FATHER FISH'S 22 YEAR OLD FISH TANK, OLD FAITHFUL
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- Опубликовано: 18 фев 2023
- OLD FAITHFUL is FATHER FISH'S 22 year old aquarium. Come and share a walk through this delightful garden, Visit the plants, fish, snails, and living food web. Discover the true meaning of a natural aquarium.
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I love this. As I watch and see all the little organisms swimming around, I immediately think “oh no, there’s so much bacteria or parasites swimming in there” but now I know …THIS IS A GOOD THING!
Bravo. Yes it is.
Dear Father Fisch,
You should appear weekly on the BBC with your wise advice.
Natural aquarium are the best. Plants overgrown as in real true nature. Snails everywhere and fish very happy.
You have the vision!!
That fish tank is as old as me 😮 that’s truly incredible. Also I’m pretty sure that plant you have floating that resembles baby tears is “pearl weed” I have it and it’s great. It will carpet or grow straight like a stem and like you have it floating.
Such a wonderful tank. At 71 the tank I’ll be making in the Spring will, I hope, go to one of my grand babies…
Please be sure to post pics for us on DISCORD.
@@FatherFish I will…promise!
Loved this! I could watch forever, thank you
First comment love you father fish from India bless us with your knowledge and teaching ❤️
Thank you Oscar. The love is gratefully returned.
This is great!
Absolutely love your tanks. Amazing the plants grow that well without co2 injection. I used to use co2 and got sick of it real quick.
this video is so fun
love seeing a tour of your tank!
TY Shaney
Thank you for sharing this!
She is my joy.
I am already enjoying mine. Very calming.
yes Alice.
Incredible tank
It is my delight sammy
Thank you father fish I inherited a fish tank and it had one fish in it. I didn’t know what it was but thanks to you I do know what it is. It’s a pencil sash :-)
Very nice good sir 👏
Truly an amazing tank
Thank you Naffo
Super akwaria .. Pozdrowienia z Polski dla najlepszego akwarysty na świecie .
That pleco has a healthy full belly and he is super happy
What a wonderful nature tank. I have bladder snails that hitched a ride into my aquarium from a floating plant that I purchased. I absolutely love them! They eat the dead plant leaves, algae, and I guess just about anything else that suits them. I do have an inhabitant that keeps the population from being too explosive so all is good.
Serendipity is the greatest joy in the aquarium.
I've been inspired by your ideas! I think for my next setup, I want to try this with angels and discus.
That will be spectacular Jeff
Very jnteresting. Please more video like this . Saludos from argentina
Thank you! Will do!
The Tiger Lotuses are amazing, I have a currently fallow tank that's been left on its own devices (pump on but that's about it, my light pooped out and haven't been able to replace it yet), and I never even had plants beside anubias in it; apparently a tiny bulblet snuck in on a piece of wood or something, but there it grows, perched on an inch of gravel lol.
Here's a secret, pour 2 inches of washed sand on top of the gravel. But a $10 light strip. You will be good t o go. Order a bunch of plants from me and get that tank going!
Very nice
Thank you Barbie.
Very cool, enjoyed your video. We've been talking about water changes in another comment section on your youtube channel and as I expected after watching your video your aquarium is not terribly dissimilar to my old guy that was set up in 1998/99, not sure of the exact year, but right after we bought our first house. The differences are: 1} the plants are the original - anubius wins the battle for dominance (the rhizome may go as far back as 1989, but from 98/99, for sure, there has likely always been a bit of duckweed kicking around, but it has never dominated 2) the substrate is thin maybe an inch of sand and 1/2 inch brown rocks which are at least circa 1977, lol, from my uncles tanks, 3) 20-30% water change every 2-3 weeks 4) I gravel vac just around the front at water changes, the substrate from the mid point back may get vacuumed every 5 years at most 5) the scape received new glass around 2007ish (started leaking), all contents were just moved into same sized replacement aquarium 6) internal filter, accumulated mulm squeezed out from sponge on water changes How is it similar 1) ultra low maintenance, if you do nothing I do virtually nothing (call it insurance), maybe clean the front glass once or twice a year 2) may only have one plant but it is biodiverse - leaf litter, mts, bladder snails, ramshorn snails, seed shrimp, detritus worms, hydra, could have anything from a pond and it has had the same neocaridinia shrimp colony (with skrittles additions) since 2009 3) has a heater 4) fairly diverse fish species over the years from endlers to apistos; one of my proudest achievements - neon tetras lived to at least the age of 8 in this tank. Pretty similar, I think the main difference would be that the tank was often used for grow out which necessitates water changes and I keep it up regardless of occupants, in my mind if fry grow faster with water changes it certainly doesn't hurt the old boys. Check out the following video I did on it about a year or so ago, I'm sure you will enjoy it as much as I enjoyed yours. ruclips.net/video/jE1xuODsuQY/видео.html
Very nice aquabonita
I intend to follow your example…it will be a Sonoran Desert river eco tank…cottonwoods, bushes, grasses. Rasboras and algae eaters.
