I have pothos, all sorts of Draceanas, lilies, snake plants, ferns, hibiscus, phillodundrums of all sorts in several aquariums, palludariums, etc for 25 yrs.....hence, I never have to do water chsnges and my tanks parameters are perfect and the plants grow so fast, I havnt purchased house plants in YEARS. Simply take cuttings and stick in pots, other tanks etc. For aquariums you can get baskets desk organizers et cetera Dollar Tree even stick on shower caddies with holes in them and just fill him with gravel and stick the plants in them. that's it!
I’ve been growing Pothos in fish tanks for several years and My experience had been positive for it helping with nitrate control. But the size or number of plants has to be proportionate to the bio load. 1 little plant in a 125 gallon tank fully stocked is not going to keep you from having to do water changes. Personally I tend to understock my tanks and aim to have high plant volume and it does save me a lot of water changes.
I have pothos growing through my 36 gallon. They're perfect for keeping the water super clean, I love em. I also have other plants with no issues in a low stock tank
I grow money plant in my small tank that has 1 gallon water, 4 small fish & a java moss.The water quality remains good even after a month. Low water change required & fishes are healthy.
@@danm8004 and why does he have 4 fish in it?....or ANY living animals in it, sans snails maybe? Probably from China....or India. Probably has thosr "lego bricks" looking tanks.
I've got pothos in one of my 29g tanks as part of an aquaponics setup. Two plants I've found that are even better than pothos as removing nitrates are Arrowhead vine (Syngonium sp.) and Peace lily. They do an amazing job. I have all planted tanks. I just love a tank with both submerged AND emergent plants. The way nature intended, imo. As far as roots in the water, go for it! Some people don't like the LOOK of emergent plant roots in the water column, but some think it adds to the natural look of a tank. It's entirely personal preference. Fish love them, especially fry.
I have a peace Lilly and a pothos in my 30 gallon tank,I just put them in a couple of weeks ago.. i want to add a swiss cheese plant .I heard those are really good as well..but you say arrow head vine works really well too?
Ammonia is "dosed" throughout the day from the respiration and digestive processes of your fish. Fortunately, and since it is absorbed so readily by plants ammonia should never reach measurable levels. Surplus ammonia, beyond what is consumed by plants, is then digested through the nitrogen cycle by bacteria.
I just planted pothos and a peace lilly at the top of my tank, for cleaning and it looks nice. I use some small hydroponic, 2 inch basket pots kind of attached to the side of my tank.
I built for two 65 gal tanks full length planters that sit on top my tanks. These planter are filled with small red lava stones as planting medium and of course havens for nitrifying bacteria. I built one of them over a year ago and the other some months later when I was happy with the first. Both have a plant led light over them. Both tanks have been healthy with nothing but normal maintenance. The only problem I have is keeping up with the pothos vines as they try and take over the room. Both tanks are planted with assorted anubias, valesnaria, swords, java ferns, and others.
I use Pothos, Monstera and lucky bamboo. I have no Nitrates in my aquarium. I collect all fish poop and food waste and throw it in the garbage every other day. My filter is a Sobo top filter. This filter is very easy to clean and very cheap to buy.
Thank you for the info on pothos plants. I've noticed that floating plants like frogbit help so much with helping the tank to keep its healthy balance. I've also used azolla, water spangle and duckweed (but these can be harder to control then frogbit especially the duckweed.) The more stem plants I add the less floating plants I need. Would love to see an update video on your pothos. Looking now to see if there is.
I'm happy you're going to demonstrate your results for us! All I know is, in my overstocked 10g endler tank, the nitrate is unable to accumulate above maybe 40, even if I entirely skip water changes. Though the tank is a jungle inside, too. The pothos won't magic the nitrate away, but mine seems to grow like a weed and eats like a pig.
I have had pothos in a planter in a hydroponic (aquaponic) flow loop outside my tank. It’s taken a very long time to grow using aquarium water and low light. I never see much change in my nitrates. However, since I designed the system and it’s grown, I have not had any algae and have not even had to clean the glass since. The brown algae disappeared completely over time too. I also have a similar amount of plants in my tank like yours in this video, but those never made any difference in reducing algae. And I don’t dose at all and feed very little. It’s the same planter I shown in one of my videos. So however long ago that was is how long it’s been in continuous use.
