dude your ecoscape tanks are by far my favorite, the no talking, so that i as a viewer can pause and read, and understand everything. plus the stunning background music. such beautiful tanks as well, i want to make my own one day.

............. Ok I am going to follow literally every single step here.

I WAS NOT AWARE YOU COULD ACTUALLY SEE THE OXYGEN BEING PRODUCED AT 3:40 THAT IS *AWESOME*

This was my first exposure to the Walstad tank concept. I fell in love with it. After watching this video, my husband and I decided to get back into aquariums after nearly a decade out. I even bought him The Ecology of the Planted Aquarium as an anniversary gift.

Today I start one of these tanks, I will be Back by the end of the year, wish me luck.

Just freaking amazing, the way you put, the music and everything. And thanks for the information

I set up a tank 10 gallon pretty much similar to yours except I used an off-brand organic soil and in a short while i noticed what looked to be some type of worm inching up the sides of my tank. I thought I had gotten rid of them but a couple of months later I had little swimmers everywhere. Assuming it was still the same issue. At that time i decided to start over. I put my betta, Bluey into his new home a five gallon tank. But right before tearing my tank up; I put a few juvenile guppies in it and they promptly began to eat the swimmers until they were so fat they had issues swimming. Just thought i would share how my tank became a guppy heaven. Thank you so much for inspiring me to get back into an old hobby of mine.

I'm reading the book right now and she goes super in depth about the research done concerning heavy metals and allelopathy specifically. It really is an interesting read, but Foo's tanks are a wonderful and succinct explanation of how the knowledge is applied :)

Flowerhorns are very beautiful fish! This is the best aquarium video I've seen in my life on KZfaq and trust me, I've seen thousands. Great Job man!

Omg that bubble nest is the cutest thing

The secret is finally reveal after many years. Thank you

The Green is just so inviting. It’s striking. Each bowl looks like an artists impression. This is my favourite channel. If I watch before bed, I definitely sleep better. I’m sure it’s the Green mixed with the beautiful music.

There are hobbies, and then there is this. Thank you for being so patient and explaining this so well. I must start out much, much simpler, but now I have something to strive for!

This is so beautifully edited and explained. Thanks!

I'm so inspired that I am about to run out RIGHT NOW and start one up! THANK YOU!

This was absolutely beautiful!! I think your little Betta is the cutest one I've ever seen. He seemed so sweet swimming around in there, looking up at you...I think I even saw him blink his little eyes 😍😍 Thank you for sharing. Loved the music as well. I believe I heard one piece from the movie "The Painted Veil". I'm subscribing!! 🤗

Thank you for sharing this! Thank you for being so generous with your knowledge, not many are. I will try this out.

I planted my bowl today, finally! I've been holding my plants in a 10, eagerly awaiting the transplanting of them into my 9.2 gallon bowl (mine is 17" tall vs. Foo's 14"). Sifting the soil did not take long, nor setting up the heater or gravel cap. It's getting really exciting because some of my plants are already pearling! I know it's hard to believe, but it's true! I also used graduated sizes of petrified wood for some structure (and for securing Anubias). I've also added a very small amount of larger gravel pieces mixed into the small gravel, to add a little texture to the mix. The plants I've used are: Cryptocoryne wendtii 'Brown', Cryptocoryne Wendtii 'Green', Anubias coffeefolia, Hemianthus callitrichoides, Ceratophylum demersum and Egeria densa. Oh, and I also threw in a small wispy piece of Java Moss for good measure. I'll assume that the Anubias will eventually outgrow the bowl, so if need be I'll move the large rock out with it attached and put it into my planted 50, and replace it with something a little more demure. I wish I could post a photo here, but it is a bit cloudy and has some particulates floating around which I am taking care of with a finishing filter made from a very small water pump that fits into the palm of my hand that I will remove in the morning. I may take off the funnel structure that is holding the filter material from the intake and leave the small pump in the bowl for gentle circulation later, I have not decided. It hardly moves any water and can be adjusted down from this highest setting. Overall, a great project thanks to you, Foo! Thank you for the inspiration and I look forward to following your videos in the future!

This is by far the most informative and simplest video I've seen on this. Thank you so much

I love the music you use in your videos, I find them to be extremely relaxing.

amazing, balance , the key to almost everything :D

Please can u do a video of some low maintainance plants. It will be quite helpful.

