LUKE!! I HAVE THE PLANT SUGGESTIONS!! All from dustins fish tanks. Firstly, I keep all my plants alive with regular LED white light stick on strips lol. They surprisingly grow well in my 75g (same dimensions as yours). There are ofc some plants that do better with goldfish than others (I think it's because they don't like the taste of the leaf or something/ the leaves hang on tighter). Heres what I have found: -First to filter the water directly: get anubis nana HAS TO BE NANA! I have two types of anubis - Nana grow extremely fast in my goldfish tanks with my mid-tier light. Their roots grow huge and filter well. Goldfish CANT TOUCH them at all. Theyre strong as heck! -Avoid water whisteria/sprites and ALTERNANTHERA at all costs. They get shredded so fast it isn't even funny. -Amazon swords/ java fern grew very well. -Anything 'ludwig' especially the brown leaf. They did very well with my big ranchu and orandas when I planted them in thick clusters. Makes a huge difference when you plant in thick clusters. -Ludwig arcuate grew extremely fast in my tank. It almost took over. I thought my goldfish would destroy it, but NO. I guess they just don't like the taste. This plant will DOMINATE and filter your aquarium well! Grows fast and very low matinence. They thurst for power. -The Yellow flame (BACOPA CAROLINIANA) also grew huge and the gold fish didn't touch it. It also spread fast. -THere is one more but I cant figure out what it is. Ill try to reply to my comment with it because I like this one the best. BTW: I have 3 inches of sand for my substrate with 1 inch of gravel under it. I only water change once every 2 weeks and can most of the time get away with waaaaay longer ( 3 adult fancy gold fish live in there). My water parameters stay extremely good for a long time with 0 ammonia or nitrite. THeres about 20-30ppm nitrate by time I change the water. This is also because my plants have been dominating for the past 6ish months. Using root tabs (buying them in bulk for the cheapest price off amazon) is basically 99% needed to get them growing and thriving.
You could check into a hydroponic system. I have a friend who has a few fish tanks that he cycles constantly through his hydroponic setup. The fish waste feeds the plants, and by the time it circulates back into the tank it is fresh clean water again.
my reccomendation is any terrestrial plant that has the leafs above the water because they have unlimeted access to co2 from the air and can therefor grow alot quicker and consume alot more nitrates, in my tanks i have a pepper plant and a coleus plant with jsut the roots sticking down into the water and it works great for me so id reccomend it, also the pepper plant comes with the added benefit of growing food for you (if you like peppers)
A plant you could use is bacopa/moneywart. It's a stem plant with tough leaves. Also limnophila sessiliflora is a good one, the leaves aren't very tough but grows super fast. Rotala rotundifolia is the same way. I would also try floating some water sprite in the tank, and duckweed of course. I can send you some of each if you have a P.O. box or smth.
Hey Luke, I saw you wanted a possible plant. I put Java fern or other type of fern, just rubber band them to a rock, drop it in, and my fish dint seem to eat them. And since Java fern dosn’t go in the substrate. It takes more stuff out of the water than a normal plant.
iim pretty sure you can drill a hole into the basin of the dehumidifiers and feed a little plastic tube into a drain so they can run 24/7 without you needing to empty them
I like to have one hob filter with my sponge filters and I take small clipping of pothos and let them grow out and it helps with the amount of water changes I do
I had it severely reduced by having a long plant potter from Lowe’s I put a lot of gravel and then had my phothos plants potted inside. I then put a water pump filter but took the filter out that way all the waste goes threw the plant potted on one side , on the opposite end there is a hole where it goes back down to the main tank.
You could try duckweed, it may be considered ugly but it helps keep safe levels of ammonia and nitrates, grows fast & it helps prevent SBD through the goldfish eating it.
