You have to clean off all the dirt on the roots on the pothos plant. The substrate is a nitrate factory. I have a bare bottom aquaponic aquarium. I collect all the fish poop and throw it in the garbage. I have a Sobo top filter that I clean the mechanical filtration every other day which is very easy so I don't have any nitrates. I use Lucky Bamboo, Pothos and Monstera plants.
My pathos was slow to start, but 2 years later it has grown from about 5 inches to about 25 ft total. The hornwort density dropped a lot in 1 tank. Can't compete with an out of the water leaf plant pulling in abundant Co.
Pothos - Peace Lily plants. These plants will ONLY help you maintain consistency with your Nitrates - meaning, they will NOT eliminate Nitrates but keep it at a minimum. I have a 75g tank with 3 large central American cichlids.... My tank is 3 years old - Before i started using Live Plants, my Nitrates was all over the place - it will sometime rocket up to 120ppm. After I added my Pothos/Peace Lily plants 1 year ago, my Nitrates has remained between 5ppm-20ppm.
I have being cultivating pothos for my aquarium systems for nearly 10 years with relatively heavily stocked cichlid tanks. My big tank, 500 gallons, is set up with a grow bed with multiple plant species next to a a window. I have found you need a lot of plant mass to make a dent in the nitrates. There is a fixation on pothos in the hobby but there are faster growing plants that are more interesting that will consume more fish waste. A technical point, pothos consumes ammonia- not nitrates. It consumes the ammonia, resulting in less nitrate formation via the nitrogen cycle.
All plants absorb ammonia. I was considering using sweet potato vine, since I have it in the garden already, but "pothos" is the magical plant everyone talks about, so that's what I'm going to test.
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly Well that's why we have plants, to consume the ammonia, not nitrates. Nitrates cannot get high enough in a natural environment to even be harmful. It has to be insanely high.
I have a fully submerged pothos, healthy and happy after about 8 months! It has already grown up and out of the tank. Not sure why my one survived, but it looks great!
I have a 42"x 6"x 5" tank sitting on my 4ft aquarium. I set it up with lots of pothos to suck up nitrates from my main tank. I found that it did not make any difference in my nitrates levels. I then stop the water flow from my main aquarium. I raise the nitrates to about 30ppm in the static pothos tank. It took about 2 weeks for it to drop to 0 ppm. Till this day I am still keeping the pothos tank. It is growing wild. My point is it takes a long time for the pothos to suck nitrates. I think they prefer ammonia over nitrates. [ btw pothos will take up nitrates under strong sunlight ] Your small potted pothos is not going to lower any noticeable nitrates level. You should see my forest pothos, and they took 2 weeks in a static tank. lol
I remember watching a video somewhere where some guy talked about filterless aquariums. I believe he stated that plants absorb ammonia better than nitrates, don't know if this is true though.
It does not remove nitrates, what it does is remove ammonium nitrate which is part of the normal cycle in aquariums. That will then lower the nitrate by removing the ammonia from the cycle.
My Pothos I started with a trimming and put it directly into the tank. About 2 years later it has a massive root system in the tank. It has also traveled under the water to the front of the tank and established a second root system.
Quick question, so by keeping the plant in the fertilizer it was purchased in, and then placing that in the aquarium, wouldn't the plant pull ammonia from the fertilizer mostly and not the aquarium? Idk🤔
I put pothos in a tank that had plants growing well and the plants had great healthy color. Within maybe 2weeks or a little more, the plants that were originally in my tank had changed a little yellow(noticeable amount,) but the pothos was doing great though. On a side note i dont know how every plant in the tank absorbed nutrients, but im sure fertilization couldve been done. (Or add more fish for the plants to feed off of! Lol!)
All plants use nitrate. The faster they grow, the more they use. I'm saying that pothos (or any plant) doesn't magic it away. If you have high nitrate, a pothos plant won't bring it zero. Pothos is probably the fastest growing, most nitrate using plant you can put in a tank.
Did you research growing pothos in an aquarium or in water? I don’t think you will have success growing it in wet dirt. Wet gravel yes or no substrate. Only time will tell , because without doing it that way myself I can only go by what horticulturists say. An interesting test, thanks for sharing.
I want to find pothos for my beta sorority tank just for the dangling root system. I think they will love stalking through it. I’m interested to see the results of this, though I know goliad farms uses hornwort for all their tanks because of performance.
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly sweet potatoes vine works BUT you need warm air ( your room is heated so ok) and some sun or strong light. My sprigs did fine until winter (cold room air and poor sunlight) and died. Also I noticed that the white sap on newly cut stems did nothing bad to the fish.
