Hey guys! Since Brightwell Aquatics is my awesome sponsor I've pretty much replaced all the things I use with their great stuff. If you have any questions on products, be it Brightwell or not, you can always let me know! I haven't tried *everything*, but I have a lot of experience with a lot of products. 8:38 actually made me laugh like crazy when I was editing this video. Horror music in a fish tank video, hah! Be sure to chime in with your thoughts on the question at the end!
I once used the green scubber side of a dish washing sponge to gently clean algae off some of my anubiases. Do not do this; your plant will never be the same.
Your video length is the inverted numbers of the best song/album ever made... 12:21. Any other Rush fans here agree? ;) in all seriousness… Great video, with great information!
I have an obscene amount of snails that that take care of my algae problem. When the population explodes I just put a potato in there, they glob onto it and I take them out. There are plenty left to maintain the tank. So glad you are back but would not mine a few gratuitous shots of that new bundle of joy. ❤️
I think on smaller tanks that can't be heavily planted, that type of substrate and daily fertilizer will only ever lead to massive amounts of algae. The plants need the light more than all that fertilizer, so I'd cut all that out and use an inert substrate before cutting back on the light.
Similar to what I was thinking. The plants weren't sizeable enough to take advantage of the extra ferts. Plus they were transitioning from cold storage, meaning leafs were probably dying off. Before the new ones could grow in however, the algae exploited what ferts were leaching into the water column - starving the plants of more light.
My tanks get full of algae at times. I think it looks nice with some algae but it kills off the plants. Your tank looks great, having a baby is a lot of work. Glad you feel better now.
I let my planted guppy tank go for weeks cause it was full of tiny fry, over grown java moss and loads of hair algae I removed the java moss put it in straight tap water and just pulled the hair algae off it. It was pretty thick like felt when I pulled it off. Cut back the java moss abit put what was left in a tub with tank water in it and it's sat on my windowsill at the moment. The fry seemed to like the tank busy with growth.
I got hair algae once and I just moved the fish to another tank and covered the tank with a towel for a week. The algae was dead and the plants were all slow-growing pants which didn't bat an eye.
do fertilizers cause algae? because i never had a problem with it but i put some root tabs in for my plants and a couple weeks later i had an ugly brown algae outbreak! btw ur tank looks so cute!
i had hair algae issues, minor compared to yours. my 15g (6in cube) aquarium only has a 3w light and plants do just fine. I used a chemical product (Algae Fix from Api) and did water changes, it took around 1-1.5 months and eventually it died. I stopped using fertilizer since the plants take all they need from the roots, I just doze potasium since food nor fish waste give potassium to the water column. Easy plants can adapt to a low-light low-nutrient diet, you just have to teach them (its a harsh process) and they will grow and multiply and go green.
Good to know that algaefix worked for You! I’ll probably try it if the other methods don’t work. I have another little 5g below it that has a WORSE algae problem!
@@SimplyBetta remember that your substrate sends nutrients to the water column, you will keep on finding this issue until about 3 months when your substrate stops this process (thats why this substrate lowers your ph like other soil-based-substrates (except seachem flourite which is clay-based)).
Taylor, nice build. If you want to see really bad algae, you should check out my solving an algae problem videos. I finally got it under control by reducing the number of lights over the top of the tank and switching to low light plants. All of my black beard algae disappeared over the course of the summer. I was away most of the time and the tank was on an auto feeder. I think my 20 or so Pelvicachromis juveniles got hungry! Cheers, Chris PS I've had problems with Amano's eating fry and sometimes small fish. I finally got fed up with them and removed all of them from my tanks.
Looking forward to hearing replies about the hair algae as I have been having a horrible time with it in ALL my planted tanks! I finally broke down one tank that had my red dragon guppies in it and used AlgaeFix on all of it (sans fish). My sorority tank on the other hand I don't want to do that because of the size and I don't want to disrupt my happy inhabitants to turn them into psycho betta females. I have heard that rosy barbs are chow hounds when it comes to hair algae. I'm going to give that a try. Hopefully my bettas don't chow on them. I will look into using your sponsored products as I begin to build another planted tank for angel fish. Glad to see you back!
wilsonsheltie I own rosy barbs. I’d be very worried they’d attack the bettas more than the bettas attacking them. Yes, they eat algae like crazy, but they also fight A LOT. Especially if kept in too small of a group, or Theres females present. I wouldn’t mix semi-aggressive barbs with aggressive bettas. Maybe set up a nice tank for them on their own. They do get decently sized as well. They also prefer cooler water but can live in tropical water with no problem.
So I got a bunch of new plants from my my pet store and a couple of days after I saw maybe one or two little bladder snails. I didn't think much of it because personally I think they're cute and they're not harming anything. Then like a week later I had an extreme algae bloom of hair algae and it couldn't get it completely off my plants. I was looking into what I could do and 2 days later all of the algae was completely gone. Not a single trace of algae. But I had 50-100 little bladder snails. Since then they've mostly died off because they only (in my experience at least) produce up to the tank's carrying capacity. I haven't had any problems since. Consider going to your pet store and asking if you can have a few of their nuisance snails, my local petsmart gave me a bag of them for free. Some people find nuisance snails to be an eyesore but like it's one eyesore or the other lol.
@@oceanti6791 the pet store i worked at had outbreaks of nerite snails all the time. Theyd be all over the filters and all the tanks. Last time I was shopping there they put a goldfish in every tank to eat some of them. I'd imagine if a pet store has snails they have ones that overpopulate
Hydrogen peroxide works great if you can temporarily remove the plant and immerse it in the peroxide liquid for 3 minutes. Then replant the plant. Over the next week you'll watch the hair algae turn pink and disappear.
My fix for hair algae is baby mollies, easy for me since they constantly breed in my main tank, but I temporarily rehome some of them to my other tanks if I see any growing. Granted I don't own any aggressive fish and all my tanks are heavily planted.
Nice little tank! I like the spiral background plant. Other than what you’ve already done and doing, about all I would consider would maybe be a blackout period.
My 20 gallon's water turned completely green from all the algae and I put a towel over it for 3 days and it was completely clear. My plants weren't doing so good but they also weren't doing so well when the algae was taking up all the light. Would recommend.
YES! Good suggestion. I used to have a lengthy photoperiod on the timers but would just turn them off once every week or two for a day, or only give them an hour of light for that day. It made a pretty big difference in the algae in there. Was so glad to learn that trick!
No blackout. If the Amano don’t do the trick reduce the light, keep nitrates around 10ppm, and keep removing it every other day or so with a toothbrush. It’s hard to do a low tech with Monte Carlo. Or a high tech with Anubias. Either the Monte Carlo grows too slow and algae takes over. Or the Anubias grows too slow and algae takes over. Cut the light down. Just be aware that the Montecarlo May die off.
