Thank you kindly

Yeah exactly, they are all the same 😂 That's true I'm pretty sure that when I have a full glosso carpet the tank will look like sparkling water anyway 😁 Yeah channel is growing nicely 😊

3 medium sized tanks! Not bad for a starter 😁 I'd definitely recommend getting some CO2! If you are on a budget I have some videos about DIY CO2 as well 👍

Noted!

Awesome! Thank you!

Yep I think after you get used to having a reactor you don’t want anything else anymore 😝

@@MJAquascaping yep! The hardest part is to clean it...meh😆

watching this again today, after trying an inline diffuser for a couple of months. I want to go back to reactors. :)))

Thank you Sebastian!

C'est toujours agréable d'entendre que je peux apprendre quelque chose aux autres ! Oui la technique est intéressante. Encore un défi pour ne pas faire trop compliqué.

@@MJAquascaping avec t'es vidéos j'ai du mal à lancer mon nouveau bac. Car à chaque vidéo que tu post sa me fait réfléchir pour moins faire d'erreur. Mais sa me plaît beaucoup d'apprendre. Merci.

Thank you so much 😊

Yeah that could make for a nice video!

Nice one!

@@MJAquascaping tank is the last video on my channel, would very much like your opinion.

@@robdos2000 That is a beautiful tank! Love the layout and the plant choice!

I'm using the ph probe to control the CO2 levels! planning to make a video about that soon.

Thanks MJ.

I will make another video about it in a few months 👍www.co2reactor.nl/

@@MJAquascaping Thanks a lot :-)

Ga ik zeker eens proberen!

Definitely give it a try then! Yep that's the bubble counter, not sure why I got that. Totally unnecessary...

Hmm maybe that is something we have to put to the test! DIY CO2 on a reactor!

Add crushed coral or Wonder Shells; it will help replenish your GH, KH which also stabilize your PH

@@marvinnguyen-colorado2018 I have hard alkaline water, which is why I was surprised the co2 had such an effect. I'm still running a co2 yeast reactor, but a much smaller one. Also, the reason why I struggle with ph beyond that is for the opposite reason; the hardness rises over time and so too does the ph. I wanted to create no-water-change tank (or at least limited-water-change), but I have to change water every month or so to keep the hardness down. I'm using water softening pillows from API, but I'm still about ready to just say fuck it and what will be, will be.

I love DIY as well. But yeah this tank is very hi-tech 😂

Yeah that's an interesting method! I've only seen that once in a video from aquarium co op.

Some ppl use mini co2 canister that come with the cup. Insta co2 is the product name but canister is too small for use more than a few weeks.

Ik heb ook gekeken naar die AM 1000. Lijkt me een goed ding inderdaad! Als ik geen ph electrode had was ik waarschijnlijk ook voor die gegaan.

Yeah should be strong enough!

@@MJAquascaping thx ❤️❤️❤️🤗

I only removed them foam for the filming 😊 I'ts definitely less noisy, but you still hear it. I think I got used to the small hum as it does not bother me anymore.

@@MJAquascaping lol oh ok. Maybe when you do ur next clean pull out the trays give everything a little shake and then reassemble making sure there's no media sitting under the pre filter tube, or that any of the trays them selves are not sitting right, possibly causing the impellers natural vibration to be resonating off of anything it shouldn't.. I'm sure you'll probably find a vast improvement, These filters are almost silent, or at least should be and with yours being inside a cabinet you shouldn't be hearing anything at all, i sleep 3 feet away from mine and i can't even tell it's on Mj.

Yeah maybe in the future

Happy to hear my videos are helping you! Regarding feeding fish and shrimp, just a tiny amount once a day is fine. If you forget a day no worries, they can easily go without food for a few days.

It also depends on how many fish you have and what size. As a general rule I feed my fish once a day and let the shrimps eat scraps left by the fish. This includes my betta tank where I just feed the betta. It's going to miss a few morsels which are enough for the shrimp. However I do offer shrimps, plecos, otos and the like zucchini slices and also give shrimps carrots or carrot pellets a few times a month. You can also give them other veggies as long as they have relatively hard texture (i.e. if you give broccoli remove the flower head). I don't buy flakes anymore because of various issues they have (i.e. bloat). Instead of that I've a mix of sinking pellets and sinking granules. Some of the pellets are hard pleco type pellets which last for a longer time while others turn into powder which is foraged by shrimps and fish. Most fish actually forage throughout the tank so they don't eat from surface or bottom alone though there are of course exceptions. Anyhow as for numbers: 1 medium pellet per day (think Sera O-nip or similar) is enough for around a dozen cory sized fish. I usually drop around three pellets into my 180 and 240 liter tanks but they also include some bigger fish like half a dozen farlowella. Add a pinch of granulate mix for other fish which means around 40 glowlight danios in one tank and the same amount of espei and kubotai rasboras in the other. If you are tempted to feed more do a "luxury feeding" once per week (i.e. on sunday) where you feed for example twice a day rather than increasing the daily dose. Anyhow that's how I do it. :) Edit2: Ended up editing out the bad example since I found a better reference image which can be found here: www.indohobby.com/media/wysiwyg/Sera_Bottom_Feeders_Tablets_Fish_Food.jpg If you feed for example omega one shrimp pellets it takes about three of them to match one o-nip. Similarly if you feed for example Sera Viformo Nature type pellet two should cover around a dozen cories and since they are powdery other fishies will get fed on the side too. Vivachips on the other hand are really thin so I'd drop two of them to match one o-nip. Also this is not exact science use roughly "two to three smaller pellets to one medium sized one depending on size of the smaller pellet"

@@Beregar79 you are making your life more complicated 🤣🤣 just saying

@@KenLe1998 How come? It's pretty easy system. Toss in a bit of food and let the fish handle the rest?