That is going to be very exciting. Please post pics for us on FATHER FISH SHOAL on DISCORD. Link below.
@@FatherFish I will…I hope to finish in June…I’m pretty disabled it will be slow, lol.
It’s been well over 2 years since I set up my 75. Just top up now. Thanks for your guidance. 😀
@@kenrooke9047 Happy to help
I love old faithful, the beckfords pencilfish are my favorite nano fish bc there so hardy and subtle yet brilliant occupying the middle of water column, such a beautiful tank father fish ❤️ longevity is a true blessing 🙌 40 gallon tank, looks more like 120 lol
TY nanoscape. The pencils are more entertaining than I thought.
@@FatherFish definitely ive been keeping 8 beckfords reds for about a year now and they thrive in my acidic water and 5 males and 5 females and i just love there group behavior and where they occupy the water column, right in the middle which is nice 😀 well they are with a big group of checkered barbs, and cherry barbs in a 37G tall and everyday im happier and happier watching them and raising them all together as juvenile's but group behavior is what i love more than anything, especially in small barb species, i do have some micro trifasciatus pencilfish that you would love in a 3G self sustaining cube project ive been not touching at all or feeding, just topping but you know aswell as i do feeding is everything, to much food just ruins everything! deep substrates for life! ROCK ON OLD FAITHFUL! 🤘
@@Nanoscape30 Spectacular Nanoscape. Please post some pics or vids at our DISCORD channel. Link below.
Bamboo shrimp would thrive in that tank!
Shrimp are next!!
The older the fish tank and fish the greater the success.
Great video! Would be interested to find out more of the details of running the tank. How often roughly do you replenish with leaf litter, do you supplementary feed the tank or is the food web enough to sustain all the fish?
I supplement for breeding purposes, primarily decapsulated BS eggs. I add new leaf mulm or dried leaves about once a month.
Old faithful she’s a true beauty of nature. Still evolving after 23 years I’m excited for you Father fish!
Thank you again for sharing I’m learning new things with every video.
I have a question can you have too much snails? I just got back into the hobby after 18 years. My bladder and Malaysian trumpet are breeding like crazy 😂.
Thanks in advance for your reply
Wing
If Father fish have thousands in old faithful. I aiming for hundreds in me 53L (Jungle Treehouse) named by my 5 years old ❤💪💯🤔
Be sure you are not overfeeding. You cannot have too many snails. They are a function of available nutrients.
love it. Your 5 yr old has a knack for names
@@FatherFish Yes Father fish! Will do thank you very much.
@@FatherFish Haha thanks 😁
Amazing aquarium or should I say amazing Aquatic nature.
Do you have to change water every week? The plants are so good shaped 👍👍 How the plants are getting nutrition ? Unbelievable set up
What is the food the fishes are finding out there @Father fish
Great work great video 👍👍🆗
Never water change. Feed only very tiny bit. Learn about food web and the progress of a natural aquarium.
@@FatherFish
I have seen another video of you
Where you told about Your aquarium feeds your fish
Really nice experience to get knowledge from you
Staying on this channel of yours Sir
Love to know about self sustaining Aquarium Ecology and
What substrate aquarium is best for live plants?
@@SrideepBhaduri_NatcubeEco1985 Excellent Strideep. We have many friends in India who are excited about the Father Fish system
@@FatherFish
Yes Sir ❤️
Count me in also.. Your aquariums are nature style and giving comfort to the inmates.. Even i saw your video, you are using water from the natural lakes around the area. Never seen before something like inside aquarium.
This is the first time I have seen your channel WOW! I shall carry on watching you. What is your favorite fish for a six-foot tank living the natural way instead of falsely cycling the tank?
There are so many. Select a South American cichlid, like geophagus, severum, festivum, keyhole, discus, or any of the mid size non aggressive fish. Try to get 6 juveniles and grow them up. It will be an amazing experience.
Shalom, Father Fish. Did you not ever have to repair the silicone seals on that tank within that 21 years? If so, what steps did you take for this? I am a rookie to aquariums and terrarium keeping. I absolutely love your videos and knowledge that you share!!
No need
Nice tour of Old Faithful. What happened to EJ? Haven't seen her on here in a while.
EJ is busy with her family. No prob. She has many demands on her time.
The new (safety) fad is to have more than 1 heater in a tank should 1 fail, but more so they can cycle less and have longer lives because of it. I have 3, 100 watt heaters taking turns in my 46 bowfront. Just a thought.
Especially in large tanks or when fish are very sensitive to cold water I will always use multiple heaters AND check them once a month.
