Great example of how important it is to keep watch on your tanks and knowing the signs to look for and what steps you can take to save them when things go awry! When dealing with a foul tank, being willing to do the extra work to save it. Also having and established deep sand bed along with the plants made a difference here too, otherwise the fish probably wouldn't have survived. An example of how overfeeding over a matter of time is a recipe for disaster!! Water changes are important in a lot of people's aquariums, but this was an established ecosystem that didn't need the extra food. Great save Father Fish thank you for sharing, it shows the importance of having a deep sand substrate. I hope you have a very blessed day! 👍🙏🌿💚🌿
You are amazingly cool and meticulous about the horrible mistake taken on your 20 year old Tank. I think myself and some others would of freaked out. Seeing how you handled this mishap adds to our needs on taking care of our aquariums. Ty Father Fish for making these educational videos.
Thanks for your discernment Christopher. Panic and frustration are the enemies of fish keeping. When something goes wrong sit down with a cup of tea and observe for a minimum of 15 minutes. Then do what you have thoughtfully decided needs to be done.
Kids are great at doing stuff like that!! Once while I was away working for a week, my nephew dumped an ENTIRE container of large river shrimps into one of my 40gal tanks🤦 when I got back, the tank was LOADED with thick, slimy algae & there was white fungus all over the pieces of shrimp that were rotting.. it smelled horrid!! But I was able to straighten it out & none of the fish were bothered.
Wow, that tank was in rough shape. Truly amazing how fast you turned around this tank for the better. 👍 Great job & great save on the 20 year old aquarium. Thank you Father Fish for sharing this video. 🐠🐟🐬🌴🌿🍀🌿🐠🐟
I was in the process of re starting my 75 gallon aquarium along with my 13 y.o. Daughter as our summer project. The aquarium was almost done using a gravel substrate with under gravel filter which i have been using in the past with good results. We are in the process of cycling the tank when i stumbled on your video father fish . Learning from the couple of videos i watched with your channel i was convinced to start all over again using a soil and sand substrate. I know its a pain redoing everything but i wanted to make things right the first time and teach my daughter the right way of doing fish keeping. After explaining everything to her , we drained the tank and removed the gravel and started with mud and sand…. We are excited on what lies ahead of us with this project. Thank you father fish 🐠 for sharing your knowledge with the fish keeping community. Hats off to you Sir!!!
Join us to share your journey. Wed nite live stream SHOW AND TELL and go to fatherfish.fish, click on the DISCORD link to gfind the Father Fish SHOAL where there are many fishy friends ready and excited to share your experience, provide support and friendship.
Very surprised that you or Thomas didn't catch that tank before it got that bad. That looked like such a long time algae growth in there. Nice quick clean out, hope you saved it long term. A few more siphon clean outs probably necessary so the remaining algae doesn't take hold and grow again. Thanks for sharing!
With the amount of light that tank gets, it really wouldn’t take long at all for all that algae to spread if somebody was adding lots of food and throwing the balance off
That can actually happen pretty quickly!! I had a 40 breeder that looked like a bucket of slime after just a week because my nephew dumped an entire large container of shrimp into it while I was away for work.. the tank got direct sunlight literally from sun up till sunset where I had it. And where I rarely ever touch or feed that tank, something like that getting dumped in all at once, screws the water QUICK!! Gotta figure, what's most fish food made from? Dead stuff!! And dead stuff starts to rot once it's wet.. when you don't need to mess with your tanks, it's easy not to catch something like that for a few days..
I have watched many videos about father fish tips on fish keeping, and even though his arguments make sense on how to stablish tanks, it always seemed to be just dead theory, until this video, in which he showed real action. He showed it is possible to save a planted tank from the worst possible scenario. Thank you Father fish for SHOWING the how, now I am mm more confident about following your advice.
