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Tai is probably one of the nicest and humblest guys I've met. He's invited me to come and look at his tanks, which I'm excited to do hopefully soon! Tai showed me a pic of the end product of what you guys did together btw, looks great!

Tai is a very good friend of mine, I’ve seen his garage or should I call a gallery as every tank is a masterpiece! We used to be colleagues at Maidenhead Aquatics and have seen his hobby evolve into him becoming a freshwater biologist and releasing a book about the habitats he’s been too is just the icing on top. But the main things is he is just a great guy! 😎😎

It is always important to have someone talking about fishkeeping from the point of view of respect for nature. Good video.

A man after my own heart. I've been preaching biotopes to people for 35 years. Who remembers fish tanks with plastic treasure chests and sunken ships? Those are the stuff of nightmares. I wish you both were my neighbours. 🙂

Tai has some of the best aquariums I've seen on KZfaq. I just really dig the natural jungle look.

Fish friends! 🥳

Match made in heaven! You both love having a ton of plants and the more is more saying is in play!

Great episode thanks for talking with Tai he's one of my favorites, can't wait for the book. It would actually be cool to do a true biotope sometime, maybe for one of your favorite fish.

But none the less always very kind and thoughtful to have multiple colabs with other who enjoy what you do !

I see cat. I click like.

I was lucky enough to bump into Tai just the other day in Aquarium Gardens... dream come true stuff, for sure: amazing guy.

Biotope - strictly speaking that would be a unique and functioning microbiological zone, so anywhere kinda stable. When you make a bowl of shrimp and plants, you have created a biotope - a unique and interdependent community of selfreproducing niches. And when you uproot them - you kill a unique biotope of unique individuals. That's why I kinda prefer when you preserve rather than when you just chuck something random together. Not to take anything away from the profoundly insightful gentleman you are interviewing! Thanks a lot for the shout out to the amazing George Farmer - he is as much as a gem, as the pieces he makes! ❤🤗 Lots of love from Denmark

Nice to see you doing a project with Tai. He’s the man when it comes to biotopes and fish in the wild. Great stuff.

Awesome tour !

Tai is a very talented aquascaper and a great person… must have been a very great conversation with him in his Studio.

This guy is incredible talented and knowledgable. His tanks are so inspiring.

Fabulous tanks, especially loved the jungle tanks! looking forward to the build!!!

Very nice Setups Tai! Absolutely love them! And great video as always MD!

04:11 This is the mirroring image of a Zen Garden in aquarium landscape

Great video! Those tanks are fantastic.

Just amazing. Incredible collection of beautiful and very different aquariums.

Nice to hear Tai with a proper audio!

Tai is an amazing guy. I've been a long time subscriber. Biotypes are my favorite style of aquarium and I would watch his videos for inspiration. He has a couple of my all-time favorite aquariums that I still go back from time to time to view.

Great video! Thank you.

Tai is one amazing man! I am so glad you are doing a video with him and hope you will do another soon.

I remember the George Farmer video well. It was in the studio not the shed. I have watched every video going back to captioning and slo-mo sand pouring. The only video's I skipped were the snake one's. If George was in one of your shed's and I missed it, I'll be knackered. He did a trim and placed a java fern on the tip of a piece of driftwood, something I have done ever since watching that on every tank I have set up.

Stunning tanks. Thanks for sharing

Man that jungle scape...is breath taking 😮..... truly awesome and informational video..

Fantastic stuff. Bio topic is one of my favourites channels too

First George + MD, then George + Tai, now Tai + MD, the best collabs on KZfaq Aquascaping community. 😊❤

Great video!! Tai’s tanks are awesome!!

Wow absolutely amazing tank's and setups great video MD

That tank at 2:39 has my heart!

Book pre ordered! Cant wait, it looks amazing!

Love this! MD, you're so good at collaboration!

Pretty amazing displays from Tai! love his stocking choices as well. 👏

I am so hyped on the Book.

🔥 great watch guys, beautiful displays Tai 👏 and yes MORE hardscape 😁

❤❤❤ this video! Thanks MD!

those shots from the wild are just amazing...I should look into freshwater diving/snorkling spots since I have a friend that stays there half of the year

Great video, love getting schooled by an expert

Great birthday present, my two favourite scapers. Look forward to seeing the jungle tank

wow. what a great value interview. so many good ideas mentioned here 😊

Any video with Tai in it is worth a watch!

