DEAD FISH are BEST Fertilizers for your Aquarium Plants- STOP using Liquid Fertilizers
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- What are the best fertilizers for you aquarium plants? Most recommended are the liquid fertilizers but they are NOT necessarily good for the balance of your planted aquarium. Dead fish are good? Find out in this enlightening short how dead fish have been used as plant fertilizers since centuries and how they can benefit your aquarium plants and contribute for a healthy, balanced aquarium.
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I bought your plants and iam very happy with them it was so nice getting a variety and i had enough to do my 10 gallon indoors and my guppy pond outside thank you for your videos and great deal on plants.
I got plants from father fish about 6weeks ago and they are THRIVING and growing like crazy.
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Father Fish, I've watched your videos & greatly appreciate your knowledge & sincerity & kindness that comes with ALL your videos. I had a long question as a reply in one of your videos to an individual. I don't think u seen it cause it's kinda buried in comments. U did pinn me about burying fish and circle of life. So, here goes my question and I would greatly appreciate your response. I'm moving to South Carolina at the end of July. So breaking down my 50 gallon tank is necessary. I will be taking as much original water as I can. I currently reside in Newtown,pa. I expect the water to be different. Currently, I use hang back filter, gravel, plants, drift wood & rocks. I want to use your methods when I get to South Carolina. I've watched many videos, my question is this. Soil, plain soil or fertilized soil? I understand u also add a mixture to your soil. After I add the mudd, 1 inch, 2 inches of sand, medium grade? I will also rinse the sand before I add it. Now, I have plants and hope they survive the transport, but, I will need more and plan to order from u. My next important question, I don't want to leave my fish in the buckets, can I add them immediately to the tank after it's set up? Currently, I have a betta 6 sorority, with one dumbo male. 4 cardinal tetras, 5 balloon mollies, 2 Cory cats, 1 hatchet. I want to add some blue & gold German rams but, I'll wait till after the move. Thank you.
I had one of my pond fish pass years ago. I buried him under my blueberries. That year was the best crop I ever had
All fun and games till someone says they look a lil fishy when you try to hand it to them😂😂
Aye you should try this again.
i have a bunch of mature blueberry plants in my backyard, probably 15 years old, they do not stop growing and I do nothing to help them. Have to mow down the outside to keep from spreading.
@@otallonolet them spread the whole backyard then sell them or make blueberrie smoothies all summer
I can’t bury my passed fish without raccoons digging them up the same night. It’s so annoying.🙄🙄
As the famous Maui said "I took an eel,I burried it's guts. Out came a tree, you got coconuts!"
Only a Maui!
😂
“ So you’re welcome !”
@lemonlizard1 *sprouted at tree not out came a tree
@@TheLynxsRealm I thought it was surrounded a tree
My grandfather taught me, when you clean the fish you catch take the scraps and put in the garden. It's the best fertilizer thank you sir i always find your videos very informative.
He’s not lying at all. My planted tanks already bloom more after one small dies near it. Keep up the information 💯💪🏻
This guy knows what’s up, I’ve had so many people tell me “that’s not normal for dead fish to be an aquarium.” How do they think the environment works??? Sometimes fish just die, it’s not abnormal when things die all the time. Everytime my fish die, I never find them, and I have so much plant growth (minded that I have very good substrate) and my other fish are happy. I never water change and I never have spikes of ammonia or nitrite and hell I never even have nitrate. The natural aquariums are the best ones…..
Same thing happens to me. A cory disappears, and all of a sudden, EXPLOSIVE plant growth. I've read a research paper once that plants prefer ammonia over nitrates and nitrites to get their N, so that might have something to do with it.
yeah we get it, but you don't have to go around saying that while we all know you cannot keep your fish alive for more than two weeks
They say that because too much can overload your tank with ammonia which will kill everything.
Yeah it happend couple times a fish disappeared 😅 I was like ow huh oke I thought the other Fish had a good meal 😂🤷🏼♀️
so your fish die too?
It’s just like how my dad would tell me something. “Don’t tell me you don’t have any dead fish!”. Always a solution to everything. That’s what he taught me. he passed away this past July and you reminded me of him. I just started a loach tank and want to get more plants. My current plants do just fine with the excess food pellets but this is a great tip for healthy plants. Thank you fish dad!
