I really like the different feeling between the MD channel and yours. The MD videos are like a tv series to me, funny and a faster tempo. Yours are relaxing and a great way to de-stress at the end of the day. So great that you guys managed to keep your own identity's even after joining together. It's the best of both worlds. Can't wait for the 2024 video's 🎉

So happy my wandering ended up at a video of you installing a new pond in your yard. Very inspiring! And now that I see you have Dalmatian's I had to subscribe! I have 3 spotted babies myself. 😊

Thank you for Hours of entertainment and inspiration 😊

You have done brilliantly. 🐠

Happy new year thanks for helping keep my fish alive 😂 An for helping entertain me while I’m working from home 👍

Obviously this is a fish channel always, BUT, more dogs. Every video, more of those beautiful dogs. They need a visit to MD's studio too! 🦮

I can not explain how HAPPY I am for finding your channel !!!!!!

Looking forward to 2024!

Thanks for making such wonderful videos! You are very much a natural at this whole youtube thing.

Good stuff! Pond stuff, fish files, scapes it all sounds amazing. Thanks for all the videos and information

Those pups are super cute

❤ I really appreciate you hard work and knowledge. Thank you.

Really fun video Matt, thank you. I enjoyed seeing all your scapes. I’m excited to see what you get up to in 2024!

Keep it up Matt! Love your channel!

Happy new year and thanks for the wonderful content. Looking forward to many more.

I'm looking forward to another fabulous year with you. Thank you for all of your wonderful content!

Didn't think I could like you any more.. Then you said you drive a mk1 golf... Love it ❤

Thanks, Matt! It's been great having a constant calm/chill/knowledge vid as I start my scaping after months of soaking up great vids! Thanks & looking forward to more!

Very pleasant to see/listen to this review, I enjoy your relaxed style, please go on!

Happy New Year! Love the dogs; my daughter has a dalmatian, sweetest dog ever (she carries a lint roller with her, everywhere, lol) May this year be the best yet

Great vid! Loved the scapes this year! You’ve come real far!

It has such an amazing journey from the start of your channel upto now, I am sooo looking forward to what you have lined up for the future. I fish shop Matt studio with a mk1 golf centre piece sounds EPIC! LET'S GOOOOOO 😜😜✌️💜

❤ the video looking forward to seeing you more in 2024

Sounds awesome Matt!

You did a lot in 2023!

I've really enjoyed watching this channel from the ground up. Thanks for sharing and Happy New Year!

I do miss the fish shop. Especially unboxing videos.

Hi Matt, I'm on holiday in madeira, and came across your channel. Please make more videos, I’ve subscribed and binged all your uploads and I must admit they have given me inspiration to re connect with the hobby. Its very frustrating as I’ve been away from the beginning of December and I don’t return to the UK till the end of January. I have a jewel trigon 350 that has been sat empty for a few years and I want to try and scape it may try to video it. Your doing a great job keep it up.

Hey looks good glad to see the tank heavily planted tanks are the best...

Tak!

Love those little fluffy friends you've got there )) They are so serene by your side, sleeping peacefully next to their favourite human :)

I love all the videos, there is so much information that has helped me get back into my tank life. I had forgotten how addictive it was, lol, but my daughter and I love it (I said we will start with one, fast forward 6 months and we have 9) . I am excited about setting up a waterfall tank, think I will put it in a 20 gallon, your video made me believe I could give it a go. Thank you for all of 2023 can't wait to see what is in store in 2024.

Matt I feel your Dalmatian pain! I thought Google was blagging when researching them prior to buying one and it saying they malt constantly. How bad could it be I thought 🙄😅

Love dogs too!

I can’t really tell you which tanks were my favorite. I guess they all were. Each one had something that I really loved about it. Even though I’ve only been watching for less than a year, I’ve seen some real growth in your confidence and ur artistry. Happy New Year to you and your family. May you continue to experience growth and good cheer!

