I had my 55 gallon tank with a custom 10 gallon sump tank made out of a 10 gallon fish tank. I had pthos growing our of it and have not done a water change in 5 years and have not lost a single fish. All of them are very active with bright colors.
Why can't I get pothos to grow in my tank? I literally have cayenne, poblano, jalapeño, gardenia veitchii, tortuga wind hibiscus, bachelor button, basil, and even a damn carrot growing in my tank. Pothos has died every damn time though
@@elsancho-mx7om you have to condition it first. two things are essential for best results. Lots of oxygenation (air stones, powerheads) and seachem flourish. You will get leaf melt but eventually the pothos will adapt to being submerged and the roots/shoots will grow. You will always have a leaf go bad but just snip it off. Because oxygen transmission is lower in water, you have to add the aeration. Let the pothos float when you put it in the tanks. Pothos will grow but not grow fast when submerged. You can counter this by just adding more.
Most of this is ok, except plants don't remove much nitrate, they always take Ammonia first in preference, meaning there is less available for conversion in the 'Ammonia -> Nitrite -> Nitrate cycle'. I tend to use Pothos, Peace Lilies, Lucky Bamboo but have used faster growing plants like mint, normal floating aquatic plants can also be effective but delicate.
And don't forget, little to no algae. The plants use up the nutrients needed for algae to grow. My tanks are algae free using plants like you're showing. It's a win, win situation.
I can definitely vouch for peace lily being a great addition to tanks. I have a 5g tank on my desk that I recently changed the light on. That caused the Crypts and Buce in the tank to almost entirely melt back. Doh! Since that tank tended to stay right around 10ppm for nitrate, and I knew the melt would jack that up further, I moved a peace lily from a tank where it wasn't getting enough light. Despite the massive leaf melt, nitrates plummeted to ZERO in a couple of days. Melt continued for a few more days. I tested the water daily throughout this to watch for ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate spikes. Everything remained at 0 once the peace lily brought the nitrates down. I'm even having to dose with ferts weekly now. The Crypt is starting to come back in. No sign of the Buce recovering yet. But through all that, the ember tetras and shrimp in the tank continue to thrive, and the water remains healthy for them. I know that peace lily made the difference, as the last time I had a massive crypt melt (in a 29g that time, due to a light failure), it caused a HUGE spike in the nasties.
I have also grown Imperial Taro (Colocasia antiquorum 'Illustris')(elephant ears), Spider Plant (Chlorophytum comosum), and Arrowhead Plant / Goosefoot Plant (Syngonium podophyllum) in my aquariums and ponds
You opened my eyes. For 2 month now I thought I hab a Monstera Deliciosa and wondered why mine looked so small and wrinkly. Now I realised it was just labled wrong when I bought it and I actually have a monstera adansonii :'D Thank you.
Both deliciosa and andansonii will grow small leaves if they're not allowed to climb. If the plant is given a plank or moss pole to climb, the plant will mature and grow larger leaves with more fenestrations. Without something to climb, they will produce long leggy vines with small leaves. The same goes for pothos.
Really informative people should just remember water changes aren’t solely for the export of Nitrates but other minerals as well, if you just keep on topping off these minerals will build up. Even with a high plant load on my aquariums I still do water changes at-least once a month.
Thank you for your videos!! I’m relatively new to fish-keeping and when I stumbled across your channel I knew this was the direction I wanted to take. I’m looking forward to getting started with your channel to guide me!
Fun fact nearly all plants work with roots in water to remove nitrates in a freshwater tank if given the proper light. Except cactus/succulents, brackish water plants, and evergreens. Look up ripariums and aquaponics.
I have cactus growing in an aquaponic filter on my tank and they are flowering now. I have in various tanks, African violets, hibiscus, roses and many other flowers growing out of my tanks.
@@davidcook4504 That's cool to hear, I'd always been told cactus would rot from being too wet. Is your filter the hourly flood then drain type? or constant flow of water through the grow medium?
