Right after i was done filming, i told my wife that i dont think this method is gonna work.... She looked around and replied "Looks like it does" haha. I love showing every aspect of the hobby and im inspired by lucas to set a few tanks up just like this! Mind you, two things happened when i got to lucas's house that i feel obligated to mention... 1: he tried to beat me up in his living room. haha (he did!) 2: We started talking fish and drinking a few brewskis. We almost forgot to film his room! So this was filmed 2-3 hours after we caught up on our friendship. We did our best! haha. 3: We have more in common than i every thought. Anyways, he's got a lot to teach, so do me a favour and sub to his channel: www.youtube.com/@LRBaquatics
I do need to ask if i ever who start up an aquarium could you keep a pleco or plecos with out flow and it would ofc have 1 heater in it if its pleco. if not how long does it need to sit before adding small fish like guppies or tetras?
Do you really think his tanks look good? If you're after dingy looking tanks with dirty, cloudy water and lots of algae, then by all means go for it. You have been very successful with all of your tanks. That's because you've been following the science. I'm really surprised you would even entertain this idea. But if you do, get ready to throw your credibility out the window.
This was awesome. I have been watching Lucas for years, as well as buying plants fish and shrimp from him. His plants fish and shrimp are the healthiest that i have ever bought.
The lighting situation is always a contentious topic. From what I can tell studying landscaping, greenhouses, gardens, and getting into terrariums and eventually aquariums over the years, most plants in general can utilize most frequencies of visual EMR, as well as some ultra violent and far red. Different frequencies used in higher amounts or others at a deficit can cause a variety of effects on the plants. Also, different plants may use different amounts in different proportions largely based on what they have adapted to in their native environments. With artificial lighting for good plant growth, the most important thing (providing your light offers something close to a full spectrum despite leaning more blueish, reddish, greenish, etc.) is that plants get the right intensity of light, and in the case of aquariums, that it looks good to you.
I like using the repti substrate for reptile enclosures it’s made of moss and coconut fiber and fresh water plants love it. It does add lots of tannins at first but will clear up with water changes I kept khuli loaches, corydoras, African butterfly fish and shrimp loaded it with hornwort and java moss and left it at room temp they thrived and breed like crazy and once established I was able to go over a year between water changes
Crystal clear water and a spotlessly "clean" tank is not necessarily healthy, just as a "dirty" tank with slightly cloudy water and algae, etc doesn't mean it's unhealthy :D
In my several years of experimenting with natural-ish systems at this point, I'm thinking this guy has found the secret to being the laziest yet still functional fish keeper: Toss in a layer of gravel, let mulm build up, use free floating vigorous plants, but also carpeting gravel with vigorous fully aquatic plants so roots keep the mulm oxygenated is a neat trick, and don't be afraid of algae (heavy plantings will keep algae down if you're not fiddling with the tank too much). Maybe clean some of the excess mulm in open unplanted areas, and do regular small water changes. If it works, it works.
No filter or anything seems good for people with big fighrooms but for regular people with one or two tanks a sponge filter is so low tech and easy and the benefits are so huge there is no good reason to not have a sponge filter or something similar. And if the noise bothers you just stick a power head in the sponge filter and enjoy.
@@tomcarr8831internal water circulation pump essentially. It's what we used in the 80's and 90's to run under gravel filters and move water in reef tanks before wavemakers were common.
@ yes i had a 75 gallon planted tank with german blue rams and it was filtered with stacked sponge filters with a power head on top. I used swisstropicals box filters in there also once i lost the adapter for the power head to fit on the sponge filter.
This is truly inspiring..and I love the sound frequency thing Lucas mentioned something fishkeepers hardly mention (sound frequencies are so important to anything alive including us) My question is if Lucas is a seller to others then most people will run filters ect..that must be like moving from a quiet village to a big city must be a very stressful transition for these fish! 💙
I have heard so many people kill their fish doing the ff method. In my experience with no filter you have to be very lightly stocked and not feed them much at all.
With FF, yeah, but that's because the mulm easily clogs up the sand bed. A more open gravel bed with vigorous root-feeding fully aquatic (not amphibious, unless it's a particularly tough competitive species) plants can take more fish load and heavy feeding, as in a typical Walstad. Mulm is able to seep through the gravel more easily than sand, and the roots grow through it and keep it oxygenated by pumping O2 through their root tips.
