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@corrosive72

Жыл бұрын

Can we get LEGIT in Canada

@AQUAPROS

Жыл бұрын

@@corrosive72 I feel your pain, working on it!!!! Food is more complicated than stickers when it come to customs 🤦‍♂️

Video release 2 weeks in a row? Let’s goooo!

@AQUAPROS

Жыл бұрын

😎😉😘

@TheZenGinger

Жыл бұрын

Right?! SO AWESOME! 🤗

I used to be so delicate removing soil from roots. Then I started watching Bonsai videos, those guys rip through roots with metal hooks. After further research I found most purchased plants have more roots than they need because the stores and nurseries will trim the top of the plant back but the roots keep growing.

@AQUAPROS

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing!!!!

@dennisvanopstal7360

Жыл бұрын

Trimming roots also promote new growth. Its indeed totally fine to remove lots of them.

The beard is a good look!

My peace lily has grown huge sticking out of the tank... and it flowers which looks great.

Depending on how quickly you're looking to move, just take some cuttings off a pothos and place them in water. They grow like weeds and you can keep the house plant and have cuttings for aquariums. This will also avoid the soil bs and the ammonia spike, since these new roots will be completely adapted to water. Not to mention, pothos are basically resistant to death. Years ago I saw my grandmother had a pothos, it had a single dying leaf. I took it home, transplanted it, watered it regularly, and it ended up taking over my family's kitchen window.

@AQUAPROS

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing! 😎😉😁

You would need to transition the Plant prior to placing it in your Aquarium. The most successful way to transition a house plant that works for me, is to place the plant with the pot in a basin or bucket and fill it with water and leave it in water for 4 to 6 Weeks, during the time of transitioning the plant will feed of the soil which is what keeps it thriving, then once it has developed water roots I remove the soil from the roots and I cut off any dead roots, then it is ready to be placed in your Aquarium or Filter. 👍🙂❤

@LuckAqua

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the information.

@ultimatefishkeeping

Жыл бұрын

@@LuckAqua My pleasure. 👍🙂❤

@homegeographic5351

Жыл бұрын

since 5 monts, i got aloe vera and another big leaf plant in their pot, but with many holes, inside a big tank half full of water, meaning most of the roots are under water, and they are doing good, i mean aloe should not, but it grows and grows,

@an-dreekosps9061

Жыл бұрын

What always confiused me is how a lot of house plants roots rot from overwatering , so obsiously after ur comment its safe to soak the soil with water before transitioning to tanks and adapting them to just water

@ultimatefishkeeping

Жыл бұрын

@@an-dreekosps9061 Keep in mind that only the roots should be submerged and not the plants. If the plant is even partially submerged it will begin to rot. I have used this technique to transition many plants. Ferns, Monestera, Anthurium, Orchids, Pothos, New Guine Impatience, and Succulent Plants, Aloe Vera, Avocado Plants which were doing very well until I removed them. I have also tried it with begonia Once, but that failed, although I think it was the fact that it was too close to the light that caused it to die. Certainly, no harm to use the technique I shared to experiment with other plants. 👍❤️🙂

yesterday bought potos for that reason, to wash the roots and put it in, but i gifted before i brought it home, and well this made me feel better. btw i got like 11 bamboos in a tank, since spring, they been growing alot, and no problem, so is a good choice. another option, like i did, is let ludwigia or other plants grow out of the tank, it grows green but very nice and it puts out yellow flowers wich are kinda cute. my avatar picture

I started my plant with no roots, just an area of a node. The roots kick in slowly rather than the roots melting that it had previous

I'm just getting my first tanks going and this has been a huge support as I'm eager to go wild with plants both in and out of the water!

@AQUAPROS

4 ай бұрын

Awesome corey! Good luck ;)

Good to see you back, Mike!! Hope all is well!!

@AQUAPROS

Жыл бұрын

Hey, thanks!

I'd love to see more testing on adding Pathos plant to an aquarium! I stuck a few stems cut off from a large pathos I have a few months ago and they have taken off and grown like crazy both out of and inside of the water. I read somewhere that Pathos wouldn't grow new leaves underwater, but mine has grown a handful of new leaves underwater and a ton of roots obviously. Cool to see content on this weirdly niche topic! lol

you don't need to take an house plant to see an ammonia spike when setting up an aquarium...I don't see why adding a house plant would be different. All aquariums I have setup took me 4 weeks before I add fishes and during that time I always have ammonia spikes. Also I don't use any chemicals during those weeks, just let nature and plants do their things, start at 0, ammonia rise up first and then nitrates and nitrites and everything go back to zero at the end of the cycle. I believe doing the same thing with house plant will have the same results.

House plants have soil roots if you want them for tanks you need to condition them to water roots by leaving them in water until the water root grow and the soil roots die. Some plants have air roots.