@@aquaaurora2747Aurora Constant flow, even got Orchids to grow, you need a deep layer of clay pellets wicking up the water so the roots are not always wet. The roots will grow down into the water and develop a water root different from the soil roots
This is definitely good advice and I have used a lot of different plants to clean the water. However, I do not recommend "no water changes". Keep on changing the water, but you might reduce the frequency and also be safe when going on vacation. -Why does it work? Plants with leaves above the water have constant access to CO2. All serious plant aquarium folks add CO2 for their underwater gardens. Folks that are not into planted tanks, please use plants that take up CO2 from the air. -Some other house plants that might work great: Iris and Philodendron. Also, please not forget floating plants. They also have access to CO2 from the air. An extreme plant here is actually duckweed. I don´t recommend them though, they will be allover the place and might even clog your filters. Ceratopteris sp or Limnophilia are great choices. -Don´t forget that plants needs more nutrients than nitrogen. Give the tank some micro nutrients every now and then, BUT keep the dose very low - like a tenth of recommended dose. -Be extra careful with tanks that has a lower pH than 7. Water chemistry, plant growth and nutrition works a lot different in lower pH. The nitrifying bacteria gets a harder time under pH 7, but plants (with access to CO2) often get a boost. The needed nutrients will be present in "better states", so please really underdose any micro nutrients. -I have done a lot of experiments around this and also held some speeches around it. Plants work great for cleaning the water. Some solutions that might not be possible for all, is to combine two tanks, and have a "plant filter tank". Some saltwater folks use this, but with algae turf filters. Keep up the good work!
Another thing with plants out of the water is they are getting their water from the tank, and losing some of it into the air, so yeah you will have to top off the tanks more often. And the faster the growth the more water they will take.
My monestera is potted outside the tank. It seems like it can detect water. The stems have put out extensive root systems that have grown into the tank.
Thank you so much for your videos!! I've been a member of the fish fam RUclips community for about 2 years now!! I'm even making an attempt to document my journey for a channel!! Finding your Channel as inspired me to go farther than just doing dirted tanks!! Your videos are easy to understand, well made and very informative!! Thank you for the incredible content and I hope you're having a very blessed day 🌿💪🙌🌿🌿🐟🐌🦐🌿🌿☘️✨
I use all of these and they work great! Another one I love is a Alocasia Odora (upright elephant ear) and philodendron. Philodendron come in a lot of different looks and sizes, so you can diversify the aesthetic too. I have only been doing top offs without water changes for years thanks to all the plants (I vacuum a few times a year just to keep the tank neat).
Seems like it could also be useful to keep potted houseplants near your tanks and scoop water from the tanks when the potted plants need it then top off tanks with fresh water.
Using water fron vacuuming the tank can give 50% bigger leaves in length & width(ie 2.25 times bigger leaves). I keep fish poop for enriching tap water too!
Looking into adding house plants to my aquarium. Starting with peace Lilly... Love your tips, my main question is can I have numerous house plants and aquarium plants. With both types getting enough nutrition? My tank is 600 L. Which I do have a great amount of fish in the tank.
Personally, I have most success with rooted aquarium plants like Amazon sword and Italian Val.🍃I talked more about this topic in this video 👉ruclips.net/video/BRGT5Hg6YdI/видео.html
I've added a philodendron cutting to all of my tanks and it makes a huge difference with water changes and water parameters. Also my peace lillies thrive off fish tank water
Great video. I've been using pothos for 3 years now in most of my tanks. I also have peace lilies, spider plants, wandering jew,, and one orchid. I am going to check out your other videos. Thanks
Hi, I have a bamboo based set up with S repens, java moss, and anubias. Would it be okay to add any of these into the set up? Or is there a threat of them sucking up all the nutrients? Kindly advice
This is wonderful! I invented a series of emergent plant holders called Poth-O-Carry, and I'm always looking for new plants to tell me customers to use. Thanks!
Thanks, glad you found the channel! I’ve seen Poth-o-Carry products on Etsy but still haven’t tried them out yet. Which one would you recommend for large Peace lilies?
Can you make a video about what the best fish are for open top ripariums? I would love to make a riparium in a fancy rimless tank but im scared of the fish jumping
I have a 75 gal lightly stocked with African Cichlids, just bought a mediun sized pothos and dropped the roots in the hang on back filters. So far so good, ill get back in a few months with results.
I hardly ever need to do water changes anyway. But where I have my plants its very dark, and I dont have a bunch of grow lights, I also dont want big root masses in all my tanks. I do think its really cool tho. Are houseplants the only filtration you have in your tanks? I would love to see a closer look at your tanks.
to add some confirmation of your last point. I've got a hybrid endler/guppy colony, and it can get overpopulated fairly quickly. About a year after putting unrooted cuttings of pothos and M. deliciosa in, the top of the tank is covered in vines, and the back wall is covered in roots. Now, the plants do absolutely help keep the nitrates down. Just been looking for some variety, and possibly an even more effective variety for the tubs full of mystery snails and guppies. Trying to grow out a handful of hatches of snails sure puts a bioload on the system!
