The Best Method to Clean Your Natural Tank
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- Is a CLEAN aquarium healthy? Is a NATURAL deep substrate foodweb ecosystem aquarium dirty? Learn the difference between pristine clean aquariums and natural ecosystem aquariums from Father Fish. Learn to build a DIY organic Walstad inspired ecosystem aquarium where beneficial bacteria, aquarium plants, and foodweb microbes create a harmonious balance and lots of biodiversity. Gain a deeper understanding aquarium biology and how these self-regulating systems can reduce the need for cleaning and frequent water changes and provide a healthier habitat for your aquatic pets. Don't miss out on this enlightening journey into the world of natural aquariums and get your healthiest Bettas, Goldfish, Puffer fish, tetras etc. possible!
You can either spend your time endlessly seeking after a spotless aquarium, slowly killing your fish, by attempting to clean the water, prevent algae and vacuum the gravel. If you listen to Father Fish and learn about the deep substrate aquarium, you can forget all of the above and enjoy your fish with a clean healthy aquarium.
A balanced aquarium is healthy. A sterile aquarium becomes deadly very easily. Protection from pathogens is accomplished not with poisons but with healthy microbes. If your aquarium is balanced with a wide diversity of healthy microbes it will prevent dangerous pathogens from infecting your fish.
We at Father Fish are very serious about helping you have the healthiest aquarium possible.
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0:00 Teaser & Intro
0:31 Stop Flushing Your Tank
1:04 2 Ways of Keeping Fish
03:47 Biodiversity balances your aquarium
5:18 Don't Scrub, Flush & Sterilize
7:46 Stabilize your imbalanced Fish Tank
9:10 Gather leaves underwater
10:33 Ponder on this!
10:59 Buy Plants, Substrate and More
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I used to be that person that did weekly 80% water changes. Now, after watching n learning the natural tank method from Father Fish…I go out to my local lake n collect leaves for my tanks. My fish n tanks are thriving so much better! I basically had to re-learn everything about fish keeping. It’s a much better n natural way! 👍🤡👍🐟🐠🐟🐠
That is awesome!
I’m just now in the process of doing this with my 55 and 155 I’m nervous but it definitely sounds better for my fish is there anyway websites where I can read more on it?
@@connorlister1979 Just watch Father Fish’s CZcams videos! He explains everything n shows you what to do!!
I knew in my heart there had to be a different way than what everyone says. I struggle with very low kh tap water that typically comes out at 6.4. I’ve felt like I had to be a phd scientist to figure out how to have healthy water in my tanks. Im Just starting to learn about the father fish way, I’m holding out hope for happier fish and less labor since i physically can’t do as much as I used to lugging water around
I live in the uk could I use stuff from local lakes to go In my aquarium even though the waters and eco system are different to lakes in the states
"Killing them with kindness". A great way to explain it.
3 months ago I started in this hobby knowing nothing. I bought a bunch of fish in a tank from Petco and put it all together and put the fish in and then started watching videos. Then I realized that I made a grave mistake. I checked the water parameters twice per day and continuously changed the water to make sure the ammonia wouldn't kill my fish, I threw some mud down from a local bog and some Dead leaves that had fallen off some trees and there and within a few days my ammonia was zero and nitrites were zero in nitrates were rising. I didn't learn the other way, I learned your way. Thank you so much. I just put leaves and debris that the fish can feed on and I'll feed them brine shrimp and bloodworms occasionally but you doctor fish have made this so much easier. I don't have to worry about them because they have plenty of plants and substrate to hold bacteria and places to hide and a lot of space and everything's been Rock solid stable. My water parameters have not changed and when they come back after a week vacation my fish are nibbling on things in the tank and are hungry but are still doing fine. I've been following your advice and have had great success.
My fish loving father passed away two years ago and after recently finding your channel I have also found a renewed love of fish keeping for myself! Found one of his old tanks and set it up for myself thanks to you, enjoying the heck out of watching my new ghost shrimp babes play in duckweed. Thanks more than you could imagine 💓💓💓
Mother Nature has sent us Father Fish. Listen, study and work with Mother Nature not against it.