I’ve got a spider plant in my tank and it’s basically just grown massive and done a decent job of keeping the nitrates down with absolutely 0 input from me. It is in a window tank which may help tho
I have elodea dense pond plants in my gold fishes tank, they’re all at the back of the tank so they still have plenty of room to swim. They nibble at at it all damn day and never manage to make a dent 😂 plus it grows like a weed and it’s easy to just break and replant
Great video. Love gold fish and wish I could have one. I have had other plant eating fish and for some reason they haven’t ate my Java fern. I wouldn’t try it though.
Honestly in the same boat I have lion head Ranchus and oranda pandas it’s a headache but I just added an alocasia to mine to see how it fares I’m pretty sure (professional guess) it will help….also hardy floaters 😊 just beware of what they’ll eat at, my orandas like to forage more than the ranchu so adjust accordingly
Dorsal fin "ranchu" is literally oranda and it is VERY breedable fish! Great for crossing, great for breeding with other orandas, even great for breeding with regular calico fancy goldfish.
Cryptocoryne, Tiger Lotus from bulbs low light level beginner plants . Bio-substrate mixed with black fluorite. I use Thrive low tech fertilizer. No CO2 required
So, this is how I maintained a low maintenance goldfish aquarium. Plants: Hornwort. That's all. That's the only plant I could keep with goldfish. It grows like crazy. It doesn't need to be rooted. The goldfish aren't nuts about eating it. Gravel: About 3 inches, I had a plant soil underneath, but likes I said, I didn't have any plants rooted because the goldfish pulled them up. Tank mates: Spotted dojo/weather loach. They get along in similar water conditions to spotted to goldfish. The will keep the sub straight stirred up better than the goldfish do on their own. They also eat any sort of invertebrate that ends up in your tank. I also always felt they cleaned my goldfish. I saw them 'nibble' at the fish, but never hurt them. I had fewer fish get sick after I introduced a dojo. Just make sure you have a sinking food, and a place for them to hide. Filter: Always used bio wheel filters. You can hack the filter and put your own medium in them (the cartridges can be hard to find anyway). Plant some plants in it. Clean the debris out of the filter every so often. You never need to replace that wheel though. Just let the wheel do its thing. Water: Culture the water with water from one of your tanks when setting up a new tank. Add your salt. Add your plants. Leave it a month before adding your fish. Oh, and leave the algae on the sides and back.
In order to create a goldfish tank that requires a lot less water changes you would need thick substrate, I would do the walstad method, that’s what I have done with my small goldfish tank. And you would need a large body of water with little bio load, probably like 1 goldfish for every 50 gallons of water. And then lots of plants! Plant suggestions are java fern, Anubias, crypts, bamboo, and a plant that I forgot the name of 😅 you can see it in my 20 gallon goldfish tank in my videos on my channel! (I know goldfish need more than 20 gallons, he’s a baby though. He should be getting upgraded to a 60 gallon with a couple of goldfish friends later this year!) I want to buy Oreo from you for a friend for Squid my goldfish when I setup my 60 gallon planted goldfish tank! 😁
Yes, because I am not trying to setup a planted goldfish tank that doesn’t need regular water changes, I would still do weekly water changes with this setup 😊
Get some parrots feather it's evergreen so even if you keep it outdoors it'll stay beautiful and it won't be eaten by the goldfish it sits at the top of your tank and it grows Roots it's even good for your turtles and your guppies do turtles might nibble on it a little bit but they seem to be too much harm to the planet itself especially considering it can grow 5 ft a year 😂
Use potassium permanganet every week , 0.5 gm = 1000 lt and clean the filters next day nd u will see that fish are accepting more feed and getting bigger faster..
I have a 30 gallon tank that I kept getting this white spiderweb looking algae all over everything. I couldn't get rid of it. What causes that and how can I prevent it from coming back. Please give some advice cuz I really would like to set my tank back up without this happening again.
