FREE Substrate for Planted Aquarium - Best for Plants
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Best substrate for a planted aquarium is free and readily available everywhere. You just have to dig it up at the right place. Find out the ratios and which substrate to use in this short.
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I've struggled fish tanking for the past few years. Father Fish has shown me SO MUCH. KEEP IT REAL. I rarely feed my fish and shrimp. They are healthy and happy.
Nature has all the tools anyone could ever need
You can use pond substrate as a really good nutrient layer if you don't have creek material.
And I was told by a fish expert that I was stupid for even wanting to try this. Now I just wanna get another fish tank and try it.
$15 10 gal at petco
@Nobody04200 That's cause he wants you buying it all from his store instead, lol
Ima bout to go into my local creek literally so quickly
This channel is awesome
Father Fish. You da MAN !!!
Please keep sharing your knowledge.
Can we see a full vid of you setting up a tank start to finish 2023?
There are several. Review the last 3 months of videos.
Thank you telling us all about fixing up are tanks.
I read an article from 1880 that said to do this for fish keeping.
They insisted upon natural systems before about 1960 when some manufacturers realized they could make more money by creating alternatives to nature.
@FatherFish I am still new to fish keeping, going on three years. Thank you for inspiring me to try the natural method!
Fatherfish spreading real quality aquarium content. One of the real ones. Screw all the shitty aquarium fishtubers
Is a thin layer of silt okay to use as a barrier to separate the dirt from the bottom and the sand from the top
Yes
@@FatherFish Thank you for answering me. I've looked all over RUclips and reddit trying to find an answer and I couldn't find anything. I know that silt/clay does coat the bottom of a lot of rivers and streams so I though it would be a good way to hold the dirt in an oxygen free environment. I think it could be an intriguing video idea to talk about
Already done sir ❤
Amen!
Will this work for turtle tanks?
yes
Plant some vallisneria and dwarf hair grass some aponogeton species the aquarium will be great.
Well too bad here in Louisiana we have straight mud. We don’t have creeks or sand or gravel
Do a brackish or salt tank, same process.
I am in south Louisiana (Kentwood) and I have rivers and cheeks near me that have sand bottoms.
if i do it this way i might get a ticket here 😂
Where are you?
@@FatherFish PR
In Colorado, it is illegal to collect rain water. It belongs to the govt.
What about parasites ,Snails, and peat moss lowering PH?
Wait. You've always said to start with mud. What changed?
it is the leaf compost that is important.
Lol. I know I started with mud. Weird coloring on the sides but I was told th a twill dissappear in a year or so. Plants and fish doing great though.
@FatherFish I live in NYC and there aren't any creeks. What does my substrate need?
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perfect!!!! thank you!!!!
Does it matter what plants i put in with the start of deep substrate ?
stem grow faster in a new tank.
@@FatherFish oke but if i add those plants u recommend i can also ad other plants in start like anubias ect.?
If the water isn’t flowing should I wash it somehow?
with what?
I have no co2 in my tank, I lost my plants Colors how can I save them ?
deep substrate creates co2
Unfortunately a lot of water ways are polluted and will harm captive raised fish
some are. Most are not.
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Would play sand be ok?
yes
i know youre an expert but i want to do this with a 1 year old aquarium with issues. im not sure if its risky or not
not risky. Cap it with 2" of sand. and build a food web.
Damm... And I wasted so much money on branded aquasoil...
@fatherfish I've layered a good six to eight inches of aquasoil upon a having base of lava rock, will I still be able to create a good living nutrious substrate using this combo???
damn. i add mud -_-
Yeah I dont trust any water bodies near me lol
Do have to be careful. I took sand from my local creek and it was fine
I just used soil from my backyard then put sand on top and all my plants are thriving
I did the same and seems to be working well !!
Yeah, I'd never put peat in unless I was specifically going for a dark water angelfish setup.
It causes so many problems when a dirt tank should be super easy and foolproof.
I used 1 year old compost from my bin. Then paver sand.
Any status updates? How well is the tank now?
