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I am loving buce, my sag, and the val I bought from you. The banana plants are nice, and I do love my lilies I got from you, but being able to make my tanks look deeper with large java ferns up front, and tiny buce in the back... bacopsis in between, and val & sag.... I have a few swords to help with the illusion as well. I now have a Native NC tank, exclusively planted with wild harvested aquatic plants from my last 2 years trips to NC. (And the only inhabitants are NC ramshorn snails and P paludosus). I have a Native Mexican tank, with the same (plants, fish, shrimp and snails captured along the Rio Grande, with a few purchased additions). Building ecosystems out of places I visit, is bringing me so much joy! And my floating plants definitely keep the water quality phenomenal! I do have to pay attention to the plants communicating their needs, since our tap water has gotten....bad.
I've become a big fan of tiger lotus/dwarf lilies recently. If you let them grow to the top you get the floating plant benefit without the blackout haha
absolutely loved all the info!!! I have purchased plants, light, filters, air pumps, heaters...from you, your customer service is top notch. your plants always survive....
I am very grateful and love this video. Have been working with aquariums for a while and had success and failure, but still love how you’re setting up your website and doing the videos to help people out. You’re doing a great job. Keep doing what you’re doing and thank you for helping further the hobby.
I started this hobby barely 7 months ago and it was aquarium coop that gave the foundation to now successfully have 3 fish tanks with happy fishes and healthy aquatic plants. The only items I have not purchased from aquarium coop are lights and heaters because I got them from a friend of mine. Thank you Cory !!! 😎
After my first year of serious aquatic gardening I've come to the same conclusion you mentioned 18:00 min in. I love all of my colorful stem plants, but they are fertilizer hogs. Moving forward I'm going to focus more on slower growing plants. Fish tank maintenance is a lot easier when you DON'T HAVE to do plant maintenance every week.
This is great. I started with a lot of artificial plants, decorations. Found lots of decorations would flake off paint, so pulled all of that stuff, added driftwood, followed by rocks / live plants. Very low tech tank, so went through a lot of trial and error. At first had no idea about plants melting...I kept throwing them out thinking they were dead. Tried a few different fertilizers. Some brought on algae, some didn't. Have learned so much since. Never realized you had so many details under your plant section. While I can't order plants from you here in Canada, that information would have saved me a great deal. Will be setting up a 50g planted tank soon. That info is going to be super helpful. PS. Your customer service is great. Candi helped me with some fish illnesses when I first came back into the hobby. Look forward to the day when we can buy from you here in Canada. For now, trying to support my LFS. We are lucky to have a few really good ones where I live.
Wow! I was thinking about how to fertilize for what plant. Very nice detailed presentation! My lights, pumps, heaters, food and plants I bought from your company. hanks a bunch, Corey!
All my plants also came in a mesh bag inside a plastic bag and inside the insulated liner. The mesh bag is perfect for filling with stratum or other type aquatic compost for building tanks or building up high spots in a new build to give a great nutrient base in your tank. I've done this in all my heavily planted tanks.
I love the low light easy plants. Have mostly assorted anubias, java moss, and subwassertang. Slow growing, thrive for me, and look great. Have some PSO but about ready to pull it out again because I'm tired of having to trim it so much. Looking for other plants to put in it's place that I haven't had before. Thanks for all your plant info!
I am absolutely dying to purchase your products. Everything seems such good quality and clearly made out of a passion for the hobby. Do you plan to ship to Australia sometime in the near future? I would certainly switch to using your products over my current ones if you ever decide to.
I've always struggled with keeping Java Fern healthy. The best tip I've received recently is Corry saying to use brine shrimp salt at water changes. My Java Fern has never looked more green. I'm not getting "hundreds" of plantlets anymore!
