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The fact that MD said he doesn't have the knowledge or skill for competition scapes is wild. Bro has one of the biggest and fastest growing aquascape communities and almost all the big aquascapers know about the legendary MD. Why not try just one competition just to see how it goes? Maybe you will gain inspiration or learn something new from other tanks the same way myself and so many others get from yours. I think that would be a fun experience to try and share with us. Keep it up MD!
well thanks for the compliments. I know I could do it if i set my mind to it...but I'm just not interested. For me, if my hobby is being judged, then it's not fun. Different for guys that do competitions because a lot of them really want that high placing. It just really doesn't matter to me. Just a different side of the hobby i guess.
@@MDFishTanks very humble indeed! You mentioned you love short fin bettas. Im growing out a large spawn of half-moon plakat at the moment. Maybe I could send you one and feature in a video 🧐🙂
I understand what he means. I think he is just trying to make what he truly likes and wants to try, also wants to help grow the community and help people at home do it as well but not have the time taking design and travel to submit and do it for competition.
@MDFishTanks I can agree with that 100% wouldn't be a bad field to maybe reach even more people. I've been watching you for 2 years and a few months ago built my first tank ever and am now breeding high grade red neocaridina! You've taught me so much!
Thank you for making betta tanks. So many shops tell people that they'll be happy in a small 2 gallons bowl without a heater or filter. Bettas are amazing fishies and they deserve to have beautiful aquascaped tanks.
I just got a brand new betta today, so this video was perfect timing. I love when MD makes nano low tech aquqascapes, because those are the only ones I can follow along with.
"Now you might not have this many available to you because the shop doesn't have this many" is a flex i would like to achieve one day 😁Great to have Kate around again 🤩another banger MD, that betta looks amazing ❤
I've been watching your videos for a number of years and seeing how you explain many details with beginners in mind is really cool. A teacher who's expertise still excites him is wonderfully infectious and appreciated by young and old alike. Keep it up we love what you do!
Hey, I am a plant enthusiast first, who recently gotten into planted tanks. Generally for plants that goes well in water half submerged, you may want to look at the family Araceae, the same family as Peace lily, Monstera and the aquatic plant, Anubis to name a few. Araceae, or Ariods are mainly found as "house plants" A few common examples are the Philodendrons, ZZ Plant, Pothos. You may try those, they are used to very filtered light on the forest floor so your low powered light set ups for be perfect for them
ZZ Plant is one to be wary of, it can be super irritating to sensitive skin, turns me bright red and itchy almost immediately, just by brushing by a leaf or two. I love Calathea, they do just great in tank water :)
This was a fun project. It's got me eying one of my own tanks and thinking, "Hmm...maybe I should rescape that one like this. I definitely want to try adding a Peace Lily to a tank, and I really like the idea of making it the focal point of the scape. Also, I really enjoyed that Kate participated in this video. That was a treat. My wife is seldom in my videos, but has dropped in and became a part of a few of my livestreams. Thanks for this video. I truly enjoyed it.
😅 this was not what I needed to see right before going to the Canadian Aquatic Expo...I have a feeling I'll be coming home with a new tank thanks to this inspiration!
this channel inspired me and helped me so much when i first got into aquascaping, now i have no more room for tanks in my house lol 😁 getting a shelving unit in my room so i can have more tanks, and will be setting up my first proper large tank for my eel-tailed catfish! he lives in a blackwater tank currently with some other catfish species, and soon he'll live with a couple freshwater muscles. i have a lovely bamboo forest inspired tank with cherry barbs and shrimp thats doing absolutely amazing, and i'll be getting some red and pink ramshorn snails for it and for a planted tetra tank! :D tysm for being such a big inspiration and fostering such a kind and helpful community.
3:50 'dont use gravel'. I couldn't agree more, washed kids play sand is great at locking the nutrients in the substrate. Not only does this prevent too many nutrients leeching into the water and causing algae, but makes the nutrients in the substrate last way longer. This and cost is why I have moved away from aquasoil over the years, water flows through it easily and leeches its nutrients into the water. I have never had an aquasoil panted tank last longer than 2 years before I had to start spamming it with root tabs so the plants grow at all. Wheras pond compost tanks have been going for 3 years so far.
