"The Fourth Way" - Natural Style Aquariums
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Just a note, the photos of the Alestopetersius smykalai and Hyphessobrycon elachys are showing the wrong fish (oops!). They are showing Arnoldichthys spilopterus and Aphyocharax nattereri :)
Why the kribs don t attack the Amano?
Thank you to everyone for your lovely and positive comments, it truly lifts us up and gives us so much joy :)
The tank is absolutete bliss...... loved it. BElive or not now a days more people are rooting towards just a tank filled with lush plants than diorama based aquascapes. I believe jungle aquascape again becoming popular. thanks for bringing such colorful Video George .... U R THE BEST.
'aqua-chaos' will forever be my favourite. Beautiful as always Tai
I love a jungle tank-so beautiful
Fantastic set up that isn’t just pleasing on the eye but the livestock must love it.
I much prefer this look to a manicured looking set up.
It just looks more realistic and natural
I'm glad I was high while listening to this. Man! One of the best talks youever had wit Tai
I agree w Tai. Go with the plants that thrive. Let nature find its way. "More like nature."
13:54 I thought it was just me! I see there's more of us thinking this way ❤
I completely empathise with Tai regarding rescuing a fish from a shop. I too have much the same attitude. Lovely to listen to two nice blokes talking around a subject both are passionate about. Thank you for sharing.
This is an interesting discussion because I've heard compelling arguments that buying a rescue fish from a shop only incentivizes the shop to continue their poor practices. It's hard to walk away from a poor wretched creature hanging on to life in deplorable conditions in a shop, but I wonder if my purchase only continues the shop to keep on?
I really like the full planted jungle look it's chaotic and calming at the same time and I love it.
I appreciate the remarks about "intervening" as necessary to take care of these creatures we've put in a box for our own pleasure. Hopefully, we do provide them with a longer, lower-stress life in these tiny domiciles than they would have had in the wild. I've mostly kept marine tanks, and I had an ocellaris for 19 years until a horrible heater failure took him out! In my current setup-which features a deep sand bed that has proven to make it super stable-I've had a yellow tang, 7-line wrasse, and 7 yellowtail damsels all happily darting about for almost 10 years, and there's a rock flower anemone that's a bit older in the same tank. Would any of these fish have lived nearly as long in the wild? But on the other hand, through many years of fishkeeping errors, equipment failures, and general idiocy, I've brought the lives of hundreds of other fish to an early end, so one should always remain humble!
Beautiful natural anarchic form.
I'm much more excited for the book hearing this conversation. Keep doing the amazing work and having critical conversations!
I really resonate with that bringing 1 tetra home from the fish shop. I always look for the lonely tetras when I’m there to take home for my community “natural style” tank 😊
This is what my tanks look like. Nature jungles ❤
This is gorgeous tank. I always love jungle style aquascape, my previous tanks all in jungle style. Its just so.... lush... and natural looking. There's beauty in the wildness, and I'm all for it.
Great interview / conversation.
😍😍😍peace in a glass box full of water. Love it!
I love it, completely natural. The plants have established their own place. ❤️👌
I like that is has a lot of plants. It looks more natural than someone trying to win a competition. There is still some focal points with two bunches of planted areas. Could be improved with some wood but it's still a great tank.
My first planted tank I started few weeks back. It’s pretty chaotic. 😂😂😂 but I’m loving it. Fish has a lot of hiding spots. Already my guppies gave birth and the frys are hiding in different place.
As a young lad, I used to frequent sand bottom shallow ponds, & creeks full of aquatic plants, mosquito fish, polliwogs & tadpoles, skuds, , & more, this is why I love a natural style aquarium because I get to bring the places I visited as a child into my living room.
Love it, the more plants the better.
Beautiful natural display. All plants look healthy. Well done.
Great conversation, guys. Cheers!
Ein wunderschönes "Dschungel-Aquarium"!! 👍😍
Am glad this is shown: the current trend seems to be for very stylised tanks (such as Iwagumi), rather than naturalistic (Amano-style) tanks.
(This is Shoshi’s Mum)! (shoshiscsping)
Absolutely beautiful. Great way to decompress after working in New York City all day. Thanks👍
This is a beautiful aquarium. It's "balanced" by the competition of the plants without the pruning of human influence.
Such an amazing conversation - its the themes I roll around in my head constantly and wish I had someone to talk to about it, especially the ethics of our hobby. You're very lucky your paths have crossed as its rare to meet anyone thats this neck deep in the hobby.
