7 Tips for Keeping a Stable Aquarium

Bug Buffet & Green Cuisine Available Here - purefin.shop/ In this video, I explain how to maintain tank stability for your aquarium. I give 7 tips to help you avoid ammonia and nitrate spikes and keep fish successfully.
The 7 Tips listed in this video are:
1. Keep a deep substrate
2. Use live plants
3. Under-stock
4. Don't chase pH
5. Don't over-clean
6. Keep the aquarium out of direct sunlight
7. Keep it consistent
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[@petosjr]

Your videos are a breath of fresh air. I've been out of the hobby for a decade at least and thinking about getting back in is intimidating.

[@KeepingFishSimple]

Thanks 🙏

[@DavidDavis311]

I just got back in about 5 months ago after a 10 year hiatus and felt a little overwhelmed myself. Theres really no reason to be intimidated. Not only is it not that difficult but there is just so much more info out there than there used to be. Best thing to do is just go for it once you’ve refreshed on the basics. The rest will come back to you. The advice I wish I had was really spend time thinking about what fish you want to keep, make a list, then decide the appropriate order to add them. Another thing is right now the fish selection at many fish stores isn’t great since the whole quarantine thing. So just be patient.

[@egoranonymous3223]

Same here. Don't worry things are soo much easier now. I would suggest watching Aquarium Co-op's video on Quarantining fish & the three meds to use. Start there. The best advice I've heard since studying up is: "You can make this hobby as complicated or easy as you want, as expensive or cheap as you want." Jump in, it's a really exciting time with all the break-throughs in the hobby and tons of new strains of fish.

[@filiplaskovski9993]

Well said man Deep substrate is key!!!

[@nayanmistry4641]

Knocked it outta the park with another great informative video matey...agree X7. Not many videos talk about pH and keeping it stable, i.e., not chasing a value, which is very important as it stresses fish out and causes problems. 👍

[@KeepingFishSimple]

🙏

[@bevtieken4113]

I have been researching for a long time now and at times have been totally confused and intimidated. My first go at it was a disaster :( I have just found your videos....thank you so much! I feel like I can do this now, my confusion is gone and it no longer intimidates me :) You explain things so well....again thank you!

[@elliot5456]

Love these videos, just stocked my first ever tank today off the back of your videos. Aquascaped and planted it and now I’ve added: neon tetras, corys, one Pleco, cherry shrimp and nerite snails. Loving watching them get to know their new home! Keep up the good work!

[@gemcastro831]

Needed this! ☺️ Awesome video!

[@normajeanhartley8644]

Really helped this vid, was just checking up and I am already following all this so feel good now that Im doing it right 😁 thanks !

[@darrenspringer1]

First video I’ve watched of yours and it’s great. Making another tank for my fish and having some problems with the floating live plants. I will definitely have to get more substrate but in the mean time thinking about what I can do to keep the plants down. Love the vid!

[@mitch7w]

Great video! Like the cinematic background with nice lighting on you while you talk

[@yehoshuacirt8645]

Good advice. My tip is to buy a tank that fits the type and number of fish you intend to keep or by the fish according to your tank size. I myself have had fish from 1967 in the States and for the past 40 years here in Israel. I have an L81 gold nugget pleco for 24 years so far and Australian rainbows for years. I've found things are simpler than many people in forums imagine. I tend to run more than one filter. Undergravel filters were considered the best for at least two decades. Everything you say about deep substrates was said about them. I personally have found no observable advantages in the use of any commercial chemical additives including dechlors. I have also found that there is no reason not to rinse sponges under the tap all at one time. Where I live, we've chlorine but no chloromine. I do bimonthly water changes. I don't have plants as I seldom have long term success with them.

[@akispapas3073]

Very helpful video!!!Thank you! Ευχαριστώ.

[@Lazarusthefishboy]

Amazing vid! I really loved it! Keep up the amazing work!!!👏

[@KeepingFishSimple]

Thank youuuuu

[@KingsAquariumsAndAntWorld]

Awesome video mate, great info mate, I have a schedule for all my tanks and all mine are fine. Thank you for sharing

[@TheRazzyjohn]

Hats off for the video quality my brother.

