Each of your tanks have their own specific qualities but as a whole, how can you not love how they all thrive. Your love and kindness to each creature is special.

MJ looking like a bond villain in the turtleneck today.

@MJAquascaping

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😎😎

So at 15:07 you can see the upper streamlined puffer is a male with clean spots and the lower one is female, more Zepplin shaped and the green is much more muddled and spots less defined. I have 2 females and 1 male and they torment each other for a few minutes now and again but play nice the rest of the time the females tend to stick together and the male swims around on his own. Mine won't eat any frozen food other than bloodworms, they go for any of the live foods though.

@MJAquascaping

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Awesome! Thanks for clarifying

SIGH of relief that the Pea Puffers all got along fine. Sometimes, lone fish, even ones that shoal, become somewhat antisocial towards their own kind after a while. It's good to see your intros all went smoothly.

Watching your videos with a chilled beer in my hands is such a routine for me now. You're such a nice dude, I wish I could have a cold beer with you, talk fish and plant maintenance and stuff. Thank you so much for your content. I can't wait for you and your channel to grow. If you want any help regarding graphic design, or any kind of digital uplift to your channel, please reply to this comment and I'll reach out to you via email. I'd really be happy to help you in whatever way I can. In return just help me out with my fish related queries haha

@MJAquascaping

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Awesome! Thank you so much! If you are ever visiting The Netherlands we should have that beer!

In my experience with pea puffers(have a tank with 6): they do eat shrimplets, but if they have been with adult shrimps from the beginning they usually won't eat (much) of them. However, be careful because they are extremely dirty, they produce a lot of phosphate waste and any tank I put them in would get a lot of brush algae.

Would love an update on how it went with your pea puffers! I haven’t seen any videos since this one

The big shallow is stunning!

Love your peaceful videos, I am even rewatching some of them :) Keep up the good work!

Some great purchases! Looking good!

Thank you for sharing MJ. That Betta is really beautiful. Sorry for your losses, we all know to well how that goes. Good luck with the Puffers.

I love pea puffers! Hopefully I can get some in the future

Great choice with the checkerboards

Very interesting video, love the look and theme of the featured tanks. Well done.

Nice! Makes me want some little puffers and ciclids.

Hey MJ check the copper value in your tank and tap water I know the Netherlands has a limit of 1mg per liter but when water is standing still in copper lines this can raise quickly. Also most houses in nl have copper water lines copper is super toxic for aquarium fish. That you add RO water is great to reduce any toxicity in the water column

because of your videos I might try pea puffers next time. they're so cute!

That betta is awesome looking. ❤ That low tank is good inspiration. ❤

Very enjoyable video and thanks for the mention 😀

Gorgeous betta! It's a fish I always have a few of. Don't forget to feed spirulina every few days. Very good to prevent swim bladder issues. I feed mine frozen Daphnia. The pea puffers are adorable. Hope to get these some day.

I love checkerboards, had 4 but lost one not long ago but they are so hard to replace where I am in the UK very seasonal fish here. Had breeding behaviour but no eggs yet, they like it very very soft

Love the puffers

I keep my puffers with shrimps, they don't bother amano shrimp at all. In fact I think the amano bother them sometimes, really active. I think you'll have baby shrimp eaten but if the colony establish it would just be good extra live food and enrichment for the puffers and you'll still get colony growth.

Love your work.

Pea puffers are like little aquatic bumblebees.

@MJAquascaping

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Exactly 😍

Nice new fish 👍🏻

I love the puffers mark lets hope both that tank and the big shallow sees some babies soon :)

@MJAquascaping

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Fingers crossed!

I have a 20 gallon long hanging around somewhere. Time to try pea puffers!!!

Awesome tank 😁🤘

Indeed each of your tanks are beautiful on their own, and as whole even beter. Keep up the good and hard working. One thing I would love to ask you is a to open up the topic of having UVc Sterilization, can you cover that topic for us? Thanks for all.

a lot of large drift wood pieces do get "scrubbed" through sandblast or brush sanding. the brush bits do tend to have heavy metal dusts that get imbedded in the wood tend to have heavy metals that could slowly leach into water column. but i think that may have had an impact on all the fish not just one or two types.

Checkerboard cichlids are the best dwarf cichlids I've ever kept.

Hope the new fish settle in and prosper. Not seen the Betta video yet, it's been waiting in the tabs. Going to have to watch it right away! lol

I just love watching your videos man, I don't know why.

