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Hi FatherFish! I'm actually watching all your videos, they are very informative! You’re amazing, like a living encyclopedia! Thank you for sharing your knowledge. It’s a pity that I live so far away in Belgium; otherwise, I would definitely visit your store and wave to you!
Thank you for sharing all your experience and knowledge! Even though I don’t have any fish yet, I love relaxing to your videos! Each one I learn something new!!
Bless this old-timer he's given so much valuable knowledge. I'm in the latter stages of recovery from severe mental health issues and this is one of my old hobbies I'm getting back into. I'm loving it so much.
So I just set up a 75 gallon mostly following FF’s method but I gave it a little twist. I had the dirt and sand layers laid down but when it was time to add water, instead I added first the entire contents of a resurrection jar. Actually it was a resurrection bucket, a 10 gallon bucket that I filled by going to a very healthy fishing pond in a state park near me hear in northeast Pennsylvania. I went to a shallow corner of the pond that’s the richest part, almost a marsh. I used a smaller jar to scoop up water from the top, from the middle and from near the bottom, picking up a little bit of mud and silt in the process, not so much to overpower it. Then I collected decaying leaves, twigs, etc from that pond then I went to a couple other spots like a ditch along some cliffs in the forest formed by spring water seeping out of the cliffs, with layers of decomposing leaves. Also threw in some big clumps ofhornwort and bladderwort from the pond. I let that bucket sit outside for a couple weeks as I got the stuff for my 75 gallon & it collected rainwater and mosquitoes and other insects laid eggs in it. Every once in a while I’d look closely at the bucket and I’d see alarmingly large creatures moving in the darkness, I thought I might have accidentally grabbed some minnows. So when my tank was ready, like I said instead of putting water in it i first just poured the whole 10 gallon bucket in it (using a plate on the sand to disperse the water). Then I saw what was moving around, it was a tadpole, huge insect larvae, and a gazillion other creatures, it was absolutely teeming with life. Basically a resurrection jar in a 75 gallon (though only the bottom few inches). Then I added some feeder minnows to help get the nitrogen cycle going. Then over the next few days I added more buckets of water I got from a spring, sort of scraping the sides of the spring where algae had built up to get clumps of it in the water. The minnows went nuts over all the debris, leaves, algae etc. I then squeezed the filter of an established tank into the water of the new tank and let the old filter sit on top of my new sponge filter where it still sits. Then I added a ton of plants including jungle val and ludwigia from local lakes and streams. Then moss covered rocks and driftwood from a local river. About a week later I tested the water and parameters were perfect. So I then added a ton of fish. I recently made another resurrection jar from some wetlands in the Poconos. I started it to cultivate daphnia but got impatient and dumped the whole thing in the tank. Fish went nuts. Anyway i consider my tank itself to be a 75 gallon resurrection jar and I’m sure there’s a complex food web developing. Thanks FF for the inspiration.
Oof careful. Are you just keeping that entire tank for critters from ponds, no actual fish? Because that is a recipe for disaster for illnesses you can give the fish, or parasites, especially with mosquito larvae. There are tons of other species that are just not good for fish. Mostly the concern would be types of molds, slime, and parasites. Just be careful. A whole 10 gallon bucket of a medley of outdoor stuff, brewing and fermenting for a month, you're getting a bunch of everything, and it's not all good.
I used a container to only hold more water to increase overall water volume, I had it connected to tank with only a u pipe with siphon, no water flowed through it really, tossed in a piece of moss from tree base in my yard and 3 weeks later just happened to look and it's now full of a Daphnia population (free food for Master now... He's my Betta fish!)
the first thing to do is set up a 10 gallon, theyre cheap at any walmart. a bowl is not suitable for anything but a few male guppies. betta are like 3 inch fish afterall. @@ChristinaVargas21
You're amazing, Father Fish! I am amazed by your passion for creating ecosystems and every time I watch one of your videos it renews my spirit and makes we want to try something new in the hobby. Thank you for always creating such great content and for bringing so much love for the hobby into our lives!
I know! He literally saved my fishes and shrimps.They where in a really bad state and cyano bacterias where everywhere, and when i whatched one of his videos, i took all the tech except for the lamp out, build the base for an eco system, and all the animals recovered and the dying stopped, except for the last little guppy, who died a few months later. But without the ideas of this channel, all my animals where dead now
This is so true guys. When I setup my second tank. I was pretty much more knowledgable than when I was at first tank. So, I readied the substrate and sand for the new tank and added the already conditioned water from my old planted tank. But rather than filling it I left it to only flood the sand and substrate not above the level of sand. Left it there for week so the bacteria can colonise. A week or two later I planted and flooded the tank and wanted to leave it for a week again. But on the 3-4 days after planting and filling water I noticed bugs, critters, larvae, and worms so much that I could not post pone it and around midnight 2am I put in one of the juvenile female blue betta in. And when I looked in the morning it was a ghost town . Looks like Bluey ma girl hunted every single one and had a buffet for herself. Honestly I felt happy looking at it have fun and planning to take down my first planted tank to remake it properly.
