively. We need alot of patience on planted aquarium, i knew that (from various youtuber)but i did not know the length of the patience you really need. For me when i decide to have no co2 planted tank, i went through multiple video and website to understand some basic on simple planted tank. The first tank to with plant (not aquascaping) did not work out very well. I planted 3 type of plants (anubias nana on rock, Cypt prava and ludwigia super red) on gravel. The Ludwigia did not survive after a month but the res tof the plant did not do well but it growing. Anyway, later on i transfer these survived plant to another tank with Co2, it just GROW fast. After that i started another tank with no Co2 and instead gravel i use Aquasoil and i learn to use liquid fert too. The Tank is planted with Rotala Rotunfolia, Ludwigia Super red, Cypt Wenditii and hair grass. It is worse than my first tank. Due to my inexpreience, in dosing and maintenance, after a couple of month, grass hair died, the whole tank is covered with cyanobacteria. This time round i decided did not teardown and eventually i got rid of cyanobacteria. It took me a couple of months and the survvied plant did not do well until it's 6 months (i learned to dose and maintain better). Since then i added more plant and it doing very well. I must say once the plant take control in the tank, it will just grow well! The place where i live is hot and humid all year round and i realized some of the method i read online does not work well or i need to do more of it instead of the recommended routine.... It really take alot of patience to get things rights and time to work it well. Btw, the 3 tanks you shown today is so much better than the 2 i mentioned above!
Yes Zenzo totally agree nature takes time but once its established it is so enlightening and there are actually so many living organisms and living things in my planted scape tank and i tried to do it naturally as well and yes there are also plants melt down as well, totally understand the amount of efforts and time, energy to make it photo great and video great :D cheers
Thank you so much for sharing!! Waiting is definitely something I have learned to do. I used to quarantine my fish for 2 weeks and then moved them over, now and I give them a good 4 weeks because we've had a mishap or two with ick. These little fishies are perfectly happy and they're quarantine tank for a little longer and then you know they are safe. I also just took over my daughter's 20 gallon and moved it and I'm turning it into little tiny Nana fish tank. I was going to take a picture of all my tanks cuz I was so excited and was going to put them on to a chat room I'm involved in but then backed up after I took the pictures cuz I thought they're just not as pretty as the one everybody else posts. After watching your video I'm going to go paste them because her tank is the same way it just has a few little tiny fish in there and it's got all these plants I just added that need to grow up and be full but, I still love those little chili rasboras and pygmy corridors in there. They're just a stinking cute I want to share. It's good to see not everybody's tank is perfect and just reminds me that's not why we're doing it anyway. We're doing it cuz we like it and it's enjoyable to watch everything grow and do well and to learn.
Hey I got couple good natured tips that might help you. You might get more growth with some oto cats to clean things up in the first tank. 2nd tank remove the middle branch then the negative space gains more focus which will encourage more looking around the tank.
As always great content and I Love the sincere and genuine honesty that you bring to the hobby! Who is ever completely happy with their planted aquarium? LOL I've been in the hobby for 45+ years and I am constantly upgrading my 30+ tanks... I believe in stepping back and allowing the "boxed" nature takes its course, but once the tank is set up the best way it fits the fish within it, and they are happy and healthy... I LEAVE IT ALONE!!! I wholeheartedly agree with you, the lotus Lily is just AWESOME!!! I got 5 from the Co-Op back in June, and OMG they all are just STUNNING!!!! Thank you for all you bring to the hobby!!! Hope you're having fun at the Expo in Florida!!!
I've found that the best way to combat impatience in fishkeeping is to set up enough tanks to have a good chance of either being constantly gratified, or too busy to worry about monte carlo not carpeting fast enough.
