How your houseplants can THRIVE in an aquarium

[@emma.sakowicz]

"Think outside the aquarium" I like that. Mother nature is amazing

[@markbrierley3831]

It’s about time someone showed the best way to add house plants

[@SansVertigo]

Using indoor plants in aquariums is such an underrated thing in the hobby. I really recommend anyone with the space and lighting to try this out. I've kept aquariums like this for many years- nitrate is never a problem-- except sometimes you need to add nitrogen for the plants if your aquarium doesn't have a lot of fish. The house plants will guzzle the nitrogen and will show deficiency clearly if they aren't getting enough!

[@jhowardsupporter]

Why not just use marginal plants, i.e pond plants?

[@grantsamuels6310]

I've always thought by doing this the roots will rot

[@SansVertigo]

Lack of waterflow/oxygen is the usual cause of root rot. In an overwatered house plant, the water is sitting stagnant in a pot full of dirt. In the aquarium we're using different substrates, usually have a filter and it's not 15cm deep waterlogged dirt!

[@rrimac]

I was your biggest fan from the day one. You never dissapoint to emerse me to love your channel even more. Thank you for that. Your cinematography is still DOPE!

[@sirleto]

yes, a great video i was looking for! besides the perfect production quality (audio, voice, post,lighting) it has lovely examples and a clear to follow guide. a super simple plant i also keep in this way (even in a passive low tech aq) is epipremnum aureum, it can grow many meters long out of very small AQs, definitely great to make small flats look junglish!

[@hanplant]

I have Pothos, Lucky Bamboo, Umbrella Plant and Gold Ribbon currently adorning the tops of my 55 gal aquarium. I just realized through your video that one of my potted house plants may do significantly better in my tank, so I’m going to hop on that. Thank you!

[@JuanSalazar-j316]

Narrator voice, good teacher, great aquarist, definitely like!!!

[@aquariumaquarium8080]

Wooow this channel has a voice....finally 🎉!!!!! Great video man awesome work!

[@CeCee-no8bg]

Your voice is amazing! Love the content of your channel too!😊

[@jurassic_hobbyonmyaltaccou3878]

YOU CAN TALK!?!? Nah just kiddin, perfect timing I was bored 😅🔥

[@andreascreasatmarkwijayasi7191]

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[@lorraineyanez4301]

I find it so fascinating that over watering a potted plant kills it but this method many thrive. I currently have an orchid in water culture method.

[@MissChelle]

Lovely tank. I too use plants like this…. I love the nature corner in my house, it’s therapeutic value is immense 🇦🇺❤️

[@benjaminjahn7632]

Another good reason to keep houseplants this way: no need to water them anymore! :) Great video as usual, thanks!

[@sdqsdq6274]

lol , i always kept it that way, while i kill plants in a soil pot, how ironic

[@asifali007]

This one is really helpful..for those thinking of using indoor plants in aquarium

[@lisasaxon7828]

The most handsome and best scaper..with a lovely voice too

[@lesleygoodall-page8035]

I’ve just started doing this and it’s incrediblw

[@zodziejsonca6010]

It was your work that inspired me to build a "house for fish and plants" - THANKS from POLAND

[@MehHalfhearted]

I love it! And yeah its crazy seeing what you can grow in hydroponics. The craziest thing I've grown was a maple tree seed that I sprouted on a patch of moss, was lovely while I had it but I had to get rid of it because the nutrient drain on the tank was too high.

[@rickyabdullah4758]

Great explanation for houseplants to be survive

[@loganmanweiler4957]

I love your style of scapes and bite sized format ❤ I’m excited to binge your videos when I get home from work

[@masonhoza]

Dude, easily my favorite channel on here! Such incredible works of living art!

[@TheCineScaper]

Thank you! :)

[@Scumfrog74]

Oh my goodness, your string of hearts is amazing

[@alexandrafontaine8111]

I’m in love with all your video. And your voice style « storytelling » is 🙌🏻✨ Bonjour from Québec. French 🇨🇦💁🏻‍♀️

[@Agnus78]

Amazing idea and execution. I need to try this in my new cube shaped aquarium :)

[@deancostopoulos9218]

Thanks for this! I am going to try and incorporate this concept with vampire crabs and turtles. Keep up the great work on the channel.

[@siov4279]

I have been struggling with growing orchids or phalaenopsis and recently came across some information about growing them in tanks. I recently saved my large Orchid yesterday when I noticed signs of over-watering. I have it in filtered water I put a very small amount of potassium permanganate and, have it DWC since, since/ the light purple is gone now. but the air is bubbling till I can get something permanent. I live in upstate NY. and have baseboard heater apartment. I use evaporative humidifier and have Chicago hearty fig trees, a few dragon fruit, and a 5-gallon bucket of potatoes in my small place. I LOVE plants and gardening! Oh yeah I just started Goji berries from seed and garlic from bulb for next years crops also. Muy girlfriend has a nice lot. and we both compost! Love your videos!