Interesting...my Java fern grows even without lighting. Had them in a tank that isn't even set up yet. It had some sand and a bit of water. Just enough for the plant to be submerged. And it's still healthy and growing. It's one of hardiest plants out there.🤷♂️
Great information thank you for all you do!! Question what setting would have your light set to on a 60 breeder with crypts and dwarf chain sword and 2 tiger lotus btw the crypts are huge and some of the dwarf chain is but the crypts are shading everything some leaves are at the top of the water
Would you be interested in doing a video on plant propagation? Dean's videos on fish breeding have been so helpful, but I know propagation is rather antithetical for a plant seller 😅
I've done some videos on topics like that in the past. Haven't done one in a while. They never got much traction. Also have a video on how to sell plants for profit. ruclips.net/video/n2j4dmZwNTI/видео.html
There are many cichlids that will not dig up plants. For example, apistogramma, rams, angel fish, kribensis, keyhole, and discus all come to mind. There are also cichlids from Lake Tanganyika like julidochromis that would do well with plants as long as the water is hard and has minerals. ~ Zenzo
If you are in the Forum, Guppysnail had journals on breeding several different, gorgeous, cichlids. Guppysnail values the plants first, and the fish breeding is a side effect of the healthy plants.
Do you have any recommendations for a book which covers all the various tropical plants and their care? For people who still like books (me). Thank you kindly, enjoy your channel.
I'm not sure I have a great recommendation on that. A bunch of books have strengths in different areas but can be hard to find, since books don't sell nearly as well these days.
Pogo "Octopus" grows so fast and doesn't stop, my tank is 24" deep and when it gets to the top it just lays on the surface and keeps going. you HAVE to trim it, or don't. My fish uproot it and now it just grows in a giant floating tangled mass, I was going to remove some but the EBA's lay in it to sleep so now I just leave it alone. I don't fertilize. The java moss mats are great, my Uaru treats it like a plate of salad and I remove the wire mesh when its clean. 😂
Not unless they start making them a lot cheaper. I'd look to see if your local club has one yet, or may be someone in a local club store that you can rent/borrow.
Your comment starting at 33:52, about the sand being "very fine"... is that an issue with sand in general or is that a specific sand type/ grade? Thank you!
The more fine, the more compacted it gets, the coarser it is, the less of a problem it is. I still prefer gravel at this point. But some people really love the look of sand.
Do the red flame swords and marble queen swords tend to produce a more narrow leaf like the standard sword plants? Mine haven't lost any leaves in over a month, still big ovals.
Been in the hobby on and off for 40 years, I've always had live plants, never occurred to me to do anything else yet even after all these years some plants I'm just unable to keep. I have tried Java Fern probably half a dozen times. It does well for maybe a month then just withers away for no apparent reason. Same with moss - I've tried several varieties, people warn me, don't put moss in your tank it just grows like a weed and invades everything. Not in my tanks it doesn't, it just goes brown and dissolves away. I've even had Pogostemon erectus and Pogostemon octopus side by side in the same tank - erectus just dies on me, octopus needs trimming every week. I still have no idea why this happens.
Pogostemon erectus is only offered in emersed form and is hard to convert. It's a plant we don't sell as most people struggle with that conversion. If you can get it submerged grown it's pretty easy. Plants really aren't any different than cooking. You just need to learn the techniques and ingredients. Everyone might say chocolate chip cookies are so easy to make. but when I make them they are thin and crispy. My wife can look at a cookie and tell you, oh they didn't use softened butter, or they used salted butter and still added salt. Or the temp in the oven was wrong or they used the wrong king of baking sheet etc. So if you reframe your mind from, they don't work for me, to I'm not doing what the recipe calls for it allows you to figure out what goes wrong. In general Java ferns want potassium and minerals in the water. And a good water column fertilizer on top of that.
WHHHAAATTT??? Wrap the Java Fern mat with the metal attached around the hard scape? GAH, I never thought to do that!!! I always just place those mats on my substrate. 🤯🤯
Plants like fish don't like many water changes/ changes to their environment causes them to wither, so only if U have to do only a partial water change, your tanks eco system should be efficient and cycled and seasoned for best results ,I don't even use fertilizer just the waste of the animals is enough, less is more.
I think that's a mostly true statement. However I don't believe it can sustain it. If you took a tank that had really thick mulm in the gravel from 2 years of feeding and planted tons of sword plants. I'd wager within a year they'd be running out of food and need supplementation. You can however find a balance of really slow growing plants and the right fish foods to keep plants mostly looking good. I'd also say that floating plants and a seasoned tank can run out in like 6 weeks sometimes. So while I generally agree that a well seasoned tank is super helpful, it can lead a reader down a path of failure if they don't understand the whole picture.
are you worried about your swords getting too big? I’ve found that consistently pinching leaves at the base is a great way to communicate to the plant to stay smaller. Have no idea why this works but it’s allowed me to have the plants I love without sacrificing my whole tank!
