Well, here is another of your videos that I have saved to go back over and over. Just no way to absorb (no pun intended) all this in one go. Definitely the best learning channel I've found. This info will definitely be studied and put to use! Thanks 🙏
Plant Noobie here. Felt like I was back in school watching this video. This info will definitely help diagnose plant deficiencies. Thanks for all of your videos.
I think you hit a sweet spot in the balance between the science and keeping it simple enough for many to understand. Will definitely always utilize this video in the future, whenever I'm trying to diagnose a nutrient deficiency! Well done Bentley!
Bentley I LOVED this, just the right amount of info without overwhelming and not too little. Fantastic. I will be watching this again...and again. Thank you!
Great video, very informative. When you say things like some plants are calcium suckers, it would be great if you said some examples of those type of plants. Maybe you could also categorize family of plants and what the main fertilizers they need the most so you can Target those plants. Anyway great job keep up the good work!
Excellent description of macro and micro nutrients, their roles and deficiency symptoms. Explained really well and nice and easy to understand. (Much better than my school days) This video will be in my reference library!
Like people already said, very informative video and no it's not too long, it's just about it should be. You explained everything about Micro and Macro elements. Great video!
This is the best video i have seen about nutrients. I paused, got paper and pen and took notes and hit the subscribed button. Wonderful, easy to follow examples.
Thank you very much for this presentation. I have been battling what I thought was nitrogen deficiency for years. When you identified "damage to fish gills" and hard water it all fell in place. I have very hard water, I had no idea this was even a risk factor.
I really wish I found your channel and this video before I had 3 tanks set up. The way you explain why the plants need their nutrients and the visuals for diagnosis really make this video insanely helpful as a resource. Seriously thank you!
I just got an idea... I read that you can "charge" your your substrate additives like Crushed Volcanic Rock, Heat-Fired Clay, etc. I am familiar with Akadama (Heat-Fired Clay) from making my own Bonsai Soil Mix that I learned back in the 80s from 2 well-known Bonsai Instructors and masters. Both recipes were nearly identical, except for very minor tweets. Then, you add this "charged" absorbent substrate at the bottom to draw down the roots deep into the substrate. Then, cap with good sand to minimize the nutrient leaching up into the Water Column. I did not learn about the sand-capping when I made the first tank with Fluval Stratum. Being that Idid not do 24/7 water-changing like box-stores... I was spiking every few days. I removed the substrate with the Fluval Stratum and rinsed it out of the gravel and saved it. Then, I just did the gravel substrate. I learned. But listening to you, I am thinking that I am missing the Trace Nutrients.
@Bentley! Thanks for this video! I knew none of this and have had bought plants for thirty years unnecessarily! I will keep this video to refer back to for info!
This was excellent, Bentley! It was interesting and just enough information for most people. I must admit that because life has been very busy, I've neglected one of my planted tanks. I just reworked the entire tank making it into a backwater environment for the little school of S. American tetras that reside inside. I bought a bottle of liquid fert and some Trace to keep right next this tank to keep me on my toes. I seem to always miss dosing it, for some reason. So I'm hoping to get the plants looking better within the next few weeks. Interestingly, the most delicate looking plant in that tank, Aponogeton ulvaceous, suddenly burst into growth after sitting "quiet" for a while. It's gorgeous and so lovely to watch as it moves in the current. As always, thank you for another very helpful and pleasurable video.
I need to listen again but very educational. Now i check my All in one fert if it contains All . Have a great eastern weekend and Stay Safe all, hold on people.
Great video! I use a combination of the easy green and a half dose of seachem flourish. I found the flourish also raised my kh without raising ph. Bonus
This series is fascinating Bentley! Learning so much through these episodes and it is conveyed really well, great job as always man can't wait for next week. 👍
Bentley, you did a real great job on helping me a newbie to realize what nutrients that I am lacking. I will start with adding Trace Nutrients and pick up a bottle later today. Kudos.
I've been taking notes while watching your video, I'm new to live plants in aquariums and I just want to say thank you for explaining things without going into long drawn out explanations of each nutrient, straight and to the point It really made learning from you easy.