How do you not have more subs, for real! Beyond happy to have learned more about my plants and my tanks. I am building a tank for a leopard frog. So it will land and water. But I see what part of the pond they chill in and the water isn't deep at all, and there is tons of vegetation. I hope to r replicate that second of the pond for the little dude. Also I will now be adding other plants to the bog filter to my turtle and cat fish, which by the way I run a small fluval canister filter I think a 207 on it, and then I have arrow head vine, and golden pothos and lucky bamboo that filter the water. I think I lost my sun fish to my cat fish. Was almost certain that Ernie was to big to eat. They have grown up with each other.
Fast growing plants like frogbit and hornwort are great at removing nutrients from the water. Plants like Anubia, Java fern, and Marimo moss grow rather slowly so they are not removing nutrients in the water as quickly as fast growing plants.
Great video! I never had much luck with C.alternifolius, I guess because I was always planting it with bare roots, and it seems to only thrive in substrate. Here in the UK, it is sold as pond plant, and people say that it needs to be in cooler water and that fishtank might be too warm for it, but I see that its country of origin is Egypt and I doubt that it grows there is temperate climate.
It does grow well in my tanks! I’m also able to grow it outside in a pond in our climate (sub tropical or close to it). It grows well for me with roots in water only and also in substrate.
Some people have reported peace lily and Pothos killing their goldfish, however I personally keep shubunkin goldfish with these plants with no problems. I also have been keeping various freshwater tropical fish with these plants and never had any problems. But If you want alternative options check out this video on non toxic plants 👉ruclips.net/video/wHNBoBTz1os/видео.html
Glad U posted today. It was a bad day for my saltwater tank and hearing Ur info always makes it better. Maybe something U could touch on, I always seem to struggle with hair algae in my fresh tanks. Outside stock ponds don't seem to have an issue. Curious if U ever have these issues? Also, would love to see some propagation videos about how U do these splits and such.
Hair algae can be a problem for me at times, Usually an indicator of too much light, too many nutrients. It usually happens more in tanks with plants that are not yet established. Yes, good video ideas!! Thanks!
Syngonium white butterfly known as arrowhead plants will out grow any of your top 5 plants you mentioned here. It will grow and spread so fast that it needs to be trimmed back monthly. Sweet Potato vines are also a fast grower as well. I have used all the plants you mentioned here plus many more house plants like Dieffenbachia, Aglaonema, Tradescantia, Spider plants, Oyster plants, Elephant ear plants and many more.
Syngonium and sweet potato vine don’t grow as well for me, and yes there are many varieties of plants to grow (which is awesome!) I grow many different species myself, these five have been most effective for me so far. Glad you’re having good results from the plants you mentioned!
Arrowhead is a vine and you plant the cut tip into a well aerated / water flow area and Roots will emerge Not sure how to do the alocasia bulbs, theoretically setting the base of it on the water it would shoot roots, I float styrofoam sheets with holes cut in them with decent results
@@estherkatzburg538 Only the roots of the plant is submerged, not the whole plant. I usually put the plant in a basket with rocks or pebbles to hold down the roots in place and place them in the filter or near the filter.
Monstera, peace lilies and others are toxic to cats dogs and humans. In this video (second half) I talk about plant toxicity with fish 4 Reasons WHY Your Fish Will LOVE Houseplants Growing out of Their Tank!- Ultimate Ecosystem Tank ruclips.net/video/qYgu5pCzemA/видео.html
You can do it both ways. If they are just growing in the water, the roots will eventually grow down into the substrate anyway. I think this is how they grow best. Check out this video too. 4 Reasons WHY Your Fish Will LOVE Houseplants Growing out of Their Tank!- Ultimate Ecosystem Tank ruclips.net/video/qYgu5pCzemA/видео.html
plants process amonia faster and more efficient than nitrates. So the real question is, do the plants take in the amonia before the amonia has a chance to be processed by the bacteria, or do the plants consume the nitrates?
I put the plants in the tank and the roots grow over time, several months sometimes, and grow all the way down and into the substrate. Check out this update video from one of my tanks ruclips.net/video/GnGJU7yUaI4/видео.htmlsi=K7zS6v1SkQyXPi9p
Here’s the way I do it most often 🪴🐠How to: DIY Riparium planters for Small and LARGE fish Tanks !🐠🪴 ruclips.net/video/4Zv6VIbRrms/видео.html But your imagination is the only limit!
They are toxic to dogs, cats, people. I have been growing these plants and others with many different fish species with out problems. And other hobbyists have too.
ruclips.net/video/EBC6UnMzKpY/видео.html The DIY planters section of this video shows the hooks I use to hang the planters. ruclips.net/video/4Zv6VIbRrms/видео.html this video shows how to make the planters. Hope this helps!
