My daughter and had grown distant after my divorce. But we recently found out we both watch your channel. We're planning to make a closed ecosystem together. I just wanted to say Thanks. 👍

1:06 "...but I changed my mind because... uh, that was ridiculous" this man is a RIOT

i want to hear about this aquarium today

One of few channels where I can guarantee literally every video will be interesting

Okay now I want to see a video about “that one”

I dont know why but I always pictured you as a old man. I guess your voice is just so calming.

“Family heirloom aquarium plants” is the best thing I’ve ever heard of. I hope I have something half as cool to pass on to my kids one day

So envious you have a dad who, as well as obviously doing a great job at raising you, was passionate about something and passed it on. All my dad gave me was 2 hours per weekend and a receding hairline lol

I don’t even have an interest in aquariums and I can’t remember why this channel would have been recommended to me, but I’ve watched every single video you’ve put out gladly ^^

I really don't think its ridiculous to keep personal hobbies. Keeping hobbies personal can help to separate your private life and public life. A lot of creators tend to want to make all their passions public and end up losing a sense of privacy. regardless, fantastic video as always. Be good to yourself.

The way this guy talk, how he explains things, the music he uses and just the general aesthetic of the channel is extremely soothing, like one could fall asleep listening to the music and explanations of why he does things for certain species he uses

Springtails : *living* This man : you complete me T-T I think we all enjoyed listening you talk about your aquarium and all the passion around it !

Your tank is SO clean. I cant understate this enough, no algae on the plant leaves, no visible dirt or debris, little no no dead plant leaves. It's clear you take very good care of your tank. This is show tank level quality. Love your vids!

It's so cool that you have plants that have been kept in the family for so long.

idk but something about your videos make them so easy to watch and listen to. it's a combination of your personality, editing, and knowledge of what you share. you make it incredibly clear that this is your passion and it's an absolute joy to watch. Thank you so much!

Long hair is making a comeback, don't cut it, let it grow. It suits you!

Usually once a month I think about setting up an aquarium, you know, for my spoiled cat to watch, then you post and I remember I’m too old to work that hard for my cat. Thank you 🤟🤗✌️

Drinking game: take a sip every time he says "this aquarium"

Alien with surprisingly good hair tells us about his aquarium today. Amazing

Never change my guy. The amount of satisfaction I get from your vids is just unexplainable and confusing, but I can’t get enough!

You're obviously doing a lot right when it comes to understanding and implementing a naturally balanced ecosystem to have such a successful planted tank for so long that isn't clogged with algae, all while next to a window, and without using ferts/high tech, or lots of water changes. And shrimp that have lasted years too! It is wonderful, keep up the good work, and thanks for showing it to us.

You have the most soothing voice ever...

Honestly thought you would look like a mad scientist, but he just looks hella clean and handsome

I love your attitude, and your approach to planning your aquarium. I too enjoy the water plants a lot, and the balancing of elements to let the aquarium look after itself, as it would do in Nature. I Love that you feed live caught food, and don’t mind if a bit of the food hangs around for awhile. I think you handle “long” hair very well...but then, I was a Hippie in the 1960s, when lots of guys had hair much longer. Your content never disappoints, for which I thank you. 🖤🇨🇦

love your soothing voice. you're like a bob ross of aquaculture

It's a beautiful aquarium. I've always enjoyed having different species in my tanks, never worrying about where their native homes were. I'd rather see fish getting along, being healthy and acting naturally more than something with a zoo feeling to it. Seeing more videos like this would be great, although I enjoy all your videos. They're well shot, very well narrated and interesting, and I enjoy your sense of humor. It's very cool that you're not only carrying on your father's love of fish keeping, but doing it with some of his original plants as well.

"And I changed my mind because that was ridiculous" 😂😂😂

Always wondered what Steve Harrington is doing nowadays. Great video as always :) Really unique YT channel and I'm very glad that i came across it! I did try my own project shortly after i found the channel 2 years ago. However when temperatures outside hit 40 degrees it all kinda died :(

These videos bring me such joy it's absurd

Ahh your aquarium philosophy is the same as mine. I used to have a fish room, almost a fish house, with many species in biotope aquaria. My favourites were South American cichlids, African mormyrids, Australian brackish and Asian labyrinth + cyprinids ( danio, rasbora barbs). I also had 3 reef tanks. Some of my tanks were huge! But having so many species became a chore and the pleasure was swamped by stress; I was overwhelmed. So I cut down to just a few tanks, with rare bettas, danios and rasbora. I could keep these biotopes because my favourite plants were also Asian species - java fern, crypts, hair grass, buces and others. I have a big influence from Takahashi Amano, nature aquariums. They are aquascaped but very informal and wild. The best thing about the wild betta species is they do not need oxygenation so no pumps or filters: just lots of plants, good lighting, low stocking ( trios) and a range of invertebrates to clean up. Self contained ecosystems that just need a little food and trimming. ( Like Foo the flowerhorns tanks, but much, much bigger ). Oh and a pico reef tank, with just corals it's 6 litre (-search for Maritza the reef vase on KZfaq, its a 10 year old reef tank in a vase. I was very much inspired). Thanks for showing us your big tank, it's very beautiful and well kept. The age of some of your fish is testament to that!

Great English. Humble to see so many people across Europe speak English when we can barely speak English in the U.K.

Thanks for deciding to share it with us. It looks like a very healthy looking, beautiful tank.

“Alright today we are going to talk about this aquarium...” :D “...NOT THIS ONE” :0

That's a really nice aquarium. I'm glad you decided to show it.

This is literally my favorite KZfaq channel and I get excited every time he posts something

Seeing elodea and vallisneria really makes my heart sing. They are underused in tropical aquariums.🙂

Bro got the Steve Harrington hairstyle, beautiful!