Nobody would give any information that you are giving pops... So glad I found you on CZcams
“So don’t tell me you don’t have any dead fish”🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I swear hahaha unnecessary asf and much appreciated at the same time
Said it with a pissed off ass attitude
Different tank, different needs 🏃♂️🏃♂️🏃♂️
“Who the hell would go to the supermarket to buy a dead fish?! They would take me for cra-… oh. Oh wait a minute.”
🤔
My brain glitched for a moment 😂
I dont even have a fish tank.. but i feel like ive been lectured 😂
Ok, enough is enough. We need. Master class. I absorb information quickly but the break between lessons is causing all sorts of issues.
agreed. How about a paid class, twice a week?
Ok, but it's going to have to be cheap fish, I refuse to buy them sushi. I take good care of all my pets and plants, but they're not gonna eat better food than me.
I put some small pieces from a shrimp or any sea food. Putting some every week is enough
Only bluefin tuna is acceptable! 😉
what about sardines or anchovies
BTW the best way to eat sushi is to cook it on the BBQ with lits of sauce so it wont taste bad 😅🤣🤣
Doesn't has to be sushi but being captive held and having no way of eating what they would eat in their natural wild environment and given that the majority of humans eats foods polluted with herbicides and pesticides then 'your fish have a right to eat better than you do'.😂😂
My cat loves it when I bring dead fish home from the supermarket. Before I cook it, kitty gets a healthy meal! Only the best - wild caught.
Lost my betta this year. He went into my tomatoes. ❤❤❤
lol why does it sound funny?
After me and dad came back from fishing we kept the bones and guts and dug a big hole in the garden and put them in there for strawberrys and it worked realy good
It's not toxic if you use fertilizer as it is supposed to be used... Granted you hardly need any if you have enough fish and feed them. But some people like planted aquariums that have less bioload. And even with fish, they often have the wrong kind or balance of nutrients and that is visibile in the kind of plant growth you get. And different people strive for different things in their tanks...
Plants create a perpetually increasing bioload. What ARE you talking about?
@@FatherFish plants consume nitrogen, they don't produce it. At least most plants don't take it out of the air. So it's gotta come from somewhere. for most tanks, that's going to be fish food turned into Ammonium. In a shrimp-only nano tank that's already going to be severely limited. Worse in a dutch-style aquascape. And just putting fish food in isn't going to lead to perfect plant growth, because for example there can be too little iron or too much phosphate.
@@Andreas-gh6is well it depends whether you remove plant trimmings or not, if you don't then the nitrogen gets recycled over and over and any food added will mean a perpetual increase in bioload. Same thing with any leaves added, new plants added, new fish added, etc. Fertilizers are only needed when you continuously remove nutrients in the form of water changes and removing plant trimmings which he doesn't do and it isnt even necessary to do with the right substrate makeup and microfauna community.
He enjoys the process of building a functional ecosystem and id argue if there is a right way to do things his is the closest. However it takes a lot more time and experimentation to get the scape you want and this man isn't the best aquascaper, though the jungle look he gets going on always looks pretty good. The issue is his methods are pretty niche so not a lot of people do it and because of that there arent as many people optimizing it and finding ways to keep and grow things nor as many great scape examples.
The method he uses is very far removed from what most people understand, its the difference between aquaponics and a bioactive terrarium. The aquaponics relies on additional nutrients being added to the water as the plants are harvested while a good terrarium will never need anything added and plant cuttings are often left in so the only nutrients coming in will be things like leaf litter and those in tap water which is all that's needed because nothing is leaving the system so it can be recycled over and over. I am a plant person first and foremost and there are many ways to grow every plant species, aquarium plants are no exception.
