Sebastián AF thank you for the kind words. I will keep uploading even if I am not consistent.

ADU Aquascaping thanks spent evening do my tanks now I just wish I could send you pics

Agreed, Dave is a really good teacher and very laid back, I love his style and would really love to meet him one day.

T.Frakes Tanks hey thanks for the kind words man. Similar to a convict goby or ninja bee shrimp! Haha The elusive yet intriguing inhabitant within your aquarium. I will keep uploading even if I am not consistent.

Oleg Reshetov thanks for the support as always man! Спасибо и хорошего дня. Я говорю только чуть чуть по-русски. Я новичок.

Well I prefer foreign language practicing, and it's good of you to learn russian or any other language if it gives any additional opportunity, and like it's said "ты человек столько раз, сколько языков знаешь" :)

Rommel R hahaha, yes I had to get serious! Have a great day and thanks. Have a Happy New Year!

C_Town Hey thanks. Well it sounds like You're doing pretty well to me. Basically if you have a set volume the quicker the CO2 leaves that volume the more you can pump into that same volume. It creates the same CO2 levels because the flux is higher, so it would be more even distribution. I hope that makes sense. It is more of a concern with larger and deeper tanks. I have a small tank with a pretty large canister, so of course I am going to have good distribution. But someone with poor circulation, and poor surface agitation will most likely have poor distribution, and more than likely a surface biofilm, which depends on O2 levels and organics in the water. We want the biofilm. We just want it growing predominantly in the filter. Similar to water treatment plant some the biofilm is a natural coagulant and traps organics to be decomposed. So my new theory is this, do not touch your filter media. In most cases it will not be over come by too much sludge. After a long period of time, once detritus from the filter starts entering the aquarium through the outflow than you can clean your filter. Just keep the organics low in your aquarium, the detritus and decaying plant matter and don't overfeed. But don't clean or touch your filter. This will better decompose the organics. And of course try to have high O2 through surface agitation or a wet dry filter, or even surface skimmer. Hope this gives you some more ideas. More efficiently decomposing the organics also uses less O2, because the bacteria will be more mature, so this helps the O2 levels be more stable as well. It all has to do with basic husbandry, but we often take it for granted or don't know the actual underlying reasons as to why we are doing the husbandry. It has to do with having good water quality. High O2 and low organics. This has to come first, even before we worry about nutrients, light, or CO2.

Keith Lau thanks for the kind words man. I will keep uploading, trimming my plants, and my beard! Thanks for watching

what he said ^^

Pricklyhedgehog72 I just love wearing long sleeves on days I do Maintenance. It is a curse

Randy thanks. I will keep them coming. People are revolting against my channel lately, so I may have to switch up my content. Haha

pecktec glad you enjoyed the video dude! Or is a clone commenting? I guess I'll never know. Haha

Thanks a lot for watching. Should have a new scape video coming soon! Rescaping my 20 gallon ADA 60P

Thanks a million for watching. I may start back up once I am done with school. Just really focused on work and research right now!

Super Water Aquatics thanks for the support as always

Thanks for watching! As of right now I am focused elsewhere. I have some other intentions going on right now!

yeah I will just keep uploading. consistently? I doubt it. I will just keep on trimming my beard and my plants!

Yuri Sousa hey thanks for the support man. You write really well in English! Thanks for watching

hectornfigueroa11 thanks for watching! I will keep uploading

Ralf thanks man. Glad you enjoyed the subject

WaterForest • Aquatics hey thanks man! Hope the forums are going well. I will keep uploading even if it isn't consistent. Hope your tanks are doing well.

ADU Aquascaping Groups are doing well & so are the tanks. Appreciate thoughts as well as your efforts!

Carlos Hernandez glad you liked the video man

Pierre Fourtwenty thanks glad you enjoyed the video. I just ordered some Lily Pipes! Finally! Haha

RJ45 haha that is right! Thanks for watching

just b aquatics glad to hear. Hope it works out for you and your scape

Sergio Gmez I will never leave you! Haha

João Ismail Thanks for sharing your perspective! Haha. Thanks for watching man

Thanks. Yes, it can be more about the design than healthy plants nowadays. It's becoming a made for photography hobby

I’m starting up a high tech 75 gal. Tank with co2, led lighting and a fairly large number of plants. In some videos I’ve watched they stated that the co2 should be turned off at night and an air stone should be run all night until the co2 starts again in the morning. It seems to me this could cause a lot of fluctuation, any thoughts?

Jim Story yeah it is more beneficial and consistent to just have surface agitation 24/7. Thanks for watching

fin doe glad you enjoyed, peace

Husein bhinderwala yeah they need to get more serious about plant health. They have been ignoring that aspect lately. Thanks for watching. Same day competitions don't help either. Tropica will transport an established aquascape to new locations, such as aquarium conventions. A lot of work, but it can be done.

Aquatic Haus thanks for watching. I just subbed to your channel. Great stuff! Have a Happy New Year man

Thanks alot man! I've been always following you for your informative video sharings , keep it up man and a Happy New Year To You Too!

Mohandas Hegde haha thanks. Gotta keep it clean for ribs and ramen

Thanks dude! Hope it helped

Dimitris Klonaris I trim my beard and then I trim my plants! Haha. Thanks for watching.