P.S. All this knowledge is tanks to RUclipsrs like Father Fish, Fish for thought,MD fish tanks, KGTropical , Aquarium Co-Op , girl talks fish and many more. And guy this is a line where you learn every day so have fun in the experience.
Set up a 60 gallon with this method. The fish look so happy and have been disease free so far! The only issue I've had is the fish picking every single corner of the tank clean. Thank you Fish Einstein!
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Thank you so very much for making this. I made 2 jars and get lots of questions and I wasn’t sure most of the answers. Now I will be directing everyone to this video.
Wow! I never thought that just getting jars filled with rotting leaves could be so FASCINATING! I just found your channel and I definitely want to make all of my aquariums into food 🕸️
One of my favourite things about keeping fish (when I had room for tanks) was the dozens of jars of micro foods I kept. Copepods are some of my favourites. I would spend just as much time enjoying the food jars as I did my fish. This video brings back so many wonderful memories, thank-You so much. I really hope You turn many more people onto the joys of doing this
Wonderful. As below stated. Your videos are getting much better, especially for the newcomers IMHO. I've just this week converted my 20 UK Gallon to the deep substrate method after months of intensive research including a small 5 Gallon test tank running from the beginning to iron out any unforeseen problems along the way. I have heavily planted the new tank and have a few small fish in at present, and now researching plants. I made a resurrection jar way back when you said add mud, and yes it was overwhelming. I always wondered if the resurrection jar was sustainable, but the shoe box breeding station is genius. Thank you Father Fish.
I just wanted to thank you for sharing you vast experience and knowledge of the most natural and healthy fish keeping techniques. You are the bomb Father Fish. ❤❤❤❤
This is the most intriguing concept I’ve never heard before and came to it thru this channel. Many of the other concepts like bringing some material from a creek or pond when setting up the tank or building a healthy and deep enough substrate I’ve heard before. This is fantastic.
This is wonderful. When I built my resurrection jar, I grabbed mud from the bottom of the lake. It's actually more of a sandy, gravelly dirt. So I don't think it is making the water too rich. But I have kept the jar on a south facing window seal. So I'll move it off and see if that helps it thrive. In the fall I'll be able to dedicate a lot more time to this hobby, we just have so much going on right now I'm barely able to think twice about my tanks.
Hello! Ik from the Netherlands and after about 3,5 years of having 2 aquaria i stumbeld in over at Father fish. This is so cool! I made my first resurrection jar for a tiny bowl in the garden. It stand for years with a pond plant in it. Over the years some leaves and twigs got in the 0.5 gallon bowl. I put my hand in and droped ela bunch of black brown juckie stuf in and put it in a empty clean spaghetti sauce jar. Topped of with the remaining water. And behold alfter just 2 days i have noticed life!!! Red blood worms are in there🎉🎉
Also, thank you for sharing your knowledge with everyone. I love hearing from the older people in the aquarium community that have been doing this for a long time. Growing up, I never really got to learn anything about aquarium care from other people. I had tanks off and on as a kid but my family didn't really know what they were doing at the time. When I became a teenager, I got into the community pretty hard and connected with people online and learned so much. Now as an adult I still enjoy hearing other people's knowledge on fish.
What surprises me is that there are very few old tanks on those very "perfect aquascape" channels. It's the one of a few channels on RUclips, actually, where you can find a 20 yo aquarium. I will try your method with my new tank, that i got after big pause in a hobby ( moved to another country), but i gotta say, that i am always laughing, that aquarium ppl are just not lazy enough to have a well established old tank. I had mine, without any knowledge or deep substrate for this matter for Years, without water changes, with thriving fish, shrimp and plants. But i find your idea amusing to try and also very healthy, i don't think anything will go wrong, though ofc i was tought like everyone else to not bring stuff from the outside into my tank, i was just lazy enough to let nature run the way it goes in there and thats why i didn't need to change my water, or constantly treat my aquarium. But thank you for crushing this outdoor stuff myth, now it will be even more fun for me ;)
most of aquariums are for looks. fancy aquascapes or dutch style gardens are made to grow out, take best pictures and not long after that taken apart and starting all over again. not many lasts long. and if they last - aquasoill burns out max in 2 years and again - a new beginning. it is consumerism at its finest - you buy and buy and buy. substrate, new plants, filters, fertilizers, co2, alagae control chemicals etc. peopple are being made into slaves of their hobby and money bringers to companies. and if you do not succeed or get tired - there are new people everyday that want to enjoy those aquascape pictures in their home, but are never told that those perfect pictures are very temporary.
