Adding A Resurrection Jar To An Aquarium: Starting A Food Web
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- Опубліковано 2 сер 2024
- So have you collected a resurrect jar and not sure what the next steps are? Well in this video I will add a resurrection jar into one of my aquariums. By doing so we can learn together everything to do and expect. I am fully jumping in head first into the food web process and plan and starting it in every tank in my fish room. If there is any information I may have missed in this video please feel free to share it in the comments. I like always want my channel to be about learning and sharing.
As always I highly recommend checking out the @FatherFish UA-cam channel which I will link below but also on his channel you will find the link for his Discord channel which I have mentioned numerous times in past videos ( and FYI will continue to plug because it’s great). There is so much useful and informative information that if your into any dirted tank style I highly recommend checking it out.
Please consider subscribing to my channel if you haven’t already and I’m offering memberships to my channel if you want a closer more in depth look at my fish room and my adventures. So join me in thinking outside the box and taking a step back into nature 🌻🍃🍂
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Excellent, Patty. You absolutely nailed the methodology of a sustained food web.
It’s easy when you have a great teacher 😁 Thank you very much Father Fish, it means a lot, especially your support. 🙏Thank you for watching
Very interesting you and FF both have great content on this process of all natural tanks. Looking forward to updates as it develops
Thank you very much! My goal is to try to use as many of his methods as possible to help not only myself but others see this is all possible. Thanks for watching 😁👍
This is a real life experiment right before my eyes. So grateful!
Thank you and it has been amazing. It’s been about 2 weeks since I have done this and already can see a difference with the algae. Future update video material 😁thank you so much for watching it’s greatly appreciated 😁👍
If you want a perfectly clear and clean tank. Don't do what we do if you want a healthy tank do what we do. The unwashed creek sand experiment worked well. Really nice.
Perfect advice there. My goal is always to look as close to an actual bottom of a body of water. In the 2 weeks since I added this my tank has improved big time and love it so it doesn’t surprise me your experiment worked as well. Thanks for watching 😁👍
Fellow father fisher here :P I have a couple of FF tanks that had microfauna already in there form plants, but I'm working on my first res jar right now. Going to add it to my 125 ^_^ so scary but exciting!
Welcome and always love fellow natural tank lovers. I completely get the scary part. I was very hesitant to do it but once I did and seen my leaf litter disappeared within a week and a half I knew my microscopic friends were in there thriving and helping me maintain my tank. 😁 You will love it. Thanks for watching 😁👍
Nice video and great explanation. Wow, that's a lot of microorganisms in the one jar! Very nice, Patty, I hope you have really good success with this and have a good weekend! 🙂👍
Thank you very much Tara! It sure was. I was questioning myself why that jar was so cloudy till I looked closer with my phone. This has definitely been an eye opening experience to say the least. Thanks so much for watching and have a great weekend yourself 😁👍
2k here we come
I love your resurrection jar vids.
Really good info my friend.
I use to collect some moss and the amount of life that would come in with them.. especially these large green caterpillar looking insect ..this was in the middle of the winter . .
Dinner bell 🔔😂
Great video as always
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Thanks Chris, they definitely are interesting and educational. It’s absolutely amazing the life which can be found from just a handful of “gunk” at the bottom of a body of water. And then to use that for this hobby is phenomenal to me.
Thanks as always my friend for watching and the continued support 😁👍
Thinking of starting a food web for my new 20 gallon high planted with lots of anacharis and duckweed as floating plants
Very cool, yeah I’m about 2 weeks in since I added it and a lot of the leaves have disappeared (eaten) it definitely is an interesting and eye opening experience! Thanks for watching 😁👍
Nicely presented Patty 👍👍
Thanks Mal, it’s kind of cool seeing the progression from collecting the jars till now. Thank you very much for watching 😁👍
Love this Patty! I have learned so much from you and Father Fish . Very good video
Thank you so much that means a lot. It’s all about helping each other to me. Thank you very much for watching 😁👍
Absolutely phenomenal Patty! I have been contemplating trying this video just convinced me. Thank you and keep up the awesome content 💯
Thank you so much! I’m glad I could help and have fun with it. It’s an amazing experience . Thanks for watching 😁👍
Just bought a fishing net. Heading for the pond. Thank you
That is awesome! You are more than welcome it definitely is an amazing and educational experience. Thanks for watching 😁👍
I'm really enjoying your videos. I think that first batch of rotting leaves is going to be hard to dump in. I've had a planted dirted tank for years but never with leaf litter in it.