I don't understand - why don't you use snails for the algae? I recently set our first tank for my son (6yo) - 2gallon, 1 betta, 1 moss ball. Got algae. Did mistake - scrubbed the tank (acrylic) and now it looks muddy (damaged the walls), just read snails are the solution. Why didn't you put snails in there to solve this? I am also a parent, I don't plan to spent much time on the aquarium. Thanks
I wouldn't lower the light levels, as the plants most likely, need it. They've been through a lot. They had to grow new leafs, after being put into cold storage. Then those new leafs, were robbed of light, as the algae took over. If you want your plants to get the edge over the algae, you need to maintain the capacity for the plants to regenerate (ie: light) and do regular water changes. The new water will increase the C02 available to the plants, and remove any excess ferts, leaching into the water column, which feeds the algae. I suspect too many ferts were added to such a small tank, with ailing plants. Healthy plants would have done a better job of taking up the ferts. My suggestion is to split one water change per week, into two. Instead of one big one (ie: 25-30%) you could do 20% water changes instead, twice per week. The benefits will advantage the plants, to get control of what's being leached into the water column. Giving them more C02, to increase tissue regeneration. The light at the moment, is feeding both the plants and the algae. But you want to provide the conditions for the plants to beat the alagae to the ferts. So increase the plants capacity to regnerate. You can return to one change, per week, when the algae is back under control. Another problem though, was the kinds of plants you incorporated. Slow growing anubias, won't take up as much nutrient, as fast growing water sprite. There weren't enough fast growing plants, to take up the ferts you added. What I have done in the past, instead of defusing the light via the bulb, is put water sprite on the surface. It robbed light to the algae, whille increaing the uptake of extra nutrients in the water column, through it's dangling roots. When I saw the plants underneath needed more light, I'd remove more water sprite. Until I eventually only needed 4-6, large floating plants. But that was a 75 gal tank. To maintain balance, you may only need 1-2 in yours. The majority of plants in my tank were anubias and java fern, which were slow growing. I needed the water sprite to do the sprints in growth, the other plants weren't capable of. I love your tank by the way. You did a great job setting it up.
5:30 "Lookat it compared to the size of my head! Just look. Look!" Awesome. I love moss and having that much is fantastic. Its nice to see how to deal with situations like this, so thank you for turning it into a learning experience.
The balance of the tank may not have been right, but the balance of the video was perfect (educational, funny, drama, horror and a happy ending) . Can’t wait for the new hobbit tank 🤓
I had a fluval flex 15 that I turned into a low tech setup. The light was the hands down worst I've had and somehow my plants took off like wildfire. It was the pod style lights you find tucked into some of the cheaper hoods. Just rested across a glass sheet. With a couple rubber stoppers on the edge. I had 10 females betas A handful of snails that exploded into a mass colony that I ended up starting to use to feed my pee puffers. Two Keeli fish. Only used sand as my substrate. Had a like 8 ghost shrimp in there to help clean up.
I'm sorry to tell you, that pipette definitely isn't accurate to the ml. Look for a 1ml volumetric bulb pipette (or whatever size you require) if you're looking for accurate glassware.
We added more plants. I stuck my pond plants from home in the tank - water lettuce, water hyacinth. That look is what made us look at Betta's. The bottom is messy. Needs vac often. But not much algae. Just added guppies back in the tank. Maybe add shrimp next.
I know this is a year old but thank you! I just setup my 6g tank with live plants and added all the chemicals. But now i am wondering when to change water? Or do i even need to? No fish yet cuz i want the plants established a bit. Thank goodness you have a lid diy! Tuank u
So I’m guilty of getting my son a beta and falling for the .7gallon tank. Disgusting I know. He is no longer in that “tank” and has a 10gallon. This is my first time with real plants. I love and my gardens outside thrive so say a prayer for my plants underwater. I’ve learned so much from ur channel and can’t wait to learn more. Thanks again for saving my sons beta from a horrid life and now is swimming free in a larger space.
I saw in a video I watched a while back he uses a sand setup in a makeshift box and he will adjust the table to the size of the tank he's setting up and will arrange his decor in it to his liking before setting up the tank.
I'm just really happy that you are back to making videos it's so relaxing and you are awesome at it!! Are you going to make any videos on betta fish any time soon?
I love the DIY lids ...... I would handle the algae naturally and try to find a balance. For me personally, I always focus first on nutrient export. b b
Algae isn't a problem it's a temporary solution.If you use chems on start up one should expect it. If you can dial back the blue spectrum it will decrease it's growth.
I never use any kind of algae killing products. I can't stand the thought of using anything that is poison of any kind in an aquarium. There's no way I can believe that it doesn't adversely affect all the life in the tank. Instead, as you said, I think trying to find the natural balance is the key. It's not an instant fix that we really need for any aquarium, it is a long term solution.
I agree! Fixing the root of the problem is harder and takes more discipline but in the end it’s better than just a quick fix of a surface problem. I can see the allure of products that are supposed to kill off algae though, it’s like you can start from a clean slate again. That must be a good feeling to be able to do that,
Idk what specific words they use to tell you it's nontoxic but lots of superglue are nontoxic- after they're dry that it. You can look into aquarium safe super glue, there's tons.
I've always used the "starve" method - No lights + no ferts + no co2 ( not that i use co2 !) Algae doesn't store starch, unlike all other vascular plants. No light, no nutrition and the algae can't cope; it dies. Vascular plants just live off their stored starches. So to starve ( 4 - 10 days per session) works well for me. The plants dont grow or have one or two stunted leaves but they bounce back and have a head start over the algae when conditions return to normal. I have used a peroxide dip on some rare plants (Crypt, buce, Anubis, seedlings that were choked!), and that works too but is only good for individual plants and not the whole tank.
Thanks for the tips! I'm considering a black-out if I get impatient. I'll try a few more "patient" solutions (reduce light, mostly) first before, though. Just for fun
@@SimplyBetta Thanks for _your_ tips and uploads! Your videos always put a smile on my face and I love seeing how different aquarists run their tanks. There is no right way to run a successful tank and everyone seems to have success with a wide variety of techniques: from the simple no filter/fert adherents to the state.of.the.art tech heads with $$$ LEDs, CO2, etc) I'm just sharing what I know that has worked for me and if it helps you out at all, I'll be happy I was of some use. :)
How is your Monte Carlo doing so well in a low tech set up. It looked like it had some pretty significant growth from the small mat you started out with!!
Light and ferts! Haha, I think my light is a bit too strong actually, but the monte carlo is slowly spreading and staying compact. It will probably grow a bit more vertically when I move the light up a bit. It was a couple of months from making the tank to filming it, though
Hi SB, so many Mums put far to much pressure on themselves after pregnancy I’ve watched my wife and sister go though it placing unnecessary pressure on themselves despite in our case no internal pressure its all outside sources. Just worry out the 4 of you and what ever hobbies you guys like (I think there’s just 4 of you). Good luck and keep the content up my wife and love what you post. Kind Regards Duzzy from 🇦🇺
I do absolutely put too much pressure on myself. If I ever stopped doing that though there would be something wrong with me! It's a bad habit, I guess :0 My hunny tells me I need to relax a bit, haha.