I loved the style of this "year in review" video. The sit-down commentary was definitely the way to go. Between yours and MD's id say that yours came out on top by a landslide this year (even though you had less tanks to show) it made me long for more. Plus, though you keep the camera on auto.. your editing and directing is getting better every video. Keep up the great work. Hope to see much more next year

Thanks

Look forward to your vids and have learned so much and had loads of laughs along the way. Oh and I have a husky so know all about the fur issue. Keep doing what you do mate

Very nice

Hi Matt l love your betta tank it is so beautiful! l have 2 bettas l could use all the tips and advice l can get. Right now l don't have live plants for my bettas and l am considering buying some plants. As a beginner I need plants that are easy to take care of. Also l love to see you work with MD on his channel. You both work well together. I look forward to see more videos of yours on your channel. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Thanks to you too Matt! Loving your content, excited to see what this year will bring. I’m a big shrimp fan, so adore your waterfall scape! It’s so cool 👌 I’m not looking into getting a bigger tank for my shrimp so I can scape it more. Scared about transferring the shrimp themselves though

Congratulations Matt! You thoroughly deserve the success and thank you for imparting all your knowledge for us beginners 👍

Happy New year keep inspiring people

lol, we have a golden retriever ... fur everywhere ... all the time , she sheds year round ... but we love her ... she's 12 now.

I see some of the work you do with MD Fish Tanks. Really cool! Now I'm also following your channel, excited to see what you'll be doing in the future. have been an aquarium enthusiast for 23 years, having kept various tanks with community fish, Malawi cichlids, and currently on tetras/shimp/L333/Oto in my two aquascapes. I also plan to upload some videos on my KZfaq channel. Continue the good work Best regards Kim from Denmark

Happy new year Matt,really looking forward to 2024’s videos, keep up the great work it’s really appreciated

Really exciting times for you and MD xxx can’t wait xxx

The chili rasbora tank with the large pebbles was one of my favorite scapes you've done, I just love how the wood look like branches hanging over the pebbles, so its funny that it's disliked by others

Lovely scapes. I noticed that your choice of fish are nice but plain colours. Personally I like more colours fish . Will be interesting to see what you do in 2024.

Thanks Matt, I would like to see you cleaning all of these aquascaped tanks?

Happy New Year, and congratulations on 2023... Wishing you all the best in 2024 and continued growth on your channel! From a Happy Subscriber 😀

Brilliant channel Matt- learnt a lot from you. Really think you have found a niche with your educational approach . Super interesting and entertaining at the same time. Happy New Year and keep up the great content.😊

Happy new year to you and your family dogs etc❤️🥳

i am wery happy for your desidet to start all of your own, i cant wait till you rent a place like MD and create own studio!!! i hope that in 2025 you will have this plan!!!! good luck with what you are doing,

I really like the waterfall bowl but I don’t know why people wouldn’t like the tank that had the roots coming down from the centre it looked so cool. For me I would love to have a tank with plants growing out the top but my tank has a great big wooden lid on it.

Right away I have been a big fan , from Mark's thirst for MORE , and God bless him for having all those tanks,and the balls to rent the studio space . .... .., ... Speaking of which , that jacket needs to be worn again , but it might be a little tight 😁 lol !!!! Back on the bike and the jacket will be as good as new √ asI was saying before I was .... It's been a great journey watching the start of the two of you , like the intro today , I forget what Mark said but the guy is going strong for sure and hiring you has been the best , and Best just got better week after week ( when your not sick 🥶 ) All the interactions with all those Cardinals , Betas and of course Timmy too. I was watching from the beginning , never missed a show..... Honestly I have always been very happy to watch everything more than once. Now that you have been working with MD there is only one request and I didn't come up with it , but I had the same concept. So without a picture I have to find out if that's possible for me to do ? Sorry I don't have to ask if you know who Tom Barr is but I am hopeful that you have never seen the amazing installation he did for AMAZON in the Corporate offices called the Amazon Spheres ? If you have or not the best I can do is to checkout TANK TESTED here on KZfaq. Again you are probably aware of the creator of the ch. Alex 17 ft. aquarium with massive living wall - EPIC AQUASCAPE August 3rd 2021 ! Has to be a little something to consider, you have the vertical space for day's end when MD is mentioned the 10 ft. Immediately I was thinking of you coming up with the idea to do it but obviously a scaled down version 🫤 Either way it is easily the best video I've seen with the owner of Aquarium Zen Steve who has a lot of interesting info about the @ Whole incredible Aquatic Creation.