Its an entirely different way to do things and one that relies on knowledge of wild systems, not only that but its a method that hasn't been fully explored I don't think. Though unlike him I don't think the more common way has anything wrong with it, the only measure of success is the health of the fish and anything from tank size to water makeup doesn't matter so long as the fish are healthy and thriving with no exceptions. If someone is keeping 3 Oscars in a 55 but they are undeniably in perfect condition with no damage then they are fine in my book, not that I've seen that pulled off more than once and it was honestly confusing. All rules can be broken so long as you understand why those rules are there and how to get around the issues associated with breaking them, there is many ways to keep life in a glass box and people will argue over which is the right way endlessly despite there being no answer.
@@FatherFishyou have been spreading a lot of misinformation like, old thank syndrome is the fish become one with the water, water change is useless and bad for your thank amd now adding dead fish into the tank. If this dead fish thing is true, why Takashi Amano never used this cheap amonia in his tank? And none of the aquascaping world champion ever use dead fish instead they recommend to remove any amonia source from your tank.
@@marjanaking404notfound3 Before you accuse me of misinformation look more deeply at what I am saying. Do not be so quick to assume you are able to criticize me without understanding what I am saying. You clearly do not!
thats fine for root feeding plants but stem plants that feed from the water column need ferts in the water. i only use micro nutrients that dont have any nitrates or phosphate as the fish produce that from their poop
this also varies on location depending on the natural minerals in the water table
Not necessarily. Steam plants generally are also planted into the substrate. I find that mine do much better with root tabs than in water ferts. Epiphyte’s however, need some in water fertilizer because they are planted out of the substrate, usually on rocks or driftwood.
@@rickfromthecape3135 depends on the plants but quite a few stem plants i find have very weak or tiny root systems like Bacopa caroliniana and ive personally found them to thrive better with in water ferts but then again i also use root tabs in my substrate
The plants use those nutrients so quickly that there's rarely an excess.
Then why do people do water changes to remove excess nitrates. Aka plant food
@@-.Meylin.- When? I have a lot of plants and never have nitrates that show up when I test..
@@otallono i understand you, i have a shrimp tank with lots of plants. One duckweed fell there and it hasn't grown since it fell there which means it doesn't have enough nitrates to feed. However most tanks aren't like that and have to do water changes to remove excess nitrates
@@-.Meylin.- because it's an old habit from keeping fish only. If you have too many fish VS plants you'll still need to remove nitrates as the fish are producing ammonia quicker than the plants can absorb. Anything over 40ppm nitrate is toxic
@@-.Meylin.- not necessarily, plants need phosphorus and potassium too. Could be a lack of either of those nutrients.
I recently started getting cloudy water two days ago. I’ve been using a new plant fertilizer. I bought watching a CZcams video makes complete sense to me now. Also, great story about the Indians my friend always puts a cut up sunfish under his tomato plants I started using his technique this season before planting thanks again for another educational video.
It's probably a bacteria bloom trying to break it down
OK so I’m not using fertilizer anymore lol I haven’t been doing water changes successfully. I think now I have to do at least 50% water change to get all this junk out. My tank was crystal clear parameters were perfect. I have to stop messing with it. I know one thing it’s not from overfeeding. I’m down to two mornings a week feeding from three and four times a day seven days a week what a joke that was Thanks again father fish I do appreciate it!
@@OR6600 We don't all have 25 years old aquariums running. Some of us need a boost. I put fertilizer tablets in my soil for slow release in my sand substrate.
To buy dead fish is a bit beyond what I am willing to do 😅
However when a fish of mine dies I let it die in the aquarium and the snails will do what they need to do
@@EuroGupperIf you really want your plants to grow add some iron to the aquarium water
@@USMC-CPL-0311 Like iron fertilizer or an actual piece of iron?
🌱 After seeing this video 2 weeks ago, I actually tried it with one of my planted tanks. The result?
EXPLOSIVE PLANT GROWTH. 🌱
So is it really safe to put dead fish under the substrate in my planted tank?! Is it safe for my aquarium fish?!
It depends on your substrate, it has to be at least 2-3 inches deep and you need lots of plants. @@khalil_art
Yeah I rarely get fish dying but when I do I just get my long tweezers and push them deep into the substrate and as you say, lush plants. 👍
Should I expect any dead fish odor?
@@hillarytitus7035 There shouldn't be, especially when enough plants are in there and you have a deep substrate.
