PLANTED AQUARIUM SETUP: Complete Guide To A Soil Planted Tank

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PLANTED AQUARIUM SETUP: Complete Guide to a soil planted tank

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[arimochii]

This guy has such a "BROO" voice but he's saying all the scientific names of plants and stuff and i love it

[wyomingadventures]

I never thought of using a bag with lava rock for hills in the tank. Awesome idea! 💖🐠🙂

[TGShainoo]

i really appreciate that you admit when you do things wrong and what to do better in the future. a lot of DIYs feel kind of robotic.

[Awesomeday]

I have been watching dirted tank videos for days and I wish I had seen this one a long time ago. It has been most helpful. The only thing I would change is you sift and we the soil before putting it in. It helps keep air bubbles out. I also squeezed out the excess water before placing it in the bottom. It really it’s down any cloudy seepage issues with the dirt. I’m using your lava rock trick. You just got a follower. Awesome job!

[TheWaterBox]

Excellent! I'm setting up a dirt tank first time too and it's good to see what happens AFTER you flood the tank. Thank you!

[johnbarnesjr]

I just bought a 125-gallon aquarium and I want to plant it thanks for your video and I look forward to your upcoming video. I do have that book and love it. Thanks

[sombrs]

This video is a little bit old but it literally just saved my 75g from being forever bare!
Thank you so much on the souls tip

[robingibson]

"i'm just trying stuff out; this is how the best learning takes place." thanks for such a kind perspective!! this is a really helpful video!

[pondguru]

Looks good Mike. Great to see you doing another instructional video.

[timhelinski]

This is by far the best video if have seen. As a beginner i thank you my friend. I will be posting videos as i progress and be sure to give you a mention.

[InappropriateReefer]

As someone going from saltwater to freshwater tank, this is super helpful, thank you!

[ianrandall]

wanted to add soil to my 29gal because lightly planted just wasn't working. Saw this video a few years ago and this helped me a ton. Thanks!

[sejjijames]

Love all the info I’m trying to start my first aquarium with live plants going to be a huge learning curve .. don’t feel like I grasped all this quite yet

[ADUAquascaping]

I like the fill and empty method during the water change in the other video. I always wanted to try that method myself. Thanks for the shout out man. I sometimes like to use the lava rubble method depending on the scape. Probably is a better method for larger aquariums. Mine are all too small at the moment, so thanks for bringing this method to life and for the shout out.

[MichaelClark-uwex]

55G 2 inches minimum of ProMix organic potting soil covered with 1/2" of thoroughly rinsed coarse construction sand.
It made the water a little yellow at first from the tannins but that cleared up after a few 10% water changes.

My plants love it.

[PazzyMoto]

This is a warning to any beginners to the hobby watching this video. A dirt tank should not be your first tank. We followed this video pretty much step by step to try and do our first tank and the soil really fucked things up. When we looked into it more most discussion boards on the topic recommended doing a lot more things to the soil before just putting it into your tank. It's a nice video but just maybe don't do this for a first tank.

[Jstroman]

This video is right on time as I'm about to dirt my first tank. Would love to hear about the mineralization debate, but I'm glad to see you throw the soil right in. Gives me confidence to do the same, great share!

[gabe]

Keep coming back to refresh myself. Thanks Mike.

[booksbybrittnicole]

I want this tank!! It looks really good!

[alanfalcon]

Out of the many videos i seen this is definitely a hit. The one thing it would been great to see on your list of references is the list of plants used. That would be appreciated.