Great review, my friend. I bought one too.

It was an excellent livestream with cory. I think we all can learn from it. I love dirted tanks and fatherfish as well but i have learned a lot from many different hobbyists. Good stuff!

This is so interesting ❤❤ keep up the good work😊

Thanks bud i couldnt get this 24/7 mode working by following the book but your video has shown me the way great teacher im happy thank you

Good conversation! I follow Cory and consider him to be a great source of information. The conversation between the two of you brought out information from him that I had not heard. I also appreciate what I learned from you about dirty tanks, something I have never tried.

Hope you are feeling better soon mate. It is good to speak to people who do things differently, that's how we learn.

Could you literally just use the pond mud / stuff as your tank substrate?

Cory got me back into the hobby. You keep me extremely interested and that is why I follow you. Lucas, FF, Dean, KFS are a few others that I find credible. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and expertise the way you do.

Hi! I've been doing research trying to get an answer with regards to water changes in an ecosystem and yours is the most straightforward and sincere - will be checking out your other videos. Thank you! 😊

Patty you're awesome. Thank you for being so sensible and setting a positive example. Your conclusion on listening first, and then deciding if you want to agree or not is so important in life. This idea that we are married to our ideas, and a disagreement with an idea that we have is a smudge against us personally is not okay. If we cant listen to different viewpoints, then we cannot grow, and life without growth is sad and stagnant. We can grow and learn for as long as we let ourselves. 🙏

great idea focusing on plants. BTW really nice stream with Cory.

Great video. I agree with you for sure on listening that's how we all learn. Thanks for sharing

Your open mindedness is refreshing! As a fairly new fishkeeper (3 years) I’ve been setting up all different types of tanks: aquasoil, lasagna with lava rock and flourite, sand, sand cap, gravel, and just put dirt in one last week…I think it’s fun to try new things and see where it takes you! I’ve gleaned so much from KZbin but am leary of anyone saying they have the best and only way. Your easy going approach drew me toward trying my first dirted tank. Thank you!

Neolamprogalus kwadropunctatus …. Americans, bless their hearts 😄

Get better soon my friend! Always a pleasure seeing your take on this hobby

Cory's buck tooth will be a fish keeping enthusiast relic one day

Love what you are doing, can't believe I just recently discovered you.

Patty, respect for having your methods challenged and for responding in a professional and reasonable way and for being open and willing to accept possible flaws of your own. The ability to be open to new ideas is admirable because this isn’t about our own egos, it’s about the health and wellbeing of the animals we have become the stewards of.

The live stream with Cory was good and productive, the unrelated live stream that was spurred by your live stream was entertaining and highlighted how peoply people can be but not so productive beyond that.

New sub. The hype brought me. Have seen you around the FishFam chats. Hope you feel better soon. I keep a variety of tanks, tubs, other vessels. Many styles. Some dirt/sand, some gravel, some mix. Plants in all. I love FF, Cory/ACO, LRB, MD, and so many others. Room for all the ways, imo😊 Thx for sharing

I think it is awesome that you were able to take that convo that started so much hype and take some good out of it and even make a little change on your own fish keeping for your fish.

He sent you air stones! Now that's funny.

Love the new Logo and already got it on a hoodie awesome. And you are absolutely right in this hobby you need to have an open mind about it. I can tell you that you and Father Fish have been inspirational to me personally to try doing a dirted tank. And I'm so glad I did it. Like you said its not for everyone. I even did a video name I was scared to do a dirted tank. But you folks help calm those fears and so glad for your guys knowledge and mentorship. BTW you should sell to T Shirts with the new logo i would to to get one. No need for hoodie here in the state of Texas as i would only wear 1 or 2 days out of the year. Hope you get better soon my friend

swamp tankers are scared of air bubbles in their aquariums 🤣😂🤣😂

What is that alien creature thing ? 😂

Yeah right! Ur just doing it foe the video ppfftt 😂

We should have a live stream together mate!😀👍

Lol no multi tasking My wife is sick too. Hope you feel better soon. Like minded people with the willingness to help each other is a bonus. I call them friends Lol don't get the o2 meter 💩 I think it's smart to have air lines .. it's still filter less You March to your own beat.. ..stay that way Good on you on the what to expect.. Feel better

