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- What's up fish tank people,
Dustin's Fish Tanks bringing it to you
on a Sunday, baby.
How's everybody doing?
I hope you're doing well.
In today's video, we're gonna show you
two months in to my neighbor Marnice's Flubal F90.
I set up the hardscape though a couple of plants
into this tank and then passed over the reigns to her.
In today's video we're gonna talk about the plant growth.
We're gonna talk about the fish selection,
and we're gonna show you some of the over plant growth
and why that is and what to look for
and how to take it to the next level
with your aquarium.
Here comes a two month update on the Flubal F90.
Look at the full-on growth this aquarium has,
folks, this is exactly where you want to be
and where I like to see beginners.
She's fully overgrown, everything is growing everywhere,
now she's got confidence,
she's got the ability to actually grow plants.
So she's growing plants and now she's concerned about
more minor tweaks, but the goal of getting a heavy
heavy plant load and light light fish load
is now finally working for her.
Let's unpack more of this.
Dude, you done good.
- [Marnice] You did.
- [Dustin] I mean, I set it and forget it,
I didn't do anything.
- [Marnice] Yeah, you did.
- [Dustin] I love the way this came in.
- [Marnice] You put the plans together.
They like the Dr. Suess plant.
- [Dustin] That's a super duper Limnophila.
That's like a-
Yo, got a Limnophila into this aquarium
and that's what happens when you have
Hydrocotyle Leucocephala completely
out competing everything around
and didn't make it but that's part of the game.
Don't worry about that.
- [Marnice] And the sword don't seem to be thriving.
I don't know if it's because
I think I took the rock off of there
but I can't be sure that the rock is not-
- [Dustin] The sword, so what happened with the sword-
That's a great question.
So, what happened with the sword is that
it's not thriving, so this is all like
the old stuff and this is all the new stuff.
So, if you're looking right here,
that's all that we care about.
So all this is all new.
So that's good.
- [Marnice] So all I have to do is clip off those?
- [Dustin] You can clip off that one
and that one and the brown ones
and that plant will just say thank you.
You can see to clip here when I talk about these leaves
that are absolutely gonna get cut off
when I first set this tank up.
I'm surprised their actually still maintaining
but here's the rub.
Those leaves that have above water growth,
the big spoon looking ones are actually
pulling nutrients away from the leaves that are coming out
of the center of this plant that are made
for the conditions of this aquarium.
Swords are a heavy root feed.
I gotta give a shout out that stratum
is actually doing them some good cause
the Amazon Sword does have new growth.
You can see the clip earlier, I did put Fluval stratum
at the bottom so they are getting
some nutrients from the roots.
Not as much as they probably need but enough
and you can see the benefit with the new growth.
It's not in a good like bed of food
but it' still growing so it's still fine
but just know that these plats are heavier root feeders
versus like this one which is a water column feeder.
This is a Stellata, Pogostemon Stellata,
one of the two and it's a water column feeder.
So it eats from the water.
That eats from its roots more.
So this is like, "I'm gonna eat all this,"
and that's like, "Nah, I'm just gonna eat outta here."
So which is why it's not doing as much
but these are also near the window.
So these also get more light.
So water column feeder and then
more light equals bigger growth.
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Notice how the plants turn.
That plant turns towards here but see how it grows,
okay there's mite over here and
then it grew up up up and then over over over
'cause that's where the light is.
This plant as well and this one will be okay.
And really you could do whatever you want to do now.
So now you're tank is rolling.
How are the Cherry Barbs doing?
- [Marnice] They're so cute.
- [Dustin] You gotta get some females in there.
- [Marnice] We're gonna get a family.
Now do they give them to me all as males or what?
- [Dustin] I think those are all boys, yeah.
I think the girls are yellow.
And I absolutely love the selection of Cherry Barbs here.
I wish you would have more females in there
but the all males looks good.
Rachel O'Leary did a nice little video on this.
I'll link it up in the cards or whatever
but you're supposed to have I think it's
four females to every two males.
I like the look of the males more-
They're a little brighter color.
These are also breed into a long fin variety
but I think Cherry Barbs excellent beginner fish.
A hardy fish, hardy like a Barb.
And then I like the pop of the red of these
with this bright green background.
I think the Cherry Barbs really work.
If this were my tank, I would about triple up
the amount of Cherry Barbs in this aquarium.
That's a Guppy that's probably, I mean Guppies
you can just assume they're pregnant.
- [Marnice] Yeah, he had a buddy but (hums funeral song)
- [Dustin] It happens.
We've all killed fish.
- [Marnice] And then the ammonia went up in my tank.
- [Dustin] There's your Cory Cat.
Oh, I love those, you got the good ones, Marnice.