So, if I am to attempt to rehash how you managed to fix this: Remove the fish, agitate the water to force the mulm off the plants and into the water column. Then you drain the tank, and fill it again. Continue this process until the mulm is mostly off the plants and out of the water column. All without uprooting the plants or really agitating the substrate. Is this essentially the process? Thanks for everything you've done to help us re-learn how nature truly works!
Thank you. I removed fish and most of the offending waste with a net and siphoning about half the water. Refilled and ran filters. In a week it was fine.
@@FatherFish We are blessed to have you to learn from, Father Fish! Your videos inspired me to make my own natural aquarium! Thanks for making nature intuitive.
Watching this with interest. Back in the day, overfeeding led my tank to end up in a similar state. Moss is a nightmare for holding detritus and rotting food and it exacerbated it. I ended up breaking the whole thing down and restarting. Lesson learned.
that tank has been at war, i am amazed it did not crash. i would like to point out if that tank hadnt had that amount of substrate and the amount of micro organisms and BB it would have crashed and numbers would have spiked. killing a large number of living matter. all the micro organisms in that substrate has been "deployed" in an attempt to obsorb and maintain the nitrates and ammonia to preserve the ecosystem. if we where to take a microscope and be able to see inside the tank from that perspective i would suspect all the bacteria on the surface of the plants and other non living objects are dead. they where not able to maintain the amount of level changes that occured. which also gives way to an example of why and how the micro organisms in the substrate is stronger and is a buffer for these kinds of accidents further proving the point that a deep substrate can do far more than grow plants nicely. in short any other tank with a small amount of substrate would have been a complete loss along with all fish. not just a few before now. the make up of the tank is what truely slowed the catastrophe from being far worse.
all in the craft. good time, to show this. its very important to show cleanings. its just a bloom thing. no big deal. big weeks are coming lets all have a good year.
Ugh! Oh no! That’s terrible! It happens though. I’m so sorry I know that has been one of your longer running tanks. I hope to get down your way for a visit sometime during the summer and maybe when the Covid stuff gets better. You are a good 12 hour drive away.
I'm pretty confident it wasn't one of your employees, they would know if they overfed one of your tanks like that they would lose their sprinkle finger.
When I 1st setup my tank the sand was full of argile it created a heavy cloud. I used a bunch of cotton balls to fill up my fluvial system and let it run like that for a night at full speed and another 24 hours after at slow speed. Then I removed the cotton. Water was cleared at 90% + It did not mess up anything biological.
I would have cried !! I had a nephew dump an entire container of large river shrimps into a 40gal I had & I was away working for the week.. it was a nasty smelling, slimy mess when I got home.. surprisingly, the fish didn't seem to care one bit lol. They were munching on the thick algae and loving it ! I was afraid of doing a huge water change though because I rarely touch my tanks.. I was afraid of drastically changing parameters & shocking/killing the fish.. So I dealt with the mess & fixed it slowly over 6-8 weeks... Guess I could have just fixed It huh??
Jeez, hopefully whoever did that learns why what they did was wrong and doesn't do it again. 😒 A job well done cleaning it up! Hope it clears all the way. Thanks for the informative video. You take care also. ☺
Father fish. I'm new to keeping fish and have five danios. Started with a tiny kids fish tank I found at the side of the road. I found a larger tank maybe ten gallon. Watched a few of your videos and decided I wanted to have a go at a planted tank. 1inch of aqua spill 2 inches and more of aquarium sand and a few plants . Cycled for a couple of days before I moved the fish in. I was sold a liquid CO2 and was told to add to the tank daily. Same problem as your tank here. A lot of plants just melted away. Alge on the wood. Fish all ok. I've done a few water changes. About 20%.. taken out rotting leaves. And some plants are maybe returning. Very disappointed how it went from looking great to looking a mess. I didn't add anything else in the tank when I built it apart from iron root pills which I crushed up beneath the soil. No othe fertilizer. Just watched you build a small tank and you was putting bicarbonate soda Epsom salts etc. I feed fish one tiny pinch every two days. . What do you reckon. More plants need to go in. Less food . I have a pump filter. And a heater and a light. I was leaving the light on all night. Stopped doing that now. And also stopped putting liquid CO2 in. . It seems a lot more stable.any advice. I would be very grateful. . Glad I found your channel. Thanks mate
Did excessive sun light also add to the problem Food, Light, Natural Light and under filtering. Have many questions on light that lead to many problems in tanks
Start with low light (4hours in a high tech a little more with low tech) and work you way up. Too much light can be bad but too little light can be a problem if you have a planted tank. I have a tank that I leave a light on all the time and I have no problems but if you tend to overfeed or overstock take it slow with lighting.