I love it!!!! To me it is so natural looking and what you would see in a natural setting, when you look at an area underwater, nothing is manicured and is in its natural state. It’s great to see more scapes like this. So much to look at, so much to enjoy and every angle is totally different. Pretty much sums up what go for in my scape. Ty is an amazing person and so much knowledge and when you pick his brain, so many amazing things come out. Thanks George for a great video! A real connection with Ty and his scape!
Some of the prettiest and happy kribs I've ever seen
It looks natural as opposed to manicured. 👏
I love this tank probably more than the clinical aquascapes its so natural looking, and its what im going for in my tank looks beautiful
The setting feels so authentic and lush, and I always like when the greenery conceals eye sores like filters and heaters. Slightly worry about one fish bullying the others when I got to 17 minutes in though.
Two potent hooks in the first ten seconds of this video, George! Tai Strietman and that beautiful pair of Pelvicachromis! OK, now I can go watch the rest of the video. 😂
This is my favorite type of tank
After all, i am a big fan of Tais, way and philisophy and i think most important - the fish are doing well. And - to be honest, you often see scaped tanks with dirty glassware and kind of things, because its so much work, to keep a scape clean. So thumbs up for Tais tank and greetings from germany.
What a great tank and convo 👍
Love this video, I probably watched it about 5 times, just loving the care and inspiration to keep all fish as healthy as possible. thank you for this video and commentary
Great video gentlemen, and the tank absolutely appeals to me. Love it.
Kribensis are such an underrated fish.. To think that you can get a pair for not much more than a fiver in most places.
You forget how lovely they are until you see a coloured up breeding pair like this. The young ones you see in the LFS can’t show their potential.
I actually like this style so much now! When I started this hobby and watched green aqua and George’s CZcams I loved dioramas! But it’s nature style all day now! Tai I think you missed your acting calling with that accent 😂 seems like such a nice chill conversation! Hope all is well George, I owe you a beer mate!
I love this aquarium!!! Looks more natural. 👍🏽
I like the way tank looks. In nature there are patches of one plant, but they don't grow in manicured zones like in Holland tank. It's English Park vs. French Park, more natural vs. manicured, neither is wrong.
Absolutely magnificent! I just recently got back into tanking with my 12 year old daughter, and the natural overgrown appearance is what we're aiming for. This was definitely an inspiration.
Love the view and the convo. Send MUSK TO MARS.
Very beautiful tank.
It's a beautiful tank, I absolutely love an overgrown jungle tank!
I love this guys outlook on keeping fish. The god metaphor was great. I’m loving the natural tank videos.
Just ordered the book, looking forward to it. Fantastic aquarium and conversation 💚
Beautiful tank and great thoughts! I like the part that the fish don't care - that's true and always feels to me like a little piece of eternity😀
I like this guy, he seems like a good influence.
I’m so happy to hear of another person who doesn’t buy palm oil. I only know one other person. I wish more people realized how devastating it is
Just what I needed right now.
My favourite style, and the best for fish' health
I love it! For me, I'd consider it to be just another form or style that comes under 'aqua-scaping'.
NATURAL ORGANIC VIBEZ LUV IT BREDREN!!!
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I love my tanks when they are overgrown as well. Love this tank!!
The Nematobrycon lacortei (rainbow emperor tetra) are so lovely... And those are just the females
I absolutely adore this one, but more than that I have a sneaky suspicion the fish love it even more ... so natural, so "nature will take over", you know? Anyway, thanks again Mr George ...
I love this tank. Don't change a thing!🙌
Yes I prefer
it this way rather than replicating a "garden" or some "landscape".
Really enjoyed this video and appreciated the ease of conversation. Good points were made and the backdrop of that gorgeous tank was the icing on the cake. I loved the last point that Ty made, the fish don't care at the end of the day and that's what makes fish keeping so therapeutic for me. I'll be buying that book 😊
That is Awesome!!!😍😍😍😍😍
Great Aquarium!!!😍😍😍😍😍
AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME!!!!😍😍😍😍😍
Thank you for this conversation, trully honest and inspiring.
I appreciate your musings on ethical issues. That is very honest and what I think about myself, and that after 40 years in this hobby!
Great story that you walk out of a store with one Tetra, very recognizable! I recently bought one silver hatchet fish that was all alone in a tank at the LFS. I already had a school of this species and it now swims nicely in between his friends!
Interesting discussion. Some of the healthiest food is the cheepest available... rice, beans, spices etc.
That's true...I think perhaps rather than focussing on cost I should have talked about food culture, for example, using foods you mentioned, and most importantly, local, organic ones...though they tend to be more expensive than non-organic
@@biotopia5319 I hear what you're saying. There's always levels of quality, real and perceived. I enjoy your content and good luck with book!