[@Myndi78]

Ive just started growing plants out of my aquariums, I went with pothos and monstera to begin with since it seems alot of people are having luck with those. Above the aquariums I have potted plants that hangs down and I attached a chain that runs along the ceiling and drops down between my aquariums so I have something to attach the pothos to. On the other end of that wall there is sunlight most of the day so I am working on a planted wall where I will also have pothos growing up attached to a rack on the wall and later I will bolt on some pots so I can add flowering plants for color. I have bigger plants like a palmtree, monstera etc on the floor wich creates depth. Basically Im trying to turn the entire side of the livingroom into a jungle with open-top "pond" aquariums both blackwater and regular. Its allready starting to take form but in a year or so it is going to be uh-mazing! 😍

[@SaidAlSeveres]

That is the most fabulous asparagus fern I ever did see. ❤ swwooooooon

[@tombarb2864]

Greetings from Southern California USA. Great ideas/tips. I love your channel and content, make more vids please

[@justcreepy8592]

Your voice sounds very soothing❤ Very nice video, something new for me. Thank you

[@PhuongNguyen-yq4ts]

Stunning idea !!!!! Love it!!!! 😍😍

[@Hugsey1984]

Just stumbled across this video and really enjoyed it, this is what KZbin was made for, I'm now a new subscriber. Well done

[@KamiInValhalla]

Have watched your videos for a long time. Finally decided to give it a try it out with calla lilly.

[@CherokeeAquatics]

"Think outside the aquarium" I love that.

[@dcphifer4307]

Hello. I just happened upon this video looking for a habitat for my Seven-Stripe Cichlids. I just love this video and concept. I am in my 70s and only 15 months into Fish Keeping. I will go out tomorrow and look for a taller Driftwood to anchor a few Plants to. I just can't tell you enough how excited I am about finding this video. Thank you. Blessings

[@TheCineScaper]

Thanks 🙌

[@Necrosias]

I love to experiment with emers (Aquaponic) growth. Peace-Lilly works great, Bamboo too. I got several experiments on my KZbin Channel, too. But only in german language

[@voluntaryismistheanswer]

I watch many videos in languages I don't know, including cooking, gardening, crafts - the translation works, and most of the time there are few words, anyway. Good luck!

[@justinejules2941]

I did not expect your voice to be like that. As always, great vid!

[@cherriethomas9538]

Oh my the ideas you've given me. Blessings

[@MoMoey]

LOOOOOVE the style of the video that you makes!!!

[@MayYourGodGoWithYou]

Two other good plants I have found are the ''lucky bamboo'' and the spider plant. Currently I am using an old glass mixing bowl which I have banked soil up at the back and covered with gravel so it can't escape. The spider plant sits on top of some stones with the roots in the water but also in the soil while the lucky bamboo sits on the sandy bottom in front of the stone 'wall'. I don't have any fish but I do add houseplant fertilizer ever now and again and they are loving it. Since planting them both plants have doubled in size with the ''bamboo'' shooting out from extra nodes down the stems. I am hoping to get an aquarium to plant in, my problem is I don't want to use a heater so am limited in what fish I can use (would like to use rice fish but they aren't available here currently). But I think aquariums with both land and water plants in are probably the best ones, especially from the viewing point of view. Enjoyed this video as usual.

[@rosemarydudley9954]

I have spider plants too. They are doing well in my unheated aquariums. I also pull some other plants from my country walks. They are doing well too. I don't really like the idea of plants growing out of the top as a lot of fish need tank lids because they jump out.

[@MayYourGodGoWithYou]

@@rosemarydudley9954 Apparently the solution is to just keep your water level a couple of inches below the top. I follow someone with something like 50 aquascaped aquariums which all have fish in them and none have lids on them. But he has also never lost any fish to jumping out of the tank, his solution is that while he has plenty of floating plants which probably helps he simply keeps the water level a couple of inches down from the top and it seems to solve the problem. He has beta fish in some tanks as well which seem to be the main offenders for most people but lots of other species as well. If you are interested the channel is MD Fish Tanks and you will see what I mean. He also has plants growing - deliberately - out of a couple of his tanks with others where the actual water plants are just growing on up out of the water. He has even scaped a tank in a local fish/aquarium shop where they put a lot of plants -spider plants/ peace lilies - growing out of the top to show customers how you can do it.

[@colossuses]

Great setting, production, quality and informative 👌🏿

[@rubygold2007f]

Can you do a video talking about the pest that come along with this method and how to manage them! Thank you! 🙏🏾

[@connornewkirk2887]

Your vids just get better and better!

[@Ishiisan]

I got started from Pothos like many aquarists in this hobby. From there, I've tried Dracaena trifasciata, Dracaena sanderiana, and many others :)

[@pallavimukhiya8426]

You are making master piece....loved your work ...

