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Hey man i was wondering “‘. I got a bar light and its too close too the top of the tank . I remember one vid where you said you got those risers off of amazon? Could you possibly either send me the link to the product or what the product is called; btw keep up the great work man loving it
Last night I was thinking about tiger barbs for some reason and wondered if you had any, I wake up too see this, what a wonderful scape! you've come to a point where you have the amount of tanks where every week or so one's been around for over 6 months so you can re-scape it which works so well, meaning your videos are consistent and inspiring, keep up the amazing work!
My tiger barb tank is probably my favorite. They are so crazy and energetic and hardy. They like to lock lips and circle each other sometimes like 'sparring' but it'd harmless. Awesome choice!
Tiger Barbs hold a special place in my heart. I had a species only with all different types of Barbs. Such a fun tank. There are some beautiful Barbs in the hobby. You should enjoy their personalities.
Tiger barbs were one of my first fish. Along with swordtails and dwarf gouramis, neither of which they ever picked on. I loved them. Would like to have them again.
I liked at the end that you did a nice commentary about the tiger barbs instead of just showing b roll. It’s an addition I would like to stay so I have more time listening to your beautiful voice!!!
A lot of API products are essentially fool proof. It's ok that their ferts are on the whimpy side, because it's tailored toward people who want to avoid risking any problems. API is very helpful to beginners, now we just need aqueon to stop making anything smaller than a 20 long, and everyone marketing oversized cartridge filters to beginners to start pushing smaller filters when appropriate and sponge filters which are just pure bliss once you finally get to know them them. Sponge filters, root tabs, larger tanks with more plants and gentle stocking, and API's different tank startup chems like quick start and essentials. Also, gorgeous aquarium build man :D
I've done the media bag routine with my most recent setups, and I love it! So easy to use, and if I have to move plants, no worries about mixing up the substrate and making a mess. Thanks for the tip on that!
I would recommend a cover for the top of the tank because they often jump out when they have the opportunity.But it looks great this is exactly my dream tank.
Hello MD, very happy to see you've gotten tiger barbs. I've been attracted to them since I was young and I've been debating on getting a school of them for my new 60 gallon tank. Seeing this video just helped me reach my decision. :)
I think it's good that you show your aqua soil bags. You may have new viewers. Can't wait to see what you do with this tank. I know it will be awesome!!
I while back ago, I did Tiger Barbs in a 75G, loved them. Had 30, along with 5 Silver Dollars, and cory cats. My plants did not survive the silver dollars, lol. Wiped them all out. But the Barbs are wonderful.
Tiger Barbs were the first fish I kept. They were in a group of 6 or so. Later I got a handful of tetras and loaches. Everyone played nicely together. The barbs would eat out of my hand and always welcome me at the front of the tank. In hindsight, I probably over fed them because of it. Might have kept the peace as well. Maybe? Either way... They are fun fish.
Hey MD, just wondering - when you drain the tank down and pull all the decor and that substrate bag out, would that not release spikes of ammonia and other nasties , for the fish that are chilling in the bottom inch or so of water? I guess they’re not in there for long, but still.. 🤷🏻♂️
I honestly don't think there are any nasties at all. The course gravel allows flow through the whole layer. The reason I say this is because there is absolutely zero bad smell. And the fish were all good too. They are for sale at maidenhead taunton now....unless someone has already got them.
I don't think he let's his tanks set long enough for the substrate to grow mulm. Plus he sets up all of his tanks with power head-ish water movement. That would happen more if he had only sponge filters for filtration.
@@MDFishTanks yes this is 100% a great thing about layering and aqua soil. Water flows through it and the plant roots supply oxygen to the substrate system so no anoxic areas! Plus love that you layer substrates as it creates so much biological filtration.
I was inspired by all the great videos on this wonderful channel and wanted to try my hand at a new tank build. Imagine my surprise when I realized a couple dots of glue didn’t keep my brand new driftwood down 😅 took me days to figure it out!