THANK YOU - The way you explain things is so helpful and clear! I've been expanding my plant collection and having a lot of fun learning about keeping plants with my fish. Starting a fert routine for the first time.
I love your explanation in your videos. I love the science too, but for a newbie like me I need the basics. I love your humor “ give me 2 thumbs down if you didn’t like the video” LOL!
I do natural planted tanks & my best one is one I went all out for. I put a 1cm layer of clay on the bottom. Then I mixed some of my natural, garden compost with some random dirt from the yard & added a crushed multivitamin along with ash & carbon from my burn pile with epsom salt (magnesium) blood & bone meal to hit those macro nutrients. I only had 1 crypto die during its immersion leafing phase because 1 cory wouldn't leave it alone, otherwise the rest of the plants have been thriving for a year without adding anything. I got lazy with my newer tanks & just added compost + dirt & I have to add liquid fert. to those now. I'm close to breaking one down for a new scape & will go back to the supercharge method.
I loooove this level of nitty gritty. Even way back in elementary school, I couldn't get with rote memorization, especially on math and science. I need to know WHY. And here you tell us why. Thank you :)
Hey Bentley, great video as always! I've got an issue with my Pinnatifida. I get a ton of very small brownish dots on the older leaves then they melt and die off. Judging by the description you gave for the different deficiencies, it must be deficient in manganese. I'm dosing micro/macro on a daily basis (CO2 injection + Fluval Plant 3.0). There seems to be a pretty decent amount of Mn in the micro ferts: INGREDIENTS (in 1000 ml):INGREDIENTS (in 1000 ml): Iron (Fe) - 2 g/l Manganese (Mn) - 1 g/l Copper (Cu) - 0,052 g/l Zinc (Zn) - 0,29 g/l Boron (B) - 0,4 g/l Molybdenum (Mo) - 0,075 g/l HEEDTA and other strong chelates ! Methylparaben (E218) - 1 g/l Water Do you think I need to add more?
Great video, I will definately come back to it if I start to have problems! Concerning carbon, I think you perhaps can see a shortage of it in some plants, especially in the growth. My Pogostemon 'octopus' looked kind of bare and skinny until I put CO2 in the tank, and now it has more leaves and is generally more bushier and healthier looking.
I've grown plants on just fish waste before..but when it comes to growing so much of the semi aquatic plants and wanting a aquascape look? Plants are nutrient hogs. Once you start there is no "enough" and you can stop. I have even tried land plant ferts for acid loving plants,and its worked well in combo with iron..but,I'm not advocating people run out and use it. I have a big tank,and I also have a huge Syngonium sucking out nutrients all the time. Small aquarium lit by artificial lights won't need as much. But,if people want to try them.use a dab and see how it goes. If it works? One bag might last a lifetime for a small tank and only $10 or so at Home Depot.
The reason I say for acid loving plants,and not all purpose ferts? It has all the things Bently mentioned even Moly. It also has a high percentage of Iron. It does a good job too of mildly lowering a high ph.
Thanks this was very helpful as I suspected having calcium (Ca) deficiency in my planted tank. I ordered the Yokuchi Ishiko (I could not get hold of seachem equilibrium). Seeing forward to a better plant growth in the future. It is somewhat weird that the liquid fertilizer do not have Ca. So it will not help with dosing heavier..😉 I actually happen to have 3 diffrent liquid fertilizers at home but non of them has Ca in them. 😢 Yes, I also added yesterday root tabs that contains Ca in my only sand substrate. So I do not have any fancy substrate that has a lot of nutrients.. But I have rather hard ish water: GH:11 KH:9 pH:8.0 ±0.3 (depending on co²)
Great Idk if I have nitrates or magnesium deficiency lol. My older Ottos do have that burn but I’ve had them a long time back when I completely had no idea what I was doing and had all types of problems. Gonna start with Nitrates and hope that is it
I have been trying to figure out what the heck is wrong with my plants for 2 weeks now. You are the first person to I’ve heard say plant leaves curling is a calcium deficiency. Got a calcium test kit just to be sure, and there is literally no calcium in my tank. Thank you!
