AQUARIUM MAINTENANCE FOR BEGINNERS - QUICK AND SIMPLE
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- Опубліковано 10 лип 2024
- In this planted aquarium maintenance tutorial for beginners I will show you exactly how I maintain all my planted tanks.
When it comes to maintenance it is important that we enjoy this process. If you hate doing maintenance your planted aquarium will never look as good as you want.
The return pump that I use:
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Tank #1
Beta Line Nano 40
40x30x30 cm
JBL e701 canister filter amzn.to/3gtAQXv
INTAQO controller
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Dennerle Scapers Soil
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Tank #2
Dennerle Scapers Tank 70L
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JBL e902 canister filter amzn.to/3gg6lnC
Chihiros WRGB 2 amzn.to/36PbUWY
Black lava rock amzn.to/2VHKuMn
Dennerle Deponitmix Black
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Dennerle Scapers Soil
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Tank #3
Green Aqua Opti-White (Clear Glass) Aquarium - 20 liters, 36x22x26 cm (Mini M)
Dennerle Scapers Flow
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Dennerle Deponitmix Black
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Dennerle Scapers Soil
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Tank #4
20 liter cube from Dennerle 25x25x30 cm
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Chihiros C2
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Tropica aquasoil
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Tank #5
Dennerle nano cube 20x20x25 cm (10 liters)
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HOB filter 150-200 lph
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Dennerle power led 5.0
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Liquid fertilizer
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Bottom fertilizer
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0:00 - Intro
0:26 - Why is maintenance needed?
2:04 - Basic maintenance Dutch style nano
6:11 - Trimming 70L Tank
8:43 - Quick maintenance Nano's
10:30 - Outro - Домашні улюбленці та дикі тварини
You should join GreenAqua team man. You and guys in there have such great voice to record, very relaxing and peaceful to listen. And you also create such nice tanks! Subscribed surely.
I like how you have this many tanks in your home and have it still look "stylish". With most people with so many tanks at Home it Looks just "unsanitary" or "unhealthyly obsessed"😂
I think it’s on the edge of that 😂😂
Honestly just hinding cables and mechanical things well goes a long way into totally changing the vibe
Beautiful tanks!
Fantastic tutorial mate
Amazing aquascape dude!
So beautiful tanks specially the dwarf hairgrass one
Exactly as my own maintenance routine!!! Nice video
Love your setup, it is really cool 🙏
It is stunning
😍wow, das ist ein Traum , grüße aus Germany 🇩🇪
Excellent steps for newbie like me thank you!
Love your channel! Learned so much from your videos and it's helped me a lot! Thank you!🙂
Really helpful as always loved the video!
Very nice video!! Well done! Learnt much from it. Thanks!!
As usual, great content, and fantastic looking scapes. All the best.
So beautiful! You make it look easy. Your instructions are so clear. Keep up the good work!
Great video man. And your tanks are so beautiful. Keep the good work going
This is ASMR for my eyes and ears ❤️
Very informative video
Thanks a lot
Beautiful tanks you got.Iam a beginner in makeing them, already have 3 tanks.Your videos helps people like me and make it look easy.Thank you.
Really nice video ! Keep the good work ;)
That's so nice bro - love to see more plants in the garden...
Please explain about beneficial bacteria use. My aquarium water seems cloudy
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dude you are literally my aspirations! I have 1 65g tank. I want more but its costly.
I love the complex simplicity of this wall, its giving me ideas to create something as beautiful in my own living room. I saw your channel for the first time today and already I'm hooked... its a new TV series for me to watch - Thanks 👍👍👍👍
Amazing video, and thank you for the tips, as a beginner, I learned a lot from this video.
It was also amazing you can maintain all five tanks in about an hour, me doing one tank and spent almost the same amount of time 😁
great video mate!
Thanks man!
Beautiful videos! Even though I am not a fan of high tech and so neat tanks, yours are amazing!
Thank you!