- [Marnice] Well, I mean they had a selection-
- [Dustin] I didn't know you had the-
I had a panda one but it (hums funeral song).
- [Dustin] Those are a little more sensitive.
- [Marnice] It died.
- [Dustin] Can we talk about killing fish.
- [Marnice] Yeah. (upbeat music)
- [Dustin] So you weren't adding the dechlor
when you were doing the water changes?
So now the tank has a way heavier plant load
and a lighter fish load so now you can
get away with adding more fish.
You only want to add a few fish at a time
but your plant load can balance out your fish load.
Yeah, I love the Cherry Barbs, they look great.
- [Marnice] Yeah, when the water gets low
the Ghost will come out.
He's right over there, I just saw him.
He'll come right out.
- [Dustin] Is that a shrimp?
- [Marnice] No, Ghost is like one of those-
- [Dustin] Oh, there he is, the pleco, yeah.
Gotcha, that's a cool one.
- [Marnice] He'll skim around and he'll come over here
because he thinks I'm gonna drop the-
- [Dustin] She was telling me
that she has one Nymphaea leaf.
One leaf in there-
- [Marnice] You can see it's brown.
- [Dustin] I think I just saw it.
That's fine. That's all you need is one-
- [Marnice] It's getting ready to fall off.
- [Dustin] So, let's talk about that.
So that plant, you can see the clip before,
so that plant is being choked out by the-
She's got her own tweezers.
- [Marnice] Yeah, I did.
- [Dustin] Getting choked out by all the Hydrocotyle.
So that's the plant that you want to grow more.
- [Marnice] I did.
- [Dustin] All we can do is we can just
rip out whatever you don't want to look at anymore
and make room for that to get more light.
- [Marnice] So it can reach the top?
- [Dustin] Whatever you want to just eliminate
but right now it's being a little chocked out.
No big deal.
Oh, there's our boy right there.
- [Marnice] There he is.
- [Dustin] What's up bud?
- [Marnice] He's looking for his-
I really like these.
- [Dustin] That's a nice little fish.
He does come out on command!
- [Marnice] He does, he and his other little buddy.
You knew what he was, I didn't know what he was.
- [Dustin] Yeah, that's fine.
- [Marnice] So then I dropped a little pellets-
- [Dustin] That's awesome.
- [Marnice] Down there and he seeks them out
and then he sits on them, it's so funny.
He seeks on them and then puts his whole body on there
because all these little Cherry Barbs will
figure out in a minute that he's eatin something
and they're not and they'll go down there
and try to hassle him.
But does he have little spikes on him or something?
- [Dustin] Yeah, he's got spikes.
- [Marnice] They don't like to mess with him.
He does, he has a sharp spike.
Three spikes, one of his top, one on each side.
- [Marnice] They don't like to mess with him.
He's the boss.
- [Dustin] He knows it.
- [Marnice] They'll get over here and they'll go like we!
They get in this corner and it makes an extra big current
and they school and they just kinda go across-
- [Dustin] The Cherry Barbs do?
- [Marnice] Mmm hmm.
- [Dustin] Nice.
- [Marnice] But I don't know if there's like
a ring leader or how they-
- [Dustin] If it was my aquarium-
- [Marnice] See them getting in there?
- [Dustin] I them 'em.
- [Marnice] And he's like, "get away it's mine."
- [Dustin] These are great fish.
I love the Cherry Barbs.
- [Marnice] Oh, I didn't know you like them.
- [Dustin] Oh, yeah.
- [Marnice] Cool.
- [Dustin] So here's the thing, dude,
on Friday you wanna go shopping and we can kinda-
- [Marnice] I do!
- [Dustin] We can figure out whatever you want.
I've got all kinds of crazy stuff in right now.
We can give you some colors.
- [Marnice] Well, I can give you some back.
- [Dustin] Yeah, that's cool.
We can get rid of some of the Stellata.
- [Marnice] But these little snails all came up on the-
- [Dustin] That's part of the game.
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Yeah, so now you're ready for phase two plants.
So you can get whatever you-
- [Marnice] Oh!
- [Dustin] Looks at her go Oh!
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We can get phase two, so you've got you intermediate down
and we know what's working and what's not.
So now you can try the next thing.
- [Marnice] Looking for the-
- [Dustin] They're lovin it.
Cool, well let's go shopping Friday.
- [Marnice] Okay.
- [Dustin] My friend, Marnice, by the way
I'm over here exchanging trucks.
I'm taking back my van.
She was kind enough to lend me her truck
to haul lumber to build the framing at Greenhouse 2.0.
Hey folks, sorry I didn't have a chance
to get back with Marnice.
She works different schedules than me and
as you can see we got a little bit
going on in Green House 2.0.
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Tank on. Later!