How much calcium should be in my water? Should I adjust it slowly to avoid a sudden change in my pH? Currently using acid buffers to lower my outrageous KH (over 25 dKH out of the tap)
Lots of good info in this video. I'm having a problem with my ludwegia plants, both repens and palustris, where rot where they've been buried in the substrate. They grow aerial roots above the rotten section, but it keeps happening. None of my other stem plants are doing this. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? I'mm on well water in Michigan (hard water, so calcium and iron aren't an issue) and use easy green and root tabs. Thanks!
What I would do is not bury the stems yet, use a plant weight to hold them as a small bunch on the surface of the substrate and let them grow fresh roots, then, with the fresh roots, plant them into the substrate. Some plants have trouble converting as they'll be grown in softer water at farms, then when moved to hard water they can struggle to establish right away and need more time to convert to your particular water conditions.
Hello from switzerland!! very good video. i have a problem with my plants that the leaf outline turns black, could it be lack of calcium? thank you very much and continuation of good films.
I am concentrating on having planted tanks . Is there a chart in deficiency for plants you can purchase ? Or maybe some suggestions . Anything about growing plants in aquariums . Thank you . I have a API test kit . Is that suffient ?
Carbon 3:23
Nitrogen 4:58
Phosphorus 6:14
Potassium 7:58
Magnesium 9:18
Boron 10:35
Iron 12:03
Chlorine 13:22
Manganese 14:59
Molybdenum 16:28
Nickel 18:38
Copper 19:51
Calcium 21:10
Well, here is another of your videos that I have saved to go back over and over. Just no way to absorb (no pun intended) all this in one go. Definitely the best learning channel I've found. This info will definitely be studied and put to use! Thanks 🙏
Plant Noobie here. Felt like I was back in school watching this video. This info will definitely help diagnose plant deficiencies. Thanks for all of your videos.
I think you hit a sweet spot in the balance between the science and keeping it simple enough for many to understand. Will definitely always utilize this video in the future, whenever I'm trying to diagnose a nutrient deficiency! Well done Bentley!
Bentley I LOVED this, just the right amount of info without overwhelming and not too little. Fantastic. I will be watching this again...and again. Thank you!
Love love this guy. Bentley explains everything so well making it easy to understand. Thank you!!
Fantastic videos with a wealth of detailed information. I'm not sure why the UA-cam algo didn't recommend you sooner. Love from India
Best 25 minutes of my day! Keep up good work!
Great video, very informative. When you say things like some plants are calcium suckers, it would be great if you said some examples of those type of plants. Maybe you could also categorize family of plants and what the main fertilizers they need the most so you can Target those plants. Anyway great job keep up the good work!
Excellent description of macro and micro nutrients, their roles and deficiency symptoms. Explained really well and nice and easy to understand. (Much better than my school days) This video will be in my reference library!
Actually this is one of the best videos I've seen about plant ferts and deficiencies
How does this not have a million views?! Thank you so much for this.
😳 Wow science is everything. Once you master the periodic table and how to stabilize your aquarium it's all smooth sailing. Thanks for the video.
Like people already said, very informative video and no it's not too long, it's just about it should be. You explained everything about Micro and Macro elements. Great video!
Thanks!
Thank you so much!
This is the best video i have seen about nutrients. I paused, got paper and pen and took notes and hit the subscribed button. Wonderful, easy to follow examples.
You are the man when i have a plant problem
No man, thank YOU. Thank you so much for all your hard work. Hopefully, when work picks up, I can try and support you on Patreon. Cheers!
Easiest to understand explanation of deficiencies I’ve found on UA-cam. Ty
Thanks. Easy to understand.
The video quality has really come a long way, soon you'll be at 10k!
Thank you very much for this presentation. I have been battling what I thought was nitrogen deficiency for years. When you identified "damage to fish gills" and hard water it all fell in place. I have very hard water, I had no idea this was even a risk factor.
