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The moss in your rainbow fish aquarium is the definition of satisfaction

Seeing all that white sand - light, reminded me of the discus tank setup and Cyanobacteria issues you had previously.. looks much better now 👍

I learned some time ago that if you have a white substrate you have a job for life. The only time it looks good is the first week that you have it, after that it is a constant battle to keep it clean.

I love that you always show when things don't go perfectly and let people think you never have any issues. Also, from my experience with them, I think you would have your angels out and about and exploring a lot more with lower flow in the tank. Mine stopped hiding in one single corner immediately when I diffused mine.

The aquascape looks amazing. But, Angelfish and the tetras come from more black water systems. That may be why the Angels are hiding a lot. They need some sunglasses 😎, lol!

Thank you for trouble-shooting videos like this. It's so easy to get the impression that you do these incredible aquascapes, dump in hundreds of fish and they live happily ever after with the only maintenance cutting back forest-size loads of plants. You are AWESOME!

Hey MD, great looking tank but just a quick FYI, angels don't like strong currents and seems like that filter produces a pretty strong one. That's why they seem to be hudling all at the back of the tank. Consider reducing the flow a bit and they'll be much happier.

Wow!! The plants in the Cory tank are gorgeous!! Such a beautiful tank!😍

I audibly said oh my God when I saw the rainbow fish tank. It looks SO good!!!

Looks much much much better with the darker sand mixed in!!!🤩

I love when you do a tank and your like yeah that's great I will just leave it. Then 2 weeks later you're like oh yeah probs more fish...then new tank then new tanks then a fish room. It's all a slippery slope haha

I found your channel about a month ago and just finished my first planted tank. Thank you so much for everything I've learned from you MD!

I needed this video thank you! I got fed up with my tank, and a lot of stuff you said here has reignited my passion, and I'm planing a new aquascape in it!

Same kind of angels I have in my tank! They're so fun and beautiful. Enjoy! I hope they thrive!

Thank you for always attempting to be transparent in your videos. I've been in the hobby for over 20 years and never experienced cyanobacteria until I rebuilt a nano tank and had it decimated from it. Used the same product you did and saved what was left. Always learning something in this hobby.

Great to see an update and maintenance tips.

I absolutely love the angel tank!!!! They are my favorite 🤩. The veil tail are my most favorite in the Koi and smoky angel. Hope to see a few different varieties in some of the coming videos. Hope you have a blessed week😊🥰

This is what I love to see as well as all the aquascaping. The real stuff like I’ve got this issue and this is what I’m gonna do to fix it. Helps out so much. Ty.

The tank looks much more natural and pleasing to look at with the darker sand mixed in. 👍❤👍

Love that the substrate is more plain in this one, it’s a good contrast to all the other tanks

the angelfish are looking stunning

Nice with the additional tone of sand color!! Love all those rummy nose!

Cyano is also found in low flow area’s

Thanks for the chemiclean mention. I've been dealing with really persistent cyanobacteria and blackouts keep it from taking over but it's a constant battle. Definitely giving it a shot.

Awesome video, as always! Love and greetings from Brazil!!!🇧🇷

Thanks Again. Learned something new today. YOU ROCK.

Those angelfish are beautiful

I reset a tank a couple months ago and used white sand. I really like the look.

Love from Germany! 🇩🇪

Tank looks great cant wait for corys!

Always a learning experience and of course fun thank you :-)

Malaysian trumpet snails are brilliant sand sifters too!

Nice watch and I feel like a good way to show there is no ‘perfect start’ or ‘perfect tank’ it is always just work and you have to find where the balance is missing. Thanks to your videos really I started off into planted tanks with deep substrate and I can safely say I have a balance aquarium at 15g that only needs top offs because the plants and substrate can handle the bio-load super well.

Yes you need a video going getting coreys for The Angel tank

For what it's worth, MD.....I think the tank looks amazing now. Oops to late. Whatever you decide is great!! Thanks for showing us the good and the bad. Open to personal taste.

