Why Overcrowding Your Planted Tank May Lead You To FAILURE!
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- čas přidán 25. 07. 2024
- An overly planted aquarium may look pleasing to our eyes, but it may be headed towards disaster! In reality, this tank has a lot of problems that are unseen to our eyes. In this video, we will dive into the reasons as to why this tank of mine may be in trouble and what we can do to help it avoid a crash collision with failure!
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Chapters:
00:00 This Tank is Suffering!
00:22 Water Flow + Nutrient/CO2 Distribution
02:42 Cons of an Over-Planted Tank
03:48 Pros of an Over-Planted Tank
04:32 Managing Overgrowth
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Your content and editing are amazing. You rarely see useful and interesting content like this
I really appreciate that! I felt like this kind of editing style is lacking in this niche, however, I do understand that not everyone likes this style
Great information.. this actually answers some questions I had
All the best my friend
Glad it helped!
More really good info!
I completely agree with the points about plant placement and flow I learnt that the hard way early on.
I'm currently in the process of learning the hard way 😂
I loved the DKC2 music at the end.
Great video!
Informative and entertaining! Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
A simple filter can usually generate enough flow to allow mixing of CO2 and nutrients in the water column. Too much flow and surface agitation will just lead to co2 diffusing out of the water. The reason some of the plants were stunted could also be less nutrients in the substrate or poor lighting in certain areas.
There are definitely pros and cons to it all (I made a video about surface agitation and the pros and cons of it ad well 😀) In my case, I already adjusted the big three (lights, CO2, nutrients). I switched from a lean dose to full-blown EI dosing and root tabs, added more light (which ended up being a bad thing), and increased CO2. Yet, there was still some stunting. After figuring out that it was a flow issue, things have gotten better!
In the grand scheme of things, it's all about balance. Mostly balance with the big three, but there are a few small details that people can overlook, such as flow
Cheers from my fish room channel in Chicago! I really appreciate this video as I am most definitely a "heavy planter" perhaps to a fault :)
To be honest, some of your tanks and plants look way better than mine! They all look healthy and thriving!
@@TropiscapeAquatics Appreciate the compliment!
its helpful thank you
Your videos are always instructive, greetings from Italy 🇮🇹.
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Hi, thank you very much for what you explained in the video. The video and the way you explained it was great, I wonder if you could tell me the name of the computer program that you did the "aquarium plant simulation" in the video?
The program is called 'Aquarium Designer'. You can get it through Steam. I made a video about it as well!
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Thank you very much, now I have to go and watch that video :)@@TropiscapeAquatics
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I still laugh every time.
Updog is also a great one!
Hey what do you use to generate all that text with? That's way too much work to do manually. I am just a basic Hitfilm guy but I'm thinking of buying some hitfilm plug-ins for my business' videos.
Every text thing is done manually! I use DaVinci Resolve, so I can't say much when it comes to Hitfilm. I have presets that I saved when it comes to text animation. Resolve does have auto subtitle, but you can't animate them (unless a new update for that came out).
To combat poor circulation, what if one were to make their plant tank an undergravel tank? You could put a layer of window screen over the undergravel piece so plant substrate doesn't jam it up. Worse case scenario you could add a thin layer of gravel on it, then a layer of substrate on the gravel, then another layer of sand or gravel on that. That way the roots will always get circulation and you could do your water changes through the uplift tube, then reverse the siphon to add water back under the gravel and unclog the mesh. I had done this a long time ago but since I had used gravel-only my plant choices were highly limited. I wound up going with some weedy rotala.
Depends on the substrate of choice, I think. Aquasoil allows a decent amount of oxygen to get trapped or form in between each other. However, with something really fine like sand, might benefit from something like this. Although, there are tons of examples that say the opposite in that using a large amount of sand may be beneficial.
With the video, the circulation issue is above the substrate and not below or under it. Although, I will say that it's an interesting idea for a different application compared to this.
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is that the steam aquarium game ? haha
Yup! Aquarium Designer is its name!
Good video but more plants the better for your fish and tank.
I agree, but it depends on a few variables. One of them being the types of plants in the tank. A tank full of anubias isn't gonna do much compared to a tank full of Hygrophila Polysperma. Growth speed definitely plays a part on nutrient uptake. Either way, all it really comes down to is balance.