what's up fish tank people fishtanktv.com dustin's fish tanks
bringing it to you on a Sunday oh it's species Sunday baby it's also a bye week
for the brown so I don't have to go through the pain agony and suffering it
is being a fan of 18 and I think is like 2 and 7 or 2 and 6 or whatever so
excited to bring you a video here love doing species Sunday love it would it's
gorgeous out like it is today so I want to do a video I want to show you guys
something today I want to show you eight great hardy species for a simple setup
okay I'm coming back from the aga and I'm seeing all these exotic tanks and
look they're beautiful right I'm not gonna argue with that but my goal and
the reason I'm in this video game and the whole deal of video doing the videos
is to like get people into the Hobby you get them having success I feel like if
people try to do all this crazy stuff - you know - in advance they get
discouraged and they bomb out and they quit so that is not my goal to get you
into this crazy stuff we'll do some high level stuff later but I always try to
like stick with the beginners because I think that if you get them into the
Hobby you get success you can just keep rolling okay so it's all about getting
success early and I want to show you a great hearty species and a little bit
aquascaping action - so here's what's up I want to talk about eight species here
and I'm going to give just a little overview on all of them and then I'm
going to show you kind of how I would throw it down on the tank so here's
what's up you got jungle val I got to give jungle Val the first love because
this is just a great great great species Hardy native around all over North
America super Hardy species grows real tall you definitely want to use that as
a background plant jungle Val equals background plant you can see here like
the new growth here this stuff will kind of come back but I can talk about jungle
about for a while but anyway you'll have to trim it back Kay jungle val
background plant java fern super hardy plant as well from Asia can handle all
kinds of abuse and you want to tie that to driftwood whenever I'll show you a
little that in a little bit a bit had too much coffee and talking too fast oh
we got Rotella in the car Steve furloughs favorite absolutely loves this
plant doesn't look that great out of the water because it all closes up
Tom gets real red tips this will be your iron gauge by the way if your dosing
iron if it's not red you better be adding some iron background plant also
the almighty Amazon swords now these are just little guys that I've got but these
would also be a background so super Hardy plants all of them stem to plant
you can easily propagate you can just cut that and move it around this will
send off runners that'll send off little shoots Sagittarius blada Sagittarian
generals pretty Hardy in my experience whether it's Genesis or Giants ad this
is the shorts edge great low-lying plant I was pumped when I saw it was like
available in the rivers of Virginia I actually have it on my pond right now
super Hardy water wisteria float it do whatever with it stick it in the ground
it loves it highlight low-light almost no light super great plant sends off
great roots I recommend this for Guppies to people trying to breed Guppies float
this this could be a floor Midtown plant depending upon how much you want to mess
with it and this is anubias right here anubias nana great great plant super
hardy slow grower but really really hard to plant I'm actually going to throw
these back in the tank in a second because they're drying out but another
new basin here's this plant is up there with like the herpes of aquarium plants
known as duck weed and the fact that it doesn't ever leave your tank so when you
put java moss in your tank you know it's it's hard to get out it really is so I
would only recommend I recommend it with a proceed with caution because once you
put it in your tank it'll never go away but I want to show you a little bit of
aquascaping action simple stuff nothing big I haven't done one of these in a
while but very simple little setup where you'd have like say this is a 20 high or
whatever you'd have two pieces of driftwood you kind of want to have the
two-thirds rule where you don't ever want to have any focal point directly in
the center you want to have it off centered and then just have two pieces
of driftwood it's hard to get these suckers to stay
a you know kind of have him angling up and off kind of pulling the eye away now
what I this year was I I use a rubber band I had somebody comment like yeah
the rubber band is going to go away and I'm want good the plant should be rooted
by that and so you should be fine this is how I would just simply attached
anubius to it because it will actually attach on its own and then you got java
fern over here i just stuck this down in the cracks to this so this will spread
out you can cut it trim it real hard it likes a look real hard trim too
I don't do that that much but it does do like it does like a hard trim so and I
just shoved it down in the cracks here too and it'll as long as your fish don't
come along and rip it up so what I would do would be to take this and I would
probably throw the big boy swords in the back here kind of behind set them off in
the back and they're going to get a lot bigger swords a big root feeders too so
if you're not doing a dirted tank you're definitely going to want to add
something to feed them at those roots I would do those back here or maybe back
here something like that behind the driftwood sad just sad simple sad to the
whole front just just run a big mix in the front and I'm doing this because
people are always asking me what should i do my tank I'm just getting started in
the plant of tank so this is kind of a rough framework to work from sach all up
in the front just takes everything you give it love it
super hardy fast-growing just great beginner plant get you off on the right
foot with cereal and a setup like this I put in the back it's just going to grow
nuts and then you can just you can just literally hard cut it and replant it it
just takes everything you get it yeah great plan I just got this in on Friday
and it's already got like lots of new growth so I'm pumped about that and then
the jungle value put kind of in the back here so I wish I had an empty tank I
would have set it up for you but yeah jungle val all along the back and what
you kind of want to do is you kind of want to group your species together so
you wouldn't put like one jungle out here and one there and
when they're kind of get like a whole bunch of one species in one area like
all your jungle out here your rotella here your you know sword over here maybe
another sword nearby it that sort of thing
aesthetically I like picking one kind of species to go on the driftwood or rocks
so I would either pick like I'm gonna do anubius on my drift water i'm gonna do
java fern on my driftwood but I mean that's that's splitting hairs there
whatever so I just wanted to show you the eight great Hardy species there are
other Hardy species of the java moss like i said once you put in your tank
good luck getting that out super Hardy stuff I've said this in a video before I
was told urban legend says that this stuff was actually on a rock or on a
piece of driftwood or something dried out for like a year and had like just
little crumbles on it and then came back so super super Hardy if you're killing
java moss you got issues so super Hardy plant there you can kind of use this to
soften the front but I wanted to show eight simple species obviously they're
all for sale on aquatic jungles excited about that
this has been pretty good with that actually it's pretty fun so having a lot
of fun that also I've got the dirted tank guide available for digital
download you can order it anywhere in the world just download it there's a
link on aquatic jungles right there in the front you can get it and check that
out a reason I'm saying that is I'm actually doing a updated version of that
coming out here Christmas time ourselves I've been fun with some
never-before-seen footage so that's what I'm doing I'm having fun I'm also out in
the greenhouse messing around I've got silicone the whole thing I've got
Steve's tank looking good I haven't touched it because you guys told me not
to touch it and I'm not touching it looks darn good so - a dead fish in the
front right but whatever no heater and that sucker
yeah but having a good old time so yep check out these hearty species like I
said I got them for sale on aquatic jungles but I mean there's more Hardy
species out but these are the ones I just think you know you get them you
have success and you just keep moving so that's what's up hope your NFL team is
doing good glad mine sitting at home today take care