Wow i love that scape! Its a very light scape with many gaps but the plants just give the tank such a big sort of character and that works amazing with the tigerbarbs! Very good job keep going!🔥🔥
My tiger Barbs are 2inch long plus, and nearly as big depth wise. They do get quite big but Ive had no problems with them and they haven't bothered my plants at all. Lovely fish to keep
Wow thanks! I'm getting into my first aquascape tank and my second go at planted and this video was helpful - right down to the Tiger barbs which is what I want to keep in it!
I never had any luck with Tiger Barbs on planted tank, in my experience they behave similar like my Buenos Aires, pretty naughty especially to my Dwarf Sagittaria carpets. I know some individual fish could have a different personality than the others who kept them. I gotta keep them fed enough with high grade pellets, frozen tubifex, and some spinach and floating frogbits (which they really like) to reduce their lawn-mowing behavior on my bottom plants
Hi MD. I absolutely love tiger barbs and find them so interesting and full of character. Just a quick note on my experience with them however... I know different fish will behave differently in different situations and with different tank mates, but I tried to keep them in my 6 ft heavily planted tank with mostly tetras, corydoras and amano shrimp etc. They didn't do any damage to the plants at all, but did really harass the 11 columbian tetras (I thought they would have been fine!), to the point of tearing off tails and fins. They picked on the corydoras to and made it so they hid most of the time. All the small tetras were absolutely fine and the amano shrimps (that I was most worried about) were not even given a second glance. I had only 6 and grew them up to a decent size at which point I had to rehome as just causing too much stress to columbians and corys. Gutted really as their behaviour, colours and the way they mover together was awesome! Just my experience... keep up the amazing work, love your channel!
Not trying to be daft mate, but could that aggressive behaviour be due to the small group size ? Matt did say that the larger the group the more they’ll pick on each other rather than other fish
@@sigspearthumb9574 possibly, but I actually started with a group of 12 and all they did was split up into groups of 4 and went after the columbians in their groups. Funnily enough the behaviour, or indeed the damage to the columbians improved when I reduced to 6. Don't get me wrong, love the tiger barbs but they do need to ne carefully considered. I wish I could have kept them.
@@ronburgundy3719 My experience as well. They break off into smaller groups. But for me their attacks are always constrained to each other. They leave my tetras, cories, gouramis, and angel alone. If I could catch them out of the tank I would rehome them, but they are lighting quick.
I basically left my 29 gallon go after I had some bad luck and lost everything in it save a SAE and a Synodontis catfish. It was an algae covered mess for many months that I just did my best to ignore. Fast forward to this year where I've upgraded to a Fluval 307, bought some new plants, and bought a school of 12 of these beautiful barbs. I went with 4 albino, 4 green, and 4 striped and it doesn't seem to affect their shoaling behavior so maybe they determine con-specifics based on silhouette shape or pheromones. I occasionally turn the filter flow to maximum as I've noticed they love swimming in the high current from time to time which brings me great joy.
Regarding dying bacteria in your canister filter when turning the power off, this process starts after 30 min! If you leave it off for a whole day, all will be dead. If you then turn it on again, you will put all this dead bacteria in your water column, hence the white murkiness.
My betta buddy passed away recently. I am wondering if you might guess the plants or sponge filters would be okay as far as bacteria or whatever from what caused my fish dying? I rinsed off the sponge filters and sprayed the plants and sponges with hydrogen peroxide...so hopefully won't have to toss all of it.
Hi md. Tiger barbs are really cool fishes to have . I am having them for more than two years now. They school well and once you put your hands inside they come and start touching you.
Glad you got some Tiger Barbs. My absolute favourite fish and they get an overly bad reputation. As long as you keep them right and feed them right you'll be rewarded with some awesome fish. Nerites can definitely turn themselves over btw.
Sometimes they can. In general I think it’s just way safer to keep them right way round since it’s not a lot of effort and occasionally they won’t be able to.
Just beautiful... Watching the tank come together with substrate, sand/rocks, wood, plants, moss is stunning and very therapeutic.. Once the fish and other animals arrive.....WOW!!!.... I can't take my eyes off the tank. The part of the video that was the second day and the fish's colours had popped, I went back to see the colours when you first put them in to see the difference. It looked like you had enhanced the colour on your camera somehow but it was just the dish settling in to their new environment... Love love these fish.. so pretty and cute to watch in their little gang. Great tank set up again... Would love this tank as a screen saver. You could take a HD picture of your tank set up, enlarge and laminate it and sell them as backgrounds for people to use behind their fish tanks. 😳😳😘❤️❤️❤️I'd definitely buy one.