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@@rab-cnesbit4181alien abductions. Aliens are fallen angels. So what would you say about the Muslim that has had an experience that left him with no doubt that he has the right god. You are a product of evolution. No god necessary. Sure there could be some kind of higher power. Sure. Possible. Who knows? But the god of the Bible for sure does not exist. No global flood. No 600 year old man built a boat big enough for millions and millions of animals. To sail through the largest flood that anyone could imagine. Literally the flood would have killed everything if something like that happened.
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What are you doing here ?
Go to your church !
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I study naturopathy and this man says everything we need to do as practitioners to fix gut issues, autoimmune diseases, hormonal disorders, basically this philosophy is the way to live in harmony and bring things back to balance
I have been using your method for 2 months,,,,, and I LOVE IT.....really you change this hubby from being pain to fun!
I have to try this method. I'm so used to using these pricey chemicals,weekly water changes, and still having sick, unhealthy fish. I once brought home some lilies from a pond nearby and put them in a tank. About a month later, after forgetting about them, I found the tank thriving with all sorts of bugs and organisms. Your words make perfect sense to me, and now I know what I need to do.
Thank you sir!
You can do it!
@FatherFish thank you, you're an excellent teacher!
I used to visit father fish. He's like my mentor❤. For 22 years of fishkeeping I learned to love natural tanks now from watching here..now I have 2 natural nano tanks
I wish I had a grandpa like you. I would always listen to him. Very wise and pleasant personality. 🥰
Thank you Adnan.
I was fortunate enough to have a grandfather just like Father Fish. They would of been 2 peas in a pod
I followed Father Fish advice and my tank has never looked better. Not one fish has died! I even got a few baby albino Cory's! Thank you Father Fish🥰
I'm so thankful to be getting into the fishkeeping hobby in a time where people like you can share your wisdom. Thanks to people like you spreading this message I've already been able to keep many happy fish in natural, healthy environments. Keep it up!
Go outside, get some dried leaves on the river, then put them in jars, and under windowsill according to your wisdom. Love this kind of Mother Nature!
Found your channel a week ago and I am now a loyal Father Fish follower, you’re the coolest dude!!
Welcome aboard!
I just want to say I now look at my father fish fish tank in the morning instead of watching the news and I feel so much better! Thanks father fish ! Love Mike from Welland Ontario Canada 🇨🇦
Such a great idea- I’m going to make this change too!
Omg nature in your eye balls..love it..i just came in from gathering my micro organisms from my lake there hatching all over the bay..filled up buckets..Miskitos drive me back in the house and seen your notification and watched you vid..keep pushing father fish..let’s change the hobby from buying and killing out natural biodiversity in our tanks with unnecessary chemicals..love ya.see ya soon.Ryan.O..❤
You go Ryan
Man, i had lots of problems with my guppies and i didn't know why, but thanks to you and your videos they are thriving.
Excellent. A thriving guppy community is a source of endless fascination.
Years ago I had an aquarium and what you supposedly needed to do to have one felt so unnatural that I quickly gave it up. Thanks to you I now know how to keep one in good conscience!
You are such a breath of fresh air. For 15 years, I struggle with my tanks, doing what the LFS's said to do, and then I found your channel. What a revelation! I have a 10 gallon tank that I set up with your method 10 months ago, and the tank is absolutely beautiful. Now, I never do water changes in this tank, and it is thriving. I set up my 29 the same way a month or two ago. I'm still waiting for the plants to "take off", like they did in the 10 gallon, but I see some signs of this happening soon. I definitely want to do the food jar thing. I also need to feed the 29 and the 10 gallon more with dried leaves. I am very happy so far. I am soon going to setup a 5 gallon nano tank with this method to see how it goes.
Thanks again for all that you have done and are doing for the fish keeping community.
🙋🏾♀️Father Fish, I bought a tank, cold water fish and a whooooooole plethora of bottles of chemicals to keep the water ‘balanced’ and the fish healthy. I was also told, don’t put real plants in the fish will eat them. Buy these pretty plastic plants, and brightly coloured gravel….and I DID. At home, water changing and doing strip tests like I understood them. I didn’t. Before long the fish were belly up.😭 I went back. Same guy said. Oh here, take these 2 fish on the house. Use this ‘Aqua clear’ it will keep the ammonia away for at least 6months, only cost £7. And get a better filter £28 So i bought them 😩. Within weeks the fish were belly up. I dumped the tank outside. It filled with rainwater. Over time, I saw the most amazing creatures thriving in that murky water…for free. I watched that tank for a year. I wanted to take it to my school children but didn’t want to disturb it. How I wish I saw your channel years ago. Every word this man says is true.