[@amtravelsaus]

Spot on ✌, so many people cause themselves problems by fusing about

[@kppriest]

Great advice. Thanks

[@spooter5029]

Love this video good job

[@AussieAquatic]

Great job young fella :)

[@KeepingFishSimple]

Thank you

[@fishcj4393]

Love it 😊 👍

[@wonjung1859]

Totally agreed..

[@mattblzd]

Wish I saw this video years ago whenever I first started. It’s all common sense to me now

[@rachelkunz611]

Absolutely great tips! Thank you so much!

[@liambomb1234]

Hey Nick have you seen these guys there related to the Endler and Guppy and look so cool micropoecilia picta

[@ollietheoscar2667]

When are you doing the second part of the how to breed apistogrammas?

[@KeepingFishSimple]

Soooom

[@sten423]

Nice video!!

[@KeepingFishSimple]

Thank you!

[@jasonvesagie]

Hi Justin, hope you well.. I'm jason from South Africa . I've just bought some easy to grow plants. My question is they came in there pots,, little plastic ones with the cottonwool like stuff wrapped around the roots.. Is it advisable to let them stay in there pots for a day or two before planting or whatever the plan is or is it better to immediately remove the pots and do your thing?, thanks

[@archrite3983]

Can you make a goldfish breeding series like so he can see

[@ianseale5760]

Hey your videos are great and I love to help you with letting you know you need to figure out a wind screen a compressor and no ice gate cause you have so much going on in the background I can hardly make out what you say sometimes

[@yopieputra3783]

Hi, great tips! but what interest me the most is tip no.5 I have a 30x30x30 tank for shrimps and I'm carpeting it with moss, looks beautiful to me but I have only one problem which is cyanobacteria. I clean it manually every week, it took me around 2 to 3 hours of cleaning for every week meaning that for 2 to 3 hours I turn of my filter which is a hang on filter. I change my water around 30 to 40% every week with 6 hours of lighting daily. I got no problem with all the shrimps, they live quite well in it. Based on your tip no.5 should I stop cleaning it every week and let the beneficial bacteria do the work to clean the cyanobacteria by itself without turning off the filter? but I will still take it out as much as I could manually. I need your suggestion for this, since this is a shrimp tank, I won't use any chemical to get rid of the cyanobacteria. I hope you would help me with this. Thank you!

[@nataliex9092]

I have a 10 gallon with 7 plants but the nitrates are still high :( is there anything you can recommend to reduce them?

[@theanimaladdiction]

Can you do a top 10 most personable fish?

[@renatoplasgsmith3413]

You need better audio, good video

[@sheilafeatherston]

what about heaters and the temps

[@imoffendedthatyouareoffended]

I’ve found that by not cleaning at all is the best method in my area. I don’t even own a vacuum for my aquariums. I let the fish take care of it and the plants do the rest. I use hang on filters but I put activated charcoal as a filter. Ammonia and everything is at 0. I’ve debated heavily on buying a vac but after buying a test kit today and seeing where everything is. It’s exactly as it should be. The only tank that’s got an issue out of my 6 tanks is my shrimp tank. I treat it the same but as I’ve cut back on feeding since there’s so many snails all of a sudden I caused a massive spike when the snails died under the moss covering the whole bottom of the tank. The past week I’ve had 3 shrimp die and my ammonia is at 8.0 poor shrimp. I’m currently moving them all into my established tank that’s twice the size since they’ve been having babies like crazy. Hope my poor shrimp make it through this shit. I feel so awful not having this kit and not paying attention. Everything’s gone perfectly since I started fish keeping like 6 months ago

[@vikalawa5301]

Hi i put my planted tank in sunlight please can you tell a way to keep them good in outside i know its A difficult but please help

[@GabrielNovakovskiNunes]

Hey! Great video! I have a 15l aquarium with 6 pink danio rerio, 5 tanichthys and 1 ampularia... but is very hard to keep the ph and the aquarium stable. The ph keeps lowering to 6.2. Do you think that this happens because i have too much fish? My aquarium is planted, i have 3 different kind of plants

[@glub9075]

I hope you mean gallons, even if it is gallons it a bit over stocked

[@iycekold]

Can you feed the rainbow fish with live food twice per week, the tank would be balance eventually

[@arkhie9883]

Copy! Advice noted! 📝👌

[@gagaloo83]

I've only had tanks since late 2019, and I think this whole time I've been over cleaning my substrate. Until a month ago, I was taking plants and driftwood out and deep cleaning the substrate. Now I'm just doing the top and leaving everything in there. I keep thinking when I add water back I shouldn't see stuff floating around. I squeeze the filters once a month, if that.