I take leftover minnows from ice fishing and stick them in my lawn and garden so this make sense.
that's interesting because in my tanks the way I have it set up I get less algae and better plant health when I put fertilizer in my tank and I dose very 2 weeks or so.
That’s using chemicals and supporting the industry which doesn’t want you educated about the natural aquarium and how fish actually live
Can i put dwarf hairgrass seeds in my aquasoil before I cap it with sand, and let them germinate before I flood my tank? I want a cap to stop leaching, but I also want a carpet. My tank is 129 gallons with 2 canister filters if that matters@@FatherFish
If Santa Clauses think their 5000 year old techniques are the real deal...
You can go to your local bait and tackle shop ask them for a few dead fish tell them what you need it for you may have to give them a dollar or two
I used to think dead fish would crash my tank. When I leave them in nothing bad ever happens.
*depends*
I use nutrients tabs in my personal aquariums and it seems to work amazingly
Father Fish THANK YOU for saving my tanks with your videos! I kept doing water changes over and over trying to get this smell out the ammonia was spiking the plants were melting I was horrified! I watched only 2 of your videos and found and fixed the problem immediately! It was a couple dead mussels. 🤦♀️ I’d have been changing the cloudy foul liquid for all eternity (or until I got discouraged enough to sell the tanks) so Thanks Father Fish. I owe ya one buddy! 🙏🫶🏻 🐠
water changes for the Win I promise
if I do water changes weekly won’t that keep the levels down? I find your videos very fascinating though. one day I hope to have a tank like yours that’s a literal ecosystem, but I have to work up to it
yes. Plants and biology do it better.
@FatherFish true, but measuring your ammonia, nitrite, and nitrite levels will determine if you have enough plants to fit your bioload. A simple strip test kit will do. If at the end of the week, you don't have nitrates, you do not need a water change. If at the end of the week, your nitrates are high, do a water change. Depending how much nitrates you have, that will determine how much of a water change you need
Liquid fertilizers are not made for low tech or walstad tanks. You can not attain real colours of plants, especially red plants like Ludwigia without using this. A dead fish contains N, P, K ,ca, Mg and many more but it does not contain chelated iron which is required for vibrant plant colours. It is the choice of the Hobbyist how he or she wants to grow plants.
Iron is an important ingredient in our supplement.
Easy green from aquarium coop has every micro and trace element your aquarium plant needs and is safe for fish and shrimp
Singular they is a thing
Why are you here if you don't like it? No one said you don't have a choice, arguing such a thing is extremely childish. No one is breaking in to your house and stealing your liquid ferts lol if it's the choice of the hobbyist then let people Not use liquid ferts if they don't want to and you do you.
@@otallono I am really a child 😁👍
i took your advice on the dead fish before several times, and no problem, whether the other tank dwellers ate it or I burred it and it feed the plants
I got stoned on reddit by some "clean-tank" guys when I asked wheather it is safe to dry a dead fish and feed it to my fish. I dried my dead gammarus too and crushed them easily for my fish to eat. I quickly realized that sub was not the right place to ask this...
@@Ebakyzalol those guys are ignorant in how nature works, fresh water fish in the wild are swimming in the water where their dead brothers and ancestors lying in the bottom.
@@Ebakyza lol similar if you're building a replica or kitcar of an exotic car and you talk about it on lamborghini forums, they are vicious
Interesting, saves money and a natural way!
I never use fertilizer. Fish poop is enough already
🤣🤣
I have so many shrimp I've hardly ever even seen a dead fish in my tank and I've surely never taken one out. I let the tank do all the work.
unless the fish died from velvet
Should i remove the batter first? 🤣😂❤️❤️🇬🇧
I prefer to remove all seasonings as well.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 of course! All seasonings must be removed!!!😂😂
I buried the dead fish in my garden soil. You’re correct Sir, it’s not only good for the plants also ended up my dead fish gone with big hole in my garden soil because a stray cat stole it. And also don’t leave a dead fish in freezer without a note on it , in my case it ended up on my dining table. My mother in law cooked it.