I knew you were secretly a fish nerd! Look at that planted tank! I love this hobby and I love Jars. Funny how how they can go hand and hand. Great video. Now to see what's in that bottom tank

I actually thought you had clipped an image of Stranger Thing's Joe Keery on this thumbnail for some kind of meme reason, not that you actually resemble him a lot!

Dutch Harry Styles blesses us with yet another video.

it's not ridiculous to want something for yourself! you don't have to share everything!

Omg the intro had me in stitches. "This aquarium." *waves arm* "NOT, this aquarium!" *waves arm pointedly*... XD very well done as caught me by surprise and had me chuckle for a big bit of the video.

Thank you for sharing your lovely tank. I appreciate the amount of detail you give and the pace.

love this style of video!! felt very casual yet informative. and some beautiful shots!

Liking ecosystems is a POSITIVE of wanting to go into biology! This stuff is super cool bro

I have a bachelors degree in Biology. Let me tell you something. Don’t ever put yourself down because you “want to be a biologist”. Your aspiration for knowledge and observation is much more admirable than some sheet of paper with the name of a university in it. A degree means nothing when you don’t have passion in what you study. Please, keep going and growing. You are doing an excellent job.

This was super cool to see! Thank you for sharing it with us!!!

Perfect timing! I absolutely needed a tour of this aquarium today! Sorry to hear about the copper fish-passings, but glad you two got it all worked out in the end. I love that you have generational plants, our family does that as well. Take care :)

i just had some baby guppies born today, and it reminded me of your guppy video. cant wait to see the f2 gen! :)

Loved the video, loved hearing about your tank

love how excited it seems that your dad is for your aquarium :)

Thanks for such a relaxing video, enjoyed it a lot

You’re a talented aquascaper! I work in plumbing wholesale, so I work with people like your dad every day 😎

Sweet aquarium! Your shrimp look delicious... I mean happy.

thanks so much for sharing your aquarium, it's always nice to see a success story like this, especially with the natural and relaxed setup of species you have.

My tank is fully planted. I don’t have loads of fish either. I love the tank! 🤷‍♀️

Dude, great vid on the tank. I really like the natural quirckiness you add to it. It's refreshing!

You really deserve more subscribers. I love your videos. I always learn something.

loved the macro shots and the microscope shots. very cool and complete video

I've been waiting for this, thank you for sharing.❤️

Always fun to see another video from you!

I just got my first planted aquarium this week, I can’t wait to get lots of growth, yours is amazing!

Great video, thanks for sharing

So much content! This Monday is off to a good start!

Got another one of your videos recommended after 6 months or so; keep up the quality videos man!

Hello Mr Jars! Nice to see you again!

This was a wonderful video and I’d love to see more of this kind of video

Definitely would like to see more of these types of videos. I'd watch anything you'd like to upload.

Lmao I got unreasonably excited when you said you had kuhli loaches too, I have 6 in my aquarium and I love the little guys, mine are the stripy kind and are definitely not very active unless I lift up their log they hide under or if it’s like 12 at night but I think they are so so cute and weird, they’re just like little excited worms :)

You make carefully crafted ecosystems. I could seriously fall in like with you sir 🌻

Sorry to hear about the copper issue - glad to see more videos from you :D

I love this channel, thanks for sharing!

great videos as always!:DD

OHHHHHH a video of a really really Handsome "aquarium" today n_n

I really like the dry humor. Great vid as always 👍

Thank you for sharing your hobby with the world. Your aquarium is beautiful.

What a fantastic aquarium! Val has got to be my favourite plant to work with. My local river is absolutely stocked to the brim with it so I never run out

Always interesting and funny, thank you .

Great looking tank! Also the outro cracked me up :D

I just love the way you produce videos

I love the healthy ecosystem established in this tank. This is my most favorite aquarium I’ve ever seen, and the always happy kuhli loaches make me happy too.

Wow! That is beautiful!

Very nice tank. Love the plants

very special video, i enjoyed it quite much my friend :)

Lovely!! So green ❤️❤️❤️

I've been watching but I haven't left a comment in a while!! Thanks for showing your beautiful planted Aquarium🌿🐟🌿🙏👍

I just found my favorite KZfaqr today! That is my dream tank and I like how you emphasize creating an ecosystem- that's what I want to do as well. Namaste, Hallo, Hoi from Kathmandu, Nepal.

:) your videos are really informative! thank you for sharing and im gonna sub~

When the world is crazy, and life is stressful, I just want to say thank you for being an oasis of calm and humor.

Vis and fish sound so similar I didn't catch it until you apologized. Your English is great and you shouldn't feel the need to apologize for messing up once in a while. Great content as always keep it up.

Aquarium goals!! This is exactly what I want!

Very inspiring aquarium since i started watching ur channel been trying aquatic ecosphere.

there are wild freshwater chrimps in europe too. unfortunately (or fortunately for them), they are not into the aquarium trade...

Stunning

I'm really enjoying the aquarium video idea 🥰 I've got a planted aquarium, not really sure how much longer it will stay planted as I have severums, but it's such a rewarding thing to be caring for. Your snails are ramshorn snails, loaches will keep their population low, I added yoyo loaches to mine to prevent the tank being over run by them. They hitch hiked on plants.

Yay finally got your video in my subscription box! This was really cool, thanks for sharing :) Also I support the two possibly lesbian fish haha 🏳️‍🌈

Rocking the quarantine look

I'm glad I got to hear about this aquarium today! Also, I'm surprised the rams don't bother your shrimp. I had to relocate all my shrimp to a smaller shrimp only tank when I decided to get 2 rams as they started eating all the shrimp... well just thier legs, but still

sick ass video about this aquarium today, nice dude looking fresh

Love the aquarium, love to hair! Once again cool video.