Your tank looks awesome! I used the recommended amount of Flourish in my 20 L tank and had a big outbreak of blue green Spirella Algea, It clouded the water and looked horrible. Knowing it had to be the nitrogen in the plant food, I left the algea in there to feed on it. After a couple of weeks the tank cleared up crystal clear and the algea settled on the bottom and on rocks. It stabilized my PH and became a alternate food source for the catfish and clown loach. I think it looks more natural now and the mystery snails fed on the rocks so they have an artistic look to them. Algea helps the plants control nutrients and the snails keep the plants clean. But it does look like crap until the tank cycles and the algea settles in to its new home. I just sent you an email.
I got your email! Usually I don’t have a problem with algae since there’s really nothing wrong with it besides ugliness. I’ve been trying hard to make my fish room look a little nicer though, and that means controlling my algae LOL. And some of my past videos I’ve been looking at my tanks and they were just covered in algae and looked horrible, and I’ve had to say things like “ don’t worry guys, this tank looks ugly but there’s nothing wrong with algae. This is a healthy tank”.
@@SimplyBetta Yea I get funny looks at my green foggy tank, but I tell them that I am cultivating it and why it's so great. My second algea tank hasn't cleared in a month, may put that water in a 10 gal tank for culture and do 50% water changes until my Molly tank clears up. People eat Spirella for heath food and my catfish & clown Loach are getting big and fat off it. So I want to keep a culture in case I lose the algea in my catfish, clown Loach & angelfish tank. Just sent you a photo of it, I think it's beautiful.
What kind of paint do you use to paint the backs of your tanks? Do you ever have issues with the paint scratching off? Love the videos, keep up the good work!
I use a latex-based paint! The only issue is that it won't adhere to any silicone residue, it will pool around it (like paint over wax). So sometimes I'll get little dots of no paint, but I can't say it is that noticeable. Laxtex paint is easy to remove with a blade if you want to re-do it, too
Yeah! I already have one video on it called how I choose Bettas that I made back in March or so. That was selecting for shortfins. I’ll have a video on half moon is coming up soon
If it gets that bad I would does the tank with peroxide. I don’t know, I’ve never really had algae problems like that, usually I get that brown algae that’s really hard to scrape off the glass. I would probably put peroxide in and try and spray it right on the worst parts where it’s attached and then it all turns white and kind of dies and it’s easy to clean off. When it grows in my tanks it’s usually buy water flow or where bubbles pop and then it grows on the lid, and pond snails or bladder snails are kind of a pain but we love algae and if the algae starts growing they start breeding like crazy to to eat it. Every time I do a water change a suck up as many as I can but there are always plenty left. I have turned off my lights for a couple of days, and an awesome trick I found was to use a different spectrum light, I have a 29 gallon tank with a 10K Aqua net light that was made for marine tanks and I can leave it on 12 or 15 hours a day and have almost no algae at all, on some of the ceramic shrimp toys I have in there I’m actually getting that purple algae you get in marine tanks, But it’s just a thin purple they’re almost like paint, I put a 6500 K spotlight on my plants and they stopped dying but I still leave them on about 12 hours a day and I have no problems with it at all but the shrimp and pond snails probably have a lot to do with that and I’ve got narrates nails in there too and Moroni moss balls which eat the same nutrients algae does. And I don’t know if the temperature makes much of a difference but are usually keep my tanks colder than most people, I have a heater in there for the winter but it said it 72.
Simply Betta It’s pretty common in saltwater tanks. But it’s thin and it’s very hard it’s almost like paint. Luckily it only grew on those little square clay shrimp decorations. Lol
I keep them in there for a few days or so, it’s important that your fridge is not too cold though! I learned that the hard way when I damaged a bunch of Anubis :-(
I keep Nerite snails in all of my planted Betta tanks. They really do a number on any algae and they clean up any detritus material that may settle on the bottom. Good video Taylor!!
Taylor, you did an amazing job all things considered. Algae is just small stuff in the big picture of energy, priorities and sanity. I saw what 100 amanos did to the algae in Rachel O'Leary's mess O' moss tank and that was awe inspiring. So if you want the algae gone any faster maybe bump up the amount of amanos in it.
Hi! I had a question about filters. You mentioned you put in an already cycled sponge filter into your new tank. I am brand new to owning a betta, and just set up my tank with a new filter. The instructions say to change it every 3 to 4 weeks with a new filter. But this would just get rid of all the good bacteria and start it over again. So do I change the filter at all?
Yeah don’t do that, they’re trying to sell more filters! Unless they mean to replace like, a screen or a pad that catches gunk. And those you can just rinse and re-use
Sarah Kay Pretty much - I never change my biological media, whatever that may be. Sometimes a sponge from my sponge filter, sometimes it’s ceramic thingies that hold the bacteria, whatever. I just don’t touch that
Hi Taylor I've been watching your videos for a long time and I wanted to share some great news you see I live in Taiwan and the water is terrible for tropical fish of any kind except for some interesting on the female bettas they can at least live 2 to 3 years However I finally figured out how the neutralizethe acid in the water. It turns out if you use dried guava leaves like three good size chunks the water is completely well I would probably say drinkable to be honest but honestly yeah it's not burning the crap out of my hands anymore In the beginning about 3 years ago I had no idea that the water was so acidic I couldn't feel it but then over the last couple months it just became even more acidic turns out the guava leaves neutralize the acid I properly cycled the tanks even started getting a little bit of white algae bloom and little specks of allergy here and there so I knew that the tank was fine but the water was all screwed up I had already established filtration and in the last two days these guava leaves have made my water amazing so I put it in all three of my tanks. now I can probably actually have something other than just various kinds of anubias living in my tanks I might even be able to put some stem plants or some red plants now we don't have all the great plants that they have in America but I'm definitely excited about getting a 5 gallon tank and just literally escaping one more I want to put a frost cover on the back and then I want to attempt to do a dirted tank with a layer of natural looking gravel Chris I'll be putting in fertilizer tabs but I will be using just a little bit of aquarium soil but I'm so capping it with gravel Huge freaking mess if you don't so yeah I don't know when I'm going to be doing this but I am going to be using this 5 gallon to practice aquascaping because my landlord said I can only have three fish well actually he said I can only have three pets He didn't specify how many fish I could have but since they all live in a tank I think it's not a problem I've got a 7 gallon tank with some guppies and my betta my male betta gets a long fabulously with them there's no tail nipping no fighting no nothing and I wish I could show you how my tank turned out it was beautiful now all I have to do is get the same size carry it up six flights of stairs with only one arm because my left arm is recovering from being broken and then I can put on a frosted cover back and then I can skip it with water that is not going to kill my plants or my fish for that matter Never underestimate a teaspoon of diluted aquarium salt They said for every one gallon you should put a teaspoon of salt but I usually put in two because I don't want to kill the roots of the plants and I just feel incredibly grateful that literally God helped me to answer my problem I was