i had success on growing amazon swords vallis and some other plants without aquasoil or any nutrients.. i use well water and my tank has a sand substrate.. and my plants grew well even tho my polar parrots tear them time to time
I mean you could probably use a dead fish as a nutrient tab in the substrate. But you will still at some point still need to add aome kind of fertilizer. Because plants will use up micronutrients like iron. but also macronutrients as phosphate. And a dead fiah may help with adding more phosphates . But they will not increase the amount of iron. And if you have a healthy tank where the plants grow in a healthy pace. Then you will have to trim them at some point thus removing elements from the water. So yes you can use a dead fish but there are some fertilizers that may be needed at some point in the tanks lifespan. And what fertilizer or elements that are needed can be figured out by looking on what kinds of algae there are and how the plants look.
The secret is to not remove those cuttings. The plants will reach a climax state and cycle nutrients. THAT is the goal.
@@FatherFish yeah for some people that is the goal Absolutely. And I must say it seems like a very interesting way of keeping a tank. I try to grow my plants so I can put cuttings into my other tanks give away to my local fish stores and stuff. But your idea here is quite cool i might try it out in the future:)
I have blackbeard algae bloom in my 200 litre tank, waterchange 50% once in a week,my light from 7 p.m to 2 a.m i feed my fish 3 times a day, what is the culprit?
@@eddiegyt5978 to me it sounds like you may be overfeeding your fish which can cause nutrient levels to skyrocket even though you change the water 50% every week ti may still be too much bio load for the tank to be able to tank care of everything. I would recommend you to feed your fish less but still do those water changes. You can also start dosing CO2 because you may be getting fluctuating CO2 levels because of those weekly water changes for example you could try testing your tap water to see how much CO2 it may have, and compare to how much co2 you have in your tank, a couple days after you made the last water change. It could also be caused by places in your tank that don't get that much water movement, that can cause buildups of decaying plant matter and stuff, which also causes blackbeard algae. You can maybe also see if you have enough fast growing stem plants like rotala rotundifolia for example.
This is a beautiful tank 😮.
This is why when a fish dies in my aquariums I leave it be. Why would I deny the plants an good wholesome meal..! 😅
The plants and every other living critter in the tank
Different method for different set up.
Tons of People have no issues using liquid fertiliser because their set up requires it.
True. Mine does not.
Exact Father fish focuses on the natural aspect of fish keeping as they live in the wild or at least as close as possible to the wild. It goes against everything we're taught in the aquarium hobby but it truly works.
I set up a Father Fish style tank as instructed and now I have a lot of white algae on the bottom. How do I clear it up naturally?
Not algae but fungus. Snails and fish will eat it as it is nutritious.
@@FatherFish ahh ok great 👍🏼
Maybe this is why my tank never crashed. I have a lot of plants but I can never find my dead fish
I did last with the last fish death in my tank last Nov. On your advice 🙂
My grass never looks greener the week I do my water changes too haha
I burried my rtc last month under my thin- small orange tree (idk its orange or not) and now my tree become larger and larger
That make absolute sense. The only loophole is that most cases of fish's death is a disease, that can spread if you leave the dead fish in the tank
INCORRECT
Wedge terracotta clay, worm castings, and osmocote slow release ferts. Press to 1/4” then break up. Slides into the substrate and won’t float up.
Planted tanks have been made so complicated and tech heavy that it gives me a headache whenever I think about starting a planted tank. Most pristine planted tanks that are shown by professionals are not realistic to maintain for a hobbyist.
Nor are they maintained by professionals. They are kept for a few months. The natural system will last with minimum maintenance and expense for many years.
beginner here, and I promise you its not that hard to set up a healthy planted aquarium, use aqua soil if you can afford plant heavy from the start, and carry out daily water changes for the first week, you will be ok!
I just used dirt (with some epsom salt, peat moss, etc) capped it w sand, added plants and drop 4 little snails. Never done a water a change and it's full of microorganisms and the plants are healthy
I used liquid fertilizer for year always had good results
If they can be avoided to the benefit of the plants it is more desirable.
rubbish, some plants have nutrient deficiencies, and are more demanding than others, show me them stunted stem plants @@FatherFish
@@JFScapes Yup, I love and own a walstad tank, but somehow none of the "ecosystem" aquarists never show their stem plants that look like yellow wet noodles.