When you take a plant that's in a pot straight from the store, a non aquatic plant, and put it entire into the tank, there's probably fertilizers that are going to leech out. Also I don't think anyone is recommending that the entire pot be put into the tank, I personally just took some cuttings and I have them hanging over the side of the tank and they are growing like crazy. I have aquatic plants also in the tank, and it is true that at the moment my nitrites are very low. But I also have a very small bio load with only six fish in the tank so not much nitrate is being produced. I'll solve that soon by adding more fish.
I have a pothos plant that extends over my kitchen bay window and has to be doubled back to stay off the floor (I'd estimate 10 feet) so I put a few clipping on my 55 gallon aquarium last weekend along with a couple 3 foot snake plants that were sagging from the main plant. Looking forward to the results.
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly I decided to try because the fish store guy heard I was trying to find plants my goldfish wouldn't destroy and he showed me in the back the difference between two tanks of feeder fish and the one with plants was incredibly clean while the other was cloudy. I was turning over all my gravel going from the multi-color gravel my ex liked to blue and natural stone I liked so I was losing my bacterial base and wanted a way to buffer the ammonia jumping. After a week, plants and fish are very happy.
Hey brother love your channel . I have a quick question kinda off topic of this video but I only clean the sides and front of my glass in my tank I don’t bother with the back I just let it go wild do you do the same ? Is it bad to not clean the back panel ?
I have pothos in my 25G for >5 years. Not sure if it's taking lots nutrients, but its showing signs of deficiency. I do need to add potassium since my anubias and java fern was showing pinholes. And my nitrate is always around 20 at the end of the week when i change water. My loach also ate some of its root, he's fine.
I have been using money plant / pothos in all my systems successfully for a very long time . 20 plus years and have found it to be very helpful . Started as just an aesthetic addition to my tank many years ago . (30+) and that plant grew like crazy . On my only tank at that time . Since then it is growing both as a decoration for aquarium and aquarium water freshener and also as beneficial plant for aquarium .
I have 4ft led shop lights over my tanks. They are 6500k range lights, and I used to grow trees in my basement (literally trees, not cannabis). I am hoping to get the plants cycling enough nitrogen that I can cut water changes down by next month
@@jmha2428 any light that is labeled daylight or in the 6K temperature range it’s going to be what you want. That’s gonna be your most economical option, but you can find plant specific ones that will cost you a lot more they take a lot less work to find. I don’t know what stores you have around you, but if you’re in the Midwest, I recommend menards for shop lights
Half Man Half Cichlid (UA-cam) uses a massive amount of plants (as compared to his fish load) to effectively control nitrates. It can be done but hard to accomplish with just sticking some pothos in one's tank. I've had pothos in my tanks for years, still have nitrates but I like the way it looks.
Im trying to grow my plants in my water softener water. Is it a good idea to put a cuttlebone and crushed coral in the filter? I have a 75 gallon community tank that crashed recently, so I'm waiting to put my fish back in. It crashed in every way possible. So distressing. My fish are unhappy in the hospital tank and seem depressed. I added some fluval stratum around my plants since it crashed anyway, and now the levels of everything are nearly good, but I do want to raise the calcium for my plants and fish to be healthy, but I dont want to raise it so bad that it kills my fish. I do have pothos in the back of my tank and even those aren't 'growing' they are just sitting there at the same level as when I put them in months ago.
I grow money plant in my small tank that has 1 gallon water, 4 small fish & a java moss.The water quality remains good even after a month & fishes are healthy.
the Pothos killed all the algae that my otto's and panda garras were eating on, but they left the blackbeard algae when it was not treated to kill the BBA. So I took the pothos out and things are going back to normal.
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly Well Peace lily submerged at the back of my fish tank after 6 weeks looks like normal plant, the rest with just roots in have withered and look sorry. The Pothos is down to 1 leaf, it has only roots in tank.. I have a soil substrate so i think that is keeping the Lily alive.
Pothos won't magic away the nitrate for sure, but it'll help. It and most other houseplants also seem to help with algae. I'm assuming because they remove phosphates from the water column as well?? It does seem to grow faster the larger it gets ... slow at first but reaching critical mass eventually and off it goes. I've seen it completely take over large aquariums if it's given enough time, nutrients and a good amount of light. It's another long term solution for nitrate control but a good one. The fish seem to love the massive root system it gets if you let it grow large enough. Honestly though floating plants would have a more immediate affect but I get why not everyone likes them. Anyways just my observations don't take my word as gospel.