This is just the thing I've been looking for thanks alot for taking the time to put it all together.

I am a beginner, and this vid is absolutely a great help to start with. Cant thank you enough for this beautifully edited and step by step guidance vid.

The best thing about this hobby is the love you generate for biodiversity. The mingling of nature with each other is amazing to watch and gives immense pleasure. I was definitely a fan of watching fish in an aquarium but never built one but definately going to start up this project at home. Thanks for the video and explanation

OMG i love you. I have always loved and envied that beta tank of yours and how the plants are just healthy and growing. Thanks for this! Cant wait for that new tank. Cheers.

Incredible!! I am really enjoying watching these tanks progress.I have also learned alot.The editing is fantastic and the music fits well.I will continue riding along and can't wait for the next vid.Thank you so much for sharing this and wishing you continued success with your tanks.Glad yr part of the hobby

I've had reef tanks for going on 20 years. You're vids are the inspiration for me to start low tech planted tanks. THANK YOU ☺😘

Excellent video. I started a bowl a year ago. It's doing great. I have cherry shrimp. Started with 20 now I have at least 100. Everything you said was spot on. Great video

Your tank is ART it's so very beutiful

No other explanation of the walstad method has actually given me confidence to go and do it myself. Not only were you very detailed and concise but the way the info was presented kept me watching and engaged! This is an amazing video, I work at a fish store and will be saving this to share with customers!

This is excellent. You've managed to answer all of the questions I ever had about what you were doing. Thank you.

I bought a betta fish on impulse 12 days ago and basically crammed everything on a 3 gal bowl in one go (soil, gravel, plants, fish). Didn't know anything about fishkeeping and am still doing research about it and am gonna move my fish into a 5 gal tank soon. So am gonna start over again and do it right this time. Thanks for this video, it is very informative. :)

Your videos are Fantastic

I'm not lying: this is my VERY FAVOURITE video on KZfaq. For real, it's so relaxing, i love it. I will watch it forever, thank you!

I watch you videos to help me sleep. So relaxing ❤️

You have some of the most beautiful tanks!! I also love how you manages to find a way around Co2. Lovely tanks! Also love the music. I also have tank videos although mine aren’t as pretty as yours.

Amazing !!!! Congratulations for the well done job! I'll try do my one of this very soon. I start my Walstad's reading today, and how can I tell you... I'm in love for this book, this information! In example, I never imagine that water we drink (humans) can be toxic for the fishes. I'm from Brazil and I'm in love the aquarium hobbie, but here is so difficult to get good and reliable information. Thank you for doing this channel and share your experience!

I watch this series at least once a year and have been since I was 16 I'm 22 now and still love it just as much as I did the first time

This is so beautiful. You inspired me to start my own. I found a big bowl from Goodwill months ago, and this week I purchased 5 aquatic plants from ebay. I started 2 days ago. I failed miserably on my first attempt with gravel. I ended up switching to sand. I had to do a few water changes before leaving it along but finally I was able to plants all the plants yesterday. I still need to get the right light for them. I will be uploading a video on my channel soon. I really hope that the plants stay healthy as I have a beta fish; Vido who needs a new home. I keep coming back to this video to check what I'm missing. I'm so excited 🥰

the balance required is quite poetic in a way.

Thanos approves of your balance

This is the best planted aquarium I have seen so far on you tube and I love your background tunes. Your video are informative and very soothing to listen and watch. After watching your videos I wanted to restart my aquarium hobby which I stopped a decade ago ... All the best for your upcoming work 🙂

You really love the hobby and it shows. Most people I've noticed keep the camera on themselves, not the fish. Says a lot about what their motivations are. I can watch your videos over and over. Keep the faith brother.

5:57 nice horror themed aquarium lol

you are using so nice musics when ı am open this video ı am relax

one of the best videos I've seen in a while really want to start doing this got 3 bonsais which are doing very well but i think THIS one is much more complicated to care for

A huge thank you for making this video! i'm planning to make a planted nano tank myself this year and was in need of some instructions 😊

Thank you for the info. for goodness sake why the dislikes?

can i ask how u get your 2-3 mm gravel,i live in indonesia and im having a hard time looking for gravel in that size

I was completely sold after the first few minutes of the first video you made and it became an epic series about natural balance. Also, a great honest storytelling showing the beauty of all small things. Thank you

this is the best video i've ever seen on planted aquariums. Cannot wait to try this!!

