Low Tech Planted Betta Tank - Step By Step - How I Made it then nearly RUINED it
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- Here is a step-by-step walkthrough of how I made my low tech planted betta tank! This tank is a low-maintanance 5 gallon which is intended for betta fish, obviously. It sits in my fish room and I love it, but I pretty much nearly ruined it. The last half of the video is me fixing my mistake, oops!
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8:38 actually made me laugh like crazy when I was editing this video. Horror music in a fish tank video, hah!
Be sure to chime in with your thoughts on the question at the end!
Personligt i use a toothbrush and a scissors for hair algea
Thanks! I love the toothbrush/bristle brush method but some of it is STUCK on to the hardscape and plants and won't come off. Grr
I bought 2 siamese algae eaters and they did the job of keeping my tank clean and pristine. I love them because they are more active than ottos.
I once used the green scubber side of a dish washing sponge to gently clean algae off some of my anubiases. Do not do this; your plant will never be the same.
Too bad you didn't have a goalie mask handy while the horror music played. A shot of you slipping it on would have been hilarious.
Great to see another simply betta production.
Thank you! 🙏
Looking forward to hearing replies about the hair algae as I have been having a horrible time with it in ALL my planted tanks! I finally broke down one tank that had my red dragon guppies in it and used AlgaeFix on all of it (sans fish). My sorority tank on the other hand I don't want to do that because of the size and I don't want to disrupt my happy inhabitants to turn them into psycho betta females. I have heard that rosy barbs are chow hounds when it comes to hair algae. I'm going to give that a try. Hopefully my bettas don't chow on them. I will look into using your sponsored products as I begin to build another planted tank for angel fish. Glad to see you back!
wilsonsheltie I own rosy barbs. I’d be very worried they’d attack the bettas more than the bettas attacking them. Yes, they eat algae like crazy, but they also fight A LOT. Especially if kept in too small of a group, or Theres females present. I wouldn’t mix semi-aggressive barbs with aggressive bettas. Maybe set up a nice tank for them on their own. They do get decently sized as well. They also prefer cooler water but can live in tropical water with no problem.
So I got a bunch of new plants from my my pet store and a couple of days after I saw maybe one or two little bladder snails. I didn't think much of it because personally I think they're cute and they're not harming anything. Then like a week later I had an extreme algae bloom of hair algae and it couldn't get it completely off my plants. I was looking into what I could do and 2 days later all of the algae was completely gone. Not a single trace of algae. But I had 50-100 little bladder snails. Since then they've mostly died off because they only (in my experience at least) produce up to the tank's carrying capacity. I haven't had any problems since. Consider going to your pet store and asking if you can have a few of their nuisance snails, my local petsmart gave me a bag of them for free. Some people find nuisance snails to be an eyesore but like it's one eyesore or the other lol.
@@oceanti6791 the pet store i worked at had outbreaks of nerite snails all the time. Theyd be all over the filters and all the tanks. Last time I was shopping there they put a goldfish in every tank to eat some of them. I'd imagine if a pet store has snails they have ones that overpopulate
Hydrogen peroxide works great if you can temporarily remove the plant and immerse it in the peroxide liquid for 3 minutes. Then replant the plant. Over the next week you'll watch the hair algae turn pink and disappear.
My fix for hair algae is baby mollies, easy for me since they constantly breed in my main tank, but I temporarily rehome some of them to my other tanks if I see any growing. Granted I don't own any aggressive fish and all my tanks are heavily planted.
Great video Taylor! Glad to see you're all recovered and back at it now!
Hey man, thanks! It’s nice to be back sort of consistently ;)
5:30 "Lookat it compared to the size of my head!
Just look.
Look!"
Awesome. I love moss and having that much is fantastic. Its nice to see how to deal with situations like this, so thank you for turning it into a learning experience.
Your video length is the inverted numbers of the best song/album ever made... 12:21. Any other Rush fans here agree? ;) in all seriousness… Great video, with great information!
Great to see you back!! Love this tank.
It’s nice to be back sort of consistently! Sort of! ;)
@@SimplyBetta I totally understand! :)
It's understandable... You were keeping a family and 3D printing a human!
That's the best excuse!
It's nice to be watching videos like this. All natural, no lying whatsoever.
