wk.1: The Angelfish Aquarium...not a great start
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The Angelfish Tank is a week old. Well just over by the time you are seeing this. We did not get off to the flying start that I'd hoped for but that was to be expected. High stocking, high lighting and high waste all contributing. Also, a few other things I'm not too happy with that we sort out to allow things progress further down the track.
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The Angelfish Tank is a week old. Well just over by the time you are seeing this. We did not get off to the flying start that I'd hoped for but that was to be expected. High stocking, high lighting and high waste all contributing. Also, a few other things I'm not too happy with that we sort out to allow things progress further down the track.
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What about hatchet fish in the cory tank as a dither fish ?!
Seeing all that white sand - light, reminded me of the discus tank setup and Cyanobacteria issues you had previously.. looks much better now 👍
Yeah I love the look instantly when I walk in come the morning. That's when you know you've done the right thing. I'm thinking of adding more detail as well to the substrate and rocks but more on that in another update...
Hi md what do you think of my shrimp tank
@@MDFishTanks I had 3 tanks that kept having cyanobacteria problems.
Funny you called the cyanobacteria cyanoacrylate, you glue more than you deal with cyanobacteria. 😆
I discovered a link between TDS and the cyanobacteria. High TDS ==> growing cyanobacteria, even in established tanks.
So I bought a Zero Filter (doesn't waste any water like RO does) and use zero TDS water to top off tanks, and Mmiller2021 in the Aquarium Co-op Forum helped fine tune my ferts.
A little H2O2 took care of the stubborn little bits of cyanobacteria on plants.🤷♂️
Keep my TDS
The moss in your rainbow fish aquarium is the definition of satisfaction
I love that you always show when things don't go perfectly and let people think you never have any issues.
Also, from my experience with them, I think you would have your angels out and about and exploring a lot more with lower flow in the tank. Mine stopped hiding in one single corner immediately when I diffused mine.
I totally agree with the flow and angel fish.
yeah flow sorted. Thanks for the heads up.
I learned some time ago that if you have a white substrate you have a job for life. The only time it looks good is the first week that you have it, after that it is a constant battle to keep it clean.
So true!!!
I only settle for brown/"natural"/cognac coloured sand nowadays. It does not look disgusting in the long run. Never again white sand. 😅
So true.
I have white sand in my tank 😅
I think white sand is great for the underwater waterfall effect, where an uplift tube is hidden behind rocks, and the white sand is lifted with an air stone and then dumped out to tumble down the rocks.
Otherwise, it's a pita.
@@THandP_org Yes, white sand will work perfectly well for this application. It is constantly on the move and no algae will grow on it and ne detritus will settle on it. That's not the same as with a static substrate.
Hey MD, great looking tank but just a quick FYI, angels don't like strong currents and seems like that filter produces a pretty strong one. That's why they seem to be hudling all at the back of the tank. Consider reducing the flow a bit and they'll be much happier.
yeah ive clamed it down now. They were also hiding because I changed everything. not usually huddled in the corner like that.
Thank you for trouble-shooting videos like this. It's so easy to get the impression that you do these incredible aquascapes, dump in hundreds of fish and they live happily ever after with the only maintenance cutting back forest-size loads of plants. You are AWESOME!
The aquascape looks amazing. But, Angelfish and the tetras come from more black water systems. That may be why the Angels are hiding a lot. They need some sunglasses 😎, lol!
Thank you for always attempting to be transparent in your videos. I've been in the hobby for over 20 years and never experienced cyanobacteria until I rebuilt a nano tank and had it decimated from it. Used the same product you did and saved what was left. Always learning something in this hobby.
This is what I love to see as well as all the aquascaping. The real stuff like I’ve got this issue and this is what I’m gonna do to fix it. Helps out so much. Ty.
I love when you do a tank and your like yeah that's great I will just leave it. Then 2 weeks later you're like oh yeah probs more fish...then new tank then new tanks then a fish room. It's all a slippery slope haha
I absolutely love the angel tank!!!! They are my favorite 🤩. The veil tail are my most favorite in the Koi and smoky angel. Hope to see a few different varieties in some of the coming videos. Hope you have a blessed week😊🥰
The tank looks much more natural and pleasing to look at with the darker sand mixed in.
