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@br3xx-ttv-au198

2 жыл бұрын

Hey man i was wondering “‘. I got a bar light and its too close too the top of the tank . I remember one vid where you said you got those risers off of amazon? Could you possibly either send me the link to the product or what the product is called; btw keep up the great work man loving it

@graffic13

2 жыл бұрын

I think you'd love giant danios M.D.

@kannancv

2 жыл бұрын

boy how do you clean fine sand without the siphon sucking in all the sand

@ewin8973

Жыл бұрын

Do still have a tiger barb tank?

Last night I was thinking about tiger barbs for some reason and wondered if you had any, I wake up too see this, what a wonderful scape! you've come to a point where you have the amount of tanks where every week or so one's been around for over 6 months so you can re-scape it which works so well, meaning your videos are consistent and inspiring, keep up the amazing work!

My tiger barb tank is probably my favorite. They are so crazy and energetic and hardy. They like to lock lips and circle each other sometimes like 'sparring' but it'd harmless. Awesome choice!

Tiger barbs were one of my first fish. Along with swordtails and dwarf gouramis, neither of which they ever picked on. I loved them. Would like to have them again.

I've done the media bag routine with my most recent setups, and I love it! So easy to use, and if I have to move plants, no worries about mixing up the substrate and making a mess. Thanks for the tip on that!

What a lovely scape! Suits the barbs perfectly! Now I'm thinking I might need some of those cute fish!

Really like how you're including more informative details to your videos, like the fish profiles. Excited for the store build!

Wow i love that scape! Its a very light scape with many gaps but the plants just give the tank such a big sort of character and that works amazing with the tigerbarbs! Very good job keep going!🔥🔥

Love Tiger Barbs. The tank always looks active, using every part of the tank.

Tiger Barbs hold a special place in my heart. I had a species only with all different types of Barbs. Such a fun tank. There are some beautiful Barbs in the hobby. You should enjoy their personalities.

Your dirted tank videos were superb. I tried it and the plant grows very good. Thank you

My tiger Barbs are 2inch long plus, and nearly as big depth wise. They do get quite big but Ive had no problems with them and they haven't bothered my plants at all. Lovely fish to keep

Hello MD, very happy to see you've gotten tiger barbs. I've been attracted to them since I was young and I've been debating on getting a school of them for my new 60 gallon tank. Seeing this video just helped me reach my decision. :)

Yes the Barbs look absolutely fantastic I’ve not seen them in a school before

Wow thanks! I'm getting into my first aquascape tank and my second go at planted and this video was helpful - right down to the Tiger barbs which is what I want to keep in it!

Nice to see a different kind of fish, a barb for a change, tiger barb.. even better. Can’t wait for the updates :)

I while back ago, I did Tiger Barbs in a 75G, loved them. Had 30, along with 5 Silver Dollars, and cory cats. My plants did not survive the silver dollars, lol. Wiped them all out. But the Barbs are wonderful.

I would recommend a cover for the top of the tank because they often jump out when they have the opportunity.But it looks great this is exactly my dream tank.

Love the way they group together!

Wow, I really love that woods coloring. Great setup.

So Helpful and Beautifully Scaped. I'm using bags from now on. God's Blessings to you and your family. Enjoy Your Weekend 😎

I love tiger barbs and yours are stunning. Nicely done MD!

Love your tanks, you always keep it simple and make it beautiful

Hey MD, just wondering - when you drain the tank down and pull all the decor and that substrate bag out, would that not release spikes of ammonia and other nasties , for the fish that are chilling in the bottom inch or so of water? I guess they’re not in there for long, but still.. 🤷🏻‍♂️

@MDFishTanks

2 жыл бұрын

I honestly don't think there are any nasties at all. The course gravel allows flow through the whole layer. The reason I say this is because there is absolutely zero bad smell. And the fish were all good too. They are for sale at maidenhead taunton now....unless someone has already got them.

@chameleoncool

2 жыл бұрын

Especially if the plants are feeding from the substrate it should be safe.

@nr1483

2 жыл бұрын

I don't think he let's his tanks set long enough for the substrate to grow mulm. Plus he sets up all of his tanks with power head-ish water movement. That would happen more if he had only sponge filters for filtration.

@MTBHUB2011

2 жыл бұрын

@@MDFishTanks hi md I really love your channel can you give me a shoutout

@James_NatureAquatics

2 жыл бұрын

@@MDFishTanks yes this is 100% a great thing about layering and aqua soil. Water flows through it and the plant roots supply oxygen to the substrate system so no anoxic areas! Plus love that you layer substrates as it creates so much biological filtration.

I liked at the end that you did a nice commentary about the tiger barbs instead of just showing b roll. It’s an addition I would like to stay so I have more time listening to your beautiful voice!!!

You’re going to love these fish. They nip your fingers when you do maintenance. The tank looks great, as always.