Thanks, hopefully will have more videos coming this spring or summer. Just busy with the business right now

steve lacanne thanks man

Rod S hey thanks for the kind words Rod. Yes, Dennis did a great video on the topic and it reminded me that we needed even more information on optimizing. Haha. Yeah the old toxicity club. Well I am no totalitarian when it comes to dosing, but just the other day I was thinking about how I could make a couple simple videos where I share my current dosing and talk about dosing methods. Also, maintenance methods. Just simple explanations so more people can follow along.

Rod S I know K can be abundant and not impede uptake of other nutrients. But as far as aquatic plants and micro toxicity I am don't know. I have never noticed any issues with ample amounts of nutrients in the water column.

What has Tom been saying about it?

Well essentially he was being questioned (at times critically) to provide scientific type of data to justify his use of higher concentrations of nutrients. He would mentione he did not experience the type of plant growth issues that were being discussed but did provide some dosing info based on the tank and plants and he did not strictly follow EI for all cases. It became a big thread but many posts were deleted by the admins for there attacking/accusatory nature and one or possibly two members got banned. I believe based on this thread PPS-Pro changed there recommended dosing for CSM+B from 0.14 to 0.01 using Fe as the proxy. This was about 1 to 2 years ago and fast forward to today and there is a TPT thread that's reviewing customizing micros at higher concentrations based on the success of member burr740 who won the recent Dutch category at AGA. You can check out burr740's journal on TPT. His tank is pretty amazing.

Rod S Without any conclusive experiments that have been replicated 30+ times there is no way to know for certain. Fe is the main nutrient of concern. Someone could do 4 1 liter containers. 1 control just RO water, and 3 at varying levels of Fe, with all other parameters identical. Report the results and do this 30 times. Your results would be the truth in regard to aquatic plants and Fe concentrations. Then you would want to do this with 30 different species as well to make it truly a theory. So 4 1 liter containers for 30 plant species, and repeat at least 30 times. Preferably 100+ times. A lot of work. And may have to adjust time frames and or exposure times to Fe, etc... A lot of work. Or we can just observe thousands of tanks that all dose EI, take a survey and collect information that way through photos and see that for most toxicity doesn't apply. It's like when people say chlorine is toxic, so don't use it in drinking water. Right, 1 out of 2 million people may die from it. Are those significant numbers? No. Well Lima, Peru followed this advice and stopped using chlorine for residual in their local water. Over 20,000 died in one year from waterborne diseases.

Hey thanks bro! Glad to see you are still kicking around. Recently had a full on Viking beard, but shaved it off!! Glad to hear from you dude.

Thanks for watching. Hopefully I have a new aquarium up and running soon!

jessumano al thanks for watching. I will keep uploading! Even if I am not consistent

You ever found a way to best distribute the c02 with HOB filters? I can't figure out if I should place it under the intake or have it circulate round the tank.

AquaLars FishNShrimps hahaha. My dream is to someday braid it or something. Yeah I see in your pic that yours is super long! How long has it taken to get that awesome? Thanks for the feedback man.

ADU Aquascaping I think the last time I shaved my chin is 8 years ago. After some years I decided to stop shaving my cheeks too 😂. It’s a lot of work but I don’t like to shave and I also ride Harley so it’s the right look 😂😂.

AquaLars FishNShrimps hahaha nice! That sounds like a good mix.

Haha thanks

I watched all your videos over the years,you really no what your talking about... ADU...someone that really knows what he's talking about and not just telling you to run crazy high silly amounts of co2 in there tanks to solve every problem there is like some of these forums,can't wait for your next big tank,what happened to your big tank you had? how about a moss tank for your next one ?

+Lee Stenning are you really watching anything or you are just saying your wishlist????

Lee Stenning I wish I still had my larger aquarium. I live in student housing now, so space and time is limited.

haha, well I have to keep it straight and sober now that my schooling is getting more serious. You are Polish? I watched your playground video. Your daughter speaks to you in English while you speak Polish!? Is this common to learn English at such an early age? And did you say, поопа сука/пупа сука? ахах. Или что? I don't speak Polish. Я говорю только чуть чуть по-русски. Я новичок.

Shershah Nazari it can help add a little more O2, but having more surface agitation of any kind can be good. Try getting more surface movement any way you can.

ADU Aquascaping thanks for the advice. I also wanted to ask is there is a thing as too much surface agitation?

Thanks for watching! I am scaping my 9 gallon soon using an unusual and unique rock, so get notified for that!

Pray4Mojo there will always be some mist with an inline diffuser. You can try a reactor if you like. Thanks for the support as always.

Gav Toft haha thanks! I trim the beard and plants. My life

Yes this is correct. This way the plant can better focus on the available light and not worrying about CO2. It's a simple synergistic relationship between light and CO2. Thanks for watching!

yeah if you want better distribution throughout the tank. If you increase the amount leaving that specific volume, you can increase the amount entering the volume to achieve the same ppm levels of CO2, so it will be around 30 ppm of CO2, but you are pumping more CO2 to gain that level, which will increase overall distribution within that specific volume. It can make the levels become more stable and consistent as well, which the plants and fish will benefit from more stable CO2 levels- growth of plants, fish respiration etc...

Lord May thanks for watching. I will keep uploading!