You really love Erik Satie, don't you?

I had tanks, very successful starting at age 9. In the 1970s! Raised live bearers. Could not keep a neon or an angelfish alive no matter what. We we're in North Houston and had actual well water. In my late twenties I lived in East Houston as opposed to n.e. Channel view actually. We had city water full of chlorine. I either aged it or added dechlorinator. It had been a few years since I had a tank. As a child mine were 10 gallons. So I bought both a 50 gallon and a 29 gallon half hex.The 50 gallon was fine for a while. I had 3 large fish. All died after they grew from babies in that tank. Oscar wound up with hole in the head. Fed dry pellet ,some frozen fish food. No idea why they died off. But the success is the 29 gallon. I put in live plants and wood and real rocks on bottom and a larger rock or two on top of bottom gravel. (Pardon me, as a child I could spout off scientific names and many species preferred living conditions, now I'm getting forgetful it's been too long). This was to be a community tank. I decided to try 4 small angels yet again as well. The plants would not stay planted. A certain kind which I do not remember the name of. But they floated well. A couple of plants of a different kind stayed planted. Eventually all but the silver angels died leaving 2 fish. I added things to make it have more tannins. Fed fish food, added tetra fish vitamins liquid as well as plant vitamins. Only used the flourecent hood light, left the plants to do as they wanted and had a nice canopy of plants with hanging roots. Once every few weeks I would use the dip net handle to separate a space in the top about 3 inches wide. This made it look like sun rays shining through . The water was a yellowish brownish greenish like natural water in a stream or lake with lots of pine needles. My angels for the first time in my life were thriving!! They even spawned several times. I raised brine shrimp for the babies. But the parents always eventually ate the babies. They survived a move in a brand new 40 gallon trash can because I wouldn't allow anyone to dump my water. They lived another 4 years and then I ,like an idiot, sold them and the tank etc ,walnut stand ,all if it ,as well as my 50 gallon in a moving sale as I moved to a studio apt. I kick myself now because before 8 months passed I moved to a big house and could have still had the tanks and new younger fish. I never changed the water. Just a partial maybe 2 or 3 times the first year. Then never ever again. I simply added fresh as it evaporated. I had an outside hanging filter. A heater. Undergravel filter that I'm not sure even kept working. And that was all. Nothing fancy.sometimes a little aerator for the bubble effect. Now I want a tank so bad I could cry. But low on funds at the time. Maybe some day. I'm 50 something and I want my fish...lol I guess it gets into the blood. They are supposed to be good for high blood pressure. I need one badly ! Lol I need to at least have a tank like this. Someday another 29 or so.

All of your tanks are so gorgeous!! I'm planning to start my own here soon. I definately will be taking steps from this, it's very helpful

Well done! Thank you for creating such beautiful and informative videos.

I'm an experienced aquarist. I've spent time doing low tech planted tanks, and diy co2 +ferts tanks, and I know all the basics. I want to give this a go. Would you recommend I read the book or would following your setup work out for me?

Whats the name of the fish at 4:03 ?? By the way ist the best set up ive seen on youtube - thank you

Yes this is truly the best video. All explanations are written very clearly, with perfect illustrations, and yes - I'll have to read the book!

Amazing!!!!! This is one of the best videos on planted tank. Thank you so much

who knew watching oxygen bubbles directly coming out of a plant was so relaxing

Does anyone know a good alternative to the Miracle Grow Organic Choice ?

I've never been so thankful with someone! Thank you very much I hope my aquarium could get as beautiful as yours😍

I cant thank you enough for this hard work!!! From the planted tank to the edited video... I must reiterate a Thank You :) This is just amazing and just from this video I see all my mistakes. I already ordered Diana Walstad's book based on you video

I don't get how dwarf hair grass can do so well without the CO2 injection, ferts added to the substrate and insanly high light conditions. I my self have that DHG in Fluval Spec III nano tank for one month now and it's doing really bad. The lights LED, 736 lumens, 7000 kelvin range. I am adding CO2 in liquid form, substrate Dennerle Nano Deponit Mix.