👍❤👍
Wow!! The plants in the Cory tank are gorgeous!! Such a beautiful tank!😍
Love that the substrate is more plain in this one, it’s a good contrast to all the other tanks
I audibly said oh my God when I saw the rainbow fish tank. It looks SO good!!!
i had a bad cyano problem. I reduced the light from 8 hrs to 6 hrs and it literally melted. my fish room was naturally very bright so was already getting alot of light hence the cyano. so happy it cleared up, i was super frustrated and almost quit the hobby
Looks much much much better with the darker sand mixed in!!!🤩
I found your channel about a month ago and just finished my first planted tank. Thank you so much for everything I've learned from you MD!
You could put in some high stream loaches, kukli loaches, otocinclus and amano scrimps to get rid of algue in that aquarium
Same kind of angels I have in my tank! They're so fun and beautiful. Enjoy! I hope they thrive!
I just was trying to help someone adding sand because they were having problems with their corys loosing their barbels cuz the rocks they chose as a substrate. Great video though MD. 👌
Cyano is also found in low flow area’s
That is soooooo dangerous. Like you said, invest in a step ladder. My elderly neighbour died as a result of hitting her head after falling off a chair. The consequences for you should the glass break too............ It's not worth taking the risk.
I agree with you that cyano is pretty much present in all tanks, and if the conditions are right it will get out of control. It loves phosphates and light. Chemiclean works great.
This was a tank I had. Angel fish. Started with five. One died. But the other four did really well. They where with rummy nose and cardinals. Some corys, and a couple of bristle nose plecos. It was a 325l aquarium. But with a dark substrate.
Answer to your question yes. Plenty more tetras
God how I miss that tank lol
I needed this video thank you! I got fed up with my tank, and a lot of stuff you said here has reignited my passion, and I'm planing a new aquascape in it!
I used to hate blasting dirt into the tank after filter maintenance, so I put a fine net in front of the filter outlet for the first few seconds after restarting the filter.
Nice improvements. I agree... The white sand was too much. But white sand looks great in a saltwater reef setup.
I've been successfully treating cyanobacteria with daily doses of lactobacillus. I dose at 1ml per 10 gallons and the lactobacillus will outcompete the cyanobacteria. Plus the Lacto is great for the fish! I dose when I feed in hopes that more of the Lacto gets into their digestive system. I try to avoid using meds when I can🤙
Hi I saw your comment on blue green algea treatment and wanted to know if you can recomend a product,
Is it powder or liquid of Lactobacillus? Thanks
Thanks for the chemiclean mention. I've been dealing with really persistent cyanobacteria and blackouts keep it from taking over but it's a constant battle. Definitely giving it a shot.
Nice watch and I feel like a good way to show there is no ‘perfect start’ or ‘perfect tank’ it is always just work and you have to find where the balance is missing. Thanks to your videos really I started off into planted tanks with deep substrate and I can safely say I have a balance aquarium at 15g that only needs top offs because the plants and substrate can handle the bio-load super well.
1:39 you have been glueing to many plants :D
From viewing this video makes me think! Why not lose some of the Clutter of plants at the rear of the tank, So the fish can Shelter/Sleep. If they don’t want to be in the front flow of the tank????
Question, can we see your home aquarium? You've mentioned it a few times and I'm interested to see what you have going on with it. Also I love what you've done with this angel tank, I personally love the white sand look, but it still looks great with the darker substrate you added! ❤
He did a video a while back where he re-scaped it, I tried looking but I couldn’t find it://
Hi MD love your videos!
When you mentioned the corys didn't come out until you added a fish, you said its name and pointed but I have no idea, what this fish is. I would have loved a close up of this friend fish. 😊
I loved that you are showing the care and maintenance of it- you are very informative.
Love the changes it's huge difference with the new sand, looks so much better now on camera, I really see the depth, I believe the white sand was probably blowing out the whites and made the tank feel flatter onscreen. I can't image how mind blowing your tanks are in person.
Love it! You rock! Thanks for sharing such entertaining, educational and calming content.🙏🏽🙏🏽
I think he said, dither fish. It can be any fish that make the shy fish come out and feel safe. I think in that tank there were Endlers.
Love from Germany! 🇩🇪
Omg I have been battling Cyano too! I finally think I have it figured out though. It killed my foreground plants and a background plant but all my moss and broad leaf plants appear to be doing well. I had a ton of baby neocaridina in my tank so cleaning was very stressful. I didn't want to squish anyone! 😳
I reset a tank a couple months ago and used white sand. I really like the look.
Love the addition of the yellowish sand.. White was just too sterile
Nice with the additional tone of sand color!! Love all those rummy nose!