I don't really worry about them getting too big. Most of the time I enjoy a nice big robust plant. They end up being confined to the top of the tank, and I like the look when they are wide.
*What's your favorite aquarium plant that you can't stop adding to all your planted tanks?* Shop for our fav plants here: www.aquariumcoop.com/collections/live-plants
I am loving buce, my sag, and the val I bought from you.
The banana plants are nice, and I do love my lilies I got from you, but being able to make my tanks look deeper with large java ferns up front, and tiny buce in the back... bacopsis in between, and val & sag....
I have a few swords to help with the illusion as well.
I now have a Native NC tank, exclusively planted with wild harvested aquatic plants from my last 2 years trips to NC. (And the only inhabitants are NC ramshorn snails and P paludosus).
I have a Native Mexican tank, with the same (plants, fish, shrimp and snails captured along the Rio Grande, with a few purchased additions).
Building ecosystems out of places I visit, is bringing me so much joy!
And my floating plants definitely keep the water quality phenomenal!
I do have to pay attention to the plants communicating their needs, since our tap water has gotten....bad.
I've become a big fan of tiger lotus/dwarf lilies recently. If you let them grow to the top you get the floating plant benefit without the blackout haha
Lilies!!!! The bulb plants are amazing!!!!!
Plastic. I manage to kill everything else
absolutely loved all the info!!! I have purchased plants, light, filters, air pumps, heaters...from you, your customer service is top notch. your plants always survive....
I am very grateful and love this video. Have been working with aquariums for a while and had success and failure, but still love how you’re setting up your website and doing the videos to help people out. You’re doing a great job. Keep doing what you’re doing and thank you for helping further the hobby.
awesome video. love how down to earth and honest you are. Newbie to a planted aquarium here.
The growth on my soil/sand cap is incredible, zero fertilizer. You have a great channel and quality products, thanks!!
I started this hobby barely 7 months ago and it was aquarium coop that gave the foundation to now successfully have 3 fish tanks with happy fishes and healthy aquatic plants. The only items I have not purchased from aquarium coop are lights and heaters because I got them from a friend of mine. Thank you Cory !!! 😎
After my first year of serious aquatic gardening I've come to the same conclusion you mentioned 18:00 min in. I love all of my colorful stem plants, but they are fertilizer hogs. Moving forward I'm going to focus more on slower growing plants.
Fish tank maintenance is a lot easier when you DON'T HAVE to do plant maintenance every week.
Great idea on working in the fish room now! So nice to see it in the background
This is great. I started with a lot of artificial plants, decorations. Found lots of decorations would flake off paint, so pulled all of that stuff, added driftwood, followed by rocks / live plants. Very low tech tank, so went through a lot of trial and error. At first had no idea about plants melting...I kept throwing them out thinking they were dead. Tried a few different fertilizers. Some brought on algae, some didn't. Have learned so much since. Never realized you had so many details under your plant section. While I can't order plants from you here in Canada, that information would have saved me a great deal. Will be setting up a 50g planted tank soon. That info is going to be super helpful. PS. Your customer service is great. Candi helped me with some fish illnesses when I first came back into the hobby. Look forward to the day when we can buy from you here in Canada. For now, trying to support my LFS. We are lucky to have a few really good ones where I live.
Wow! I was thinking about how to fertilize for what plant. Very nice detailed presentation! My lights, pumps, heaters, food and plants I bought from your company. hanks a bunch, Corey!
The multiple pictures on the converting cycle is Great!!! Hopefully it saves the Candi/customer service team time.
Right now chosing plants for my new 29 gal with soil. This could not come at a better time! Thanks :)
All my plants also came in a mesh bag inside a plastic bag and inside the insulated liner. The mesh bag is perfect for filling with stratum or other type aquatic compost for building tanks or building up high spots in a new build to give a great nutrient base in your tank. I've done this in all my heavily planted tanks.
I love the low light easy plants. Have mostly assorted anubias, java moss, and subwassertang. Slow growing, thrive for me, and look great. Have some PSO but about ready to pull it out again because I'm tired of having to trim it so much. Looking for other plants to put in it's place that I haven't had before. Thanks for all your plant info!