Awww thanks
I'm so happy I found your channel! You are the first woman in this community I have found and it's nice to see other ladies passionate about this amazing hobby! And your videos are more informative than any other I've seen. Thank you for posting!
Have you heard of the wallstead method😂
It's not John walstad is Diana walstad and I think that's how you say the last name😅
Nice to see you back. Love your tank so much 😊
Thank you! It’s nice to be consistently back ;)
"I'm back!" Best words all year :)
;)
The balance of the tank may not have been right, but the balance of the video was perfect (educational, funny, drama, horror and a happy ending) . Can’t wait for the new hobbit tank 🤓
Oh gosh, thank you. The next fantasy tank is coming up soon! I think I'll start officially this week and start the long recording process :)
I kind of love that you are project oriented. You have drive Taylor! I admire that!
I'm just really happy that you are back to making videos it's so relaxing and you are awesome at it!!
Are you going to make any videos on betta fish any time soon?
Aww thank you. I will have betta videos! I'm just working on a backlog at the moment
When i had hair algae I removed what I could. Got some otos and cherry shrimp then cut down my hours. Haven't see it after.
Great video, thanks for sharing - it's so helpful to see how to re-set a tank when things go wrong! I know some people have suggested a black out period, but I think the idea of tweaking here and there, and giving a week or two to see the effects, is a better one. That'll really help you figure out the balance of light and nutrients that this tank really needs for long term success. 🙂
I'm trying to be patient, first! Maybe if reducing my light doesn't work I will consider it but I have so much going on that being patient works just fine for me ;)
I always enjoy your planted tank videos!
Thanks, I appreciate it :-)
I keep Nerite snails in all of my planted Betta tanks. They really do a number on any algae and they clean up any detritus material that may settle on the bottom. Good video Taylor!!
I need some nerites!
Glad you're back Kiddo!!!!
Thanks, not many people call me kiddo anymore! ;)
I love the music, it’s not annoying or over used, it’s very chill 😎
Stay awesome Taylor. Is hard having two young children, home, hobby and a mind that never stops.
Ha ha thank you, I will try
A simply fantastic video as always.
Thank you :)
100% you are my favorite aquarium youtuber. Glad you’re back
Aww thank you
You are so awesome and made me feel like I can do this. Thank you!
That Hobbit tank was fantastic I saw how you put that together and it blew my mind away
Excellent walk-through, Taylor. The video is well-produced, right down to the sound effects. :) New subscriber.
I appreciate it! Thanks for following along :)
No chemicals here. I would do what you've done. Ammano shrimp are amazing at cleaning up algae. So nice to see you back.
👍💕👍
Thank you!
Nice little tank! I like the spiral background plant. Other than what you’ve already done and doing, about all I would consider would maybe be a blackout period.
I totally should do a blackout period!
My 20 gallon's water turned completely green from all the algae and I put a towel over it for 3 days and it was completely clear. My plants weren't doing so good but they also weren't doing so well when the algae was taking up all the light. Would recommend.
YES! Good suggestion. I used to have a lengthy photoperiod on the timers but would just turn them off once every week or two for a day, or only give them an hour of light for that day. It made a pretty big difference in the algae in there. Was so glad to learn that trick!
Interesting, that would be like having cloudy days in the wild.
No blackout. If the Amano don’t do the trick reduce the light, keep nitrates around 10ppm, and keep removing it every other day or so with a toothbrush. It’s hard to do a low tech with Monte Carlo. Or a high tech with Anubias. Either the Monte Carlo grows too slow and algae takes over. Or the Anubias grows too slow and algae takes over. Cut the light down. Just be aware that the Montecarlo May die off.
