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Thanks MD, after suffering with anxiety for a few years i think I’ve found a hobby which seems to destress me. Your videos help me wind down and I thank you. 👍🏾👍🏾

Can you do a showcase of your older tanks and how well or bad they're doing? We see all the builds but only glimpses of they're progress and sustainability later on.

MD: “I’m not looking for anything spectacular here.” Proceeds to effortlessly make something brilliant! 😂

Awesome scape! Doesn't even look like it is only 60cm

Love the Walstad Method! Most stable tanks when you get them going. Looking forward to the updates of the this tank.

Every project MD does is already on some form of hardcore mode💯

I loved seeing him take the time to pick the pebbles out of the top soil, and then putting a substrate that’s 50% pebbles

Oh my goodness I'm just on your old no tech video's cleaning my own tanks and this pops up! You are such nice company for "tank cleaning day". Greetings from Stockholm

@MD Fish Tanks IF you have ever wanted to start a second channel, I bet a MD Plus channel where you post once a week (at the start, maybe more once you get the hang of it) of nothing but peaceful B reel of one of your tanks, rotating though your tanks. We love watching you build your tanks, but what I wish we could see more often is updates on tanks, and a second channel with nothing but tank spotlights of exclusively tank footage would be great. Basically expand on the last couple of minutes of your build videos with no voice over, just tanks and music. Would love to see it.

I have had reef tanks for years. 1 gal to 350 gal... never have I done water changes. I've tried fresh water, and had limited success. That is, until finding your channel. I have always been "low tech" reef, now I'm "low tech" fresh too... Great content.

MD: carefully sieves rocks out of soil Also MD: immediately puts different rocks on top 😂

Me and my girlfriend about a year or 2 ago met Diana Walstad and got her book signed, I had done it walstad tanks for years but set one up the same week as this and it’s been the most easy stable tank I’ve ever done!

You probably already got this answer, but I couldn't find it in the comments. @4:53 approximately, you asked if moistening the soil was a good idea. In my experience, this helps because the water weighs down the small particles of the soil and makes them a single "mass". This helps because if you left the soil dry and then poured sand and gravel on top, you'd get some dust particles airborne which would then stick to the glass, making the water cloudy once you fill the aquarium up.

"And a diggy thingy", its the proper terminology for me 😆

Duckweed comb has changed my life 😮

The shimp tank has to be one of my faves Hands down, the green on the rock makes the tank

My husband was An Air Force Officer Enivironmental Engineer. They were fined if the dirt they were disturbing was not kept moist and watered down in order to keep the dust controled around the population because of known and unknown toxins. My guess is you moisten the dirt to control dust. Just my guess. Thank you as always for your sharing with us, your gifted skills and of course: your genius. 😁✌🏼🙏🏼🖖🏼🐠🥰

Love your videos mate, Thank you for getting me in to this hobby, after leaving the Army a couple years ago I've struggled to find something other than booze to wind down and take my mind off work and everyday life, This is perfect for me, absolutely love scaping my tanks. Your a legend ❤

You da man, MD. Never fail to put a video out right when I need one. Just got phone service back after the hurricane and you notification popped up. Got a generator powering my tanks for a few hours. Thank God I scaped em all like your ecoscapes.

Good man.....I know you hear this all the time....but you're absolutely incredible...not just the tech skills and talent but the amazing positive energy you give your off during your videos is amazing. I bet folks who never aquascaped before have gotten into it because of being inspired by your positively awesome videos

I just have to say thank you for doing these videos, you've inspired me to have my own heavily planted tanks, a 3 gallon shrimp bowl, 15 gallon betta community tank, and a 10 gallon pea puffer. All full of plant life and fish that I absolutely enjoy watching daily. I'm honestly thinking about adding a 4th tank, just for plants to grow 😁

I love watching your tank build so much, thank-you for constantly giving me ideas! Sending warm wish from Canada ❤️

I love Walstad tanks. Definitely love the idea of a whole rack of them. Thanks for all the great videos, MD. Take care.