Plants can remove nitrates but the plant expands more energy to take use the nitrates, This is old thinking! Plants use ammonia it takes the ammonia out if the nitrogen cycle meaning it will not be converted to nitrite then to nitrates. So you have ammonia and nitrates the Plants will always use the ammonia first no matter the plant. Have a nice day 😊
Can you cut back the roots? I have one vine of pthos very healthy but the roots are crazy...... they have not rooted in the substrait.. gravel, and just float in the tank, I have a 75g with cories, loaches, 2 hillstreams and some small tetras ... 22 fish in total
You can trim roots but I recommend not to trim more than 1/3 off. I personally don’t trim roots because It slows down the plants too much especially if it’s done multiple times. You could put some larger stones on the roots to pin them down and they will grow into the substrate.
I had my 55 gallon tank with a custom 10 gallon sump tank made out of a 10 gallon fish tank. I had pthos growing our of it and have not done a water change in 5 years and have not lost a single fish. All of them are very active with bright colors.
Thanks your information, may I know what type fish?
Link your setup
Why can't I get pothos to grow in my tank? I literally have cayenne, poblano, jalapeño, gardenia veitchii, tortuga wind hibiscus, bachelor button, basil, and even a damn carrot growing in my tank.
Pothos has died every damn time though
And how can I trust you?
@@elsancho-mx7om you have to condition it first. two things are essential for best results. Lots of oxygenation (air stones, powerheads) and seachem flourish. You will get leaf melt but eventually the pothos will adapt to being submerged and the roots/shoots will grow. You will always have a leaf go bad but just snip it off. Because oxygen transmission is lower in water, you have to add the aeration. Let the pothos float when you put it in the tanks. Pothos will grow but not grow fast when submerged. You can counter this by just adding more.
How is this not a bigger channel!?!? Love the content
Most of this is ok, except plants don't remove much nitrate, they always take Ammonia first in preference, meaning there is less available for conversion in the 'Ammonia -> Nitrite -> Nitrate cycle'. I tend to use Pothos, Peace Lilies, Lucky Bamboo but have used faster growing plants like mint, normal floating aquatic plants can also be effective but delicate.
And don't forget, little to no algae. The plants use up the nutrients needed for algae to grow. My tanks are algae free using plants like you're showing. It's a win, win situation.
I can definitely vouch for peace lily being a great addition to tanks. I have a 5g tank on my desk that I recently changed the light on. That caused the Crypts and Buce in the tank to almost entirely melt back. Doh! Since that tank tended to stay right around 10ppm for nitrate, and I knew the melt would jack that up further, I moved a peace lily from a tank where it wasn't getting enough light. Despite the massive leaf melt, nitrates plummeted to ZERO in a couple of days. Melt continued for a few more days. I tested the water daily throughout this to watch for ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate spikes. Everything remained at 0 once the peace lily brought the nitrates down. I'm even having to dose with ferts weekly now. The Crypt is starting to come back in. No sign of the Buce recovering yet. But through all that, the ember tetras and shrimp in the tank continue to thrive, and the water remains healthy for them. I know that peace lily made the difference, as the last time I had a massive crypt melt (in a 29g that time, due to a light failure), it caused a HUGE spike in the nasties.
Thanks for that info!
I found the Porhos does reduce water change intervals. But it took 2 pots from home depot an about 3-4 months for it to start working. So be patient.
I subscribed straight away!
Very informative without a lot of hype or drama!
I love the simple and detailed approach 👏👌🏽👍🏽☺️
Thanks! I’m glad you find this helpful!
I have also grown Imperial Taro (Colocasia antiquorum 'Illustris')(elephant ears), Spider Plant (Chlorophytum comosum), and Arrowhead Plant / Goosefoot Plant (Syngonium podophyllum) in my aquariums and ponds
You opened my eyes. For 2 month now I thought I hab a Monstera Deliciosa and wondered why mine looked so small and wrinkly. Now I realised it was just labled wrong when I bought it and I actually have a monstera adansonii :'D Thank you.
Both deliciosa and andansonii will grow small leaves if they're not allowed to climb. If the plant is given a plank or moss pole to climb, the plant will mature and grow larger leaves with more fenestrations. Without something to climb, they will produce long leggy vines with small leaves. The same goes for pothos.
I grew pothos out of a 29 gal. Reached about 19 feet and the vine near the tank was about 1 inch in circumference. It was absolutely huge
I've just put peac lily's and Swiss cheese plants in my 150g tank it looks amazing
Hey Martyn, can you do a video of peace lily and swiss cheese?
I'm very interested.
Oh, your red terror looks absolutely beautiful.