So happy to have you back, Taylor!!! Well I know that exhaustion, wish I could say it's all uphill from here ;) As I'm still battling some algae issues myself, it's a timely topic. When we went away for a few days in the early summer, we didn't properly set our new timers, and I came home to a tank looking even worse than yours after only 5 days! Of course, 125 straight hours of light made for a crazy growth explosion, but even after manual removal, toothbrush swirling & scrubbing, some hydrogen peroxide dipping of movable plants (my anubias & java fern were superglued to rocks), and much better lighting schedules, I am still struggling. I think part of the problem stems from the active substrate possibly feeding too much of a good thing to he water column; in my case it's Fluval Stratum. I've picked up a phosphate test kit to try out on my tap water, some water with aging substrate, and some with fish food in it, so I can see if one of those is the source. Testing the tank water probably won't tell me anything, since the plants & algae suck up all ammonia, nitrite, and even the nitrate, so probably the same with any phosphate I may have. I've also still got to try out fertilizers... the liquid carbon you mention, though, is definitely an algaecide as well. I've picked up Seachem starter kits, best available where I am, see how they do this month in helping my plants outcompete this algae. Some short green hair algae that looks almost like a lawn on my glass and wood (almost like that stuff), some longer fluffier brown hair algae (like beige cotton candy lol) that's pernicious/tenacious/obnoxious, and now some blackbeard algae in my bedside gourami tank-oh noes! Even a smidge of blue-green-not-really-algae in a tank that's had a rough go of late thanks to some bad fish I was sold... Many planted tanks means much learning, experimenting, and tending to be done!
Oh wow, 125 hours straight! That’s a lot of light! I hope you are winning the battle now. I’ve been offered to try a product on a different tank of mine with allergy and it supposed to be all natural and All safe but somehow Kill the algae. I might be trying that product soon, it sounds interesting. Maybe using a product will be best for your issues! As much as I believe in tackling the root cause of problems, sometimes the root cause was just an accident and you just want to start over! I totally get that!
My tanks get full of algae at times. I think it looks nice with some algae but it kills off the plants. Your tank looks great, having a baby is a lot of work.
Glad you feel better now.
Thank you for the comment! I do feel better :-)
I’m glad you got your tanks back in order, it is tough.
For hair algae I do the same trim/remove as much as possible, spot spray with a peroxide mix then treat the tank with flourish excel for about a month or until the problem is gone. Although you have to careful to weaning your tank off excel because that can cause algae issues as well.
If you’re dealing with non hair algae such as Blue green or brown I’ve found success dosing E.M. Erythromycin. It’s advertised for fish disease treatment but with the correct dosage works wonders on what I mentioned above.
Thanks for sticking with this awesome hobby!
Thanks for the recommendations! I'm a bit terrified of h2o2 - I dosed it once and KILLED all of my mini christmas moss. I'm sure I dosed incorrectly, though. I must have. Still scary
@@SimplyBetta Yeah that's the major downside of peroxide treatment, moss and valls rarely survive.
Alternatively you can spot treat moss with excel using a pipette. Some die off might occur but it almost always bounces back.
Sadly Both methods are not very shrimp safe 😔.
I guess that's why we hobbyist call it an algae battle and not an argument, casualties may happen.
Wow, what a difference! Very beautiful tank tho! Also how to you get the pearling in your tank? I never get that 😢
Monte Carlo is a good pearler! I think my lights might actually be a little too strong. Well the Monte Carlo likes it but so does the algae ;)
How did I just find you?!! I LOVE your videos and your narrations:))
Oh gosh, thank you
I have an obscene amount of snails that that take care of my algae problem. When the population explodes I just put a potato in there, they glob onto it and I take them out. There are plenty left to maintain the tank. So glad you are back but would not mine a few gratuitous shots of that new bundle of joy. ❤️
Haha thanks @Mega Mindylou ! Wow it takes a lot of snails to be obscene. Baby might be In A few vids soon :)
So simple so nice i just love how you make it so fun to DIY gratz keep up the good work
I appreciate it :)
We added more plants. I stuck my pond plants from home in the tank - water lettuce, water hyacinth. That look is what made us look at Betta's. The bottom is messy. Needs vac often. But not much algae. Just added guppies back in the tank. Maybe add shrimp next.
I would probably introduce a lot of amanos, and do a blackout. Love what you did with this tank!
Thanks!
Your tank looks awesome! I used the recommended amount of Flourish in my 20 L tank and had a big outbreak of blue green Spirella Algea, It clouded the water and looked horrible. Knowing it had to be the nitrogen in the plant food, I left the algea in there to feed on it. After a couple of weeks the tank cleared up crystal clear and the algea settled on the bottom and on rocks. It stabilized my PH and became a alternate food source for the catfish and clown loach. I think it looks more natural now and the mystery snails fed on the rocks so they have an artistic look to them. Algea helps the plants control nutrients and the snails keep the plants clean. But it does look like crap until the tank cycles and the algea settles in to its new home.