From that shot of the plants I know the dumb cane, spider plants, and philodendrons all can grow in aquariums. I've also had parlor palm and arrowhead vine do well.
Holy cow! Last I watched your videos, you were just getting moved into the new place and Kate wasn’t keen on being on camera - now yall have the place packed! Love the content, but had to take a break because you make me want to spend money 🤣🩶
I love the look of peace lily in the tank! I just set up a 30C cube a couple of weeks ago, I’m using aquasoil uncapped so I’m still cycling. But that’s giving me time to just keep experimenting and I’ll be adding Peace Lily to the back! Keep up the good work, I enjoy having your content on because the videos are just quite relaxing!
Very inspiring! Love how beautiful it is. You make it look fun and easy to achieve. Sometimes creators complicate it and make it more complicated but you made it look effortless and inspired me
Monsteras are great households plants that stick outside of your aquarium and do great with their roots in water. Their roots are pretty cool and thick over time as well.
After watching all your videos I felt inspired to setup a planted tank. It’s bloody hard mate, I’m stuck on the hardscape and haven’t even added the plants. You make it look so effortless 😂
Would be cool to see you do one with all different houseplants, also heard of people growing vegetables like strawberries out of their tanks so you could try that too
A small note: Never completely submerge a peace lily in a tank, it is a swamp plant, not an aquatic one. While a peace lily will survive for up to six months completely submerged, it will eventually die. However, if it is only partially submerged with most of the leaves above water, it will thrive. I learned this the hard way.
@@twitteringothers5059 A medium amount of light like that usually found in an apartment is usually enough in my experience. They grow more with a good amount of light, but then again, most plants do.
Gorgeous!! The crispy wave ferns haven’t ever grown well for me out of the top of a tank, but any “soft stemmed” tropical plant should do great! Boston ferns do surprisingly well too but they’re a more root based vs rhizome based fern
I've been trying different garden store plants in my fish tanks forever, most green stemmed and leaved plants will work. I couldn't get creeping Jenny to work even though I've seen others do it. All ivys worked well for me as well as every type of pothos obviously. Snakegrass and elephants ear work and lucky bamboo and white/yellow ribbon plants work but you can't place them too far into the water.
I would love to see you do a piece with a bunch of different house plants in a tank. So we can see what works and what doesn’t. Glad you got a new ladder. Thanks Kate. 😂
During fall, our oak tree sheds a lot of leaves. When these leaves fall and dry out I pick them up put them in boiling water to kill any unwanted pathogens or chemicals. Then I let them sit in the water. Afterwards I take the tea stained water as well as the softened oak leaves and put them in my betta's tank to use as tannins.
Beautiful tank and fish. I adore the other beta though, I like his scale spots a lot. He's really cool looking. This beta is like a red, white and blue calico, he's cool as well...
You would do awesome in a competitive situation MD, don't doubt yourself or your amazing skill Brother! Love the content and channel. Keep the amazing scapes coming!
This may be a challenge. I have an idea where a tank is divided in two (top and bottom) a platform is constructed where plants grow on the top like a grassy field then theres holes where underneath is like a cave , and just have loads of khuli loaches like worms 😂
@@MDFishTanks with the beams of light coming through, make it look like the roots from the grass above. Where its just flat and peaceful. Would u ever consider doing something just completely left field as an aquascape MD?
meanwhile i just scaped a bowl for my future thai micro crabs with many pieces of wood that build up like roots and on top of the wood i rest peace lilies that cover the 2/3 of the surface of the bowl and its so cool. its kind of the same idea that you had with the peace lilies
I have grown a avocado tree from the ssed in a tank which as grown to around 1m tall in 3years, the roots give lts of hiding spots, I have also grown a ficus benjamina from a branch I cut off that I got to stem in the tank as well, less rrots and way more manageable.
