👇👇MD MERCH CLICK HERE👇👇: THICC CORY: md-fish-tanks.creator-spring.com/listing/md-thicc-cory FULL SHOP: md-fish-tanks.creator-spring.com I feel this is one of the best setups I've done and I really glad how it's turning out. In this video I go into detail about how I created this tank and how I maintain it. My favourite types of aquarium are big planted tanks with lots of little fish and this tank is exactly that. I class the fish as rare because they are ones I don't usually see in fish shops near me. Obviously this will be different depending on where you are in the world. Hope you enjoy 🙂 Equipment (all links affiliate): LED FLOODLIGHTS: US amzn.to/3m3cEz9 UK amzn.to/3orIdRv GOOD BUDGET LIGHT:: US amzn.to/2MDfjk1 UK amzn.to/3iYlfQQ SMALL HANG ON BACK FILTER: US amzn.to/2Mw63OO UK amzn.to/39rx3b5 NANO INTERNAL FILTER: US amzn.to/3oxGBWm UK CANISTER FILTER: US amzn.to/3iNeVtW UK amzn.to/2Fo774a GOOSENECK CLIP ON LAMP: (similar as product is now discontinued) US amzn.to/2IlwLVA UK amzn.to/2LNat13 MINI WATER PUMP: US amzn.to/2oAmf5y UK amzn.to/2mjHDez TANKS: US amzn.to/2SOocHG UK amzn.to/2SPA24i STRIP LED LIGHT: US (similar) amzn.to/2SNgbm7 UK amzn.to/2Fn9aW1 ASTA LED LIGHT: US amzn.to/3k9EmpY UK amzn.to/3p5XUPY AQUARIUM RACKING: Shelving: US amzn.to/2SrYZ5k UK amzn.to/2GFWKJ2 AIRPUMP (FILTER SYSTEM): US amzn.to/31z8FA9 UK amzn.to/37GIoUa FILTER SPONGES: US amzn.to/3dQLUfM UK amzn.to/3dS2k7K MEDIA BAGS: US amzn.to/34Kaf2N UK amzn.to/3lAj3z1 STAINLESS LILY PIPES: US amzn.to/2FqHpvR UK amzn.to/2RlfrnC BOWL AQUARIUMS: US amzn.to/2M4FwFO UK: amzn.to/2Vx73CL API® products Subscribe to API on KZfaq: kzfaq.info USA consumers purchase API products on Amazon: www.amazon.com/stores/page/2193F555-CE5F-4A6B-BDC4-F315CB7F175D?channel=MDTanks UK consumers purchase API products on Amazon: www.amazon.co.uk/stores/page/25663644-6C8C-432C-9E6A-0A85082C3E3C AQUARIAN® products Follow AQUARIAN on KZfaq: kzfaq.info/love/NxaNWKoWr_ztSgXgPj9r8A Purchase AQUARIAN products here: aquarian.co.uk/where-to-buy/ AWESOME MEMBERSHIP COMMUNITY kzfaq.info/love/3uQXzXSPspf2LoGdtYGiHwjoin FOLLOW MY INSTAGRAM: instagram.com/md_fishtanks/ FOR BUSINESS ENQUIRIES: admin@mdfishtanks.com #plantedtank #aquascape #mdfishtanks

As an old guy ( and I mean old)😪 now retired from the trade and hobby I love to watch your videos and have to say learn from them. There is no "fluke" you are a natural and not afraid to break the mould and that's what I love most about what you do. Another great video, thank you.

Love the ultra clear HD quality videos!!! So much to learn about aquascaping from you

Tank looks awesome ! I love that you put so many videos out here ~ I enjoy them sooo much & am always excited to see them.

I absolutely love the ecosystem tank and the African Tank. Favourite tanks so far and hard to pick between them. Love from the Maldives. 💖💖💖

So glad you ordered the step ladder! I don't think I could keep holding my breath each time you stood on your spinny chair! ;) Anyhow, love all your videos! So pleasing to watch your builds coming together. I love all the green lushness! My dream tanks live at your studio! Thank you for all you do in showing us how to create such gorgeousness. Please keep creating! Forgot to mention how helpful it is because you list all the products you use in and for your tanks! So many don't so you spend forever trying to find things. Thanks for that!

Thanks for all the inspiration and I look forward to more videos! Cycling my 40g planted tank as we speak!

I’d love to see you set up a tank for wrestling halfbeaks. I used to have them and they were fabulous especially when mating I get to see them dance…

your creations are unbeatable Md

KZfaq algo had one of your videos pop up about a month ago and here I am setting up a 30gal (110 liter?) planted tank this week. Use to just do african cichlids years ago, now I am challenging myself and fell in love with planted tanks after watching your vids. You do great content, it's always fun and relaxing to watch. Cheers!

I truly love your videos. Really good info and your tanks look amazing.

Thank you for sharing this video. I always learn so much from watching what you do!

Perfect timing for me, just finished watching you make this tank

This is one of my favorite tanks. Beautiful

That dark water tank in the background is stunning.