The tank looks absolutely beautiful, especially with the red floating plants

Your enthusiasm is infectious. And I never mind a distraction because I always learn something. 😊

You know why I subscribed to this channel? You legit love your hobby. And we notice. So peaceful, cheery and you make our days a little bit better.

I love these tanks. Thanks for going back to the basics. Love your scapes no matter how simple they are. Cheers from the US.

Md thank you for the videos you help calm my anxiety and fight my insomnia

Awesome as always! You are one of my constant reference when I was building my own tanks. I have a 2-year-old dirted tank that seems to be running out of juice so my next project will be stuffing root tabs in there

17:00 yes, fully agreed you need a test kit. i would highly recoment the freshwater one over the salt water one for both fresh and salt water set up's. the reasoning being that they are the same exact test kits for the same price but the fresh water gives both PH and PH high testing were the salt water only gives you PH high

Removing the air bubbles does help a whole lot. Great video.

stunning yet simple tank

Love your videos and your narration. Kinda interesting to see some new tanks that deviates from the norm out there

Really great what you show on this movie/film!!!!!! Looks super

Another creative effort. Would love to see another alternative approach such as the Plenum. It would also be a great exercise to see how the two methods comparatively deal with the nitrogen cycle.

The shrimp tank looks insane! Rewatching the build now.

Father Fish channel has a much better improvement on the Walstead method. Definitely check it out. I'll never go back to gravel ever again. Why the industry pushes gravel makes sence because it kill fish which is great for business

Love your videos. You got me into the hobby

Congrats on 600 k subs!!!🎉

I absolutely love watching your videos. I am pretty new to the fish hobby and have learned so much from watching your videos. I am thinking of trying this method however, I was wondering how the tank get oxygenated and if it is the plants that provide the oxygen. Thank you so much for providing these inspiring videos!

i have a dirted tank i'ts nice to see this kind of content i love the walstad method, all my 3 tanks are dirted tanks but only one has no filter, and 2 light bulbs it's running like a charm , started out with 5 guppys now i have about 100 after 7 months.

Hi md, i really like your idea of having the species tank rack. I love your videos

love your videos , keep up the great work

You make it look so easy

Der beste Influencer den ich in der Aquaristik jemals gesehen habe. No Problem. Very easy. Look, Look. Du bist total creativ lieber Käufer. Ich öffne dir nur die Augen. Auch wenn du kein Geld hast. Das hier bringt dich weiter. Very easy.

Hello from the Netherlands I love your videos😊❤

Another great build By MD,I have a 130l planted using a budda like you did I love it and I've also recently sent up a nano reef as well 😂

Felt very silly asking for a video using artificial plants last week I’m manning up and getting into the real thing 😂 £100 on red moor wood and lava rock and a new filter later and I’m making a list of plants 😬 cheers MD you’ve got me hooked on this so much

I just startet looking into this . . . so this video is very well timed for me 🥰🥰🥰 thanks

Hello MD, greetings from Singapore.. I'm a huge fan from a small country love all your videos especially eco system tanks ,Big Up to you !

I came to Taunton today to visit the Maidenhead store, the tanks you did are amazing 👍

Learned my eco set up from u as well just wanna say thanks.

Wow Amazing Trippy glowing green rocks in shrimp tank

Immediatley bought a duckweed comb! Thanks MD!

Gravel vac question answered thanks MD !! :-)

I really appreciate this content 🥰😁 Sooo much knowledge 📚 🤯

Awesome as allways love it .

For duckweed I use a cat litter shovel. 😊

Hi, I really like your aquarium creation. You have and feel Feng shui

oooooh, you took my advice for the comb, sooo cool! :-D really happy it works for you, too! :-)

Big fan of the API Master Test Kit.

nice tank boi MD

I'd like to see you do a peapuffer setup :) I really want to do that one day when i stop spending money on my discus tank lol.

Substrate looked Really good before the fine sand...!