Really excited to see the pond stuff and fish/car room! 😂❤

these are some handsome elbow holders u got Matt 😂❤

My dog, Annie, has very similar fur. Her hair somehow makes it right into the water column in my tanks… 😅

This is just the beginning I can't wait to see what projects you get into this year.

I have 6 cats so I understand the difficulty in wearing black. 😄 Beautiful doggos though!

So I’m very new to this channel but has followed MD for a while and love your guys banter. I always have one of you guys videos on when trying to sleep. You are always positive and very pleasant to listen too about all the facts about everything from hardscape, fishes, plants or just life things. The day I have a bigger apartment, a low tech fish tank is very high on my wishlist. And you Matt is a big part of that, because you give me safety in trusting the information you provide and that it can be wonderfully personality because fishes are not behaving all the same and how they interact. Keep going with what you do, solo or with MD, you now have a new follower ❤ pet the doggies from me please

Cannot wait to see what this new year brings Matt. Happy NY to you and yours!😁💙🐟🐠🐡

Loved this video Matt. Look forward to seeing what you do in 2024. Happy New Year to You Katie and Quin, the fur & fin babies. 🥳🎉💐🍾🥂

Loved this video.

Love me some fish shop Matt! Between you and MD I feel like I have a couple of friends across the pond!

We’re foster parents for a black miniature schnauzer. Betsy doesn’t moult. Dead handy. Love you😂r fishy content Matt and I am so enjoying your teaming up with MD, it’s a proper knowledgeable team up and what huge entertainment too. I’m just past my first year on YT too, in a tiny fiche. I appreciate what you put out on YT, Ooohhhhh and MK1 Golf!

Awwwwww I love your dalmatians!

Happy New Year Matt, It would be awesome to see some stuff on the mk1 golf!

Beautiful tanks! Thank you for such a cool and relaxing content🐟🐟🐟

🤣I'm covered in fur when a Dalmatian patient comes in and the fur somehow manages to make it's way under my scrubs😫 Love your content Matt and I can't wait to see what you have for us in 2024!!

Love watching the new scapes you do! Was great seeing Katie help you. Happy New Year to you and your family 🥰

Happy new year brother 🎉❤

Absolutely fantastic first year mat, lot's of hard work and effort, but worth it, happy new year

I have throughly enjoyed watching your channel. You have inspired me to try more things. I have two favorite tanks. The one in the corner of your living room and the waterfall shrimp & snail bowl. I love your Dalmatians too😊. 🐟🐠🐟🐠🐌🐌 Gina

Happy new year ! Please come down to Cwmbrân Maidenhead where my daughter works and scape one of the tanks we watch all yours and Mds videos 😊

It's the same having a Chihuahua 😂 he's tiny but the amount of hair is ridiculous. I love your channel,that shrimp bowl with the waterfall really inspired me, I'm waiting on m bowl being delivered I've already made the waterfall and drawn the scape. All thanks to you. Happy New year to you & your lovely family

Happy New year Matt. Looking forward to the next 12 months of your channel

You do really nice work and you look natural on the videos. Keep up the good work ❤

Congrats on your first year of KZfaq Matt! I've been enjoying watching you here and with MD. I can't wait to see all the good stuff you get up to in 2024! I think my favorite tank you scaped this year was the big cube with the volcano-esque hardscape. Its a shame some of those plants didnt survive while you were on holiday bc the whites and reds were gorgeous!! But it happens! Happy New Year!

