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Love seeing projects like back in the shed days ❤I’m such a huge huge fan Md much love from America 🇺🇸

Beautiful! This would be a fun project to do by collecting fish bowls and vases from thrift stores!

Your videos really help my mental health! So please the more the better 😊

Makes me so happy to see you going back to your old school shed days. Love this video!

I started one in a giant wine glass. Inspired by this channel. I made a rock scape and a twisted piece of wood that looks like a bansai tree that pokes out the top. I put air plants on the top of the wood to make it look like a tree. I used aqua soil in it and put water plants in there. I have two minows in there. when I went to start my second one in a large vase I took some plants from the first one. I was recently surpised to find baby fish hatched out of the plants. 😂 They're so cute and enjoyable. They've been going strong about 10 months now with no issues.

As an American, it made me chuckle hearing you say "... an inch and an inch..." describing the substrate depths. You also took into account that we cant find nutribase easily as well. Very cool of you. I've watched your stuff for a long time. It's awesome watching you grow as a channel. You make great videos that I find very inspirational. Thank you for all you do.

I have been extremely discouraged and disappointed in my fish aquarium hobby. Lots of dead fish and plants. Sometimes my water parameters were great. Then an ammonia spike. The water changes were killing my back. Bucket method. At any rate I have given up. 4 years of trying and failing. But, I may try the plants in the vase/container method. Perhaps, I can succeed with that. I am always getting wonderful inspiration from you.

Having the 8foot as the background for your build videos is epic! 😃

Omg I watched the older vase video couple days and was going to create a vase ecosystem tomorrow! Perfect timing MD ❤️ Love it

I have a Walstad 5 gallon cylinder vase for my male betta. It does require more maintainence than you'd expect for a Walstad, especially one that's been active for a year, but I enjoy the tank. My betta seems to enjoy it a lot.

We do have a similar base as your Nutra Base. It’s called Caribsea. It’s volcanic pebbles and sand with live bacteria.

I have watched similar ecosystem and no filter aquarium videos, but MD videos are perfect because I find them all relaxing, fascinating, and relatable. I bought my first 3.5 gallon bowl so I am ready to go and try for the first time ever. Thank you 😊

Aww I really enjoyed this one! Something a “little” different 😉 Much love from an MD fan x

You know, many of the plants we have in our aquariums come from areas that will flood, then dry out. So they are used to going into an emergent mode with different leaves and stems capable of holding up in the gravity. Some will die back, except for the roots/bulbs they sprout anew as the rains fall. Love seeing your work.

These are so cool, their simple but fascinating! Never thought about doing something like this, thanks, MD! Great video!! 👍

Very nice! I really enjoy these more 'simple' projects; so relaxing and enjoyable to watch. Thank you.

I'd highly recommend trying out emersed Pogostemon erectus in the low boi jar. They produce lovely little flowers when happy.

Such awesome videos I've learned a lot about fish tanks, my water is crystal clear, fish are healthy. Much love from America.

I was so glad to see how you handled plants that wouldn't stay in the substrate. That is one problem I have that I haven't seen you address. I have a medium sized bowl that I've planted after watching your channel. It started when I dismantled my aquarium after the last snail died. I still had an annubias nana and I didn't want to toss it, so I've been trying out different planters and have added a few more plants like Java fern, etc. It's on my desk on a bamboo platform with an attached overhead light. I haven't added any snails or shrimp because I don't want to deal with any more death :(

Hi, loving your videos. Thanks for taking the time to make and share them. Do you have a video explaining your setup for filling your tanks? It looks like you have some plastic pipe fittings and a valve on a hose? I’ve struggled to work out a way of easily doing water changes in our tanks. At the moment, we have to feed our garden hose through a door or window!

This is an excellent idea for a shelf under my TV. I was thinking about a small fish tank, but just plants and snails would be ideal.

Please make a follow up video on all these small eco tanks in a months time MD ❤️

Can't wait for an update on these!

Great video. I too have mini aquariums and terrariums in jars and vases all over the place. great fun

I bought freshwater prawns last week, currently loving them more than even neos.

I see md I click

This is how I re-entered the aquarium hobby 😊 I'm using the clippings from my jar to start a new tank, and I'm about to re start the original with local grown plants!

I’ve had my ‘tiny tower’ going since December ( second one ) which has done amazingly with nothing but water changes every week. You can find it over at AF-UK 😉

Follower from South Africa, love the idea.

i have the same 3 vases from Ikea and decided to make it an planted aquarium. Although i added small HoB filters just to make it more sustainable for the fishes and shrimps i added 😅

The lobelia cardinalis will love that, I have it growing in my bog filter on my pond

Now I absolutely must make a group of containers too!!!

MD you’re such an inspiration, love watching your videos. Thank you 😊

Very nice! Can’t wait to see an update on these in the future. 😁

Love the ideas for my Cherry Shrimp Just did a big move so I literally have them in baggys

your room is pure frutiger aero i love it

Those jars are really cool I'm gonna try to do one of those.