I just sent you an email.
I got your email!
Usually I don’t have a problem with algae since there’s really nothing wrong with it besides ugliness. I’ve been trying hard to make my fish room look a little nicer though, and that means controlling my algae LOL. And some of my past videos I’ve been looking at my tanks and they were just covered in algae and looked horrible, and I’ve had to say things like “ don’t worry guys, this tank looks ugly but there’s nothing wrong with algae. This is a healthy tank”.
@@SimplyBetta Yea I get funny looks at my green foggy tank, but I tell them that I am cultivating it and why it's so great. My second algea tank hasn't cleared in a month, may put that water in a 10 gal tank for culture and do 50% water changes until my Molly tank clears up. People eat Spirella for heath food and my catfish & clown Loach are getting big and fat off it. So I want to keep a culture in case I lose the algea in my catfish, clown Loach & angelfish tank. Just sent you a photo of it, I think it's beautiful.
I know this is a year old but thank you!
I just setup my 6g tank with live plants and added all the chemicals.
But now i am wondering when to change water? Or do i even need to?
No fish yet cuz i want the plants established a bit.
Thank goodness you have a lid diy! Tuank u
Taylor, you did an amazing job all things considered. Algae is just small stuff in the big picture of energy, priorities and sanity. I saw what 100 amanos did to the algae in Rachel O'Leary's mess O' moss tank and that was awe inspiring. So if you want the algae gone any faster maybe bump up the amount of amanos in it.
From what I understand amanos do well with croaking gouramis, which this take looks to be filled with.
I must have missed that video! I better go check it out :)
I am sure you will find it. The amanos chowed it down pretty quickly.
Your eyes have these cool circles.
I like them!
The shrimp will obviously really help you with the hair algae problem. Great looking tank!!
Super cute tank!!
Thanks!
You’re Taylor? I thought your name was literally Simply Betta! 😂 Glad you’re back and not SUPER pregnant. Love the vid!
I have a lot of people thinking my name is Betty :0 haha thanks!
For algae, I would normally employ a cleanup crew of albino algae eaters and amano or glass shrimps and then let them go at it.
I love the DIY lids ...... I would handle the algae naturally and try to find a balance. For me personally, I always focus first on nutrient export. b b
I had a fluval flex 15 that I turned into a low tech setup. The light was the hands down worst I've had and somehow my plants took off like wildfire. It was the pod style lights you find tucked into some of the cheaper hoods. Just rested across a glass sheet. With a couple rubber stoppers on the edge. I had 10 females betas A handful of snails that exploded into a mass colony that I ended up starting to use to feed my pee puffers. Two Keeli fish. Only used sand as my substrate. Had a like 8 ghost shrimp in there to help clean up.
I've watched dozens of videos, I'm planning a low tech Betta aquascape and this was literally the most informative video ive came across. Took down a lot of mental notes and going to base my Bettas tank based off the information from this specific video.
Love this little tank.
What was the aquarium light you used at the end? Looking for one for my plants tank.
Oh the light Is a cheap one off of Amazon, nicrew i believe! Working pretty well for this little tank, I was pleasantly surprised
Love you Taylor ❤️💕
I've always used the "starve" method -
No lights + no ferts + no co2 ( not that i use co2 !)
Algae doesn't store starch, unlike all other vascular plants. No light, no nutrition and the algae can't cope; it dies. Vascular plants just live off their stored starches.
So to starve ( 4 - 10 days per session) works well for me. The plants dont grow or have one or two stunted leaves but they bounce back and have a head start over the algae when conditions return to normal.
I have used a peroxide dip on some rare plants (Crypt, buce, Anubis, seedlings that were choked!), and that works too but is only good for individual plants and not the whole tank.
Thanks for the tips! I'm considering a black-out if I get impatient. I'll try a few more "patient" solutions (reduce light, mostly) first before, though. Just for fun
@@SimplyBetta Thanks for _your_ tips and uploads! Your videos always put a smile on my face and I love seeing how different aquarists run their tanks. There is no right way to run a successful tank and everyone seems to have success with a wide variety of techniques: from the simple no filter/fert adherents to the state.of.the.art tech heads with $$$ LEDs, CO2, etc)
I'm just sharing what I know that has worked for me and if it helps you out at all, I'll be happy I was of some use.