Still can't get enough of your fish room! It's paradise! Your patience is constantly paying off for sure! Believe it or not, in my big 75G there is Val in there! it's just tiny right now. My Myrio Roramia is explosive with its growth so i've been to fill it in much faster. But the Val, I just keep cutting babies off of the plant in my quarantine tank and putting them in their "forever" homes as they come in. It can be hard to be patient, especially when you know the vision you have, and how much you want it to get there! Like me fighting with the monte carlo tweedei. Someday it will stop looking so ragged. I see the light at the end of the tunnel. Also, Pogostemon Stellatus Octopus was the first fancy scientific plant name that I spoke aloud. haha. Still makes me feel smart when I say it. Plus it has "Octopus" in the name which is just the best. :P
Thanks Zenzo my current reef tank has been 10 years in the making and I’m not a patient person, at least that’s what I think…my two planted tanks are only a few months old but have thrived thanks to some great you tube advice! Thanks!! Ps guess which one looks better in a pic.
I’ve heard from a few different sources that the dwarf lily grows big and fast. I’ve got 3 lilies in 3 different tanks roots in the substrate but not the bulb and can’t get them to grow.
I really understand I'm been slowly adding fish to my tanks..doing a all Tetras tank...need to wait 4 weeks in between before putting them in my main tank. Patience is what we all need.
Zenzo, aquascapes don’t solely take month to be so beautiful AND are not made to last a couple of years. I talk about the exchange of soil for the standard aquarist after 2-3 years. We never see the beginning and in particular not the end. Plants/algae change one thing and wait 2-4 weeks. It takes forever but is one of most beautiful things as I learned most while observing the changes. But I have a play tank. 60cm, tons of plants, some snails (I need the shit). The fun part: changing lights, not changing water, over fertilize etc. and observe what happens. I have learned so much in that tank and the knowledge I use in my other tanks. It helps.
I think you should show tanks from beginning to end and feel proud of it as you do all your tanks. I think you should show tanks with algae and all that and how you clean them up to make them show ready for when you do your filming.
YesSiRr!! WoW!!..those tanks/Aquarium behind you look Bloody Amazing Mate... 💯%👍👍👍& suBB!! Lol!! No doubt it must have taken some time & effort to make them look that good & beautiful. This why I love RUclips!! It never fails to impress and entertain! Look forward to watching & Learning More about them Amazing & Awesome looking tanks/aquariums you got. Thankz again for sharing... Stay Bless and Stay Safe out there...
Hey Zenzo, love that you showed some tanks in the process and not just once they were "complete" to your satisfaction. Question I had is this, would the plants in the first tank (16g glass) not benefit from some kind of fish load?? Or are you just dosing with ferts to compensate?? Thanx and love your channel & content.
Patience! I have three tanks but I had started with some algea issues. I started with changing light timing and intensity. Well after a few months nothing seemed to be changing. In fact in one tank it seemed to be getting worse. Well out of the blue one day the algea was gone. I do still have Green string algea on the top of a piece of driftwood but the top is literally right under the lighting and call me weird but I kind of like the way it flows the stream of the water so I just manually control it when it gets out of hand.
Unfortunately, professional aquascaping videos sometimes give a blurred vision of what's achievable in a short space of time. Most aquarium keepers do not have the expensive lights, filtration and CO2 set ups. They also plant heavily to begin with, which is not usually the case for most aquarium keepers. Aquascaping is all about short term display. I'd much rather have a low tech natural tank that lasts years.
You would think that most people don't expect an aquarium to be instant, but then again look at how many people use test kits thinking they can solve a problem instantly.
I set up my 5 gal planted shrimp tank a month or so ago...tick tock tick tock...not too much longer to wait! The cycle is done and plants are doing well. I put an extra sponge in there today in prep for setting up my new 20L guppy tank!
It’s a great video to show folks what it takes to get to the finished look that people get so excited about. I did want to mention that crypt parva is a favorite of mine, but grows very, very slowly. Talk about patience. I think your tanks are off to a great spot and I applaud you for doing a video on them. @tazawatanks
Its ok to show ur not ready tanks in fact i think u should show them more so we can see what ur workin on fiskeeping is def a hobby that requires patience
My answer is to get the second hobby. What do I do when I think that I should get hundred more tanks to make my own guppy strain? I go to my cross-stitching project, it gets me instant joy and saves me from hurrying things up in aquarium hobby
If there were more along the way videos and not just the end result video. Then maybe people would learn that it's a process and being able to see that would help them.