Really informative people should just remember water changes aren’t solely for the export of Nitrates but other minerals as well, if you just keep on topping off these minerals will build up. Even with a high plant load on my aquariums I still do water changes at-least once a month.
What other minerals? They are toxic minerals?
All plants remove nitrogen
@@condorX2 Do you keep fish/ aquatic animals in yours?
@@muurrarium9460 aye.
Check my newest upload.
Mini tank with no water change for a year. My first experiment
@@djt7387 but not all of them can survive underwater
I spent tons of money in fish and lost because of poor water quality. I am glad I found your channel. Thanks
Great video. Your channel is exactly what I’ve been looking for. Keep up the good work 👍
Thanks!
Thank you for your videos!! I’m relatively new to fish-keeping and when I stumbled across your channel I knew this was the direction I wanted to take. I’m looking forward to getting started with your channel to guide me!
Great to hear, welcome to the channel!
thank you so much for the clear language
Dude, this is genuinely helpful. I love the options you gave for Pothos.
Glad it was helpful!
Fun fact nearly all plants work with roots in water to remove nitrates in a freshwater tank if given the proper light. Except cactus/succulents, brackish water plants, and evergreens. Look up ripariums and aquaponics.
I have cactus growing in an aquaponic filter on my tank and they are flowering now. I have in various tanks, African violets, hibiscus, roses and many other flowers growing out of my tanks.
@@davidcook4504 That's cool to hear, I'd always been told cactus would rot from being too wet. Is your filter the hourly flood then drain type? or constant flow of water through the grow medium?
@@aquaaurora2747Aurora Constant flow, even got Orchids to grow, you need a deep layer of clay pellets wicking up the water so the roots are not always wet. The roots will grow down into the water and develop a water root different from the soil roots
I keep reading some are toxic to fish, especially bettas. 😢
@@rosesarerougetoo I guess I've been luck with my choices. Could you link the sources? I'd like to read.
Thank you for your work! Very interesting topic, can't wait to start my next project!
This is definitely good advice and I have used a lot of different plants to clean the water. However, I do not recommend "no water changes". Keep on changing the water, but you might reduce the frequency and also be safe when going on vacation.
-Why does it work? Plants with leaves above the water have constant access to CO2. All serious plant aquarium folks add CO2 for their underwater gardens. Folks that are not into planted tanks, please use plants that take up CO2 from the air.
-Some other house plants that might work great: Iris and Philodendron. Also, please not forget floating plants. They also have access to CO2 from the air. An extreme plant here is actually duckweed. I don´t recommend them though, they will be allover the place and might even clog your filters. Ceratopteris sp or Limnophilia are great choices.
-Don´t forget that plants needs more nutrients than nitrogen. Give the tank some micro nutrients every now and then, BUT keep the dose very low - like a tenth of recommended dose.
-Be extra careful with tanks that has a lower pH than 7. Water chemistry, plant growth and nutrition works a lot different in lower pH. The nitrifying bacteria gets a harder time under pH 7, but plants (with access to CO2) often get a boost. The needed nutrients will be present in "better states", so please really underdose any micro nutrients.
-I have done a lot of experiments around this and also held some speeches around it. Plants work great for cleaning the water. Some solutions that might not be possible for all, is to combine two tanks, and have a "plant filter tank". Some saltwater folks use this, but with algae turf filters.
Keep up the good work!
Frogbit is better than duckweed, larger, easier to control, ferns are also great for tanks....
@@richardwebb9532 sorry, I should have written Limnobium (not Limnophilia), which is frogbite. Great plant!
@@jokervienna6433 👍🍻
Another thing with plants out of the water is they are getting their water from the tank, and losing some of it into the air, so yeah you will have to top off the tanks more often. And the faster the growth the more water they will take.
Yes it works! I've been doing it for years! I put Sansi light bulbs above the tank. You can also add marginal pond plants too, some even flower 🌼 👍
My monestera is potted outside the tank. It seems like it can detect water. The stems have put out extensive root systems that have grown into the tank.
Thank you so much for your videos!! I've been a member of the fish fam RUclips community for about 2 years now!! I'm even making an attempt to document my journey for a channel!! Finding your Channel as inspired me to go farther than just doing dirted tanks!! Your videos are easy to understand, well made and very informative!! Thank you for the incredible content and I hope you're having a very blessed day 🌿💪🙌🌿🌿🐟🐌🦐🌿🌿☘️✨
Thanks so much for the encouragement! Glad to hear that you are inspired to keep growing!
And thanks for the shout out on the father fish live stream!
Bro looks like The big show 😮
Great knowledge dispersal. I didn’t know about anything but pathos. Thanks
Everyone keeps Pothos in their tanks! Takes a few months for the roots to get growing, but they seem to work. After a few months, mine have 12" roots.