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Thanks for showing how it actually goes and how we all make mistakes and teaching us all how to fix it!
Thank you :)
I saw in a video I watched a while back he uses a sand setup in a makeshift box and he will adjust the table to the size of the tank he's setting up and will arrange his decor in it to his liking before setting up the tank.
Cute baby bettas!
What kind of paint do you use to paint the backs of your tanks? Do you ever have issues with the paint scratching off? Love the videos, keep up the good work!
I use a latex-based paint! The only issue is that it won't adhere to any silicone residue, it will pool around it (like paint over wax). So sometimes I'll get little dots of no paint, but I can't say it is that noticeable.
Laxtex paint is easy to remove with a blade if you want to re-do it, too
I use peroxide on hair algae....it works sometimes..mostly I removed the plant or damage leaf.
I would have gone with some shrimp too. Nice bit of variation to the bottom of the tank, some added color and they feed on that unwanted algae.
Great vid ... quick question. How many fry do you typically get when breeding bettas?
There are a lot of factors, anywhere from 100 to 1000
I think on smaller tanks that can't be heavily planted, that type of substrate and daily fertilizer will only ever lead to massive amounts of algae. The plants need the light more than all that fertilizer, so I'd cut all that out and use an inert substrate before cutting back on the light.
Similar to what I was thinking. The plants weren't sizeable enough to take advantage of the extra ferts. Plus they were transitioning from cold storage, meaning leafs were probably dying off. Before the new ones could grow in however, the algae exploited what ferts were leaching into the water column - starving the plants of more light.
Hi SB, so many Mums put far to much pressure on themselves after pregnancy I’ve watched my wife and sister go though it placing unnecessary pressure on themselves despite in our case no internal pressure its all outside sources. Just worry out the 4 of you and what ever hobbies you guys like (I think there’s just 4 of you). Good luck and keep the content up my wife and love what you post.
Kind Regards Duzzy from 🇦🇺
I do absolutely put too much pressure on myself. If I ever stopped doing that though there would be something wrong with me! It's a bad habit, I guess :0
My hunny tells me I need to relax a bit, haha.
I wouldn't lower the light levels, as the plants most likely, need it. They've been through a lot. They had to grow new leafs, after being put into cold storage. Then those new leafs, were robbed of light, as the algae took over. If you want your plants to get the edge over the algae, you need to maintain the capacity for the plants to regenerate (ie: light) and do regular water changes. The new water will increase the C02 available to the plants, and remove any excess ferts, leaching into the water column, which feeds the algae. I suspect too many ferts were added to such a small tank, with ailing plants. Healthy plants would have done a better job of taking up the ferts.
My suggestion is to split one water change per week, into two. Instead of one big one (ie: 25-30%) you could do 20% water changes instead, twice per week. The benefits will advantage the plants, to get control of what's being leached into the water column. Giving them more C02, to increase tissue regeneration. The light at the moment, is feeding both the plants and the algae. But you want to provide the conditions for the plants to beat the alagae to the ferts. So increase the plants capacity to regnerate. You can return to one change, per week, when the algae is back under control.
Another problem though, was the kinds of plants you incorporated. Slow growing anubias, won't take up as much nutrient, as fast growing water sprite. There weren't enough fast growing plants, to take up the ferts you added. What I have done in the past, instead of defusing the light via the bulb, is put water sprite on the surface. It robbed light to the algae, whille increaing the uptake of extra nutrients in the water column, through it's dangling roots. When I saw the plants underneath needed more light, I'd remove more water sprite. Until I eventually only needed 4-6, large floating plants. But that was a 75 gal tank. To maintain balance, you may only need 1-2 in yours.
The majority of plants in my tank were anubias and java fern, which were slow growing. I needed the water sprite to do the sprints in growth, the other plants weren't capable of. I love your tank by the way. You did a great job setting it up.
I love ur vids
Aww thanks :)
So I’m guilty of getting my son a beta and falling for the .7gallon tank. Disgusting I know. He is no longer in that “tank” and has a 10gallon. This is my first time with real plants. I love and my gardens outside thrive so say a prayer for my plants underwater. I’ve learned so much from ur channel and can’t wait to learn more. Thanks again for saving my sons beta from a horrid life and now is swimming free in a larger space.