So Happy I saw this soon!
This video was extremely informative and beneficial for a novice like me.
Pretty crazy timing on this, literally ordered some monte carlonajd dwarf hair grass this morning to try a DSM in my 10gal!!
Crazy... I just bought plants from you today and you post this!! 🌵🌴🌴 🌴 🌲 🌹 💐
the par recomendation on plants with the spread sheet of your lights is a great sales pitch. I wish u guys shipped to Europe. I'd buy that for sure :)
Great company. Great website! Great Info
Prefect video!! I been looking into getting plant for my new tank
Hey, Cory! You should send your products to Brazil too. The hobby here, specially fancy show guppy hobby is great. Great job
I am absolutely dying to purchase your products. Everything seems such good quality and clearly made out of a passion for the hobby. Do you plan to ship to Australia sometime in the near future? I would certainly switch to using your products over my current ones if you ever decide to.
Good information, thank you. Will it be possible to add “CO2” requirements as a filter on your website?
Informative!
I've always struggled with keeping Java Fern healthy. The best tip I've received recently is Corry saying to use brine shrimp salt at water changes. My Java Fern has never looked more green. I'm not getting "hundreds" of plantlets anymore!
I still add brine shrimp water from my hatches to my tanks... But I'm the crazy guy :p
@@AquariumCoop hahaha...I must be crazy too, but I do the same thing. I just pour the brine shrimp and the water in my aquariums.
Interesting...my Java fern grows even without lighting. Had them in a tank that isn't even set up yet. It had some sand and a bit of water. Just enough for the plant to be submerged. And it's still healthy and growing. It's one of hardiest plants out there.🤷♂️
I'd love a filter on the web page of co2 requirements
Hey brother. I hope you are doing well. My congratulations to you.
I stick a root tab in the pot and plop them in a tank until I plant them. They’re fine for months!
Great information thank you for all you do!! Question what setting would have your light set to on a 60 breeder with crypts and dwarf chain sword and 2 tiger lotus btw the crypts are huge and some of the dwarf chain is but the crypts are shading everything some leaves are at the top of the water
Would you be interested in doing a video on plant propagation? Dean's videos on fish breeding have been so helpful, but I know propagation is rather antithetical for a plant seller 😅
I've done some videos on topics like that in the past. Haven't done one in a while. They never got much traction. Also have a video on how to sell plants for profit. ruclips.net/video/n2j4dmZwNTI/видео.html
@@AquariumCoop oo ill check it out! Thanks!
I think all your videos are very good! Do you know of any cichlids that do not dig up plants? Thanks
There are many cichlids that will not dig up plants. For example, apistogramma, rams, angel fish, kribensis, keyhole, and discus all come to mind. There are also cichlids from Lake Tanganyika like julidochromis that would do well with plants as long as the water is hard and has minerals. ~ Zenzo
If you are in the Forum, Guppysnail had journals on breeding several different, gorgeous, cichlids.
Guppysnail values the plants first, and the fish breeding is a side effect of the healthy plants.
One of my favorite fish in a good size planted tank is angelfish. Most domesticated varieties will do great in most water types, hard or soft.
@@AquariumCoopmy pair of kribs dug a depression in the sand in preparation for spawning.
What about safe T sorb does this add a bunch of minerals or does it take away because it’s like kitty litter
Do you have any recommendations for a book which covers all the various tropical plants and their care? For people who still like books (me). Thank you kindly, enjoy your channel.
I'm not sure I have a great recommendation on that. A bunch of books have strengths in different areas but can be hard to find, since books don't sell nearly as well these days.
Pogo "Octopus" grows so fast and doesn't stop, my tank is 24" deep and when it gets to the top it just lays on the surface and keeps going. you HAVE to trim it, or don't. My fish uproot it and now it just grows in a giant floating tangled mass, I was going to remove some but the EBA's lay in it to sleep so now I just leave it alone. I don't fertilize. The java moss mats are great, my Uaru treats it like a plate of salad and I remove the wire mesh when its clean. 😂
Cory, when are we getting an update on your store finishing up? Haven't seen anything on it or the huge new tank.
