Yes I had a ton of mistakes made as a beginner that truly shaped my thirst for knowledge and when I got my first success it was super pivotal in my life as a whole . Nice video I thoroughly enjoyed and related !!!
Wow really informative video. Now that I've seen your "who am I" video, it makes a lot of sense why you're so good at giving sales tips on how to hook the customer. 👍
yup, i sell a huge bag of hornworts for 2$s on offer up, and a lady constantly buys them from me because her gold fish is eating the plants faster than it can grow lol
Great video! I am actually a straight up beginner and started plants 2 months ago. What I bought was Java Fern, Swords, Marimo Moss balls,and Dwarf Sag. I will eventually get some kind of floater in my tank and set up a divider for it. I thought the video was a good watch as some of the other plants you had listed I also considered getting at one point or another.
Been watching ur videos to see how a young kid can snatch a bag without crime or abilities to rap or scam. Plants and animals, are absolutely what I prefer more then anything else besides my family I’m starting. Now, for all the money I’ve wasted on bs, I wish I seen ur videos sooner because I was on the wrong side of the hobby,(especially knowing I have a whole store worth of tanks and filtration from my dads store back in 99-04, so I know I have Dino aged gear but I still got a great head start over most folks. Much love OG
Really good video here with great advise. I have done many of the high tech plants and really I have found that I enjoy beginner plants more. I no longer run any CO2. I feetilize but only about once a week instead of daily. The plants I like to sell the most are rotalla indica, wisteria and Java moss. I also give away a bunch of Azolla to feed some turtles. These are all plants I have a great abundance of so I don't mind seeing them go out the door. Bacopa is something I would like to add to my collection, maybe it will take off as well.
Water wisteria. If someone needs a plant that will fill in and not fail? Water wisteria (Hygrophila Difformis) I tell them they can literally just drop it in their tank and it will grow if you have some kind of light. You can take the plant home, literally rip all the leaves off and float them in your tank and in a month you will have a dozen plants that you can put in the substrate and make a forest. This plant will grow sideways in the gravel, root, and sprout stems straight up to the surface... it doesn’t need special soil, just petsmart plastic colored gravel and fish poop and good to go. It will grow up and out of the water and convert back to immersed form and it’s cool that way, too. This was the second plant I was successful with, and I recommend it to any beginner.
It’s also an excellent indicator plant. When I still used T5s, I would watch my wisteria and if it slowed down, I knew it was time to get new bulbs. I mean, there was no way it was low on nutrients... The first time, I was like, “wait... I haven’t had to trim in like... a month? What’s going on?”
He Bentley, That poster behind you makes it look like you’ve gone with a punk hairdo! I had to put my glasses on :-) Also, this fall, I was at a scout event on the Hudson River. I found Bacopa growing in a dry field! It’s now growing in my sunroom tank.
Bacopa is a crazy tough plant and can do some interesting things! I guess the "advantage" to silvery-white hair is anime type posters tend to blend into it 🙃
hey bro, good stuff keep it up. Right now I got a few tanks and I'm thinking of just doing java moss for walls, carpet and eventually make trees to sell.
I just got back into aquariums about 9 months ago and started my first planted tank. I seem to be pretty unique when it comes to planted tanks. I don't walk up to somebody's tank and start taking inventory of what rare plants they have. I look at tanks like I look at a painting. I ask myself, "Do I find this entire tank visually appealing?" To me an aquarium is just one thing with multiple parts. I either like the whole thing or I don't. For me planted tanks aren't just about having a rare collection. Some of my favorite plants like Staurogyne repens and java moss are cheap and easy to grow. I still find them beautiful and to me that's the important part. In fact I find some of the beginner plants more visually stunning than the rare ones. I'm cultivating beauty not collecting. My second issue is the whole "hard plant" deal. I think a lot of plants are hard just because people say they are. One of the first plants I started out with was anubias nana petite. I was told I would not like it because "without pressurized CO2 and high light they'll never spread. You'll be lucky to get one new leaf a month. I'm extremely low budget. I get whatever cheap light I can find on Ebay. Rarely do I spend more than $10 for a light. I only recently upgraded to pressurized CO2. Before that I was using yeast in a coke bottle. I started out relying on fish poop for fertilizer. I bought one little anubias nana petite, glued it to a rock and left it to do it's own thing. Within a couple months I had to start constantly dividing the clump because it was growing crazy fast. Now I've got clumps all over the place in two tanks. Same with amazon sword aflame "purple knight." People said I wouldn't like it because the color fades, it only puts out a couple leaves before the old ones die and it never gets big. I bought a TC cup of these about 3 months ago. Now I have 16 six inch tall, leafy, dark red to purple amazon sword plants. I find them no harder than the standard amazon sword. I think a lot of the reason that newbies have trouble with some plants is because they are coached to constantly tweak them because "they are hard." I just let them go and they thrive. If anything I think plants don't like being picked at and having water parameters constantly changing. If you have a tank looking good and you want to add a "hard plant" go ahead. It will either grow or it won't. I think that if most plants are thriving in a tank then the hard ones will like it, too. If not, do you really want that plant? I would rather have a tank full of plants looking good than have them all suffer because one plant is picky.