One of the things that can inhibit nitrate absorption is a potassium deficiency. If you add some potassium, I PROMISE you, your plants will devour nitrates. I dose fertilizers to 20-30ppm nitrates in my tank & 2 3 days later- like clock work, I’m sitting around 5ppm. Potassium was my missing element- your ability to EAT nitrates will be CAPPED by whatever deficiency is keeping you from doing so. Potassium. I’m telling you, if everyone knew this, water changes would become water addition to remineralize the tank. Edit: I have a planted 40 breeder community with 23 fish and 2 snails. I’m thinking about adding a school of neons just to see how the system handles the load and processes nitrates.
My 200 gallon has high nitrates and I have pothos also and haven't seen any difference I'm running 2 fx6 with bio home and a 30 gallon sump with lava rock 2 years running 5 fish still high nitrates weekly water changes but it's always high lol
I don’t see any bottom feeders… it there aren’t any bottom feeders any food that the fish didn’t eat sinks to the substrate and dissolved into the water column
@@csharpe5787 I'm not saying he doesn't know what he is doing, but the cause of the problem is pretty clear and at the point i switched his video off he said I'm not sure why...
@@craigbarnes607 He is not trying to get rid of ammonia or nitrite, He is trying to get rid of the nitrate which needs very little water movement to achieve in a deep bed which can take 6 months or more to achieve.
TRy foinf more than normal water changes. double the number of times you do your water changes. double or do 1.5 times the amount of water changed and dees less.
You have to clean off all the dirt on the roots on the pothos plant. The substrate is a nitrate factory. I have a bare bottom aquaponic aquarium. I collect all the fish poop and throw it in the garbage. I have a Sobo top filter that I clean the mechanical filtration every other day which is very easy so I don't have any nitrates. I use Lucky Bamboo, Pothos and Monstera plants.
My pathos was slow to start, but 2 years later it has grown from about 5 inches to about 25 ft total.
The hornwort density dropped a lot in 1 tank. Can't compete with an out of the water leaf plant pulling in abundant Co.
Works very well for us…..we must have different pathos here in Cleveland 🌱🌱🤘🤘😀😀
Lol I looked for "Cleveland Pothos" but had to settle for the Golden Pothos instead.
Pothos - Peace Lily plants. These plants will ONLY help you maintain consistency with your Nitrates - meaning, they will NOT eliminate Nitrates but keep it at a minimum. I have a 75g tank with 3 large central American cichlids.... My tank is 3 years old - Before i started using Live Plants, my Nitrates was all over the place - it will sometime rocket up to 120ppm. After I added my Pothos/Peace Lily plants 1 year ago, my Nitrates has remained between 5ppm-20ppm.
I have being cultivating pothos for my aquarium systems for nearly 10 years with relatively heavily stocked cichlid tanks. My big tank, 500 gallons, is set up with a grow bed with multiple plant species next to a a window. I have found you need a lot of plant mass to make a dent in the nitrates. There is a fixation on pothos in the hobby but there are faster growing plants that are more interesting that will consume more fish waste. A technical point, pothos consumes ammonia- not nitrates. It consumes the ammonia, resulting in less nitrate formation via the nitrogen cycle.
All plants absorb ammonia. I was considering using sweet potato vine, since I have it in the garden already, but "pothos" is the magical plant everyone talks about, so that's what I'm going to test.
What are the other superior plants you mention?
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly Well that's why we have plants, to consume the ammonia, not nitrates. Nitrates cannot get high enough in a natural environment to even be harmful. It has to be insanely high.
I keep pothos above my 75 gal blackwater south american tank and the roots create a really cool look and natural cover that the fish love.
You know they're poisonous. Put in the filter.
I have a fully submerged pothos, healthy and happy after about 8 months! It has already grown up and out of the tank. Not sure why my one survived, but it looks great!
I didn’t know pothos leaves 🍃 were able to be submerged
I have a 29g with huge pothos growing out of it.. No matter how much I dose the tank.. Nitrates never get over 10 to 20 ppm
I have a 42"x 6"x 5" tank sitting on my 4ft aquarium. I set it up with lots of pothos to suck up nitrates from my main tank. I found that it did not make any difference in my nitrates levels. I then stop the water flow from my main aquarium. I raise the nitrates to about 30ppm in the static pothos tank. It took about 2 weeks for it to drop to 0 ppm. Till this day I am still keeping the pothos tank. It is growing wild. My point is it takes a long time for the pothos to suck nitrates. I think they prefer ammonia over nitrates. [ btw pothos will take up nitrates under strong sunlight ]
Your small potted pothos is not going to lower any noticeable nitrates level. You should see my forest pothos, and they took 2 weeks in a static tank. lol
I remember watching a video somewhere where some guy talked about filterless aquariums.
I believe he stated that plants absorb ammonia better than nitrates, don't know if this is true though.
It does not remove nitrates, what it does is remove ammonium nitrate which is part of the normal cycle in aquariums. That will then lower the nitrate by removing the ammonia from the cycle.
Very cute tank
Add some ludwigia repens from your other tanks into this tank to add some color and nitrate absorption.
My Pothos I started with a trimming and put it directly into the tank. About 2 years later it has a massive root system in the tank. It has also traveled under the water to the front of the tank and established a second root system.