Cyanobacteria is - in 99% of the time - linked to (too) much light an phosphate imbalance. If you can't change the light or want to black out the tank for a few days, I'd advise checking the phosphae levels in the tank.
Awesome video, as always! Love and greetings from Brazil!!!🇧🇷
For what it's worth, MD.....I think the tank looks amazing now. Oops to late. Whatever you decide is great!! Thanks for showing us the good and the bad. Open to personal taste.
1:40 md just said cyanoacrylate instead of cyanobacteria lmaooooo
How old are you??
I was looking for this comment 😂
I really like the look of white sand on its own too; but it seems like the ones with the beige/brown tones seem to bring out more detail on driftwood in the tank. Or the red mangrove plants I have hanging in mine. I thought it was just my tank; but I can see it in the thumbnails on yours too.
Buy a nice, pop, hip, trendy, bougie, froufrou step ladder from Amazon, lol. 🤩😎
I am sure you know more then me. But sometimes, something as simple as an airstone in the middle for 10 days can take away ciano bacteria 👍
only time i let algae in my tank is on the side glass where the shrimp/snails can eat or pick at it :)
the angelfish are looking stunning
Tank looks great cant wait for corys!
So Ive allways just used the stock lights that came with my tanks. Today I got me a Chihiros light and it is like looking at a completely different tank!!! ITS SOO PRETTYYYY 😍
Now to figure out how many hours I can blast inthere 😁
Im sooo excited 😲
How many plants u got? I’d start with 6 hrs and slowly increase. It takes awhile for plants to get used to change.
@@rockonmyfriend it is a HEAVILY planted tank (with alot of different sorts), but relatively new setup so the plants are still getting settled. I was running 10hours before but that light was much weaker. Ive set it up for 8hours @100% intensity and 1hour ramp up and down included.
I want as many hours of light as I can get so if this is too much I will probably turn down the intensity abit.
I keep dosing to a minimum but this change is pretty huge so I probably have to recalibrate alot over time.
@@Myndi78 I don’t think you’ll be getting too much light but definitely watch out for any deficiency and adjuct ferts accordingly. I’m learning how to use pressurized co2 while also setting up a planted low tech nano tank. I’m fixing to do very well or make a big algae mess. Only time will tell!
@@rockonmyfriend update - I definitly got algea, and I got alot of it 😂 Its a damn mess hahaha
Maybe I should have stayed with my recommendation for 6hr of light to start while the plants were rooting. 😅
Always unplug the Filter B4 u put your hand in tank. Be safe buddy 🙏
Really love your channel ❤
Always a learning experience and of course fun thank you :-)
Thanks Again. Learned something new today.
YOU ROCK.
Yes you need a video going getting coreys for The Angel tank
Malaysian trumpet snails are brilliant sand sifters too!
Those angelfish are beautiful
I think it would be better if you place the wood in the middle a little bit to the front . Because you can definitely see the shadow on the back glass. It ruins the deep perspective you trying to achieve imo.
😭 I wish I got the patients with the moss!!!
It takes so long and it never looks good when I do it
you've normally got a good month before new moss will look good.
Beautiful plant and rock scape, but I have to disagree with your decision to mix orange sand into white. The substrate looks more artificial with the orange.
From an aesthetic pov I don't like the orange sand. Does make it look better in camera though, no doubt.
Thats Philippines Blue Angelfish! Filipino here!❤️
Hello, is a super Aquaqrium but there are some guys who do not like this aquarium at all! These are the angel fish! The substrate is much too bright and there are no shelters at all. The angel fish are constantly under stress and you can see that in the videos about this aquarium. You should actually see that as an aquarist! Apart from that, thanks for all the info in your videos!
I have read that cyano like silica, and that sand has a bunch, I bet.
you should do a vid showing everyone of your tanks and their purposes, style, etc
personally I preferred the look of the white sand
Looks good 🤩
How is your Bowle doing?
the 19L boewl I have made is going exceptionally well.
thanks for the inspiration🥳
I have alså just make a 350L plantet Oranda goldfish tank 🤗
Loving this tank more than any of other tanks of your's. Beautiful.
Hey, I always thought a tank this size and stock would pretty much always need a canister filter? Seems that's just a powerhead and a very small amount of mechanical sponges? I'm happy to be proven wrong as I'm looking at a 140 litre and actually don't have space for an external (but hate big chunky internals). Ta!