4:33 - The immediate color change of the water in the cup, when the filter touched it is crazy, lol. Must've been really dirty

love your content MD! I'm making a 125 gallon aquascape with electric blue acaras and a school of tetras soon, this tank is a nice inspiration.

It looks amazing after 2 months already!!

Great way to start my Sunday!🐠🐟🐠

this one and the rainbow river one are my favorite aquascapes😍🤩 they're so pretty and dreamy. I'm saving money in order to try replicating one of them

This tank is amazing, I will try to do something similar, great work!!

After the day im having i needed this thanks!

Love the ecosystem tanks!!!

I have just recently subscribed and now when ever you post a video I’m sooooo sooooo excited to watch it. keep up this amazing excellent content love it sooooo sooo much! I am 14 and just started this amazing hobby you inspire me with new ideas every vid. Thanks sooooo much!

12:40 Omg it's like a bouquet 😍😍

Looks beautiful my favourite of your scapes great job 👏

Was just gifted a 75 gal tank, so with the money I was going to use on purchasing the tank I'm going to try and give your ecosystem ideas a go.

If you have a shrimp crew in your planted tanks, you can avoid needing to keep adding fertilizer by boiling the trimmings of your plants and putting them back in the tank. After being boiled, they'll sink and the shrimp will eat them, and convert them into all natural plant fertilizer, giving you back all that iron and potassium.

This is stunning!

Why did you squeeze the filters in tap water (rather than water from the tank)? As the chlorine in the water would just kill all the bacteria

Absolutely love your tanks they’re gorgeous. Wish you would make a Cichlid tank I think it would be beautiful !

Thanks for the Update 👍

You should get African butterfly fish, gobies, FW flounders, or some really exotic fish mix in there. Make a tank with actually rare and exotic fish. That’d be pretty cool 👌🏼

I don't keep fish, I don't know anything about aquariums, and I don't have a clue about plants, but I love this channel so much.

So nice. Great look.

Cant believe how much those congo tetra have coloured up, didn't realise the males were so colourful!

Have you ever thought of putting Threadfin Rainbows in? Such a gorgeous small fish with beautiful fins. I have to say this tank is absolutely fantastic!

WOW 😮, like Amazon river !!! 👍👍👍

No Offense..., but my eyes were far more zoned-in-on that "color bursting platy planted scape" located just outside your focal aquariums right-hand side. As result...& between the lush swaying green grasses & blazing orange platys dotted here & there t/o, well, ya-see my eyes never stood a chance in HELL focusing in on ANYTHING ELSE. BEAUTIFUL, WELL DONE MATE. Lata 🐊.

I agree, be carefull - had the exact same skimmer, took 3 of my ember tetra 😢. But another beautiful tank! ♥️

MD, you should think about just applying to IAPLC, just qpply and expect nothing, cuz ur tanks are very very very nice.

awesome as always

This tank is magnificent! The CPDs are breeding for sure. You can tell by the yellowish stripe on the back of the males. I love how the males will circle one another exposing their broadside in a show of dominance to try to impress the ladies

Wow so nice tanks, your very fortunate, thumbs up, good vids

Looks great 👍

Don't ever think I'm gonna stop watching your BUSSSSSSSIN tanks I got a 55g running on proffesional DIY co2 kit, having success but I'm actually having a flow problem 😅

I swear this is my fave fish guy and I'm a reef dude. I wanna see him do atleast one reef scape. Just to see how dope it would look. He doesn't even have to keep it.

Love your content md

If you're still thinking about doing something else with your corydoras I'd love to see you do like. A full on catfish tank simulating their environment with different types of dwarf catfish-y fish. I've got one myself and it's quickly become my favorite.

Hi. Great tanks. Great footage. When do you do a water change after initial setup? And you use a pre cycled filter, do you ever start up with a completely new filter and if so what’s the difference in your maintenance routine after setup. Thanks

looks so good fam

MD aren't you supposed to squeeze out the filters into a bucket of old tank water, I heard the chlorine in untreated tap water kills off beneficial bacteria in the filter sponge. Just something to think about, love the vids.

@MD I have a challenge for you! Make a tank without driftwood. the reason for this request is bc I don't have a shop for wood, and I'm looking g for a great 10-20 gallon aqua scape

That massive piece of driftwood looks like a gnarly stingray

Honestly I don't generally like rummies, but yours look great in that tank. I think that type of environment is ideal for rummy noses.

MD, do you find the lower leaves of your stems tend to drop off and look bear when you clump your cuttings the way you did and stick them into the substrate?

Love the content your making and your tanks, so beautiful. But the filter thing, why have the fine finter first, it's better to have large smaller and fine sponge so it takes up all partials and not that everything get stuck in the first layer and stops the circulation. (but that's my way of doing it, not saying it's wrong) most do it like you do because the company making filter flosspads want to keep selling a lot of it. Any way love your work, keep up the good stuff and most importantly enjoy it.