Hi. I personally don't like to use any pumps for my tanks unless I really need to, it's because I hate the noise in my room. I remember from Diana Walstad book that airstones quickly remove CO2 from water, which is not good for the plants, and more oxygen for fish is needed only if they are gasping for air, especially in the morning after lights turn on. If the fish are gasping, it's probably something else not right in the tank, like not enough stem plants or too many fish in one tank. If they gasp a little bit, it seems logical to try to fine-tune it by increasing the intensity or duration of light. Anyway, I just don't like my aquariums to depend on lots of electrically powered mechanisms, especially if they are noisy😅. Anyway, I'll dedicate time to listen to your and Cory's conversation. Hope you'll get well soon

youtube.com/@josepolanco1228?si=9BZc1TawHliNyX8E Hi Adam above is a link of the post Mexicali live stream on which i was part of, i did a response post There is always the option to do it your way. Not opposed to dirted tanks , at times i have considered it for its benefits, but definitely will include some form of filtration. I really enjoyed the live with cory , saw it live and again on replay. My issues is the extremes in anything and i am happy that out of reasonable conversation come out , oh shit moments. Where we may say , maybe there is a point the others idea , if we listen and the don’t think that is our way or the highway. The issue of oxygenation is not so much about the air it does provide surface agitation, which is the key to gas exchange. The wave maker is a magnificent way to provide that and water circulation which is healthy for any water tank or system. We know that regardless of what one thinks fish , including discus , are highly adaptable and can slowly adapt to many conditions slowly, when one may say how in the “ swamp water” ?not my term. Meaning even us adapt to environmental differences. For example you and I are likely not to do well initially in the altitudes of the Himalayas, but will adapt and adjust over time to the lower available oxygen levels,people of the region have. With that being said evolution has occurred in some species in our life times . fish will adapt to conditions in a dirted tanks even if some of us don’t feel is optimal . That can possibly provide part of the answer for some that ask “ well many have kept fish is dirted tanks for years! , how come, they don’t die?” Well as i said they are highly adaptable. I can site many examples , but we don’t have all day. Fish do it every day in nature, some to have developed adaptations ( blind cave fish). Changes in season, drought and so on. In conclusion to my lengthy response ,is that there is no one way. We can have respectful conversations while listening to other point of views. You (Adam)are doing things that do not go with the do nothing extreme ideas. You do what works for your tanks. All are unique and treated differently. Again great stream and happy that you are open to a different point of view. At this point in time electric cars are not for me , maybe in the future. As dirted tanks are not for all , not for me at this time. Not closed to the idea, the extreme yes. Thank you my friend Respectfully, Jose @Joy of fish keeping 🙏

I don't have a choice when it comes to running air in my tank during the summer months. on average the temp stays between 85 to 90 in my tanks during those months.

Great stuff 🎉

I was that one that didn't know anything about dirted tanks and plants. My tanks where definitely matured and i had cichlids like electric blue acrua, kribensis, apistogrammas breeding in my gravel tanks. Then i came across father fish. And i seen him with the dirted deep substrate and i seen the way his tanks had so many plants and like i said i been wanting to have planted tanks. But all 3 of my tanks had gravel and fry. At first i was just gonna cap them but im just like you i seen a challenge and started over and made my 55 and 10 gallon dirted deep substrate tanks. Everyone thought i was crazy cause i still wanted the cichlids and them breeding. Fast forward almost 2 years i have electric blue acrua and my kribensis spawning in a dirted deep substrate tanks. Also i got into white cloud and my betta all in ff style tanks. I have 3 different microfauna tanks and im culturing green water for the daphnia im gonna be getting next week. So i did a 360 and i would never go back to gravel aquarium. ANOTHER GREAT VIDEO PATTY AND I HOPE YOU GET TO FEELING BETTER

I absolutely love Aquarium Coop! I have their airstones, heater, air pump, sponge filters, easy fry food, easy green, & my Lily/lotus bulbs which are a must for my Pygmy & Habrosus Cories (they breed/rest/ lay eggs etc on their lily or lotus 😂). I have dirted tanks as well and I do have either an air stone/sponge filter running just to ease MY mind. Airflow tends to keep everything moving and prevent stagnant areas for bad bacteria or algae to fester

You and Corey rock

Great video, mate. I totally agree with what you said. There's a whole community of dirted tank youtubers and nobody talking about keeping the plants healthy.

Missing the stream today 😢 whatever you decide to do with your tanks is good with me!

Well done 👍

It was great to see two different but open minded people discussing pros and cons of dirted concepts My biggest takeaway was he’s not against the natural tank keeper as long as it’s not just to be lazy If we don’t learn new things,we procrastinate What if STENDKER never change the parameters for discus Then we’d all be restricted to set water options in the hobby Keep doing different buddy

Hope you’re feeling better Patty

Sweet intro music. Great info too

I haven’t gotten lucky with the isopods, always get a couple but they dont reproduce

Is this a jar or the food web in an aquarium?

Use snails for your puffer tank

Perfect tune for this video