This was so unhelpful. What a useless time-wasting video. Just remove the device that causes the deficiency. If i don't have a pad that removes the phosphate? Doesn't even address that. You talk about fertilizer but that doesn't solve any of the underlying issues. I could figure this out myself with google. Worthless.
4 yrs later and ur still helping us newbs with these vids 👊 but I been searching non stop and can never get a straight answer ... what is this anubius rot !!! Can u save the plant by cutting the rhizome or is it an urban legend cause I tried a few times but it always comes back 🤦♂️ I quarantine the last 3 anubius I bought for 1 month put them in with one of my big ones and then couple weeks later one has the rot and infected my big one 😒 now I cut the big one tossed that rotted one kept the other 2 but wonder do I toss the big one now 🥺 since it touches so many will it infect all of them 🤣 what is this rot !!!!
I have to say after researching aquariums for many many hours on the internet this channel is a God send. Dude. You know your stuff! I can generally find any info I need here and no one does a better job at presenting the information than this channel. Keep up the good work!
Most of this sounds like common sense when you explain it but some of us need that spoon fed to us cause no one talks about it! Thank you!!! I’ve had a planted tank for months and I honestly didn’t think about the food thing I just kept replacing the dying plants, knew about the melting back thing but I didn’t have a clue about the fertilizer. Been so worried about overdosing my tank, I want even thinking about feeding my plants! Thank you!!
I'm new to keeping tropical fish. Still haven't introduced any until I get the plant life up and running. Found your video extremely interesting. You were straight into the info....and I didn't have to listen to any waffle as I do by most other presenters.....some who start by telling about their recent illnesses LOL. Thanks indeed
Ok I love how the big gold fish is back there photo bombing you at 4:49. He is in the back like hey look at me I’m on tv!!! He sits there for a little bit just staring at the camera!! Too funny!
thank you so much for this Plant 101 series...I really appreciate the way you speak, I can follow the way you think beautifully and I personally really appreciate how well you stay on topic and don't spend time with how you feel about things outside the hobby....your videos are time well spent. I am in Taos, NM so I will not be in your store anytime soon!
This makes sooooooo much more sense. I am new to the live planted aquariums and my poor Java Fern is taking a small beating since i am still learning. THANK YOU!!!
So I just started getting into aquarium and believe me I have been putting the time, I have done research online for a few weeks straight you my man have not only gotten a new member but I will be buying your merchandise. Thank you so much for all these videos.
Thank you for making these videos, I was a newbie try hard. Lol Not enough nitrogen sounds like my issue. Luckily just java moss. I've spent hours watching because you're so informative and it's put in an easy to understand format.
love your videos!!! Im researching plants and proper fish for a nanotank experiment that ive always wanted to do.... Ive never done live plants before, ( been afraid) but you have really helped me overcome that fear.... Thank you sooooo much!!!!#
That's really good advice on the Phosphate, people tend to think it's the cause of most algae. Also I've found with my set up I kept having an issue with GDA and I found it was due to low Phosphate and Nitrogen.
Thank you so much for these videos, I am just starting up my first tank and am feeling more ready because of these informational videos. Excited for my order from your store! Thanks for helping us newbies to the hobby:)
Very useful! I was getting worried of one plant i have and the solution was to trim the old leaves -.-' so obvious. Many thanks for the informations! Very useful
I want to say thank you. I've been trying to control my plants for the last month. New to planted tanks, just ordered some of your fert. Can't go wrong with over 250 5 star reviews!
Hard water has a high amount of Total Dissolved Solids. This is usually stuff like calcium or potassium or even things like sulfur. the higher the amount of Total Dissolved Solids, the harder the water is. Reverse Osmosis/De-Ionized water has zero (or close to zero) Total Dissolved Solids in the water, making it VERY soft. Plants usually like harder water because they can utilize the total dissolved solids as nutrients. Soft acidic tanks like discus or blackwater tanks (acidic, soft water) doesn't have a high amount of TDS, and plants don't tend to do well in these environments.
I love the way you say, " when the fish go to the bathroom" ...super sweet!! Made me smile 😊 . I like the way you explained the plant using n old leaf to grow new ones, wow that's really interesting, your clear understandable & easy to follow. Thanks.for this informative video 📹 👏 👌 👍 So what I'd like to no is any fertiliser safe for the fish, or is it only specified aquarium fertiliser s that should be used. I no this video is old so don't no if your able to reply NO PROBLEM..
I love the flourish brands because I have control of the exact amount fertilizers i can use, for what I want instead of having to dose everything with one type of fert.