So you put in a ton of nutribase, cover it with rocks, stones and epiphytes and then plant 3 tiny crypts into the pure sand to the sides 😂. I feel like 3 little root tabs would have done the job more economically. Love the tank ❤. My betta died recently, and watching you build beautiful tanks for them warms my heart!
You're probably right, but he was just going for "chuck it in", so it's hard to predict everything you're going to do when you don't have it planned from the start
I like the way the manufactured bettas look, but I think wild bettas are galaxies better. I would love to see you get a good group of them. Idk if they are as available in the UK, but they are so superior to the splendids that are so common. Love the tank and love to work you do.
Those crotons absolutely work. I'm growing a couple of young ones in my tank & they are slower than the peace lilies, which I'm also growing along with monstera. The crotons 16:18 are the yellow, green & red ones & you can get different varieties online. The Zanzibar variety, along with gold dust have long, spiky leaves for contrast from the broad-leafed plants, but the broad leafed crotons also look nice.
I have this big garden centre near me and they have a table near the checkout with all sorts of smallest plants 3 pieces for € 5,99. Some weeks ago I got a peace lily and two others I still need to plant. The peace lily sits on my Superfish 90. There were multiple plants and they've grown considerably. But others work fine, like monstera, chamaedorea, peperomia...I've got some of those sitting in a HOB filter!
Amen on sand vs gravel! Gravel doesn't allow the water to settle either, it's always churning something into the water column, ime. ETA: I always use dirt-planted methods & I'll cap everything with about 1 inch/3cm of sand, put the plants in gently & then top off the rest of the sand so the landscape doesn't look like "planet of the gapes" that may leak substrate nutrients into the water if something digs too vigorously.
Have you ever thought about doing a no c02 Dutch style tank? I’m working on one right now but I would love to see you make one as well! I think they’re beautiful with the right plants.
Hi, I'm new to the hobby and discovered your videos...LOVE THEM. Im glad that Kate has joined the videos too. You made me love the plants ALMost more than the fish! Lol Any thoughts on making a video for the new hobbyists that maybe started with an ugly, used tank? Like the old hexagon or column tanks? I myself have a 50 gallon column I got real cheap,.and I would love to see how you would scape it! Just throwing that out there. Keep.up the amazing scapes!
I don’t know why but I always preferred low tech tanks with low tech plants. Ferns just go well with anubias and bucep 😜 Nice bungalow u built there for the betta 👍🏻
I would like much to see You do for example 120 or even maybe 80 cm long tank done and maintained for Discus. And there could be shown what's going on with the reef tank because from the distance it looked quite well.
Orchids won't survive submerged but you could attach them to any wood that comes out the water, you'd have to mist them pretty regularly I'd imagine cos the room is heated.
Would love to see MD do a comparison of some other aqua soil brands like ADA or UNS and work his magic for the viewers in the US that can’t get Colombo products.
today: a few floating plants next week: lets pull out a million floating plants great looking tank, also before watching this vid i was thinking about an idea, then you mention scape competitions in this vid.. . an intersting idea would be to enter one just for fun and to show off the different tanks in the different categories (that is assuming they let you film there)
I really appreciate your content and shared inspiration. Those Lominie lights all have a fan included, right? As I‘m starting a tank with my son that‘s next to his bed I‘m wondering if they are noisy?
Dear MD I follow you since i think 2021 and i've seen all of your videos from that year, now whenever I see a driftwood (i find much easier than rocks) that you pick up from your collection I try to remember in which videos i've already seen that piece (for example the first piece in this scape i've seen when you set up the perch aquarium)
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Your remaining sorority of bettas be like 💀💀💀
tiny bit of tanines sometimes also create a better colour contrast.
Video 52 of asking for a tank with some freshwater dolphinfish please.