really starting to feel discouraged about having fish really wanted to have my own fish room and then from there I wanted to teach people how to make tanks without feeling stressed out because every time I talk to Taiwanese people they tell me the same thing I buy the fish I buy all the stuff that's needed and then my fish dies and what I realized is they're buying sick fish Almost every beta is ill because they're not put in a filtrated tank and then Taiwanese people don't know about the water sucks and that it's acidic and kills their fish So basically what I want to do is practice my aquascaping skills and figure out how to do a simple dirty tank with a nice layer of gravel or better yet just grab one and root tabs and then I use you know liquid fertilizer if necessary but I want to teach them how to build a 5 gallon tank where they can keep their male or female betta and if it's friendly it can get along with the guppies at least six I don't have a lot of problems with pollution or this kind of thing in my tank because my filter does a good job and also that I make sure that the food does not drop to the bottom and the way the guppies eat there's no time for the food to actually go to the bottom and then I dropping my food for the beta one at a time so the tank itself is pretty clean like if you do find a new degree it's actually not going to be like food it's probably just roots from the plants and maybe fish poop but I do 30 to 40% water change couple times a week but for a big tank and I only need to do it once a week I just wanted to thank you because I got a lot of inspiration from your tanks and even though we don't have all the same types of plants I think maybe now I can use the ones that we have and I think they'll be able to grow because the acid won't be killing them I mean honestly the water was not only killing my fish but killing the plants too only a newbius could handle this water And the good news is there's 40 kinds of anubias I kid you not all you have to do is go online and you can find all kinds of Anubis Anyways wish me luck I'm hoping this project will help my channel to grow it's a bit small and my videos aren't as interesting it's hard to work and hold the camera at the same time so I need to get like a stand but I can't get that just quite yet but in the meantime I can at least work on my skills doing aquascaping with plants and hardscaping and what's really cool is you don't need to go out and buy a lot of stuff you can rearrange the same stuff and make it completely different
Stuff filter floss or those colorful plastic dish scrubbers into your gravel vac tube and tie a net or something at the end to cap it. Water changes done without water pressure hitting substrate. Please try it out sometime.
@@SimplyBetta , in general, the more surface area there is to break the water tension the better. You can eventually have a full heavy stream going in, but it's broken up in the water change tube, before it hits the main water column. Just fiddle with your own design that practical for you and convenient. Makes water changes so much smoother.
@@SimplyBetta . Just trying to find a solution to this problem that even high tech shop owners still go through, using their hands still and plastics, *sigh* lol needs to change is all.
Consistency in lights and fertilizers, along with water changes, seems to work best for hair algae. Oh, and a toothbrush for manual removal. :) Yours should eventually fade as the plants start to thrive. I love marsilea, btw, but it's one plant I have no luck with.
I’m suffering from hair algae too! I try to remove it by hand every week during water changes. If it’s particularly bad like in this vid I’ll do a bleach dip on my plastic plants and decor ( not good for bacteria but faster than removing by hand/ scrubbing). If anyone has any tips let me know!
Usually when I have that algae issue , I just make a black out and add hydrogen peroxide to the tank , hair algae becomes white and disappear within a few days.... you can apply it directly to the most infected areas using a syringe .. I ll wait to see the new video when algae is gone ! Blessings from dominican republic
I'm so happy I found your channel! You are the first woman in this community I have found and it's nice to see other ladies passionate about this amazing hobby! And your videos are more informative than any other I've seen. Thank you for posting!
Hey guys! Since Brightwell Aquatics is my awesome sponsor I've pretty much replaced all the things I use with their great stuff. If you have any questions on products, be it Brightwell or not, you can always let me know! I haven't tried *everything*, but I have a lot of experience with a lot of products.
8:38 actually made me laugh like crazy when I was editing this video. Horror music in a fish tank video, hah!
Be sure to chime in with your thoughts on the question at the end!
Personligt i use a toothbrush and a scissors for hair algea
Thanks! I love the toothbrush/bristle brush method but some of it is STUCK on to the hardscape and plants and won't come off. Grr
I bought 2 siamese algae eaters and they did the job of keeping my tank clean and pristine. I love them because they are more active than ottos.
I once used the green scubber side of a dish washing sponge to gently clean algae off some of my anubiases. Do not do this; your plant will never be the same.
Too bad you didn't have a goalie mask handy while the horror music played. A shot of you slipping it on would have been hilarious.
Great video Taylor! Glad to see you're all recovered and back at it now!
Hey man, thanks! It’s nice to be back sort of consistently ;)
Your video length is the inverted numbers of the best song/album ever made... 12:21. Any other Rush fans here agree? ;) in all seriousness… Great video, with great information!
It's understandable... You were keeping a family and 3D printing a human!
That's the best excuse!
When i had hair algae I removed what I could. Got some otos and cherry shrimp then cut down my hours. Haven't see it after.
I kind of love that you are project oriented. You have drive Taylor! I admire that!
No chemicals here. I would do what you've done. Ammano shrimp are amazing at cleaning up algae. So nice to see you back.
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Thank you!
I have an obscene amount of snails that that take care of my algae problem. When the population explodes I just put a potato in there, they glob onto it and I take them out. There are plenty left to maintain the tank. So glad you are back but would not mine a few gratuitous shots of that new bundle of joy. ❤️
Haha thanks @Mega Mindylou ! Wow it takes a lot of snails to be obscene. Baby might be In A few vids soon :)
I think on smaller tanks that can't be heavily planted, that type of substrate and daily fertilizer will only ever lead to massive amounts of algae. The plants need the light more than all that fertilizer, so I'd cut all that out and use an inert substrate before cutting back on the light.
Similar to what I was thinking. The plants weren't sizeable enough to take advantage of the extra ferts. Plus they were transitioning from cold storage, meaning leafs were probably dying off. Before the new ones could grow in however, the algae exploited what ferts were leaching into the water column - starving the plants of more light.
That Hobbit tank was fantastic I saw how you put that together and it blew my mind away
My tanks get full of algae at times. I think it looks nice with some algae but it kills off the plants. Your tank looks great, having a baby is a lot of work.
Glad you feel better now.
Thank you for the comment! I do feel better :-)
I let my planted guppy tank go for weeks cause it was full of tiny fry, over grown java moss and loads of hair algae I removed the java moss put it in straight tap water and just pulled the hair algae off it. It was pretty thick like felt when I pulled it off. Cut back the java moss abit put what was left in a tub with tank water in it and it's sat on my windowsill at the moment. The fry seemed to like the tank busy with growth.
I always enjoy your planted tank videos!
Thanks, I appreciate it :-)
You’re Taylor? I thought your name was literally Simply Betta! 😂 Glad you’re back and not SUPER pregnant. Love the vid!
I have a lot of people thinking my name is Betty :0 haha thanks!
I use peroxide on hair algae....it works sometimes..mostly I removed the plant or damage leaf.