I really wish I found your channel and this video before I had 3 tanks set up. The way you explain why the plants need their nutrients and the visuals for diagnosis really make this video insanely helpful as a resource. Seriously thank you!
I just got an idea... I read that you can "charge" your your substrate additives like Crushed Volcanic Rock, Heat-Fired Clay, etc. I am familiar with Akadama (Heat-Fired Clay) from making my own Bonsai Soil Mix that I learned back in the 80s from 2 well-known Bonsai Instructors and masters. Both recipes were nearly identical, except for very minor tweets. Then, you add this "charged" absorbent substrate at the bottom to draw down the roots deep into the substrate. Then, cap with good sand to minimize the nutrient leaching up into the Water Column. I did not learn about the sand-capping when I made the first tank with Fluval Stratum. Being that Idid not do 24/7 water-changing like box-stores... I was spiking every few days. I removed the substrate with the Fluval Stratum and rinsed it out of the gravel and saved it. Then, I just did the gravel substrate.
I learned. But listening to you, I am thinking that I am missing the Trace Nutrients.
Great video and since the 1st time watching I am able to get this superb info 💚💙
Great video Bentley. Really appreciate the time and methods you use educating the masses. Keep it up!
Love this video I'll probably watch this again cuz there's a lot of information thanks for producing this video!
@Bentley! Thanks for this video! I knew none of this and have had bought plants for thirty years unnecessarily! I will keep this video to refer back to for info!
One of the best plant vids you’ll find. Good job sir.
You are a plant genius. One of the best vids I’ve seen explaining deficiencies.
Thanks Bentley great video love your videos I've learned allot from you and much appreciated!
You have cured my problem, Calcium . Many thanks.
Thank you
So helpful that this my third time watching it today!
Thank you! That's incredibly flattering, glad I can help!
Nice very informative video. I feel that I have to watch it more than once. thanks !
First time listening wonderful information, thank you for sharing.
This was excellent, Bentley! It was interesting and just enough information for most people. I must admit that because life has been very busy, I've neglected one of my planted tanks. I just reworked the entire tank making it into a backwater environment for the little school of S. American tetras that reside inside. I bought a bottle of liquid fert and some Trace to keep right next this tank to keep me on my toes. I seem to always miss dosing it, for some reason. So I'm hoping to get the plants looking better within the next few weeks. Interestingly, the most delicate looking plant in that tank, Aponogeton ulvaceous, suddenly burst into growth after sitting "quiet" for a while. It's gorgeous and so lovely to watch as it moves in the current. As always, thank you for another very helpful and pleasurable video.
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾Super educacional and very simple to understand. Well done👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
very informative Bentley ... thanks
And another great primer! It's a Bentley-themed Saturday for me here in The Land Of Enchantment- Little Bobby
I need to listen again but very educational. Now i check my All in one fert if it contains All .
Have a great eastern weekend and Stay Safe all, hold on people.
Great video! I use a combination of the easy green and a half dose of seachem flourish. I found the flourish also raised my kh without raising ph. Bonus
This series is fascinating Bentley! Learning so much through these episodes and it is conveyed really well, great job as always man can't wait for next week. 👍
Thank you Bentley! Very helpful! I saved this video for future reference.
Bentley, you did a real great job on helping me a newbie to realize what nutrients that I am lacking.
I will start with adding Trace Nutrients and pick up a bottle later today.
Kudos.
Happy to help!
I've been taking notes while watching your video, I'm new to live plants in aquariums and I just want to say thank you for explaining things without going into long drawn out explanations of each nutrient, straight and to the point
It really made learning from you easy.
Glad this helped!
Awesome chat, good info an easy to take short notes for things to watch for.
Fabulous video. So informative and easy to understand! Thank you!
THANK YOU - The way you explain things is so helpful and clear! I've been expanding my plant collection and having a lot of fun learning about keeping plants with my fish. Starting a fert routine for the first time.
Very well explained. Thank you!
Excellent video!! Exactly what I needed to know for my 50 heavily planted that’s having nutrient issues.
Very concise thanks 😊
Nice job Bentley, well done.