In our province they bury bodies as fertilizer to crops😆
I do not want to know where you are from.
Please!! dont put dead fish in youre tank. Bless your heart papah.
we are not talking about putting them in but tsking them out
Interesting. Unfortunately I found one of my new gold laser corys dead on the bottom yesterday. My bristlenose pleco hadn't gotten to him yet. I've got 3 more of them though....and 8 other species of corys in that 55g. Lll...yeah I'm a cory fan
No disrespect sir, but wouldn't the fish or shrimp decompose too fast and foul the water?
I mainly have shrimp and snails. Working on getting some tetras or something small in there to accompany em. Would you recommend pushing the pretty guys into the substrate? I've always just buried them in the outdoor garden. I recognize they're good nutrients, but I'd hate to have them mess up anything
Push it 2” into the sand, it’s fine.
That makes absolute sense. Cycle of life. Bury dead fish for the plants. How about exoskeleton of a bamboo shrimp? Bury that also for plants?
In your opinion, if I wanted to get some fish and didnt know anything about them, whats the easiest fishto take care of?
discord.gg/father-fish-shoal
I was confused by this video, In an 'isolated environment', only air and food(nitrogen) is exchange. if you don't have enough fish food for nitrogen buildup, doesn't your plant run out of it unless its available and contained by the substrate itself. only thing increasing is the carbon biomass which just build up mulch in the substrate
Sorry. I can not follow your reasoning. Join me at The Father Fish Shoal to continue the conversation. discord.gg/v6x5YVbc
@@FatherFish some of plant macronutrients are nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium which is what most fertilizer is. this 3 source isn't unlimited in an aquarium. the amount basically depend on how much feeding and how much plant you have. my personal opinion is fert is not always a no go since some case like heavily planted with almost no fish still might need that additional nutrient source.
My betta just passed. Cant with this though😂
I try to have my tank set up so if something dies the tank takes care of it, I got a colony of snails and shrimp, a bristlenose plec 2 dwarf frogs a syndontis some kuhli loach and like 5 platys that occasionally breed when I allow it, anytime I have dead fish it's eaten before plants get much of a chance, three days max and a fish the size of your thumbs gone, helps having sand cos it covers most things
He’s right I started seeing a lot of algae grow in my tank when I dosed the tank, but when I stopped all the algae went away.
Father fish how long does a dead fish fertilizer lasts before all the plants absorb its nutrients?
It can take months.
Liquid fertilizers are fine but overdosing can be a problem also this method is not possible for tanks with no capping lair it just rots and the waste and ammonia go into the water.Also fertilizers can act as food for the bacteria to grow which also helps prevent nitrites ,nitrates , and ammonia and fertilizers can do more good than bad
They taught us Squanto told the pilgrims to put fish and corn seed together. Same in your day, @FatherFish?
Also one more comment my rams horn snails and other clean up crew living in my Aquariums usually take care of any dead fish that occur in there before I can even have a chance to discover it maybe just see a little bit of the carcass left behind
So what do you add for the plants,if you haven't got CO2 in a gas form ?
Nothing. It is all there.
Sadly, one of my guppy's died. By the time I found him the snails were eating him, so I just left him there.
How about dead slugs?
nasty
Thank you for all your videos. You helped me a lot. .my English is not so good. please let me explain one thing to me. Should I cut the fish into small pieces and throw it into the aquarium? or put it under the sand?
Put it under the sand
@@willmarine1287 thank you ❤️
My shrimp make quick work of dead fish.. there aren’t any nutrients left for the plants except the shrimp waste..
Many plants absorb nutrients through their leaves better than the roots
This is a great Idea.
In fact, with that grandpa noice you have, I will do anything you tell me to do😂
It is a dangerous power I have been given.
Father fish how do I dirt my tank if it’s already setup and running for several years. Heavy aquascaped and planted
simply add sand
Thanks for the this valuable information
My pleasure
would it increase ammonia levels??
Yes. Yes it would. Do not try this.