Another great set up, love your work. Just a not circles don't have corners lol

yes it definitely is a good idea to wet the soil down first! learned from my mistake

I want to see a clip of the shopkeeper when you bought that comb

Stunning tank🙌

awesome video

Beautiful!

when people mention vacuming gravel. I say that some people like to vacuum gravel, and others like to trim their plants.

So pretty!

Hey MD, love your tanks and these videos are one of my favourites Can you make a video updating the angelfish tank

Looks gresa! Although I think I prefer filter + no water changes over no filter + water changes. I have similar sand planted tank and at this point went 3 months only topping off evaporation np problems

25:10 Ramshorn snails are excellent at keeping algae on glass to a minimum.

I have 6 tanks im inspired seeing ur tanks thanks to make videos

really good

Looking good!

Greetings from Malaysia. I have been following your videos on tank setups for quite a while, and I was thinking of asking you whether it's suitable to use top soil in a fish tank. Great man. Thanks again.

That comb trick has straight up changed my life.

Beautifull scape😊

Would love to see an update for this tank

Stunning 😍

Would be very interesting to know how the tank would have looked after a year or two...

Love it ❤️

Bro I love your work! I’m from Pakistan 🇵🇰 and you’re my inspiration ! Thanks for lovely content👍

Great Job. I was looking for ideas for scaping my new 20G Long Betta Tank and the 55G room-divider Community Aquarium. I am upsizing both Aquariums now that I know that physically I can do this. With torn rotator cuffs in both shoulders, a fractured 3rd rib, and a few fractured vertebrates been serious issues until now. I will be doing this slowly as I am 70 and still have co-pays, etc. I have been buying the ingredients to building a Walstead/Father Fish Substrate. My fish are doing well in my 6.6 Betta Tank and my 3 Quarantine Tanks of Fish, Snails, Rocks, Driftwood, and Plants... and Ceramic BioMedia that have been sitting in the Tank building up Biological Bacteria and Biofilm awaiting to go into these new tanks. Since my first Aquarium where I did not learn about not capping the Fluval Stratum Stratum in the past... had caused me problem back in October when I started my first Aquarium. Out of frustration, I emptied my tank into a 5G Quarantine Tank, rinsed the gravel to get rid of the Fluval Stratum. I rinsed it into a food-safe bucket for future use. I just used straight gravel and fertilize. Since then, I have done a lot more research and have a better idea of what makes a more stable Aquarium. I have the sand, and have most of the ingredients for this Substrate Mix. I got a few in the mail so I am much closer to having all of the needed ingredients. I'll be using some of the Seachem Red Flourite in this mix since it is a Clay product. I have the Fluval Stratum and will use a bit in the mix since I have it. Between making this Substrate Mix with the Aquatic PeatMoss that I used in the 6.6G will be diluted between the 55G and with the 20G Long Aquariums. I still have to get just plain Topsoil for this mix. I won't be using the different MiracleGrow Soil Mixes that I had in storage as they will not work now, but the Akadama (Clay) Bonsai Soil Amendment and the Crushed Lava Rock will be terrific as it provides lil places for the Biological Bacteria to grow in. I have a handful of Substrate, Water-Filter, and some Floating Plants from a nice family in our local Aquarium Club that was a blessing. And, some Floating Plants and tank water from another Club Member. This plus some from each of my tanks we be a real Bless to jump start the Biological Filter in these 2 new tank setups. Great Look. As always, you did a great video. Not to fast for this woman still healing from the post concussion traumatic brain injury.

Bravo from Romania

Yeah nice I wanted to do this too 😁

Telling me not to like made me like

I thought it was a really big tank when I saw the thumbnail. Very cool

Love ur stuff

Amazing as always! Any recommendations for battling with diatoms??

Hi MD, nice tank. I was wondering when will you show our friends timy, pancho and the rest of the gang... miss them

Love this!!

Thank you

Best way to do a freshwater tank!

I’d love the info for whatever hose setup you’re using that clips onto the sink! 🙏🏽😊

Every time you do a scape it always looks so perfect and things so even and nice but when I do it things look uneven and out of place 😆. Guess it's all part of the learning process.