The fact that MD said he doesn't have the knowledge or skill for competition scapes is wild. Bro has one of the biggest and fastest growing aquascape communities and almost all the big aquascapers know about the legendary MD. Why not try just one competition just to see how it goes? Maybe you will gain inspiration or learn something new from other tanks the same way myself and so many others get from yours. I think that would be a fun experience to try and share with us. Keep it up MD!
well thanks for the compliments. I know I could do it if i set my mind to it...but I'm just not interested. For me, if my hobby is being judged, then it's not fun. Different for guys that do competitions because a lot of them really want that high placing. It just really doesn't matter to me. Just a different side of the hobby i guess.
@@MDFishTanks very humble indeed!
You mentioned you love short fin bettas. Im growing out a large spawn of half-moon plakat at the moment. Maybe I could send you one and feature in a video 🧐🙂
I understand what he means. I think he is just trying to make what he truly likes and wants to try, also wants to help grow the community and help people at home do it as well but not have the time taking design and travel to submit and do it for competition.
@MDFishTanks I can agree with that 100% wouldn't be a bad field to maybe reach even more people. I've been watching you for 2 years and a few months ago built my first tank ever and am now breeding high grade red neocaridina! You've taught me so much!
You can do it! Very inspiring channel. Greetings from Germany.
I think having Kate ask questions is good. She basically represents the folks new to the hobby.
Love that Kate is just mic'd up now and chips in when she feels like it. Everyone's face when unexpected Kate comments appear out of nowhere: 😲🤯😍😁
I like when Mrs MD asks simple questions. It makes the video more relevant for people new to the hobby.
Thank you for making betta tanks. So many shops tell people that they'll be happy in a small 2 gallons bowl without a heater or filter. Bettas are amazing fishies and they deserve to have beautiful aquascaped tanks.
Kate is so cute! I like how she spends time with you and your hobby. So sweet of her.
Kate’s voice is so pleasant!
I just got a brand new betta today, so this video was perfect timing. I love when MD makes nano low tech aquqascapes, because those are the only ones I can follow along with.
Red anthuriums do very well with roots under water! I’ve done it so many times in my ponds and they grow so Purdy!
"Now you might not have this many available to you because the shop doesn't have this many" is a flex i would like to achieve one day 😁Great to have Kate around again 🤩another banger MD, that betta looks amazing ❤
Great to hear Kate on the mic more nowadays
Orchids can do well in water, you just want the tips of the roots to be in water! Cause they like a lot of air flow around the roots 🌸🌸
Anthurium will grow great in a tank and has a gorgeous flower
I've been watching your videos for a number of years and seeing how you explain many details with beginners in mind is really cool. A teacher who's expertise still excites him is wonderfully infectious and appreciated by young and old alike. Keep it up we love what you do!
Beautiful scape. Lucky little Betta!
Hey, I am a plant enthusiast first, who recently gotten into planted tanks. Generally for plants that goes well in water half submerged, you may want to look at the family Araceae, the same family as Peace lily, Monstera and the aquatic plant, Anubis to name a few. Araceae, or Ariods are mainly found as "house plants" A few common examples are the Philodendrons, ZZ Plant, Pothos. You may try those, they are used to very filtered light on the forest floor so your low powered light set ups for be perfect for them
ZZ Plant is one to be wary of, it can be super irritating to sensitive skin, turns me bright red and itchy almost immediately, just by brushing by a leaf or two. I love Calathea, they do just great in tank water :)
I just love your new betta tank. You are my favorite aquascaper. You have so much talent designing the habitat.
This was a fun project. It's got me eying one of my own tanks and thinking, "Hmm...maybe I should rescape that one like this. I definitely want to try adding a Peace Lily to a tank, and I really like the idea of making it the focal point of the scape. Also, I really enjoyed that Kate participated in this video. That was a treat. My wife is seldom in my videos, but has dropped in and became a part of a few of my livestreams. Thanks for this video. I truly enjoyed it.
😅 this was not what I needed to see right before going to the Canadian Aquatic Expo...I have a feeling I'll be coming home with a new tank thanks to this inspiration!