I like doing a black out to help with algae or cutting lights off early for a few days and keeping the tank very low light
I should totally do a blackout period! I think I need to raise my light up a bit too
Simply Betta hopefully that helps your tank! It helped one of my planted tanks with algae
I let my planted guppy tank go for weeks cause it was full of tiny fry, over grown java moss and loads of hair algae I removed the java moss put it in straight tap water and just pulled the hair algae off it. It was pretty thick like felt when I pulled it off. Cut back the java moss abit put what was left in a tub with tank water in it and it's sat on my windowsill at the moment. The fry seemed to like the tank busy with growth.
SALUTATIONS! #happytears this tank is AMAZING!!! Love it❤️❤️
Oh thanks so much ^^
Consistency in lights and fertilizers, along with water changes, seems to work best for hair algae. Oh, and a toothbrush for manual removal. :) Yours should eventually fade as the plants start to thrive. I love marsilea, btw, but it's one plant I have no luck with.
Can you make another video on the tokays?!!
Yeah! I’ll have one coming up but I need to finish a handful of half-finished betta videos ;)
do fertilizers cause algae? because i never had a problem with it but i put some root tabs in for my plants and a couple weeks later i had an ugly brown algae outbreak! btw ur tank looks so cute!
I dont like using chemicals I.just manually remove it though I have found I get no issues in my tanks with hornwort even if I forget my lights on
I bet the goldfish love to chow down on it!
That amount of miss is commonly known as a head-full of moss! 😉😂🥰🐶
수초 물고기 넘 이뻐요! ^_^)v so pretty aquarium
감사합니다! :)
Ty ma'am Taylor
Hopefully u don't give up on uploading a vid ♥️
I'm from the drift wood in ur aquarium 😂
I’m too stubborn to give up! Malaysian driftwood is popular here ;)
@@SimplyBetta ;)
This is exactly what I needed!
Except I'm trying to plant a 29 as a beginner. I'm so worried I'll buy all these plants just to ruin them as usual
Definitely start with Anubis and java fern! Some good starter stem plants would be stuff like moneywort, guppy grass, pearl weed.
@@SimplyBetta I love those ideas!
I've had lucky with anubis in the past but it was killed off by diatoms. I'll be better prepared this time.
Thanks for the suggestions
How is your Monte Carlo doing so well in a low tech set up. It looked like it had some pretty significant growth from the small mat you started out with!!
Light and ferts! Haha, I think my light is a bit too strong actually, but the monte carlo is slowly spreading and staying compact. It will probably grow a bit more vertically when I move the light up a bit.
It was a couple of months from making the tank to filming it, though
I'm sorry if I missed something but what are those fish in there?
Hey I had a question can you have betta with neon terra in a 10 gal tank? Ive been told mix answers
Can you do a video on breeding betta fish? Like from the beginning to the end. I am super interested in breeding them!
Yes, it’s on my project list! I’m getting footage for it now
@@SimplyBetta yay! I can't wait to watch it! I really love you videos and am actually watching the fry to adult feeding video now!
How much does all the substrate items cost all together? I've been wanting to turn my 20 gal into a planted Betta tank!
I’m not 100% sure how much it would cost for a 20 gallon! The place is substrates aren’t super cheap like Gravel and sand but they’re worth it for plants! If this is your first tank you could get away with just using a planted substrate and not the mineral layer underneath like I did
Hi Taylor I've been watching your videos for a long time and I wanted to share some great news
you see I live in Taiwan and the water is terrible for tropical fish of any kind except for some interesting on the female bettas they can at least live 2 to 3 years
However I finally figured out how the neutralizethe acid in the water.