Best aquarium channel on RUclips by a long way love this channel and well delivered and informative videos keep up the hard work Cory love the show and the shop and what a fish room I'm now to the hobby and enjoying making my first aquarium and now planted tank do you ship to the UK
Please explain why the leaves of my S. Repens are falling off? I also have baby tears and that plant is doing good. I have LED lights, fertz, press. CO2, Oliver Knott substrate.
This series of videos and the one on making selling fish are why I subscribed. Super on point and helpful. Still diagnosing plant issues. Always learning . Thanks.
Love this video! I just started my planted tank and I am trying to have healthy baby tears that I inherited from a friend. They started turning a yellowish green color but I also see new growth. Not sure if over time, the new growth will overtake the old stuff that looks like it's dying. I am using Flourish Excel & I have the NPK combo. Tanks a 45 gallon with 30 tetras and 1 clown pleco. I am injecting CO2 with a citric acid & baking soda mix as well.
Thanks for the info. Very informative! If a plant is struggling (brown leaves, etc.) and you start to dose, will it 'heal up' or do you just have to wait for newer growth to replace the unhealthy leaves?
I started a new Walstad method tank. I've been checking the nitrate, nitrite, ammonia, and PH levels. Everything is fine but my plant's roots keep turning black and the leaves are turning transparent. Idk why I have root rot, I have organic soil and gravel as my substrate and I just added flourish tabs.
Hey I need help I have temple compacta and the leafs look like something is bitting it and in the middle of the leafes there’s needle like holes , I tried the root tabs and I’m trying not to change as much of my Aquarian water as I usto be doing once a week now I’m doing it twice but nothing is helping i have a shrimp but I don’t know if he is the issue
As usual, a quality video from Aquarium Co-op. Thanks. I think what's lacking though are ways to actually test your water for things like iron, potassium, etc. I'm left hoping my translation of your description can apply somehow to my sagging plants. Then it's a kind of a crapshoot as to how much is needed to supplement. Might be easy for the experienced. But there really should be a way to scientifically analyze the chemistry, non? If you want green grass in your yard you perform a soil analysis. If you want clean, clear water in your pool you do water analyses. Etcetera. As an aside, I'd like to see an objective analysis of the API product "Bio-Chem Zorb". This is a charcoal alternative which has done wonders for clearing the greenish tint from my tank, but which I suspect is robbing the plants of nutrients as well. Thanks Cory!
I have watched many of your videos and this one has really helped. No get a plant for new cycles tank, my minnows we're loving the this tall stem plant to sleep in at night. Within 3 weeks the leaves went brown and started dying but you have answered my question and hope that it's because it grew out of water, the smaller leaves look fine but my minnows have nothing left to sleep in because I had to cut the leaves off. Going to see how the plant does, I got a planted substrate bellow gravel and the bag says it will feed for up to 6 months so I am sure it can't be deficiency because I have other plants bought at the same time that are doing really well.
Thanks for the video, it's very helpful. My water source is extremely low in minerals and I found that water changes make more bad than good for the plants and I need to manually balance the plant nutrients.
i transplant alot of my plants from rivers and brooks. So far its working great! be sure to rinse them off really good before you put them in the tank.
I am very frustrated. I have a soil planted tank that also has co2 running and for some reason adding fertilizer creates an algae bloom every time. The leaves in me plants are melting and curling. I have a full water test kit and everything seems fine. Idk what to do.
Thanks for this. Am a first time aquarium owner and was wondering why my anubias were turning yellow with holes while i was starving the tank to combat hair algae. Will now increase my liquid fert dosage and add glutaryl to get rid if the algae instead.
What I have done with you're iron when setting up a tank I put some of youre iron supplements in the substrate and then use the easy green regularly and with in a month or two I have a jungle in my tanks
I just recently planted my tank and after a few days some of my plants are yellowing and browning. I have fluval stratum substrate and added API leaf zone once I noticed my plants yellowing/browning. I tested the water and the parameters are good but all I have is a white bar light could that be the issue? Water temp is around 80-82. All I have is anubias, Amazon frogbit, red root floater and dwarf hair grass.
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This was so unhelpful. What a useless time-wasting video. Just remove the device that causes the deficiency. If i don't have a pad that removes the phosphate? Doesn't even address that. You talk about fertilizer but that doesn't solve any of the underlying issues. I could figure this out myself with google. Worthless.
@@dudety20 your comment was so useful…do you feel better?