You are just so knowledgeable about aquatics!!! I'm learning so much about the direction I want my Community, breeding , and fry aquariums to go in. I'm so excited about microbes, and feeding live foods to my fish of all maturities. I have a 80 gal. , and 2 20s now. But am designing a 4 ft long breeding aquarium with 15 gal sections (4), and a fry aquarium with short 5 gal sections. You've given me so many great ideas. I'm truly thankful I found your page!!!!
We collected our first jar today. Going for a walk in the forest nearby a body of water as taken a whole new meaning. We plan to revisit places around our house with empty jars to test what's growing in the resurrection jars. I feel like a kid opening a surprise box!
i have a few ecosystems in my room that ive made. I have 2 terrariums containing strictly grasses and mosses, a bioactive aquatic jar with snails, and a lot of micro fauna. I also have another bioactive jar that has 3 lucky bamboo plants growing in, and a large cookie jar that I turned into a terrestrial environment for springtails, isopods, and various other creatures. I have a betta tank with a young female betta, and im working on a guppy breeding tank. I love these types of videos because I always get something out of it. Thank you for this amazing vid!
This is the exactly what we have instinctively been trying to accomplish in our tanks over the last few years. This information is going to bring it to the next level for us! Amazing! Thank you so much Sir! What a delight you are. Your voice and your content...so enjoyable!!
This is so amazing 🤩 Thank you father fish! I had done this inadvertently when I tried to grow plants in a small bottle in natural sun light. I spent as much time with these tiny critters as I did with my tanks, if not more! Like it’s happening all by itself without my involvement whatsoever! It was truly magical! So glad to see this again after a long time 😊
Thank you Father Fish! I´m new to your channel, but am a fan. Just came across this video. What a great idea. I might just keep some Jars as they are. I love watching nature do its thing. What a marvelous thing to do. I used to do that with just moss that i found while living in Washington State. Having a little microcosmos in a glas. Just beautiful! Thank you and keep up your videos. Best wishes from the Austian Alps.
With your advice, I started my very own resurrection jars today. I collected the water and leaf matter, also the substrate from a very healty creek that has a very strong stream passing through it. It hasn't even been 24 hours and I already have small worms, snails and many other living cultures moving around in there! I can't wait to let these jars develope more and add them to my tank ❤
Thanks to you Father, I just got my first dirty tank (20g) up and going. Now I am getting to work on my jars and redoing the beginner (5g) tank that I transferred my old shoal from to a dirty tank for shrimps. Be blessed and thank you for sharing all of your knowledge!
I started, what you call, a Resurrection jar about 20 years ago. My intent was to feed the fish in my tank. A few little pieces of green aquatic plant was included in the jar. I scooped out some small daphnia as well as some other buggies. I noticed a small whitish wormlike thing inching up one of my plants. I waited to see what a fish would do. When a fish took notice the inch worm thing struck the fish, imbedded itself in the fish and almost instantly turned red. I am guessing this little worm was a kind of leech or anchor worm. afterwards I found MANY of those worm things in my tank. I emptied the tank and started the tank anew. I never tried the jar thing again for fear of the worm things. Have you ever had anything like that happen?
i have 5 inch substrate (3 inch soil and 2 inch sand) ... 15 gal tank with oversized filter and huge flow (260 gal per hour).. i keep native minnows and danube barbel. One word, tubifex... I throw 10 balls in and dig them in a bit. The fish love it, even the minnows started digging in the sand. i do not feed my fish anymore... once every 3 months i restock the worms and that is it.
Father Fish!! I am new to the hobby and so happy that I found you! I am doing a planted tank and my goal is to have it as self sufficient and chemical free as possible. Thank you so much for spreading the wisdom you have gained.
Oh my goodness. I stumbled across your channel a few weeks ago and I have been having so much fun learning! You're like Ms. Frizzle in real life! I am ready to continue my field trip in Father Fish's magic school bus :)
I never had happier fish than when i did something like this. I put 2 tubs of water outside, one was an old plastic container for a sandbox for my babies to playin and one wasna old fish tank. I put leaves in both and when the water went green I bought a packet of daphnia (I did not know until now that you can collect them so simply) and put it in tub #1. When the water was clear I had thousands of daphnia, i'd change 30% and put the harvested daphnia in the fish tank and new green wwater into the daphnia tub. My fish just started breeding like crazy they were so happy. Couldn't do it in winter though, not enough light. PS If you try this, mosquitoes lay their eggs and you have to make sure to catch them all and not use a daphnia net in the green water tank or you get 2,000 daphnia and no food! :) Use a mosquito net if you don't want the trouble. You also get tons of bloodworm which are also awesome for food.
