The only thing that needs 8 layers is bean dip.

@zelphernide5758

3 жыл бұрын

And jello desserts

@BartonHNewell

3 жыл бұрын

Damn you for beating me to this, Corey!

@pecktec

3 жыл бұрын

It’s not just for bean dip should be the subtitle. ;)

@MW-ut3dk

3 жыл бұрын

Where’s the chips and guacamole?

@LaBeLsDistracted

3 жыл бұрын

Just make a new video about your “patented bean dip substrate method”!

the title made me hungry xD and cory beat me to the comment! Can't wait to see this planted up, those will be some lucky plants

@pecktec

3 жыл бұрын

I hope when all this is over we can do burger 🍔 eating video together. Have you had the Wendy’s pretzel bacon pub burger? They make it with chicken also.

@marypaigeflynn4512

3 жыл бұрын

Oh my goodness I want to get in on that one 😂😂🍔🥨🍔💯👍💪

Always enjoy starting my sunday morning with black coffee and a Pecktec aquarium video

@marypaigeflynn4512

3 жыл бұрын

💯♥️👍

I love a substrate sandwich.

That shirt is 🔥🔥🔥

As an old person, it’s amazing to see UG filters still in existence. Damn if one could still buy undertow plates ... well ppl would be happy. I’m not trying to start a UG war ! The cat litter is just insane .... too advanced for me. I would advise ppl to use screen over their plenum.

Looking good!

Yes sir time for a re seal !!! It’s easy , it’s all prep , and some patience !!!

Considering you're layering so many forms of media - Reading/research suggestion: "Cation exchange capacity" Your substrate has 3 main areas of consideration: 1. the physical properties which are grades and grain size (gravel, sand, silt, clay...), and the porosity (which varies between liquid and gas); the physics. This area explains why powersand and clay matter structurally. 2. the chemical properties (hence the reading suggestion); the hard chemistry. This area explains why the clay and florite make huge impacts to growth by temporarily binding nutrients. 3. the organic (living and dead); the biology of soil. This area will explain why your bacteria and dead organic matter influence the tank in nearly all aspects as life alters it's environment. If you're diving into substrate topics, those are the three different areas researchers generally divide their efforts into. And each directly influences and interacts with the others, so dividing it make it easier to understand. It's also cool to see someone playing with a plenum, the calcined kaolinite will very likely host the facultative anaerobes you're hoping to culture. I'm really looking forward to future videos on how that works for you.

Awesome video

Excited to see this one planted and scape!🌱

Excellent substrate!! I very much appreciate your careful application of a variety of layers. NICE!!

It’s interesting seeing how you mixed the soils. Like the idea.

Look at the size of those plants !!’ So awesome!!

Everyone has something they swear by, mine is Florite. I stumbled upon it when I first got serious about planted tanks and have never looked back. I've planted in straight Florite and layered Florite. They are both a baked clay product however; the red most resembles your red clay powder for iron content. You've got me eyeballing my abandoned plenum project again😉👍

@marypaigeflynn4512

3 жыл бұрын

Fluorite is going to be my next substrate to try.. I've used Fluval stratum capped with black imaginarium sand. I just set up a 29 gallon with a very small dirted base.. about half an inch.. the base layer consisted of gravel, sand, some pre-existing substrate from a 5 gallon aquarium and some soil dug up in the yard... So far so good I capped with three and a half inches of Black Diamond Sandblasting Sand..the aquarium's been set up for about three weeks now and it's doing really well...but I've heard so much good stuff about fluorite...I appreciated you guys sharing this 🙏🔥♥️💪💯

Nice!

Love the shirt

Love the shirt good old Marvin 🧱🚜

I use the same 2 cups for aquarium stuff, lol. Enoyed the video!

_Love the t-shirt!_ The "Killdozer" is quite popular in my community. Happy to hit that LIKE button purely for the t-shirt but also for the excellent content. Keep up the great work. Stay classy my friend.

@pecktec

3 жыл бұрын

My dad got me this for Christmas. We watched the documentary over the summer.

@superrotomas

3 жыл бұрын

A true American Hero!

Lasagna 😍 Look forward to catching the hardscape video. Wondering what you will do with ALL the plants!

Nice shirt.

You must make a mean Lasagna Bolognaise with Béchamel - That tank width is so deep - anxious to see your next phase. Very entertaining build..

I absolutely enjoyed watching you put this substrate together 😁 Boy, I hope one day I can say I have so many plants that I need to start another project 😂 You definitely have some wonderful plants for sure!! I'm excited about your podcast project!! I can't wait to check out the next video and see your hardscape for this incredible build. I hope you and your family are having a great week!! Always thank you for sharing!!💚🙏🌿🐟🌿💚

@pecktec

3 жыл бұрын

I think this summer I’m going to set up a dirt tank in my garage and do some farming.