Finally! I've been thinking why you haven't kept Tiger Barbs, they are great in a group. These are my all time fav fish. Great work as always!

@nr1483

2 жыл бұрын

Tiger barbs have such great personalities; with a couple of geophagus cichlids it's such a great combo.

Another great tank my friend. Loved the shot where all the tigers swam through the archway. Cheers MD.

I couldn’t help but see that platy disappear in the dirty water. I bet you got it. Great video as usual.

@MDFishTanks

2 жыл бұрын

don't worry, I get every one and even some new teeny tiny guppy fry as well.

Tiger Barbs were the first fish I kept. They were in a group of 6 or so. Later I got a handful of tetras and loaches. Everyone played nicely together. The barbs would eat out of my hand and always welcome me at the front of the tank. In hindsight, I probably over fed them because of it. Might have kept the peace as well. Maybe? Either way... They are fun fish.

Those are amazing fish really good too just see them and they make my stress go away

Tiger barbs are the most fun to watch out of any fish i have kept, when they start displaying and chasing eachother around the tank

Tus vídeos son francamente inspiradores, eres un genio del acuarismo

You are extremely gifted... Makes my feeble tank look like a kindergarten project.

I like the new bit at the end where you talk about the fish featured. Thank you for your videos!

Always wanted to try a tiger barb biotope...thanks for sharing your ideas

Another beautiful scape MD! That fungus is annoying but I was amazing at my four ottos how quick they got rid of it on my spider wood! I’ve never thought about keeping tiger barbs until now 🤔 keep up the amazing content!

Love your idea....gonna take note for my new project😎

Thanks, I always take inspiration from your hardscapes 👍🏻

Absolutely beautiful

I was inspired by all the great videos on this wonderful channel and wanted to try my hand at a new tank build. Imagine my surprise when I realized a couple dots of glue didn’t keep my brand new driftwood down 😅 took me days to figure it out!

I think it's good that you show your aqua soil bags. You may have new viewers. Can't wait to see what you do with this tank. I know it will be awesome!!

Just beautiful... Watching the tank come together with substrate, sand/rocks, wood, plants, moss is stunning and very therapeutic.. Once the fish and other animals arrive.....WOW!!!.... I can't take my eyes off the tank. The part of the video that was the second day and the fish's colours had popped, I went back to see the colours when you first put them in to see the difference. It looked like you had enhanced the colour on your camera somehow but it was just the dish settling in to their new environment... Love love these fish.. so pretty and cute to watch in their little gang. Great tank set up again... Would love this tank as a screen saver. You could take a HD picture of your tank set up, enlarge and laminate it and sell them as backgrounds for people to use behind their fish tanks. 😳😳😘❤️❤️❤️I'd definitely buy one.

Hi! You inspired me to start a small online fish business! I have 16 personal tanks and all of them are inspired by you!

I love this thank u MD Fish Tanks, from Vietnam

Another excellent tank. 👌

Hey man you got me to buy damn near every API product! 😂

I like that you tried a different technique when planting. Doing it with the tank full probably took longer but it turned out great.

Just stunning. Luv the videos. Keep up the great work my friend👍🏻👍🏻😃😃

can't wait for the store build, hope it's awesome

Hi md. Tiger barbs are really cool fishes to have . I am having them for more than two years now. They school well and once you put your hands inside they come and start touching you.

You inspire me sooo much 🙏

I never had any luck with Tiger Barbs on planted tank, in my experience they behave similar like my Buenos Aires, pretty naughty especially to my Dwarf Sagittaria carpets. I know some individual fish could have a different personality than the others who kept them. I gotta keep them fed enough with high grade pellets, frozen tubifex, and some spinach and floating frogbits (which they really like) to reduce their lawn-mowing behavior on my bottom plants

Beautiful tank set up

Such a beautiful tiger barb tank, very informative video, thanks for sharing

I love matts beard its like a big fluffy comma

Store building with matt is a great idea!!!

It’s 6am here and this is a perfect way to wake up

Thanks for this video. Informative 👍 and gorgeous looking ❗️

You don’t like (fish), You just like plants, lol😁

Good morning everyone. It’s 5 am here in Houston TX. Love your videos.

Wauuu beautiful setup ♥️ very interesting way you did the presentation of the fish, lots of good information - im never been interested in barbs, nov I am 😄 think they really is looking their best in the type of setup you did ♥️

A lot of API products are essentially fool proof. It's ok that their ferts are on the whimpy side, because it's tailored toward people who want to avoid risking any problems. API is very helpful to beginners, now we just need aqueon to stop making anything smaller than a 20 long, and everyone marketing oversized cartridge filters to beginners to start pushing smaller filters when appropriate and sponge filters which are just pure bliss once you finally get to know them them. Sponge filters, root tabs, larger tanks with more plants and gentle stocking, and API's different tank startup chems like quick start and essentials. Also, gorgeous aquarium build man :D

Beautiful tanks.

beautiful scape as always

You've done so well. I remember when you didn't even know all the plain names and couldn't pronounce them.