I believe the problem was an attendant feeding the tank daily for severao weeks without noticing the effect. This is precisely what occurs when a neighbor feeds your fish during a prolonged vacation. Better to let the fish go hungry. They will not suffer nearly as much as this.
@@FatherFish That is precisely what i have experienced... Was away for a few weeks As alway's my neighbour fed the cat. Due to circumstances her grandson did it well he is a great kid but knew nothing of fishkeeping... With the best of intentsions he decided too feed the fish ass well.... Yeah it was a mess but i did what my grandfather did when i screwed up. Took the oppertunity too explain some basics. He kept comming over so i gave him an old tank i had left over. He is now a avid and able aquarist. Likely hooked for life.
I am planning on adding sand to my tank, it presenting has a thin layer of gravel, do I have to remove the gravel first or can I add sand on top of it. Do I have to remove the HOB filter?
I would remove gravel turn off hob while u work on the tank FF always recommends deep sand on top of soil ull get good results then for plants good luck ☺️
Also, i have a 100g community tank It has livebearers and female betta sorority And plants I understand i can go without feeding the livebearers as they can survive on algae and plant matter.. But bettas can't live on that..how often and what to feed them?..tetra bits with high protein and sinking food is an option.. but how often? Will once a week work for them too?
@@FatherFish problem is i don't have access to live food right now I was feeding very small amounts every other day.. But my fish are stressed. Couple of them dying every day.. Bettas are feeding on the fish...i pushed many into the sand.. Took some out..i think there's an ammonia spike.. I thought the deep substrate would work from day one..but probably it has failed..a few fish are showing signs of ich i think from the stress. Now its a vicious cycle..i raise the temp..the oxygen gets low... fish are already gills inflamed..so they need more oxygen..i have very nice surface agitation from the cannister outlet.i add an airstone..but now the co2 is low.. And temps high..so plants are suffering and there is more algae.. And without less functioning plants..the nutrition in the water column is taking longer to be cleared up.. and the fish are still stressed/dying.. This probably will only settle once the filter matures in about 3 weeks by which time i might have lost most of the fish.. :( I just wish the substrate does a bit more.. I did add garlic too.. As a last resort added a very dilute 10% aloe solution about 5ml to the 100 gal tank to soothe the gills..
So right now i am going through a different kind of catastrophe :( it may be coincidence..but seems like they are dying after lights out.. Maybe that time.. The plants are also taking up oxygen..so its probably hypoxia thats the problem right now.. That's another reason i added the airstone.. Don't know how much it will help... Which almost makes me want to not turn the lights off. :) But then the tank would be messed up with algae..and the fishes would be more stressed from lack of sleep i guess..
I’m just wondering who would work for father fish and dump an entire can of fish food in a tank? 😬 Yikes. I would have known better than that even before learning your system.
Please enlighten us about lighting schedule you have in your tanks, if it doesn't get natural night Do you leave it on all day, or certain hours, do u give breaks in between.? In a planted tank that is... Thank you
@@FatherFish any breaks in between..i had lights on for about 12 hrs.. In the beginning did it with a 4 hr gap in between to keep the co2 levels up for the next bout of photosynthesis.. So that plants are at a favourable position than algae which can still grow with low co2. Now recently I'm on continuous light and algae is growing increasingly
The algae is probably due to the ammonia spike...i added about 70 fish from day one along with dense plantation.. Small fish all of them.. about 1 inch in size.. In a 400 liter tank. Now it's about a week.. The substrate probably got overwhelmed..if it did work at all.. Things went awry from about 3rd day.. I just hoped the the thick substrate would be fully functioning from day 1..its a dirt and sand substrate about 7, inches thick..