I've got houseplants in all my aquariums. I love the look of my peace lily best. It's all bushy out the top and crazy roots in the tank. Super clear water. 👍💖👍

OMG Mike, that tank looks wicked cool! I dig it... I really need to try more Houseplants, but I'm always concerned with the fish.. but that looks so neat, I'm almost willing to do the research to do it! And I'd LOVE to see you do a little comprehensive test on the cycle-effects and ammonia/nitrate concentrations... with added plants! Yay science! 🤗

@AQUAPROS

Жыл бұрын

You should! Thanks for stoppin by :)

@LuckAqua

Жыл бұрын

Yep. Nitrate will be eliminated very easily with houseplants.

I just setup my waterbox 6g in my office yesterday. I really want to add a terrestrial plant in it. It will have cherries in when it’s fully cycled. No heater, but I do have a sponge filter running.

I just started putting pothus and also a popular purple leave plant called "wandering Jew" in my 5gallon tank that's established 6 months. with regular water changes/cleaning I've noticed significantly decrease in hair algae that popped up after 2 months, and my well water which I found out was high in nitrates because maybe the land use to be an orchard/farm was like 20ppm which I was told was unusual high has dropped, and immediately I noticed my cherry shrimp, 1st time raising, are more active and already seeing new fry/babies. I even got one pothus coming from one tank to the other and starting to root from it vining out into another tank. Lol, in year I hope to have jungle

@AQUAPROS

Жыл бұрын

Thats awesome!!!!

Good thing for all home to try Aquaponics easy to learn if ignorant dangerous to your fish love your video

Just got my Legit Fish Food order! Thank you very much for the pleco sticker 🥰 can’t wait to see my fish munch on something new and yummy!

I was thinking about what you said about your "failed experiment" regarding adding houseplants to the aquarium and getting an ammonia spike because of the plant die off. With that result of getting ammonia in the tank when you add the house plants to the tank, couldn't that be a new and effective way of cycling your new tanks without adding fish or manually adding an ammonia source? 🤔🤔🤔

@AQUAPROS

Жыл бұрын

Ya maybe!!!! 😉😎

Cus they look awesome. Ripariums are amazing

My experience : pothos rots in clear jars ; covering the jars works well.

Right now I’m experimenting with a Chinese money plant(the plant with the round leaves) I don’t wanna jinx it but it’s starting to thrive👍✌️

I have a lot of houseplants in my tanks! My current favorite is my parlor palm 🥰

Question: do we need to fertilize house plants growing in an aquarium without fish ? also when eventually as u add the fish will adding a common npk house plant fertilizer instead of a aquatic plant fertilizer harm the fish ?im so skeptical bout this 🙈

I suggest to take cuttings and root plant directly in water then put into aquarium.

Wonder if some of the test experiment you did might have been from ferts if it was a freshly purchased plant vs one you've had long enough for it to use up what ever was in or on the roots/soil.

You can start the plant having aquatic roots first by putting roots in water. It will take a bit, but probably worth the time. Then you wouldn’t have the ammonia spike, etc.

@AQUAPROS

Жыл бұрын

Nice!!!

@LuckAqua

Жыл бұрын

You can put part of the roots in the water when leaving like 1/3 of the roots above the water so they can breathe. That would work really well.

I had no ammonia spike whatsoever after adding pothos with roots to a fully cycled tank. Nitrates stay around 5ppm. No nitrites. Water change rarely needed other than to add some new water. (open top) In your case there was nothing in the water to feed the plants so they started to die. Fish waste solves that.

Nice video . . . . light s information plz

I think it's a good idea to do the experiment again with different kinds but already adapted plants.

Most people don't now this. But if the roots are in water but leaves are above water. I've read that is is 10x more effective compared to a plant that is submerged with leaves and roots. And yes the die off in the beginning is when the roots dies and starts new "water roots" I really want to see that experiment. Weird timing, I am in the middle of choosing which one for my 175 Gallon. And having a Led for just the houseplants makes it a lot easier and it grows thick and of corse work even more efficient. 🙂 Great Video buddy

@AQUAPROS

Жыл бұрын

You know whats up! Ya and im even experiencing some foliage die off as well, all totally par for the coarse. The plant has to get adapted just like an emersed aquatic plant that gets dropped into a tank for the first time :)