It turns out if you use dried guava leaves like three good size chunks the water is completely well I would probably say drinkable to be honest but honestly yeah it's not burning the crap out of my hands anymore
In the beginning about 3 years ago I had no idea that the water was so acidic I couldn't feel it but then over the last couple months it just became even more acidic turns out the guava leaves neutralize the acid
I properly cycled the tanks even started getting a little bit of white algae bloom and little specks of allergy here and there so I knew that the tank was fine but the water was all screwed up I had already established filtration and in the last two days these guava leaves have made my water amazing so I put it in all three of my tanks.
now I can probably actually have something other than just various kinds of anubias living in my tanks I might even be able to put some stem plants or some red plants now we don't have all the great plants that they have in America but I'm definitely excited about getting a 5 gallon tank and just literally escaping one more I want to put a frost cover on the back and then I want to attempt to do a dirted tank with a layer of natural looking gravel
Chris I'll be putting in fertilizer tabs but I will be using just a little bit of aquarium soil but I'm so capping it with gravel
Huge freaking mess if you don't so yeah I don't know when I'm going to be doing this but I am going to be using this 5 gallon to practice aquascaping because my landlord said I can only have three fish well actually he said I can only have three pets
He didn't specify how many fish I could have but since they all live in a tank I think it's not a problem
I've got a 7 gallon tank with some guppies and my betta my male betta gets a long fabulously with them there's no tail nipping no fighting no nothing and I wish I could show you how my tank turned out it was beautiful now all I have to do is get the same size carry it up six flights of stairs with only one arm because my left arm is recovering from being broken and then I can put on a frosted cover back and then I can skip it with water that is not going to kill my plants or my fish for that matter
Never underestimate a teaspoon of diluted aquarium salt
They said for every one gallon you should put a teaspoon of salt but I usually put in two because I don't want to kill the roots of the plants and I just feel incredibly grateful that literally God helped me to answer my problem I was really starting to feel discouraged about having fish
really wanted to have my own fish room and then from there I wanted to teach people how to make tanks without feeling stressed out because every time I talk to Taiwanese people they tell me the same thing I buy the fish I buy all the stuff that's needed and then my fish dies and what I realized is they're buying sick fish
Almost every beta is ill because they're not put in a filtrated tank and then Taiwanese people don't know about the water sucks and that it's acidic and kills their fish
So basically what I want to do is practice my aquascaping skills and figure out how to do a simple dirty tank with a nice layer of gravel or better yet just grab one and root tabs and then I use you know liquid fertilizer if necessary but I want to teach them how to build a 5 gallon tank where they can keep their male or female betta and if it's friendly it can get along with the guppies at least six
I don't have a lot of problems with pollution or this kind of thing in my tank because my filter does a good job and also that I make sure that the food does not drop to the bottom and the way the guppies eat there's no time for the food to actually go to the bottom and then I dropping my food for the beta one at a time so the tank itself is pretty clean like if you do find a new degree it's actually not going to be like food it's probably just roots from the plants and maybe fish poop but I do 30 to 40% water change couple times a week but for a big tank and I only need to do it once a week
I just wanted to thank you because I got a lot of inspiration from your tanks and even though we don't have all the same types of plants I think maybe now I can use the ones that we have and I think they'll be able to grow because the acid won't be killing them
I mean honestly the water was not only killing my fish but killing the plants too only a newbius could handle this water
And the good news is there's 40 kinds of anubias I kid you not all you have to do is go online and you can find all kinds of Anubis
Anyways wish me luck I'm hoping this project will help my channel to grow it's a bit small and my videos aren't as interesting it's hard to work and hold the camera at the same time so I need to get like a stand but I can't get that just quite yet but in the meantime I can at least work on my skills doing aquascaping with plants and hardscaping and what's really cool is you don't need to go out and buy a lot of stuff you can rearrange the same stuff and make it completely different
I love the face!!! Haha
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I like keeping a healthy “pest” snail population. I like the look of snails in a natural tank and when the lights come on the snails run and hide so you hardly see them anyway. The trick is to have them established in the tank before the algae outbreak...they help prevent it all together.
Stuff filter floss or those colorful plastic dish scrubbers into your gravel vac tube and tie a net or something at the end to cap it. Water changes done without water pressure hitting substrate. Please try it out sometime.
Hmmmm
@@SimplyBetta , in general, the more surface area there is to break the water tension the better. You can eventually have a full heavy stream going in, but it's broken up in the water change tube, before it hits the main water column. Just fiddle with your own design that practical for you and convenient. Makes water changes so much smoother.
@@SimplyBetta . Just trying to find a solution to this problem that even high tech shop owners still go through, using their hands still and plastics, *sigh* lol needs to change is all.