A very reasonable approach to tanks - I tend to plant with two intentions: 1) stuff I like - this ranges from very simple plants to more complex ones. 2) Plants I haven't tried and want to see how they grow/color for me with how I do things. This is just that natural "let's experiment" side of me that comes from how my brain works. Normally I grow these in tanks designed/intended to be plant farms rather than more "this tank is set like this, I love it and want it to stay this way".
Great Video! I've only been in the hobby about a year now. My first tank was planted and was/is successful, thanks to Cory from aquarium co-op. To be honest I don't want a high tech set-up that requires a lot of maintenance. While they are beautiful, I have had great success using a decent substrate, lighting and easy green.
Its a good and easy plant, but I typically don't recommend it as it's on many of the banned lists for several states as a noxious weed/invasive plant. If kept responsibly though, it's quite lovely!
I bought a crypt for my beta tank and the whole thing completely melted. It has me a little worried about starting plants but it’s not stopping me from trying to build a 20 gallon tank filled with plants, hoping that the crypt will be OK because the root system seems to be just fine, it’s just all the leaves are dead
This is very common with this particular plant just based on how they're grown in farms versus when they get fully subversed in a tank. Just be patient. As long as it has no nutrition at the roots it should come what back
What is your experience with Azolla? Just got some off Ebay but i dont hear it talked about alot like say salvinia or frogbit. Thanks for the vid Bentley!
No, though I personally prefer growing it rooted, it can actually do well just floating around a tank or being "held" in place with a clip of some form, like if you planned to grow it coming out of the tank/sump
Hi Bentley, I wanted to get your opinion on how should grow java fern windelov as a plant for profit. Should I glue the plantlets to stones and let them grow from there? I dont want to attach them permanently to driftwood as I would have to remove them to auction at the club or sell to the store. I have a bunch of them floating in my tanks, but I never attached them to anything so they end up as a java fern ball, with leaves sticking out of every part of the rhizome.
If the goal is java ferns, I would either A) Friction fit them between rock/driftwood or B) tie them to wood and let them grow from there. You can alternatively use a small plant weight and just have that hold them to the top of the substrate. For selling, I tend to purposefully stress the plant some to make it start putting out baby plants of the back of the leaves, then I'll let those grow out and harvest them (when leaves are 1.5-2" long). Grow those new child plants out and sell them. Cheers!
Dwarf water lettuce, salvinia, and frogbit are the ones I mentioned in the list, the plant I commonly grow floating with the "big root balls" is water wisteria or watersprite.
Yes. Plants naturally absorb nitrates, but also small amount of ammonia and nitrite. They also provide additional surface area for beneficial bacteria to propagate. I cycle all of my tanks with just substrate and plants, letting them run that way until they are ready for fish - it creates a much better environment for the fish.
Want to pick up some beginner plants from the same place I do? That would be Aquarium Co-Op: bit.ly/2HYvmEZ
I finally felt the joy of selling aquatic plants! And a repeat customer too.
Awesome!
Yes I had a ton of mistakes made as a beginner that truly shaped my thirst for knowledge and when I got my first success it was super pivotal in my life as a whole . Nice video I thoroughly enjoyed and related !!!
Wow really informative video. Now that I've seen your "who am I" video, it makes a lot of sense why you're so good at giving sales tips on how to hook the customer. 👍
I've had quite the weird working history, but each was important in forging who I am. Thanks for watching!
Hornwort and guppy grass...even folks who kill every other plant around can grow these two. As long as they have water they are about bulletproof.
yup, i sell a huge bag of hornworts for 2$s on offer up, and a lady constantly buys them from me because her gold fish is eating the plants faster than it can grow lol
Great video! I am actually a straight up beginner and started plants 2 months ago. What I bought was Java Fern, Swords, Marimo Moss balls,and Dwarf Sag. I will eventually get some kind of floater in my tank and set up a divider for it. I thought the video was a good watch as some of the other plants you had listed I also considered getting at one point or another.
Been watching ur videos to see how a young kid can snatch a bag without crime or abilities to rap or scam. Plants and animals, are absolutely what I prefer more then anything else besides my family I’m starting. Now, for all the money I’ve wasted on bs, I wish I seen ur videos sooner because I was on the wrong side of the hobby,(especially knowing I have a whole store worth of tanks and filtration from my dads store back in 99-04, so I know I have Dino aged gear but I still got a great head start over most folks. Much love OG
This video came on as I was arranging my Javaferns properly after burying them for over 2 years. Great video!! Very interesting topic
Wise words. Thanks !