@CrazyAquariumGuy

Жыл бұрын

@@AQUAPROS I concur my friend. Love that it looks even more alive with something up top as well. Maybe yiu can get me a suggestion. It is my crazy mix that I got soooo many trolls from. Because I have 60 Emerald Tigerbarbs. 7 Really big Discus. 21 Corydoras, 1 Black Ghost Knife 4 Different carnivore plecos, 1 Royal pleco. 20 Bronze Barbs, 4 kissing gourami and a rope Fish. Ooh almost forgot. 30 Firemouth Cichlids. But after the hate, it took 2 weeks and my Discus are even laying eggs. 😄 Everyone know that a stressed out Discus would never breed. Especially 5 times so far. Of course the eggs does not survive. Yeah, I have 18 Turquoise rainbow's as well. And 4 Regular anistrus plus 4 siamese algae eaters. But it is working because I have 2 Fx6 Filter with almost 9 pounds of ceramic in them. AND the oldschool Eheim Classic XXL with atleast 14 pounds of ceramic biological media as well. But one or even a mix of plants above, with a quality LED above it would help a lot and look Amazing! The only thing I hate for that tank is of course the food bill. 🤣

KNOW YOUR AQUARIUM PLANTS. SOME STORES SELL PLANTS THAT ARENT AQUATIC BUT WILL LIVE UNDER WATER FOR A WHILE THEN DIE. Some work well.

@AQUAPROS

Жыл бұрын

Totally, mondo grass is one of em!

My monstara got a fungal infection in a new tank. Ammonia went well over 6ppm. I took the plant out cut out the infected parts. After the tank cycled im added 4ppm of Ammonia daily and im at all zeros. The high concentration of Ammonia I think actually helped in a fishless cycle. Haphazardly.

@AQUAPROS

7 ай бұрын

Ya, lots of ways to do it! 😀🤙

@joshuadecker1305

7 ай бұрын

@AQUAPROS the fish store guys were trying to get me to buy cheap fish to cycle. Had I done that they would not have survived that ammonia spike. Nature finds a way. It made its own ammonia and over time was able to fully process it.

Believe me. I tested and houseplants are perfect to remove bad chemicals in the water. Very very efficient compared to immersing plants.

I think if you are going to do this it might not hurt to add an airstone or two

Do you skate? I skate and I’ve got 8 aquariums and I feel like they’re two completely different hobbies and cultures just with the people that get attracted to each and so if you’re actually a skater that’d be crazy lol, the introvert and extrovert hobby mix goes hard tho

@AQUAPROS

29 күн бұрын

I dont really skate anymore (im 33) but i can kickflip on carpet still!

root die off would cause an ammonia spike i would suggest cutting back the roots that die or trimming before adding the plant. and a slower introduction to completely submerged for sue dpending on spp 😅 a failed experiment is still just an experiment

PlantLife Project

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bugs on the plant that produce ammonia?

@AQUAPROS

Жыл бұрын

Sure, all the living things on the terrestrial plant that enter the new environment may die off and lead to NH3, how much? thats the question ;)

@shaunmckellar7011

Жыл бұрын

@@AQUAPROS keep up with your videos, your a pro and we''ll find out many answers :) love your work

@ruidadgmailcanada8508

Жыл бұрын

@@AQUAPROS YMMV Great video. It’s the roots converting from terrestrial biome to aquatic. Shedding off outer layers and growing new cells adapted to aquatic life. Shed cells rot. Ammonia! So water changes of 50% weekly until things settle ammonia wise. Wait until the roots find the bottom of the tank, if you have soil or aquatic soil, there’s a noticeable burst in growth. Just be patient.

On the note of your "failed experiment:" it was only a failed experiment because you didn't write anything down. That is the only difference between science and screwing around, after all. In my mind, the point of an experiment isn't to prove something, but rather to gather information. So any information that an experiment yields makes it a successful one. I'd say it's actually worth repeating the experiment, and may even make a good lab for high school science class, considering the outcome is slightly unexpected.

@AQUAPROS

Жыл бұрын

I mean, im sure i did write stuff down, just got lost in translation ovet the years ;)

@dragonwithamonocle

Жыл бұрын

@@AQUAPROS That does happen... XD

I'm glad you have found a new business, I hope it works wonderful, but you abandoned this KZread channel, that's how I met you, your videos were so great, I couldn't believe and always dreamed to replicate those amazing creations you did in every scape, those monte Carlo trees, those floating islands, that carpet so green and beautiful, the forest, everyone memorable, your bettas and their habitats, that was really something, and then you abandoned the channel, focus on other business lines, so these few videos you drop every now and then are not even close to be enough for people like me that admire and enjoy the creativity and the ideas you used to share. I really wish you could spend more time making videos, even once a month would be great, think about it, I'd be thrilled to watch them.

@AQUAPROS

Жыл бұрын

I hear ya, back to once a week!

@susyclau7433

Жыл бұрын

@@AQUAPROS REALLY!!!!! THAT'S WONDERFUL!!! I'm ready and looking forward to watch them all 🎉

No such thing as a failed experiment. Too many people dont publish experiments that dont support the hypothesis

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