Im in-between, i have a filter but only gets cleaned once or twice a year but i never do a water change i just top up from my pond, substrate is never cleaned but i do have plenty of plants and my tank is thriving
how can you move water without electricity? not a criticism, just curious. If it is gravity fed you have to pump the water to a high place first? interesting amigo
@@DonaldHill87 can you upload that on your youtube channel? always interested in new ideas. One concept I am planning (have not done yet), is to join two aquariums via a pipe. The theory is that the waters should over time (very slowly) equalise. No flow required. the plan is to join a planted aquarium to a non-planted aquarium, to get the benefits of plants.
Glass box aquariums are considered closed systems. Nature are open systems. Wonder what the ORP is of the aquariums. And over time. Large fish, with mass plant load will cause lack of o2 at night when plants consume o2.
Just wonder where the plants get their nutrients from?I am new in this hobby. I am trying to create a self sustaining ecosystem. I feed the fish, bacteria decompose the organic wastes, plants absorb the nutrients and grow. After a while trim the plants. The input is the fish food and the output is the trimmings of the plants.
@ indeed he was, although it’s true he is most known for his knowledge of water flow, how water behaves, etc. the knowledge he gained from studying water led to him uncovering things else where, and had many inventions that had nothing to do with water in and of themselves, but were possible through his studying water… but yeah, extremely smart man! We should comprehend and copy nature in every aspect, and work with nature, not against it! Whether it’s ecosystems, growing plants, etc…
How can you get those plants to grow so nice, without the tank just being quickly overrun by algae? Maybe you just don't put fish in with them to keep nitrates down?
Why? Isn't his method calling for this particular plant to stock ratio? What would be the point? He would need to add a filter but what would it prove?
can someone identify 12:38? got this as a bonus plant with a order i placed on ebay 10 or so years ago. from the orig... plant i still have a few but cant seem to fill my tank but all my other plants do well. got a 40 and would like to do something with this plant being the setting for everything else in the aquarium. wanna buy a bunch and see what happens, thanks fish people
I wouldn't take him verbatim on how it works but if you're doing smaller to medium fish and set it up right. All the different cycles happening would make it work
sorry but I know that stagnant water is poor in oxygen. when you put plants they produce it. but you say it can also be done without plants. but in that case where does the oxygen come from?
Right after i was done filming, i told my wife that i dont think this method is gonna work.... She looked around and replied "Looks like it does" haha.
I love showing every aspect of the hobby and im inspired by lucas to set a few tanks up just like this!
Mind you, two things happened when i got to lucas's house that i feel obligated to mention...
1: he tried to beat me up in his living room. haha (he did!)
2: We started talking fish and drinking a few brewskis. We almost forgot to film his room!
So this was filmed 2-3 hours after we caught up on our friendship. We did our best! haha.
3: We have more in common than i every thought.
Anyways, he's got a lot to teach, so do me a favour and sub to his channel:
www.youtube.com/@LRBaquatics
however i do believe in flow
How does he keep the water warm for certain fishes?
I do need to ask if i ever who start up an aquarium could you keep a pleco or plecos with out flow and it would ofc have 1 heater in it if its pleco. if not how long does it need to sit before adding small fish like guppies or tetras?
@jemswrestlingchannel1731 i wondered the same thing
Do you really think his tanks look good? If you're after dingy looking tanks with dirty, cloudy water and lots of algae, then by all means go for it. You have been very successful with all of your tanks. That's because you've been following the science. I'm really surprised you would even entertain this idea. But if you do, get ready to throw your credibility out the window.
Thanks for stopping by and watching! Xoxo
Dude you’re undercharging for the plants. 😂
Can you do an update video on the triple palidarium tanks please?
Its amazing how there are several ways that others keep and care for their fish and other pets. There isn’t just one way. Amazing tour!
You are correct. There are several ways... not all the right way, I'm afraid. More people fail because they're taking the unconventional path.
This was awesome. I have been watching Lucas for years, as well as buying plants fish and shrimp from him. His plants fish and shrimp are the healthiest that i have ever bought.
Great video gentlemen! Lucas is a gem in the hobby. Thanks for showing us his setups bro
The lighting situation is always a contentious topic. From what I can tell studying landscaping, greenhouses, gardens, and getting into terrariums and eventually aquariums over the years, most plants in general can utilize most frequencies of visual EMR, as well as some ultra violent and far red. Different frequencies used in higher amounts or others at a deficit can cause a variety of effects on the plants. Also, different plants may use different amounts in different proportions largely based on what they have adapted to in their native environments. With artificial lighting for good plant growth, the most important thing (providing your light offers something close to a full spectrum despite leaning more blueish, reddish, greenish, etc.) is that plants get the right intensity of light, and in the case of aquariums, that it looks good to you.