4 yrs later and ur still helping us newbs with these vids 👊 but I been searching non stop and can never get a straight answer ... what is this anubius rot !!! Can u save the plant by cutting the rhizome or is it an urban legend cause I tried a few times but it always comes back 🤦♂️ I quarantine the last 3 anubius I bought for 1 month put them in with one of my big ones and then couple weeks later one has the rot and infected my big one 😒 now I cut the big one tossed that rotted one kept the other 2 but wonder do I toss the big one now 🥺 since it touches so many will it infect all of them 🤣 what is this rot !!!!
I have to say after researching aquariums for many many hours on the internet this channel is a God send. Dude. You know your stuff! I can generally find any info I need here and no one does a better job at presenting the information than this channel.
Keep up the good work!
Hard agree
this is so true
The best channel for newbie
Most of this sounds like common sense when you explain it but some of us need that spoon fed to us cause no one talks about it! Thank you!!! I’ve had a planted tank for months and I honestly didn’t think about the food thing I just kept replacing the dying plants, knew about the melting back thing but I didn’t have a clue about the fertilizer. Been so worried about overdosing my tank, I want even thinking about feeding my plants! Thank you!!
I’ve always love watching these old videos because it feels like I am in a fish class.
I have never tossed a dying plant lol so far they all pull through eventually. If only fish did the same :’(
True. So long as the root system is still alive thats all that matters. Dying plants can bounce back up and flourish again.
this is by far the most informative and helpful guide I've ever come across for plant deficiencies - THANK YOU!
I'm new to keeping tropical fish. Still haven't introduced any until I get the plant life up and running. Found your video extremely interesting. You were straight into the info....and I didn't have to listen to any waffle as I do by most other presenters.....some who start by telling about their recent illnesses LOL. Thanks indeed
I have watched at least 3 other videos about aquarium plant care and this one is the most useful by far! So detailed, thank you so much!
I keep coming back to this video every time I seen something on my plants. Its a great reference thanks Cory :)
Watching all of your videos while waiting for my tank to cycle. Thanks for keeping me occupied during these trying times, lol. Great video!
I felt lost and now I'm found
I am learning so much from you
Thanks for teaching all of us
Ok I love how the big gold fish is back there photo bombing you at 4:49. He is in the back like hey look at me I’m on tv!!! He sits there for a little bit just staring at the camera!! Too funny!
Jackie Deg I see him 👁 👄 👁
This video saved me hours of research. God send.
Super helpful tips, thank you!
This was the best video I've seen on plant problems, ordering your fertilizer right now
thank you so much for this Plant 101 series...I really appreciate the way you speak, I can follow the way you think beautifully and I personally really appreciate how well you stay on topic and don't spend time with how you feel about things outside the hobby....your videos are time well spent. I am in Taos, NM so I will not be in your store anytime soon!
I love the Plants 101 course! Please keep doing it! I'm new on this hobby and I'm learning a lot! Sorry about my english, I'm brazilian.
Your english is perfect! Thanks for watching Eduardo.
This makes sooooooo much more sense. I am new to the live planted aquariums and my poor Java Fern is taking a small beating since i am still learning. THANK YOU!!!
You're THE source of knowledge man, thanx a million!
not even up for a 2minutes and 1000 plus views good job man keep up the good vids
+Ivan Lolwing thanks.
This video help fixed the problem I am having with my carpet and foreground plants. Thank you so much.
Ive been having a hard time keeping my aquarium plants healthy. This is by far the most informative video i’ve come across 👏
So I just started getting into aquarium and believe me I have been putting the time, I have done research online for a few weeks straight you my man have not only gotten a new member but I will be buying your merchandise. Thank you so much for all these videos.
Thank you for making these videos, I was a newbie try hard. Lol Not enough nitrogen sounds like my issue. Luckily just java moss.
I've spent hours watching because you're so informative and it's put in an easy to understand format.
I'm glad I could help!
All this information has helped me start my planted tank! Thank you!
Thanks for the vid! You're good at explaining things, and really gentle about it lol. You'd make a good dad
Thanks for the compliment :)
Great video! You deliver technical knowledge in such an easily understandable way, like an entertaining Horticulture college course!
love your videos!!! Im researching plants and proper fish for a nanotank experiment that ive always wanted to do.... Ive never done live plants before, ( been afraid) but you have really helped me overcome that fear.... Thank you sooooo much!!!!#
not only is your video very helpful but your gold fish are absolutely beautiful!
That's really good advice on the Phosphate, people tend to think it's the cause of most algae. Also I've found with my set up I kept having an issue with GDA and I found it was due to low Phosphate and Nitrogen.
This was very informative...its hard to get solid answers about plants online.....