[@omarsolom]

shouldn't i clean or siphon the gravel every now and then? and how often should i do it?

[@xaviarxav6549]

Everytime you add/change water

[@evan_symsack3171]

Do you think I could get away with having 1-2 bluegill and some minnows in a 55 gallon

[@jonahmcnaught9448]

are they wild or captive bred if wild maybe if you mimic the wild perfectly but if captive bred then yes most likely what types of minnows are they

[@Drako76able]

Cheers, Link to those ebay lights would be great

[@ziggyboi4880]

Yeah I wish I could find cheap eBay ones

[@tylerjohnson4600]

I just recently am ripping my hair out because I made the decision to try to cut my tap water because it had literally a KH and GH of 0 so I thought it was a good idea to try to cut the water with a little bit of harder water just to try to create a little more stability only to do the opposite and cause major pH fluctuations now I'm facing plant melt and plants not taking in nutrients like they were truly a hard battle.

[@AnthonyWilson-rp6bm]

1k 🤘🏻

[@nuclearme639]

What type of lights do you use for your tanks? I have a 55 gallon tall and I need a better light for my plants. Thanks

[@KeepingFishSimple]

Just led eBay bad ones

[@nuclearme639]

KeepingFishSimple Thank you so much I am starting an Endler colony to sell to a local fish store and I am growing plants to.

[@ianseale5760]

And padding in your room for sound dampening

[@Maxdeexx]

How deep is a deep substrate?

[@campbellwormald7402]

how deep is a deep substrate?

[@allandugel7095]

What kind of substrate you usually use?

[@KeepingFishSimple]

Fine gravel or sand

[@jenniferrice5877]

What plants would you put in 8.4 ph and a high dh and gh? I don't like cichlids. I have live Platys and Corydorus. I used to keep angelfish before I moved here, but, with these water parameters I had to rehome my angelfish. Without plants don't you need to vacuum substrate? My tanks are clear as crystal. Your tanks look like you've forgot them. Consider UV, just don't run it with certain medications if you have to use them like if you have to treat the whole tank for something. I've had planted tanks in the past, still you have to vac gravel. I don't know exactly where you are going with this argument. I'm not trolling you; I really don't get you on this.

[@AussieAquatic]

Java fern and vallisneria both love harder, alkaline water.

[@jenniferrice5877]

@@AussieAquatic thank you I'll try those. Are you talking about the jungle val? I've heard spiral val doesn't like hard water?

[@chia_pet7121]

0:38 No snake oils? What do I use to convert my snakeheads to saltwater?? What have they been selling me then with these fish oil pills? : (

[@krismarkargos1811]

#Thankyou

[@KeepingFishSimple]

#allgood

[@jessw4195]

My tank was in the path of the sunlight shining from a window. Mannnnn I wish I hadn’t done that. All my plants melted

[@SkepyourOwn]

Hey there, I sell angelfish in bulk and I was wondering if I could speak to you about possibly getting in touch. I am also biased in Australia. Just give me an email? thanks.

[@ziggyboi4880]

*based

[@KeepingFishSimple]

There’s a link in about page of channel

[@SkepyourOwn]

Sike 😂😂 good vibes tho

[@alyssadavis5128]

Why is it always “7”? Why not... 9? Or 10? Or 5? Just curious

[@KeepingFishSimple]

7 is my lucky number 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@alyssadavis5128]

KeepingFishSimple lol ok 👌

[@MP-wy1eo]

Don't chase GH! It's more important than PH

[@ok-mb5ul]

thanks for reminding me lol

[@stepheneaglin8833]

I cleaned my tank after a year and I killed about 80 beautiful fish.

[@jonischwarz6280]

I Live your Videos but you never, never reply!