A big 500ml syringe is ideal for doing waterchanegs on these and even nano tanks if you dont need to do big water changes. No mess with a syringe, water your house plants with it, or blast it 40 foot up your garden through the window lol. I also keep a 5L jug of water under the sink so the chlorine can off gas, saves money on dechlorinator.

Favourite type of videos! Ecosystem ones 🌱🌱

you deserve a M subs ❤FROM INDIA

I’m in made my mom watch your channel while I did her hair and she really enjoyed these. I’m going to make one for her.

Can you Make a Frog or Toad Aquarium, something different ive not seen anyone do..Great video

I will be really interested in an update with these!

You should check out nano scape he has a really cool pearl weed bowl.

Love the vids come them coming.

Yay. Gonna gives these a try.

Big fan of MDFishTanks,nice build ideal for shrimps.. ❤

Very cool setup!!! ❤❤❤

Very nice. I would love to go about making a no filter nano for shrimp, have you thought about doing any kind of written guides on a website or some such? I was wondering whether it would be ok to use rainwater freshly collected in my new water butt for something like that. Hmm.

Soon i will do one of this for shure

Love these so much!

Beautiful stuff truly. Can you get fish in them? cheers!

Please do an update on the saltwater tank

Think the largest cylinder would have been beautiful with a lotus in the middle. A tank that small would definitely accentuate a blossom.

Cool, now i want to build one too (made a simple wabi kusa recently)

Having those tiny jars around are great for propagating plants and keeping baby fish in to save them from being eaten by bigger fish.

Love from Italy man love you videos

Socks n' crocs baby! 😆 🤣

Based socks with the Real Tree crocs

Thanks for your content @mdfishtanks ! I have a question though... If you could only plant 1 plant in a tank what would that be and why?

I wonder if Eco Complete would be the same or close to as the Nutri Base ?

Great Video Daddy 😻🙏🏻

Hi MD, thanks for all you do. How did you manage to make this dream come true? I would also like to build something of my own, like you did. can you give me some advice?

transpiration often uses more water than evaporation

New subscriber. I love your videos. Just curious if you ever do salt water tanks?

Loved this want to do this thank you😊

Love your videos. I find them very interesting and helpful. I did get a bit confused though, when at 8:55 you said to make sure to NOT use a coarse sand, but then at 9:15 you said you were using a medium coarse to coarse sand. Can you please clarify?

Can u put a air stones in them for sound.

love your tanks but if all you have is petco or petsmart the choice on plants is no where near the stuff you get... not many if any mom and pop shops stock plants and if they do, they look like crap.

What is the plant in the original vase, please?

love it!!!!

How is the marine tank coming along?

wow never thought of doing this before but after seeing this i'm tempted to make 1 or 2 of my own. question though, before adding the shrimp and snails to them doesn't it need to be cycled? or since its such a small tank that's super plant heavy is that not a big concern?

Keen as man

Could you let me know where did you get and what size is the small cube tank.....cool vid(as are the others)

I thought you would put it in the window were the other one was. That would be cool.

Hey MD Just want to say that I LOVE you videos, inparticular the no tech set ups. I have a question about the temperature required to keep shrinp in a set up like in this video or in my fav the vase set up. Your room is heated but here in Aus the temp varies from really really hot in summer to quite cold (low positive) in winter. Is a light above enough to warm the water? I dont want to freeze the poor loves! Love and thanks from Perth WA :)

can you let us know about how they are doing and what did you had to do with them to now?

do you have any issues with the snails crawling out of those?

Nice

Look at you spittin out scientific names like a biologist now 😂your progress is what keeps me going!

Will it breed mosquitos?

Is it also possible to use aquascape soil instead of natural soil?

How/what do you use to dechlorinate the tap water

Is that Echinodorus parviflorus in the original “vessel” ? I’ve got 2 of those so might give this a try. Looking like an Ikea road trip next week.

I am so interested i have alot of vases😊

Could I put my guppy fry in one to grow out? They mostly all get eaten in my community tank. ❤️🇦🇺

is chunks lonely? there are no others that are like him in your tank

What soil is it exactly? I cant seem to find it. Im in the U.S

Hi, I Have Question: Can tetra Fish Living with out Heater? Means With Home Temp?

What happened to the shrimp and snails in the vase Ö

Ok.. i want to see the update on this one. Please... 5days top.. 😅 i want to see the flowers

Would these work on a north facing window sill or would that be a recipe for algae?

I can't get Nutribase in the UK. Been looking for months. Everywhere is out of stock!

I haven’t done a jar a while still have one sitting with just water and sand might have to change that now 😂 thanks md 🤙🏼 true inspiration

FInally! A plant I can't over water.

I've tried using soil in some of my tanks with no success. I just stick to gravel, It works better for me.

Why not put fairy shrimp in there

How much soil and gravel do you use 🤔