Phosphates are what drives algal growth- to a much greater extent than nitrates. Pothos loves phosphates too, and this is why pothos cleaning your aquarium water will result in less algsl growth.
Rachel O'leary has a video titled "Pothos destroyed my aquarium." She had been growing brush algae in that aquarium for years as a feature in the tank- it looked good. And then she put a "new cultivar" of pathos in and it sucked the nutrients from the water and all he brush algae died. She said she had used pothos previosly in the filter before and it was fine- she believed it was just that *new cultivar* that caused the problem. I think she put the pothos in the filter not the water.
Most of my tanks seem.to be doing OK regards ammonia, etc. I just feel I need to add pathos or similar type plant to tank because it might be good for fish general health and enjoyment for roots to swim through and probably eat some of the roots. Also I glfeel.it looks good for the plant growing out of tank. Will it still work or start killing other plants competing for nutrition. Thanks.
Thanks for the information. I haven't tried this plant. I didn't want to take a chance of starving the aquatic plamts. Makes sense the pothos may be using up amonia.
I will ask question, does pothos cause fungus??? does it cause bacterial crowth??? Pls answer my question, if yes how to avoid fungus or bacterial growth in the aquarium with pothos???
It's odd that people say all these things about a plant just because it's common as dirt. Pothos is the "stock plant of vivariums" (as well as restaurants), it's not used because there is anything special about it or any other kind of botanical selection. People use it for the same reason they plant bradford pears in the yard, it's what the landscaper has the most of. If a vivarium and/or restaurant owner uses pothos it's because they have never picked up a book on botany or looked around the yard. I have to admit it's a pretty plant that is simple to grow if your goal is to master vivarium biology, kind of like Biosphere 2 is now used to grow white poplars. Many owners put their animals first and don't have to navigate the complexity of let's say growing mountain plants for your stream tank.
I'm pretty sure a I've read from Diana Walstad that plants can absorb ammonia 24/7 whereas nitrate can only be absorbed when there's light available. As for the pothos, I put a small portion in the hob filter on a ten gallon guppy tank. Initially the leaves were maybe three inches long, and after being in there a few months all new leaves are 7+ inches long. Huge. The roots have grown beyond the filter and into the tank itself and gone from one side to the other. The tank previously had quite high nitrates (I suspect mostly due to decomposition of water sprite which is covering the water surface). It's been a while since I tested but when I did there didn't seem to be much of a difference in the nitrate level. There are also two lucky bamboo in the filter which are doing quite well.
Our peat comes from Canada where they have very strict rules about how it can be harvested, and how the land has to be repaired to allow the remaining peat to build up again. They've also protected the vast majority of the peat from being harvested at all. the areas that are allowed to be used are still vast though. The peat situation in the UK is very different. Most of it still shockingly gets burned as for heat.
Your project will work, but it won't work. A plant converts ammonia into energy given a carbon source... so any plant will remove ammonia and to some degree nitrates from an aquarium... but it uses that energy for growth. This means that the plant has to be able to grow at the same rate as ammonia and it's related products are produced by the animals in the aquarium. Sadly pothos can't grow as fast as a few fish can create ammonia and it's successor nitrogen products. If it did, you would actually see it grow an equivalent amount to the food you put in your aquarium. This kind of growth can't be achieved by many plants. Duckweed, hornwort, water sprite are pretty fast growers, but I'm sure there are a few others to add to the list of better than pothos plants. That said, if you were to add a few hundred feet of pothos to a 10 gallon aquarium and give it enough light it would likely support a decent fish population. So yes it will work to remove ammonia and nitrate, but no it's not likely to work as an effective biological filter.
I have pothos, all sorts of Draceanas, lilies, snake plants, ferns, hibiscus, phillodundrums of all sorts in several aquariums, palludariums, etc for 25 yrs.....hence, I never have to do water chsnges and my tanks parameters are perfect and the plants grow so fast, I havnt purchased house plants in YEARS. Simply take cuttings and stick in pots, other tanks etc. For aquariums you can get baskets desk organizers et cetera Dollar Tree even stick on shower caddies with holes in them and just fill him with gravel and stick the plants in them. that's it!