@MJAquascaping

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That’s good 😊 I will keep making them 😬

Ik heb tijdens mijn opleiding veel gewerkt met pH meters. Het beste is om ze van te voren te kalibreren. Wanneer je meet wordt de pH het snelst stabiel als je het water homogeniseerd (licht roeren). Voor de rest leer ik super veel van je video's! Echt love je content man!

Regarding the Apistos. A really good way to keep the water soft and acidic for them is to have some peat clay in the filter. It keeps the water soft, just the way they like it. I used this method to keep and breed many different varieties of Apisto. The only way the ever died was from old age or occasionally aggression.

I'm not sure how you haven't hit over a million subscribers yet! Slow and Easy wins the race

Cool video. Cheers

If you cut your bottle down more so the neck sticks in further it might help.

thank you ..your vids are the best on you tube ..lol thnx to you im getting back into the hobby ..hopefully set the tank up nesxt week :)

@MJAquascaping

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Awesome! good luck!

@alino61

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@@MJAquascaping thnx :)

you have so many beautiful tanks, make one a snail farm for pufferfish, they love it. i have like that 😉

I have 3 pea puffers in my 20g with neons, ember tetra, Amano shrimp, and neocardinia. They will hunt the baby shrimp and sometimes the adults. But they don't attack them enough to hurt the population. They don't mess with my fish at all.

Poor little lonely guy got some friends!

@MOMO-lm6qw

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Apologize now

@MOMO-lm6qw

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He’s not lonely

Idk if it’s absolutely necessary, but I’ve heard you have more success breeding Apistogrammas with coconut 🥥 husks or clay jars. It’s something about the specific diameter of the entrance where the male can’t fit but the female just barely can. Maybe if you look more into it you can find it useful.

MJ can you also make a video on how you keep control of the 🐌 population in your tank. Thanks 🙏 in advance love your videos

Super leuke video, heel vreedzaam

alien betta hybreed from 7 types of wild betta. can try betta albimarginata, great for nano tank.

اشكرك جداً ،، لقد تعلمت منك الكثير وها أنا بدأت بزراعة حوض السمك الخاص بي ،، متابعك من المملكة العربية السعودية ❤️❤️🫶🏻

For softening the water in the big shallow, how about a small mesh bag of tropica aquasoil somewhere behind the hardscape? Tapwater here is hard AF but not in my aquarium thanks to the soil.

@MJAquascaping

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Yeah could be an option as well

Hi, can you give us an update on the big shallow? i remember you talked about echinodorus that wouldnt adapt well to the system, what other plants are u planning on and why?, and maybe a video on planting those new plants? Thanks!

@MJAquascaping

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Yeah will do!

nice

Will be doing a Lea puffer in my 6gallon long tank when I finish setting it up

@halorhys23

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Hey I'm setting a 6 gallon up for one too, how did it go?

@waterlover

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@@halorhys23 have not finished with the build , still waiting on my lily pipes and plant selection has not been done since still too wait for the remaining things I need to get my scape done so I can finally get my tank wet.

I think you may have the same problem I had with Apistogramma - they like to jump out. I have two tanks with different parameters but all controlled with tests and all parameters were fine. One was specially prepared for Apistogramma for breading, pH lowered etc. only one pair was in a tank and the male jumped out and I found it on the floor. In my big tank also pair of Apistogramma cockatoo jumped out. I know you didn't find it anywhere, but as far as I remember you have a cat in your flat...? Maybe this is the reason?

@MJ, it could have been bad breeding stock for why the apistos died. I ordered 4 different "strains" of fish this summer (2 sets of 6 platy, 2 sets of 6 swordtail), and lost all of 1 group of mickey mouse platys. The other strain of mixed platys went on to flourish (currently spitting out babies and population has doubled). 6 koi swordtails turned into 100 over the summer, while the other 6 red/white swordtails did not multiply at all. All were in the same pond, so I chalk it up to the stock. It's interesting when comparing strains/species when everything else is equal.

Had four and last night we got 6 more. All babies. They are in a 120l tank and look so tiny

I very much enjoy your videos! I have an aquarium that’s very similarly stocked to your big shallow tank: pair of Macmasteri apistos, green neons, coral red pencils, cory hastatus. I have wanted to get some checkerboards for the longest time but was concerned that they like it appreciably warmer than the apistos and corys. I keep my tank at 25C. I was wondering about the temperature that you maintain.