You might be close to figuring out how us as a civilization first started. Been fish keeping for a long time and still learning things from you. Thanks for giving wisdom 😊
I put pond mud in my jar and If you recall my comment from months ago It did FOUL. However, I left it alone and it actually came back and is thriving! I think it just goes to show the resilience and power of nature.
I been keeping fish since inwas a young kid with my grandfather. We never had anything like this. I can't wait to try it!. We're going out tomorrow to get started
I used to keep fishtanks now i keep ecosystems my fish dont die no-more my plants are thriving this gentlemen has knowledge period iam glad i finfld him this has let me enjoy my fish iam not overly stressed for spikes or how clean my fishtank is i dont do water-changes anymore i don’t clean plant matter at all from tank and my tank is healthy i just fill in evaporation from rain water i dont even use prime enymore just fertilizer and root-tabs my tank is super happy my tank is clear no murky or smelly water at all like at the time when i was a water changing phsyco my fish dont get sick at all no bacteria,slimy stinky water no more .
i follow you from North africa , especially TUNISIA the ancient Land of Carthage , i wanna say that you are amazing and you are wonderfull , god bless you , you helped me and my friends with a priceless adivices , thank you so much
What a beautiful video, I'm watching it for the second time. thank you father fish. By the way, congratulations to the cameraman and the video editor. Excellent work.
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I have lots of hydra in my jar is that okay?
Hi FatherFish! I'm actually watching all your videos, they are very informative! You’re amazing, like a living encyclopedia! Thank you for sharing your knowledge. It’s a pity that I live so far away in Belgium; otherwise, I would definitely visit your store and wave to you!
Thank you for sharing all your experience and knowledge! Even though I don’t have any fish yet, I love relaxing to your videos! Each one I learn something new!!
I can listen him all day.
Me too!
@@CLunelli Same here.
Bless this old-timer he's given so much valuable knowledge.
I'm in the latter stages of recovery from severe mental health issues and this is one of my old hobbies I'm getting back into.
I'm loving it so much.
This is a blessing to our well being.
@@FatherFish
I'm finding this out. Thanks so much for sharing your expertise 😊
Congrats on your recovery. Fish keeping done in this method is so satisfying and rewarding. I love this hobby!
So I just set up a 75 gallon mostly following FF’s method but I gave it a little twist. I had the dirt and sand layers laid down but when it was time to add water, instead I added first the entire contents of a resurrection jar.
Actually it was a resurrection bucket, a 10 gallon bucket that I filled by going to a very healthy fishing pond in a state park near me hear in northeast Pennsylvania. I went to a shallow corner of the pond that’s the richest part, almost a marsh. I used a smaller jar to scoop up water from the top, from the middle and from near the bottom, picking up a little bit of mud and silt in the process, not so much to overpower it.
Then I collected decaying leaves, twigs, etc from that pond then I went to a couple other spots like a ditch along some cliffs in the forest formed by spring water seeping out of the cliffs, with layers of decomposing leaves. Also threw in some big clumps ofhornwort and bladderwort from the pond.
I let that bucket sit outside for a couple weeks as I got the stuff for my 75 gallon & it collected rainwater and mosquitoes and other insects laid eggs in it. Every once in a while I’d look closely at the bucket and I’d see alarmingly large creatures moving in the darkness, I thought I might have accidentally grabbed some minnows.
So when my tank was ready, like I said instead of putting water in it i first just poured the whole 10 gallon bucket in it (using a plate on the sand to disperse the water).
Then I saw what was moving around, it was a tadpole, huge insect larvae, and a gazillion other creatures, it was absolutely teeming with life. Basically a resurrection jar in a 75 gallon (though only the bottom few inches).
Then I added some feeder minnows to help get the nitrogen cycle going.
Then over the next few days I added more buckets of water I got from a spring, sort of scraping the sides of the spring where algae had built up to get clumps of it in the water. The minnows went nuts over all the debris, leaves, algae etc.
I then squeezed the filter of an established tank into the water of the new tank and let the old filter sit on top of my new sponge filter where it still sits.
Then I added a ton of plants including jungle val and ludwigia from local lakes and streams. Then moss covered rocks and driftwood from a local river.
About a week later I tested the water and parameters were perfect. So I then added a ton of fish.
I recently made another resurrection jar from some wetlands in the Poconos. I started it to cultivate daphnia but got impatient and dumped the whole thing in the tank. Fish went nuts.
Anyway i consider my tank itself to be a 75 gallon resurrection jar and I’m sure there’s a complex food web developing. Thanks FF for the inspiration.
Wow, a recipe for magnificence!
Harika!
