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So, I've been watching several channels of younger fish keepers and all they say is water change, water change, water change. I recently came across you tank I love your ideas or should I say wisdom. I should have know to learn form an older guy who has done it all. Starting my first tank because of you.

@mrsbodeutsch

4 жыл бұрын

I just "found" Father Fish two days ago! Because of him, SO MANY questions I had about how my grandmother jet fish without even seeing to try have been answered. This is an incredible channel for this hobby and absolutely should be required watching for anyone who desires to do right by their aquatic pets

@KarunakaranNaresh

2 жыл бұрын

💜

This guy deserves more subs! I never EVER comment on youtube but watching this old timer encourage me to be more relaxed in this hobby. If u are new like me, u will face many stressful challenges like dead fish, plants dying, cloudy water, etc.. The amount of tips and knowledge he shared are PRICELESS! 1. Deep substrate 2. Feed less 3. More plants Father Fish, thank you for everything and I pray for your good health. 😄👍🏻 Lots of love frm Malaysia 🇲🇾

@FatherFish

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Bob May from Malaysia. Join us on Discord: discord.gg/8DmmRE9Nq4

@xray4326

2 жыл бұрын

@@FatherFish Joined! Thank you 🥳

@NotSure876

Жыл бұрын

I somewhat agree but plants aren’t always possible, for example plant’s wouldn’t last an hour in my rift tank

@tylergrimes2693

Жыл бұрын

@Black Doug you might be able to find some that will survive in that ph but probably have to put a divider in to keep fish from destroying them.

@introtwerp

10 ай бұрын

​@@NotSure876there's always over the top plants😊

This algae thing is what I have been telling people for years. Algae is the best tank balancing tool we have available to us, it really helps the beginner. Thanks for listening!

@FatherFish

2 жыл бұрын

Good job Jeffrey. Overcoming fear seems to be the most imprtant skill.

As long as it's not on my front glass!

@zimrianispresent8123

4 жыл бұрын

💯💯💯💯💯

@marypaigeflynn4512

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣

@marypaigeflynn4512

3 жыл бұрын

@@zimrianispresent8123 been missing seeing you in the mornings👋✌️

@zimrianispresent8123

3 жыл бұрын

@@marypaigeflynn4512 I got promoted at work and I am busy! I miss the live streams too :(

@Kitathegang

2 жыл бұрын

That’s where mine was

FF speaking facts right here. Every time I set up a tank algae comes in for about a month until the plants grow in and take all the excess nutrients. At night plants give off CO2 (CO2 in the water is turned into Carbonic acid (H2CO3)) and so the pH shifts towards the acid. They use the stored sugar as an alternative energy source to the light to perform the growing and 'burning' this sugar causes CO2 to be released. Meaning plants will grow at night and give of C02 for tomorrows photosynthesis period. Look at your dwarf lilies and banana plants before you turn the lights off, the plant will have grown many inches throughout the night. I call em "night growers" :)

@FatherFish

4 жыл бұрын

Lovely

@simonpieman1653

4 жыл бұрын

Spot on!

I wish he was my neighbor. I could have a drink and listen to the knowledge for hours

I agree. Algae is a vital ingredient to a healthy tank. Many newbies get caught up with trying to have a spotless clean tank. I have found over the years that the more you mess with a tank, the more problems you will have.

@FatherFish

Жыл бұрын

They do take care of themselves given adequate resources

I have the biggest crush on you Fatherfish! 🥰 I’m so glad you’re feeling better!!!! Please stay well and thank you so much for the great content!

@FatherFish

4 жыл бұрын

Nothing like a real cutie with a crush to make my heart throb. TY Sweet girl.

Glad you’re ok! Your like the grandpa I never had. God bless you.

@FatherFish

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you sagrath. You are like the son I never had.

@sagrath1982

2 жыл бұрын

@@FatherFish glad to hear that! I guess we’re family now 😊

God bless you father fish and keep yourself healthy and safe. ❤

@FatherFish

4 жыл бұрын

TY Lady soto. God bless you.

Keep active father fish and you stay young and healthy👍👍👍👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

@FatherFish

Жыл бұрын

That's the plan David! Thank you for your encouragement'

@davidrix804

Жыл бұрын

Keep safe my friend and be carefull ok and dont over do things, father fish wizard👍👍👍😁😁😁🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

@FatherFish

Жыл бұрын

@@davidrix804 Bless you David. My days are peaceful. My nights are quiet. And God has blessed me with countless friends right here.

grandfather.........i am so glad you're doing fine. Stay healthy....we need you for another 100 years. Super hugs.