Nice improvements. I agree... The white sand was too much. But white sand looks great in a saltwater reef setup.

i had a bad cyano problem. I reduced the light from 8 hrs to 6 hrs and it literally melted. my fish room was naturally very bright so was already getting alot of light hence the cyano. so happy it cleared up, i was super frustrated and almost quit the hobby

Love the addition of the yellowish sand.. White was just too sterile

You could put in some high stream loaches, kukli loaches, otocinclus and amano scrimps to get rid of algue in that aquarium

Omg I have been battling Cyano too! I finally think I have it figured out though. It killed my foreground plants and a background plant but all my moss and broad leaf plants appear to be doing well. I had a ton of baby neocaridina in my tank so cleaning was very stressful. I didn't want to squish anyone! 😳

I just was trying to help someone adding sand because they were having problems with their corys loosing their barbels cuz the rocks they chose as a substrate. Great video though MD. 👌

I used to hate blasting dirt into the tank after filter maintenance, so I put a fine net in front of the filter outlet for the first few seconds after restarting the filter.

1:39 you have been glueing to many plants :D

I really like the look of white sand on its own too; but it seems like the ones with the beige/brown tones seem to bring out more detail on driftwood in the tank. Or the red mangrove plants I have hanging in mine. I thought it was just my tank; but I can see it in the thumbnails on yours too.

I agree with you that cyano is pretty much present in all tanks, and if the conditions are right it will get out of control. It loves phosphates and light. Chemiclean works great.

Buy a nice, pop, hip, trendy, bougie, froufrou step ladder from Amazon, lol. 🤩😎

good stuff!

This was a tank I had. Angel fish. Started with five. One died. But the other four did really well. They where with rummy nose and cardinals. Some corys, and a couple of bristle nose plecos. It was a 325l aquarium. But with a dark substrate. Answer to your question yes. Plenty more tetras God how I miss that tank lol

Awesome video bro 👍🏻

Hi MD love your videos! When you mentioned the corys didn't come out until you added a fish, you said its name and pointed but I have no idea, what this fish is. I would have loved a close up of this friend fish. 😊 I loved that you are showing the care and maintenance of it- you are very informative. Love the changes it's huge difference with the new sand, looks so much better now on camera, I really see the depth, I believe the white sand was probably blowing out the whites and made the tank feel flatter onscreen. I can't image how mind blowing your tanks are in person. Love it! You rock! Thanks for sharing such entertaining, educational and calming content.🙏🏽🙏🏽

I really like this tank. I think ide like to try something like this.

Loving this tank more than any of other tanks of your's. Beautiful.

you should do a vid showing everyone of your tanks and their purposes, style, etc

Awesome 👌🏿

Thats Philippines Blue Angelfish! Filipino here!❤️

Looks good 🤩 How is your Bowle doing? the 19L boewl I have made is going exceptionally well. thanks for the inspiration🥳 I have alså just make a 350L plantet Oranda goldfish tank 🤗

Always unplug the Filter B4 u put your hand in tank. Be safe buddy 🙏 Really love your channel ❤

1:36 Be carefull with the glue 😉

1:40 md just said cyanoacrylate instead of cyanobacteria lmaooooo

Question, can we see your home aquarium? You've mentioned it a few times and I'm interested to see what you have going on with it. Also I love what you've done with this angel tank, I personally love the white sand look, but it still looks great with the darker substrate you added! ❤

Very nice ¡

Can you please try putting the slate stone you put in the harlequin tank as substrate

only time i let algae in my tank is on the side glass where the shrimp/snails can eat or pick at it :)

From viewing this video makes me think! Why not lose some of the Clutter of plants at the rear of the tank, So the fish can Shelter/Sleep. If they don’t want to be in the front flow of the tank????

Wonderfully inspiring video… as always. One thing I still don’t understand is the relationship between floating plants taking up nutrients and the stem plant getting enough nutrients. Is there a danger of removing all the nutrients from the water and the stem plants being deprived?

i’d love to see you do a setup soon with some yoyo or dojo loaches

I am sure you know more then me. But sometimes, something as simple as an airstone in the middle for 10 days can take away ciano bacteria 👍

Hi, What was the stuff you put in the tank to battle the cyano bacteria?

how did you make that background? it’s so natural very stunning

hi Marck, how do you get some healthy plants wiyhout CO2?? i love your work!!

Hey when you pit that chem clean in that one tank that had the fuzzy bacteria on that plant..can I use that stuff in a cycling tank, and will it hurt my good bacteria growth..