Oof careful. Are you just keeping that entire tank for critters from ponds, no actual fish? Because that is a recipe for disaster for illnesses you can give the fish, or parasites, especially with mosquito larvae. There are tons of other species that are just not good for fish. Mostly the concern would be types of molds, slime, and parasites. Just be careful. A whole 10 gallon bucket of a medley of outdoor stuff, brewing and fermenting for a month, you're getting a bunch of everything, and it's not all good.
That sounds cool
@@THEcucufateWWFFD
I learned this from my 7th grade science teacher back in the 70s. The life in those jars is more interesting than the fish in the tanks. 😮
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More intresting then msm 😂
@@Saxonwomenhuh? Main stream media?
@@salcedomark yes
@@Saxonwomen I would invite the life in a jar of pond water to my wedding before I invited "journalists."
I can’t help but wish you were my grandpa!! Your knowledge and way of teaching is exactly what so many in this hobby need.
I used a container to only hold more water to increase overall water volume, I had it connected to tank with only a u pipe with siphon, no water flowed through it really, tossed in a piece of moss from tree base in my yard and 3 weeks later just happened to look and it's now full of a Daphnia population (free food for Master now... He's my Betta fish!)
I need to learn what to do for my betta fish as well. I only have him by himself in a small bowl. He looks bored. 😢
@@ChristinaVargas21 They sell mirrors to keep them occupied but don't leave it in there or use it too long
@@ChristinaVargas21 a nice five gallon heated and filtered tank would help it out greatly.
the first thing to do is set up a 10 gallon, theyre cheap at any walmart. a bowl is not suitable for anything but a few male guppies. betta are like 3 inch fish afterall. @@ChristinaVargas21
@@ChristinaVargas21 Bettas need a minimum of five gallons and a heater… 78 degrees.
You're amazing, Father Fish! I am amazed by your passion for creating ecosystems and every time I watch one of your videos it renews my spirit and makes we want to try something new in the hobby. Thank you for always creating such great content and for bringing so much love for the hobby into our lives!
I know! He literally saved my fishes and shrimps.They where in a really bad state and cyano bacterias where everywhere, and when i whatched one of his videos, i took all the tech except for the lamp out, build the base for an eco system, and all the animals recovered and the dying stopped, except for the last little guppy, who died a few months later. But without the ideas of this channel, all my animals where dead now
I am going on 71 years of life, and father fish has rekindled a passion that I had 60 years ago!😊 I have 4 tanks going now and I am planning more!😂
This is so true guys. When I setup my second tank. I was pretty much more knowledgable than when I was at first tank. So, I readied the substrate and sand for the new tank and added the already conditioned water from my old planted tank. But rather than filling it I left it to only flood the sand and substrate not above the level of sand. Left it there for week so the bacteria can colonise. A week or two later I planted and flooded the tank and wanted to leave it for a week again. But on the 3-4 days after planting and filling water I noticed bugs, critters, larvae, and worms so much that I could not post pone it and around midnight 2am I put in one of the juvenile female blue betta in. And when I looked in the morning it was a ghost town . Looks like Bluey ma girl hunted every single one and had a buffet for herself. Honestly I felt happy looking at it have fun and planning to take down my first planted tank to remake it properly.
P.S. All this knowledge is tanks to RUclipsrs like Father Fish, Fish for thought,MD fish tanks, KGTropical , Aquarium Co-Op , girl talks fish and many more. And guy this is a line where you learn every day so have fun in the experience.
can i put a betta into a resurrection jar?
@@carmie2431 you can but it won't be a resurrection jar anymore since betta hunt them down pretty fast.
@@kaizakim4612 is there any fish i could put in one? thank you.
@@carmie2431 not recommend fishes but try cherry shrimps they're amazing to watch too
Set up a 60 gallon with this method. The fish look so happy and have been disease free so far! The only issue I've had is the fish picking every single corner of the tank clean. Thank you Fish Einstein!
2:41 just saw that you’ve used my video and you’ve highlighted the issue! Thanks Father fish! Your channel deserves a lot of appreciation ❤️
I see all of your videos as not just about a mere aquarium, but it is about the way of NATURE demonstrated by aquarium. It is about Life
Какой приятный мужчина, так интересно рассказывает. Какое счастье, что в ютубе есть перевод видео и можно наслаждаться интересными роликами со всего мира. Спасибо вам за чудесное видео!
@@KseniaSlavina yes.. hail capitalism that bring this kind of thing
Thank you so very much for making this. I made 2 jars and get lots of questions and I wasn’t sure most of the answers. Now I will be directing everyone to this video.
Glad it was helpful!
Three jars and two tanks in….. I’m hooked! Such a great hobby….watching nature every day ❤
Your videos keep getting better and better. Whoever does the editing did a great job on this one.