I cat wait for my little red bristlenose to get as big as yours.
I need a male. My female is ready for family
Outstanding sir. Do you remove your leaves etcetera before you add the needed layer of sand?
some will be displaced. No need. Add more when finished.
Must be one legendary silicone job to last that long
Shallow tanks have very little pressure.
Hi FF. Sent you an email about why I left the group, but you didn’t seem to get it. Other priorities at the moment. I think this is the tank you said you used to sell plants from in your shop. Its great to see an old tank. My natural plant growing is going very well but I my tanks are now in their third year and I am noticing some problems. I have been so obsessed by trying to grow plants natural way (like you) that I did not anticipate how an aquarium is constantly changing, just like a wild waterway does. It never stays the same. Plant management is something I do alot of now - trimming etc - and is much more work than i thought - unless you let a tank just do its thing. I suspect this 22 year old tank of yours has been constantly evolving. But always good to look at. My problem is a few of my tanks were ignored by me for a year and have almost completely changed their appearance - not for the good. An aesthetic problem but they still function if you know what I mean.
Takashi Amano’s book, his famous one, was a snapshot of a plant tank at one moment in time. Beginners like I was do not realise that his tanks are not static - they will change over time - and the ones that do not change can only stay the same with alot of maintenance on his part. Nature is constantly changing underwater with the seasons, water levels, water health. Our tanks are no different. Amano never explained this as far as I can see. Anyway best wishes from a fan and keep up the good work of educating a new generation of aquafiles - let us hope they dont become brain washed by the aquarium industry… sun and soil, that is how I grow plants underwater.
Tower of Naphtali, what you are describing is perhaps the most important aspect of fish keeping. All environments change, grow, and evolve. The same body of water will contain different plant and animal species each time I visit. Our tanks change as well. My rule is to add to and not take away. I find if I do not remove items but simply add new items to a system t will become stronger and richer. We do miss you in the Discord and hope you can return to share your insights.
I will try to add some video footage of my tanks on my channel. A death in the family slowed me down on the aquariums. I am on track to publish my ebook end of this decade about growing plants the natural way. My FF tank failed but that was my fault. I removed the fast growing plants and it crashed. The growth I witnessed the first 2 months was incredible. I was getting the sort of O2 pearling, oxygen saturation, I have only witnessed before with CO2 injection. I am finding plant 02 pearling to be highly variable. Sometimes my natural tanks pearl. but mostly they do not. A lack of pearling seems to make no difference to my plant tanks. They all grow well. I suspect pearling has more to do with nutrients, not CO2. I think CO2 is massively over rated in our hobby. I have not used a CO2 cylinder in 2 years - I dont need it anymore. Threw out all my liquid ferts 2 years ago as well. I am convinced that plants have all the CO2 they need underwater. Our hobby is completely wrong about CO2. It is simply a matter of growth rates. Lower growth rates are preferable and is what happens in the wild imo.
Your principle of ‘never remove’ from a tank is correct, I have the same sentiment. Rampant plant growth has made me trial a method of removal, keep in storage, and add back later to the same tank. Not sure if it will work. Leaving everything in a tank is a better idea. The natural systems I watch seem to constantly have things added to them and they just process them like a factory. Removing anything from an aquarium is against my philsophy and until a few days ago I have never done it.
@@thesolaraquarium Excellent observations. We are working on a book about food web and deep substrate. Pub date is the end of this year. Work is going on at our Discord server with several professional researchers and a biologist. Join in if you are interested. Would love to have your input.
hola un saludo desde venezuela me ha gustado toda tu informacion sobre este sistema que llevo mucho tiempo buscando una guia y la encontre yo tengo acuarios desde hace 15 años una cosa es que nunca le he cambiado el agua a mi pecera solo relleno lo que le falta pero me falta un pequeño ajuste y espero me puedas guiar, para mantener el agua del acuario estable,¿Que es mejor un sistema de corriente de agua fuerte o un sistema lento para que todo se estables de forma mas natural y pueda crecer mejor mi sitema de acuario o con solo manter de forma aireada como tu lo has hecho con las esponjas aireadora? de antemano muchas gracias espero me puedas guiar con tus fabuloso conosimiento.
Para la mayoría del agua dulce, un filtro de esponja burbujeante es suficiente. Para los tanques de agua salada, el flujo es lo más importante. A menos que esté replicando una corriente de agua burbujeante, si está bien en sistemas de agua dulce.
muchas gracias@@FatherFish
Have you resealed this tank? Do you recommend resealing tanks after a period of time? I’ve had one going for about 15 years and have been wondering if I need to tear down the whole thing and reseal.
shallow tanks rarely leak
Wht bout if you plan to introduce turtle in it ? it will simply uproot the plants.