I'd suggest amazon sword or java fern but for the amazon sword I use sand substrate (play sand from lowes, thoroughly washed until water is clear and inspected for foreign objects too) with a little bit of the little black active bio substrate balls underneath the sand and some root tabs. However it will require more caution as you clean the bottom of the tank. The plants are too strong, goldfish can't really break off pieces. Hell my silver dollars can't even break down the amazon sword in their tank right now hahaha, and those fish are literally piranhas with human like teeth that devour most plants. If you add plants for the love of god quarantine the plants for the first week or two with anti parasite meds because most plants come with hitch hikers and will need a quarantine before coming to the main tank. trust me, you don't want the pests in your main tank, its a nightmare to deal with. It doesn't matter if the seller swears they are pest free, quarantine them.
Would the goldfish eat plants like swords? I have I highly stocked tank that I have bio soil gravel then sand in and I have amazing success growing plants with regular Aqueon lights and a light bar from Amazon (8-12 hrs a day with 3 algae eaters and a shrimp) I don’t keep goldfish but let me know what you think!
Hey Dude. Please keep up the beautiful dream of big chunky fish. I want tyo see up a tan k and purchase some Ranchu fish. If you stop selling fish can you recommend a dealer so I can start my babies.
Honestly less fish to tank ratio is going to make the most difference, but I know with you being a breeder luke is not ideal. Java fern and anubis is too big for goldfish to eat, but they will eat the flower of the anubis if it blooms which is a minor pain as the spores get everywhere. Invertabretes are the main way I keep my tank maintence down, freshwater mussels love dirty tanks you could toss a half dozen in the bottom of each tank, just make sure they aren't the kind that have the parasitic offspring that go into fish gills, I believe clams don't do this but I'm not sure. Rabbit snails are also great, they breed slowly and take a long time before they overwhelm a tank, and honestly I sell the axcess as they are well sought out for where I live and go for a decent price, the other is freshwater shrimp, fantastic little cleaners but I'm sure they'll just get eaten. Good luck Luke, love your vids from here in Australia XD
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These adorable, plumpy, floating chicken nuggets are really therapeutic to watch. Like a bunch of blimps flying around playing bumper car.
“You fat excuse of a goldfish, you are beautiful” 😂
You can use java fern in goldfish tanks, they won't chew it, but it should be attached to a rock as they rot if placed in substrate.
Anubias works good, the leaves are quite strong.
these are good plants that wont get eaten by goldfish but they are very slow growers which means they dont use up very much nitrate
LUKE!! I HAVE THE PLANT SUGGESTIONS!! All from dustins fish tanks.
Firstly, I keep all my plants alive with regular LED white light stick on strips lol. They surprisingly grow well in my 75g (same dimensions as yours).
There are ofc some plants that do better with goldfish than others (I think it's because they don't like the taste of the leaf or something/ the leaves hang on tighter). Heres what I have found:
-First to filter the water directly: get anubis nana HAS TO BE NANA! I have two types of anubis - Nana grow extremely fast in my goldfish tanks with my mid-tier light. Their roots grow huge and filter well. Goldfish CANT TOUCH them at all. Theyre strong as heck!
-Avoid water whisteria/sprites and ALTERNANTHERA at all costs. They get shredded so fast it isn't even funny.
-Amazon swords/ java fern grew very well.
-Anything 'ludwig' especially the brown leaf. They did very well with my big ranchu and orandas when I planted them in thick clusters. Makes a huge difference when you plant in thick clusters.
-Ludwig arcuate grew extremely fast in my tank. It almost took over. I thought my goldfish would destroy it, but NO. I guess they just don't like the taste. This plant will DOMINATE and filter your aquarium well! Grows fast and very low matinence. They thurst for power.
-The Yellow flame (BACOPA CAROLINIANA) also grew huge and the gold fish didn't touch it. It also spread fast.
-THere is one more but I cant figure out what it is. Ill try to reply to my comment with it because I like this one the best.