Therei s one here on keeping fish simple's channel. ruclips.net/video/KAci6ZQoOYg/видео.html
@@AquariumCoop that is not remotely current He just posted a fish room update and it is a good 5 months behind your current live vids.
would you suggest an aquarist to purchase a PAR meter?
Not unless they start making them a lot cheaper. I'd look to see if your local club has one yet, or may be someone in a local club store that you can rent/borrow.
Your comment starting at 33:52, about the sand being "very fine"... is that an issue with sand in general or is that a specific sand type/ grade? Thank you!
The more fine, the more compacted it gets, the coarser it is, the less of a problem it is. I still prefer gravel at this point. But some people really love the look of sand.
Do the red flame swords and marble queen swords tend to produce a more narrow leaf like the standard sword plants? Mine haven't lost any leaves in over a month, still big ovals.
They usually get more elongated. Do you have new growth yet?
@@AquariumCoop looks like I do, I suppose this plant is much more oval shaped than the traditional Amazon sword?
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Been in the hobby on and off for 40 years, I've always had live plants, never occurred to me to do anything else yet even after all these years some plants I'm just unable to keep. I have tried Java Fern probably half a dozen times. It does well for maybe a month then just withers away for no apparent reason. Same with moss - I've tried several varieties, people warn me, don't put moss in your tank it just grows like a weed and invades everything. Not in my tanks it doesn't, it just goes brown and dissolves away. I've even had Pogostemon erectus and Pogostemon octopus side by side in the same tank - erectus just dies on me, octopus needs trimming every week. I still have no idea why this happens.
Pogostemon erectus is only offered in emersed form and is hard to convert. It's a plant we don't sell as most people struggle with that conversion. If you can get it submerged grown it's pretty easy. Plants really aren't any different than cooking. You just need to learn the techniques and ingredients. Everyone might say chocolate chip cookies are so easy to make. but when I make them they are thin and crispy. My wife can look at a cookie and tell you, oh they didn't use softened butter, or they used salted butter and still added salt. Or the temp in the oven was wrong or they used the wrong king of baking sheet etc.
So if you reframe your mind from, they don't work for me, to I'm not doing what the recipe calls for it allows you to figure out what goes wrong. In general Java ferns want potassium and minerals in the water. And a good water column fertilizer on top of that.
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WHHHAAATTT??? Wrap the Java Fern mat with the metal attached around the hard scape? GAH, I never thought to do that!!! I always just place those mats on my substrate. 🤯🤯
This is why it's helpful to talk through some of this stuff. Something that i've been doing for 10+ years might be brand new to someone else.
@@AquariumCoop This is the first I have heard it and am stoked 🙌 Thank you!
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I have C. Parva for 5 years. It hasn't died and hasn't really grown. 😂
Plants like fish don't like many water changes/ changes to their environment causes them to wither, so only if U have to do only a partial water change, your tanks eco system should be efficient and cycled and seasoned for best results ,I don't even use fertilizer just the waste of the animals is enough, less is more.
Seasoned gravel filled with fish poop will grow anything
I think that's a mostly true statement. However I don't believe it can sustain it. If you took a tank that had really thick mulm in the gravel from 2 years of feeding and planted tons of sword plants. I'd wager within a year they'd be running out of food and need supplementation. You can however find a balance of really slow growing plants and the right fish foods to keep plants mostly looking good.
I'd also say that floating plants and a seasoned tank can run out in like 6 weeks sometimes. So while I generally agree that a well seasoned tank is super helpful, it can lead a reader down a path of failure if they don't understand the whole picture.
@@AquariumCoop I can agree with that. It was just a general blanket statement
are you worried about your swords getting too big? I’ve found that consistently pinching leaves at the base is a great way to communicate to the plant to stay smaller. Have no idea why this works but it’s allowed me to have the plants I love without sacrificing my whole tank!
Please elaborate, pinching? How pinching I didn't understand.
Pinching or cutting the plant leaves that get big, help train a plant to stay smaller.
I don't really worry about them getting too big. Most of the time I enjoy a nice big robust plant. They end up being confined to the top of the tank, and I like the look when they are wide.
@@AquariumCoop a full grown sword is definitely a beautiful sight! After this video I remembered to put root tabs on my hungry swords😊!-Thanks!!
I've just purchased plants 🪴 from you today. $50. Yea6.
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