My maintenance process is very similar to yours. I have 3 aquariums, one is 120 liters and requires the most maintenance as it has a carpet of monte carlo, lots of stem plants, and moss so trimming days take much longer. The other 2 are nanos and are very low maintenance as they are not running co2 and mainly have low demand plants requiring some easy trimming here and there. Takes me around an hour total for a normal maintenance day on all 3 tanks, but a lot more time if I am trimming and doing other maintenance that I don't do every week. I like doing my maintenance on Monday though because it's a nice way to relax after going back to work on Monday and I see my tanks the most on the weekdays so it's great to see them looking pristine.
Great explanation. I do the same! Cheers!
Very beautiful
great video 💪
Im getting mixed advice about the tap water, but it seems to be working for you! I would just recommend for people that live in areas with bad tap water to use something else, love this video! Makes trimming seem nice and tranquil
Salut, encore merci pour les conseils et surtout la traduction en français. J'ai encore beaucoup appris par t'es vidéos. Je suis encore loin d'être a ton niveau mais je ne baisse pas les bras. Merci beaucoup ^^
Ne jamais abandonner! Faites les choses une étape à la fois et apprenez de vos erreurs. Et si vous avez besoin d'aide, je suis toujours là pour vous.
Beautiful tanks. Well produced video also. I now have 5 tanks myself probably two hours but most are very new setups.🤙
Thank you! 2 hours for 5 tanks is not bad!
You should have more subs. Great channel, your tanks are beautiful and your content is nice and succinct. Keep it up.
Thank you for your kind words!
I have one tank, plan to do another tank soon. I basically do the same as what you do but mine take longer because I use filtered water + RO/DI water. Took me 20 mins do clean, trim back for mine 60x40x40cm planted tank but another 30mins just to fill it up. I am gonna be using tap water for my second tank. Ideally I want to spend 1 hour per week for maintainance. Thanks for sharing your routine, beautiful tanks btw.
You are great sir ❤❤❤
Nice video Mark and your tanks looks perfect and healthy.
I agree with you 100% and the way you did it.For me i have only 4 tanks(3 at home and 1 on my work desk)
Please Mark, next time add the way that you did your filter maintenace too.
Appreciate and kee it up #aquascaping
Thanks a lot Gilbert! I will definitely include filter maintenance next time!
I currently have a 8.5L planted tub with 2xmicro sponge filters and a trio of cherry shrimp, and a 57L bow-front newly planted tank. I spend an inordinate amount of time with them, doing bits of maintenance as I go. Suck out some old food here, a water test there, a few hours spent meditatively observing the shrimp graze, Oh it's been a week, ok I'll change the water. Ah, it's morning, time for a dose of bacterial culture. It's a constant, ongoing coexistence with the other life in my home, including cats, terrestrial and aquatic plants, and a couple other humans.
love your mosses
Hi Mark I just came across your video right now. Your video was very informative. Full of important content and straight to the point. Good job! I've noticed that you really did not siphon your substrate or your carpet plants that much. I just want to know if siphoning of substrate is not that necessary every maintenace? Just a simple water change will do? Keep up the good work and please continue sharing your knowledge about aquascaping. Stay safe.
5 heavily planted, low tech tanks - about 10-20 minutes per tank (buckets & siphon hose) depending on size & not counting how much time I spend watching my fish & assorted oddballs after maintenance lol. Only one I really have to stay on top of pretty much weekly because I have vallisnaria which would otherwise run wild. Many of my plants are slower growers. My smallest tank, a 3 gallon (wall mounted) with a few male endlers, some cherry shrimp & an assassin snail (I toss in snails from other tanks for him), requires the least work oddly enough. Can go 2-3 weeks without a water change & have had zero issues w wild parameter swings (knocking on wood).
Hello,
Thank you very much for your videos !
How do you connect the hose to your sink? Is it very long? How do you get the water to start flowing with the distance ? Just filling it up with water first ?