I've been successfully treating cyanobacteria with daily doses of lactobacillus. I dose at 1ml per 10 gallons and the lactobacillus will outcompete the cyanobacteria. Plus the Lacto is great for the fish! I dose when I feed in hopes that more of the Lacto gets into their digestive system. I try to avoid using meds when I can🤙

I have read that cyano like silica, and that sand has a bunch, I bet.

Question: you inspired me to try and start a ember tetra tank I just wanna know is it absolutely necessary to get the 10 gallon low iron that's linked or could I go with a 10 gallon from like petco or something?

So Ive allways just used the stock lights that came with my tanks. Today I got me a Chihiros light and it is like looking at a completely different tank!!! ITS SOO PRETTYYYY 😍 Now to figure out how many hours I can blast inthere 😁 Im sooo excited 😲

That is soooooo dangerous. Like you said, invest in a step ladder. My elderly neighbour died as a result of hitting her head after falling off a chair. The consequences for you should the glass break too............ It's not worth taking the risk.

What filter do you use on the angle fish tank and also how many gallons is it ?

Beautiful plant and rock scape, but I have to disagree with your decision to mix orange sand into white. The substrate looks more artificial with the orange.

how do you get your moss to grow so evenly and beautifully over your driftwood?

I LOVE your videos and your aquariums. You do a masterful job! May I ask how you deal with thread algae? I cannot eliminate it from my aquarium. I use a toothbrush daily to sort of pull and twist it from my stem plants. I have also cut the plants way back, but it always returns. Thanks, MD! MZ

Nice

Good morning MD where did you get the chemiclean from? Cant seem to find any in the uk

Where can I buy the Cyano treatment in the UK? ps Love the videos

I think it would be better if you place the wood in the middle a little bit to the front . Because you can definitely see the shadow on the back glass. It ruins the deep perspective you trying to achieve imo.

😭 I wish I got the patients with the moss!!! It takes so long and it never looks good when I do it

Cyanobacteria is - in 99% of the time - linked to (too) much light an phosphate imbalance. If you can't change the light or want to black out the tank for a few days, I'd advise checking the phosphae levels in the tank.

Need a dark start experiment tutorial from you

Wouldn’t vacuuming the gravel be more efficient?

how come you didnt put cories or plecs. but looking good

Hi, I would really like to try making one of these for my apartment or for my parents home as we had fish tanks growing up but they had all the filters and biweekly cleaning the tank and monthly change in the water; so this looks like a fun activity to do without having to worry about wasting water, excessive cleaning and elbow grease. So my question for you is how do these tanks do when exposed to sunlight, because I see almost all of your tanks are inside and away from sunlight.

Been in the hobby for years I so wish I had the financial stability to go all out like this! But been struggling lately with an interesting aqua scape on a 15 gallon column not the best set up meaning the depth versus Wet but it’s an interesting practice! Any tips?

From an aesthetic pov I don't like the orange sand. Does make it look better in camera though, no doubt.

Hey MD :) I was wondering, do you ever use the cyanobacteria product on a tank with snails in it? Thanks 🙏

I've been fishkeeping for a little over a year and planted tanks are so foreign to me. I've been watching all of your videos they are all amazing! It's inspiring and I want to try at my first planted tank. What size tank do you recommend for trying your first planted tank? I currently have a 75 Gallon, 36 gallon bowfront and a 5 gallon for a single beta.

Hey, I always thought a tank this size and stock would pretty much always need a canister filter? Seems that's just a powerhead and a very small amount of mechanical sponges? I'm happy to be proven wrong as I'm looking at a 140 litre and actually don't have space for an external (but hate big chunky internals). Ta!

What kind of sand do you have in this tank? Thanks

Hi, wonder if someone could help or give me some advice :). I have a 125L Fish Tank and have a Filter with a heater and also have one air stone in there, I have 3 Guarmis, 6 female guppies, 4 male guppies, 7 Platys and 6 Neon Tetras, I also have shrimp and snails in the tank. First question is do I have too many fish in one tank? If so I have a 60L tank put away so can transfer some to this. Secondly In the past 2/3 days I've have fish lay at the bottom of the tank looking as though struggling to swim (One of these seemed as though it was fine this morning) I've checked nitrate levels and it was I believe around 50 on the test so have done a water change. Should I be changing the water every week or every other day or doing part changes daily?. Just don't want any of the fish to die. Any and all help/advice will be greatly appreciated.

Hey md what’s d update on blue acara dedicated fry tank??

Wow