Are you sure that's not Blue green algàe a bacteria not algae. Usually due to direct light with poor water flow from clogged filters. If it smells bad and comes off in sheets an slimy could be blue green. Best treatments in my opinion since I practice natural fish keeping, is manual removal, water changes, cleàn filter it can take weeks to months. Antibotiç will work too but I personally don't use those type of products in any of my system. I had a cat vomit in one of my tanks once, nothing but cat food didn't notice for a day or so, soil based planted no filter with water changes 2-3times a year, shrimp, snail an guppies an bettas went nuts for and it never caused a problem, I did make a water change to remove whàt was left.
Thank you Brenda. It does not appear to be algae at all, maybe some form of cyano. Cleans up easily. My maintenance is about the same as yours. The system seems fine, no real damage. It is, I think, depleted. I need to recharge the substrate. I have some ice cube supplement to try. Will report on that. Very much appreciate your comments. Would like to share more. Please visit my live stream. I broadcast on YT daily M-F 9AM ET and Sat Sum 6PM ET. It will be a delight to talk with you.
It’s interesting how over feeding is so harmful. In nature, even in the tropics, nature goes through one year long cycles. Dry and wet season resets small bodies of water. In temperate and subtropics, winter and summer does the same. In an aquarium this doesn’t happen.
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Great example of how important it is to keep watch on your tanks and knowing the signs to look for and what steps you can take to save them when things go awry! When dealing with a foul tank, being willing to do the extra work to save it. Also having and established deep sand bed along with the plants made a difference here too, otherwise the fish probably wouldn't have survived. An example of how overfeeding over a matter of time is a recipe for disaster!!
Water changes are important in a lot of people's aquariums, but this was an established ecosystem that didn't need the extra food. Great save Father Fish thank you for sharing, it shows the importance of having a deep sand substrate. I hope you have a very blessed day! 👍🙏🌿💚🌿
You are amazingly cool and meticulous about the horrible mistake taken on your 20 year old Tank. I think myself and some others would of freaked out. Seeing how you handled this mishap adds to our needs on taking care of our aquariums. Ty Father Fish for making these educational videos.
Thanks for your discernment Christopher. Panic and frustration are the enemies of fish keeping. When something goes wrong sit down with a cup of tea and observe for a minimum of 15 minutes. Then do what you have thoughtfully decided needs to be done.
@@FatherFish Really good advice!!
Imagine being the one responsible for destroying a 20-year-old stable tank lol... Wow, nice job cleaning that up it looks really good :D
Kids are great at doing stuff like that!! Once while I was away working for a week, my nephew dumped an ENTIRE container of large river shrimps into one of my 40gal tanks🤦 when I got back, the tank was LOADED with thick, slimy algae & there was white fungus all over the pieces of shrimp that were rotting.. it smelled horrid!! But I was able to straighten it out & none of the fish were bothered.
Wow, that tank was in rough shape. Truly amazing how fast you turned around this tank for the better. 👍 Great job & great save on the 20 year old aquarium. Thank you Father Fish for sharing this video. 🐠🐟🐬🌴🌿🍀🌿🐠🐟
I was in the process of re starting my 75 gallon aquarium along with my 13 y.o. Daughter as our summer project. The aquarium was almost done using a gravel substrate with under gravel filter which i have been using in the past with good results. We are in the process of cycling the tank when i stumbled on your video father fish . Learning from the couple of videos i watched with your channel i was convinced to start all over again using a soil and sand substrate. I know its a pain redoing everything but i wanted to make things right the first time and teach my daughter the right way of doing fish keeping. After explaining everything to her , we drained the tank and removed the gravel and started with mud and sand…. We are excited on what lies ahead of us with this project. Thank you father fish 🐠 for sharing your knowledge with the fish keeping community. Hats off to you Sir!!!