A mes débuts en aquariophiles mon "mentor" m'a dit : Les 3 grandes règles de l'aquariophilie sont: - patience - patience - patience. Sur mes 5 aquarium le plus stable et le plus satisfaisant est un 100 litres avec une colonie de guppy, un groupe de corydoras paleatus et deux ancistrus. Cet aquarium fonctionne depuis environ 10 ans.
hi ther great video I have question for you do you look at ur tanks an sometimes you always find something not right to you But everything is good you know it's Not clear enough or something But everything is perfect with our aquarium Do have that happen to you see something that's not ther lol 😆
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Thank you Zenzo, I hope this video can help other aquarists out there. Patience really is important and also adjusting to problems along the way. Even in my own aquascape that you showed here, I had a huge staghorn algae issue in the second month and it took me weeks to get rid of.
Arigato Ryo! I really enjoyed watching your aquascaping journey. Feel free to give this video a share! 😁
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Omg. This is the crossover we needed. Big fan of both of you guys. I bought 4 tanks within 3 weeks because of you guys. Keep being awesome!
I actually appreciate this type of video that shows the ‘journey’ vs just the end result. Great job!
It's refreshing to see and hear some honesty and "real" tanks that are in the process, not just the finished article.
I 100% agree and I learned this lesson HARD! When I first started, I spent 1,100USD (equivalent) on a really well designed aquascape. I'd been saving money for a looong time. Only three months later I felt so dissatisfied I tore it down. Looking back now I really regret it because I can see it was beautiful and only had a tiny amount diatom algae. At the time though I hated and resented it and was so stressed out... I really had to learn how to be patient with myself after that. Today, even my 'weakest' aquascapes are still 6months+ and I love them all and continue to work with them towards satisfaction.
Be kind to yourselves! Aquariums are dynamic. They're going to change over time and so are we and we can use the opportunity to grow alongside them!
Zenzo those tanks look great! In 47 yrs of fishkeeping I finally bought my first live plants EVER! Java moss and hornwort..and this has happened this year, summer of 2021.🙂
Thanks so much for showing your "under construction" tanks! We see so many completed perfect aquascapes, it can get really discouraging when we don't get perfect results immediately.
This is great to help people understand that planted setups don't happen over night. It takes time to achieve that look you had in the beginning. 👍
I can’t get patience next day with Prime 😂?!
Good reminder that in a hobby that can get expensive, the best “piece of equipment” is free.
Thank you. I think this is a very important message that new aquarium keeps need to see. Watching what happens overtime is one of my favorite parts about aquarium keeping. If I have a problem, I really enjoy watching the problem go away overtime after making a change. This might take months in some cases but it rewarding and you learn a lot along the way.
This hobby definitely teaches you abt patience. I appreciate your transparency on the tank that you are working on and informing us on the journey to get to your end results.
Well said, it's all about patience and not giving up. It's the journey that makes it so much fun😊
I appreciate you taking the time to share your knowledge on this. Keep doing your thing bro! It’s appreciated!
It’s very true. My first attempts at planted tanks and aquascaping I thought went awful but about 6 months later (no co2) everything started looking a lot better. Time and patience with some care and everything can look very close to how you envisioned it
This is great encouragement! My tank is no where near where I want it, but every new leaf on the anubias or new stem on the water sprite has me excited!
You are so right! I manege an aquarium on a office and half of the plants looked half dead until 6 month of establiching. It also had a lot of algea, but now after 14 months the algea are gone and it is just more and more beautifull everytime i see it
Very true ... PATIENCE is a must have in this hobby. Very cool perspective and explanation of why patience is so critical. 👍
I’m so glad you posted this. It’s so true that many of us lack patience! Seeing your tanks in a less mature state reminds me of how I feel when I see models and movie stars before and after hours in the makeup and hair chair. You can really beat yourself up over aesthetics until you realize it’s work, time, and patience to get there. You are a very thoughtful fish keeper! Subbed.