I was the same way but to be honest once they kind of find there final resting spots amongst the plants it looks so natural. I get it though
Thanks for watching 😁👍
Great informative video! This was really useful to me and I cant wait to see my fish foraging when my jar is ready!
Thank you very much! I’m glad it could help and enjoy. I have about 5 guppy/endlers in this tank with my puffer and have never fed them. They will eat some scraps from the puffer but there bellies are always full . Thanks for watching 😁👍
Hi Patty, I enjoy your channel. I have several dirted tanks that have done well, two 75 gallons, one about 50 g, a 29, and a 20 long. I have 10 resurrection jars lined up in a couple of window sills and find them fascinating. I use gallon jars, and each one is quite different. The area I live is pretty dry with very little permanent natural water, so I have collected muck from developed water catchments designed for cattle or wildlife drinkers. Some of these small ponds have been around for decades, and some sometimes dry up, but it is amazing the amount of life that has somehow found their way into them. Each of my jars have muck from different sources and I label them with the date and location collected from. Several are from muck collected from earlier this winter just before they froze over, and it is amazing what has grown in them. I have a microscope, and like to check out what kind of critters are showing up and growing in each jar. The contents keep changing as the months go by.. I've been thinking about dumping them in one of my tanks as you have, to see what comes of it.
The dirt I used in my tanks came from my compost pit where I started composting material from trees ground up in a wood chipper, mixed with manure. The stuff is well rotted, I screened it and I use at least a couple of inches under about 2 to 3 inches of coarse gravel in my tanks. Plant grow like crazy in these tanks. I also used worm dirt from my red worm beds that were started from the same compost in a couple tanks. That stuff worked great also. I've been so pleased with how these dirted tanks work that I'm planning to set up a 8' long 200 g tank I have.
WOW ,AMAZING those are just some of the words that come to mind reading this awesomeness. This just doubles down on the fact you can find life anywhere. I also would absolutely love to see a dirted tank that big… only in my dreams could I have that😁 Thank you so much for sharing your great experiences and thank you for watching 😁👍
Great video 😊 Detroit
Thank you very much! I appreciate it and thanks for watching 😁👍
Great info once again Sir. You and FF my go to source for valuable information. Thx
Thank you very much! I love to share my experiences I’m glad it can help . Thanks for watching 😁👍
Excellent 👍
🙏 Thank you
Really interesting video Patty very educational
Thanks Paul, I appreciate it! It definitely is an amazing and exciting project. Thanks for watching 😁👍
Very nice [[[[[👍❤️😉
Thank you very much! And thank you for watching 😁👍
Wow brother you grew your channel a lot I remember when you had like 100!! I still have all my fish tanks I’m running 3 atm hope your doing well 😊
Your friend from Pennsylvania
Thank you very much! Yeah I never would have thought people would actually want to watch me when I started this. 😂
Thanks for stopping by and watching 😁👍
@@pattys_aquatics we watch you because you are so real in your approach. we learn with you and it feels like it is possible to do.
