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I've said it before, but MD, you are THE most accessible fish-tuber around. So easy to follow, great for inspiration, and always entry-level explanations. Love YOU!

please put names of the plants on screen while planting them like you used to do in older videos🙏🏻 and please write the dimensions of tanks and the watts of the light too. it really helps to know the intensity of the light that you're using for each specific size of tank

😭🙏The amount of sheer joy I got when seeing you posted I just know this is gonna be phenomenal!!

Due to the crazy KZfaq algorithm, I came across one of these videos while randomly scrolling, couldn’t stop watching every video and now I’m an aqua scape hobbyist haha watching the fish swim around in a little home you’ve created for them is so so so satisfying. Hard work pays off with lots of plants and no over feeding 😅

Guppies and goldfish are the usual starters and boy are their an incredible amount of variety in each. Awesome low tech tank MD. You are really tempting me to do more than just watch your builds!

I bought 1 sponge filter $10, and it works perfectly the fish shop has one in every tank 😍

Been home ill with a stomach bug. So happy you posted a new video today, has made me feel better.

Remember MD EVERYTHING is content : ) Even maintenance. I think we all just enjoy seeing your tanks, learning along the way. Keep the content coming. It would be great if you could do a new series that is just like 10min clips of different tanks with chill background music. Maybe a little informational text on the screen, but mostly just watch the tank and chill. I know my wife and I would love to enjoy your tanks vicariously!

I deeply appreciate how accessible you make this hobby feel

Wonderful!! SUPER inspirational! Love everything about this tank, build, set up, planting and residency!!

Going to my local fish shop tomorrow! You inspired me to build my first planted aquarium, it's a work in progress but your videos help so much!

Love that you explain the products and basically every detail, thanks 😊

Thank you for giving down to earth tips for how to get started on a budget! And this tank turned out amazing!!!

Thanks for all your shared knowledge. I started my first planted aquarium 6 months ago and everything is still living today! It was nothing special, just a couple java plants and rocks for a Beta but it makes me smile every day. Thanks.

Just so you know, you inspired me to build a aquascape for my Betta. I felt very confident going into my local fish shop (Shout out to the Golden Guppy) thanks to watching so many of your vids!

Hey MD. Just rediscoverd your channel after a year or 2. Its fantastic! Better than I remember it!! Keep it up. 👌🏽👍🏼💚💚

Beautiful setup MD, and always good to see Fish Shop Matt. Great job once again.

I found your channel about a month ago, and I have been binge watching your videos. You are awesome and my favorite aquarium/aqua scape channel! I would like to see more variation on your fish species but that’s just me and you do you man!! 🙌🏽💯👍🏽

Love you work MD. I wish you and your family all the best! Just bought some guppies last week and I feel this is a sign that I should by more…😆

you have no idea how perfect this upload was haha. perfect timing! I went and bought everything i needed the other day and today is the day my guppies get a bigger tank !

Really nice looking starter tank again MD, scape is on point! Great work and loving the videos.

Officially my favourite youtuber thankyou MD :)

I was just watching the platy island build with this exact set-up today how coincidental that bulid was posted roughly 8 months ago. Awesome tank and stand, your a big inspiration

You went from my favorite Aqua scaper to my favorite youtuber bro. I can tell you really love what you do and are excited about it. Top notch info and pricing on the builds! Keep them coming I'm stealing all your ideas haha!

Not very fond of aquariums and fishes but I've been visiting and watching this channel for a month and decided to build a tank of my own. Great stress-reliever I say. Thank you.

What a nice upload for me to see today. Thank you ❤❤❤

Looks incredible. I stopped by maidenhead to see your 8ft tank. Its something else seeing it in person. 👍👍👍 looks amazing

Was about to start a low tech Guppy tank, and will take inspiration from this great video.

Great little set up. Mat always has such a lovely selection of healthy fish in his shop. I wish you guys were in Australia.

This is the kind of setup I have right now, love my guppies!

Another beautiful tank MD. Makes me want to get some guppies and setup a tank.

One of the things I like best about your videos is that your system for setting up a tank is exactly the same each and every time. Even when working with the shop on their tanks the system of setup is exactly the same. That totally allows people to go back in your video lists and not get confused on what to do as well as seeing the different scaps mature over time. When it comes to your sponsor API. Even though I have only been a spiritic user of their products they have never failed and never had issues with them. I mainly use Tetra because that is what I started with bay back in 1975. Thanks for a great video once again.