I love your explanation in your videos. I love the science too, but for a newbie like me I need the basics. I love your humor “ give me 2 thumbs down if you didn’t like the video” LOL!
Great info Bentley!!! thank you sir!!!
Thanks Bentley, for this series. We have all these fishy UA-cam, but i feel we need more Aquatic plant tubes.
Great job on this video, lots of information I didn’t know. This one is going to need another watch. 👍🏻
I'm curious of what you do for a living because your a smart guy. Keep up the good educational videos.
I'm a software and hardware test engineer.
very useful info great job thanks Bentley
Wow what a great vedio ...unbelievable ...you just made me your biggest fan ....much love from L.A. ... ....great great great G.O.A.T
Super happy i came across this video awesome
In my part of Florida, my water is extremely hard. Bentley mentioned that some plants consume lots of calcium. What would some of those be?
Monte Carlo is the big one
Jerry, Hornwart softens your water. It sort of keeps my Guppies from a lot of reproduction.
Thanks much. I will give both a try.
This is awesome! Great content Bentley! 🔥
Always great information 👍 love your work keep it up ✌️
You are so helpful. Thank you.
I do natural planted tanks & my best one is one I went all out for.
I put a 1cm layer of clay on the bottom. Then I mixed some of my natural, garden compost with some random dirt from the yard & added a crushed multivitamin along with ash & carbon from my burn pile with epsom salt (magnesium) blood & bone meal to hit those macro nutrients. I only had 1 crypto die during its immersion leafing phase because 1 cory wouldn't leave it alone, otherwise the rest of the plants have been thriving for a year without adding anything. I got lazy with my newer tanks & just added compost + dirt & I have to add liquid fert. to those now. I'm close to breaking one down for a new scape & will go back to the supercharge method.
Really informative video Bentley. Explaisn why my own plants have been dire 😅 Keep up the good work! 💯💯
Great video Bentley
After your video I could explain myself a lot. Thank you! Btw maybe it's quite time to start making my own ferts. That theme is quite interesting.
I loooove this level of nitty gritty. Even way back in elementary school, I couldn't get with rote memorization, especially on math and science. I need to know WHY. And here you tell us why. Thank you :)
Bentley you are the man thanks for this video
Thanks for lighting the guppies!!
Do you have a video on plants and well water?
Great video, highly informative. Stay safe
Adenosine triphosphate- I remembered that from college!
Thank you 💯👍👍
You learn something new everyday😅
Awesome info! Loving these videos
Food for thought thanks for the video
Hey Bentley, great video as always! I've got an issue with my Pinnatifida. I get a ton of very small brownish dots on the older leaves then they melt and die off. Judging by the description you gave for the different deficiencies, it must be deficient in manganese. I'm dosing micro/macro on a daily basis (CO2 injection + Fluval Plant 3.0). There seems to be a pretty decent amount of Mn in the micro ferts: INGREDIENTS (in 1000 ml):INGREDIENTS (in 1000 ml):
Iron (Fe) - 2 g/l
Manganese (Mn) - 1 g/l
Copper (Cu) - 0,052 g/l
Zinc (Zn) - 0,29 g/l
Boron (B) - 0,4 g/l
Molybdenum (Mo) - 0,075 g/l
HEEDTA and other strong chelates !
Methylparaben (E218) - 1 g/l
Water
Do you think I need to add more?
You might also consider a touch more iron, pinnatifida is an iron hog
@@BentleyPascoe iron it is then! Thanks a bunch, Bentley!
I like the little cartoon leaves. I think they help a lot to get the idea across, even if they do look like a seed. Okay back to the video.
Great video, I will definately come back to it if I start to have problems! Concerning carbon, I think you perhaps can see a shortage of it in some plants, especially in the growth. My Pogostemon 'octopus' looked kind of bare and skinny until I put CO2 in the tank, and now it has more leaves and is generally more bushier and healthier looking.