Thank you for this video George! Really loved listening to your conversation...I couldn't agree more with Tai's arguments concerning the distribution of money and the influence on society and our planet, that comes with it. And you're making me feel very excited about the book!! Can't wait to read it💚
It’s absolutely gorgeous that tank! I love how “natural” it looks. I’m a big fan of the jungle style tanks. I have a small tank filled with densely planted stem plants that grow immersed out of the water. I rarely cut or trim the plants, they grow as they would in nature. I do however from time to time cut the plants only to plant them again in the tank. In the tank lives heterandria formosa and I imagine that’s how they live in the wild - in densely vegetated slow moving water
Eventually stem plants will block all the light and start rotting underneath so you may need to trim Eventually
@@KettmanAquatic check! I’ll trim the stem plants😁
This was fascinating and beautiful. Your conversation was very thought provoking ❤
I love this tank. It's beautiful!
beautiful
Nothing wrong with baked beans and mashed potatoes for a dinner , once a month. I actually love it 😊. Great video lads , keep up the good work ❤. Love this tank. I have a low tech planted tank, one of my Amano Shrimp is 5 years old now , I named him Scampi he’s still eating like a pig, and he will carry away a shrimp pellet for my Cory’s and keep it all to himself 😂. I therefore have to put a couple of xtras in , my other 3 are starting the same with the algae wafers, so I do break one into pieces coz I know the Amanos will highjack them. Happy fish keeping and God Bless
Loved this conversation! We need to have more of these. As for wild-caught fish, I have watched some of the Aquarium Co-Op trips to South America. In their videos they talk about returning year after year and witnessing the devastation wrought by illegal mining. Sometimes they will collect a particular species from a river, perhaps one previously unknown to the hobby (and even unknown to science), and through breeding and trade it will spread throughout the hobby. Then when they return in some future year they find that river habitat has been completely destroyed by mining pollution. Now, they don't claim to be pursuing any mission of wildlife and habitat conservation (they are there to practice the hobby, after all) but it is something to think about. There may even be some species which have become common in the hobby but extinct in the wild!
Beautiful
Brilliant stuff, a really enjoyable half hour. Thank you so much.
What a beautiful tank! 👍😍 Keep up the good work 😃
Lovely tank. 😍
I love love loveeeed this recording & the tank. You guys both are inspirational in many ways that helps one to engage more with nature.
I love that wild tank! It's beautiful, but it's more than that. It's an accessible kind of beauty. Sometimes, when I see a really stunning aquascape, my admiration is tinged with envy and a horrible feeling that nothing I do will ever look even passably good. This one doesn't leave me with those mixed emotions. It just makes me happy.
Update: I'd like to help send Elon to Mars. Where shall I send my contribution?
Tai’s book - amzn.to/3OxudpU
Very informative and interesting video. And that's a very beautiful tank, its the style I'm trying for as well
A bit overgrown? What? Its perfect
Love it. Like mine.
Absolutely love this tank 🥰😍 lush and flowing, just beautiful 👌new sub here
I love the lack of structure. It proves that natural looks work. The open space and leaf interest make small pauses that make it work.
Like to see a full cleaning on this tank
The 4th way also has no need for Co2 or fertilizers. Fish and the right light provide all in a balance. It can be done and is being done.
Lots of interesting discussion on sustainability here. Whilst enjoying our hobby, I question how sustainably aquascaping materials are harvested and have found little information. In my head, whole mountains are disappearing as we quarry dragon stone, whole forests are compromised in out thirst for azalea root and Malaysian bog wood comes from the same swamps that are being drained for palm oil plantations. I could be way off, but have struggled to find answers. Perhaps a video for the future George?
I like the somewhat overgrown aquariums. It just feel very natural somerhing "aquascapes" never really achieve. Though pretty they alway's feel artificial. But too my eye it is hard to go wrong when the fish are happy en the plants thriving.
No matter what I (just some aquarist) try, the tank will always end up "the fourth way". 😆
Not surprised in UK no ancient hobby fish, they all look boring or bland. Keeping Squirrels was probably the most exciting animal.
Hi, what is the light used?
Beutifull tank. Whats the name of that polka dotted leafy plant?
What type of dish is this? Thw one which of colourful
What lighting do you use? I've been having a hard time deciding what kind of light to use
They are Chihiros Vivid 2 units (two of them) :)
Could anyone please tell me the name of the multicoloured red and green Lilly plant? Much appreciated thanks.
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Can anyone tell me the name of the colorful sucker fish?