preaching the understanding that we need to worry about the fish more than a tank is wisdom, thank you
You talk so much sense FF, thank you. I love my hobby again. When I’m out in the countryside nowadays - I am paying so much more attention to all the life and balance there is out there, (and looking for food web stuff) 😊
Nature IS a fish tank, love your videos FF, just set up my tank early this month using some of your methods, haven’t done a water change and fish are doing great. If anyone says your method is not backed by science, I have proof. I tested my water through this process and it went SO much faster than when I had set up my aquariums with “bottled bacteria”. Thank you so much for the inspiration to make my little piece of nature.
That is awesome!
I have made 2 of your tanks so far. I already like them more than any other tank I have ever kept. My fish seem happier too. My daughter helped me and loved making the mud pies. Thank you!!!
That is awesome!
Yes everyone seems to forget about the mites cleaning our skin eating dead skincells, biofilm on your teeth, bacteria in your gut....When I first found your channel I had a little funny aha moment about needing to trust my gut, it made so much sense since it's the "second brain", the microbiome 😂🤔
I grew up with the books saying, change your water, boil everything, don't bring stuff in from nature, buy it! Pet shop owners saying medicate, medicate, medicate! Always when buying a new fish, medicate! I was going through new fish and expensive plants for a LOT of money! Eventually I got tired of it. Kept feeding but didn't do much else. Cleaned the front window pane and rinsed the filter material with cold water. And that's about it. I started adding pretty wood. Leaves..oooh a pretty plant from the lake! Etc, etc.... And you know what? The cycle of death stopped. I have fish that are almost ten years now. Who know me and come up for a little rub. 😅
Who knew?!
The Fish Whisperer Knows Best, Thank You Father Fish... 👍👍👍👍👍
We have had more success in our two ponds that we basically routinely forget to even check on, than in some tanks we put work into, with active filtering and water changes. I have seen first-hand how nature keeps itself by putting my camera underwater and watching for hours. It's fascinating. It may look like there isn't any life down there from the surface, but there are hundreds of thousands of **visible** creatures living down there. It's daunting to think about the ones I can't see.
Very true! Sounds wonderful.
Diversity is a good thing everywhere, including outside our fishtanks, friend! Keep strong and congratulations!
I appreciate someone wanting to replicate as close as possible an environment for their fish as they would experience in nature. My goal right now as a beginner, is to cultivate a balance of necessary bacteria in my 10 gallon tank. My approach is to use Prime to detox the ammonia and nitrites for my fish until I see a low percentage of nitrates in the water. I plan to eventually slowly begin to introduce live plants into the tank. So far I've been able to keep a Platy and Cherry Barb alive for 3 weeks.
Thank you Father fish for existing and sharing your knowledge of nature! Your videos are very informative and I really enjoy the natural approach to everything around keeping the water as suitable as possible to the aquatic life
Ive been in this hobby for years and this is the best advice ive seen yet!
Thank you much, this was eye opening and with a great narrative, thanks.
this video is so important. I am shocked it does not have more traction. thank you for posting this!
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I can't wait to try this. It makes so much since to do it this way. Thank you
I am so glad i started out in this hobby using your methods
Great video. I have learned a lot from your excellent advice you have gained over 70 years of fish keeping. Please never stop making these great videos Father Fish.
Love you too Father Fish......thank you 💐🙏🥰
father fish is so easy to listen to. great teacher!!! thank you sir
Thanks FF! We ran our breeding business for a long time using the old methods. Not only is it inferior but also time consuming and exhausting. Now that we are coming back to the hobby for personal enjoyment, we cant wait to get started on the natural way to make the lives of what we have left the best it can be!
Yes. Farming takes the joy out of the hobby. It is not reasonable to raise millions of fish in natural systems.
Thank you , one of the best videos I’ve seen . This video should be the first video a new fish keeper should see .