Thanks for being honest. I'm 3 weeks into my first planted tank....This is the first video out of a hundred that made me feel ok about my scenario.
I really enjoyed this video and I think you speak to it perfectly when you say we live in an instant-gratification world. I'm new to planted aquariums and it has been fun learning as I go. Love to see that new leaf sprout here, disappointed to see my mystery snails decimate those leaves there etc. Being impatient can ruin the journey.
Zenzo, thank you for showing those three aquariums! #1 they don’t look bad. #2 they make me feel like, with time, my aquarium can look better. It is about the journey, not the destination.
I have been following Ryo for a while now. He is pretty amazing. I’ve learned a lot from him, too.
I’m never going to have the kind of fish rooms you, Ryo and others I follow have, but I enjoy my little aquarium and love seeing yours!
Awesome to see Ryo's work show up on other channels. I always enjoy Ryo's videos!
I can’t believe how high Ryo placed!! So happy for him, fan of both of you.
I love your philosophy -- it is about the journey indeed. Nice fish room.
All 3 tanks look great zenzo for being up and running such a short time. This hobby definitely makes you learn to have patience. I have little and learning to have more.
Great words of advice. We all struggle with patience with our aquariums. I learned just to sit back and enjoy the aquarium. Keep up the great work.
Patience is the bane of my existence with aquariums and plants, but learning this has actually helped me have patience in other areas of my life...enjoying the journey instead of rushing towards the end process.
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Thank you this good information for any new aquarist out there I'm a newer aquarist and I went for the planted route and let me confirm this it will take time
Everything is looking awesome i just barely missed meeting you and cory at the shop recently. You are a great influence on the hobby and ive learned alot from you
Awesome video, I used to work at a big box pet store and trying to explain to people that aquarium take time and patience was definitely one of my biggest struggles.
Great reminder, I needed this today!
Zenzo, I really enjoy your Saturday videos, as far as the three tanks they are all looking good, and moving in the right direction. Thank you from NYC
Thanks for showing us your tanks in their current state of growth. A lot of us think we can get a "show" tank instantly. Just hadn't made this connection.
Great reminder. My 3 nano tanks were setup on almost the exact same schedule - this makes me feel better about their progress. I do have them all stocked with fish/shrimp/snails and they are happy. Looking forward to where they will be by holiday time.
Zenzo what an awesome topic and thank you for sharing these tanks!
Fabulous video! Really rings true for me. Your tanks look great by the way!
Thank you for this video! I am new to the hobby myself and my tanks are right around the 2 month mark as well as far as my plants go and they are also far from where is like them to be. It was so nice to see that it takes a lot longer than a couple of months to get a planted tank to look the way you would like it especially without using co2. Also, like you, I like tinkering with my tanks as well which is why I started getting into live plants after I've been keeping fish for a few months. I feel like once you stock your tank with fish that's it but with live plants you can continue to play around with your tanks for so much longer with all the adding of new plants, moving things around, trimming and propagating.
Very well said - patience is needed in every aspect of the hobby. We are absolutely a creature of convenience society. Many new innovations that were intended to give the hobbyist more time for their stock, created a false sense of regular maintenance. We can look at bacteria in a bottle, extremely helpful but has also helped with the "right now" mentality.
Nothing wrong with taking the time to do it right and know what it takes to do it right.
As always, good stuff Lord Tazawa!
All three look fantastic! I WISH I could keep live plants! Some day I will but for right now my tanks are filled with HD pooping machines. I have to do 75% water changes w/total gravel vacuums once a week. Those two tanks, a 65 and a 90, take me a full 6 hours each Sunday to maintain. My fish grow like mad and are very HAPPY.
Patience is easy -if you don’t have to wait for it that is! 😬. Thanks for being vulnerable with us Zenzo! Good stuf!
Great tips that hit home. Thank you!