Thank you !
Top video! Can you do a video on your protocol fertilization? Thx
I think it's very individual thing, like you cannot dose the same amount like he does, or someone does. We have different tank, plants, amount of plants, technicals, etc
Great Video Mark! I'm doing a very similar kind of maintenance on my tanks. Currently I have 8 aquascapes running 30-450l and it takes me about 3-5 hours every Sunday. Depending on how much I have to trim 😂
Greetings from Austria!
8 oh wow hahaha! Seems I'm not the only one with multiple tank syndrome
Thanks you 👋
Some thing's you let me remember 😉
I have 4 aquariums and usually 2-3 hours spend on the maintenance 🙃 sometimes longer if I want change decorations or long trimming 🙂
Yeah if i need to trim the plants in some tanks i usually spend about 2-3 hours as well. Sometimes even more haha
Love your content. Question: what parts did you use to create the siphon aside from the pump and tube and also the one for the larger hose?
Great work
Do you ever trim the val?
Great video with many info. You do not precise wether the tap water you add to your tanks is previously decanted or not. Is it ? If not what about chlorine and temperature ? I always put some water in the bucket for some time before doing the water change.
Nice one MJ.....I tanked far too long with my tanks....taking me 2 hrs just to do the ADA60P and a 45L hugo kimishi scape. Sink is at the other side of the house etc....usually do it on a sunday night. I would love to have a sink with a thermo static controller valve in the studio (garage) which would make maintenance a lot easier 😉
2 hours is still not that bad! And to be honest, time freakin flies when you are doing maintenance haha
@@MJAquascaping yes totally
Beautiful aquariums Mark! Very relaxing to watch your videos😃👍The lilypipe on tank #1 what size are they and where did you buy it?
Thanks a lot Jim! The lily's are 12/16 mm planted-box.com/product/flow-lily-pipe/
Hi Mark, great informative video! I use about 1,5 hour each week on my 90 l tank - RO water change, trimming, cleaning the Biomaster prefilter, lily pipes etc. Just relaxing, no stress 😀
Nice one Christian! Indeed maintenance can be very relaxing!
@@MJAquascaping Also preparing my new 70l Scaper's tank 😁
@@6100chris Niceeee! Exciting 🤩
Hi Mark, great video, as allways, can you please explain in detail how to clean difuser - how much water and blech, how long to soak and how long to rinse, I am afraid if I am not careful it could do more damage than good, all the best from Croatia
I would say 1 part bleach to 20 parts water. I usually soak it for 10 minutes, then rinse for 10 minutes as well. Don't be afraid, if you follow these guidelines there is not much that can go wrong. And as I mentioned in the video I leave the CO2 on while it is soaking in the bleach solution.
Hard work , five hanks id you want to keep them nice
Tanks. ))
Yep! Hard work , but totally worth it 🤩
Loving what you’re doing! What kind of diffuser did you use in the first tank? Would love to buy it 😅
Thanks a lot Thomas! The diffuser is from a Turkish company called Creaqua. They call this the bubblegun diffuser... I got one for free from them to test it out, but I don't think it's available anywhere in Europe..
Looking good.....Nice to watch!
All co2 tanks?
3 are low tech 😊
It's beautiful, thank for your sharing the experience, how many time we have to maintenance it per month?
I like to do it every week, if you do a little bit of maintenance every week it never really piles up into a large task.
Cool video Mark! Like the music choice! Your videos are getting better and better! Love that cube with all the moss! What kind of moss is it?
Thanks a lot Darren 😊 the moss in the 20L cube is fissidens fontanus and the moss in the 10L cube is mini Christmas moss 😊
@@MJAquascaping you’re welcome mark! I really like both scapes but love that moss in the 10L cube! I think I want to try mini Christmas moss in my next scape! Is it good close to the light or prone to algae the closer to the light you put it!?