*WOW* A complete education *THANK YOU CORY!*
Thank you so much for these videos, I am just starting up my first tank and am feeling more ready because of these informational videos. Excited for my order from your store! Thanks for helping us newbies to the hobby:)
Thank you for explaining in such detail it really helps!
excellent explanations for those of us that are new, thank you for making it easy!
By far the best vids on RUclips!
Thanks!
Immediate sub. This is the most informative video on the subject that I've ever run into. 👍🏼🔥
Thank you...this information helps!
Cory I love your videos. You are such a great teacher!
I was about to trash my amazon sword! thanks for the heads up on what you said about them burning back when they are new. I have new hope now
Very useful! I was getting worried of one plant i have and the solution was to trim the old leaves -.-' so obvious. Many thanks for the informations! Very useful
I want to say thank you. I've been trying to control my plants for the last month. New to planted tanks, just ordered some of your fert. Can't go wrong with over 250 5 star reviews!
+cody mcdowell I hope it serves you well ;)
Cory, can you explain HARD water? I watched your video on test strips and my tank water is off the chart!!
Please help
Hard water has a high amount of Total Dissolved Solids. This is usually stuff like calcium or potassium or even things like sulfur. the higher the amount of Total Dissolved Solids, the harder the water is. Reverse Osmosis/De-Ionized water has zero (or close to zero) Total Dissolved Solids in the water, making it VERY soft.
Plants usually like harder water because they can utilize the total dissolved solids as nutrients. Soft acidic tanks like discus or blackwater tanks (acidic, soft water) doesn't have a high amount of TDS, and plants don't tend to do well in these environments.
Just ordered my 1st bottle of easy green fert cant wait for it to get here so excited to try it
I love the way you say, " when the fish go to the bathroom" ...super sweet!! Made me smile 😊 .
I like the way you explained the plant using n old leaf to grow new ones, wow that's really interesting, your clear understandable & easy to follow.
Thanks.for this informative video 📹 👏 👌 👍
So what I'd like to no is any fertiliser safe for the fish, or is it only specified aquarium fertiliser s that should be used.
I no this video is old so don't no if your able to reply NO PROBLEM..
Good stuff...! Thanks for the free plant education...! Keep up your awesomeness and go enjoy some nature today...!
Legend, you just sorted my problem out. Thank you! New sub.
0:24 like the way you explained those types of people...definitely seen them
Thank you for your video's, i have learnt so much, your a great teacher :-)
I love the flourish brands because I have control of the exact amount fertilizers i can use, for what I want instead of having to dose everything with one type of fert.
Best aquarium channel on RUclips by a long way love this channel and well delivered and informative videos keep up the hard work Cory love the show and the shop and what a fish room I'm now to the hobby and enjoying making my first aquarium and now planted tank do you ship to the UK
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Aquarium Co-Op just purchase some intake sponges, filter sponges and your easy green fertilizer. Thanks for your great videos.
Please explain why the leaves of my S. Repens are falling off? I also have baby tears and that plant is doing good. I have LED lights, fertz, press. CO2, Oliver Knott substrate.
I always think there is a dead fish in the thumbnail.
Just saying 🌱🐠✌🏼️
I think you just helped me with a house plant at work🤣
Grateful i found this video so I could identify the problem and correct it.
Thank you , I am learning a lot from your videos.
This series of videos and the one on making selling fish are why I subscribed. Super on point and helpful. Still diagnosing plant issues. Always learning . Thanks.
Love this video! I just started my planted tank and I am trying to have healthy baby tears that I inherited from a friend. They started turning a yellowish green color but I also see new growth. Not sure if over time, the new growth will overtake the old stuff that looks like it's dying. I am using Flourish Excel & I have the NPK combo. Tanks a 45 gallon with 30 tetras and 1 clown pleco. I am injecting CO2 with a citric acid & baking soda mix as well.
Excellent conversation Cory.
This was very helpful
this guys the most helpful guy ever
Another great video explaining plant deficiencies and how to deal with those deficiencies.
Great advice as always..and the plants you sell are amazing. Not to mention your fertilizer are fantastic
For a business man Cory is honest that’s why stick with him. I’m tired of being lied to and manipulated so company’s can get richer
thanks Cory for always putting out amazing videos
feed he plants like you feed the fish, is probably been a game changer for them! Thanks!
Good timing on this vid, I've got plants that has a leaf turning yellow. Yesterday I trimmed the leaf, but now I know the plant was feeding itself.
Yeah, so either it needs more nitrogen, or it was an emersed grown leaf that it was consuming.
Great information! I never New what the different deficiencies looked like on the plants
Thanks for the info. Very informative! If a plant is struggling (brown leaves, etc.) and you start to dose, will it 'heal up' or do you just have to wait for newer growth to replace the unhealthy leaves?