BTW: I have 3 inches of sand for my substrate with 1 inch of gravel under it. I only water change once every 2 weeks and can most of the time get away with waaaaay longer ( 3 adult fancy gold fish live in there). My water parameters stay extremely good for a long time with 0 ammonia or nitrite. THeres about 20-30ppm nitrate by time I change the water. This is also because my plants have been dominating for the past 6ish months. Using root tabs (buying them in bulk for the cheapest price off amazon) is basically 99% needed to get them growing and thriving.
also, if you buy ALL MALE black/zebra/spotted nerite snails, they will destroy all algea
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Oreo is the most beautiful goldfish I have ever seen. ❤
Luke, just make sure EVERYTHING in that basements is plugged into a GFCI receptacle.
I was glad you were joking about Cheeseball.
Cheeseball doesn't know what they got into
Man I love your videos, I haunt my gf with your videos everyday, greetings from México!
Anubias works good, the leaves are quite strong.
You could check into a hydroponic system. I have a friend who has a few fish tanks that he cycles constantly through his hydroponic setup. The fish waste feeds the plants, and by the time it circulates back into the tank it is fresh clean water again.
my reccomendation is any terrestrial plant that has the leafs above the water because they have unlimeted access to co2 from the air and can therefor grow alot quicker and consume alot more nitrates, in my tanks i have a pepper plant and a coleus plant with jsut the roots sticking down into the water and it works great for me so id reccomend it, also the pepper plant comes with the added benefit of growing food for you (if you like peppers)
As you know, ammonia and nitrites are easy to filter out. For nitrates, i use a bio reactor with dr tims bio pellets. 😊 Huge fan here! Cheers!
A plant you could use is bacopa/moneywart. It's a stem plant with tough leaves. Also limnophila sessiliflora is a good one, the leaves aren't very tough but grows super fast. Rotala rotundifolia is the same way. I would also try floating some water sprite in the tank, and duckweed of course. I can send you some of each if you have a P.O. box or smth.
Hey Luke, I saw you wanted a possible plant. I put Java fern or other type of fern, just rubber band them to a rock, drop it in, and my fish dint seem to eat them. And since Java fern dosn’t go in the substrate. It takes more stuff out of the water than a normal plant.
I love ur channel! How is squirtle and stubbins?
iim pretty sure you can drill a hole into the basin of the dehumidifiers and feed a little plastic tube into a drain so they can run 24/7 without you needing to empty them
i should have watched the video first lol
Bicep looking big 💪🏼
I would use water lettuce as a floating plant.
Me too. You never have to do water changes with that plant . Just top the tanks up every now and then. 😊
you can use full spectrum lights for plants...
I like to have one hob filter with my sponge filters and I take small clipping of pothos and let them grow out and it helps with the amount of water changes I do
I had it severely reduced by having a long plant potter from Lowe’s I put a lot of gravel and then had my phothos plants potted inside. I then put a water pump filter but took the filter out that way all the waste goes threw the plant potted on one side , on the opposite end there is a hole where it goes back down to the main tank.
monstera or peace lilies with the roots in the water and a light works great, I also found goldies will leave large anubias alone. Also elodea densa
You could try duckweed, it may be considered ugly but it helps keep safe levels of ammonia and nitrates, grows fast & it helps prevent SBD through the goldfish eating it.
Dont use substrate to still keep cleaning easy on you. Also definitely use plants! But put them in terracotta pots, again to keep maintenance easy.
So cute I wish I had that goldfish❤❤
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Sweet potato kinda worked for me,
put the tip of the potato on water and it will grow. put the potato on the tank after the roots are big
I have a planted tank with my Ranchu Goldfish and they do great and don't eat the plants.
I’ve got a spider plant in my tank and it’s basically just grown massive and done a decent job of keeping the nitrates down with absolutely 0 input from me. It is in a window tank which may help tho
I have elodea dense pond plants in my gold fishes tank, they’re all at the back of the tank so they still have plenty of room to swim. They nibble at at it all damn day and never manage to make a dent 😂 plus it grows like a weed and it’s easy to just break and replant
Great video. Love gold fish and wish I could have one. I have had other plant eating fish and for some reason they haven’t ate my Java fern. I wouldn’t try it though.