Loved this simple but impactful scape! I love how you try to keep things fairly cheap whist using tons of plants lol, I try to keep as many healthy trimmings as I can to make scapes as planted as yours without it emptying my wallet.

MD: I’m here to show you how to do it really cheaply Also MD: tosses in $500 of plants and aqua soil Still love watching 😉

Matt is so cool! I like seeing him!

Loving your show and series

Great looking tank, my dad had guppies when i was kid.

Amazing videos MD! I’ve been binge watching the past few days 😂. More videos with FishShop Matt please!

You made that tank look great 👍 ‼️🙂

Been waiting for this one 😍 been planning on making a guppy tank for my living room so this helps

your vids take me back 50 years ago when i had two small aquariums, i find that guppies and mollies grew up better than swordtails and platys, you do great work here my young friend.

"Flick off the sand that is all over your wood" The images of nudist beach parties that creates in my head made me chuckle

Beautiful work as always! I would love to see you and Matt have a chat about the Anoxic filtration or filtration in general sometime. Thanks!

MD Fish alway's make it look easy. He has such amazing tank's and has a natural green thumb. Great video and content Mate. Like alway I'm truly impressed. Cheer's

Love your work MD, I’d say you should list a breakdown of cost total for someone to do this that is starting out but I fear even an attempt at a lower budget build from you would scare many people off after seeing that total. You’re looking at a ton of money for everything used in this one set up. That wood alone would be a couple hundred bucks in my area. I suppose you do your best to show us a “low cost” build but it’s just not adding up here… (see what I did there). Keep on killing it man!

Love this. My first (and currently only) community tank project is a planted guppy/endler community with a few ember tetras and albino corys. It's been so much fun and so easy to maintain.

Matt's t-shirt game is on point!

Wow,beautiful,wonderful. I vow to redo my butterfly fantail platinum carp koi hybrid tank, Just like you show. thankyou

I'm really inspired to watch your video, greetings from friends of goldfish cultivators in Indonesia

G’day mate, from down under. Love ya Videos they are Bonza!

Those are some handsome guppies, you really showed them off well in this scape, MD. I haven't kept them in a long time but I'd be lying if I said this video didn't tempt me to go run out and get some. Take care.

Your tanks are beautiful ❤

Im glad you tell measurements in centimetres also 😃

Such a find inspirational Thankyou 😊

I'm loving the scape and guppies! But holy moly I wouldn't say this is budget. I'm in the US, and this would be multiple hundreds of dollars. Woods and plants both are hard for me because it's all online for me (no LFS). Plus a canister filter with SS pipes. And rimless tank to boot. But awesome awesome content! I'd love if you'd put together a true budget build. Like $100 or less. No old equipment or plant trimmings from other tanks.

Saw the thumbnail already know its gonna be good

Tetra were my first fish, I got neons :) I only recently got my first guppies (in May) because I was always like ehhhh.... they are just guppies. I saw some blue panda guppies and just HAD to have them! But they are so much fun as a fish to keep, so entertaining and I am loving seeing how the colours come up on the lil ones and the variety of patterns I am getting!

Looks great!

This is very cool this is exactly what I want to do when I get back in the hobby do something that’s affordable

You know I luv n watch your videos. I may not comment n like every single video, because my hands are in an aquascape 9 out of 10. But know you have my support 💛💙💚💛💚💙

Looks amazing

You're a braver man than I to use any cyanoacrylate accelerant in an aquarium! Thin CA in tissue dries so fast it will often smoke with the heat

Lovely tank plants guppies and friends

Reminded me that I need to get some root tabs. Guppies are cool little fish no matter how long you've been in the hobby.

Love all your vids 🤩

Love your videos MD, but this is the 2nd recent video you've used a 60x30x30 tank and the 2nd time you've said it's 90 liters. That size tank is only 54liters. One of my tanks is that size and yours looks a lot taller than 12 inches. By the way, I'm not criticizing, I'm just curious 😁

I love guppies!

Guppies aren’t my thing but they are really pretty, tough, and replace themselves. My #1 recommended starter fish when friends ask my opinion ❤ and what a beautiful home you made for them!

another awesome tank , on a side note guess is time to have a shirt or woody that says " chunck'em up" ehhehhe

Love all your videos MD. Could you do a short video in which you show what equipment you use to do your water changes as i find it so time consuming in having to fill numerous buckets of water to both empty and refill my tank.