Bettas need a much different tank. I guess this betta is luckier than most sold for human amusement. The excess fins on these large finned bettas makes it so difficult for the fish. They can live to a decent age if paid special attention to their needs. I never watch betta videos here or on other channels, unless they are betta specialists. They need a variety of foods not just flakes, caves or floating logs to hide out in to rest and a lid on the aquarium. I am not knocking anyone, I just wish people would get serious about betta keeping instead of paying attention to pretty fins.
Thanks for making this kind of video's. You aquascaping is very beautiful. Do you also have tanks with black sand? So not can you please make one? I want some inspiration for my betta fish tank. Lots of love from the Netherlands.
Another beautiful scape MD! That fungus is annoying but I was amazing at my four ottos how quick they got rid of it on my spider wood! I’ve never thought about keeping tiger barbs until now 🤔 keep up the amazing content!
Wauuu beautiful setup ♥️ very interesting way you did the presentation of the fish, lots of good information - im never been interested in barbs, nov I am 😄 think they really is looking their best in the type of setup you did ♥️
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In this video we make a habitat for a fish I've never kept before....Tiger Barbs. I did not realise they stay relatively small and don't just destroy all your plants. I really love these guys and can see myself doing something much bigger at some point in the future as well. School of 100 would look pretty cool right!
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Hey man i was wondering “‘. I got a bar light and its too close too the top of the tank . I remember one vid where you said you got those risers off of amazon? Could you possibly either send me the link to the product or what the product is called; btw keep up the great work man loving it
I think you'd love giant danios M.D.
boy how do you clean fine sand without the siphon sucking in all the sand
Do still have a tiger barb tank?
Last night I was thinking about tiger barbs for some reason and wondered if you had any, I wake up too see this, what a wonderful scape! you've come to a point where you have the amount of tanks where every week or so one's been around for over 6 months so you can re-scape it which works so well, meaning your videos are consistent and inspiring, keep up the amazing work!
My tiger barb tank is probably my favorite. They are so crazy and energetic and hardy. They like to lock lips and circle each other sometimes like 'sparring' but it'd harmless. Awesome choice!
Tiger Barbs hold a special place in my heart. I had a species only with all different types of Barbs. Such a fun tank. There are some beautiful Barbs in the hobby. You should enjoy their personalities.
Tiger barbs were one of my first fish. Along with swordtails and dwarf gouramis, neither of which they ever picked on. I loved them. Would like to have them again.
Love Tiger Barbs. The tank always looks active, using every part of the tank.
I liked at the end that you did a nice commentary about the tiger barbs instead of just showing b roll. It’s an addition I would like to stay so I have more time listening to your beautiful voice!!!
You’re going to love these fish. They nip your fingers when you do maintenance. The tank looks great, as always.
I couldn’t help but see that platy disappear in the dirty water. I bet you got it. Great video as usual.
don't worry, I get every one and even some new teeny tiny guppy fry as well.
A lot of API products are essentially fool proof. It's ok that their ferts are on the whimpy side, because it's tailored toward people who want to avoid risking any problems. API is very helpful to beginners, now we just need aqueon to stop making anything smaller than a 20 long, and everyone marketing oversized cartridge filters to beginners to start pushing smaller filters when appropriate and sponge filters which are just pure bliss once you finally get to know them them. Sponge filters, root tabs, larger tanks with more plants and gentle stocking, and API's different tank startup chems like quick start and essentials.
Also, gorgeous aquarium build man :D
Nice to see a different kind of fish, a barb for a change, tiger barb.. even better. Can’t wait for the updates :)
Yes the Barbs look absolutely fantastic I’ve not seen them in a school before
What a lovely scape! Suits the barbs perfectly! Now I'm thinking I might need some of those cute fish!
I've done the media bag routine with my most recent setups, and I love it! So easy to use, and if I have to move plants, no worries about mixing up the substrate and making a mess. Thanks for the tip on that!
