Thanks for showing how to lock the mud; now please show how to unlatch the lid.

Nice one!

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Temp too cold, or too hot?

Avoid water changes and fish will thrive and breed on their own

What was the first liquid you put in the bottle?

The channel "Keeping Fish Simple" is excellent.

I've used the 206 for over a decade and from experience, if you fill it with water from your tank first up to the inlet and outlet holes this will help and prevent the need to prime at all. Once turned back on and the bucket pump starts making a sound like it's struggling, then tilt the filter bucket slightly from side to side and this will help the pump draw out the air pockets between the filter media! In relation to the vibration, I have a towel under my filter which sits inside a cabinet my tank sits on. I hope this helps! 4:57

Great video!

can I use green bottle if I don't have a clear one?

Beautiful fry!

This method has also worked for me! My cultures take a little longer than the 36 to 48 hour mark, but that’s mostly because I don’t really keep the cultures as warm as a lot of people would want. After a week though I’ve got more Infusoria then I know what to do with! I keep 3 or 4 cultures going at one time too. I do have one question though. Would you continue to add yeast after a lot of the paramecia dissapear from the water?

Thank you so much for this video. I snicker every time you call them cooties. Now I feel confident in my ability to culture infusoria. It's amazing how little we know about the natural world and decide to bring nature inside without being prepared. Fortunately, my rainbow fish fry spotted Infusoria on the glass inside my nursery tank because I was nervous as heck that I was going to starve them to death. Again, thanks for the video. Going ahead and subscribing just to hear you say cooties again.

Had my Rena filstar for at least running for15 years for a 200 litre tank they are reliable & efficient filters with good performance One of the best quality

But does it stink? 😜

This is very helpful

Haha. I know this is an old video. But I have been hoping to breed my pygmy corys too. After watching your video I suddenly realised that what I thought were baby cherry shrimp are in fact baby corys! Can't tell you how excited I am. Thank you! 😂

What is the shelving shown around the 1 minute mark? It looks great.

Jay did you ever figure out why? Let me know necause mine are cloudy and jave surface scum

You did this the natural way (nothing wrong with that, but...) and that is why it took so long. Boost the bacteria bloom with bread yeast. Boost the green water with spirulina. No need for disgusting decaying vegetables and the smell is bearable. 2 days to a week time and you will have a great culture.

Ha ha !! I finally figured it out…😂

Thanks for all the information ✌️

Yep, great idea with the sand on top of it, i ordered 3 20LB bags and Black sand also. I have Hairgrass and Rotala Roundfolia

I heard that WCMM need fresh water and will breed if left over night and as soon as it gets light, did you do any big water changes? I didn't even try and in my aquarium that has lots of things that could eat their eggs I had 3 hatch out from me just doing a 50% water change( my aquarium also has lots of java ferns).

Very informative, thank you.

Wow, that piece of driftwood shown at 1:01 is fabulous.(Lead plant weights? Isn't lead highly toxic and deadly to fish? I think so.)

Is this without starter culture?

In case you haven't figured it out yet, those are called "Kahm yeast", or so called by us homebrewers and fermented food nerds. Contrary to the name, Kahm are not actually yeast but a few different strains of "harmless" bacteria. They are considered OK to have occasionally in fermented beer, pickles and sauerkraut. Personally I don't like them. I have no clue why they have a detrimental effect on your eel colonies though. Needs separate research. P.s. They usually occur when fermentation temperature is over 23°C. If that helps.

That’s weird how your dark closet turned your square containers into circles! 😂

Really helpful. I will now use bread...subbed! Hi from Singapore!

well done and good on you for shouting out Nick. his channel is eclectic honest and top shelf. You're a mellow easy chatter. Cheers

nice looking fish, i recently bought 15 golden white cloud minnows and only one of the males has this almost orange to red color that your fish are having. I hope to be able to breed from this male or find some other with this color depth.

Good advice. Thanks for sharing

Really enjoyed the footage & narration. Beautiful tank full of GW's.

very interesting

I too struggled with this but l believe the key to this is temperature

Its a good unit. But since purchasing it, I have always had issues with its impeller not working. I replaced the impeller but it still wont run and turn on sometimes.

What kind of fine black sand did you use? Thank you.

I have used Eco complete many times in the past and never had much success honestly. I have had more success using just plain, inert sad. I use mostly low tech plants, but still. Rotala Indica and Crypt Balansae grow like weeds for me without even doing anything for them, including no root tabs.

Hi, I just bought my first culture and started a few culture. All of which had the same white foam on top. I read ur comments that u went away for 3 weeks and it resolved itself. So does that mean I just leave them aside without doing anything and it should go away? Would appreciate your input because I can’t seem to find any information about this phenomenon

What's a spawning mop?

High value content sir

So what ratio of water to vinegar can you reach?

This was a great for dummies video. Thank you so much!

I might try this, but I'll need to find vinegar eels

These were old white clouds right? After the first year egg production goes markedly down in most egg layers, especially white clouds. This is most likely the reason you only saw a couple fry.

How deep of a sand layer did you cap with? I've got 40lbs of eco-complete in my 20 gallon long, but the plants just don't seem to be taking. I just started up diy CO2 to see if that helps, but I'm not opposed to ~1in/20lb bag sand cap if that's enough. I'd rather not go the route of removing some of what I already have.

I have two Filstars that are both around 20 years old, and they're still going strong. It's a shame the manufacturer has now discontinued the whole line.

Probably took a while cause he was stuck in a cryogenic chamber

Where are u located