I had one in the past like that.
Looks good I may try this 🐠🐢
Quick question, so by keeping the plant in the fertilizer it was purchased in, and then placing that in the aquarium, wouldn't the plant pull ammonia from the fertilizer mostly and not the aquarium? Idk🤔
There's no fertilizer in the peat in comes in.
I put pothos in a tank that had plants growing well and the plants had great healthy color. Within maybe 2weeks or a little more, the plants that were originally in my tank had changed a little yellow(noticeable amount,) but the pothos was doing great though.
On a side note i dont know how every plant in the tank absorbed nutrients, but im sure fertilization couldve been done.
(Or add more fish for the plants to feed off of! Lol!)
Yeah, it sounds like the pothos was stealing all the nutrients from you other plants.
Calculate the bio load of the tank it’s pretty stocked the plant can only do so much
I find it amazing how many people like telling you how to solve the issues. I think they're missing the point, I no you know what to do.
Lol I TELL them what I'm trying to do, but I get advice anyway. Lol
Wow😲 so beautiful😍
Yes it does
What was the medium, Soil? Rock wool? Just curious.
Just some peat moss. Maybe a bit of vermiculite, but probably just moss.
Will that tank get another Ram?
Not while this one is still alive.
Some vlogger said pothos can absorb nitrate but you're not? So what is the best plant for you that can absorb nitrate?thanks
All plants use nitrate. The faster they grow, the more they use. I'm saying that pothos (or any plant) doesn't magic it away. If you have high nitrate, a pothos plant won't bring it zero. Pothos is probably the fastest growing, most nitrate using plant you can put in a tank.
Did you research growing pothos in an aquarium or in water? I don’t think you will have success growing it in wet dirt. Wet gravel yes or no substrate. Only time will tell , because without doing it that way myself I can only go by what horticulturists say.
An interesting test, thanks for sharing.
How does this small fish produce craxy amount of nitrates.
It builds up
I don't know, but, the Pothos may possibly need a bit more time to establish. BTW, those fish & plants are looking great. 👍 🐠🐟🐡☘🌿🌵
Within a few weeks, that pothos will be growing like crazy.
great vid!
I want to find pothos for my beta sorority tank just for the dangling root system. I think they will love stalking through it. I’m interested to see the results of this, though I know goliad farms uses hornwort for all their tanks because of performance.
I thought about using sweet potato vine too. Anything that grows crazy fast will serve my purposes.
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly sweet potatoes vine works BUT you need warm air ( your room is heated so ok) and some sun or strong light. My sprigs did fine until winter (cold room air and poor sunlight) and died. Also I noticed that the white sap on newly cut stems did nothing bad to the fish.
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly can those grow under water? Some plant roots won’t handle it
@@mentaldk329 White sap like that is usually just latex from the plant. (natural rubber)
@@liquidrockaquatics3900 As long as the water is oxygenated and not stagnant, they do well.
One of the things that can inhibit nitrate absorption is a potassium deficiency. If you add some potassium, I PROMISE you, your plants will devour nitrates. I dose fertilizers to 20-30ppm nitrates in my tank & 2 3 days later- like clock work, I’m sitting around 5ppm. Potassium was my missing element- your ability to EAT nitrates will be CAPPED by whatever deficiency is keeping you from doing so. Potassium. I’m telling you, if everyone knew this, water changes would become water addition to remineralize the tank. Edit: I have a planted 40 breeder community with 23 fish and 2 snails. I’m thinking about adding a school of neons just to see how the system handles the load and processes nitrates.
Got any link for me to read bout it?
Thanks
My 200 gallon has high nitrates and I have pothos also and haven't seen any difference I'm running 2 fx6 with bio home and a 30 gallon sump with lava rock 2 years running 5 fish still high nitrates weekly water changes but it's always high lol
Any update?
Ohio fish rescue says it works.
Put it in the filter
I don’t see any bottom feeders… it there aren’t any bottom feeders any food that the fish didn’t eat sinks to the substrate and dissolved into the water column
I wouldn't trust the soil that came in the plant....
Use
Better filter
Media ;)
Its kinda obvious the tank is really small and you have too many fish in it therefore lots of nitrates...
Each to there own. I'm sure he's totally aware of what to do.
@@csharpe5787 I'm not saying he doesn't know what he is doing, but the cause of the problem is pretty clear and at the point i switched his video off he said I'm not sure why...
I keep saying this sand not that good as deep substrate not porous enough you need gravel
Water easily flows through gravel not sand I give up explaining it to you , watch pond guru
@@craigbarnes607 He is not trying to get rid of ammonia or nitrite, He is trying to get rid of the nitrate which needs very little water movement to achieve in a deep bed which can take 6 months or more to achieve.
TRy foinf more than normal water changes. double the number of times you do your water changes. double or do 1.5 times the amount of water changed and dees less.
Too many fish