I would love to see an Australian desert aquascape

Very nice

Make a bowl scape with under-gravel filter. BTW absolutely love all your videos. 😍🙌

Love your vids

Hi MD, I only discovered you yesterday but I am loving your eco aquariums. I love fish!! always have!! and have kept a few different types of fish on and off through out my life. It has been a few years now since I last kept fish due to my health. I still want to keep fish and have recently started looking into easy and low maintenance fish and have been considering guppies, I've never kept guppies before, they're small and pretty and schooling fish and all that does appeal to me but I have still been holding off because tank maintenance is still tank maintenance ....... oh so I thought!! It wasn't until one of your videos popped up in my recommended that it had dawned on me an almost self sustaining eco tank!! I have finally gotten a diagnosis recently and now know I have rheumatoid arthritis so a tank that wouldn't need water changes in the long term and would only need pruning means that my health hasn't taken fish keeping away from me at least not yet!! I do have two teenage sons living at home who can help me with set up and getting through the stabilizing phase of a new tank. My health has taken so many of the things that bring me joy because they cause me physical pain now if I tried BUT you have given me hope and lifted my spirits and for that I can not thank you enough!!!!!...... and if by chance you can think of some tips, advise, suggestions that may work for me keeping fish given my health struggles I would be eternally grateful!!!

amazing scape

This is amazing! I've been following you for a while and your aquascapes are inspiring. I would love to see some celestial pearl danios in one of your scapes one day :)

I bought some male guppies 4 days ago. Yesterday I noticed babies in my quarantine tank….. next time, I’ll double check at the store, there may have been some jumpers! 🇦🇺❤️

Thanks!

Do you have a video on how you made the stand? Would be cool if you did. lol

I also love guppies

very nice and beautiful

You inspired me to get a planed aquarium (:

Can’t help but seeing a Sea lions head on the end of the wood facing the front on the right hand side, but this tank is epic you really Excelled yourself 🙂

Great video! Well filmed and so lively and enjoyable to watch! Not so sure, however, that's what I would call a low budget tank... or at least would have been nice to emphazise the costs of each element you've put in as well as the estimated total amount (of course you have plants you reuse from other aquariums but it's not the case for a lot of beginners etc.)... When you see, sometimes the costs of the roots/wood and stones... without including the plants, that's getting quite high in terms of prices. Anyway, beautiful tank and really cool video! Well done! 👏Thanks from Brussels, Belgium

I love this Chanel and your jungle style with the drift wood and plants coming out. I have started on my own large tank with with massive pieces of drift wood sticking out however I just has a dojo loach jump out of the tank. (The tank is in good parameters.) The emergent drift wood prevents a glass lid on either side of the light like I have on the rest of my tanks. I have thought about using mesh to go around the drift wood and emergent plants however I can't think of a way that wouldn't be a chore removing everytime. Do you or anyone have any suggestions for a lid?

Very much appreciate the list of links in the comments. God's work

Hi mate love your video's, I wish I could have seen them around 1980 ish. Just a quick thought for you. I notice you scrape the sand/gravels back from the front of the tank for aesthetics, what many of us used to do (back in the day) was to used black tape across the front of the tank to hide the dirt/medium completely. Just thinking about it now, a black painted strip approx 2" (50mm) wide would also work.

Nice video :D

If API is reading I bought leafzone and tabs because of you!

MD great video! How many fish would you recommend for a healthy 60cm tank? So it looks nice and busy but not overstocked?

this is in zero ways budget but i’m still watching 😭❤

This is lovely! Where do you get your driftwood and do you cure it before using it?

Great videos, love the channel!! Which frosted film on the back of the tanks do you use?

Lovely tank and beautiful fish. I tried having a group of all male guppies, but found they bickered and fought eachother constantly. More than just establishing a hierarchy. I was wondering, MD, if you'd had a similar experience and if you did, what you did to alleviate it? Love the channel and content.

Its looking great! Love from the netherlands ✌ and please come a year to vivarium the biggest show about aquariums terrariums in the netherlands

You said this is a very common tank size but I don't think you said the volume. You said it was 2'x1'x1' which would be about a 15 gallon but it looks way bigger than that. Your aquarium link opens a page with lots of sizes but this one wasn't listed (USA)

I fking love you and love your vids. Always an inspiration.

Great video. What kind of fine gravel did you use in front? Brand