@@carmie2431 thank you very much! I believe in showing everything I do good and bad and if I’m learning something and not sure about something I will tell you. Honesty and true documentation is what I’m about. Thanks again I appreciate you 😁👍
That was very little leaf litter into a 75gallon and definitely not dangerous to add a foodweb, it's beneficial to the tank.👍 Can't wait for more
Thanks good to know. I already have a bucket of dead leaves and 4 more jars started. Absolutely love this. A lot of the leaf litter is already gone in my tank 2 weeks later😁. Thanks so much for the support and watching, it means a lot 😁👍
@@pattys_aquaticscheers man! Happy Paddy's weekend from Ireland 🇮🇪
@@DashDrones Happy St Paddy’s to you as well 😁👍☘️
What do you think about adding blackworm directly to your aquarium? We have been doing this when resetting the fish room to try and establish a natural food source and in my mind they will help with the substrate (sorry if we have asked this in the past our notifications from UA-cam are spotty at best). I think we also messed up in terms of the amount of soil we added to the aquarium, we threw in an inch of top soil and capped off with about half inch of sand! Plant growth wasn't great initially but now everything is doing really well and we have very very little algae but we are using super low w bulbs, 12w except on the big 450 we setup the other day! Its all an experience and learning curve but we def added WAYYYYY to much soil (but its working after some time so all good?!) appreciate you brother!
I have never dealt with black worms before but it sounds like that is a plausible scenario. I will be curious to see how that works out for you guys.
It didn’t sound like you had too much soil but not enough cap. Good rule of thumb is 1 inch soil to 2 inch sand. I unfortunately have dealt with algae( mostly green hair algae) in a few of my tanks but I believe it’s because I didn’t have enough fast growing stem plants in there which is also a rule of thumb .. add lots of stem plants.. it definitely is all a learning curve and experience and that’s why I love having this channel to show my ups and downs to potential help someone in the same situation and so I can also learn from other hobbyists.
I appreciate you as well and thank you for the constant support 🙏😁👍
@@pattys_aquatics appreciate the reply and your thoughts, not dealing with any sort of cloudy water or algae so far touch wood, but i kinda put that down to a ton of cherry shrimp and the 12w bulb! Electric is going down in the UK next month so will be switching to some high end lights and see what happens with the Algae then! Something else we are doing wrong I suspect is using black sand which is a bit more course than normal sand! This is why I should have asked more questions BEFORE setting up the tanks from you, note to future self for me :) Have a fab weekend!!!
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Let me ask you this, how long can u let a jar of magic goop sit? Say u want extra to add later as u said, what's the "expiration" date on a jar? Great video! Let me know thanks!
I personally don’t think there is an expiration date as long as the jar doesn’t foul from the muck. Can always put an air stone or floating plant( red root floaters or something) in there to help as well.
Hope that helped😁 Thank you and thanks as always for the support Jesse😁👍
I had my resurrection jar running for months in a little glass bowl and those creatures were fine in there and it didn´t smell or go bad. At the end the water got little brown when those leaves broke down. I just added some water when it evaporated and had some duckweed on the top but I think it could be fine without because it didn´t grow. And I was amazed how it could be living months without doing nothing 😲I added the water from there to my tank to feed my fish with those tiny creatures and then let the bowl be and grow more creatures. Now I put the rest of it to my tank because I wanted add the worms from the bottom to my tank but maybe I start it again... Or, I have also a little jar dirted tank that I made to isopods that I found from nature when I was starting the resurrection jar and it has light and plants and there are so many small things living in it because I have added some stuff from the resurrection jar to it. And maybe I start taking that water now to feed my fish. I have dried leaves to add to my tank and that jar to keep everything running.
@@valopoksi659 very cool, I have a 2.5 gallon I’m planning on making a permanent jar/tank. Thank you for sharing 😁👍
How often do you add resurrection jar materials? I have one jar going, gonna collect another on Thursday
@@tinacorrine5392 I typically only add the one jar then when the leaf litter starts to spider web and get eaten away I will add more leaf litter. Hope that helps and thanks for watching 😁👍
Father Fish has said that your tank should have at least 50% fast-growing plants to be successful
What was the reason? I"m new to FF. I see that he sells a lot of stem plants that grow quickly.