Thank you for the advise.
I’ve been growing Pothos in fish tanks for several years and My experience had been positive for it helping with nitrate control. But the size or number of plants has to be proportionate to the bio load. 1 little plant in a 125 gallon tank fully stocked is not going to keep you from having to do water changes. Personally I tend to understock my tanks and aim to have high plant volume and it does save me a lot of water changes.
I have pothos growing through my 36 gallon. They're perfect for keeping the water super clean, I love em. I also have other plants with no issues in a low stock tank
I grow money plant in my small tank that has 1 gallon water, 4 small fish & a java moss.The water quality remains good even after a month. Low water change required & fishes are healthy.
@@souvikghosh5087 I'll have to try that one
Where do you find a 1 gallon aquarium?!
@@danm8004 and why does he have 4 fish in it?....or ANY living animals in it, sans snails maybe? Probably from China....or India. Probably has thosr "lego bricks" looking tanks.
I've got pothos in one of my 29g tanks as part of an aquaponics setup. Two plants I've found that are even better than pothos as removing nitrates are Arrowhead vine (Syngonium sp.) and Peace lily. They do an amazing job. I have all planted tanks. I just love a tank with both submerged AND emergent plants. The way nature intended, imo.
As far as roots in the water, go for it! Some people don't like the LOOK of emergent plant roots in the water column, but some think it adds to the natural look of a tank. It's entirely personal preference. Fish love them, especially fry.
I have a peace Lilly and a pothos in my 30 gallon tank,I just put them in a couple of weeks ago.. i want to add a swiss cheese plant .I heard those are really good as well..but you say arrow head vine works really well too?
I've seen others say that peace lily was good also.
Ammonia is "dosed" throughout the day from the respiration and digestive processes of your fish. Fortunately, and since it is absorbed so readily by plants ammonia should never reach measurable levels. Surplus ammonia, beyond what is consumed by plants, is then digested through the nitrogen cycle by bacteria.
Been using pothos since I got into the hobby works excellent
I just cut a piece off wifes plant and clipped to top of tank. It rooted fast and doing well.
I swear the angel fish is watching in the background 😂
Right? XD
I just planted pothos and a peace lilly at the top of my tank, for cleaning and it looks nice. I use some small hydroponic, 2 inch basket pots kind of attached to the side of my tank.
Plants preferentially use ammonia to synthesize proteins, but they will accept nitrate if ammonia is not readily available.
I built for two 65 gal tanks full length planters that sit on top my tanks. These planter are filled with small red lava stones as planting medium and of course havens for nitrifying bacteria. I built one of them over a year ago and the other some months later when I was happy with the first. Both have a plant led light over them. Both tanks have been healthy with nothing but normal maintenance. The only problem I have is keeping up with the pothos vines as they try and take over the room. Both tanks are planted with assorted anubias, valesnaria, swords, java ferns, and others.
I use Pothos, Monstera and lucky bamboo. I have no Nitrates in my aquarium. I collect all fish poop and food waste and throw it in the garbage every other day. My filter is a Sobo top filter. This filter is very easy to clean and very cheap to buy.
Lucky bamboo is the best ammonia or nitrate killer ❤
They are a lot more difficult to use in your tank depending on its size and inhabitants but they do work well.
Thank you for the info on pothos plants. I've noticed that floating plants like frogbit help so much with helping the tank to keep its healthy balance. I've also used azolla, water spangle and duckweed (but these can be harder to control then frogbit especially the duckweed.) The more stem plants I add the less floating plants I need. Would love to see an update video on your pothos. Looking now to see if there is.
Hey Dan, I haven’t tuned in for about a year and you have changed a lot 👍looking good
Thanks!
I'm happy you're going to demonstrate your results for us! All I know is, in my overstocked 10g endler tank, the nitrate is unable to accumulate above maybe 40, even if I entirely skip water changes. Though the tank is a jungle inside, too. The pothos won't magic the nitrate away, but mine seems to grow like a weed and eats like a pig.
I have had pothos in a planter in a hydroponic (aquaponic) flow loop outside my tank. It’s taken a very long time to grow using aquarium water and low light. I never see much change in my nitrates. However, since I designed the system and it’s grown, I have not had any algae and have not even had to clean the glass since. The brown algae disappeared completely over time too. I also have a similar amount of plants in my tank like yours in this video, but those never made any difference in reducing algae. And I don’t dose at all and feed very little. It’s the same planter I shown in one of my videos. So however long ago that was is how long it’s been in continuous use.