@MJAquascaping

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Nice one! Yeah I keep the big shallow at 25C as well 😊

I'd really appreciate it if you could perhaps do a video on your thoughts with the PH reader. I've been strongly thinking about getting one for months and was actually looking at that same model only a couple of days ago. Nice to see that the shrimps were not only surviving with the Puffer but also thriving!

@aspinwallfamilyhomestead7018

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When you buy one it's factory calibrated and there is no need to recalibrate it for the first 10 uses after that recalibrate it every 10-15 uses it works super great just stick it in the water wait till it's balanced out like a mini or so and tada there is your ph reading super handy and pretty accurate absolutely a win for you

@SamFran

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@@aspinwallfamilyhomestead7018 Do you have experience with the Superfish specifically?

@aspinwallfamilyhomestead7018

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@@SamFran I have same type not from superfish but all handheld ph readers are the same. When you go to permanent digital used for real-time readings one that's hanging in your sump or in your tank at all times those need to be recalibrated ones every week this is kinda handy if you have discus and want to maintain the parameters with say auto dosing of minerals like pH up/down or in most tanks dosing fertilizer. Again the handheld ph readers are great and accurate if calibrated properly and regularly.

Thought pea puffer would eat shrimps!!! But your shrimps survived!!!

Nice

Salut mark, content pour toi et ses nouveaux poissons j'espère qu'il vont bien s'entendre en tous cas ton betta es magnifique !!! Merci pour cette vidéo super cool. A très bientôt 👌👍😉

@MJAquascaping

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Merci beaucoup mon ami! J'espère que tu vas bien!

@MrVili83

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Oui merci mon ami. Et j'ai oublié de te dire excellent l'astuce pour attraper les crevettes je ne connaissais pas. Toujours une astuce nouvelle a chaque vidéos encore merci. 🦐😉🦐

Do you have a tank / reservoir for your RO water? How long does it take your RO system to process the water?

I d wish LFS's in my area sold live foods like mosquito larvae!

Omg love the puffers. Just one question, what is the name of the moss in your pea puffer tank, it looks absolutely amazing

@MJAquascaping

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That is Fissidens moss!

I need to make one aquarium for for pea puffer ASAP. They are amazing. You mentioned KH and GH are high in your tap water, what are the values?

@MJAquascaping

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Definitely mate! KH is 7 GH is 9

@IMaqua

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@@MJAquascaping haha that such a coincidence. I measured mine 2 months ago and it was same, 7 and 9. Cant wait for an update on pea puffers. Cheers and thanks for quick reply.

Hey Mark Been doing research on pea puffers have the same set up as you. How are they going getting information that the tank may be too small. That they need. Group. How are yours going after adding some friends?

My apistogramma macmasteri start to eat 2- 3cm dwarf pike. Just swallow them and chewing

Try adding fresh water to get the breeding going for the cichlids. If its raining, getting some rain water could be better than using tap water

@dutchmoto750

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Rain water from the Netherlands isn’t very clean, alot of pollutions. Tried rainwater once with shrimps they died within 4 hours.

@baldwinbaretto2093

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@@dutchmoto750 Yes. If rainwater isn't clean, dont do it. Regular water should be just as fine. But a good 75-100% water change might be required.. the idea is to recreate the natural breading environment.

Do you amend your RO water before a water change?

Love pea puffers, but they are straight murders. My buddy had 4 and all we're terrors even in larger tanks. Better solitary in a heavily planted tank. And its most certainly eating shrimps. They have a strong prey drive and there is no getting around it.

I also have one sad news..after seeing u video .me call my frnds to catch some puffer fish from our river to make an video ..in our old days we catch them with net, with one catch we get around 20 puffer there are so many of them in that river in past ..but when we try to catch them now we don't even get an single one😢..i think they are all gone from our river ..😔

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Hi Mark, thanks for another lovely video. I watched it with much pleasure. Love the checker board cichilds. Pea puffers are also so nice, very chute. What was the name or address of that fish store you visited? The store looked realy great, with healthy fish tanks and well organized.

@MJAquascaping

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Hey Hans! That store is called Heems! This is the address: Havenstraat 49, 2102 LB Heemstede

@hansborsboom8732

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@@MJAquascaping thank you Mark

Got 4 of the buggers they eat snails and shrimp. Pea puffers can be monsters so be careful with tank mates. Plus males r more yellow with stripes on the eyes, females dont.