Regarding dying bacteria in your canister filter when turning the power off, this process starts after 30 min! If you leave it off for a whole day, all will be dead. If you then turn it on again, you will put all this dead bacteria in your water column, hence the white murkiness.

@heaven7360

2 жыл бұрын

My betta buddy passed away recently. I am wondering if you might guess the plants or sponge filters would be okay as far as bacteria or whatever from what caused my fish dying? I rinsed off the sponge filters and sprayed the plants and sponges with hydrogen peroxide...so hopefully won't have to toss all of it.

I basically left my 29 gallon go after I had some bad luck and lost everything in it save a SAE and a Synodontis catfish. It was an algae covered mess for many months that I just did my best to ignore. Fast forward to this year where I've upgraded to a Fluval 307, bought some new plants, and bought a school of 12 of these beautiful barbs. I went with 4 albino, 4 green, and 4 striped and it doesn't seem to affect their shoaling behavior so maybe they determine con-specifics based on silhouette shape or pheromones. I occasionally turn the filter flow to maximum as I've noticed they love swimming in the high current from time to time which brings me great joy.

So good outro, well done MD

Many fish will munch on that slime, especially bottom feeders. My corydoras and loaches love it.

Every time I'm watching your video I'm thinking to start keeping fish again😊

I love that instead of "toot my own horn" he said blow my own trumpet 😂 great build video I love that wood its so cool!

@kirstenpatel

2 жыл бұрын

That's how we all say it in England.

I had Green Tiger Barbs as a youth, lovely fish. Kept nibbling the hairs on my arms every time I changed water

Mopani wood when first used always produces it, but only once and the fish LOVE it.

MD psycho therapy session - thanks mate 👍👍👍

One of my fav fish

I love this man

Beautiful video Informative ❤️😊🐟

Your tanks are amazing 😍😍 I love your videos I wish I could get my tank as clear as yours 🥺 I've done everything you do but still it's cloudy 😭 I've used internal filters, sponge, now canister, frequent water changes nothing seems to work siigghhh one day it will be clear again 🙏 love your videos and the tiger barbs are 👌👌👌👌👌

For ur kind information we saw a glimse of this in ur last video 😃

The soil bags seems like a great idea... I use pots but some people online don't like the pots.

Looking good 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

that moss looked amazing. id make a tank dedicated to just seeing how far you can take one giant patch of christmas moss

@lloyd011721

2 жыл бұрын

regualr tiger barbs are cool. i love emerald tiger barbs. they can look blue or purple too depending on the way the light hits them

Such a cool vid.

Nice one pal

MD is the best

Great work Bro 😀 . Man sees the devotion to this hobby with you and I find the pelvis with the Betta the hammer 👍

Just beautiful as usuals! I just finished my very first aquascaped planted tank today. Inspired by you. I have rosy barbs ❤️ why don’t you boil your wood?❤️🇦🇺

Gorgeous 🐎

Most underrated fish

Love these vids, thank you so much, really inspirational. How about three cube tanks ,positioned next to each other with an image continuing from left, centre and right, just an idea?

I have mopani pieces almost identical to yours!! Crap. Now I have to go get another tank and some tiger barbs 🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️ this was a sick scape!

Makes me wanna have tiger barbs again

Tiger barbs are one of my favorite fish I have a tank with a few of them

I have some tiger bards in my tank and it’s beautiful

Snails in my experience have no issues flipping themselves over, takes them some time but they get there.

@heaven7360

2 жыл бұрын

I've heard many times about Nerites not being able to right themselves. But you can't watch them all the time.

o love your content md

Try using hydrophila difformis you will love it

MD I have the exact same tiger barbs (I have 5 the now sadly lost my 6th one recently) in my 350L community tank with two Angel's and they leave them alone, it's the Angel's that are the pains lol. but they did nip at my corydoras at first, dont anymore. I absolutely love them thou and feeding is the best time if you leave the flakes at the top, (first I must say they have the nick name mini piranhas in my local pet shop), you'll understand why as they eat they will dart to the top and they sound just like piranhas when they go in a feeding frenzy 😊 I just love it there adorable fish to have and they have such a personality. P.S love the video and as always an amazing scape.

@stace5907

2 жыл бұрын

To the person that left a rood comment yes I have 5 of those exact tiger barbs did have 6 but I also have albino tiger barbs and they all school together. I have done my research and respectfully, the 6 tiger barbs (now 5) where the only 6 left in my tiny local pet shop and I took the rest of them because I have the albino tiger barbs. There is no fish abuse and again respectfully I dont aprishate being wrongfully acused when you dont know the full story to why I have 5 (and roodly did not think to ask why I only have 5) and you dont know exactly what else is in my tank. Please remove if inappropriate and breaking terms

It would be cool to see the wood more vertical with moss and plants on the top like an underwater tree scape or something.