Love the convo with the wife 😂
What a stunning fish . Setting my tank up over the weekend. Scared but much more confident after watching your videos. Thanks .
That fish is beautiful! The colours and patterns are amazing.
I love when Kate shows up!
this channel inspired me and helped me so much when i first got into aquascaping, now i have no more room for tanks in my house lol 😁 getting a shelving unit in my room so i can have more tanks, and will be setting up my first proper large tank for my eel-tailed catfish! he lives in a blackwater tank currently with some other catfish species, and soon he'll live with a couple freshwater muscles. i have a lovely bamboo forest inspired tank with cherry barbs and shrimp thats doing absolutely amazing, and i'll be getting some red and pink ramshorn snails for it and for a planted tetra tank! :D tysm for being such a big inspiration and fostering such a kind and helpful community.
This video really came at the right time. I needed a moment to chill. Thank you, MD, and God bless you and your lovely wife.
3:50 'dont use gravel'. I couldn't agree more, washed kids play sand is great at locking the nutrients in the substrate. Not only does this prevent too many nutrients leeching into the water and causing algae, but makes the nutrients in the substrate last way longer.
This and cost is why I have moved away from aquasoil over the years, water flows through it easily and leeches its nutrients into the water. I have never had an aquasoil panted tank last longer than 2 years before I had to start spamming it with root tabs so the plants grow at all. Wheras pond compost tanks have been going for 3 years so far.
re "pot plants" for your builds - calathea are great. so many different types, their leaves are all splendid.
From that shot of the plants I know the dumb cane, spider plants, and philodendrons all can grow in aquariums. I've also had parlor palm and arrowhead vine do well.
This is my favourite scape you have done. Its flawless the betta is stunning. I have hmpk bettas personal fav
Holy cow! Last I watched your videos, you were just getting moved into the new place and Kate wasn’t keen on being on camera - now yall have the place packed! Love the content, but had to take a break because you make me want to spend money 🤣🩶
I love the look of peace lily in the tank! I just set up a 30C cube a couple of weeks ago, I’m using aquasoil uncapped so I’m still cycling. But that’s giving me time to just keep experimenting and I’ll be adding Peace Lily to the back! Keep up the good work, I enjoy having your content on because the videos are just quite relaxing!
Kates input is an added bonus 👌🏻
Very inspiring! Love how beautiful it is. You make it look fun and easy to achieve. Sometimes creators complicate it and make it more complicated but you made it look effortless and inspired me
0:54 his polka dot pattern is amazing ❤️🔥
Monsteras are great households plants that stick outside of your aquarium and do great with their roots in water. Their roots are pretty cool and thick over time as well.
After watching all your videos I felt inspired to setup a planted tank. It’s bloody hard mate, I’m stuck on the hardscape and haven’t even added the plants. You make it look so effortless 😂
You should make your own company where you like sells substrate, and fish and plants cause you’re really really good at this❤🤩🤩😁
Love this tank so much! Betta looks stunning against the emerald green plants!
Would be cool to see you do one with all different houseplants, also heard of people growing vegetables like strawberries out of their tanks so you could try that too
A small note: Never completely submerge a peace lily in a tank, it is a swamp plant, not an aquatic one. While a peace lily will survive for up to six months completely submerged, it will eventually die. However, if it is only partially submerged with most of the leaves above water, it will thrive. I learned this the hard way.
Hi there, thanks for the info. Can I ask whether they need a lot of light ?
@@twitteringothers5059 A medium amount of light like that usually found in an apartment is usually enough in my experience. They grow more with a good amount of light, but then again, most plants do.
Gorgeous!! The crispy wave ferns haven’t ever grown well for me out of the top of a tank, but any “soft stemmed” tropical plant should do great! Boston ferns do surprisingly well too but they’re a more root based vs rhizome based fern
That betta has a beautiful home
I've been trying different garden store plants in my fish tanks forever, most green stemmed and leaved plants will work. I couldn't get creeping Jenny to work even though I've seen others do it. All ivys worked well for me as well as every type of pothos obviously. Snakegrass and elephants ear work and lucky bamboo and white/yellow ribbon plants work but you can't place them too far into the water.