When you take a plant that's in a pot straight from the store, a non aquatic plant, and put it entire into the tank, there's probably fertilizers that are going to leech out. Also I don't think anyone is recommending that the entire pot be put into the tank, I personally just took some cuttings and I have them hanging over the side of the tank and they are growing like crazy. I have aquatic plants also in the tank, and it is true that at the moment my nitrites are very low. But I also have a very small bio load with only six fish in the tank so not much nitrate is being produced. I'll solve that soon by adding more fish.
I have a pothos plant that extends over my kitchen bay window and has to be doubled back to stay off the floor (I'd estimate 10 feet) so I put a few clipping on my 55 gallon aquarium last weekend along with a couple 3 foot snake plants that were sagging from the main plant. Looking forward to the results.
Had a piece grow about 30 feet around the room out of a tank.
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly I decided to try because the fish store guy heard I was trying to find plants my goldfish wouldn't destroy and he showed me in the back the difference between two tanks of feeder fish and the one with plants was incredibly clean while the other was cloudy. I was turning over all my gravel going from the multi-color gravel my ex liked to blue and natural stone I liked so I was losing my bacterial base and wanted a way to buffer the ammonia jumping. After a week, plants and fish are very happy.
I've been thinking about trying Pothos! Thanks for making this video! 😁
Hey brother love your channel . I have a quick question kinda off topic of this video but I only clean the sides and front of my glass in my tank I don’t bother with the back I just let it go wild do you do the same ? Is it bad to not clean the back panel ?
I started a pothos in my 55. Most important thing to it seems to be getting a new leaf. Now that that's well underway it might be starting a new root.
How do you protect the roots of pothos?
My fish have nibbled them, pulled them...
Literally they play a tug of war with it....
My fish destroy them too.
I bet it will over time. I had a 75 gal. with an Oscar and pleco and it worked in mine. I also had it in my back of the tank sump not in the tank.
I have pothos in my 25G for >5 years. Not sure if it's taking lots nutrients, but its showing signs of deficiency. I do need to add potassium since my anubias and java fern was showing pinholes. And my nitrate is always around 20 at the end of the week when i change water. My loach also ate some of its root, he's fine.
I have been using money plant / pothos in all my systems successfully for a very long time . 20 plus years and have found it to be very helpful . Started as just an aesthetic addition to my tank many years ago . (30+) and that plant grew like crazy . On my only tank at that time . Since then it is growing both as a decoration for aquarium and aquarium water freshener and also as beneficial plant for aquarium .
Super thanks ❤️
Pothos lucky bamboo and a monstera in my tank fish are great but in this hobby not everyone has the same experiences
I have 4ft led shop lights over my tanks. They are 6500k range lights, and I used to grow trees in my basement (literally trees, not cannabis). I am hoping to get the plants cycling enough nitrogen that I can cut water changes down by next month
Any link you can to the specific shoplights?
@@jmha2428 any light that is labeled daylight or in the 6K temperature range it’s going to be what you want. That’s gonna be your most economical option, but you can find plant specific ones that will cost you a lot more they take a lot less work to find. I don’t know what stores you have around you, but if you’re in the Midwest, I recommend menards for shop lights
Half Man Half Cichlid (UA-cam) uses a massive amount of plants (as compared to his fish load) to effectively control nitrates. It can be done but hard to accomplish with just sticking some pothos in one's tank. I've had pothos in my tanks for years, still have nitrates but I like the way it looks.
Im trying to grow my plants in my water softener water. Is it a good idea to put a cuttlebone and crushed coral in the filter? I have a 75 gallon community tank that crashed recently, so I'm waiting to put my fish back in. It crashed in every way possible. So distressing. My fish are unhappy in the hospital tank and seem depressed. I added some fluval stratum around my plants since it crashed anyway, and now the levels of everything are nearly good, but I do want to raise the calcium for my plants and fish to be healthy, but I dont want to raise it so bad that it kills my fish. I do have pothos in the back of my tank and even those aren't 'growing' they are just sitting there at the same level as when I put them in months ago.