Sir best TDS?

Hello, can I ask you, what microphone are you using for the videos, the one with the red wire as seen in the reflection in the glass. 👀

What temperature in pea puffer tank? Are u using RO water in that tank? What tds that tank has? Nice tanks keep on nice content 👌

@MJAquascaping

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23 degrees celsius! No RO TDS is 350 or so

Hey MJ do you block the filter inlet for the baby shrimps?

@MJAquascaping

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No I don't

Pea puffer male has line on the belly (black line or brown) Female has white belly and its lighter color than male

So with peapuffers, the males have a stripe down the center of their belly. It doesn't appear until they've grown a bit so it's hard to tell.

Any cichlids I've ever kept from any country I've done in extremely hard water and bred every kind u can think of

👍👍👍😍😍😍

Hi! How it goes with your pea puffers? Im planning to buy some for my 30 liter nano. So it would be nice to hear some updates. Thanks.

@MJAquascaping

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I’ll do an update on them soon! But they are doing great 😊

@petihorvath5400

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@@MJAquascaping Thanks. Looking forward to it! I have very controversial information how much you should have in how big aquarium in order to avoid aggression in between them. Yet im planning to have 3 of them in 30 liter, and if i remember clearly you have 3 also, so it will be interesting to see how the things are. Keep up with the quality videos! 😊

For some reason I didn't get notified of this video I found it in unwatched

Hey! I plan on getting 3 pea puffers for my 10 gallon heavy planted tank. Any tips for a person looking to start getting these guys?

@MJAquascaping

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Honestly I'm so new to pea puffers myself, I don't really have any tips to share.

I think maybe breeding aggression thats what happened. I bred wild caught apisto panduro in my tap water ph 7.5. But using ro water can't hurt

my personal experience with pea puffer: 1. they can live together in a group only if they grew up together. if not, they will murder each others. adult pea puffers that have grown accustomed to being alone do not like new pea puffer tank mates, they are capable of biting chunks of flesh from each others 2. never had any experience of mine harassing other tankmates, i have had them together with otto, hillstream loach, amano shrimp, cherry shrimp, guppy, ...etc 3. to my surprise, they love to eat baby brine shrimp

how can you keep the tanins in the shallow? i can never get that color... it always clears up...

@MJAquascaping

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Yeah it slowly disappears, but I find that the alder cones keep releasing tannins for a while

Mine lives with my shrimp. Then my shrimp had some fry. He ate them. 😢

hi

Don't know if this can be useful, i've read that checkerboard cichlids spawn in very very acidic water 5 for example

How are the pea puffers doing in this community tank?

The name for you betta Bilu the Brazilian extraterrestry

My pea puffers aren't eating but I've been keeping figure 8 pets and they're fine and I don't know what to dooooo

Will be sad to be out of your living room. We have gotten so used to your homely room

Puffers like blacken water

Im fairly sure that first pea puffer you had is a female. No dark stripe on the belly

most times if i buy fish sometimes they throw in some extra, that kinda sucks especially since its only the 2 you wanted. hopefully you didnt pay for 2 and get just 1

Keep the name of beta "thanos"😎

My pea puffers have killed each other off until there was just 1, then I put an otto in there to keep him company, and the last puffer killed him off too. I don't like mean fish, so this is the last pea puffer I'll keep.

@formgeben

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Oh no, they do look so cute and innocent

@ukkiesc5087

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If you feed them enough, they're not aggressive. The shope I work in sometimes has 25 of em in a 30L. There's permanently food inside their tank to snack on, never had any deaths or even nipped fins

@Boja23

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@@ukkiesc5087 I'll divulge into something else I don't like, they really only eat blood worms. My snail population crashed so that was not an option from early on...some would go after and eat live baby brine. Freeze dried blood worms would work too. Feeding was consistently 3x a day since I work from home. They're voracious. In fact, so voracious I found no remnants of any of the fish eaten. We will see how the one final one holds up, I expect a long healthy life, but they are not too cool to other fish.

My very brief research on Checkerboard Cichlids threw up this: ".....and be aware that the tank should have a tight fitting cover, as these fish can jump." Are you aware/concerned about this?

@MJAquascaping

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Hmm that's weird... I didn't read that anywhere. At the moment they are very bottom orientated, so I think it will be okay

@andrewelliott1939

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@@MJAquascaping They are a lovely fish when they mature. One to add to my "for consideration" list.