Thank you for that nspiration. Sometimes we get stuck in a rut about what a scape should look like. These are like a breath of fresh air. Simple but spectacular.

Tai is a brilliant guy, can't wait for his book!

Can't wait for the book to release!! 🤩

This video was cool and informative.

a big thank you for all your video it's good❤❤❤❤❤

Great video lovly tanks

Gorgeous worlds!

Really cool. Excited to see what is created in the empty glass box❤

20 years later and you still cant beat the ADA lights. When i was a kid and got my first job, i splurged myself and ordered two 250w ADA green HQI bulb.

I love his stocking choices. Popular mixed with more unusual species.

Beautiful tanks, and I love the cat!!

I love all of these scapes. Hardscape is so expensive so his style minimal hardscape is attainable just really nice aquascapes

Love these tanks!

As I was watching this, my copy of Practical Fishkeeping arrived in the post. Looking forward to reading Tai's article on widows😁

beautiful tanks

Thank very much, beatifull aquarıum❤❤❤❤❤

Those lilies are a grail!

Wahnsinn, wo überall in der Welt Tai schon war und solch tolle Aufnahmen gemacht hat!!! 😮😍

excelent ...biotopia and MD 🤯

Wildwoods crews hill is the best freshwater aquarium 'shop' in the UK. It's basically a super store. Went there all the time when I was a kid and absolutely gutted I live on the other side of the country to it now. Carpeting Lily is easily my 'grail' plant.

Around 18:17 you can actually see a shrimp appear from the outflow of the tank 😂

Such lucky fish to be in those tanks.

YAH!! That's my friend Tai, right there!! 😁😁💪

Have a few green nouns and they’re not shy at all. I’ve only got a handful.

Wonderful aquariums

The cat stole the show! 😻😹

This should inspire you to explore more into harder species as well. A good challenge . And get outside more to explore the reality of your hobby !

GREEN MACHINE MENTIONED RAHHHHHHHHH🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅 I use to go to sleep watching their build videos. Super awesome builds.

happy to hear he was able to visit philippines 🇵🇭 😊

Tai also has the best scaped tank at Aquarium Gardens!

That's a book I must have!

Tai Strietman and MD, the collab we did not know we needed until we got it

I saw Tai so i clicked like and grabbed some Popcorn.

Good episode MD. Could you possibly do an aquarium tutorial for Neon Dwarf Gourami as your feature fish? Looking for some inspiration!!

Man, how does he make it so algae free with that much light?!

I pre-purchased the book and am patiently waiting- kinda;/. Can't wait. The cat IS a bonus here.

Did you also film the 5ft tank upstairs?

美しいテラリュウム水槽ですね

I enjoyed this one. I bet your wife would love something like that last plant only tall piece in the house. No livestock, nothing to feed, looks amazing! Helps the air quality in your house by 0.000001% so that isn't nothing... Just giving you ammo if you tried to debate making a terrarium in your kitchen.

I see this as a missed oppurtunity of introducing people into the biotope aspect of aquariums with an expert. I was lucky enough to see Tai speak in Chicago. He had loads of great information to share.

Great Video😊❤ I bet Tai has a challenge giving his cat a Brazilian🙈?! 🐱🐈💨....💪🏼😎

Here we go🎉❤

Been allot of those places but swimming with Crocs over a meter long no way !!!!!

what's the plant's name that is attached to the wood? the one that looks like moss?

İnsanı büyülüyor 🎉🎉

I am new to natural scape in tanks, do you need CO2 to have natural and have it work??😊

Oh this microbiologist has really nice simple scapes

does all the tanks have filters and oxygen?

Amazon has just sent me a mail informing I've to wait until november to get the book... my God....

His tanks are amazing! 😍 does he have a KZfaq channel?

O Brasil é incrivel

every day this hobby demands me to make bank to afford to keep anything worthwhile

I want to see his plug sockets and cables.

Reptiles , bugs, etc

I find your bald head calming