Excellent video!!! Very informative!
Really good video here with great advise. I have done many of the high tech plants and really I have found that I enjoy beginner plants more. I no longer run any CO2. I feetilize but only about once a week instead of daily. The plants I like to sell the most are rotalla indica, wisteria and Java moss. I also give away a bunch of Azolla to feed some turtles. These are all plants I have a great abundance of so I don't mind seeing them go out the door. Bacopa is something I would like to add to my collection, maybe it will take off as well.
Very nice. I love finding these videos of yours that I missed. Thank you for sharing! - Little Bobby
I'm a plants are decoration not the focus kind of guy so appreciate something I can almost plant and forget. Good video as always.
Thanks John!
Water wisteria. If someone needs a plant that will fill in and not fail? Water wisteria (Hygrophila Difformis) I tell them they can literally just drop it in their tank and it will grow if you have some kind of light. You can take the plant home, literally rip all the leaves off and float them in your tank and in a month you will have a dozen plants that you can put in the substrate and make a forest.
This plant will grow sideways in the gravel, root, and sprout stems straight up to the surface... it doesn’t need special soil, just petsmart plastic colored gravel and fish poop and good to go. It will grow up and out of the water and convert back to immersed form and it’s cool that way, too.
This was the second plant I was successful with, and I recommend it to any beginner.
I like to think of it as "the fool proof plant"
It’s also an excellent indicator plant. When I still used T5s, I would watch my wisteria and if it slowed down, I knew it was time to get new bulbs. I mean, there was no way it was low on nutrients...
The first time, I was like, “wait... I haven’t had to trim in like... a month? What’s going on?”
Good fishkeeping is actually good aquatic plants keeping.
He Bentley,
That poster behind you makes it look like you’ve gone with a punk hairdo! I had to put my glasses on :-)
Also, this fall, I was at a scout event on the Hudson River. I found Bacopa growing in a dry field! It’s now growing in my sunroom tank.
Bacopa is a crazy tough plant and can do some interesting things! I guess the "advantage" to silvery-white hair is anime type posters tend to blend into it 🙃
Very informative and good insight into selling plants. I would’ve thought the “rockstar” plants were the best investment.
hey bro, good stuff keep it up. Right now I got a few tanks and I'm thinking of just doing java moss for walls, carpet and eventually make trees to sell.
coolest nice plant video there :D "D cheers
Excellent video & very informative Bentley! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks buddy!
I just got back into aquariums about 9 months ago and started my first planted tank. I seem to be pretty unique when it comes to planted tanks. I don't walk up to somebody's tank and start taking inventory of what rare plants they have. I look at tanks like I look at a painting. I ask myself, "Do I find this entire tank visually appealing?" To me an aquarium is just one thing with multiple parts. I either like the whole thing or I don't. For me planted tanks aren't just about having a rare collection. Some of my favorite plants like Staurogyne repens and java moss are cheap and easy to grow. I still find them beautiful and to me that's the important part. In fact I find some of the beginner plants more visually stunning than the rare ones. I'm cultivating beauty not collecting.
My second issue is the whole "hard plant" deal. I think a lot of plants are hard just because people say they are. One of the first plants I started out with was anubias nana petite. I was told I would not like it because "without pressurized CO2 and high light they'll never spread. You'll be lucky to get one new leaf a month. I'm extremely low budget. I get whatever cheap light I can find on Ebay. Rarely do I spend more than $10 for a light. I only recently upgraded to pressurized CO2. Before that I was using yeast in a coke bottle. I started out relying on fish poop for fertilizer. I bought one little anubias nana petite, glued it to a rock and left it to do it's own thing. Within a couple months I had to start constantly dividing the clump because it was growing crazy fast. Now I've got clumps all over the place in two tanks. Same with amazon sword aflame "purple knight." People said I wouldn't like it because the color fades, it only puts out a couple leaves before the old ones die and it never gets big. I bought a TC cup of these about 3 months ago. Now I have 16 six inch tall, leafy, dark red to purple amazon sword plants. I find them no harder than the standard amazon sword. I think a lot of the reason that newbies have trouble with some plants is because they are coached to constantly tweak them because "they are hard." I just let them go and they thrive. If anything I think plants don't like being picked at and having water parameters constantly changing. If you have a tank looking good and you want to add a "hard plant" go ahead. It will either grow or it won't. I think that if most plants are thriving in a tank then the hard ones will like it, too. If not, do you really want that plant? I would rather have a tank full of plants looking good than have them all suffer because one plant is picky.