I would have gone with some shrimp too. Nice bit of variation to the bottom of the tank, some added color and they feed on that unwanted algae.
I got hair algae once and I just moved the fish to another tank and covered the tank with a towel for a week. The algae was dead and the plants were all slow-growing pants which didn't bat an eye.
I'll consider a black-out too! If I get impatient with my slow method :)
do fertilizers cause algae? because i never had a problem with it but i put some root tabs in for my plants and a couple weeks later i had an ugly brown algae outbreak! btw ur tank looks so cute!
Please update about macrostoma eggs
Once I have success!
Love this little tank.
What was the aquarium light you used at the end? Looking for one for my plants tank.
Oh the light Is a cheap one off of Amazon, nicrew i believe! Working pretty well for this little tank, I was pleasantly surprised
I like to rotate my shrimp and snails so when one tank gets a bunch of algae I put them in there than it also saves me time and money
i had hair algae issues, minor compared to yours. my 15g (6in cube) aquarium only has a 3w light and plants do just fine. I used a chemical product (Algae Fix from Api) and did water changes, it took around 1-1.5 months and eventually it died. I stopped using fertilizer since the plants take all they need from the roots, I just doze potasium since food nor fish waste give potassium to the water column. Easy plants can adapt to a low-light low-nutrient diet, you just have to teach them (its a harsh process) and they will grow and multiply and go green.
Good to know that algaefix worked for
You! I’ll probably try it if the other methods don’t work. I have another little 5g below it that has a WORSE algae problem!
@@SimplyBetta remember that your substrate sends nutrients to the water column, you will keep on finding this issue until about 3 months when your substrate stops this process (thats why this substrate lowers your ph like other soil-based-substrates (except seachem flourite which is clay-based)).
So simple so nice i just love how you make it so fun to DIY gratz keep up the good work
I appreciate it :)
sometimes I just let my light off for a week and the algae are gone!
SALUTATIONS! #happytears this tank is AMAZING!!! Love it❤️❤️
Oh thanks so much ^^
수초 물고기 넘 이뻐요! ^_^)v so pretty aquarium
감사합니다! :)
I use a product called Phytocarb. It works like magic.
Shrimp, snails, floating plants and rent some platys for a week should be enough! 😁
Can you add live plants into a functioning aquarium.
Absolutely!
Taylor, nice build. If you want to see really bad algae, you should check out my solving an algae problem videos. I finally got it under control by reducing the number of lights over the top of the tank and switching to low light plants. All of my black beard algae disappeared over the course of the summer. I was away most of the time and the tank was on an auto feeder. I think my 20 or so Pelvicachromis juveniles got hungry!
Cheers,
Chris
PS I've had problems with Amano's eating fry and sometimes small fish. I finally got fed up with them and removed all of them from my tanks.
I love your videos and you are so sweet :)
Baby betta fish
Why does this say betta? I been watching this hoping for some ideas for my betta tank and this... wasn't anything to do with Bettas 🤣
It’s a tank I made for bettas :P I guess this was the planting stage
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Great to see another simply betta production.
Thank you! 🙏
Looking forward to hearing replies about the hair algae as I have been having a horrible time with it in ALL my planted tanks! I finally broke down one tank that had my red dragon guppies in it and used AlgaeFix on all of it (sans fish). My sorority tank on the other hand I don't want to do that because of the size and I don't want to disrupt my happy inhabitants to turn them into psycho betta females. I have heard that rosy barbs are chow hounds when it comes to hair algae. I'm going to give that a try. Hopefully my bettas don't chow on them. I will look into using your sponsored products as I begin to build another planted tank for angel fish. Glad to see you back!
wilsonsheltie I own rosy barbs. I’d be very worried they’d attack the bettas more than the bettas attacking them. Yes, they eat algae like crazy, but they also fight A LOT. Especially if kept in too small of a group, or Theres females present. I wouldn’t mix semi-aggressive barbs with aggressive bettas. Maybe set up a nice tank for them on their own. They do get decently sized as well. They also prefer cooler water but can live in tropical water with no problem.
So I got a bunch of new plants from my my pet store and a couple of days after I saw maybe one or two little bladder snails. I didn't think much of it because personally I think they're cute and they're not harming anything. Then like a week later I had an extreme algae bloom of hair algae and it couldn't get it completely off my plants. I was looking into what I could do and 2 days later all of the algae was completely gone. Not a single trace of algae. But I had 50-100 little bladder snails. Since then they've mostly died off because they only (in my experience at least) produce up to the tank's carrying capacity. I haven't had any problems since. Consider going to your pet store and asking if you can have a few of their nuisance snails, my local petsmart gave me a bag of them for free. Some people find nuisance snails to be an eyesore but like it's one eyesore or the other lol.
@@oceanti6791 the pet store i worked at had outbreaks of nerite snails all the time. Theyd be all over the filters and all the tanks. Last time I was shopping there they put a goldfish in every tank to eat some of them. I'd imagine if a pet store has snails they have ones that overpopulate
Hydrogen peroxide works great if you can temporarily remove the plant and immerse it in the peroxide liquid for 3 minutes. Then replant the plant. Over the next week you'll watch the hair algae turn pink and disappear.
My fix for hair algae is baby mollies, easy for me since they constantly breed in my main tank, but I temporarily rehome some of them to my other tanks if I see any growing. Granted I don't own any aggressive fish and all my tanks are heavily planted.
Wow, what a difference! Very beautiful tank tho! Also how to you get the pearling in your tank? I never get that 😢
Monte Carlo is a good pearler! I think my lights might actually be a little too strong. Well the Monte Carlo likes it but so does the algae ;)
Nice little tank! I like the spiral background plant. Other than what you’ve already done and doing, about all I would consider would maybe be a blackout period.
I totally should do a blackout period!
My 20 gallon's water turned completely green from all the algae and I put a towel over it for 3 days and it was completely clear. My plants weren't doing so good but they also weren't doing so well when the algae was taking up all the light. Would recommend.
YES! Good suggestion. I used to have a lengthy photoperiod on the timers but would just turn them off once every week or two for a day, or only give them an hour of light for that day. It made a pretty big difference in the algae in there. Was so glad to learn that trick!
Interesting, that would be like having cloudy days in the wild.
No blackout. If the Amano don’t do the trick reduce the light, keep nitrates around 10ppm, and keep removing it every other day or so with a toothbrush. It’s hard to do a low tech with Monte Carlo. Or a high tech with Anubias. Either the Monte Carlo grows too slow and algae takes over. Or the Anubias grows too slow and algae takes over. Cut the light down. Just be aware that the Montecarlo May die off.
For algae, I would normally employ a cleanup crew of albino algae eaters and amano or glass shrimps and then let them go at it.
"I'm back!" Best words all year :)
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I dont like using chemicals I.just manually remove it though I have found I get no issues in my tanks with hornwort even if I forget my lights on
I bet the goldfish love to chow down on it!
Oh man I’m in love with you Taylor!!! I wish u was in uk and single. Damn...