Your dirted tank videos were superb. I tried it and the plant grows very good. Thank you
I would recommend a cover for the top of the tank because they often jump out when they have the opportunity.But it looks great this is exactly my dream tank.
Really like how you're including more informative details to your videos, like the fish profiles. Excited for the store build!
I love matts beard its like a big fluffy comma
Hello MD, very happy to see you've gotten tiger barbs. I've been attracted to them since I was young and I've been debating on getting a school of them for my new 60 gallon tank. Seeing this video just helped me reach my decision. :)
You are extremely gifted...
Makes my feeble tank look like a kindergarten project.
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Another great tank my friend. Loved the shot where all the tigers swam through the archway. Cheers MD.
I think it's good that you show your aqua soil bags. You may have new viewers.
Can't wait to see what you do with this tank. I know it will be awesome!!
Store building with matt is a great idea!!!
Love the way they group together!
that moss looked amazing. id make a tank dedicated to just seeing how far you can take one giant patch of christmas moss
regualr tiger barbs are cool. i love emerald tiger barbs. they can look blue or purple too depending on the way the light hits them
It’s 6am here and this is a perfect way to wake up
I while back ago, I did Tiger Barbs in a 75G, loved them. Had 30, along with 5 Silver Dollars, and cory cats. My plants did not survive the silver dollars, lol. Wiped them all out. But the Barbs are wonderful.
Tiger Barbs were the first fish I kept. They were in a group of 6 or so. Later I got a handful of tetras and loaches. Everyone played nicely together. The barbs would eat out of my hand and always welcome me at the front of the tank. In hindsight, I probably over fed them because of it. Might have kept the peace as well. Maybe? Either way... They are fun fish.
Good morning everyone. It’s 5 am here in Houston TX. Love your videos.
I like the new bit at the end where you talk about the fish featured. Thank you for your videos!
Many fish will munch on that slime, especially bottom feeders. My corydoras and loaches love it.
Those are amazing fish really good too just see them and they make my stress go away
Hey MD, just wondering - when you drain the tank down and pull all the decor and that substrate bag out, would that not release spikes of ammonia and other nasties , for the fish that are chilling in the bottom inch or so of water? I guess they’re not in there for long, but still.. 🤷🏻♂️
I honestly don't think there are any nasties at all. The course gravel allows flow through the whole layer. The reason I say this is because there is absolutely zero bad smell. And the fish were all good too. They are for sale at maidenhead taunton now....unless someone has already got them.
Especially if the plants are feeding from the substrate it should be safe.
I don't think he let's his tanks set long enough for the substrate to grow mulm. Plus he sets up all of his tanks with power head-ish water movement. That would happen more if he had only sponge filters for filtration.
@@MDFishTanks hi md I really love your channel can you give me a shoutout
@@MDFishTanks yes this is 100% a great thing about layering and aqua soil. Water flows through it and the plant roots supply oxygen to the substrate system so no anoxic areas! Plus love that you layer substrates as it creates so much biological filtration.
Love your tanks, you always keep it simple and make it beautiful
I was inspired by all the great videos on this wonderful channel and wanted to try my hand at a new tank build. Imagine my surprise when I realized a couple dots of glue didn’t keep my brand new driftwood down 😅 took me days to figure it out!
Finally! I've been thinking why you haven't kept Tiger Barbs, they are great in a group. These are my all time fav fish. Great work as always!
Tiger barbs have such great personalities; with a couple of geophagus cichlids it's such a great combo.
Wow, I really love that woods coloring. Great setup.
Wow i love that scape! Its a very light scape with many gaps but the plants just give the tank such a big sort of character and that works amazing with the tigerbarbs! Very good job keep going!🔥🔥
My tiger Barbs are 2inch long plus, and nearly as big depth wise. They do get quite big but Ive had no problems with them and they haven't bothered my plants at all. Lovely fish to keep
Tiger barbs are the most fun to watch out of any fish i have kept, when they start displaying and chasing eachother around the tank
Wow thanks! I'm getting into my first aquascape tank and my second go at planted and this video was helpful - right down to the Tiger barbs which is what I want to keep in it!
Hi! You inspired me to start a small online fish business! I have 16 personal tanks and all of them are inspired by you!