If you don't have a lot of plants then it will indeed increase ammonia levels . But in a huge tank with a lot of plants , it won't be a problem.
Hi will worm tea in the fish tank for the beneficial bacteria can be good?
Yes, absolutely
@fatherfish Iv just put 2 guppy’s dead guppy’s in the gravel of a 200L tank after watching this video then read the comments , will It be ok or should start digging them out ?
depends on your plants honestly. Stem plants will thrive with liquid, root feeders won't. Know your stock
I didn't even really have a chance to take out the last two guppies that died, the snails were on those ex-fish so fast, they were completely eaten in a matter of hours.
I was actually impressed.
Man! I removed my dead fish and shrimp cause I was told it would cause ammonia. I wanted to bury them under the sand in my tank. Missed opportunity.
Whenever I do have a passed fish put it in my house plants
Can I buy a small dead fresh fish or a few shrimp & put it in the substrate when I start cycling a new planted tank?
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I’m asking a question & hoping for advice. If I’m starting a new tank can I add a dead fish in substrate when cycling or does that only work with established tanks? This is my first fish tank.
When I sow this video 2 days after one of my fish was k.i.a and then I decided to but it in my substrate and I did.then I read some of people's opinions on this and everybody disagreed with father fish method.
So long story short I decided to get it out😅
Oh my god I made a mess in my tank and I couldn't get it out😁😅
But after a month I find out this was absolute good idea and my plants on that spot thrived💯
Now I know father fish was right and I mess my tank for no reason 😭
Hi father fish. Do i bury the dead fish into the sand or into the soil below the sand?
i see, so dead shrimp, dead mealworm must be work as well right?
Then the fish is going to be buried in aqua soil?
Thanks for information
Is a gravel and sand mix an okay substrate?
Dead fish,insect larvae,worms,leaves from the river.....And You re building a swamp beside your bedroom😂😂😂
You got something against swamps?
I have unknown dead fish in my newly 2 or 3 weeks planted aquarium, and after that ich spread to another fishes, what should I do?
RAISE TEMP TO 86F FOR 4 DAYS.
Will this work in planted sand aquarium
👋 Hello Father Fish 🙏❤️
Liquid fertilization only builds up if you don't process water changes, which is what I believe you teach. Google the EI method. More advanced hobbyists toss loads of fertilizer in every day with no ill effect to the tank. Actually, quite the oppisite. The plants grow like crazy. But if you're not processing water changes, then yes, you can run into issues long term.
ferts also prevent the plant from generating hormonal growth.
@FatherFish Ingeresting. I've never heard that before. Do you have a source for this information?
This is a no water change channel. He dunks leaves from streams or lakes into the tank to add a variety of beneficial bacteria.
Osmocote is the best and easiest. When I cared about how my plants looked I’d ad 20 gel caps every 3 months.
Should i push the fish into the sand or soil?
No , it doesn't build up with regular waterchanges
Father fish! PLEASE HELP 🙏!!!!!
I'm confused on how to feed my Java ferns! They are dying! (I cannot afford any type of fertilizer) I'm from India and everything in here related to aquarium is darn expensive
Create a food web. It will increase nutrients in the water column.
@@FatherFish what does that mean? Do I have to put more food in the water!?
In saltwater tanks which are planted we useually just see on plants if healthy or not, and if need dose we dose. Just depends mainly on age of tank if need dosing or not. Since the older it gets the more stable and grown it is
If substrate is adequate dosing is never needed.
@@FatherFish depends a bit of depth of sand or gravel bed + if the bottom have aged long enough + how much macro algea/ plants have in tank, I am in touch with people who done it for years when it comes with saltwater. Forgot mention but most saltwater plants grows more on rocks, very few in gravel or sand, mainly seagrass that grows in that. They pull nutrients dirrectly from water than substrate
@@jonathancoldwateradventure because gravel doesn't have nutrients so why would it get it there
Can I use a piece of fillet-o-fish? And if so, what about the tartar sauce?
Once I've seen an evolution documentary. A quote really struck up in my mind. "The reality is, it is the autotrophs that were farming the complex lifeforms, so that they can disperse their seeds and eventually devour them after their end."