I love that you have inspired so many people (including me) to do more than just keep fish. It makes this hobby so much more fun and interesting.
You're voice is so calming and you are so well educated and informative. You're channel is amazing.
Wow! I never thought that just getting jars filled with rotting leaves could be so FASCINATING! I just found your channel and I definitely want to make all of my aquariums into food 🕸️
I can listen to you teach for hours! Thank you for sharing your infinite wealth of knowledge!💜
One of my favourite things about keeping fish (when I had room for tanks) was the dozens of jars of micro foods I kept. Copepods are some of my favourites. I would spend just as much time enjoying the food jars as I did my fish. This video brings back so many wonderful memories, thank-You so much. I really hope You turn many more people onto the joys of doing this
Wonderful. As below stated. Your videos are getting much better, especially for the newcomers IMHO.
I've just this week converted my 20 UK Gallon to the deep substrate method after months of intensive research including a small 5 Gallon test tank running from the beginning to iron out any unforeseen problems along the way. I have heavily planted the new tank and have a few small fish in at present, and now researching plants. I made a resurrection jar way back when you said add mud, and yes it was overwhelming. I always wondered if the resurrection jar was sustainable, but the shoe box breeding station is genius.
Thank you Father Fish.
I just wanted to thank you for sharing you vast experience and knowledge of the most natural and healthy fish keeping techniques. You are the bomb Father Fish. ❤❤❤❤
Now the resurrection jar is perfect ! Awesome info . Really revived .
This is the most intriguing concept I’ve never heard before and came to it thru this channel. Many of the other concepts like bringing some material from a creek or pond when setting up the tank or building a healthy and deep enough substrate I’ve heard before. This is fantastic.
You’re really inspiring me to go back to the hobby after a looong time, thank you Father Fish ❤
@@massimomallia4304 Same here!
Picked up my jar yesterday. Will be gathering contents for it tomorrow. Very excited. Thanks FF!
I just found your channel searching betta breeding, and I'm overwhemled with joy finding this treasure of a human ❤
BEST CHANNEL ON THE TUBE!! YOU SIR ARE THE PICASSO OF THE FISH KEEPING HOBBY!!!
This is wonderful.
When I built my resurrection jar, I grabbed mud from the bottom of the lake. It's actually more of a sandy, gravelly dirt. So I don't think it is making the water too rich. But I have kept the jar on a south facing window seal. So I'll move it off and see if that helps it thrive.
In the fall I'll be able to dedicate a lot more time to this hobby, we just have so much going on right now I'm barely able to think twice about my tanks.
Hello! Ik from the Netherlands and after about 3,5 years of having 2 aquaria i stumbeld in over at Father fish. This is so cool! I made my first resurrection jar for a tiny bowl in the garden. It stand for years with a pond plant in it. Over the years some leaves and twigs got in the 0.5 gallon bowl. I put my hand in and droped ela bunch of black brown juckie stuf in and put it in a empty clean spaghetti sauce jar. Topped of with the remaining water. And behold alfter just 2 days i have noticed life!!! Red blood worms are in there🎉🎉
Also, thank you for sharing your knowledge with everyone. I love hearing from the older people in the aquarium community that have been doing this for a long time. Growing up, I never really got to learn anything about aquarium care from other people. I had tanks off and on as a kid but my family didn't really know what they were doing at the time. When I became a teenager, I got into the community pretty hard and connected with people online and learned so much. Now as an adult I still enjoy hearing other people's knowledge on fish.
This detailed video is exactly what I needed to understand the jar. Thank you so much!
Exactly the video I needed to get more living things into my tank. Thanks.
What surprises me is that there are very few old tanks on those very "perfect aquascape" channels. It's the one of a few channels on RUclips, actually, where you can find a 20 yo aquarium.
I will try your method with my new tank, that i got after big pause in a hobby ( moved to another country), but i gotta say, that i am always laughing, that aquarium ppl are just not lazy enough to have a well established old tank. I had mine, without any knowledge or deep substrate for this matter for Years, without water changes, with thriving fish, shrimp and plants. But i find your idea amusing to try and also very healthy, i don't think anything will go wrong, though ofc i was tought like everyone else to not bring stuff from the outside into my tank, i was just lazy enough to let nature run the way it goes in there and thats why i didn't need to change my water, or constantly treat my aquarium. But thank you for crushing this outdoor stuff myth, now it will be even more fun for me ;)
most of aquariums are for looks. fancy aquascapes or dutch style gardens are made to grow out, take best pictures and not long after that taken apart and starting all over again. not many lasts long. and if they last - aquasoill burns out max in 2 years and again - a new beginning. it is consumerism at its finest - you buy and buy and buy. substrate, new plants, filters, fertilizers, co2, alagae control chemicals etc. peopple are being made into slaves of their hobby and money bringers to companies. and if you do not succeed or get tired - there are new people everyday that want to enjoy those aquascape pictures in their home, but are never told that those perfect pictures are very temporary.