@marypaigeflynn4512

3 жыл бұрын

@@pecktec yes👍💪💯

Those anubias though 😲🌿

I have had good luck with fluorite. I use root tabs with it and keep the tanks going for a long time.

I just did the same thing with a 125g. I cleared out at least three buckets full of old substrate, haha.

'I'm actually concerned that I have too many plants'. I don't think I've ever heard anybody complain about that before, certainly not something I would complain about.

@pecktec

3 жыл бұрын

I’m more worried about wasting them by not getting them re homed.

Planted tank lasagna. There’s gunna be a plantsplosion💥 One of my most successful planted tanks was dirt capped with flourite black sand

The anubias with the ridged leaves are coffefolia

@pecktec

3 жыл бұрын

Ahh ok. I have a bunch of that upstairs. Those are really huge though. Maybe this is a young one.

@jamiebaker6516

3 жыл бұрын

I think it's just a small rhizome now and it'll get bigger.

How dare you Shawn aka "Jayme" (sorry about that last week) I wish I had hair. I love new aquarium setups, nice to see the next steps!

I'm about to do a lasagna substrate in a 29 gallon while I tear down my 20 high to reseal it. My 20 high has been up and running for about six years.

Can I ask how thick a layer of the cat litter did you put in top of the filter plates? Thanks

Totally off topic but I would assume you have/had a lot of AMC stock?😉🤪🤑🤔😎 You're the first person that came to mind when all this started happening🤔🙄

@pecktec

3 жыл бұрын

Nope unfortunately.

@bigjay1970

3 жыл бұрын

@@pecktec I'm sure you know people that do and a lot of shares!🤔😉

The lasagna is born! Thanks for the great video

I understand by the way you made a lasagne this tank will run for a very long time? Maybe it will be a favorit to holly once again 🌹👊

lol not the place id think to see a killdozer shirt

@john.t645

3 жыл бұрын

The aquarium hobby is filled with reasonable men :)

@pecktec

3 жыл бұрын

We stumbled over the story of that guy this summer while stuck at home and I told my fad about it. He got me this shirt for Christmas.

Will the cat litter alter the PH?

@pecktec

2 жыл бұрын

Nope it’s neutral.

Great video! I recently converted my 29gal to a deep substrate using an undergravel filter. I used oil-dri with flourite substrate layered in the middle and capped with a coarse sand. Curiously, after filling my tank with tap water(high kh,gh,8.0ph) and plants, my kh went to zero along with a dramatic drop in gh and ph to 7.0(within a day). Did you happen to notice a similar effect?

@pecktec

3 жыл бұрын

Well after I set up this tank things kind of went nuts at home (unrelated to the tank) and I haven’t tested it as yet.

@coltscustoms

3 жыл бұрын

That's interesting. Did you pre wash the oil-dri? Or have you done a water change yet? I wonder if it's like the clay initially absorbing the water/ions. I just got my tank setup with a plenum and safe-t-sorb capped with sand too but didn't fill it with water yet cause I had to leave. I also have very hard well water, so I'll test too.

@jaredl2239

3 жыл бұрын

I did pre rinse all the substrate, but I also wondered if the cec value of the oil-dri was doing it's job pulling the positively charged ions out of the water. Just didn't expect that dramatic of a result. I plan to do a water change soon since it's been a week and the water cloudiness hasn't gone down as fast as I'd like. Thanks for the replies guys!

@coltscustoms

3 жыл бұрын

@@jaredl2239 Well I did a lil experiment with only 1/2 cup of pre rinsed safe-t-sorb in 4 cups of water. (About the same ratio that's in my tank) My well water, aerated for half hour, GH-17dh, KH-14dh, PH-8.4. And now with the safe-t-sorb, still aerated, after 24hrs, GH-23dh, KH-0dh, PH-6.6-7 (hard to tell). Now I just changed the water and we'll see what happens after another 24hrs.

@coltscustoms

3 жыл бұрын

@@jaredl2239 On the flip side I have a 5 gallon guppy tank just for growing out some plants. Bare bottom with just 2 small cups of safe-t-sorb with the plants in them, which have been in the tank for a few months, and it's been about 2 weeks since I did a water change. GH, KH, PH are still very close to my well water. So I guess eventually it comes to an equilibrium or something.

Too have dedicated NEWKS cups for aquarium stuff. matter of fact i have DICKEY'S cups too . are you in Texas ?

@pecktec

3 жыл бұрын

Lol the wife keeps bringing them home.

@pecktec

3 жыл бұрын

I’m in TN

I'm so confused now 🙃 and I haven't even gotten a tank yet

I feel the problem today is that you are fed so much information that this happens. If your using aquasoil just use aquasoil! Especially when you plants to cover the whole tank!

@pecktec

3 жыл бұрын

I think it’s more fun to try new things. I’ve done variations of this fir years and gotten great results.

Nothing too much /Plato