It's "Pothos". Glad you know nothing about pathos. 😉
I use all of these and they work great! Another one I love is a Alocasia Odora (upright elephant ear) and philodendron. Philodendron come in a lot of different looks and sizes, so you can diversify the aesthetic too. I have only been doing top offs without water changes for years thanks to all the plants (I vacuum a few times a year just to keep the tank neat).
Glad I found your channel. I just started getting into house plants on my Aquarium
Awesome!
Seems like it could also be useful to keep potted houseplants near your tanks and scoop water from the tanks when the potted plants need it then top off tanks with fresh water.
Aquariumwater is great for most species. Always re-use/ recycle.
Using water fron vacuuming the tank can give 50% bigger leaves in length & width(ie 2.25 times bigger leaves). I keep fish poop for enriching tap water too!
Looking into adding house plants to my aquarium. Starting with peace Lilly... Love your tips, my main question is can I have numerous house plants and aquarium plants. With both types getting enough nutrition? My tank is 600 L. Which I do have a great amount of fish in the tank.
Personally, I have most success with rooted aquarium plants like Amazon sword and Italian Val.🍃I talked more about this topic in this video
👉ruclips.net/video/BRGT5Hg6YdI/видео.html
I've added a philodendron cutting to all of my tanks and it makes a huge difference with water changes and water parameters. Also my peace lillies thrive off fish tank water
Are Philodendron with red stem poisonous to the fish in the tank?
Great video. I've been using pothos for 3 years now in most of my tanks. I also have peace lilies, spider plants, wandering jew,, and one orchid. I am going to check out your other videos. Thanks
Thanks!
After watching every video on the tube about growing plants outside a tank and this is the one that convinced me 👍
GRATITUDE 💥🤩💥
Hi, I have a bamboo based set up with S repens, java moss, and anubias. Would it be okay to add any of these into the set up? Or is there a threat of them sucking up all the nutrients? Kindly advice
All these plants will likely be able to grow together. I think you can add these plants
How is your progress, Rhea?
I'm very curious to know, because I have the same concern
Fantastic video👌🏾💃🏾🙏🏽 Thank you for sharing your tips🌿💚🌿 you have inspired me🥇🤩
Very nice video 😊
I like the content. Well done.
Glad you enjoy it!
Thank-you for sharing! I just subscribed ❤😎😎😎
Excellent information! Will try those plants out. Here in California, water rationing is a big deal.
Thank you for all this information. You have my subscription for that. 😘😘
You've given me great ideas to jungle-up my fish room. Thank you.
This is wonderful! I invented a series of emergent plant holders called Poth-O-Carry, and I'm always looking for new plants to tell me customers to use. Thanks!
Thanks, glad you found the channel! I’ve seen Poth-o-Carry products on Etsy but still haven’t tried them out yet. Which one would you recommend for large Peace lilies?
@@plantlifeproject the Versa and Versa max would do great for peace Lilies, just add your substrate of choice :-)
Can you make a video about what the best fish are for open top ripariums? I would love to make a riparium in a fancy rimless tank but im scared of the fish jumping
That would be a good discussion!
This is amazing! Thank you so much. Liked and subscribed
There’s a great video of a plant only tank with guppies and shrimp with zero filter or air pump and it’s survived over a year.
I have a 40 long and 20 long with zero filter or pump with bettas, plants, Tetras, shrimp and cories. All do fantastic.
Found your channel today and subscribed today. 👍
I have a 75 gal lightly stocked with African Cichlids, just bought a mediun sized pothos and dropped the roots in the hang on back filters. So far so good, ill get back in a few months with results.
Be careful w the hob the roots can grow into the mechanism
Appreciated. I learned so much!
Very active 10gallon-best !
Great video , very well done and really useful information 👍,
Great info! Definitely subscribing!
Used Pothos in my oscar tank and it made a big difference.
Try comfrey from the garden floats well.
I hardly ever need to do water changes anyway. But where I have my plants its very dark, and I dont have a bunch of grow lights, I also dont want big root masses in all my tanks. I do think its really cool tho. Are houseplants the only filtration you have in your tanks? I would love to see a closer look at your tanks.
Check out the channel! I’ve got more videos on this tank! Here’s one of them ruclips.net/video/2REr6x5t0E4/видео.html
Very informative. Thank you.
These plans are points for dog thay don't harm fish
This is exactly what I was looking for. Been using the old standby pothos, but would love some variety. Thanks for sharing.
to add some confirmation of your last point. I've got a hybrid endler/guppy colony, and it can get overpopulated fairly quickly. About a year after putting unrooted cuttings of pothos and M. deliciosa in, the top of the tank is covered in vines, and the back wall is covered in roots. Now, the plants do absolutely help keep the nitrates down.