I used to always leave algae on the back wall of my aquariums looked good and fed the fish !

@FatherFish

2 жыл бұрын

Me too. I never clean the back and sides.

Father Fish. You are one of the most amazing things that has happened in my life. Thank you so much for bringing my Fish hobby to level 99

Algae is Mother Natures great equalizer!

Real talk, based on real experience. Love it! Such a refreshing contrast to the industry at large.

@FatherFish

2 жыл бұрын

Keeping it real. Thank you EZ.

Love it. Sandbed! Will get some. Beginner here with 12litre tank. Algae appeared and I was wondering if good or bad so stumbled into here. I like the look of it. Thought it felt more natural for the fish. Will get more plants. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Those rocks are beautiful. I wouldn’t mind one or 2

Hello father fish, the other day I was in a river looking for plants. I found a floating seaweed, so beautiful that I have put it in my aquarium. Thank you for your teaching, you help me lose my fear. Thank you

@FatherFish

Жыл бұрын

Sounds great!

Good to see you back! Wishing you Great Health Father Fish ...thank you for your time and wisdom 🙏

Very enjoyable FF, this is you at your best, you have a wonderful gift as a public orator. Glad you're better, God bless, people like you make this such a wonderful world ❤️

@FatherFish

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Kevin. Such a delightful sentiment.

Here's hoping you continue to be feeling better. Scary times we all are living in the last couple years. I'm hoping you and all of us avoid this 'plague' as well. Thank you for another lesson on fish keeping, and all it intails. Even though I don't have any tanks right now, it's still a great pleasure to learn. I absolutely love those rocks your friend collected! Yes, they are gorgeous! I love rocks anyway, and these are now top of my love list. :) Thank you for sharing.

@FatherFish

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! You too lizzy!

Love you and wishing you good health Father Fish !

@FatherFish

3 жыл бұрын

Bonjour cherie! Je t'aime aussie!

Great points! I’m glad to hear your are advocating the rethink of tank algae! The more and more fish keepers realize to think from fish perspectives but not just viewers. I like the term “Algae Management” instead of “Algae Avoidance”. Algae benefits our fish and water quality, but we need a balance. Thank you Fish Father for sharing your experience and wisdom!

@FatherFish

2 жыл бұрын

Very true Goldfish Corner! Thank you for your understanding.

Thank you for sharing more of your amazing wisdom. So glad you are feeling better. Stay safe brother.

"c'mon in, I'll sell you some more". had me 😂

@FatherFish

Жыл бұрын

lol

Another topic covered perfectly 🎯 in my journey of learning about a balanced Aquarium. It can be frustrating for a beginner when you're trying to dial in a new tank...then all the sudden you have algae growing everywhere. Your advice of a deep sand bed, feed less, and lots of plants makes lots of sense.. then being patient to let the aquarium balance itself! Oh I love that rock at the end.. that is gorgeous.. Very enjoyable and informative.. thank you so much for sharing!!👍🌱🐟🌿

@FatherFish

3 жыл бұрын

TY MP. There is much to like about algae.

@btcbob11392

2 жыл бұрын

The " common sense " part is what most people are lacking. They want to just run to petco and buy a bunch of chemicals, and don't bother to think about what is causing the problem.

@marypaigeflynn4512

2 жыл бұрын

@@btcbob11392 🙌👍❤️

Big 👍! Hi Father fish, another great topic and explanation! Take care, happy fish keeping and God bless! Papa! 😎🐠👍🙏

@FatherFish

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it Animal Papa. Nice to hear from you.

Your informative content is great. Thank you

@FatherFish

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Mr. Wild Nature. Happy to have you on board.

I love this guy and Dan from Everyday Fishkeeping....those 2 are basically the only 2 I listen to after being in this hobby for over 45 years...:)

@FatherFish

2 жыл бұрын

Dan and I should do a collab. That would be fun.

@philipjabra5185

2 жыл бұрын

@@FatherFish Agreed

Father Fish. I can't stress enough how much I appreciate the knowledge from you. I subscribed. Thank you

@FatherFish

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Nazeem.

Thank you yet again father fish.. Since I've found your channel, I have been absorbing all your fishkeeping wisdom, and i cannot thank you enough.. Just would like to express my gratitude..

Good to hear your feeling well

I love all father fish videos. So informative and to the point.

Father Fish please stay safe we need you to stay healthy for us hobbyists

I too love algae. Thanks, Father Fish.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. I found your channel yesterday and I've been watching your videos one after another and enjoying them. Take care and stay safe.