@@darrenderousse4804 it loves bright light 😊
@@MJAquascaping thank you for the help always Mark! Good to know cause I have plans for it 😁
17l, 60l, 124l - 2,5 h.. 🥰🥰👍👍
Idollll
hi.. thanks a lot for the video... great ides on how you use the card 😁
questions, how long did you soak the diffuser in bleaching and how water? and how do you clean the bleaching before putting the diffuser back? thank you
Hey! I usually soak the diffuser in warm water and bleach for about 10 minutes. After that I take it out and drop it in clean tap water for another 10 minutes. All this time the CO2 is on. At the end I clean it a bit with the toothbrush then its done.
@@MJAquascaping will definitely try this... thanks 😁
@@MJAquascaping I think for bigger tank, use and outside reactor is better since you have almost perfect saturation and little to no care required for the reactor.
Please advise me on what siphoning system you're using?
Im planning on using 3 anubias 2 sword and a java fern with ada amazonia aquasoil. How many percent of water change i must do ? And for how many week ? Should i put seachem stability every water change ?
Hi Mark, do you always change with tap-water.? Do you add any additives to it.?
i thought first youre by MD hahaha
Also Mark hahaha
4 thanks ranging from 145l to 12l, I spend 30 min for all every week.
Quick!
Great informative video ans very relaxing as always , may I Ask you what is your skimmer? Would be a great help for my maintenance... Thx 🙂
Eheim skim 350!
@@MJAquascaping thanks you so much !!!
How do you get the right temperature of the fresh water? Especially with some many tanks
Do you happen to have the name of the water siphon you used to do the water change?
What siphon do you use for water changes?
what do you use for aeration?
What is the name of the forground plant in the 20L tank? Looks beautiful! And do you use CO2 in that tank?
In the 20L rectangular tank I have a carpet of Hemianthus Cuba! And in the 20L cube it is a combination of Monte carlo and fissidens moss! Yep CO2 as well
what Co2 diffuser are you using? great video BTW
I like the ones from Aquario with the brown ceramic disc
12 tanks, of which two is quarantine tanks which also gets a light water change and glass clean oncer per week.
Other tanks is community tanks range from 5 Gallon tanks to some larger ones. Biggest one is a 75 Gallon.
Tanks is fairly stock maybe more than normal. Do a weekly water change about 50% on all plus some maintenance.
I do struggle with Fish dying, about 4 per week in total for over 200 fish. Is this normal. As ot seems I do mostly everything right according to how you and some.othe reputable UA-cam Fish keerpers do and suggest.
I am new to the hobby. May 2022 will be a year since I started.
What do you suggest?
I only have two aquariums, 1x120L with Corydoras and 1x55L with neocaridinas. I probably spend 45min to 1hour each week...but i spend a lot more time to watch them 😅
Do you only use tap water with your active soil? I thought we only had to use RO water.
Thanks
Yep just tap water! I did use RO water in a few tanks, but didn't really notice a difference, just more work.
@@MJAquascaping Thanks for the anwser!
Just set up 2 tanks not long ago one high light Co2 and one low tech just a ok light and tropica ferts the red tiger lotus I bought came in really bad condition it was like a wet tissue algae massive holes too how long will it take to repair in the low tech tank ? The other plants are actually doing really well
If the plant leaf has holes it might actually be better to cut it off. This way the plant can focus its energy into growing new healthy leaves instead of trying to repair the broken ones.
link to the return pump for easier water changes?
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(EU) amzn.to/31eUX4S
how do you siphon the water out like at 4:13? don't pumps just pump water out? not in?
Hi Mark, just curious, your tap water seems very good, could you tell us the gh and kh?
I have to use RO water since my tap water is liquid rock 😔
Hey William! I'm not 100% sure because I need to get some proper tests, but i think kh is around 5 and gh around 7
@@MJAquascaping thank you for your reply mark, keep up the good videos 😁👍
Stay safe and healthy always!
hi, i have a nano tank, how do i reduce the water flow for my skimmer? any suggestions? the flow is too big for the tank, and yet i think it is needed for my nano tank, as it constantly getting this oil film on top
Do you have the same skimmer? if so there is a small flow adjuster on it. if not you can try to stuff it with a lot of fine filter wool.