Very true. Patience and time!
Great Vid Zen. Keep doin what You do !
Started in the hobby with discus/angels, fancy plecos, and rams in planted aquariums. Then started making natural water for them with rodi. Then quickly got into saltwater too as I have an rodi filter. These all taught me from early on to take everything very slow. I didn't have a early beginner easy fish stage in the hobby were i could rush anything and have the fish live.
Awesome 😎 Video Zenzo This comes at the Right Moment Patient is a Journey when keeping up the Aquarium, I’m learning that waiting or Thinking 🤔 things out Thoroughly is a Trait that comes from being involved with your fish and learning their habits and moods, Thanks and keep up the Good 👍🏿Work
I started my first planted tank a few months back and still has some way to go. I too generally don’t have much patience but like you said it’s about enjoying the process not just the end result. In fact once I’ve hopefully reached the desired result I’d be looking to start a new scape 😊
Zenzo, those tanks are very pretty though. You are so right about this hobby- you got to have patience. I had to learn that. Fish grouping definitely requires patience.
Enjoy the journey! Agree 100%
Your fish room is looking great!
Thanks for the great video! Good philosophy! And I cracked up when you said not my hands obviously! So thanks for the giggle.
Great advice. Definitely something I needed to hear actually. I just started putting plants in 2 of my tanks and I’ve definitely been impatient lol. I love that guppy tank by the way even though it’s not where you want it :)
Very well stated important point. Thank you
Totally agree. This hobby requires patience. Lots of it.
Hey those tanks aren’t ADA-competition ready yet! *shriek!*
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I know your joking but god I hate the look of ada tanks in the long run. The ugly light backgrounds, and the unrealistic amount of plants ruins the look in my opinion. I like blackwater with lots of branches, and a few big/small plants like in real nature, with alot of floater plants above. This makes such a nice realistic river look for the fish.
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Nice video! This is something not many have touch on extensively. We need alot of patience on planted aquarium, i knew that (from various youtuber)but i did not know the length of the patience you really need.
For me when i decide to have no co2 planted tank, i went through multiple video and website to understand some basic on simple planted tank. The first tank to with plant (not aquascaping) did not work out very well. I planted 3 type of plants (anubias nana on rock, Cypt prava and ludwigia super red) on gravel. The Ludwigia did not survive after a month but the res tof the plant did not do well but it growing. Anyway, later on i transfer these survived plant to another tank with Co2, it just GROW fast.
After that i started another tank with no Co2 and instead gravel i use Aquasoil and i learn to use liquid fert too. The Tank is planted with Rotala Rotunfolia, Ludwigia Super red, Cypt Wenditii and hair grass. It is worse than my first tank. Due to my inexpreience, in dosing and maintenance, after a couple of month, grass hair died, the whole tank is covered with cyanobacteria. This time round i decided did not teardown and eventually i got rid of cyanobacteria. It took me a couple of months and the survvied plant did not do well until it's 6 months (i learned to dose and maintain better). Since then i added more plant and it doing very well. I must say once the plant take control in the tank, it will just grow well!
The place where i live is hot and humid all year round and i realized some of the method i read online does not work well or i need to do more of it instead of the recommended routine.... It really take alot of patience to get things rights and time to work it well.
Btw, the 3 tanks you shown today is so much better than the 2 i mentioned above!
Yes Zenzo totally agree nature takes time but once its established it is so enlightening and there are actually so many living organisms and living things in my planted scape tank and i tried to do it naturally as well and yes there are also plants melt down as well, totally understand the amount of efforts and time, energy to make it photo great and video great :D cheers
Thank you so much for sharing!! Waiting is definitely something I have learned to do. I used to quarantine my fish for 2 weeks and then moved them over, now and I give them a good 4 weeks because we've had a mishap or two with ick. These little fishies are perfectly happy and they're quarantine tank for a little longer and then you know they are safe. I also just took over my daughter's 20 gallon and moved it and I'm turning it into little tiny Nana fish tank. I was going to take a picture of all my tanks cuz I was so excited and was going to put them on to a chat room I'm involved in but then backed up after I took the pictures cuz I thought they're just not as pretty as the one everybody else posts. After watching your video I'm going to go paste them because her tank is the same way it just has a few little tiny fish in there and it's got all these plants I just added that need to grow up and be full but, I still love those little chili rasboras and pygmy corridors in there. They're just a stinking cute I want to share. It's good to see not everybody's tank is perfect and just reminds me that's not why we're doing it anyway. We're doing it cuz we like it and it's enjoyable to watch everything grow and do well and to learn.
