How To Set Up A Planted Tank, How to use dirt in your planted tank substrate, Dirted Tank
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What's up Fish Tank People, FishTankTV.com and Dustin's Fish Tank bringing it to you
on a—what is it—Tuesday?
And I'm really excited for a couple of reasons , for one, my dude Jackson is coming to town
on a Thursday.
He's the dude that originally put up the 125 back in the day, back in college.
I've got it, it's kind of an emotional thing and he's my boy, so I'm pumped about that
shit.
And two, I'm dirting a tank.
That's right.
And you know what, I was going to do a video last night, but my wife and I, she was just
on my ass.
Whatever, I don't know.
But she wasn't too pumped to hear that I was setting up another tank.
So what I did is I hit the gravel here.
I want to show you what I did and I want to talk about dirt.
More of you have some questions about dirt so I want to try to answer a few of them.
One, I covered the dirt in about an inch of gravel.
Two, you can use dirt out of your backyard, although I don't recommend it.
If you do use dirt out of your backyard or plain old soil out of your backyard, you might
want to heat it up.
Three, I use a mixture, Dawson's Dirt Mix.
Dawson's Dank Dirt Dough, some like to call it, and I put it in here.
And I mix it up with a bunch of clay, aragonite, some other stuff.
This was out in my backyard, I had a bunch of extra dirt so I put it in here and I'm
pretty jacked about it.
I have, uh, this tank dirted.
This gravel is not quite the size that I would like it to be, but it will work.
But I'm doing something special.
I'm going to actually turn the water off for y'all.
I got a pretty good little setup here.
This, by the way for those of y'all paying attention, is where the 55 is going to go.
You can see my to-do-list for aquatic jungles.
So I'm going to put two 55s here and eventually four.
But anyway, we'll get back to that.
So I filled this tank and added the gravel on top.
What are some other dirt questions people ask me?
I get them all the time.
What type of dirt do you use?
I use any type of organic mix.
I removed some of the stuff from it.
I don't know.
I got so many videos on dirt.
If you can't Google or YouTube it...look for how to mix substrate or put a comment under
the video and some of the long time subscribers will hook it up.
And I really do appreciate that because I get a lot of questions about that and sometimes
it's kind of tough because I get the same questions over and over and over again.
So anyway, this tank, that's what I'm doing and I'll show you some of the other stuff.
So down here I had some stella and it completely withered and died.
So I had to vacuum gravel the whole thing last night and you can still see some of the
remnants back there.
Some of it is floating right there.
It just came in and it just sucks.
It's one of the disadvantages of having plants come to you because every once in a while
you get a batch that just sucks.
This is crip barber by the way.
It's available in combos.
It just came in anyway and these leaves were just everywhere.
So I am a little disappointed in this plant and the way it just came in and just sucked.
It melted in a way that there was just no, nothing left.
I'm going to try to save it, but not happy.
So I did a huge water change and got some dirt on that beautiful nubius back there which
I have yet to put in a combo because frankly, I like it.
But the star gaze is really coming back and I'm actually pretty jacked about it because
it was almost gone and you can see the new growth there.
It's dirty, but it's not dying or anything.
You know what I mean?
So it's definitely coming back and I'm pretty pumped.
Star gaze is pretty sensitive and it's not a beginner plant at all.
So you are going to want to check that out.
So over here, I have to do—not to be negative Nancy—but, I have to do water changes in
sections because my water heater doesn't catch up.
So I have to really be on the temperature of my water and stop.
You can see the needle leaves through here just bumping and rocking.
Wow, just look at this piece and it's just really doing good.
And if you look back there, you can see some purple funkiness coming off of...heck, I don't
know what that is coming off of.
That's coming off a lace plant.
I knew it was coming off of a lace plant, I just didn't know which one.
So that's kind of cool.
And this weekend, I am kind of excited because I got this new space and this new place to
plant plants so I am going to remove all of these.
I am probably going to sell one of these lace plants.
So if someone wants a massive lace plants, message me and you got to message me through
aquatic jungles.
"I want a massive lace plant" and we will work something out.
And I'm going to put it up on the site.
So I took one of the lights off here and I put it up here.
And one of the things I am doing with this dirt tank is I am doing something that will
absorb the excess nutrients quickly and that's duckweed.
A lot of people hate duckweed and a lot of people ask me for duckweed though so I am
going to let the duckweed overrun it.
So I took some of the duckweed off of here and it was kind of dope because I just skimmed
it, took it off of here and put it over there.
So now, the duckweed was a pest in the tank next to it, but it's doing good in this tank
and actually helping.
It's doing me some good by absorbing the extra nutrients and it's obviously doing well.
So the bottom line is I am going to have more room, more growth and I'm going to be able
to do some more cool things.
I will have all the rotella on that side and all the crips on this side and all the jungle
val up here and all of the swords over here.
And all the liguia up here and all the star grass over here and all the swords over here.
It's kind of exciting for me.
To be honest, it's really exciting for me.
And finally, I got to show y'all that I finally got some hard goods in.
Oh, yea.
These are available up on Aquatic Jungle.
I do occasionally use the iron, the prime, this.
I only use the Excel every now and then, but I hear people have good experiences with it.
So if you want a CO2 boost, check that out.
I've got competitive pricing on it, too.
One thing I will say that I am doing is with this potassium.
I am using it on here to try to resolve the whole leaf issue.
And I dosed it three capfuls because one capful is 30 milliliters for 30 gallons of water.
I did three of those last night because it's a 90 gallon tank.
I must say, I think it is a missing element in this tank so I'm pretty jacked about that.
So, a lot of fun stuff is going on.
So welcome to new subscribers.
I got to give a shout out to Stilo because he seems to think that he is the reason I
went over 4,000 subs.
I am going to do a little contest.
Well, not a contest.
I should do a contest, but I haven't thought of one.
I am going to do a special coming up here on Aquatic Jungles.
So y'all can be a part of that and I'll let y'all know what's up with that.
Again, that's really it.
So again, I'm pretty excited that I got some hard goods.
I am going to take the filter off of this tank over here and put it on this tank over
here because that tank is pretty well-balanced and this tank needs some of that bacteria
and what-have-you.
I am going to remove the filter from there and put it on over there because that tank
will use the new, bigger filter.
I feel like I missed a lot with the dirt, but I'm sure you guys will ask some questions.
We covered it in an inch of gravel, rinse the gravel a bit, I'm going to drain it and
fill it a couple of times.
I did use some water out of that tank to get it established a little bit.
I am running another filter.
And really, just another day with the man who loves dirt.
So that's what I'm doing.
I appreciate all the feedback.
Some of the comments are great.
And yea, we are just going to keep rolling.
This tank I miss it, just going to run another light to it.
Oh, and somebody asked me about Hygrophilous and if you message me, I can sell it to you.
And sorry, the Taiwan plant is still not for sale.