@@MJAquascaping THANK YOU

For me, the diffusers never worked in my large 150cm planted tank, no matter how much i inject co2, my co2 checker always remained blue… Then started to use a co2 reactor, on my 1st day the co2 checker turned light green with only a fraction of co2 injection rate.

Als je het budget hebt zou ik zeker investeren in een goeie CO2 set!

Maybe consider getting a second cheap external filter, and just run it empty to power the reactor

@@MJAquascaping yeah precisely what I was thinking. Have a spare fluval 350 I can use. But have to do lilly pipes again. Let me give this a shot. Need to research reactors a bit more. Thank you

@@MJAquascaping you can put an additional pump to boost the flow. I had: external prefilter - main filter - pump - external heater It worked fined, but takes a lot of space, a lot of hosing so I got myself the biomaster.

@@KenLe1998 hi Ken, yes I do use a Hydor Koralia circulation pump

@@sandeepsharma82100Hello! The pump i mentioned, is not curculation pump. Its In-line pump, like you connect it to two sides of you hoses. Try to Google Aquael UniPump, comes with 2 version 700 and 1500l/h, very cheap. You are using a wave pump, which is not necessary for a tank under 2m long 😀🙂

Thanks for sharing your experiences!

Nah I don't know. It would be nice to test that in the future.

I’m thinking of testing this out very soon

Unfortunately that would leave gas pockets in your canister filter which in turn will create a noisy filter. Some people have tried putting a In tank co2 diffuser under their outlet in old aquarium forums but that only made a noisy filter. Maybe it’s worth trying it now, now that it is a decade later 🤷‍♂️

I'm not sure this is true but I heard that the low PH of the CO2 gas can damage rubber gaskets in the filter.

Fingers crossed 🤞🏻

Fulfilled yes

All those visits to the gym are now finally paying off 😂

I'm not entirely sure, but I think it will be very similar to yours, maybe a bit less. I'm also staying at ph 6.8

@@MJAquascaping awesome thanks! Yeah I felt like I was using way too much bps to get to my targeted Co2 and was considering a better reactor build. I’ll just stick with what I have since everything is growing in nicely now.

www.co2reactor.nl/

Thanks! I'm guessing he can't deliver to the US. Definitely gonna look into building this. Great idea. It seems this is common in the saltwater world. Do you find the pH Probe being that close to the saturation gives you a false reading compared to what the tank actually is? Also, is the "extra" outlet just a bypass?

There are some good quality reactors on the market, the Aquamedic 1000 for example. I really liked this option because I can also hide the ph probe!

@@MJAquascaping thank you for your answer!

You can go with quite a large group 50+ neons easily

What is the temperature that’s best for a planted tank

It works with any ph probe!

Refill it when is needed, reduce your temp 🤷‍♂️ what else you can do 🤣 I refill about 10l at the middle of week, 2x a week in winter cuz the heater works more often

I don't have any issues with humidity, and evaporation is just more regular refills 😬

Ik heb een los systeem voor elk bakje. Dit neemt inderdaad wat meer ruimte in beslag, maar ik zou niet weten waar ik zo'n grote CO2 fles moet verstoppen. De kleine 500 grams flesjes kun je redelijk makkelijk verstoppen, en gaan op een klein bakje nog makkelijk een half jaar mee.

@@MJAquascaping ik heb een 500 gram en een 2 kilo tank, 500 gram met statief is bijna even groot als de 2 kilo. Je ziet soms op internet ook dat ze een soort splitter gebruiken voor meerdere tanks. Maar dat heb je dan goed verborgen ik heb ze nog niet in je filmpjes ontdekt.

Does this mean you're using the filter as a "reactor" - I want to try this but worried about what the CO2 will do to the filter media

@@damianknight1978 the co2 is not the worry for filter media, the oxygen is, and you can have both, as long as the levels are not very high for co2(which would be problematic for fish and invertebrates anyway )

Yes you are right, I have been doing this for years with no problems, although some people say that the co2 makes the external filter seals brittle over time, leading to leaks. This has not been my experience.

I never tried this, but I'm thinking of testing it very soon.

Yep sounds good!

@@MJAquascaping thank you, I will give a try it worths the effort. How did you find the flow reduction over the weeks? Have you experienced any co2 fluctuations problems ?

I would not use the CO2 pills. If you are not allowed to have a CO2 tank in your bedroom, maybe you can ask if it's okay to have a DIY CO2 system in your bedroom. It's probably even cheaper than those CO2 pills, and a lot more effective. Check out this video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hdqgmc-ls5eZXWw.html

@@MJAquascaping well I got two years worth for 10€... Oh well I'll try the diy next

I don't think it really matters that much. The Co2 should be completely dissolved with a reactor, so it's not going to the surface

@@MJAquascaping thanks for your reply!

Staurogyne repens does best with good light, CO2 and a nutrient rich substrate.

Not really, with an inline diffuser the bubbles are very small, but still visible.

I'm not sure actually.. it came with the Intaqo controller

@@MJAquascaping Quite a pricy set … It looks that you are not married yet 😃