Rachel O'Leary uses a bottle brush to get that hair algae... just a tip
I don't understand - why don't you use snails for the algae? I recently set our first tank for my son (6yo) - 2gallon, 1 betta, 1 moss ball. Got algae. Did mistake - scrubbed the tank (acrylic) and now it looks muddy (damaged the walls), just read snails are the solution. Why didn't you put snails in there to solve this? I am also a parent, I don't plan to spent much time on the aquarium. Thanks
I wouldn't lower the light levels, as the plants most likely, need it. They've been through a lot. They had to grow new leafs, after being put into cold storage. Then those new leafs, were robbed of light, as the algae took over. If you want your plants to get the edge over the algae, you need to maintain the capacity for the plants to regenerate (ie: light) and do regular water changes. The new water will increase the C02 available to the plants, and remove any excess ferts, leaching into the water column, which feeds the algae. I suspect too many ferts were added to such a small tank, with ailing plants. Healthy plants would have done a better job of taking up the ferts.
My suggestion is to split one water change per week, into two. Instead of one big one (ie: 25-30%) you could do 20% water changes instead, twice per week. The benefits will advantage the plants, to get control of what's being leached into the water column. Giving them more C02, to increase tissue regeneration. The light at the moment, is feeding both the plants and the algae. But you want to provide the conditions for the plants to beat the alagae to the ferts. So increase the plants capacity to regnerate. You can return to one change, per week, when the algae is back under control.
Another problem though, was the kinds of plants you incorporated. Slow growing anubias, won't take up as much nutrient, as fast growing water sprite. There weren't enough fast growing plants, to take up the ferts you added. What I have done in the past, instead of defusing the light via the bulb, is put water sprite on the surface. It robbed light to the algae, whille increaing the uptake of extra nutrients in the water column, through it's dangling roots. When I saw the plants underneath needed more light, I'd remove more water sprite. Until I eventually only needed 4-6, large floating plants. But that was a 75 gal tank. To maintain balance, you may only need 1-2 in yours.
The majority of plants in my tank were anubias and java fern, which were slow growing. I needed the water sprite to do the sprints in growth, the other plants weren't capable of. I love your tank by the way. You did a great job setting it up.
5:30 "Lookat it compared to the size of my head!
Just look.
Look!"
Awesome. I love moss and having that much is fantastic. Its nice to see how to deal with situations like this, so thank you for turning it into a learning experience.
The balance of the tank may not have been right, but the balance of the video was perfect (educational, funny, drama, horror and a happy ending) . Can’t wait for the new hobbit tank 🤓
Oh gosh, thank you. The next fantasy tank is coming up soon! I think I'll start officially this week and start the long recording process :)
Can you make another video on the tokays?!!
Yeah! I’ll have one coming up but I need to finish a handful of half-finished betta videos ;)
Taylor sounds kinda like if Peridot, Lapis, and Pearl from Steven Universe fused... Just me? Okay..
I had a fluval flex 15 that I turned into a low tech setup. The light was the hands down worst I've had and somehow my plants took off like wildfire. It was the pod style lights you find tucked into some of the cheaper hoods. Just rested across a glass sheet. With a couple rubber stoppers on the edge. I had 10 females betas A handful of snails that exploded into a mass colony that I ended up starting to use to feed my pee puffers. Two Keeli fish. Only used sand as my substrate. Had a like 8 ghost shrimp in there to help clean up.
I'm sorry to tell you, that pipette definitely isn't accurate to the ml. Look for a 1ml volumetric bulb pipette (or whatever size you require) if you're looking for accurate glassware.
We added more plants. I stuck my pond plants from home in the tank - water lettuce, water hyacinth. That look is what made us look at Betta's. The bottom is messy. Needs vac often. But not much algae. Just added guppies back in the tank. Maybe add shrimp next.
I know this is a year old but thank you!
I just setup my 6g tank with live plants and added all the chemicals.
But now i am wondering when to change water? Or do i even need to?
No fish yet cuz i want the plants established a bit.
Thank goodness you have a lid diy! Tuank u
So I’m guilty of getting my son a beta and falling for the .7gallon tank. Disgusting I know. He is no longer in that “tank” and has a 10gallon. This is my first time with real plants. I love and my gardens outside thrive so say a prayer for my plants underwater. I’ve learned so much from ur channel and can’t wait to learn more. Thanks again for saving my sons beta from a horrid life and now is swimming free in a larger space.
Great to see you back!! Love this tank.
It’s nice to be back sort of consistently! Sort of! ;)
@@SimplyBetta I totally understand! :)
I saw in a video I watched a while back he uses a sand setup in a makeshift box and he will adjust the table to the size of the tank he's setting up and will arrange his decor in it to his liking before setting up the tank.
I'm just really happy that you are back to making videos it's so relaxing and you are awesome at it!!
Are you going to make any videos on betta fish any time soon?
Aww thank you. I will have betta videos! I'm just working on a backlog at the moment
100% throw some shrimp in to clean up algae.
Going natural is always better
Hey I had a question can you have betta with neon terra in a 10 gal tank? Ive been told mix answers
That amount of miss is commonly known as a head-full of moss! 😉😂🥰🐶
I love the DIY lids ...... I would handle the algae naturally and try to find a balance. For me personally, I always focus first on nutrient export. b b
It's nice to be watching videos like this. All natural, no lying whatsoever.
Awww thanks
Algae isn't a problem it's a temporary solution.If you use chems on start up one should expect it. If you can dial back the blue spectrum it will decrease it's growth.
I can't fiddle with blue spectrum on the cheap lights! I'll just have to balance the old fashioned way
I'm sorry if I missed something but what are those fish in there?
I never use any kind of algae killing products. I can't stand the thought of using anything that is poison of any kind in an aquarium. There's no way I can believe that it doesn't adversely affect all the life in the tank. Instead, as you said, I think trying to find the natural balance is the key. It's not an instant fix that we really need for any aquarium, it is a long term solution.
I agree! Fixing the root of the problem is harder and takes more discipline but in the end it’s better than just a quick fix of a surface problem. I can see the allure of products that are supposed to kill off algae though, it’s like you can start from a clean slate again. That must be a good feeling to be able to do that,
C4 always does the trick at getting rid of algae.
Ok so I’m new here and new to tanks in general but you can literally just super glue stuff in tanks? It’s not toxic???
Idk what specific words they use to tell you it's nontoxic but lots of superglue are nontoxic- after they're dry that it. You can look into aquarium safe super glue, there's tons.
Should of bought some shrimp and snails
I've always used the "starve" method -
No lights + no ferts + no co2 ( not that i use co2 !)
Algae doesn't store starch, unlike all other vascular plants. No light, no nutrition and the algae can't cope; it dies. Vascular plants just live off their stored starches.
So to starve ( 4 - 10 days per session) works well for me. The plants dont grow or have one or two stunted leaves but they bounce back and have a head start over the algae when conditions return to normal.