Man you the best and funniest person I know by the way poor cheese ball you a have more subs and likes
Love your videos keep making blogs with your wife and fish
Honestly in the same boat I have lion head Ranchus and oranda pandas it’s a headache but I just added an alocasia to mine to see how it fares I’m pretty sure (professional guess) it will help….also hardy floaters 😊 just beware of what they’ll eat at, my orandas like to forage more than the ranchu so adjust accordingly
The Father Fish method is extremely proven, takes some work to set it up but it’s very good! It is a deep dirted substrate and more than 50% planted.
I use Java fern for my goldfish tank it grows really good without substrate!
Thick layer gravel in a big size they can't go inside goldfish mouth. All the plants with grow lights. And a big external water filter
Let’s name the cricket Mario 😂
More long videos please. ❤
Dorsal fin "ranchu" is literally oranda and it is VERY breedable fish! Great for crossing, great for breeding with other orandas, even great for breeding with regular calico fancy goldfish.
Cryptocoryne, Tiger Lotus from bulbs low light level beginner plants . Bio-substrate mixed with black fluorite. I use Thrive low tech fertilizer. No CO2 required
So, this is how I maintained a low maintenance goldfish aquarium.
Plants: Hornwort. That's all. That's the only plant I could keep with goldfish.
It grows like crazy. It doesn't need to be rooted. The goldfish aren't nuts about eating it.
Gravel: About 3 inches, I had a plant soil underneath, but likes I said, I didn't have any plants rooted because the goldfish pulled them up.
Tank mates: Spotted dojo/weather loach. They get along in similar water conditions to spotted to goldfish. The will keep the sub straight stirred up better than the goldfish do on their own. They also eat any sort of invertebrate that ends up in your tank. I also always felt they cleaned my goldfish. I saw them 'nibble' at the fish, but never hurt them. I had fewer fish get sick after I introduced a dojo. Just make sure you have a sinking food, and a place for them to hide.
Filter: Always used bio wheel filters. You can hack the filter and put your own medium in them (the cartridges can be hard to find anyway). Plant some plants in it. Clean the debris out of the filter every so often. You never need to replace that wheel though. Just let the wheel do its thing.
Water: Culture the water with water from one of your tanks when setting up a new tank. Add your salt. Add your plants. Leave it a month before adding your fish.
Oh, and leave the algae on the sides and back.
In order to create a goldfish tank that requires a lot less water changes you would need thick substrate, I would do the walstad method, that’s what I have done with my small goldfish tank. And you would need a large body of water with little bio load, probably like 1 goldfish for every 50 gallons of water. And then lots of plants! Plant suggestions are java fern, Anubias, crypts, bamboo, and a plant that I forgot the name of 😅 you can see it in my 20 gallon goldfish tank in my videos on my channel! (I know goldfish need more than 20 gallons, he’s a baby though. He should be getting upgraded to a 60 gallon with a couple of goldfish friends later this year!) I want to buy Oreo from you for a friend for Squid my goldfish when I setup my 60 gallon planted goldfish tank! 😁
You suggest 1 fish per 50 gallons and you keep 1 fish in 20 gallons and planning to upgrade to 60 gallons with even more fish-?
Yes, because I am not trying to setup a planted goldfish tank that doesn’t need regular water changes, I would still do weekly water changes with this setup 😊
Hi Luke I’m a big fan
Get some parrots feather it's evergreen so even if you keep it outdoors it'll stay beautiful and it won't be eaten by the goldfish it sits at the top of your tank and it grows Roots it's even good for your turtles and your guppies do turtles might nibble on it a little bit but they seem to be too much harm to the planet itself especially considering it can grow 5 ft a year 😂
I got 4 ranchus for a shop but they are not nice quality as your but I love Them! And hope to get one from you soon!
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I heard hornwort can be used for goldfish! But make sure it's legal in your state as its a invasive species.
try that gravel with alot of large big foot anubias plants
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You can do plant baskets with semi aquatic plants. Goldies will eat every plant you put in there.