This is such a brilliant outlook on how to have a wonderful aquarium, this is one of my favourite videos, I have thought about this and followed this Father Fish philosophy and been rewarded with a fascinating aquarium I can’t take my eyes off. There is so much healthy diverse life in my tank it’s wonderful, I seem to discover new things most days, so many different micro creatures swimming about I love it!. The water is clear but full of wonderful life, I am growing baby goldfish in it at the moment, a happy accident, and I don’t even need to feed them, the aquarium is feeding them naturally. It’s such a pleasure. I am already planning my second aquarium, bigger and better, using of course some of the materials, substrate, rotten leaves, wood, water, from this aquarium. Cheers Father Fish, you have enhanced my enjoyment of this great hobby no end.
Thank u. Made me teary eye
Very helpful information, thank you 👍
I love your videos. Thank you for sharing your wisdom.
Thank you Father Fish. I'm trying best to take care of my shiny 5 . Enjoy your video and learned more today. I donot want them to be stressed all the time.
Your substrate and plant method has restarted my fish hobby after many years . Having great luck so far and really enjoy the low maintenence of it all.
Your wisdom makes so much sense father fish, my first tank I ever did I had a heavily planted 5 gallon with a betta and snail, started out not doing water changes,plants were happy and fish was healthy. After 6 months I tried doing 20% water changes every other week due to algae my fish was way more stressed and plants looked so sad!
Thanks to you Pops! Havent changed my tank water in 2 months . My plants are turning green now and fish are happy.
I love Al your work father fish I’ve learned so much from you and I hope my turtles are so much happier with their new tanks. I’m thinking about adding some fish into the tanks
Hey father fish, u are so awesome and I agree with u %100. The right way is mother nature. Thanks for all your videos and teaching people the right way
Gracias por la traducción al español! Es una locura lo que cuentas en tus videos todo lo contrario a lo que venden en la tiendas gracias por tu sabiduría!
I really like your vids my friend ..so much knowledge ..I’ve been doing things this way in my tank for a couple years now and it’s the best way ..heavily planted and my fish are thriving ..add a sponge filter and that’s about it in all my tanks ..don’t cheap out on a good light and right spectrum ..6 to 8 hours of light bout 75 percent and boom happy fish keeper ✌🏻
I love your way of keeping fish, I kept an Oscar before in a dirted basin and it never got sick. The only issue I have with setting-up a tank now is I don't know where to get the gunk. The local river near my house has people dumping everything in it.
set up a pool in your back yard and grow your own.
Thank you as always 🤙🏾
Thank you sooo much I've learned a lot and soon I'll be setting up my backyard pond
Very nice and helpfull video, its been 5 months since im listening and doing Father Fish method, and my fish are so happy, swimming playing, water is clear, when i feed them, frenzy begins😃 its beautifull, simple beautifull...
Great video. All stuff you've been preaching for a while, but probably your best presentation that I've seen yet. Hopefully this video reaches all the struggling fishkeepers and new comers to the hobby out there.
I hope so!
Every video that I watch I become more and more aware of how I was keeping the tank from being in a natural healthy state. I really cannot say enough about how wonderful it is to feel the satisfaction of knowing that when I reset my tank I will be doing it according to the laws of nature I cannot thank you enough
Terima kasih father fish atas ilmunya yang luar biasa
Father Fish at its best. So happy to have found you. You're giving fishes a better life!
Thank you Barugon
I really appreciate this video and FF's approach to keeping a fish tank. I naturally have adopted this type of approach. In my childhood my family kept a lot of fish...and the fish that did best were in the outdoor pond. 20 years ago my family was under the impression of keeping a very clean tank, but I observed as a child that my dad's overcleaning had killed our fish. Now that I'm older and have restarted this hobby again, I'm working with nano tanks and have found a beautiful and natural way of successfully keeping/maintaining 3 ecosystems. No fish deaths to date :)
thats the word ECOSYSTEM NOT TANKS , amazing keep it up
@@humbertovargas1211 yeah! Very happy with all this newfound knowledge. I feel much more confident caring for my fish!
Father fish is like a old school preacher, teaching us why this works with facts and logic and reasoning. I can’t tell you how much I’ve learned in the month I’ve been watching his stuff. Thank you again father fish for your wisdom and kindness
Isn’t he just the best father anyone could ever ask for! Lots of wisdom and experience which cannot be replaced.
@@paulm0573 Technically THE father would be the best father..
And literally is a preacher also!
this has become my favorite channel.
You do my heart good!
Thank you
thank you
father fish I learn today a lot
Had multiple tanks over 30 years, gave up on the hobby even though I had decent success, watching these videos makes me want to tke it up again (the natural way!!!) !