Hi! Would u recommend a betta fish living with two guppies? I would say my betta is fairly calm and i think he is bored of living alone!
Don't put guppies..betta will try to nip its tail..it is my personal experience..you can put mollies instead or platy
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Thank you! Since i already have the guppies i think I’ll divide the tank and put them together at least during the winter, but ill check ur video out!
How often do you change the water if ever?
Hi! I had a question about filters. You mentioned you put in an already cycled sponge filter into your new tank. I am brand new to owning a betta, and just set up my tank with a new filter. The instructions say to change it every 3 to 4 weeks with a new filter. But this would just get rid of all the good bacteria and start it over again. So do I change the filter at all?
Yeah don’t do that, they’re trying to sell more filters! Unless they mean to replace like, a screen or a pad that catches gunk. And those you can just rinse and re-use
@@SimplyBetta okay great! So basically just don't ever change the filter, only rinse the screen with holes that catches gunk?
Sarah Kay Pretty much - I never change my biological media, whatever that may be. Sometimes a sponge from my sponge filter, sometimes it’s ceramic thingies that hold the bacteria, whatever. I just don’t touch that
sometimes I just let my light off for a week and the algae are gone!
I got hair algae once and I just moved the fish to another tank and covered the tank with a towel for a week. The algae was dead and the plants were all slow-growing pants which didn't bat an eye.
I'll consider a black-out too! If I get impatient with my slow method :)
C4 always does the trick at getting rid of algae.
O m goodness your daughter is so adorable hahahaaha. Watch to the end
Thank you so much! I hope you liked the video :-)
Rachel O'Leary uses a bottle brush to get that hair algae... just a tip
I’m suffering from hair algae too! I try to remove it by hand every week during water changes. If it’s particularly bad like in this vid I’ll do a bleach dip on my plastic plants and decor ( not good for bacteria but faster than removing by hand/ scrubbing). If anyone has any tips let me know!
This is ironic. I went on an algae killing spree yesterday. My one betta tank (10 gal split, planted, lots of filter/airration, light) was COVERED in algae. So much so, I had floating clumps that were like little islands. Yesterday I decided I’d had enough. I went to town removing a ton of it and feeding it to my barns who love to eat it. They’re almost algae free. There’s some stuff left I couldn’t reach or scrape off. But I’m glad I got most of it. I put algae fix in. I don’t like to use it in large doses because it had a tendency to crash cycles pretty easily. But so far, so good. I’ve learned to not let it get out of hand like that again. Thankfully I didn’t have any plant death.
Yeah, it’s a lot easier to just prevent allergy outbreaks LOL. I get the floating clumps too! I’ll probably try some algaefix or something similar if I get impatient
Simply Betta a good video that I’d enjoy is some good algae killers and what ones are safest and least likely to crash your cycle. That’d be really nice. There’s no a ton of info on them, let alone not a ton of algeacides I can find.
Oh man I’m in love with you Taylor!!! I wish u was in uk and single. Damn...
i had hair algae issues, minor compared to yours. my 15g (6in cube) aquarium only has a 3w light and plants do just fine. I used a chemical product (Algae Fix from Api) and did water changes, it took around 1-1.5 months and eventually it died. I stopped using fertilizer since the plants take all they need from the roots, I just doze potasium since food nor fish waste give potassium to the water column. Easy plants can adapt to a low-light low-nutrient diet, you just have to teach them (its a harsh process) and they will grow and multiply and go green.
Good to know that algaefix worked for
You! I’ll probably try it if the other methods don’t work. I have another little 5g below it that has a WORSE algae problem!
@@SimplyBetta remember that your substrate sends nutrients to the water column, you will keep on finding this issue until about 3 months when your substrate stops this process (thats why this substrate lowers your ph like other soil-based-substrates (except seachem flourite which is clay-based)).
Can you do a video of you feeding your reptiles
Yeah! I'm working on a video backlog first, though :)
would the algae growth be a resul of to much nutients and not enought plant growth?
Too much waste nutrients, too much light, poor CO2, too long of a light period. There are a lot of factors!
arty u have to many fish in ur tank clean ur gravel with a siphon once a week and do not over feed
Shrimp, snails, floating plants and rent some platys for a week should be enough! 😁