Join us to share your journey. Wed nite live stream SHOW AND TELL and go to fatherfish.fish, click on the DISCORD link to gfind the Father Fish SHOAL where there are many fishy friends ready and excited to share your experience, provide support and friendship.
Best example of what can go wrong in a fish tank .
Wish many other Aquarium you tuber would video when things go wrong.
Thank you for sharing. Fascinating to see how to save such a polluted tank.
That's my favourite tank on RUclips, it has a wonderful aura. My benchmark for my aquariums. 🍀
I'm surprised with how aggressive the interaction with the tank was. I feel like I actually like I'm handling a newborn baby, this was instructive.
Very surprised that you or Thomas didn't catch that tank before it got that bad. That looked like such a long time algae growth in there. Nice quick clean out, hope you saved it long term. A few more siphon clean outs probably necessary so the remaining algae doesn't take hold and grow again. Thanks for sharing!
With the amount of light that tank gets, it really wouldn’t take long at all for all that algae to spread if somebody was adding lots of food and throwing the balance off
That can actually happen pretty quickly!! I had a 40 breeder that looked like a bucket of slime after just a week because my nephew dumped an entire large container of shrimp into it while I was away for work.. the tank got direct sunlight literally from sun up till sunset where I had it. And where I rarely ever touch or feed that tank, something like that getting dumped in all at once, screws the water QUICK!! Gotta figure, what's most fish food made from? Dead stuff!! And dead stuff starts to rot once it's wet.. when you don't need to mess with your tanks, it's easy not to catch something like that for a few days..
I have watched many videos about father fish tips on fish keeping, and even though his arguments make sense on how to stablish tanks, it always seemed to be just dead theory, until this video, in which he showed real action. He showed it is possible to save a planted tank from the worst possible scenario. Thank you Father fish for SHOWING the how, now I am mm more confident about following your advice.
You can do it Telly!
So, if I am to attempt to rehash how you managed to fix this:
Remove the fish, agitate the water to force the mulm off the plants and into the water column.
Then you drain the tank, and fill it again. Continue this process until the mulm is mostly off the plants and out of the water column. All without uprooting the plants or really agitating the substrate.
Is this essentially the process? Thanks for everything you've done to help us re-learn how nature truly works!
Thank you. I removed fish and most of the offending waste with a net and siphoning about half the water. Refilled and ran filters. In a week it was fine.
@@FatherFish We are blessed to have you to learn from, Father Fish! Your videos inspired me to make my own natural aquarium! Thanks for making nature intuitive.
Does anyone else get the feeling that camera guy did the over feeding? 😂
Oh No !!! So sorry Father Fish...WTHeck.. 20 year tank is amazing in it self..I hope you can fix it..save it
Father fish doing water changes! And quite substantial! Good job, hope it worked out.
Watching this with interest. Back in the day, overfeeding led my tank to end up in a similar state. Moss is a nightmare for holding detritus and rotting food and it exacerbated it. I ended up breaking the whole thing down and restarting. Lesson learned.
Water always seeks to balance and right itself.
that tank has been at war, i am amazed it did not crash. i would like to point out if that tank hadnt had that amount of substrate and the amount of micro organisms and BB it would have crashed and numbers would have spiked. killing a large number of living matter. all the micro organisms in that substrate has been "deployed" in an attempt to obsorb and maintain the nitrates and ammonia to preserve the ecosystem. if we where to take a microscope and be able to see inside the tank from that perspective i would suspect all the bacteria on the surface of the plants and other non living objects are dead. they where not able to maintain the amount of level changes that occured. which also gives way to an example of why and how the micro organisms in the substrate is stronger and is a buffer for these kinds of accidents further proving the point that a deep substrate can do far more than grow plants nicely. in short any other tank with a small amount of substrate would have been a complete loss along with all fish. not just a few before now. the make up of the tank is what truely slowed the catastrophe from being far worse.