I've grown plants on just fish waste before..but when it comes to growing so much of the semi aquatic plants and wanting a aquascape look? Plants are nutrient hogs. Once you start there is no "enough" and you can stop. I have even tried land plant ferts for acid loving plants,and its worked well in combo with iron..but,I'm not advocating people run out and use it. I have a big tank,and I also have a huge Syngonium sucking out nutrients all the time. Small aquarium lit by artificial lights won't need as much.
But,if people want to try them.use a dab and see how it goes. If it works? One bag might last a lifetime for a small tank and only $10 or so at Home Depot.
The reason I say for acid loving plants,and not all purpose ferts? It has all the things Bently mentioned even Moly. It also has a high percentage of Iron. It does a good job too of mildly lowering a high ph.
Thanks this was very helpful as I suspected having calcium (Ca) deficiency in my planted tank.
I ordered the Yokuchi Ishiko (I could not get hold of seachem equilibrium).
Seeing forward to a better plant growth in the future.
It is somewhat weird that the liquid fertilizer do not have Ca.
So it will not help with dosing heavier..😉
I actually happen to have 3 diffrent liquid fertilizers at home but non of them has Ca in them. 😢
Yes, I also added yesterday root tabs that contains Ca in my only sand substrate. So I do not have any fancy substrate that has a lot of nutrients..
But I have rather hard ish water:
GH:11
KH:9
pH:8.0 ±0.3 (depending on co²)
Super helpful - thank you!
Thank you for the great information!
Great Idk if I have nitrates or magnesium deficiency lol. My older Ottos do have that burn but I’ve had them a long time back when I completely had no idea what I was doing and had all types of problems. Gonna start with Nitrates and hope that is it
Calcium def. and curled leaves, but it also happens from overwatering with my tomatoes.
I have been trying to figure out what the heck is wrong with my plants for 2 weeks now. You are the first person to I’ve heard say plant leaves curling is a calcium deficiency. Got a calcium test kit just to be sure, and there is literally no calcium in my tank. Thank you!
How much calcium should be in my water? Should I adjust it slowly to avoid a sudden change in my pH? Currently using acid buffers to lower my outrageous KH (over 25 dKH out of the tap)
@@ALIandBRYSONforever adjust slowly, but try to get something around 4-6 gH
FABULOUS VIDEO THANK YOU SO MUCH
Thank you sir , very informative
This is quality content! 🤩
Lots of good info in this video. I'm having a problem with my ludwegia plants, both repens and palustris, where rot where they've been buried in the substrate. They grow aerial roots above the rotten section, but it keeps happening. None of my other stem plants are doing this. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? I'mm on well water in Michigan (hard water, so calcium and iron aren't an issue) and use easy green and root tabs. Thanks!
What I would do is not bury the stems yet, use a plant weight to hold them as a small bunch on the surface of the substrate and let them grow fresh roots, then, with the fresh roots, plant them into the substrate. Some plants have trouble converting as they'll be grown in softer water at farms, then when moved to hard water they can struggle to establish right away and need more time to convert to your particular water conditions.
@@BentleyPascoe great idea, thanks so much!
Great information! Do I want to dose my potassium and trace elements at the same time?
Dose potassium when you dose macros
Gotta love educational video! What’s your dried food for the guppies?
I use several different ones
Hi Bentley. How do you go about analysing the variables that lead failure. Like where and how do you start
This is likely a video because it requires some depth. So... I'll get working on that!
@@BentleyPascoe yes that would be so awesome if you could do one. As it's tough to know where to start with deficiencies and what to do
Brilliant. Take my like and comment to promote
or even two. Or three, if you tell me your oppinion on Equilibrium from Sachen. I have SO weird empty water...
Hello from switzerland!! very good video.
i have a problem with my plants that the leaf outline turns black, could it be lack of calcium? thank you very much and continuation of good films.
Possible, is it all plants or only certain ones? Feel free to shoot me an email and I'll try to help
Bentley Pascoe what is your email ? Thanks
I am concentrating on having planted tanks . Is there a chart in deficiency for plants you can purchase ? Or maybe some suggestions . Anything about growing plants in aquariums . Thank you . I have a API test kit . Is that suffient ?
There's quite a few charts online for free.
This guy knows his plants 🌱