The issue with plant selection was clearly a fertilizer problem... Some plants like wysteria absorb nutrients even at low ppm concentrations... Other plants require higher ppms for absorption to occur... so basicly, because you were not adding fertilizers some plants out competed the others, ultimately starving them out. Please like for education purposes

Inspirational stuff. Started a dirted tank with this guide on my Fluval Spec 3 gallon and I can't wait to see what will happen to my tank.

Thanks Foo! Your videos inspired me to get my own fish tank, and it has been such a help with my anxiety. Wishing all the best to you!

What water conditioner do you use?

my tank have been running for a month, no algae, water never get brown, no filter no lamp. I only use moss, hornwort and water lettuce. i wonder how it works... but my snail always runs out of the tank lol

This video like your many others inspires peace and clarity. I will be emptying my pre-livestock tank and will add that substrate and let it exist for a bit. Thank you for your time and care; it is a beautiful thing.

Thank you for sharing! I would really love to grow my own aquatic plants. Your aquariums and the work that you put into them are amazing!

Music?

wew, kinda early :3

your videos are just amazing. they're so relaxing and they say a lot. thank you so much! i really admire your job.

THANK YOU! I've only recently found your channel and can say it is by far the most informative and relaxing that I have been fortunate enough to come across. I love the shrimp feedings and the neat volcano tank design. I'm attempting to plant my first nanotank and was stuck on plant selection, but I think I'm closer to choosing now. :)

I disagree on heaters and LEDs, as I have a very stable and pretty planted tank without a heater and use LED white light. If your room doesn’t get too cold, you don’t need a heater! Running at lower temperatures can slow down growth, but it’s MUCH safer than running at high (~80F) temperatures. Also, any light that grows your plants well will grow (micro)algae as well. You just need a certain animals in your tank that would eat it away (shrimp do amazing job), that’s it.

Why do your videos bring me such joy to see :3

I really needed this video in my life

thx! i've been waiting for that since i've seen the high cube. great job.

I really enjoy all of your video, the music score is calming, and the story of your own aquarium that you update it every month still makes me curious all the time to see what happen to those plants, fishes, and shrimps. I personally thank you for these videos. I don’t have aquarium and have no any intention to start one though, but your videos, it’s magical.

Watched twice already. I watch your videos in awe. What a beautiful setup and what a lovely home for your beta

Very informative and also very peaceful to watch, thanks a lot for sharing this.

Secret revealed!! Nicely done Your videos are so informative. Thanks

Wow! This makes this hobby a lot easier to achieve and try. Thank you.

I loved your explanations, pictures and of course the music :) Beautiful!

Wow😮, this video is incredible! Thanks for putting the time together to make it.

Wonderful vid. I supplement my tanks with sunlight as well. I love gardening and this gets me through the winter.

Love your videos! Very talented at both aquarium keeping and video making, keep it up!

Wow, you make it look so easy and beautiful

I've never come across anyone else in aquatics who's into making these low tech aquariums based on Diane's brilliant book - you're the first!!! I used to run high tech CO2 infused planted tanks but after reading Ecology of the Planted Aquarium I changed and never looked back. It's been a wonderful journey. Lovely to see someone promoting Diane's book. Your tanks are beautiful!

You have done a great job at this video. No surprise ,that you have achieved 1.5M subscribers. Keep it up 👍

Such a pedagogical, clever, patient and beautiful video. I'm in owe and very grateful...

This is one of those moments I realize I've found a new obsession. Thanks so much for sharing!

And now I'm purchasing this book. Thank you so much!

Thank you for providing a lot of invaluable information. I'm definitely gonna give it a go

Thanks you for this! Wondered how your tanks look so dang phenomenal and this explains it all. Headed to grab me a copy now. Cheers!

This is so clever! Thanks for the clear explanation (and sharing the beauty!)

Great informative content! There aren’t many who are capable of such outputs, both in aquariums and on KZfaq. Kudos to everything you do! 👏🏼 Just like algae appears due to imbalance of some parameters in an aquarium..same way most of the KZfaqrs on this hobby have tons of algae in their KZfaq production as well! (Algae = non sense elements) Whereas your production of videos are as immaculate and simple yet vibrant as your aquariums are! Keep it goin my friend 🙏 You are putting out great productive content on KZfaq, just like those grass in that bowl are putting out oxygen 👌🏻 You are inspiring many hobbyists across the globe! 🌏

Dude well done you just broke down the DIY method and I am an aquatic lover all my life...will read the book too and hats off to her 😘😘😘