Awesome video bro

Where do you get those detail stones/pebbles. I can always go to my river or creek for small flat stones but my town isnt the cleanest.

MD I think it is a toss up between you being a aquatic plant channel as well as an aquascaping channel. Your plants thrive as well as your fish if not more. With all the trimming and propagation do you even need to buy new plants at this point? LOL. It would be great to see you try some other plants that you have never had before since you have a green thumb when it comes to the most commonly used types, just to see how that works out. For a non Co2 tank channel, you success with planted tanks is next level!

Absolutely amazing tanks. I'm curious as to how the bottom section of your stem plants don't die of due to lack of light or co2. I find that mine loses all of their leaves on the lower areas. How do you do it?

trim your stem plants "below the eye line" eg, so you cant see the trim when you look directly from the front, aka, trim below your hardscape.

Good skills great video

Can you do another tour with George farmer again?

I love everything! In your video. but i think you should get bigger fish next time beside’s the discus.

Tanks are looking awesome bro👍 Did you just use water straight out of tap to fill tank up? Did you chuck dechlorinator & stress guard in tank? ✌️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🐙

Great video

What moss or plant do you use on the roots for that nice looking green woods?

I heard you mentioned you're afraid for the flow in the angelfish aquarium. My experience with combined 1400 l. Discus and altums fish the can handle some flow for sure. So don't be afraid 😏

You should do a moss only tank😁would love to see that

great vid .thanks ...peace out

can you please let me know the kinde of lights you use and where to find them thanks

Where do you find the plant weights you just showed?

Could you tell me the name of the sand bought and where I can find it thanks

Hi MD, does that API co2 booster work on black beard alge

Love the vids :)

how do you get your macandra to go so red? mine gets direct sunlight and has really good lights and still barely goes pink, it stays mostly yellow/green.

❤

My question is how did you anchor the driftwood in your tank? I am sure that you did more than just place it and hope it did not float.

So I've been rewatching some of your videos lately and I've learned two big things: it doesn't really matter what type/brand/cost of lighting you use (plants don't care), the substrate doesn't really matter either..... but that brings me to wood. That's the one thing I'm still left wondering about. I searched your channel for videos on just wood and couldn't find any. Do you have an equal solution to the wood topic that you have for substrate and lighting? The wood seems to be the most confusing and costly aspect to me (other than the tank itself). It seems like finding your own hardwood in the wild is impossible or risky. Which leaves buying nice looking show pieces from pet stores but they're crazy expensive. Solutions??? Maybe garden centers have some for cheaper or something.

Can you make a video of a setup for vampire crabs.. I would really appreciate that

can we get updates on the shrimp tanks? and endler tanks?

What’s that hose that you use for water changes?

I LOVEEEE RARE FISH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hey ☺️ bro ,how much time do you spend taking care of all your tanks ? i asked myself a hundred times 😂. congratulations 🎉. you're one of a kind.

Another excellent and practical video - thanks you so much for keeping it real. Your mum will be calling you about that coat! BTW - what kind of aqua soil are you using?

So what happened to the chili rasboras? I see the endlers and rainbowfish and emerald rasboras, but I haven't seen one chili rasboras

can you tell me what a good light for a 1.50x70x70 is i need 2 so so bad

HII FISH AND CAT LOVER HEREE HELLO FROMM PHILIPPINESS

What about the white film on top of the water ?

I saw you rinsed your sponges in tap water. Unless your tap comes from a well, I HIGHLY suggest people rinse their sponges in tank water. If there is chlorine in your tap water, rinsing your sponges in it would kill the biological filtration that should occur in the sponges.

If increasing flow is your goal, you should also clean the impeller and the impeller shaft.

Do you get any build up of waste in any tanks

Man how do you keep track of all your aquariums, in terms of maintenance and things like that

What do you do with the mulm build up? How do you get rid of it without water changes?

Put a hob with activated carbon innit, the tannins will be gone in a couple of days!

Do you think it would be possible to transfer bba from one tank to another by using the bio media to cycle a new tank? I have 3 tanks set up this way with the pebbles and aqua soil in bags, capped in sand. No ferts, no co2, lightly stocked. One is over a year old and has bba. One is 9 months old and is just a treat, no algae, it just ticks along. Other than the diatom stage, it has just been solid. My newest, is about 4 months old, a Waterbox rimless and it has bba. I know there are a lot of variables here. They were all basically set up the same way, same tap water, hob's, lights, plants (I have a very limited selection and budget). Why my oldest tank has bba, I don't sweat to much, the fish are healthy and are over a year old and no losses. The Waterbox, I saved for months to get. The fish are healthy and thriving. I just was thinking, what, why? The one thing that dawned on me was I used the bio media from the oldest tank to cycle the newest. I think this might be a stretch, just tying to put the pieces together.

with co2 injection or without?

Newer to the channel found it when i was looking at axolotl's havent seen poncho since your older vids, is he still around??

MD , I really need help with my tank , are able to advise in any way please ?