Just been looking for some variety, and possibly an even more effective variety for the tubs full of mystery snails and guppies. Trying to grow out a handful of hatches of snails sure puts a bioload on the system!
How do you not have more subs, for real! Beyond happy to have learned more about my plants and my tanks. I am building a tank for a leopard frog. So it will land and water. But I see what part of the pond they chill in and the water isn't deep at all, and there is tons of vegetation. I hope to r replicate that second of the pond for the little dude. Also I will now be adding other plants to the bog filter to my turtle and cat fish, which by the way I run a small fluval canister filter I think a 207 on it, and then I have arrow head vine, and golden pothos and lucky bamboo that filter the water. I think I lost my sun fish to my cat fish. Was almost certain that Ernie was to big to eat. They have grown up with each other.
Thanks! Sounds like an amazing setup, what size tank are you using? so glad you found the channel!
Great video! Thanks for sharing
Can pothos leaves be submerged?
The tank sure looks nice natural with all these plants
How about Anubias, java fern, hornwwort, frog bit and marimo moss balls?
Fast growing plants like frogbit and hornwort are great at removing nutrients from the water. Plants like Anubia, Java fern, and Marimo moss grow rather slowly so they are not removing nutrients in the water as quickly as fast growing plants.
Great video! I never had much luck with C.alternifolius, I guess because I was always planting it with bare roots, and it seems to only thrive in substrate. Here in the UK, it is sold as pond plant, and people say that it needs to be in cooler water and that fishtank might be too warm for it, but I see that its country of origin is Egypt and I doubt that it grows there is temperate climate.
It does grow well in my tanks! I’m also able to grow it outside in a pond in our climate (sub tropical or close to it). It grows well for me with roots in water only and also in substrate.
Fantastic advice, trying this myself now…
Have fun!
Thanks a lot from India 😊
Good information.. thank you
I used to use sweet potato slips in my frog tanks
Love your videos. Thank you! Very helpful.
You are so welcome!
I keep getting a white fungus that kills my pothos. I’ve read it’s from humidity from the tank. Any advice?
Not sure what that is, I’ve never had that problem.Are you sure it’s a fungus?
Great video, love that shirt!
I'm new to the Riparium. I have a 29 gallon Aquarium how many plants do I need for it? How many house hold plants?
This video might be helpful for you ruclips.net/video/9_06Dd1HGws/видео.html
Hi sir. I have two ranchu goldfish in my tank. And I also have most of the plants you mentioned. Can I use them and not harm my fish? Thanks a heap!:)
Some people have reported peace lily and Pothos killing their goldfish, however I personally keep shubunkin goldfish with these plants with no problems. I also have been keeping various freshwater tropical fish with these plants and never had any problems. But If you want alternative options check out this video on non toxic plants 👉ruclips.net/video/wHNBoBTz1os/видео.html
Glad U posted today. It was a bad day for my saltwater tank and hearing Ur info always makes it better.
Maybe something U could touch on, I always seem to struggle with hair algae in my fresh tanks. Outside stock ponds don't seem to have an issue. Curious if U ever have these issues?
Also, would love to see some propagation videos about how U do these splits and such.
Hair algae can be a problem for me at times, Usually an indicator of too much light, too many nutrients. It usually happens more in tanks with plants that are not yet established. Yes, good video ideas!! Thanks!
@@plantlifeproject It is seriously the bane of my existence.
now I want to grow tomato plants out of my fish tank.
Great one. Thank you for sharing. Have you got any experiance with the Spathiphyllum chopin?. It looks it has manageable size.
Syngonium white butterfly known as arrowhead plants will out grow any of your top 5 plants you mentioned here. It will grow and spread so fast that it needs to be trimmed back monthly. Sweet Potato vines are also a fast grower as well. I have used all the plants you mentioned here plus many more house plants like Dieffenbachia, Aglaonema, Tradescantia, Spider plants, Oyster plants, Elephant ear plants and many more.
Syngonium and sweet potato vine don’t grow as well for me, and yes there are many varieties of plants to grow (which is awesome!) I grow many different species myself, these five have been most effective for me so far. Glad you’re having good results from the plants you mentioned!
The syngonium in my tank has gone completely wild, it's always growing new leaves and has 4x its size
I'm unclear. Can I plant the arrowhead and elephant ears completely submerged in the tank?