An excellent insigt Steven. This10 yr old system preserved itsef by sheer dint of life force.
I would love a follow up to see the end result of the cleaning
Although this is a messy situation, thanks Father Fish for sharing this experience with us, I learned a lot. As of all your videos. God bless you!
Most important lesson is do not panic.
@@FatherFish you taught us well!
all in the craft. good time, to show this. its very important to show cleanings. its just a bloom thing. no big deal. big weeks are coming lets all have a good year.
Father Fish better that you do take care of that cold rather now...Shema!!!
Thanks for the video. One often learns more from the study of what went wrong. We will be better prepared for such a catastrophe should it occur.
Jim
Great Catch Father Fish 🐠 That was very Educational to see Thanks 🙏
Ugh! Oh no! That’s terrible! It happens though. I’m so sorry I know that has been one of your longer running tanks. I hope to get down your way for a visit sometime during the summer and maybe when the Covid stuff gets better. You are a good 12 hour drive away.
I'm pretty confident it wasn't one of your employees, they would know if they overfed one of your tanks like that they would lose their sprinkle finger.
When I 1st setup my tank the sand was full of argile it created a heavy cloud.
I used a bunch of cotton balls to fill up my fluvial system and let it run like that for a night at full speed and another 24 hours after at slow speed.
Then I removed the cotton.
Water was cleared at 90% +
It did not mess up anything biological.
I would have cried !! I had a nephew dump an entire container of large river shrimps into a 40gal I had & I was away working for the week.. it was a nasty smelling, slimy mess when I got home.. surprisingly, the fish didn't seem to care one bit lol. They were munching on the thick algae and loving it ! I was afraid of doing a huge water change though because I rarely touch my tanks.. I was afraid of drastically changing parameters & shocking/killing the fish.. So I dealt with the mess & fixed it slowly over 6-8 weeks... Guess I could have just fixed It huh??
Sounds like you did the right thing. If you tank tolerated the shrimp it is in really good condition.
Thanks for motivation as you have shown to me in this video exactly what I Have hesitated to get done, be praised and God pay
This was very interesting to watch. I am a new subscriber. I've actually never seen anyone start a syphon of the fish hose with their mouth.
Why though
It's the real real way.
Jeez, hopefully whoever did that learns why what they did was wrong and doesn't do it again. 😒
A job well done cleaning it up! Hope it clears all the way. Thanks for the informative video. You take care also. ☺
Sadly sometimes stuff happens.Biut points too you that you also share and show when things go wrong. That is where can learn the most.
That happend to me. I got the fine fish net to capture all the junk.
Thank you for your information kip.up with your videos father fish 🐟 🐠
Glad you like them! Robert.
Video molto molto educativo. Grazie. Un abbraccio
Father fish. I'm new to keeping fish and have five danios. Started with a tiny kids fish tank I found at the side of the road. I found a larger tank maybe ten gallon. Watched a few of your videos and decided I wanted to have a go at a planted tank. 1inch of aqua spill 2 inches and more of aquarium sand and a few plants . Cycled for a couple of days before I moved the fish in. I was sold a liquid CO2 and was told to add to the tank daily. Same problem as your tank here. A lot of plants just melted away. Alge on the wood. Fish all ok. I've done a few water changes. About 20%.. taken out rotting leaves. And some plants are maybe returning. Very disappointed how it went from looking great to looking a mess. I didn't add anything else in the tank when I built it apart from iron root pills which I crushed up beneath the soil. No othe fertilizer. Just watched you build a small tank and you was putting bicarbonate soda Epsom salts etc. I feed fish one tiny pinch every two days. . What do you reckon. More plants need to go in. Less food . I have a pump filter. And a heater and a light. I was leaving the light on all night. Stopped doing that now. And also stopped putting liquid CO2 in. . It seems a lot more stable.any advice. I would be very grateful. . Glad I found your channel. Thanks mate
liquid co2 killed the plants. let it stabilize. all should be well
Looks like a domestic version of eutrophication. My local river goes that way in the summer
I think so too.