Great video as always.
Hey I got couple good natured tips that might help you. You might get more growth with some oto cats to clean things up in the first tank. 2nd tank remove the middle branch then the negative space gains more focus which will encourage more looking around the tank.
Wise advice! Thank you!
As always great content and I Love the sincere and genuine honesty that you bring to the hobby!
Who is ever completely happy with their planted aquarium? LOL
I've been in the hobby for 45+ years and I am constantly upgrading my 30+ tanks... I believe in stepping back and allowing the "boxed" nature takes its course, but once the tank is set up the best way it fits the fish within it, and they are happy and healthy... I LEAVE IT ALONE!!! I wholeheartedly agree with you, the lotus Lily is just AWESOME!!! I got 5 from the Co-Op back in June, and OMG they all are just STUNNING!!!!
Thank you for all you bring to the hobby!!!
Hope you're having fun at the Expo in Florida!!!
I've found that the best way to combat impatience in fishkeeping is to set up enough tanks to have a good chance of either being constantly gratified, or too busy to worry about monte carlo not carpeting fast enough.
Still can't get enough of your fish room! It's paradise! Your patience is constantly paying off for sure!
Believe it or not, in my big 75G there is Val in there! it's just tiny right now. My Myrio Roramia is explosive with its growth so i've been to fill it in much faster. But the Val, I just keep cutting babies off of the plant in my quarantine tank and putting them in their "forever" homes as they come in. It can be hard to be patient, especially when you know the vision you have, and how much you want it to get there! Like me fighting with the monte carlo tweedei. Someday it will stop looking so ragged. I see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Also, Pogostemon Stellatus Octopus was the first fancy scientific plant name that I spoke aloud. haha. Still makes me feel smart when I say it. Plus it has "Octopus" in the name which is just the best. :P
i instantly recognized Ryos tank hehehe 2:06
Thanks Zenzo my current reef tank has been 10 years in the making and I’m not a patient person, at least that’s what I think…my two planted tanks are only a few months old but have thrived thanks to some great you tube advice! Thanks!! Ps guess which one looks better in a pic.
Cool video!!! Have to say I’ve given up being patient with crypts though, I just can’t get them to grow no matter what I try!!!
I’ve heard from a few different sources that the dwarf lily grows big and fast. I’ve got 3 lilies in 3 different tanks roots in the substrate but not the bulb and can’t get them to grow.
I really understand I'm been slowly adding fish to my tanks..doing a all Tetras tank...need to wait 4 weeks in between before putting them in my main tank. Patience is what we all need.
Zenzo, aquascapes don’t solely take month to be so beautiful AND are not made to last a couple of years. I talk about the exchange of soil for the standard aquarist after 2-3 years. We never see the beginning and in particular not the end.
Plants/algae change one thing and wait 2-4 weeks. It takes forever but is one of most beautiful things as I learned most while observing the changes. But I have a play tank. 60cm, tons of plants, some snails (I need the shit). The fun part: changing lights, not changing water, over fertilize etc. and observe what happens. I have learned so much in that tank and the knowledge I use in my other tanks. It helps.
I think you should show tanks from beginning to end and feel proud of it as you do all your tanks. I think you should show tanks with algae and all that and how you clean them up to make them show ready for when you do your filming.
Love the guppy tank
YesSiRr!! WoW!!..those tanks/Aquarium behind you look Bloody Amazing Mate... 💯%👍👍👍& suBB!! Lol!! No doubt it must have taken some time & effort to make them look that good & beautiful.