I have used a peroxide dip on some rare plants (Crypt, buce, Anubis, seedlings that were choked!), and that works too but is only good for individual plants and not the whole tank.
Thanks for the tips! I'm considering a black-out if I get impatient. I'll try a few more "patient" solutions (reduce light, mostly) first before, though. Just for fun
@@SimplyBetta Thanks for _your_ tips and uploads! Your videos always put a smile on my face and I love seeing how different aquarists run their tanks. There is no right way to run a successful tank and everyone seems to have success with a wide variety of techniques: from the simple no filter/fert adherents to the state.of.the.art tech heads with $$$ LEDs, CO2, etc)
I'm just sharing what I know that has worked for me and if it helps you out at all, I'll be happy I was of some use.
:)
U could hava just tossed some siamese fishes they really love to eat algae and would have cleared ur tank a lot faster
They wouldn't like my tiny tank! ^^
How is your Monte Carlo doing so well in a low tech set up. It looked like it had some pretty significant growth from the small mat you started out with!!
Light and ferts! Haha, I think my light is a bit too strong actually, but the monte carlo is slowly spreading and staying compact. It will probably grow a bit more vertically when I move the light up a bit.
It was a couple of months from making the tank to filming it, though
I love ur vids
Aww thanks :)
Mollies... They cant stop eating
How often do you change the water if ever?
Hi SB, so many Mums put far to much pressure on themselves after pregnancy I’ve watched my wife and sister go though it placing unnecessary pressure on themselves despite in our case no internal pressure its all outside sources. Just worry out the 4 of you and what ever hobbies you guys like (I think there’s just 4 of you). Good luck and keep the content up my wife and love what you post.
Kind Regards Duzzy from 🇦🇺
I do absolutely put too much pressure on myself. If I ever stopped doing that though there would be something wrong with me! It's a bad habit, I guess :0
My hunny tells me I need to relax a bit, haha.
Your tank looks awesome! I used the recommended amount of Flourish in my 20 L tank and had a big outbreak of blue green Spirella Algea, It clouded the water and looked horrible. Knowing it had to be the nitrogen in the plant food, I left the algea in there to feed on it. After a couple of weeks the tank cleared up crystal clear and the algea settled on the bottom and on rocks. It stabilized my PH and became a alternate food source for the catfish and clown loach. I think it looks more natural now and the mystery snails fed on the rocks so they have an artistic look to them. Algea helps the plants control nutrients and the snails keep the plants clean. But it does look like crap until the tank cycles and the algea settles in to its new home.
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Usually I don’t have a problem with algae since there’s really nothing wrong with it besides ugliness. I’ve been trying hard to make my fish room look a little nicer though, and that means controlling my algae LOL. And some of my past videos I’ve been looking at my tanks and they were just covered in algae and looked horrible, and I’ve had to say things like “ don’t worry guys, this tank looks ugly but there’s nothing wrong with algae. This is a healthy tank”.
@@SimplyBetta Yea I get funny looks at my green foggy tank, but I tell them that I am cultivating it and why it's so great. My second algea tank hasn't cleared in a month, may put that water in a 10 gal tank for culture and do 50% water changes until my Molly tank clears up. People eat Spirella for heath food and my catfish & clown Loach are getting big and fat off it. So I want to keep a culture in case I lose the algea in my catfish, clown Loach & angelfish tank. Just sent you a photo of it, I think it's beautiful.
Hi! Would u recommend a betta fish living with two guppies? I would say my betta is fairly calm and i think he is bored of living alone!
Don't put guppies..betta will try to nip its tail..it is my personal experience..you can put mollies instead or platy
See on my channel..ruclips.net/channel/UCVN-jehENzBH73KV_Ittl_A
Thank you! Since i already have the guppies i think I’ll divide the tank and put them together at least during the winter, but ill check ur video out!
What kind of paint do you use to paint the backs of your tanks? Do you ever have issues with the paint scratching off? Love the videos, keep up the good work!
I use a latex-based paint! The only issue is that it won't adhere to any silicone residue, it will pool around it (like paint over wax). So sometimes I'll get little dots of no paint, but I can't say it is that noticeable.
Laxtex paint is easy to remove with a blade if you want to re-do it, too
Hi.. can you share to us abou how to choose a show quality betta? New subscriber here
Yeah! I already have one video on it called how I choose Bettas that I made back in March or so. That was selecting for shortfins. I’ll have a video on half moon is coming up soon
I like doing a black out to help with algae or cutting lights off early for a few days and keeping the tank very low light
I should totally do a blackout period! I think I need to raise my light up a bit too
Simply Betta hopefully that helps your tank! It helped one of my planted tanks with algae
If it gets that bad I would does the tank with peroxide. I don’t know, I’ve never really had algae problems like that, usually I get that brown algae that’s really hard to scrape off the glass. I would probably put peroxide in and try and spray it right on the worst parts where it’s attached and then it all turns white and kind of dies and it’s easy to clean off. When it grows in my tanks it’s usually buy water flow or where bubbles pop and then it grows on the lid, and pond snails or bladder snails are kind of a pain but we love algae and if the algae starts growing they start breeding like crazy to to eat it. Every time I do a water change a suck up as many as I can but there are always plenty left. I have turned off my lights for a couple of days, and an awesome trick I found was to use a different spectrum light, I have a 29 gallon tank with a 10K Aqua net light that was made for marine tanks and I can leave it on 12 or 15 hours a day and have almost no algae at all, on some of the ceramic shrimp toys I have in there I’m actually getting that purple algae you get in marine tanks, But it’s just a thin purple they’re almost like paint, I put a 6500 K spotlight on my plants and they stopped dying but I still leave them on about 12 hours a day and I have no problems with it at all but the shrimp and pond snails probably have a lot to do with that and I’ve got narrates nails in there too and Moroni moss balls which eat the same nutrients algae does. And I don’t know if the temperature makes much of a difference but are usually keep my tanks colder than most people, I have a heater in there for the winter but it said it 72.
Woah, purple algae! Weird! :-)
Simply Betta It’s pretty common in saltwater tanks. But it’s thin and it’s very hard it’s almost like paint. Luckily it only grew on those little square clay shrimp decorations. Lol
How long can you keep plants in the fridge?
I keep them in there for a few days or so, it’s important that your fridge is not too cold though! I learned that the hard way when I damaged a bunch of Anubis :-(
O m goodness your daughter is so adorable hahahaaha. Watch to the end
Thank you so much! I hope you liked the video :-)
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A simply fantastic video as always.
Thank you :)
I keep Nerite snails in all of my planted Betta tanks. They really do a number on any algae and they clean up any detritus material that may settle on the bottom. Good video Taylor!!
I need some nerites!
Taylor, you did an amazing job all things considered. Algae is just small stuff in the big picture of energy, priorities and sanity. I saw what 100 amanos did to the algae in Rachel O'Leary's mess O' moss tank and that was awe inspiring. So if you want the algae gone any faster maybe bump up the amount of amanos in it.