Did excessive sun light also add to the problem Food, Light, Natural Light and under filtering. Have many questions on light that lead to many problems in tanks
Start with low light (4hours in a high tech a little more with low tech) and work you way up. Too much light can be bad but too little light can be a problem if you have a planted tank. I have a tank that I leave a light on all the time and I have no problems but if you tend to overfeed or overstock take it slow with lighting.
I believe the problem was an attendant feeding the tank daily for severao weeks without noticing the effect. This is precisely what occurs when a neighbor feeds your fish during a prolonged vacation. Better to let the fish go hungry. They will not suffer nearly as much as this.
@@FatherFish That is precisely what i have experienced... Was away for a few weeks As alway's my neighbour fed the cat. Due to circumstances her grandson did it well he is a great kid but knew nothing of fishkeeping... With the best of intentsions he decided too feed the fish ass well.... Yeah it was a mess but i did what my grandfather did when i screwed up. Took the oppertunity too explain some basics. He kept comming over so i gave him an old tank i had left over. He is now a avid and able aquarist. Likely hooked for life.
Dude, this sucks. Hope you guys get it back in running.
We are up and running. Check the new vid.
Somebody get this man a scrubby!
someone who fed the fish, didn't they see that things were getting foul. How come to this condition, full algae bloom and slime
That looks like blue green algae I had about 2 years ago in my 75 gallons when kids throw bunch of cat food there when I was at work
Aggressive measures sometimes do work in deep cleaning a tank. I hope it works
It does! Ck out the new vid coming up this weekend.
thats not a mess, its nature. awesome content :)
That's right!
I am planning on adding sand to my tank, it presenting has a thin layer of gravel, do I have to remove the gravel first or can I add sand on top of it. Do I have to remove the HOB filter?
I would remove gravel turn off hob while u work on the tank FF always recommends deep sand on top of soil ull get good results then for plants good luck ☺️
Poor tank. :(
Pretty awesome video FF
Thank you Dream Weaver.
What kind of sand do you use? Pool sand play sand or what would you recommend?
any sand ok
The massive tub of fish food is in the empty tank behind him.
uh oh!
Also, i have a 100g community tank
It has livebearers and female betta sorority
And plants
I understand i can go without feeding the livebearers as they can survive on algae and plant matter..
But bettas can't live on that..how often and what to feed them?..tetra bits with high protein and sinking food is an option.. but how often? Will once a week work for them too?
frozen blood worm or brine shrimp, every other day is good. Small amount. Enough for them to eat all of it right away.
@@FatherFish problem is i don't have access to live food right now
I was feeding very small amounts every other day..
But my fish are stressed.
Couple of them dying every day.. Bettas are feeding on the fish...i pushed many into the sand.. Took some out..i think there's an ammonia spike..
I thought the deep substrate would work from day one..but probably it has failed..a few fish are showing signs of ich i think from the stress.
Now its a vicious cycle..i raise the temp..the oxygen gets low... fish are already gills inflamed..so they need more oxygen..i have very nice surface agitation from the cannister outlet.i add an airstone..but now the co2 is low..
And temps high..so plants are suffering and there is more algae..
And without less functioning plants..the nutrition in the water column is taking longer to be cleared up.. and the fish are still stressed/dying..
This probably will only settle once the filter matures in about 3 weeks by which time i might have lost most of the fish.. :(
I just wish the substrate does a bit more..
I did add garlic too..
As a last resort added a very dilute 10% aloe solution about 5ml to the 100 gal tank to soothe the gills..
So right now i am going through a different kind of catastrophe :( it may be coincidence..but seems like they are dying after lights out.. Maybe that time.. The plants are also taking up oxygen..so its probably hypoxia thats the problem right now.. That's another reason i added the airstone.. Don't know how much it will help... Which almost makes me want to not turn the lights off. :)
But then the tank would be messed up with algae..and the fishes would be more stressed from lack of sleep i guess..