I always add a bit of crushed coral to raise my KH to about 2 or 3, while adding some calcium for the fish and plants.
I grow money plant in my small tank that has 1 gallon water, 4 small fish & a java moss.The water quality remains good even after a month & fishes are healthy.
You should try banana plant stems, they grow such long roots from several joints on the stem really fast. Awesome plant 😊
Great info! And love that giant Ctenopoma! 🤩
Does it help your pothos grow faster by adding liquid fertilizer to the tank If you have pothos in your tank?
I'm sure it would.
The angle is so big😮
the Pothos killed all the algae that my otto's and panda garras were eating on, but they left the blackbeard algae when it was not treated to kill the BBA. So I took the pothos out and things are going back to normal.
I put one in my tank, it just withered, so have put it in a pot with soil away from tank see if it recovers.
When it recovers will try again.
Leaves won't survive under water. Only the roots and some of the stem will be in the water.
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly Well Peace lily submerged at the back of my fish tank after 6 weeks looks like normal plant, the rest with just roots in have withered and look sorry. The Pothos is down to 1 leaf, it has only roots in tank..
I have a soil substrate so i think that is keeping the Lily alive.
It definitely removes nitrates. I know this because my tapwater has 20 ppm of nitrates but my aquarium water fails to read nitrates when tested.
That angel is stunning
Pothos won't magic away the nitrate for sure, but it'll help. It and most other houseplants also seem to help with algae. I'm assuming because they remove phosphates from the water column as well?? It does seem to grow faster the larger it gets ... slow at first but reaching critical mass eventually and off it goes. I've seen it completely take over large aquariums if it's given enough time, nutrients and a good amount of light. It's another long term solution for nitrate control but a good one. The fish seem to love the massive root system it gets if you let it grow large enough. Honestly though floating plants would have a more immediate affect but I get why not everyone likes them. Anyways just my observations don't take my word as gospel.
Because you need take them out few times per week or they will take over your tank and maybe chock out your fish
Phosphates are what drives algal growth- to a much greater extent than nitrates. Pothos loves phosphates too, and this is why pothos cleaning your aquarium water will result in less algsl growth.
Good video. 👍📺😎
Try egg shells beating into powder and put it in the water
Rachel O'leary has a video titled "Pothos destroyed my aquarium." She had been growing brush algae in that aquarium for years as a feature in the tank- it looked good. And then she put a "new cultivar" of pathos in and it sucked the nutrients from the water and all he brush algae died. She said she had used pothos previosly in the filter before and it was fine- she believed it was just that *new cultivar* that caused the problem. I think she put the pothos in the filter not the water.
I was thinking about that video when I shot this.
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly Oh that's funny lol!
Can you plant the pothos roots in the gravel ? Of course, without any leaf in the water !
Yes, it'll find the substrate and root in eventually anyway, if left alone.
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly Thanks. Will this be as effective as free flowing roots ?
@@TheEnpee It should use just as much nutrients from the tank, if that's what you're asking.
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly Thanks a ton, again.
I am thinking of putting live plants in my 55 gal. Is pothos a good one to start with ? (anyone)
Pothos needs to grow out of the tank, but as long as you let it do that, it's a super easy plant to grow.
I love watching Tom Segura talk about fish
Can I put a Pothos plant? In a 20 gallon tank
Sure. You can grow it out of justabout anything. I some growing out of a bucket.
I'm building a very well planter in water without fish
Most of my tanks seem.to be doing OK regards ammonia, etc. I just feel I need to add pathos or similar type plant to tank because it might be good for fish general health and enjoyment for roots to swim through and probably eat some of the roots. Also I glfeel.it looks good for the plant growing out of tank.
Will it still work or start killing other plants competing for nutrition.
Thanks.
My tanks is over stocked and lots of plants everywhere.
I've heard that it'll deplete nutrients but I think it'll be ok.
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly thanks.
Beautiful tank m8
Thanks for the information. I haven't tried this plant. I didn't want to take a chance of starving the aquatic plamts. Makes sense the pothos may be using up amonia.
how about add a lot of fish and let pothos grow and also enjoy stuffing 50 tetras into a 2 feet tank?
Anyone who says porhos is poisoning your tank should not be in the fish keeping hobby.
What kind of Angel fish is that? It’s beautiful ❤
"Mixed veil" from Petsmart.