Definitely a very informative watch! It's nice to see someone successful going all natural.
Lucas is definitely a gem for the hobby. Much respect 👌💪👍
Such a kind man. Thanks Lucas!
I like using the repti substrate for reptile enclosures it’s made of moss and coconut fiber and fresh water plants love it. It does add lots of tannins at first but will clear up with water changes I kept khuli loaches, corydoras, African butterfly fish and shrimp loaded it with hornwort and java moss and left it at room temp they thrived and breed like crazy and once established I was able to go over a year between water changes
Great video! Learned so much viewing both perspectives of the hobby
Crystal clear water and a spotlessly "clean" tank is not necessarily healthy, just as a "dirty" tank with slightly cloudy water and algae, etc doesn't mean it's unhealthy :D
In my several years of experimenting with natural-ish systems at this point, I'm thinking this guy has found the secret to being the laziest yet still functional fish keeper: Toss in a layer of gravel, let mulm build up, use free floating vigorous plants, but also carpeting gravel with vigorous fully aquatic plants so roots keep the mulm oxygenated is a neat trick, and don't be afraid of algae (heavy plantings will keep algae down if you're not fiddling with the tank too much). Maybe clean some of the excess mulm in open unplanted areas, and do regular small water changes. If it works, it works.
No filter or anything seems good for people with big fighrooms but for regular people with one or two tanks a sponge filter is so low tech and easy and the benefits are so huge there is no good reason to not have a sponge filter or something similar. And if the noise bothers you just stick a power head in the sponge filter and enjoy.
What’s a power dead? Sorry I’m from uk never heard of that haha
@@tomcarr8831internal water circulation pump essentially. It's what we used in the 80's and 90's to run under gravel filters and move water in reef tanks before wavemakers were common.
I use a Aquael Pat mini filter head on a double sponge filter. Works great, has aeration too if needed. Quiet.
@ yes i had a 75 gallon planted tank with german blue rams and it was filtered with stacked sponge filters with a power head on top. I used swisstropicals box filters in there also once i lost the adapter for the power head to fit on the sponge filter.
I love his shirt!
Crazy psychedelic baboon
Awesome video 😊 it’s my dream to open a fish shop someday soon just trying to raise enough to make my dream come true 😊
This is truly inspiring..and I love the sound frequency thing Lucas mentioned something fishkeepers hardly mention (sound frequencies are so important to anything alive including us)
My question is if Lucas is a seller to others then most people will run filters ect..that must be like moving from a quiet village to a big city must be a very stressful transition for these fish! 💙
what a chill dude , love the tanks
Thanks joey this was amazing truly amazing.
Love LRbs fishroom, he is an awesome guy.
I have heard so many people kill their fish doing the ff method.
In my experience with no filter you have to be very lightly stocked and not feed them much at all.
With FF, yeah, but that's because the mulm easily clogs up the sand bed. A more open gravel bed with vigorous root-feeding fully aquatic (not amphibious, unless it's a particularly tough competitive species) plants can take more fish load and heavy feeding, as in a typical Walstad. Mulm is able to seep through the gravel more easily than sand, and the roots grow through it and keep it oxygenated by pumping O2 through their root tips.
Joey, this is one of your best videos why I couldn’t tell you I just like the diversity
Very cool video!!! Lucas for the W
Lucas Knows his stuff as we are both of the same mentality and the proof is in the pudding
Your tank water always so clear
Wow! Thank you😊😊😊
LRB is the man !
Literally two opposites in all aspects but bff’s bound by the hobby. ❤
Interesting idea, but what I don't see is fish bigger than a few inches. Or even fish at all in several tanks, just tanks with waste and plants?
Im in-between, i have a filter but only gets cleaned once or twice a year but i never do a water change i just top up from my pond, substrate is never cleaned but i do have plenty of plants and my tank is thriving
I like this guy.. hes good people!
Great job Lucas,
Lucas is awesome in what he's accomplished. When are you going to try a no filter planted tank?
Awesome guy. Subscribing to his channel.
what are those fish at the start with the red tips and the spot?
Ahhh Mascara Barb
What are the tetra looking fish with the red tail tips? I've had aquariums for 40 years and never seen them in the uk.