Thank god I found your channel. I love how easy it is to follow what you’re saying, because it just makes sense. People over complicate things that don’t need to be. keep it up mate
Thank you I am new to this and listening to you..and you are right what you say..I remember when I was a kid and going down to the pond and it was so much fish in there..which I love to see...thank you Dan from Wiltshire uk..
Just yesterday I saw a video documenting the vast diversity of fish, reptiles, birds and amphibians in the still polluted Chicago River!
Nature will always find a way to win.
Thank you, I finally understand how I should look after my fish and make them life happily
Excellent advice
I could listen to you forever
This is very good information. Thank you
Father fish is smarter than every other you tuber out there I love this man he knows what his talking about natural is really the only way to keep a fish aquarium ever since I have started doing it his way I have never had happier fish and no death
Thankyou so much sir... for guiding in a right way about fish hobby.
Looking sharp! Nice cut.
Glad to make it into another video, I have an update to be filmed and sent in... Plants are an amazing addiction... They make the tank happier!
Can't wait!
Thank you very much sir. Your Video helped me understand what a natural ecosystem should be like. Lots of love from India…
I agree of lot of points.
I had an aquarium years ago. It was a successful population of fish. One by one they died over the course of several years. For maintenance of that tank I did 20% water changes about every 60 days... but it was when the tank was neglected a little bit that the convict cichlids we had started to reproduce. We got a few of them out of the tank and raised them to adults before getting them back in the original tank. Unfortunately I had to abandon it and over time the fish died of natural causes and I put the hobby to rest. It started at my parents house and I didn't have room in my apartment for a 90 gallon tank. I just purchased a 40 gallon aquarium and purchased the substrate mix from your store and I'm super excited to try a natural habitat. I'm positive that your methods are so much better for the fish. It makes so much sense that supporting all kinds of life in the aquarium allows for constant food and a stress free habitat.
Excellent presentation of the facts. Thanks Lou
Much appreciated Caylor!
I came across your channel ths weekend, been listening to many of your videos, it makes sense to me, this July 4th I was digging up pond mud, lol , thank you for all you share, fish thank you too.
Best video so far FF you summarized many of your videos in one✌🏼
I'm so glad to have found you
I'm so happy to have found your content! It's helping me and my fish so much!
Thank you for these interesting video.
U think that you are right.
The fish and all what live in a tank are happyer when they have a lot of leaves and plants.
I try to make it more to the nature, to mother nature.
Thank you.
Now I understand why a friend of mine's fish developed healthily in a cement tank with turbid water and limbs. I have another friend of mine who I didn't understand why his fish developed and bred very well in a dirty aquarium that he told me he hadn't cleaned in months and mine where I cleaned and changed the water and my fish died. Now with this explanation everything makes sense.
I loved your video. Thank you sir!
Omg thx u I’m learning so much from you thx you fatherfish ❤
Thanks very beneficial
Perfect video thanks a lot
Love you as well father fish ! Peace 🙏 from Welland Ontario Canada 🇨🇦
I am so thankful I found your videos sir... I was doing what you said but I did a water change yesterday which killed off most of my smaller fishes.
Another bonus comment, enjoyed your video.
Well said love the video 👍👍
I am in the hobby for over 15 years. My fish in all my tanks are healthy with plants even if it's not natural. I like the modern thight scapes wich is difficult to realize on this natural way. I will start a new tank wich will be all natural tank because it do make sense what you explain. Thank you for showing me a whole new way of fishkeeping. I can't wait to start.
Great Video Father Fish
My dad's kept tropical fish all my life, this is fantastic advice, I'll send this too my pops. I want a tank to replace my useless TV, it'll be much more interesting ❤
I have a very clear water heavy planted 75 gallon and a dark tannin heavy driftwood 40 gallon and I notice that I watch my 40 gallon far more. There’s something far more fascinating about the natural look.
Though in my case I don’t need to water change either of them. I just run more filtration on the 75.
Keeping the water clear of nutrients is the key to never needing to change it.
@@FatherFish is it good when in the water there is nothing, either bad like ammonia or nitrites, or good like a bit of nitrate or iron, just maybe a little too much phosphate?
@@AlinefromToulouse Maybe a little!! lol
@@FatherFish I suppose it is better than too much.😄😒