The GOAT of aquascaping tutorials is back!

I don't know how much they benefit a planted tank because of how diminutive they are but I love the mini ramshorn snails with the sideways shells. I like the idea of mimicking nature and having a variety of detritivores that operate on the different scales of an ecosystem. On another note it's great to have you back. A lot of aquarium channels have shifted to an overly commercial, influencery feel. You still seem like a very real person. It's nice to have a window into another hobbyist's tank and hear them discuss the hobby in the way you do.

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Bladder snails were eating my green wavy bucephalandra shoots so I turned loose two pea puffers on them. That's the only heathy plant I've noticed them eating. Thanks for posting again!

💚 I like snails. They are always working/eating. 💚

Welcome back!

Great video...look forward to see how your tanks coming on week by week I'm sure it will be good like some of your old scapes ...lee

Hey man, nice to have you back, are still in Orem? want to show my progress as an aquascaper

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Great episode. Malaysian trumpets are good and I like bladder snails a lot in spite of ppls dislike. I like to keep the green dust algae alive and since bladders grow monstrous on that you will have very good pea puffer synergy that way. I was keeping 3 pea puffers in a 5 gallon with Corydoras no fin nipping once I had an appropriate sized snail colony. I have been told phosphates and bioactive carbon from rotting source are perfect nutrients for algae throw in extra silicates and get another diatoms explosion. Once I added a timer, adjusted par, and did more water changes I noticed the plants started winning out. Co2 helps immensely. I have a tank rn that is designed with a hang-on-back filter siphoning from the bottom with an intake built into the substrate, drains like a sink. A sort of vortex filtration, circular flow and sandbed substrate tapering towards middle so the debris go into the filtration and don't linger in the tank. Technically I think this enhances the beneficial bacterial ecosystem and helps reduce algaes that grow on the detritus in the display area. My next little project is bldg a sump for it. I uploaded a video of it today. I keep seeing your freshwater tanks and now I want pearlweed carpet and glass catfish. I'm liking your Japanese aquascape ideations.

Soft water, snails and shrimp? What keeps their shells healthy? Thanks.

Sadly, the invasion stigma with snails give them bad rep. But to me snails are like shrimp, I love all the kinds of snails, cause they are live and fun to watch do there thing.

You lost me after the ringing bowl.I was waiting for incense and a sacred cow.

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