What is the sponge used in the first aquarium?
How is the glasses of the tank so clean. Looking like a nee one!! Just nrml scrubbing or any particular cleaning liquid used?
Just normal scrubbing!
HI what's the co2 diffuser brand r u using, and where to buy it? thx
Hey! I mostly use the Ultra diffusers from Dennerle.
Building my dream fish room. tile painting ect . adding water to the room before I put some random tanks from around the house. It's a bedroom with a northern facing window. I want to try a plant scap in dark area with no outside light or window in my home. My problem is my job keeps me away from home 3 to 4 weeks at a time. Can I pull off a tank style like this with once a month mantaince?
I would say it is definitely possible, just need someone to feed your fish and plants, or automate everything.
@10:18 Where did you get the small white flow valve output head?
It's part of this device: www.onlineaquariumspullen.nl/nl/dennerle-nano-bodemreiniger.html?source=googlebase
Bonjour, je voulais savoir si vous utilisez de l'eau osmosé ou de l'eau du robinet ?
Bonjour, je n'utilise que de l'eau du robinet.
@@MJAquascaping merci
What siphon are you using for the water change ?? Is it suisaku? Thanks
Yeah something very similar but from a different brand.
Hi, can i ask what size of your tanks? Thanks
is it possible to make a planted aquarium(with co2) in a nano tank with dimensions say 12" square tank???
Yeah of course 😊
Here we see the hidden feature of your drivers license.. cleaning your tank xD
How much intensity and hours per day of Chihiros WRGB 2 on tank#2 ???
Half an hour ramp up to 60% intensity on all colors. Then its on for 7 hours followed by another half an hour ramp down to 0
Hi sir good morning
What are you using to clean the glass with?
regular filter floss, and for the really stubborn algae I will use the Dennerle cleanator
Is this water change right from the tap? Or you maybe have some magic ro filter inside?
Just tap water! No magic haha!
Netherlands doesn't have chlorine in the water, so you can fill aquariums from tap without need for chemicals or RO filters.
Hi, Im newbie. You replace some percent of the water with only fresh tap water from sink right ? Then is it safe ? or we need RO water.. ? Then if we use tap water should we put chlorine product in it...thanks !
Here in the Netherlands the tap water is pretty good, and doesn't have any chlorine. I don't know where you live and how good the quality of your tap water is over there, so I can't really answer your question.
Where can I get a small vacuum pipe like yours on 3:10? I only have a big one thats too big for my nano tank, because it drains my water too quick 😱
This is the one i have amzn.to/3f9RxbP
if you are in the US try this one amzn.to/3d3QvLH
@@MJAquascaping Ahh thanks, that will help a lot! Je filmpjes zijn altijd weer echt leerzaam trouwens 🙏
You mentioned that you add fresh water to fill up the tank. Do you not have to dechlorinate water?
The chlorine levels in my tap water are almost non existent 😊
What attachment do you use with the return pump?
The inflow from a JBL canister filter
Wat voor achtergrond heb je eigenlijk op het 70 liter aquarium? Het lijkt een beetje blauw. Ziet er super uit, vandaar dat ik het vraag.
De goedkoopste glasfolie van de GAMMA! In de 70 liter lijkt het inderdaad wat blauw, dit komt door de verlichting denk ik, want in de andere bakjes gebruik ik dezelfde folie maar is het minder blauw.
Which filters do you have running on your tanks? ☺️ I would love to know
The Dutch scape has a JBL e701
The 70 liter scapers tank has a jbl e902
The 20 liter cube has a very small internal filter (superfish aquaflow 50 i believe)
The 36cm nano has a Dennerle Scapers flow filter.
You can also find the links to these filters in the video description!