Pothos in my experience does nothing I could measure. Despite a sump covered in it with a 14 hr a day grow light
I will ask question, does pothos cause fungus??? does it cause bacterial crowth??? Pls answer my question, if yes how to avoid fungus or bacterial growth in the aquarium with pothos???
No, pothos doesn't cause fungus or bacterial growth.
If it took all the ammonia wouldn’t the beneficial die from lack of food?
I'm sure if the ammonia was reduced, the bacteria would adjust to the new levels.
It's odd that people say all these things about a plant just because it's common as dirt. Pothos is the "stock plant of vivariums" (as well as restaurants), it's not used because there is anything special about it or any other kind of botanical selection. People use it for the same reason they plant bradford pears in the yard, it's what the landscaper has the most of. If a vivarium and/or restaurant owner uses pothos it's because they have never picked up a book on botany or looked around the yard. I have to admit it's a pretty plant that is simple to grow if your goal is to master vivarium biology, kind of like Biosphere 2 is now used to grow white poplars. Many owners put their animals first and don't have to navigate the complexity of let's say growing mountain plants for your stream tank.
Thanks for the Info. Just as respectful constructive criticism, get to the point faster and just keep it simple you'll keep people's attention longer.
I like watching on 2x speed
Is that an albino rainbow I’ve never seen one before
Albino millenium rainbows
I'm pretty sure a I've read from Diana Walstad that plants can absorb ammonia 24/7 whereas nitrate can only be absorbed when there's light available.
As for the pothos, I put a small portion in the hob filter on a ten gallon guppy tank. Initially the leaves were maybe three inches long, and after being in there a few months all new leaves are 7+ inches long. Huge. The roots have grown beyond the filter and into the tank itself and gone from one side to the other. The tank previously had quite high nitrates (I suspect mostly due to decomposition of water sprite which is covering the water surface). It's been a while since I tested but when I did there didn't seem to be much of a difference in the nitrate level.
There are also two lucky bamboo in the filter which are doing quite well.
Floating plants
Why are you skeptical if you've had a whole fish room full of Pothos in the past? You should already know that it works.
Yu can grow the pothos complete submerged in the water too. That will slow down it's growth.
The pothos plant will die if it is submerged in water.
If what you are saying is true. Why don’t pothos plants kill my cycle?
If Pathos kill other plants put pathos only 😂😂
Still amazes me that America still uses peat moss. In Europe it's not considered good for the environment, so we try not to us it.
Our peat comes from Canada where they have very strict rules about how it can be harvested, and how the land has to be repaired to allow the remaining peat to build up again. They've also protected the vast majority of the peat from being harvested at all. the areas that are allowed to be used are still vast though.
The peat situation in the UK is very different. Most of it still shockingly gets burned as for heat.
Your project will work, but it won't work. A plant converts ammonia into energy given a carbon source... so any plant will remove ammonia and to some degree nitrates from an aquarium... but it uses that energy for growth. This means that the plant has to be able to grow at the same rate as ammonia and it's related products are produced by the animals in the aquarium. Sadly pothos can't grow as fast as a few fish can create ammonia and it's successor nitrogen products. If it did, you would actually see it grow an equivalent amount to the food you put in your aquarium. This kind of growth can't be achieved by many plants. Duckweed, hornwort, water sprite are pretty fast growers, but I'm sure there are a few others to add to the list of better than pothos plants. That said, if you were to add a few hundred feet of pothos to a 10 gallon aquarium and give it enough light it would likely support a decent fish population. So yes it will work to remove ammonia and nitrate, but no it's not likely to work as an effective biological filter.
The anglefish looks very sad.
Killer pothos? Clickbait
Am I supposed to discourage people from watching?
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly you gotta point 🤷🏾♂️
Nobody's fault but mine, I lost 11 minutes watching this
See if you can lose a few more responding to this.
Useless video… your thumb nail suggest that the pathos was a killer plant … but all I git from this was a long chemistry lesson on Ammonia.
Lets talk about, "douchbags". A topic you are well experienced in being.🤣
I'm surprised you know how to spell that. Lol
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly actually he doesn't its spelled "Douchebags" 😒🤣🤣
he doesnt do anything in this clip just talks. no plant no time compression no nuthin.
Lol
Pothos is toxic to cats! (and dogs)Some varieties can be fatal.