This why I love RUclips!! It never fails to impress and entertain! Look forward to watching & Learning More about them Amazing & Awesome looking tanks/aquariums you got. Thankz again for sharing... Stay Bless and Stay Safe out there...
Those still look better than my tanks from January and July
Great observation
Is there a video on how you made your brackish mud skipper tank ?
great video also how are the mudskippers
They are doing well. 😊
Hey Zenzo, love that you showed some tanks in the process and not just once they were "complete" to your satisfaction. Question I had is this, would the plants in the first tank (16g glass) not benefit from some kind of fish load?? Or are you just dosing with ferts to compensate?? Thanx and love your channel & content.
Ferts and root tabs.
Patience! I have three tanks but I had started with some algea issues. I started with changing light timing and intensity. Well after a few months nothing seemed to be changing. In fact in one tank it seemed to be getting worse. Well out of the blue one day the algea was gone. I do still have Green string algea on the top of a piece of driftwood but the top is literally right under the lighting and call me weird but I kind of like the way it flows the stream of the water so I just manually control it when it gets out of hand.
You brought the world to your fish room. Who are we to judge for anything you do? Enjoy the hobby just like us little guys.
Add some detritivores to your plant only tanks. Will help with the plants growth.
Unfortunately, professional aquascaping videos sometimes give a blurred vision of what's achievable in a short space of time.
Most aquarium keepers do not have the expensive lights, filtration and CO2 set ups. They also plant heavily to begin with, which is not usually the case for most aquarium keepers.
Aquascaping is all about short term display. I'd much rather have a low tech natural tank that lasts years.
Encouraging--thank you
You would think that most people don't expect an aquarium to be instant, but then again look at how many people use test kits thinking they can solve a problem instantly.
I remember when Netflix had movies mailed to my house. The good days of Netflix lol
I set up my 5 gal planted shrimp tank a month or so ago...tick tock tick tock...not too much longer to wait! The cycle is done and plants are doing well. I put an extra sponge in there today in prep for setting up my new 20L guppy tank!
It’s a great video to show folks what it takes to get to the finished look that people get so excited about. I did want to mention that crypt parva is a favorite of mine, but grows very, very slowly. Talk about patience. I think your tanks are off to a great spot and I applaud you for doing a video on them. @tazawatanks
Such good advice
I have so many under construction all the time lol.
I think it may be the substrate that are you, because all the tanks you showed us seem to have the same substrate.
Lesgo ryos in this
Its ok to show ur not ready tanks in fact i think u should show them more so we can see what ur workin on fiskeeping is def a hobby that requires patience
Patience. Can we buy a shot of that with our coffee??
The Journey is the reward. Not the destination.
My answer is to get the second hobby. What do I do when I think that I should get hundred more tanks to make my own guppy strain? I go to my cross-stitching project, it gets me instant joy and saves me from hurrying things up in aquarium hobby
If there were more along the way videos and not just the end result video. Then maybe people would learn that it's a process and being able to see that would help them.
You should watch MD Tanks if you wanna see how crazy the growth could be within a month if you know what you are doing...
great guy he is..
A mes débuts en aquariophiles mon "mentor" m'a dit :
Les 3 grandes règles de l'aquariophilie sont:
- patience
- patience
- patience.
Sur mes 5 aquarium le plus stable et le plus satisfaisant est un 100 litres avec une colonie de guppy, un groupe de corydoras paleatus et deux ancistrus. Cet aquarium fonctionne depuis environ 10 ans.
hi ther great video I have question for you do you look at ur tanks an sometimes you always find something not right to you But everything is good you know it's Not clear enough or something But everything is perfect with our aquarium Do have that happen to you see something that's not ther lol 😆
Patients is they key. It’s always the end result that makes the wait worthwhile. But that’s easier said then done🤣
Hi. Is the first of the 3 an acrylic tank?
It is a glass tank with a curved front panel.