God bless you , I know I’m getting over the plague too. I Love Algea to .Great for my aquarium and food for my snails .

@FatherFish

Жыл бұрын

Wonderful

This video went viral! Wow. Great information Father Fish!

Thank you for the wise words father fish . That stone seems similar to Texas holy rock but much more spooky . So glad your feeling better just in time for good Friday and Easter my friend

Father Fish I just discovered your channel and I have learnt lots today, you have answered the questions I had and I will approach algae in a totally different way from today on, thanks!

I love to have substrates with a mix of fine sand and larger chunks of rock and shells. The various sizes of the particles is more natural and keeps the pH buffered. Algae blooms saved my tanks several times and fish love green water.

@FatherFish

4 жыл бұрын

agreed

omg....i like algae now wtf. what just happened

@Delehmes

Жыл бұрын

😂

@jillparmenter4515

Жыл бұрын

😂😂

It's a privilege to receive valuable information from an experienced person 🙏

@FatherFish

2 жыл бұрын

We are proud to be first with this GREAT NEWS~!!

Thank you, Father Fish!

"Well Boo"😂 good stuff

Such a great wealth of knowledge, thankyou sir!

Great video, thank you for sharing!

You are amazing i been learning so much from you’re Videos and following a lot of new things from you and everything has been going Fantastic can’t thank you enough!🙂🙂🙂🙂

Thank you father fish for the info from nyc

So glad i found your channel.

Thank you father fish for your priceless advises. You helped me bursting lot of myths in my head. Big fan of you and your content. Your content is nothing but pure experiece so can be trusted blindly 🙏🏼

This is one of the best videos Ive seen mate I'm going to do a tank with the information you have given and quote your channel on my video as soon as I get round to doing it... I love algae lawn I had it in my tanks because I over feed my guppies to make them breed and grow faster but I do loads of water changes like every 5 days or so... Thank you I'm going to binge watch your videos!

Enjoyable, informative and 100% appreciated. Many thanks.

I subbed today !!! 😇 Algea has grown on me since I've been in the hobby for many years and always learning about it. The look if algea IMO is a natural effect that looks good in the tank but black algea has caused many problems atm on my plants and tank equipment. I'm happy you explained this topic understandably for me but I would like to see this black algea type go. BTW NO one says God bless as much any more it was real nice to hear that from you..God bless you too brother Stay well and may the blood of Jesus covers you and protects you.🙌

Glad I found your channel. Were cycling a 33 long for our Apistogramma Cacatuoides triple reds and now I need to go get some more sand. 45 lbs gave us about 3" I think another 20lbs should be sufficient. New subb. Great information. Stay well.

With all you're knowledge and only a year or two starting out with KZread I'm surprised there aren't more subscribers but that well come with time.. I love you're content and come here to learn everyday! Keep up the great work and stay safe!

@FatherFish

Жыл бұрын

Now we are beginning to see our voice being heard more widely day by day. Thank you Cody for your confidence.

God bless you as well father fish

Thank you for your wisdom! 🥰

Really learned a lot from you Father Fish. 😁 More power to you.

I’ve always been taking out algae and my plants have been doing terrible, when I buy more plants they melt. I think my plants are going to do much better now, thank you.

@FatherFish

4 жыл бұрын

You can do it!

I love algae specially in my sushi rolls it really flows with the curent, but be careful it can make your eyes rolled to😊

@FatherFish

Жыл бұрын

Meshuga, well chosen. lol

I thank you kind Sir!

i was really wanting an aquarium i find them fascinating and relaxing to watch and i was so discouraged by all the maintenence. I found your channel and it felt very encouraging to me so i gave it a try and it has been successful and very easy for me i barely have to feed them and i have done all your advice. i do have algae growing in it but, i am going to just put alot more plants in it and ill watch it go down thank you!

Great video I hope you keep enlightening us with your knowledge of fish keeping

Always like to out compete the algae with jungle style aquariums .....great info my f2f see you on the next one

algae hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is of fish. 🙏🐟

@FatherFish

4 жыл бұрын

YEAH VERILY!

I've been keeping fish for ten year and you are learning me things that I've experienced and said to my self people have algae scubbers and and lights to grow algae in a refugium. And like you say it's a good thing. I've just let the algae stave itsself out once its done its job cleaning the tank the algae recedes and will eventually disappear as it as got rid of the nutrients. I'm glad to here your well my friend happy fish keeping. Keep up the good work

God bless you sir.

My shrimp love it

*God Bless This Man

@FatherFish

3 жыл бұрын

God Bless you Shane.