Another excellent tank. 👌
Thanks, I always take inspiration from your hardscapes 👍🏻
can't wait for the store build, hope it's awesome
I never had any luck with Tiger Barbs on planted tank, in my experience they behave similar like my Buenos Aires, pretty naughty especially to my Dwarf Sagittaria carpets. I know some individual fish could have a different personality than the others who kept them. I gotta keep them fed enough with high grade pellets, frozen tubifex, and some spinach and floating frogbits (which they really like) to reduce their lawn-mowing behavior on my bottom plants
I like that you tried a different technique when planting. Doing it with the tank full probably took longer but it turned out great.
You inspire me sooo much 🙏
You've done so well. I remember when you didn't even know all the plain names and couldn't pronounce them.
Always wanted to try a tiger barb biotope...thanks for sharing your ideas
Most underrated fish
Hi MD. I absolutely love tiger barbs and find them so interesting and full of character. Just a quick note on my experience with them however... I know different fish will behave differently in different situations and with different tank mates, but I tried to keep them in my 6 ft heavily planted tank with mostly tetras, corydoras and amano shrimp etc. They didn't do any damage to the plants at all, but did really harass the 11 columbian tetras (I thought they would have been fine!), to the point of tearing off tails and fins. They picked on the corydoras to and made it so they hid most of the time. All the small tetras were absolutely fine and the amano shrimps (that I was most worried about) were not even given a second glance. I had only 6 and grew them up to a decent size at which point I had to rehome as just causing too much stress to columbians and corys. Gutted really as their behaviour, colours and the way they mover together was awesome! Just my experience... keep up the amazing work, love your channel!
Not trying to be daft mate, but could that aggressive behaviour be due to the small group size ? Matt did say that the larger the group the more they’ll pick on each other rather than other fish
@@sigspearthumb9574 yeah most of the time a group of tiger barbs do very well in a barb or tetra community tank
@@sigspearthumb9574 possibly, but I actually started with a group of 12 and all they did was split up into groups of 4 and went after the columbians in their groups. Funnily enough the behaviour, or indeed the damage to the columbians improved when I reduced to 6. Don't get me wrong, love the tiger barbs but they do need to ne carefully considered. I wish I could have kept them.
@@ronburgundy3719 fair enough
@@ronburgundy3719 My experience as well. They break off into smaller groups. But for me their attacks are always constrained to each other. They leave my tetras, cories, gouramis, and angel alone. If I could catch them out of the tank I would rehome them, but they are lighting quick.
I basically left my 29 gallon go after I had some bad luck and lost everything in it save a SAE and a Synodontis catfish. It was an algae covered mess for many months that I just did my best to ignore. Fast forward to this year where I've upgraded to a Fluval 307, bought some new plants, and bought a school of 12 of these beautiful barbs. I went with 4 albino, 4 green, and 4 striped and it doesn't seem to affect their shoaling behavior so maybe they determine con-specifics based on silhouette shape or pheromones. I occasionally turn the filter flow to maximum as I've noticed they love swimming in the high current from time to time which brings me great joy.
Just stunning. Luv the videos. Keep up the great work my friend👍🏻👍🏻😃😃
Hey man you got me to buy damn near every API product! 😂
So Helpful and Beautifully Scaped. I'm using bags from now on. God's Blessings to you and your family. Enjoy Your Weekend 😎
I love tiger barbs and yours are stunning. Nicely done MD!
Regarding dying bacteria in your canister filter when turning the power off, this process starts after 30 min! If you leave it off for a whole day, all will be dead. If you then turn it on again, you will put all this dead bacteria in your water column, hence the white murkiness.
My betta buddy passed away recently. I am wondering if you might guess the plants or sponge filters would be okay as far as bacteria or whatever from what caused my fish dying? I rinsed off the sponge filters and sprayed the plants and sponges with hydrogen peroxide...so hopefully won't have to toss all of it.
Love your idea....gonna take note for my new project😎
Every time I'm watching your video I'm thinking to start keeping fish again😊
Such a beautiful tiger barb tank, very informative video, thanks for sharing
You don’t like (fish), You just like plants, lol😁
Hi md. Tiger barbs are really cool fishes to have . I am having them for more than two years now. They school well and once you put your hands inside they come and start touching you.