I really like this tank. I think ide like to try something like this.
i’d love to see you do a setup soon with some yoyo or dojo loaches
Can you please try putting the slate stone you put in the harlequin tank as substrate
Wonderfully inspiring video… as always. One thing I still don’t understand is the relationship between floating plants taking up nutrients and the stem plant getting enough nutrients. Is there a danger of removing all the nutrients from the water and the stem plants being deprived?
how did you make that background? it’s so natural
very stunning
how do you get your moss to grow so evenly and beautifully over your driftwood?
1:36
Be carefull with the glue 😉
Careful with that chair. You can get really hurt and crash onto your tank…
Hi, I would really like to try making one of these for my apartment or for my parents home as we had fish tanks growing up but they had all the filters and biweekly cleaning the tank and monthly change in the water; so this looks like a fun activity to do without having to worry about wasting water, excessive cleaning and elbow grease. So my question for you is how do these tanks do when exposed to sunlight, because I see almost all of your tanks are inside and away from sunlight.
Sunlight will probably cause algae 🤔
Been in the hobby for years I so wish I had the financial stability to go all out like this! But been struggling lately with an interesting aqua scape on a 15 gallon column not the best set up meaning the depth versus Wet but it’s an interesting practice! Any tips?
My house plans love my fish tank water
how come you didnt put cories or plecs. but looking good
Very nice ¡
Hey when you pit that chem clean in that one tank that had the fuzzy bacteria on that plant..can I use that stuff in a cycling tank, and will it hurt my good bacteria growth..
I LOVE your videos and your aquariums. You do a masterful job! May I ask how you deal with thread algae? I cannot eliminate it from my aquarium. I use a toothbrush daily to sort of pull and twist it from my stem plants. I have also cut the plants way back, but it always returns.
Thanks, MD!
MZ
Maybe you have too much light
Lower the lighting and get a surface skimmer. Try an aquael internal filter turbo 2000 so you can use some biomedia.
for me, I find the better solution is to keep the lighting high, and get those plants growing crazy. It literally sorts out all issues like you can see on the rainbowfish tank.
@@MDFishTanks it’s about the balance. Definitely another filter would be of benefit too I think.
@@truthfactreality6814 im not sure why you say that though? look at the rainbowfish aquarium and the rare fish aquarium. both have the same filtration. So def don't need another filter as they are proving. The point of a filter is to hold biological media (and flow). I've got so much substrate in all these tanks that they have more biological filtration than any filter is going to hold and plenty of flow from that one internal powerhead. Why do you think I would need another filter?
@@MDFishTanks the more water is moving the less algae you will get. Also the angel tank isn’t as heavily planted. Check out novak work about how the biology works in aquariums. Once you know you don’t get big issues when starting tanks etc
@@truthfactreality6814 have you seen the tanks in the san Francisco store? this guy has hundreds of tanks and says the key to no algae in any of them is minimal flow...There is no absolutes here, no 100% right ways. It's all about adjusting as you go and as the tank evolves. A bit like this one. It's had a hiccup, i'll adapt it (in the way that's working for me and I find most enjoyable, meaning really low tech) and go from there. With a process of elimination, I'll get it as balanced as all my other tanks in no time. 👍
What filter do you use on the angle fish tank and also how many gallons is it ?
hi Marck, how do you get some healthy plants wiyhout CO2?? i love your work!!
good stuff!
Wow
I don't like chemicals of any kind .we should find what we did wrong and let nature take its course even if it takes a year
Though trail and error
1:38 MD says Cyano acrelate (super glue) instead of cyanobacteria.
Did he dump a bottle of super glue in the tank I'm so confused!
Just joking funny mistake to make though, great video as always MD! 🔥🔥🔥
you didnt cycle the tank then put 50+ fish in on day one what did you think would happen
Another GREAT video but please get a ladder. I don't want you falling & hurting yourself, the fish, or the tank. I fell & broke my femur a couple years ago. Had to have surgery to fix it ~ Big mess ! Just care about your safety MD !
Awesome video bro 👍🏻
Where can I buy the Cyano treatment in the UK? ps Love the videos
Good morning MD where did you get the chemiclean from? Cant seem to find any in the uk
I think the angel fish are not such big fans of the massiv flow :D
hey MD i have and idea for your upcoming build videos, are you ready? biridge aquarium. What do you think, does anyone else agree?
Idk it might just be me but I like the white sand better, don’t come at me lol