Thanks Father Fish. You've made fish keeping a much simpler and enjoyable process for me. Im going to try this today.
I love hearing you so much . Thank you for the great joy you deliver to our hearts ❤
I love ur channel. I have gotten better at this hobby because of you and keeping my fish alive.
You are just so knowledgeable about aquatics!!! I'm learning so much about the direction I want my Community, breeding , and fry aquariums to go in. I'm so excited about microbes, and feeding live foods to my fish of all maturities.
I have a 80 gal. , and 2 20s now. But am designing a 4 ft long breeding aquarium with 15 gal sections (4), and a fry aquarium with short 5 gal sections. You've given me so many great ideas. I'm truly thankful I found your page!!!!
Thanks!
Thank you.
I love who's been doing your videos, FF. They're doing a great job! (I've done a little YTing myself, so I know what goes into it. Much appreciated)
Great video Father Fish. Thanks! I recharge my jar from my outdoor tub ponds when activity starts to lessen.
We collected our first jar today. Going for a walk in the forest nearby a body of water as taken a whole new meaning. We plan to revisit places around our house with empty jars to test what's growing in the resurrection jars. I feel like a kid opening a surprise box!
i have a few ecosystems in my room that ive made. I have 2 terrariums containing strictly grasses and mosses, a bioactive aquatic jar with snails, and a lot of micro fauna. I also have another bioactive jar that has 3 lucky bamboo plants growing in, and a large cookie jar that I turned into a terrestrial environment for springtails, isopods, and various other creatures. I have a betta tank with a young female betta, and im working on a guppy breeding tank. I love these types of videos because I always get something out of it. Thank you for this amazing vid!
I love the resurrection jar.. So amazing to see what appears in them ❤
Thanks! I'm just getting started with an all nature tank. I appreciate the information you give us and love watching your videos over and over
Thank you Wendy. See you on the live tonite.
Thank you for continuing sharing your knowledge, this is a totally new world for me!
This is the exactly what we have instinctively been trying to accomplish in our tanks over the last few years. This information is going to bring it to the next level for us! Amazing! Thank you so much Sir! What a delight you are. Your voice and your content...so enjoyable!!
This is brilliant
This is so amazing 🤩
Thank you father fish!
I had done this inadvertently when I tried to grow plants in a small bottle in natural sun light. I spent as much time with these tiny critters as I did with my tanks, if not more!
Like it’s happening all by itself without my involvement whatsoever! It was truly magical! So glad to see this again after a long time 😊
Since I've decided to go with live plants in a dirt/sand substrate, Father Fish has been an invaluable resource of information. Thank you Father Fish!
Thank you Father Fish! I´m new to your channel, but am a fan. Just came across this video. What a great idea. I might just keep some Jars as they are. I love watching nature do its thing. What a marvelous thing to do. I used to do that with just moss that i found while living in Washington State. Having a little microcosmos in a glas. Just beautiful! Thank you and keep up your videos. Best wishes from the Austian Alps.
With your advice, I started my very own resurrection jars today. I collected the water and leaf matter, also the substrate from a very healty creek that has a very strong stream passing through it. It hasn't even been 24 hours and I already have small worms, snails and many other living cultures moving around in there!
I can't wait to let these jars develope more and add them to my tank ❤
Thank you for teaching me this trick. I can’t wait to get started. ❤
GRATITUDE 💥🐟💥
Thanks to you Father, I just got my first dirty tank (20g) up and going. Now I am getting to work on my jars and redoing the beginner (5g) tank that I transferred my old shoal from to a dirty tank for shrimps. Be blessed and thank you for sharing all of your knowledge!
The last few minutes of this video answered all my questions about incorporating the resurrection jar into my aquarium. Thank you!
I started, what you call, a Resurrection jar about 20 years ago. My intent was to feed the fish in my tank. A few little pieces of green aquatic plant was included in the jar. I scooped out some small daphnia as well as some other buggies. I noticed a small whitish wormlike thing inching up one of my plants. I waited to see what a fish would do. When a fish took notice the inch worm thing struck the fish, imbedded itself in the fish and almost instantly turned red. I am guessing this little worm was a kind of leech or anchor worm. afterwards I found MANY of those worm things in my tank. I emptied the tank and started the tank anew. I never tried the jar thing again for fear of the worm things. Have you ever had anything like that happen?
This is what I’m afraid of. Introducing some sort of parasite into my fish aquarium.