I would love to see you do a piece with a bunch of different house plants in a tank. So we can see what works and what doesn’t. Glad you got a new ladder. Thanks Kate. 😂
His googly eyes are pretty funny. There could be cute toys made based on his likeness.
Loved seeing Kate again 😊... Another great build MD... 👏 😎
During fall, our oak tree sheds a lot of leaves. When these leaves fall and dry out I pick them up put them in boiling water to kill any unwanted pathogens or chemicals. Then I let them sit in the water. Afterwards I take the tea stained water as well as the softened oak leaves and put them in my betta's tank to use as tannins.
Beautiful tank and fish. I adore the other beta though, I like his scale spots a lot. He's really cool looking. This beta is like a red, white and blue calico, he's cool as well...
Betta is my favorite fish. They have such big personalities.
You would do awesome in a competitive situation MD, don't doubt yourself or your amazing skill Brother! Love the content and channel. Keep the amazing scapes coming!
This may be a challenge. I have an idea where a tank is divided in two (top and bottom) a platform is constructed where plants grow on the top like a grassy field then theres holes where underneath is like a cave , and just have loads of khuli loaches like worms 😂
Or shrimp!
yeah could be cool that.
@@MDFishTanks with the beams of light coming through, make it look like the roots from the grass above. Where its just flat and peaceful.
Would u ever consider doing something just completely left field as an aquascape MD?
So beautiful betta ❤
I love his googily eyes! Reminds me so much of Lucas the Spider 😅
meanwhile i just scaped a bowl for my future thai micro crabs with many pieces of wood that build up like roots and on top of the wood i rest peace lilies that cover the 2/3 of the surface of the bowl and its so cool. its kind of the same idea that you had with the peace lilies
Stunning tank and betta fish! 😍
This would be a great thing to keep our peace lilly's allive. I can't keep plants except the ones in my aquarium. All others have a short live
I have grown a avocado tree from the ssed in a tank which as grown to around 1m tall in 3years, the roots give lts of hiding spots, I have also grown a ficus benjamina from a branch I cut off that I got to stem in the tank as well, less rrots and way more manageable.
Greatest tank for betta!
A great terrestrial plant to use like peace lily is purple waffle, Hemigraphis sp., has wonderful colors...
I hope you give him his friend from the other tank. ❤
I will do when some background algae starts to form.
I definitely want to do a peace lily tank!
So you put in a ton of nutribase, cover it with rocks, stones and epiphytes and then plant 3 tiny crypts into the pure sand to the sides 😂. I feel like 3 little root tabs would have done the job more economically. Love the tank ❤. My betta died recently, and watching you build beautiful tanks for them warms my heart!
You're probably right, but he was just going for "chuck it in", so it's hard to predict everything you're going to do when you don't have it planned from the start
I like the way the manufactured bettas look, but I think wild bettas are galaxies better. I would love to see you get a good group of them. Idk if they are as available in the UK, but they are so superior to the splendids that are so common. Love the tank and love to work you do.
Those crotons absolutely work. I'm growing a couple of young ones in my tank & they are slower than the peace lilies, which I'm also growing along with monstera.
The crotons 16:18 are the yellow, green & red ones & you can get different varieties online.
The Zanzibar variety, along with gold dust have long, spiky leaves for contrast from the broad-leafed plants, but the broad leafed crotons also look nice.
I love to see some babies Bettas!
Lucky bamboo and spider plants do well in water!
I have this big garden centre near me and they have a table near the checkout with all sorts of smallest plants 3 pieces for € 5,99. Some weeks ago I got a peace lily and two others I still need to plant. The peace lily sits on my Superfish 90. There were multiple plants and they've grown considerably. But others work fine, like monstera, chamaedorea, peperomia...I've got some of those sitting in a HOB filter!
