Be successful: start your aquarium plants right! All the things you should do to prep your plants.

As always, my main goal is to help you all succeed in your fishkeeping. Hopefully this video will make keeping aquarium plants that much easier for you!

From preparing to cleaning to dividing I've tried to cover all the steps that you should do when receiving your aquarium plants. This should give you the best start in the process of making your fish tank lush and green!

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[amichan]

Cheers mate and congrats on making your dream come true. It was very wonderful seeing you build up your confidence with Md.

[RichlinMediaGroup]

It would be fun to see a "Tank Scape Off" between you and MD. Same size tank, same type rocks, plants, fish, etc. See what each of you do differently. Congrats on living your dream and helping us to live ours.

[emmanuelgomez]

this marks my first day of learning aquaculture. thank you for your teaching

[calnative]

Matt congratulations on going solo, I wish you much success.

[hqdstyg]

Hello Matt, from America, I was glad to see you talk about plants in a user friendly way. I have 4-40 gallon tanks and am trying to get over my fear of real plants. I bought some and put them in with my fingers. I needed this educational video. Thank you Matt for your easy going voice and enthusiasm. I even caught you smiling. Congratulations.

[gijsberthoogendoorn]

This is the most useful plant prepping and planting video I've seen so far. Cheers!

[timreptile]

You Judith!!! 😂 Gutted my favourite YouTube double act are no more, but hoping for twice the amount of awesome videos! Hope your channel continues to grow as well as your plants!!!

[MerryMary]

Hi Matt! This is so helpful!! Could you please check in with people you trust in the US and let us know what the closest thing to aqua fleur would be?

[Matthew.Henley]

Saw the news on MD’s channel. I hope everything goes well for you Matt 🐟

[Aquatasy]

Honestly, I think this may be your best video yet. Not only is it full of solid, useful information, you have also become so very comfortable on camera which is not easy for some people to do. Your editing skills are getting better and better as well. Well done!

And thank you for pointing out how much ofva bargain the in vitro plants can be. It's easy to look at the price on them and say, "I'm not paying that much for a tiny cup of plants, " yet the truth is you get so many more plants for your money if you have the patience to wait for them all to grow.

Again, great video. Looking forward to the next one. The Force is strong with you! LOL! (Trust me, I know these things. 😉)

[justgivener]

Matt, this is an awesome video. I've not seen any presentations of a planting video that is so comprehensive, well organized, insightful and well presented. Well done.

[NavigatingOurFaith]

So happy to see the channel taking off!!!

[OllyBPlayz]

Just started my first aquascape few days ago and bought a load of plants today. This video was perfectly timed! Thanks Matt 🤟🏻 Good luck for the future of this Channel, excited to see where it goes.

[ozzmosis]

12:55 "bite size plants" lol...Perfect explanation actually.

[angiebear]

Excellent. I swear every fish keeper I watch forgets there are still people just starting out in the hobby that could definitely use a newer video about the basics. The rest of us can always use a refresher course. (I know I can) 😅.
Congrats on your channel’s success Matt. I hope you and MD do some collabs in the future on one another’s channels. Happy for you! 💙😎

[KMD-ifgm]

Congratulations Matt, you’re smashing it. I wish you all the best and hopefully see you and MD together again for more amazing scapes 👍🤛

[huldu]

The anubis(?) plant is probably the most resilient water plant I've ever had. I got the first one back in 93-94 and it stuck with me all the way up to 2023. It was humongous at this point and I had to trim it every half a year. Really big beefy leaves and when it grew out of the tank it would often flower.

[bobmennel]

Great video for those just starting on their journey into planted aquariums.

[rebeccaampuero]

Great tutorial. I especially appreciate the part about getting the tweezers out of the substrate. I have a tendency to uproot the plant. Thank you!

[cathyhendrix]

Oh Matt, I can't thank you enough for this video content. You just answered about 7 questions that I had. And I'm really happy that you showed the variety that plants come in and how to get them out AND planted. Thank you, thank you, thank you. 😊