Can you recommend a video about how to move aquariums to another home in the same town (moving). I have two 5.5 gallon aquariums. They are small, so it really shouldn't be very hard to move them. I started off with an aquarium "petri dish", but I am moving to more natural aquariums, thanks to my learning from Father Fish. I hope Father Fish can tell me the correct procedure to use in moving my aquariums, when I move in the next year or two. Thank You for any advise!
Drop water to about 2" and easy to carry. Save the water and put it back together after moving. fish can stay or be split up.
@@FatherFish THANK YOU!!!
I some video you say to add 1 inch of soil and 2 inch of sand, but in your aquarium you have more inches sand and soil. I am confused.
large tanks mor than 55 gallons can have more.
What fish are in here?
The food web is what feeds the beta and Killi right?
Right
Father Fish I have beend able to do much recently because I have been sick for a few weeks right after I set up three of my tanks according to your method. However I am very disappointed because the water in two of my tanks look like rusty water. It is not very nice looking. What can be done about that situation.
Put carbon in a filter. It will draw out the stain.
11:35 what type of goby?
I think a rainbow
I just set up my first dirt bottom tank, after watching your videos. I’ve always done 80% water changes weekly. The thing that scares me is the nitrate levels. It makes me nervous. What is safe for my fish?
400 is safe for fish
Absolutely way too much water changes. You are stressing your fish.
@@adalwolf8328 I never had any problems at all. They were breeding like crazy and my tanks were all fine. I think this is just a way different way of keeping fish, and you can have success many different ways.
@@kristiiiiiiiii I agree with that but 80% weekly is still unusual. What do you have in the tank that pollutes the water that much, and that quickly? Like Father Fish said, even 400 ppm nitrates would be ok, I tend to shoot for a lower reading though, somewhere like 50 ppm.
@@adalwolf8328 my readings never got very high. I was taught that anything above 20 ppm is harmful. 🙄 The water that comes out of my tap reads 10, so it didn’t take long for it to climb to 20, hence weekly water changes.
What is the wide leafed grassy plant that is growing all over the bottom of his natural tanks?
I think you are referring to sagitarius.
@Father Fish Thank you! I enjoyed the video! It's great that you were explaining why and what you added to your tank to get it to where you are now! Cheers
I just love watching your videos! I never knew it would be that easy to set a tank up. Question 1 - Is it true you can just use old soil from a pot that was planted with fertilizer from a few years ago to put on the bottom of your tank before the sand? Question 2 - Say supposing you have a 6-foot x 2.5-foot x 2.5-foot tank Can you put 3 inches of earth down and then put 4 inches of sand on top or is that too much?
For a 3" dirt layer I would cap with 6" of sand to prevent the dirt working up through the sand.
Old soil is perfectly acceptable. Be sure to add organics and minerals.
@@FatherFish WOW! That's 9 inches in total!
@@dermotkelly2971 Yes, and the t ank is 24" tall aand 72" wide by 24" deep. It will not seem so deep.
@@dermotkelly2971 I would not do 4" of soil. My goal would be 2" with 4" of sand.
How did you move this tank? You recently moved from Florida to Maryland correct?
Dropped the water to an inch and layed it in my van.
@@FatherFish very cool. Thank you. I always worried that the bottom glass panel would crack this way.
@@liefhands3389 I lost some tanks in the truck when it hit a pot hole and the shock absorbers did nothing to soften the bounce.
@@FatherFish sorry Father Fish. That is a true bummer. It is good to see many made the trip safely however.
Makes you wonder why the bottoms of tanks are not make from a heavy duty plastic.
Sir, do you forgo activated charcoal in your filtration set ups?
What filter?
@@masterpython He has sump set ups
@@dwarfhernandez6636 I had sumps at my shop. There is no filtration in this tank.
@@masterpython precisely
I do not use charcoal.
How did you move this tank when you made your move?
I lowered the water level to 1" and carried it. Fortunately it survived the trip in my van. Had it been on the floor in the truck it would not have survived the poor shock absorbers.
@@FatherFish Thsnk you. So it’s generally safe to lift a big tank with all that sand without breaking it?
@@flyby183. Yes. Minus the water and heavier decor.
Seems bigger than a 40 gallon
It is short
@@FatherFish ah okay that makes sense.
Father fisch, ma se ti muore un pesce in quell'acquario neanche te ne accorgi, li lasci li......?
22 YEAR OLD FISH TANK, I disagree because the silicone goes bad after a while and you have to reseal the tank every 7 years or whatever takes place because you're guaranteed to get a leak before 22 years
Or not.
How many water changes has it had in the last 15years? 🤔 like 20 lolololololol
he has a 22 year old tank because he stocks small fish in a big tank
Your logic does not follow. I have seen people stock small fish in large tanks and lose them all when the tank crashed.
I have noticed those who have the most hostility also have no content on their channel They literally have nothing to say.