Great video, I luv algae in my tanks because I like the naturalness of it and all my water pets like to eat it so it comes and goes 🍽 🐌🐟🦐

@FatherFish

Жыл бұрын

excellent

I am so glad I found you! I love the way you put things!

@FatherFish

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! Nice to meet you Jill.

I get my first aquarium by accident about 2 months ago, at the beginnig I just want use typical home aquarium, easy to mentain, but also started watch more to get some knowledge an get here and now, I decided to set up my new aquarium mych later than I planned, till I learn about this what wise man saying. I want it be natural as much as it is possible. Thank you for sharing all this information, love this channel

Very nice speech.....Very informative...thanks a lot

@FatherFish

3 жыл бұрын

So nice of you

Thank you!!!!

Learnt something new. Thanks and subbed.

Thank you sir!

People always look ,at my tanks ,going oh that's not good 😂 I laugh at them ,I've been watching you for along time ❤your content !!

Fantastic video. I am glad you are doing better. I recently found your channel and I love it. Thank you for sharing your wisdom.

@FatherFish

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

Great video.

you are awesome!!!. pet supermarket suggestions your channel and I'm loving it. got to change my gravel to sand for more fish and more plants.

@FatherFish

2 жыл бұрын

Welcome!! Great to have you on board Olivia!

Thank you, Father Fish. Had not heard of the deep sand bed idea. I just built a tank with the modern ideas of the volcanic soil substrate and also the sand in front. But I am trying to grow as many plants in it as possible before I put in the fish. The modern liquid fertilizers and root tabs are new to me but I think I was using too much of the liquid, like you say. Some plants are doing well but some are not. So I will keep experimenting until the tank is at least half full of plants. Thank you.

@FatherFish

3 жыл бұрын

That is awesome!

A truly brilliant presentation. Plain spoken and spot-on. Thank you!

@FatherFish

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you kindly!

Yes!! I love having morning sunlight hitting my tank, I don’t mind the algae

Love your videos and knowledge!! Been coming to father fish for a few years now.. wish I knew you had KZread earlier lol this is awesome stuff!

@FatherFish

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! I officially started building my channel September of 2019, A friend made some videos on an older channel many years ago. Those are now available exclusively for members.

Such wonderful insight in these videos from Father Fish :)

@FatherFish

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it Chris

Thanks for the info. We just did our first dirted tank lastnight, a 10 gallon. Its goin to be our birthing tank for our platties. They keep gettin picked on in the community 55 while their tryin to hide and give birth. We just pulled water out of the 55 into the 10 and a 6 in. air stone. Goin to have to do an update video on the tanks. Havein a snail issue right now thou. Stay safe and health man. Glad your doin better.

Very good video thanks

You make your points very clear

@FatherFish

3 жыл бұрын

and slowly

I just stumbled upon your channel and it was a pleasant surprise. Thanks for the helpful information. I have been struggling with algae in one of my tanks and unsurprisingly it is the one tank I have that doesn't have a lot of plants. Haha looks like it is time to get more plants.

@FatherFish

4 жыл бұрын

You got this!

New Sub Your Awesome Father Fish💪 Keep up the great work Blessings my friend 🙏

I had a hair algae problem, I tried everything to fix the imbalance in the tank but no success. When I exhausted all my options I replaced 90% of the substrate with high-tech stuff and that got me on track. I have not tried a "low-tech" aquarium but I'm looking to set one up. Thank you for the video

All my tanks are full lush and clear, I do have a little bit of algea occasionally but most of it gets eaten by the fish. I've learned that if you have enough live plants then you won't need to worry about algea.

@FatherFish

Жыл бұрын

Yes Gary. That is the fundamental truth of fish keeping. AND more plants mean more fish will thrive. It is all based on nitrates of course. The more nitrates the more plants. The next video explains it all.

Thanks,Sir.

This is the only honest US channel.

@FatherFish

Жыл бұрын

You are too kind James.

I just subscribed your information is incredible thanks

@FatherFish

3 жыл бұрын

Welcome aboard!

Thanks for the advice i will add sand

I TOTALLY agree with you on algae , especially on rocks. I have a tank that gets very little growth but it literally turns 3 larger anubias nana black. Nothing else gets it. None on rocks, sand and just a smidge on glass. Why would it be so heavy within weeks of cleaning plants but so little everywhere else. Thank you.

@FatherFish

2 жыл бұрын

Had not thought about it. Interesting problem. The most desirable for the algae is plants. Typically they are old leaves of plants.

@TedH71

Жыл бұрын

Maybe you need to put in fast growing plants like ancharis and java moss.