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Use normal white lights for plant growth
fire plants are quite hardy and the light is a like 30 dollar light
Use potassium permanganet every week , 0.5 gm = 1000 lt and clean the filters next day nd u will see that fish are accepting more feed and getting bigger faster..
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How much will the guppy’s be going for?
Final offer, 10,000 dollars for that fish.
Hi Luke, can you explain that cleaner? Does it have some type of magnet inside?
Im serious 200$ right here right now for cheese ball
I have a 30 gallon tank that I kept getting this white spiderweb looking algae all over everything. I couldn't get rid of it. What causes that and how can I prevent it from coming back. Please give some advice cuz I really would like to set my tank back up without this happening again.
I'm new to your channel. Why don't you use alge eaters?
I can't believe it's already snowing in other parts of the world
Are you planning on breeding pearl scale gold fish?
Also deep gravel beds + duck weed to ease up tank maintenance
I'd suggest amazon sword or java fern but for the amazon sword I use sand substrate (play sand from lowes, thoroughly washed until water is clear and inspected for foreign objects too) with a little bit of the little black active bio substrate balls underneath the sand and some root tabs. However it will require more caution as you clean the bottom of the tank. The plants are too strong, goldfish can't really break off pieces. Hell my silver dollars can't even break down the amazon sword in their tank right now hahaha, and those fish are literally piranhas with human like teeth that devour most plants. If you add plants for the love of god quarantine the plants for the first week or two with anti parasite meds because most plants come with hitch hikers and will need a quarantine before coming to the main tank. trust me, you don't want the pests in your main tank, its a nightmare to deal with. It doesn't matter if the seller swears they are pest free, quarantine them.
This is a stupid question, but still. Is inbreeding normal for fish? is these guppies from the same parents to the second generation?
Would the goldfish eat plants like swords? I have I highly stocked tank that I have bio soil gravel then sand in and I have amazing success growing plants with regular Aqueon lights and a light bar from Amazon (8-12 hrs a day with 3 algae eaters and a shrimp) I don’t keep goldfish but let me know what you think!
Why don’t you put any sand or gravel or plants in ur tank
Hey Dude. Please keep up the beautiful dream of big chunky fish. I want tyo see up a tan k and purchase some Ranchu fish. If you stop selling fish can you recommend a dealer so I can start my babies.
Do you deliver internationally to Australia as I would love to buy your goldfish
He delivers world wide.
Cheese ball is cute
I almost lost my mind 😢❤ cheeseball
cheeseball is magnificent, so sad I'm poor 🥲
Try pennywort, I find that my goldfish don’t like to eat them.
Day two of asking to call the angry fish: Buster
Hey luke how much are you planning on selling the "Millie-Codes" for?
You should look into plumbing up some auto water change system’s. Automatically change a small percentage of water daily
Honestly less fish to tank ratio is going to make the most difference, but I know with you being a breeder luke is not ideal.
Java fern and anubis is too big for goldfish to eat, but they will eat the flower of the anubis if it blooms which is a minor pain as the spores get everywhere. Invertabretes are the main way I keep my tank maintence down, freshwater mussels love dirty tanks you could toss a half dozen in the bottom of each tank, just make sure they aren't the kind that have the parasitic offspring that go into fish gills, I believe clams don't do this but I'm not sure. Rabbit snails are also great, they breed slowly and take a long time before they overwhelm a tank, and honestly I sell the axcess as they are well sought out for where I live and go for a decent price, the other is freshwater shrimp, fantastic little cleaners but I'm sure they'll just get eaten. Good luck Luke, love your vids from here in Australia XD
Can Dehumidifier water be used for anything?
Hi nice
Dont get gravel or soil like that because it only work for smt like guppy. Gold fish waste is just too much for such a system
My gold fish name hamburger 😂😂
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$7.48, I say that’s fair. That’s the price of a tub of cheeseballs. 😂 also, Harbor Freight chainsaw?
Gett a big tub and let in there grow plants and conkted it to the aquariums
1000$ dollars that's it
I want him so bad
i... have some lint in my pocket so double or nothing luke
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