Спасибо Вам, за тот опыт которым Вы делетись! У меня нет аквариума, но создание этих удивительных микромиров выглядит по-настоящему интересным!
i have 5 inch substrate (3 inch soil and 2 inch sand) ... 15 gal tank with oversized filter and huge flow (260 gal per hour).. i keep native minnows and danube barbel. One word, tubifex... I throw 10 balls in and dig them in a bit. The fish love it, even the minnows started digging in the sand. i do not feed my fish anymore... once every 3 months i restock the worms and that is it.
So cool, luv this. Best aquarium channel out there.
What an awesome idea
Father Fish!! I am new to the hobby and so happy that I found you! I am doing a planted tank and my goal is to have it as self sufficient and chemical free as possible. Thank you so much for spreading the wisdom you have gained.
Oh my goodness. I stumbled across your channel a few weeks ago and I have been having so much fun learning! You're like Ms. Frizzle in real life! I am ready to continue my field trip in Father Fish's magic school bus :)
I never had happier fish than when i did something like this. I put 2 tubs of water outside, one was an old plastic container for a sandbox for my babies to playin and one wasna old fish tank. I put leaves in both and when the water went green I bought a packet of daphnia (I did not know until now that you can collect them so simply) and put it in tub #1. When the water was clear I had thousands of daphnia, i'd change 30% and put the harvested daphnia in the fish tank and new green wwater into the daphnia tub. My fish just started breeding like crazy they were so happy. Couldn't do it in winter though, not enough light.
PS If you try this, mosquitoes lay their eggs and you have to make sure to catch them all and not use a daphnia net in the green water tank or you get 2,000 daphnia and no food! :) Use a mosquito net if you don't want the trouble. You also get tons of bloodworm which are also awesome for food.
You might be close to figuring out how us as a civilization first started. Been fish keeping for a long time and still learning things from you. Thanks for giving wisdom 😊
15+ years by the way your amazing please post more
Thank you for this explanation! It is just what I was looking for!
So much great information. Thank you for sharing it
Thanks!
Thank you so much! You have no idea what your appreciation means to me.
Glad I found your channel, somehow i always felt neat/ superclear aqauria weren't my cup of tea, and now i know why. 🎉 Thanks man
Truly enjoyed this video. As always, extremely informative! Thank you for sharing your plethora of knowledge with us!
I put pond mud in my jar and If you recall my comment from months ago It did FOUL. However, I left it alone and it actually came back and is thriving!
I think it just goes to show the resilience and power of nature.
One must have balance, organization and Universal Love.
I been keeping fish since inwas a young kid with my grandfather. We never had anything like this. I can't wait to try it!. We're going out tomorrow to get started
Love it! Free and nutritious food for your fish.
Love this whole video. I kind of feel like I’m watching PBS in all the best ways. Excited to give it a try!
It's always a privilege to listen to and gain benifit from the experience of veterans. ❤
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My hero!
Great video, thanks!
Very very high quality video ❤
My son is super into fishkeeping because of me, i think starting one of these jars would be an awesome project with your kids
I used to keep fishtanks now i keep ecosystems my fish dont die no-more my plants are thriving this gentlemen has knowledge period iam glad i finfld him this has let me enjoy my fish iam not overly stressed for spikes or how clean my fishtank is i dont do water-changes anymore i don’t clean plant matter at all from tank and my tank is healthy i just fill in evaporation from rain water i dont even use prime enymore just fertilizer and root-tabs my tank is super happy my tank is clear no murky or smelly water at all like at the time when i was a water changing phsyco my fish dont get sick at all no bacteria,slimy stinky water no more .
something about your voice calms me. its like talking to my wise grandpa. thankz for the sharing by the way!
This is one of the BEST videos I've watched on RUclips for years!
This made my day. Thank you 🐠🪸🪼
Thank you for taking the time to make this video. Very informative.
Wspaniale przeprowadziłeś tę cenną lekcje, dziekuję Tobie za to. Pozdrawiam Father Fish i innych którzy to przeczytali.
Thank you Father Fish for this teaching on the Resurrection Jar and how to add leaf litter to a tank.
Thank you for the details on this Father Fish.
Perfect. My wife is gonna love this.
i follow you from North africa , especially TUNISIA the ancient Land of Carthage , i wanna say that you are amazing and you are wonderfull , god bless you , you helped me and my friends with a priceless adivices , thank you so much
Thank you for that video! 😃👍
Amazing FF...
I have been adding leaves to my tanks periodically over the years becythe shrimp live eating the stuff off them. Great video 😊
What an amazing channel to stumble upon
I love your channel you give good raw natural advice
Thanks for sharing this! A fun project.
What a beautiful video, I'm watching it for the second time. thank you father fish. By the way, congratulations to the cameraman and the video editor. Excellent work.
Could I put one of my pothos plants in my jar as well..?
yes
Cheap & Easy💡. gracias my Friend..