Yes , they are very beneficial. I have Ludwigia and Pogostemon Octopus plus dwarf sag. Now do a I have 50 of my tank with it , no , but I will as the grow and I propagate. Thanks for watching 😁👍
@@WaterWhirld they are beneficial for eating the possible excess nutrients in the water column from my understanding of it. Especially in the beginning 😁
@@pattys_aquatics That's what I figured. My stem plants haven't done well in the past with my softened hard well water without lots of ferts so I have stuck to swords, anubias, and crypts. Maybe once I get some biological breakdown going the stems will do better. I do have guppy grass floating and some duckweed.
@@WaterWhirld hey man, in terms of stem plants I would recommend bacopa coroliniana which has a strong stem. It can pair very well with crypts. Nurturing stem plants is a process but once they reach a certain point in development then they are actually great. Bacopa also produces less leaf litter
Hey patty, how often are you adding resurrection jar material to your aquariums?
It really depends on the material. The two jars I added in this video were almost eaten away by 2 weeks so I have added dry leaves I soaked a few times since then. I heard hardwood leaves such as Oak will take longer to breakdown down and that’s the dry leaves I added to this tank and those have been in there for almost a month I would say and are just starting to breakdown. It’s honestly not bad to mix the different types of leaves for some diversity and such. Basically just have to monitor them and when they start looking webbed that they are being eaten away that’s when I add more.
Hope that helped. Thanks for watching 😁👍
I started a res jar and have noticed these little worms. I dont want to introduce parasites to my fish, how do you know what's good or bad?
@@PNW_Wolfpack_Adventures honestly the best way is to go on the father fish discord. There is a section that shows with pictures identification guides. I get the uncertainty. If they have trianglular heads they are typically planaria. But there are many that are just different types of detritus worms. All I can say is do some research if that makes you more comfortable. I have had numerous different types of worms including planaria in my jars that are now in my tanks and my fish and shrimp are fine but you need to do what makes you comfortable.
Can put the leaf litter and water directly after getting ?? I mean the same day?
You shouldn’t, you want to observe the organic material to make sure there is nothing in it that could potentially harm your fish. If you have say dragonfly nymph or something along those lines you can remove them from the jar when you see them. Also if there is anything that depends on a host to survive will potentially die off in those 30 days. So can you add right away?…sure … but I would advise against it out of precaution.
Hope that helped and thank you for watching 😁👍
The jar i made few days ago .i c many things in it... But at the same time it stinks .. der wer shrimps in it too .. but most of dem died within two days..what went wrong..may be it stinks coz der r dead shrimps inside... Shud i put. That water in tank or throw it out?? Pls help
@@babykrishu4319 they can have an odor sometimes. I keep mine covered but if you can see the dead shrimp maybe pull them out but some options are to drop an airline in there and aerate it slowly or if you have floating plants you can throw a couple in there and should help with the odor. How much leaf litter do you have in the jar? Reason I ask is sometimes if it’s packed with too much it can fouls the water.
@@pattys_aquatics ah .. i actually made it first time . I got bit greedy u can say.. I just took lot of leafs... The colour of water is darker too.. but I do see so many living things in it!!! Atleast 5-6 types .. what u feel the water will b gud for my tank?? If i pour little of it??
@@babykrishu4319 I myself wouldn’t add it till after the 30 days of observation but what you can do as well if it is packed with leaves is grab another jar, add part of the leaf litter and water into another jar. You can top off jars with tank water. Then you have 2 cultures and may help with the odor as well.
Is it best to keep the resurrection jar by window or near the window?
@@trollXmakefunner it should have some sort of light source. I keep mine under an aquarium light but you definitely can put it in a window just make sure it’s not getting scorched by the sun too much or the water will get to hot and kill everything in it .
@@pattys_aquatics Thanks. I have subscribed and followed.
@@trollXmakefunner thank you 🙏
How did you take out the worms?
I used a little tweezers. Wasn’t easy but got them. Thanks for watching 😁👍