From what I understand amanos do well with croaking gouramis, which this take looks to be filled with.
I must have missed that video! I better go check it out :)
I am sure you will find it. The amanos chowed it down pretty quickly.
Remember wood is good
Hi! I had a question about filters. You mentioned you put in an already cycled sponge filter into your new tank. I am brand new to owning a betta, and just set up my tank with a new filter. The instructions say to change it every 3 to 4 weeks with a new filter. But this would just get rid of all the good bacteria and start it over again. So do I change the filter at all?
Yeah don’t do that, they’re trying to sell more filters! Unless they mean to replace like, a screen or a pad that catches gunk. And those you can just rinse and re-use
@@SimplyBetta okay great! So basically just don't ever change the filter, only rinse the screen with holes that catches gunk?
Sarah Kay Pretty much - I never change my biological media, whatever that may be. Sometimes a sponge from my sponge filter, sometimes it’s ceramic thingies that hold the bacteria, whatever. I just don’t touch that
Nice to see you back. Love your tank so much 😊
Thank you! It’s nice to be consistently back ;)
Hi Taylor I've been watching your videos for a long time and I wanted to share some great news
you see I live in Taiwan and the water is terrible for tropical fish of any kind except for some interesting on the female bettas they can at least live 2 to 3 years
However I finally figured out how the neutralizethe acid in the water.
It turns out if you use dried guava leaves like three good size chunks the water is completely well I would probably say drinkable to be honest but honestly yeah it's not burning the crap out of my hands anymore
In the beginning about 3 years ago I had no idea that the water was so acidic I couldn't feel it but then over the last couple months it just became even more acidic turns out the guava leaves neutralize the acid
I properly cycled the tanks even started getting a little bit of white algae bloom and little specks of allergy here and there so I knew that the tank was fine but the water was all screwed up I had already established filtration and in the last two days these guava leaves have made my water amazing so I put it in all three of my tanks.
now I can probably actually have something other than just various kinds of anubias living in my tanks I might even be able to put some stem plants or some red plants now we don't have all the great plants that they have in America but I'm definitely excited about getting a 5 gallon tank and just literally escaping one more I want to put a frost cover on the back and then I want to attempt to do a dirted tank with a layer of natural looking gravel
Chris I'll be putting in fertilizer tabs but I will be using just a little bit of aquarium soil but I'm so capping it with gravel
Huge freaking mess if you don't so yeah I don't know when I'm going to be doing this but I am going to be using this 5 gallon to practice aquascaping because my landlord said I can only have three fish well actually he said I can only have three pets
He didn't specify how many fish I could have but since they all live in a tank I think it's not a problem
I've got a 7 gallon tank with some guppies and my betta my male betta gets a long fabulously with them there's no tail nipping no fighting no nothing and I wish I could show you how my tank turned out it was beautiful now all I have to do is get the same size carry it up six flights of stairs with only one arm because my left arm is recovering from being broken and then I can put on a frosted cover back and then I can skip it with water that is not going to kill my plants or my fish for that matter
Never underestimate a teaspoon of diluted aquarium salt
They said for every one gallon you should put a teaspoon of salt but I usually put in two because I don't want to kill the roots of the plants and I just feel incredibly grateful that literally God helped me to answer my problem I was really starting to feel discouraged about having fish
really wanted to have my own fish room and then from there I wanted to teach people how to make tanks without feeling stressed out because every time I talk to Taiwanese people they tell me the same thing I buy the fish I buy all the stuff that's needed and then my fish dies and what I realized is they're buying sick fish
Almost every beta is ill because they're not put in a filtrated tank and then Taiwanese people don't know about the water sucks and that it's acidic and kills their fish
So basically what I want to do is practice my aquascaping skills and figure out how to do a simple dirty tank with a nice layer of gravel or better yet just grab one and root tabs and then I use you know liquid fertilizer if necessary but I want to teach them how to build a 5 gallon tank where they can keep their male or female betta and if it's friendly it can get along with the guppies at least six
I don't have a lot of problems with pollution or this kind of thing in my tank because my filter does a good job and also that I make sure that the food does not drop to the bottom and the way the guppies eat there's no time for the food to actually go to the bottom and then I dropping my food for the beta one at a time so the tank itself is pretty clean like if you do find a new degree it's actually not going to be like food it's probably just roots from the plants and maybe fish poop but I do 30 to 40% water change couple times a week but for a big tank and I only need to do it once a week
I just wanted to thank you because I got a lot of inspiration from your tanks and even though we don't have all the same types of plants I think maybe now I can use the ones that we have and I think they'll be able to grow because the acid won't be killing them
I mean honestly the water was not only killing my fish but killing the plants too only a newbius could handle this water
And the good news is there's 40 kinds of anubias I kid you not all you have to do is go online and you can find all kinds of Anubis
Anyways wish me luck I'm hoping this project will help my channel to grow it's a bit small and my videos aren't as interesting it's hard to work and hold the camera at the same time so I need to get like a stand but I can't get that just quite yet but in the meantime I can at least work on my skills doing aquascaping with plants and hardscaping and what's really cool is you don't need to go out and buy a lot of stuff you can rearrange the same stuff and make it completely different
Cute baby bettas!
Stuff filter floss or those colorful plastic dish scrubbers into your gravel vac tube and tie a net or something at the end to cap it. Water changes done without water pressure hitting substrate. Please try it out sometime.
Hmmmm
@@SimplyBetta , in general, the more surface area there is to break the water tension the better. You can eventually have a full heavy stream going in, but it's broken up in the water change tube, before it hits the main water column. Just fiddle with your own design that practical for you and convenient. Makes water changes so much smoother.
@@SimplyBetta . Just trying to find a solution to this problem that even high tech shop owners still go through, using their hands still and plastics, *sigh* lol needs to change is all.
Ty ma'am Taylor
Consistency in lights and fertilizers, along with water changes, seems to work best for hair algae. Oh, and a toothbrush for manual removal. :) Yours should eventually fade as the plants start to thrive. I love marsilea, btw, but it's one plant I have no luck with.
I’m suffering from hair algae too! I try to remove it by hand every week during water changes. If it’s particularly bad like in this vid I’ll do a bleach dip on my plastic plants and decor ( not good for bacteria but faster than removing by hand/ scrubbing). If anyone has any tips let me know!
A algae eater
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Usually when I have that algae issue , I just make a black out and add hydrogen peroxide to the tank , hair algae becomes white and disappear within a few days.... you can apply it directly to the most infected areas using a syringe .. I ll wait to see the new video when algae is gone ! Blessings from dominican republic
Thanks for the tip!
I'm so happy I found your channel! You are the first woman in this community I have found and it's nice to see other ladies passionate about this amazing hobby! And your videos are more informative than any other I've seen. Thank you for posting!
Have you heard of the wallstead method😂
It's not John walstad is Diana walstad and I think that's how you say the last name😅
The shrimp will obviously really help you with the hair algae problem. Great looking tank!!