This chart could also apply to non-aquatic household plants. Nicely done.
Wow thank you this helps so much
I started a new Walstad method tank. I've been checking the nitrate, nitrite, ammonia, and PH levels. Everything is fine but my plant's roots keep turning black and the leaves are turning transparent. Idk why I have root rot, I have organic soil and gravel as my substrate and I just added flourish tabs.
try sand for cap
Cory, you make beautiful videos. Thank you so much for sharing.
Thank you Cory! I was looking for a great plant video! :)
Explained very clearly-excellent.
Hi I bought both from you easy and tabs, do I use both at the same time, bury a couple tabs and give my 30 gal 3 squirts.? Just curious
Hey I need help I have temple compacta and the leafs look like something is bitting it and in the middle of the leafes there’s needle like holes , I tried the root tabs and I’m trying not to change as much of my Aquarian water as I usto be doing once a week now I’m doing it twice but nothing is helping i have a shrimp but I don’t know if he is the issue
Really great stuff Corry, thanks
Great information, thank you! I'm checking out your products now. But that Ryukin in the background is making me so jealous!
The veiltail one? He's my buddy.
Yes!! Ive been waiting for this one! Thanks Cory - as always!
So if we have a planted tank with fish, snails and shrimp what is the nitrate ppm level do we want to be at?
Hey thanks alot cory you really give great advice with in-depth knowledge i really appreciate it
As usual, a quality video from Aquarium Co-op. Thanks.
I think what's lacking though are ways to actually test your water for things like iron, potassium, etc. I'm left hoping my translation of your description can apply somehow to my sagging plants. Then it's a kind of a crapshoot as to how much is needed to supplement. Might be easy for the experienced. But there really should be a way to scientifically analyze the chemistry, non? If you want green grass in your yard you perform a soil analysis. If you want clean, clear water in your pool you do water analyses. Etcetera.
As an aside, I'd like to see an objective analysis of the API product "Bio-Chem Zorb". This is a charcoal alternative which has done wonders for clearing the greenish tint from my tank, but which I suspect is robbing the plants of nutrients as well.
Thanks Cory!
Please share a video with an actual fish tank as an example. So that we can see an example of dosage for mid/low/high planted tank
Great source of information thanks Cory
I have watched many of your videos and this one has really helped. No get a plant for new cycles tank, my minnows we're loving the this tall stem plant to sleep in at night. Within 3 weeks the leaves went brown and started dying but you have answered my question and hope that it's because it grew out of water, the smaller leaves look fine but my minnows have nothing left to sleep in because I had to cut the leaves off. Going to see how the plant does, I got a planted substrate bellow gravel and the bag says it will feed for up to 6 months so I am sure it can't be deficiency because I have other plants bought at the same time that are doing really well.
Thanks for the video, it's very helpful. My water source is extremely low in minerals and I found that water changes make more bad than good for the plants and I need to manually balance the plant nutrients.
i transplant alot of my plants from rivers and brooks. So far its working great! be sure to rinse them off really good before you put them in the tank.
Very informative. Thanks!
I am very frustrated. I have a soil planted tank that also has co2 running and for some reason adding fertilizer creates an algae bloom every time. The leaves in me plants are melting and curling. I have a full water test kit and everything seems fine. Idk what to do.
Same here !!
Excellent video. 📺👍😎
seriously...great content. keep the vids coming
They do, we put out 3-4 each week :)
Any advice for epiphytic plants in new aquarium without soil and without adding nutrition?
Thanks Cory I had a problem with my plants now I know whats going on
Thanks for this. Am a first time aquarium owner and was wondering why my anubias were turning yellow with holes while i was starving the tank to combat hair algae. Will now increase my liquid fert dosage and add glutaryl to get rid if the algae instead.
How is it going?
What I have done with you're iron when setting up a tank I put some of youre iron supplements in the substrate and then use the easy green regularly and with in a month or two I have a jungle in my tanks
dude you're amazing i love this!
man I love this channel
Well thank you for the kind words :)
Super helpful. Another great video.
I have yellow plants in my discus tank. Can use your fertilizer in my tank is safe fot my discus?
What do you know about zaphin up seeds for aquarium fast growing carpet
I just recently planted my tank and after a few days some of my plants are yellowing and browning. I have fluval stratum substrate and added API leaf zone once I noticed my plants yellowing/browning. I tested the water and the parameters are good but all I have is a white bar light could that be the issue? Water temp is around 80-82. All I have is anubias, Amazon frogbit, red root floater and dwarf hair grass.