Buckets give u muscles 💪 lol
Great job on the save!
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Take 5 Minutes. Do Nothing! haha
What size is that tank? Were those 5 gal buckets or larger?
It is a 30 gallon long.
I’m just wondering who would work for father fish and dump an entire can of fish food in a tank? 😬
Yikes.
I would have known better than that even before learning your system.
I believe a young child did it. The food shelf is near the tank.
Father Fish, if you do not mind. What is the measurement of the aquarium that you are tending to in this video? I would want to have one made for me.
It is a lowboy, 4' by 1;;by 1', about 30 gallons
Please enlighten us about lighting schedule you have in your tanks, if it doesn't get natural night
Do you leave it on all day, or certain hours, do u give breaks in between.?
In a planted tank that is...
Thank you
lights on 12 hrs daily.
@@FatherFish any breaks in between..i had lights on for about 12 hrs.. In the beginning did it with a 4 hr gap in between to keep the co2 levels up for the next bout of photosynthesis.. So that plants are at a favourable position than algae which can still grow with low co2.
Now recently I'm on continuous light and algae is growing increasingly
The algae is probably due to the ammonia spike...i added about 70 fish from day one along with dense plantation.. Small fish all of them.. about 1 inch in size.. In a 400 liter tank. Now it's about a week..
The substrate probably got overwhelmed..if it did work at all.. Things went awry from about 3rd day..
I just hoped the the thick substrate would be fully functioning from day 1..its a dirt and sand substrate about 7, inches thick..
The guy recording sounds like he did it 😂
Is this the same tank from your video, "my fabulous 20 yr old aquarium"?
Yes. Next video shows it saved.
@@FatherFish i have been watching a lot of your videos. Thank you for sharing the good and the bad. How we all learn
Are you sure that's not Blue green algàe a bacteria not algae. Usually due to direct light with poor water flow from clogged filters. If it smells bad and comes off in sheets an slimy could be blue green. Best treatments in my opinion since I practice natural fish keeping, is manual removal, water changes, cleàn filter it can take weeks to months. Antibotiç will work too but I personally don't use those type of products in any of my system. I had a cat vomit in one of my tanks once, nothing but cat food didn't notice for a day or so, soil based planted no filter with water changes 2-3times a year, shrimp, snail an guppies an bettas went nuts for and it never caused a problem, I did make a water change to remove whàt was left.
Thank you Brenda. It does not appear to be algae at all, maybe some form of cyano. Cleans up easily. My maintenance is about the same as yours. The system seems fine, no real damage. It is, I think, depleted. I need to recharge the substrate. I have some ice cube supplement to try. Will report on that.
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Sir please help! Can you please tell me the actual size of your 20 year old tank?
48" x 12 x 12
@@FatherFish thank you so much!
It’s interesting how over feeding is so harmful. In nature, even in the tropics, nature goes through one year long cycles. Dry and wet season resets small bodies of water. In temperate and subtropics, winter and summer does the same. In an aquarium this doesn’t happen.
Yes. There are some conditions we cannot achieve in our aquariums,
Oh No !
That looks like one of my tanks !
i was once so drunk i gave my fish+plants in my 5 foot beer.... was not good...
Nitrates had to be through the roof
which gulf do you fish in? the gulf of mexico ?
Great content but the camera work makes it unwatchable. Sorry about your tank, good luck.
I understand
How does a tank in your shop get over fed?? You walk by it every day?? Maybe the tank just failed?
The tank is out of the way for my normal traffic.
What are the dimensions of that tank? It looks interesting and uncommon.
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so sad.
didnt realise buckets were still used to fill tanks?? lol
When you have nano tanks, it makes sense lol
What do you use
Sad
update please
I think he said he'd have an update sometime this weekend, since this just happened this week. Keep watching!
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Τα κυάλια τι φάση;
cyano bacteria?
How to save a polluted aquarium?
Simple, add undergravel filter & get some living oxygen deep into the substrate, problem solved, thank me later.
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