Dieffenbachia also known as dumb cane works well, it looked like there was some in the shop
I am amazed how MD comes up with different scapes. Looking for an update on your salt water aquarium.
Amen on sand vs gravel!
Gravel doesn't allow the water to settle either, it's always churning something into the water column, ime.
ETA: I always use dirt-planted methods & I'll cap everything with about 1 inch/3cm of sand, put the plants in gently & then top off the rest of the sand so the landscape doesn't look like "planet of the gapes" that may leak substrate nutrients into the water if something digs too vigorously.
Looks great, but I got one question. How does adding nutrients to the substrate help if most plants are epiphytes?
Another great watch MD
Have you ever thought about doing a no c02 Dutch style tank? I’m working on one right now but I would love to see you make one as well! I think they’re beautiful with the right plants.
Fish shop I go to had a tank that had one flat tall rock in the middle, covered in moss so looked like a green wall & it looked awesome
Hi, I'm new to the hobby and discovered your videos...LOVE THEM. Im glad that Kate has joined the videos too. You made me love the plants ALMost more than the fish! Lol
Any thoughts on making a video for the new hobbyists that maybe started with an ugly, used tank? Like the old hexagon or column tanks? I myself have a 50 gallon column I got real cheap,.and I would love to see how you would scape it! Just throwing that out there. Keep.up the amazing scapes!
Spider plants and orchids do well in water. Spider plants would be amazing, they are super hardy
Those two are lucky Bettas😃
More betta scapes please!! 🐟
I don’t know why but I always preferred low tech tanks with low tech plants. Ferns just go well with anubias and bucep 😜 Nice bungalow u built there for the betta 👍🏻
wow nice one..but i think that shallow peace lilly tank of yours was much better. I liked that alot 👍
I would like much to see You do for example 120 or even maybe 80 cm long tank done and maintained for Discus. And there could be shown what's going on with the reef tank because from the distance it looked quite well.
would love to see an update on your anemone and clownfish !!
Orchids won't survive submerged but you could attach them to any wood that comes out the water, you'd have to mist them pretty regularly I'd imagine cos the room is heated.
Would love to see MD do a comparison of some other aqua soil brands like ADA or UNS and work his magic for the viewers in the US that can’t get Colombo products.
He looks sooooo beautiful it that tank. They both compliment each other, such a beautiful scape as well.
Hi and great video! A question - When do you and do you not need to soak wood? Thanks!
16:00: MD gets distracted by his own arm ...
Me : 😂🤣😅🤣😂 small pleasures people ... small pleasures ... you gotta love em 🥰🥰🥰
would you consider making any vivarium builds for reptiles? your room temperature would be perfect for reptiles and amphibians
Simple, lovely
Why did you stop using the mesh bags for substrate? Was it hindering plant growth somehow?
No. Just not needed unless using aqua soil, or fish that dig up sand. Or I need to create more solid height.
today: a few floating plants
next week: lets pull out a million floating plants
great looking tank, also before watching this vid i was thinking about an idea, then you mention scape competitions in this vid.. . an intersting idea would be to enter one just for fun and to show off the different tanks in the different categories (that is assuming they let you film there)
You ever try dwarf orange Mexican lobsters? They’d look amazing in a tank like that
Loved the Clown Fish on the background 🤭
and another md masterpiece!
I really appreciate your content and shared inspiration. Those Lominie lights all have a fan included, right? As I‘m starting a tank with my son that‘s next to his bed I‘m wondering if they are noisy?
Really nice your studio bud 😄
Oh also hello from Florida 🙋🏼♂️. You are my favorite fishtuber and I appreciate all the videos and inspiration I get from the videos. 👍🏼👍🏼
Dear MD I follow you since i think 2021 and i've seen all of your videos from that year, now whenever I see a driftwood (i find much easier than rocks) that you pick up from your collection I try to remember in which videos i've already seen that piece (for example the first piece in this scape i've seen when you set up the perch aquarium)
Great tank as usual 👍👍