Great to hear you’re gonna be doing another scape at NT labs!

1 month later, I just noticed yt hasn't been notifying me😮. If you think Dalmatians are a hairy problem, try living with a husky and a husky & shepherd mixand usually wearing black as well!😅

Hope to see your garage turn into a fish room soon. God bless

I would love to have a big garage like that! I already have a Cyberman to guard all the tanks! Actually, it's a glistening grey 2014 Suzuki Alto. The cheerful front lights got him the strong geeky name!

Happy New Year🎉hope all the family are doing well you’ve survived the MD calamity but seem to have picked up his infection GOOFY an Ginger are now a thing No medical cure available ❤now the NEW UP-dated version off Laurel & Hardy begins hopefully a long running series: keep up what use are doing bringing & helping more people stay with your funny but informative insight into fish/plant fish keeping: When can we see the wind-up sand-waterfall you’ve hinted at and getting numb skull secretly 😮involved in setting it up 😂😂😂

Good dogs.

For new projects what about keeping some sort of killifish? My favourite is the Fundulopanchax gardneri, i feel that those fishes are so underrated, i've never seen one irl, or what about another rare nanofish? Like the Danio erythromicron or the margaritatus

Hi Matt, what are those little cubes at the bottom of some of your tanks? I think they look so cool.

I would love to go to a fishy event where I can talk 'fish' this year

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We have 2 Shibas and a white cat. I feel your pain.

My dad was given a Dalmatian when his previous dog died, and I can confirm what you say about living with Dalmatian’s. 😂🤣

Haha I feel your pain I have a white staffy 😂😂😂

I always thought a UK/European river/Lake tank would be cool. Coolntonsee Roach and Sterlets mixing maybe with some carp or tench. Would all depend on tank size.

I still think your shrimp bowl with waterfall is brilliant! I'm going to try something like this myself in a Dennerle scaper 35 L, the one with the panorama view. Been looking for a bowl, but found nothing I liked.

Has become one of my favourite fish channels and will look forward to where you will take it. Love the calm and in great depth this channel goes but explained in a way all can understand and follow. Just wondering if your content is always going to be separate or if you’ll ever use the studio with MD to have a tank there for your channel as I feel you have slightly more accessibility to bigger projects there.

Thank you for making these awesome vids for us to watch! I'm not sure if I could pick a favourite... I think it might have to be the shrimp waterfall bowl. I just loved how it all came together, simple yet elegant in a way. I also LOVE paludariums, I love the fusion of above and below water plants working together in a beautiful scape. I've had two, the first didn't quite work out properly due to a myriad of reasons, it kinda worked, but in the end I turned it back into an aquascaped fish tank full of crypts, anubias and java fern. My second paludarium turned out AMAZING and still is. Pity I can't share pic here of it, might have to message you on insta, but its a tall waterfall with planted areas of ficus pumila (2 variants), rabbits foot fern, brake fern and bromeliads, and just java fern, moss and anubias down the bottom (the lighting is too low down there for much else to do well). The guppies do amazing along with my cories, the water stays clean and algae free (its powered by an external filter way oversized for the job in order to provide the water flow due to the height), and the plants grow amazingly- too well sometimes! But it has evolved into this lovely filled scape, with plant roots all in the water below providing great homes for guppy fry and its simply lovely to look at and listen to. just something about them which is wonderful to watch for ages on end, especially with all the differently colourful males and fry roaming around who are so curious and personable.

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Matt I have 2 dogs and 4 cats I can relate to the hair issue as I too like wearing black. We did it to ourselves lmao. Good luck with the channel in 2024 you're doing a great job!

Love these vids - if you ever need some music to use in your vids lemme know!! 😊