The soil bags seems like a great idea... I use pots but some people online don't like the pots.
Thanks for this video. Informative 👍 and gorgeous looking ❗️
We can avoid the gooey fungus by soaking the wood in hot water for sometime. Works for me everytime🤘🏼
Absolutely beautiful
Glad you got some Tiger Barbs. My absolute favourite fish and they get an overly bad reputation. As long as you keep them right and feed them right you'll be rewarded with some awesome fish. Nerites can definitely turn themselves over btw.
Sometimes they can. In general I think it’s just way safer to keep them right way round since it’s not a lot of effort and occasionally they won’t be able to.
Yeah MD what about a nice school of Odessa barbs they look amazing
Beautiful tank set up
For ur kind information we saw a glimse of this in ur last video 😃
18:55 that layer of fungus is actually one of the shrimp's favorite food.
I love that instead of "toot my own horn" he said blow my own trumpet 😂 great build video I love that wood its so cool!
That's how we all say it in England.
Mopani wood when first used always produces it, but only once and the fish LOVE it.
Just beautiful... Watching the tank come together with substrate, sand/rocks, wood, plants, moss is stunning and very therapeutic..
Once the fish and other animals arrive.....WOW!!!.... I can't take my eyes off the tank.
The part of the video that was the second day and the fish's colours had popped, I went back to see the colours when you first put them in to see the difference. It looked like you had enhanced the colour on your camera somehow but it was just the dish settling in to their new environment... Love love these fish.. so pretty and cute to watch in their little gang.
Great tank set up again... Would love this tank as a screen saver.
You could take a HD picture of your tank set up, enlarge and laminate it and sell them as backgrounds for people to use behind their fish tanks. 😳😳😘❤️❤️❤️I'd definitely buy one.
MD psycho therapy session - thanks mate 👍👍👍
That snail went on a mission when you cleared the water on time-lapse 🤣
beautiful scape as always
Tus vídeos son francamente inspiradores, eres un genio del acuarismo
I had Green Tiger Barbs as a youth, lovely fish. Kept nibbling the hairs on my arms every time I changed water
Looking good 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Beautiful video Informative ❤️😊🐟
I think you need more API products in the background :)
I have mopani pieces almost identical to yours!! Crap. Now I have to go get another tank and some tiger barbs 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️ this was a sick scape!
Molly loves those white thing. I heard some call them biofilm.
10:27 omg look at that betta
Bettas need a much different tank. I guess this betta is luckier than most sold for human amusement. The excess fins on these large finned bettas makes it so difficult for the fish. They can live to a decent age if paid special attention to their needs. I never watch betta videos here or on other channels, unless they are betta specialists. They need a variety of foods not just flakes, caves or floating logs to hide out in to rest and a lid on the aquarium. I am not knocking anyone, I just wish people would get serious about betta keeping instead of paying attention to pretty fins.
Snails in my experience have no issues flipping themselves over, takes them some time but they get there.
I've heard many times about Nerites not being able to right themselves. But you can't watch them all the time.
I have some tiger bards in my tank and it’s beautiful
MD! I need 5 more minutes at the end of awesome fish timelapse and chill music pls & ty
is a lid compulsary for tiger brbs???
Thanks for making this kind of video's. You aquascaping is very beautiful. Do you also have tanks with black sand? So not can you please make one? I want some inspiration for my betta fish tank.
Lots of love from the Netherlands.
Makes me wanna have tiger barbs again
Another beautiful scape MD! That fungus is annoying but I was amazing at my four ottos how quick they got rid of it on my spider wood! I’ve never thought about keeping tiger barbs until now 🤔 keep up the amazing content!
Great work Bro 😀 . Man sees the devotion to this hobby with you and I find the pelvis with the Betta the hammer 👍
Pretty sure MD keeps that Aquatics centre in business 🤣
MD is the best
Wauuu beautiful setup ♥️ very interesting way you did the presentation of the fish, lots of good information - im never been interested in barbs, nov I am 😄 think they really is looking their best in the type of setup you did ♥️
Tiger barbs are one of my favorite fish I have a tank with a few of them
Gorgeous 🐎