If I take a twig from my local creek the police get involved 🤦🏿♂️
sad. The tyranny of environmentalism
Awesome! Working o n my first aquarium. I never thought I could enjoy this hobby
Ballard even knew the issues with the roster. And did NOTHING about it.
The Colts have learned nothing from last year. Same mistake as week 18! Taylor better be injured or heads better roll. He held out last year and WE REFUSE TO USE HIM. Can’t make it up Kent.
I have an established tank. Do i need to tear it all out and start over (i would if necessary) or is there another way to get the benefits of your method without seriously disturbing things?
add sand to the substrate. Often that is enough to kick start the cycle.
@@FatherFish so don’t add the dirt at all? I thought that was the important part
If you create your substrate this way does the aquarium end up having any sort of smell to it? Just curious as my tank is in the kitchen and I’m not sure my wife would approve if it smells a bit. Thanks
Not at all
Brilliant!
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Can you use worm castings as an additive in the soil layer? Is there any concern about making the soil too hot?
I use it in my supplement
I live in the Mojave. Sad T.T
Inspirational 🎉
It will probably create a swamp in your home aquarium. Lol. Dont do it at home.
Stop guessing and try it. You will be amazed!
Would you recommend collecting any plants that grow locally in Florida ponds? If so which types
yes. Any
speaking from personal experience vast majority of natural sand needs to be washed thoroughly or water will never clear
Why not? Why would the water even be dirty?
@@dimitrijekrstic7567 the amount of detritus, particulate matter, benthic plant matter, and silt in all but the most pristine/ fast moving water sources means that you have to wash it in a bucket 15-40 times. Ive used natural sand before with success, but the video is somewhat misleading in not mentioning this.
No. Only those sands full of clay need rinsing.
All of those materials are extremely beneficial for the health of the tank,. Do not rinse away what is most needed.
@@floridianbat The detritus layer is CAPPED with 2" of pristine sand... If you fill it carefully you'll have no problem...
My whole state is farmland, do I worry about run off?
no
I live in south FL and in my area all creeks are pure mud. Either that or muddy lakes/ponds. Not sure how to start from this point...
Find a creek or pond with trees lining its shore.
@FatherFish Nice! Definitely going to do this. Thank you.
@FatherFish I have two jars up and running from two different water bodies. I covered them in mesh so air can circulate. My house gets very cold, so I have them outside in my enclosed patio. Is keeping them outside an issue?
any suggestions about how to keep gold fish from digging up my beautiful plants in their healthy substrate ?
add a layer of parger gravel or small stone.
I have goldfish. I feed them duckweed nearly daily and they leave most of my other plants alone.
Gotta keep this in mind
In many places this is illegal. Also none of us should be buying any kind of peat product.
At curent the peat beds in Canada will be threatened in 1500 years. By then they will have redeveloped.
@@FatherFish Yeahhhh sorry but that's incorrect. We need to leave peat well alone and not purchase peat products. I know I'm going to get ratioed to hell for saying it but peat beds sequester carbon. Disturb them, and they emit thousands of years of stored GHGs, as CO2 or methane, most in the first few years then tailing off over a couple of decades.
It wouldn't take much for you to recommend people check it's legal to wild forage for fish tanks and to be sensitive about where they do it, and it's easy not to recommend peat. You have been keeping fish a long time, surely you must know reliable alternatives?
@chaosdj Do you know what Loves CO2?? PLANTS!! Don't drink the Kool Aide ..
Considering just scooping a tiny bit of substrate from a stream will get me like 4-7 mayfly nymphs, several caddisfly larvae and a few dragonfly larvae I will never do this. I'd lose so many nano fish to predators hiding in the substrate lol
Only the dragonfly larvae eat fish. The rest are micro feeders.
cities don’t have creeks. there’s one in Central Park (NY), but i doubt it’s clean!! so, what do we do!!?? thanks 💦💦
How about get out of the city?
@@FatherFish how about i don’t have a car!!!!! take a train you say. i do, but looking for a stream on foot is ridiculous!!