Is it possible to have African cichlids in a no filter tank
Well water rocks! No need for dechlorinator and like you said you can put fish in the same day
Thanks to Lucas now i have 7 tanks 😅
Great video i may have a go with no filter i am only running 5 tanks at the moment
I created a type of filter that moves water through media just like a normal filter, only it requires no electricity, and they work great!
how can you move water without electricity? not a criticism, just curious. If it is gravity fed you have to pump the water to a high place first? interesting amigo
@ no pump required, vacuum principles
@ OK. I am a mechanical engineer. Now you have me interested. How does this work? Sounds like a gas pressure system.
@ I can send you a video of the first prototype I made working! Which isn’t the final product, but just to show proof of concept…
@@DonaldHill87 can you upload that on your youtube channel? always interested in new ideas. One concept I am planning (have not done yet), is to join two aquariums via a pipe. The theory is that the waters should over time (very slowly) equalise. No flow required.
the plan is to join a planted aquarium to a non-planted aquarium, to get the benefits of plants.
How does he regulate the temperature of the water?
His well with is connected to fountain of youth.
Glass box aquariums are considered closed systems. Nature are open systems. Wonder what the ORP is of the aquariums. And over time. Large fish, with mass plant load will cause lack of o2 at night when plants consume o2.
I'd need a huge pond of plants for my fish load. Up north, that ain't really possible.
Impressiv 👍👍👍👍👍
If I redo my 75 gallon I think I might try Lucas’s way lol
this isn’t a fishroom, it’s a factory😂
these tanks are basically indoor ponds. i do the same. Zero tech.
Just wonder where the plants get their nutrients from?I am new in this hobby. I am trying to create a self sustaining ecosystem. I feed the fish, bacteria decompose the organic wastes, plants absorb the nutrients and grow. After a while trim the plants. The input is the fish food and the output is the trimmings of the plants.
“Comprehend and copy nature”
-Viktor Schauberger
Mind he loved water flow, but awesome you've quoted Shauberger, he was an amazing man.
@ indeed he was, although it’s true he is most known for his knowledge of water flow, how water behaves, etc. the knowledge he gained from studying water led to him uncovering things else where, and had many inventions that had nothing to do with water in and of themselves, but were possible through his studying water… but yeah, extremely smart man! We should comprehend and copy nature in every aspect, and work with nature, not against it! Whether it’s ecosystems, growing plants, etc…
@ I agree!
You miss out the ponds and tubes out back😢
One question WHO DOESN'T KNOW LUCAS!!!,,,EVERYONE KNOWS LUCAS
How can you get those plants to grow so nice, without the tank just being quickly overrun by algae? Maybe you just don't put fish in with them to keep nitrates down?
How does he heat the tanks? Does he heat the room?
Yes he has heat and ac on the barn. Keeps it around 74 ideally
I met Lucas at Aquashella.
Very few fish in each tank . Let him try it with a heavier stocked tank
Why? Isn't his method calling for this particular plant to stock ratio? What would be the point? He would need to add a filter but what would it prove?
Show me one aquarium that is a swamp aquarium like his with big fish in it -- living and thriving.
Depends what you consider big fish but there are examples in this video
can someone identify 12:38? got this as a bonus plant with a order i placed on ebay 10 or so years ago. from the orig... plant i still have a few but cant seem to fill my tank but all my other plants do well. got a 40 and would like to do something with this plant being the setting for everything else in the aquarium. wanna buy a bunch and see what happens, thanks fish people
I had a tank for years with no filter and heater just plants sub straight and lights might f water changed every few months
This guy must have psychedelic wisdom.
Don't like pseudoscience stuff. But the silence is amazing
I wouldn't take him verbatim on how it works but if you're doing smaller to medium fish and set it up right. All the different cycles happening would make it work
Hi from New Jersey
What about oxygenation?? My power goes out and if I don't use a battery powered bubbler ASAP my fish are All dead within 2 hours...
Hi people 🐠
No oxygen and gas change without filters !! You top of the tanks with fresh water when they vaporate .fish need moving water
sorry but I know that stagnant water is poor in oxygen. when you put plants they produce it. but you say it can also be done without plants. but in that case where does the oxygen come from?
I bet you could hear a pin drop in there
Just looks like load of empty tank with plants in not my cuppa tea….
Hi everyone
I see a lot of underwater gardens, not so many fish.
Alright who wants to match?
LRB
Fyi for the colourblind lrb's hoodie is intense 😂
Natural aquarium will only work for twnk that have very small fish population. It won't work if you want 5 angle fishes in 50 gallons .
I'd like to have the same thing that he's having
Didn't keeping fish simple already do this ?
Camera makes me seasick.
No oxygen and gas change without filters !! You top of the tanks with fresh water when they vaporate .fish need moving water