Arrowhead is a vine and you plant the cut tip into a well aerated / water flow area and Roots will emerge
Not sure how to do the alocasia bulbs, theoretically setting the base of it on the water it would shoot roots, I float styrofoam sheets with holes cut in them with decent results
@@estherkatzburg538 Only the roots of the plant is submerged, not the whole plant. I usually put the plant in a basket with rocks or pebbles to hold down the roots in place and place them in the filter or near the filter.
The other thing to consider with plants growing in aquarium, is if the plant is poisonous to cats. Cats might chew on the plants if accessible
Transform Your Fish Tank: 10 Non-Toxic Riparium Plants That Cats Love
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Some house plants are toxic to the fish in the tank. Is Monstera delicosa safe?
I know Peace Lily is safe
Monstera, peace lilies and others are toxic to cats dogs and humans. In this video (second half) I talk about plant toxicity with fish
4 Reasons WHY Your Fish Will LOVE Houseplants Growing out of Their Tank!- Ultimate Ecosystem Tank
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That's their problem
problem is ammonia, not nitrate.
Do you need chemicals initially for tap water, or just let the plant do it thing for a few days before adding fish?
Yes, I use a dechlorinator for the tap water
Wow, really like your setup on this channel! Well done man!
Thanks, Glad you you’re enjoying it!
A perfect video for my needs, Thank you
You're very welcome!
I have an important question: Is it better to pot these plants using aquarium soil or just plant them in the aquarium without soil or gravel
You can do it both ways. If they are just growing in the water, the roots will eventually grow down into the substrate anyway. I think this is how they grow best. Check out this video too.
4 Reasons WHY Your Fish Will LOVE Houseplants Growing out of Their Tank!- Ultimate Ecosystem Tank
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I have three walstead tanks, lots of plants, need MORE! 😆🍻👍
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plants process amonia faster and more efficient than nitrates. So the real question is, do the plants take in the amonia before the amonia has a chance to be processed by the bacteria, or do the plants consume the nitrates?
Plants and bacteria definitely work together to feed on the nitrogen, no doubt about that
Aren't Peace Lilies toxic to cats if eaten? I really want to use them in my tanks but I have cats.
Yes, but check these out as alternatives 👉 ruclips.net/video/wHNBoBTz1os/видео.htmlsi=Dg8DXiqDgfYGV_BF
i love the way environment of ur tank looks omg!
Thanks!
How do you get to root like that. Mine do not have that many roots. And also, do you put potholes roots in the gravel?
I put the plants in the tank and the roots grow over time, several months sometimes, and grow all the way down and into the substrate. Check out this update video from one of my tanks ruclips.net/video/GnGJU7yUaI4/видео.htmlsi=K7zS6v1SkQyXPi9p
How do you hold your house plants in your tanks? I have yet to find a way to support my plants in my aquariums.
Here’s the way I do it most often 🪴🐠How to: DIY Riparium planters for Small and LARGE fish Tanks !🐠🪴
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But your imagination is the only limit!
Excellent info and channel. I make aquarium videos too. :)
Can we water dirty water of fish tank to my plants instead of throwing?
Yes, absolutely!
I keep reading pothos are toxic for fish like bettas. 😢…?
They are toxic to dogs, cats, people. I have been growing these plants and others with many different fish species with out problems. And other hobbyists have too.
This is my kind of thinking where you can have both fish & plant's
as well as aquarium plants & house plant's what more can you ask for?
Great Video!....do you have a video showing how to attach the plants to the back of the tank ?
ruclips.net/video/EBC6UnMzKpY/видео.html The DIY planters section of this video shows the hooks I use to hang the planters. ruclips.net/video/4Zv6VIbRrms/видео.html this video shows how to make the planters. Hope this helps!
@@plantlifeproject Awesome thanx
Plants can remove nitrates but the plant expands more energy to take use the nitrates, This is old thinking! Plants use ammonia it takes the ammonia out if the nitrogen cycle meaning it will not be converted to nitrite then to nitrates. So you have ammonia and nitrates the Plants will always use the ammonia first no matter the plant. Have a nice day 😊
"How to .. in a fish tank".. should be your channel name 😂
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What kind of chain or stand is on your tank that the plants are growing up?
Plastic chains suspended from the ceiling!
Can you cut back the roots? I have one vine of pthos very healthy but the roots are crazy...... they have not rooted in the substrait.. gravel, and just float in the tank, I have a 75g with cories, loaches, 2 hillstreams and some small tetras ... 22 fish in total
You can trim roots but I recommend not to trim more than 1/3 off. I personally don’t trim roots because It slows down the plants too much especially if it’s done multiple times. You could put some larger stones on the roots to pin them down and they will grow into the substrate.
@@plantlifeproject Thank you. I will try the pinning down option