A very reasonable approach to tanks - I tend to plant with two intentions: 1) stuff I like - this ranges from very simple plants to more complex ones. 2) Plants I haven't tried and want to see how they grow/color for me with how I do things. This is just that natural "let's experiment" side of me that comes from how my brain works. Normally I grow these in tanks designed/intended to be plant farms rather than more "this tank is set like this, I love it and want it to stay this way".
Fantastic video great work . Very helpful. Just started with Co2 ,multi fertilizer from tropica and seachem excel
Great Video! I've only been in the hobby about a year now. My first tank was planted and was/is successful, thanks to Cory from aquarium co-op. To be honest I don't want a high tech set-up that requires a lot of maintenance. While they are beautiful, I have had great success using a decent substrate, lighting and easy green.
Golden.
This actually very informative. Thank you
Don't sell duckweed that's just cruel! 😂 Subscribed!
Parrot Feather is another in that I recommend 👍
Its a good and easy plant, but I typically don't recommend it as it's on many of the banned lists for several states as a noxious weed/invasive plant. If kept responsibly though, it's quite lovely!
great advice buddy!
Thanks Alex!
Was that not water sprite where you were talking about floating wisteria? I grow both floating.
Great vid,
Chris
I have both a broad leafed version of water sprite and water wisteria that I grow floating.
cool video. haha i don't think i'd call you a big "scary" guy from what i can tell hahahh
What do you think about liquid co2 like seachems excel? And would it be beneficial to anubias
Liquid CO2 is not a significant source of carbon for plants. It is better used as an algaecide.
I bought a crypt for my beta tank and the whole thing completely melted. It has me a little worried about starting plants but it’s not stopping me from trying to build a 20 gallon tank filled with plants, hoping that the crypt will be OK because the root system seems to be just fine, it’s just all the leaves are dead
This is very common with this particular plant just based on how they're grown in farms versus when they get fully subversed in a tank. Just be patient. As long as it has no nutrition at the roots it should come what back
What is your experience with Azolla? Just got some off Ebay but i dont hear it talked about alot like say salvinia or frogbit. Thanks for the vid Bentley!
Azolla is one of the salvinia species, it's just a little less common. Still a fairly easy plant to keep
Good info.
Good information!
Question: Does P. octopus need to be rooted?
No, though I personally prefer growing it rooted, it can actually do well just floating around a tank or being "held" in place with a clip of some form, like if you planned to grow it coming out of the tank/sump
Hi Bentley, I wanted to get your opinion on how should grow java fern windelov as a plant for profit. Should I glue the plantlets to stones and let them grow from there? I dont want to attach them permanently to driftwood as I would have to remove them to auction at the club or sell to the store. I have a bunch of them floating in my tanks, but I never attached them to anything so they end up as a java fern ball, with leaves sticking out of every part of the rhizome.
If the goal is java ferns, I would either A) Friction fit them between rock/driftwood or B) tie them to wood and let them grow from there. You can alternatively use a small plant weight and just have that hold them to the top of the substrate. For selling, I tend to purposefully stress the plant some to make it start putting out baby plants of the back of the leaves, then I'll let those grow out and harvest them (when leaves are 1.5-2" long). Grow those new child plants out and sell them. Cheers!
I have a tank of java ferns and moss in a seasonal room where water temp can go to low sixties. Is this too cool for java?
Don't think so
@@BentleyPascoe I guess Ill find out, thank you.
Cant grow easy plants but i can grow freaking extremely rare and expensive stuff....go figure...
Good video and god I miss that tank 😭🥺 but all good i have another in the works
Congratulations
Where do u get the Mysterio I believe have u say it
Water Wisteria, Hygrophila Difformis - pretty common plant
Interesting
that's what I'm TRYING to do is grow me enough plants to get something going like that.
Awesome Video Thanks for Sharing FishFam NJAE19
What was the name of that floating plants ?? I couldn't get that 🤦🤦
Dwarf water lettuce, salvinia, and frogbit are the ones I mentioned in the list, the plant I commonly grow floating with the "big root balls" is water wisteria or watersprite.
@@BentleyPascoe I think it was water wisteria thanks for the time !!
Are live plants good for cycling a new tank?
Yes. Plants naturally absorb nitrates, but also small amount of ammonia and nitrite. They also provide additional surface area for beneficial bacteria to propagate. I cycle all of my tanks with just substrate and plants, letting them run that way until they are ready for fish - it creates a much better environment for the fish.
Great, Are you currently selling plants?
@@danwilcox4183 I do have some plants available, you can reach out to me via email: bentley.pascoe@gmail.com
first dislike ?
Is that "friends farming tank" local to us?
Id love to get some Florida
He's also in this area and in my club, not sure if he's still farming Florida.
Bentley Pascoe I didn’t even know about this video until now lol