The Secret to Creating A Micro Biome & Food Web of Diverse Microorganisms. Aquarium Ecosystem.

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[diamdante]

The high quality of your stuff would be good enough, the rate that you pump out these information-dense videos is shocking. There's no doubt in my mind that this is THE aquarium channel to watch

[FatherFish]

excellent review Alex. This is a fundamental piece of work.

[cellardoor]

Brother this is why I love your channel. Right in line with how I approach tanks. I dont want a perfect tank I have to constantly maintain. I want a interesting little self running world in a box I get to observe from the outside.

[AbdullahAzrael]

I'm a huge biology and it's very refreshing to find an aquarius that actually knows what they're talking about.

[Zenmatrixx]

Your fish are telling you they need more space.
Yes I'm a fish whisperer!

[matthewoneill]

nicely done! I heard once "never criticize someone for mispronouncing a word, because it means they read it"

[blpez]

Thank you so much for this. This gave me SO much inspiration! I feel lucky to live in Oregon, because I have tons of healthy bodies of water that I can access. I went to a local creek (a part of a local river) and collected some decaying leaves/mulm/organic matter and some water, and brought it home. I got a big rubber stock tank to make into a "pond". I recently did an overhaul on my main tank, and switched the gravel substrate to a dirted substrate. I used the old gravel to fill the bottom of the tub that sits outside. I actually tested the water from the creek out of curiosity prior to using anything I collected from it. I tested for ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, pH, kh, gh, and copper. I used some of the mulm/water I got and put it into a jar so I could observe it. So far, I've seen various species of copepods/daphnia, seed shrimp, scuds, water mites, water beetles, ramshorn snails, bladder snails, and some nematodes. I went to a local pond shop and bought a water lily (came with free frog eggs, filamentous algae, and more snails!). The shop owner was even nice enough to give me a few gallons of green water for free to put in there. Now, I have a whole miniature ecosystem in there and it's doing amazing! Sorry for the boring essay, but I'm incredibly excited about this. I'm so thankful to have gotten this project idea from you. Thank you for everything you do.

[arman_]

It makes me feel super happy to know that there are people out there that truly are progressives for this hobby. This information is so valuable and needed. Everytime I go into my LFS I feel like I need to teach them something 😂

[agnediciuniene]

I love a little ecosystem I created for my cpd's tank.
I started by adding moss, some aquarium plants. Then I added snail eggs and fish eggs. When my fry hatched and I started feedinf them infusoria. I bought some life daphnia to feed the adults and decided to put some in fry tank.
They started breeding there.
My fry grew, I probably overfed some and started noticing detrite worms.
I also got a lot of daphnia. And my baby snails grew.
Now my fry reached the size where they hunt for baby daphnia and small worms.

I had to spend 2 days in the hospital and couldn't feed the tank. But all my fry survived and grew. 😊

Tank also looks spectacular. Full of life. Daphnia, fry, snails, copepods. Everywhere you look, something is alive and moving.

I still feed infusoria, microworms and some artemia.

[TheDISSHonoredOne]

I really appreciate you Alex getting this out there, you and Father Fish are sharing how to have wonderfully healthy aquariums naturally 🐠

[sugar-sammich]

I think you are the perfect example of "If you do what you love.." I smiled when you took us to your backyard because it wasn't unlike my backyard growing up, except we only had mosquito and tadpoles, and the occasional snake. I am always eager to hear what you have to share with us for the sole purpose of creating the most ideal environment for our aquatic animals. Your love of aquatic husbandry is contagious and we are lucky you aren't stingy with your talents or knowledge.

[evergreenpsyche]

Your Silky looks just like our cat Matcha 😊

My wife surprised me with a betta fish for my birthday last week....never raised a fish before but I am a total nature freak so right away all the sterile tank / fake decorations started to trigger me and also the thought of weekly water changes and adding chemicals to the tank etc.

So the past week i've been traveling the interwebs from wormhole to wormhole, came to you from the Father Fish comment section and feel like I found home, thanks for doing this! Just cleaned out a 15 gallon tank, setting up a substrate, found some river plants, gonna buy some more and a handful of tank mates.

Your videos have made the deeper knowledge so accessible and reassured me this is possible and inspired me with your thick ass foliage. You're a good human being! My heart thanks you!

[MacTechG]

Your channel and tank philosophy are right in line with mine, I’ve been keeping aquaria for 40+ years, and have tried all different ‘tech’ levels, there’s just something about the simple balanced tank with basic lighting, deep sand substrate, heavy planting, low bio load and a simple sponge filter is just so appealing and natural

It’s a similar philosophy as ‘Father Fish’ but without all the unnecessary and illogical religious bullshit which has no place in an aquarium keeping channel.

Yes, I know FF is a religious ‘father’ and he does overall do a good job of keeping the two subjects separate, and I appreciate that, but with your channel, I know it’s going to be just the facts on aquaria and no illogical extraneous tangents, and I appreciate that even more :)

[BrianNewvine]

Thanks! Teacher in a highschool here and aquaryist. I've been breeding White Clouds in my classroom for a year. These tips will bring my tank to the needed next level.

[Matthew-ixsd]

The amount of knowledge, context and understanding you bring is astounding.. I've learned so much and my tanks have never looked better.

[DavidMXXIV]

"I'm just throwin something out there!" Bro, you're awesome, so intelligent and thoughtful. I'm learning so much

[joannc]

BRILLIANT! I just sat thru a college biology class by watching this thoughtful and progressive video. I left a storage tub on my deck last spring and summer. Rainwater accumulated and things started growing in there. Tree frogs were attracted to my deck for the 1st time in my 10 years in this house. So, tadpoles appeared. My chickens loved to drink out of this container (forget the fresh water bowl!) and had access to nibbling on the tadpoles. Deck biome, lol! Oddly enough, I have containers of standing water and no mosquitos here. I’m totally onboard with the balance-of-nature systems. I had an aquarium years ago and OH, you are tempting me back again! It’s a wonderful hobby. Continued good fortune with this channel, . You’ve got LOTS of great info to share!

[ssinssg]

Watching now, great info. My oldest tank has been up for 10 years. It's gone through many iterations and always interesting to see its changes. Now it's got 3 Iberian crested newts, some guppies, and tons of cherry shrimp.

[Yolaana]

I've kept tanks some years now, always wanted tanks like yours, but mine wont thrive. I hope I can achieve this with my tanks. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. As a microbiologist myself I was always afraid of introducing pests/diseases. Time to see the good things of these useful microbes instead of being afraid.

[tara_james-bosch]

When starting a new tank, I always add a bit of tank water from each of my healthy established aquariums to try and build the microbiome, so far so good!