[@gabe61willys]

Awesome. I love the monstera in my 55. I’ve also have some beautiful Pathos plants in one of my bowfronts that are doing great

[@ckid8957]

Been talking to the boss about plants in aquariums, thank you for the info and direction on how and what's best

[@canecorsomolosser3294]

Bro you just made day👍💯, tnkx for uploading this video. Will definitely do this 😀

[@elbenwolf4438]

Stunning - thank you so much!!! (And thx for writing down the names again. ;-)

[@brankhaykhondar1195]

I am very fascinated by aquaponics and I practice it in my aquarium. I've been following you recently but I immediately fell in love with your concept of aquarium. it would be very useful to the community if I made a video in which you list which indoor plants are usable in addition to those already mentioned. also I would like to know your opinion on the use of orchids in aquaponics .... are they plants that could work? they have a truly spectacular root system. anyway, congratulations! you are truly a talent!

[@voluntaryismistheanswer]

I wish I could cram my six ft tall exotic gardenias in lol

[@PaulZyCZ]

It depends if they can grow directly from the water or they need a substrate reaching it (coconut threads?). I heard some ferns cannot grow directly from water, but if they have some "buffer" substrate to root in, they fit in.

[@susanbecker5610]

I saw, in a fish group on Facebook, where someone shared a photo of their orchid which had actually bloomed under the water. The entire plant was under. I was amazed. I don't know if it was a specific species, but it worked for them.

[@nellygmclean9069]

If you can't get plant lights would sunlight by a window be enough

[@Jmlopesdias]

Thanks for sharing! Great work.

[@robc5520]

Brilliant! Excellent! Thank you!

[@Nick-ul1iq]

True artist I love your videos so much keep them coming!

[@Кринжальдо]

Man, your channel is awesome!

[@voluntaryismistheanswer]

Thank you! It's the annual seasonal chaos of repotting and bringing in the tropicals, (both plants and guppies), and I am grateful to have such inspiration while I'm working out the details of what goes where- last winter's attempt to grow ti plant in my hex tank was not especially successful, I needed to borrow fresh eyes.

[@chrissheehan459]

I do this too, its really easy and looks great in your tank. I like to suspend mine and the roots stay floating in the water while the plant grows above. The fish love swimming and hiding in the roots. HOWEVER, its the perfect escape ladder if you have any crabs...

[@hlayer5822]

Sooooo satisfying! Thank you!

[@andrewcul]

stunning! yet again!!

[@xerxeth1861]

new sub just found your channel. Very inspiring, I'll be working on adding a monstera plant to my 125g tank this weekend!

[@marta_na_moto]

I have a lowboy with pleeenty of different spiecies, most that you listed but my biggest joy is.. simple ferns that I bought for like 2 punds when they were 10cm tall and now they deeply rooted into the scape and are full sized plants:D Also my potte plants trive watered by water change left overs :) How you manage to keep that maiden hair though.. you must have a greener thumb XD

[@MrVili83]

Salut merci pour cette vidéo ^^ Alors oui ses super intéressants cette culture et qui va m'aider à faire vivre mes plantes et cela m'intéresse beaucoup car je n'ai pas beaucoup de connaissances a ce sujet. Alors oui j'aimerais en savoir plus sur le sujet. Et merci pour ton travail t'es vidéos et le partage dans notre passion. A très vite pour une nouvelle vidéo. Bonne soirée

[@criteschristine]

I always enjoy your videos and content!

[@ashokrayvenn]

It DOES look dope. Great video.

[@GoodSamaritan1972]

Hi . I love you channel. This is an amazing idea but i am worried about one thing tho...how do you sterilize the house plants before putting them in? Wouldnt they be carrying any pathogens that could harm your fishes

[@aqualabcreations]

Love the ferns!

[@PaulZyCZ]

I've seen things like Hygrophilla or Anubias growing out of water, I knew about houseplants being reproduced this way, but I didn't realize this is possible until few years ago. It's possible for basically any houseplant unless it's cactus. Nowadays there are companies, which make drip walls for aquariums (at least as a custom job). This is more impressive, esp. with Dark water natural scape. Overall a small aquarium looks much much bigger. There are multiple options to do this, with imagination being the limit: * using aquarium decoration (roots) * planted overhead/internal sump * plastic grid holding the plants * holder from a thick isolated wire * paludarium ... It's easier with open aquariums, but even pothos can grow from covered aquarium, if the humidity or jumpers are the issue. I'm careful with this, but one guy had 26 aquariums at one point in his flat, often completely open and somehow he managed the humidity. I've got some pothos plants growing from my fish tanks, paludarium with submersed crypts and emerse anubis and Peace Lily, all growing well. I plant to move few of--shoots of the Peace Lily to my largest tank, it helps I'm not using glass, but polymer cover there.

[@cuccimonster9728]

Might want to change title from ‘survive’ to ‘thrive’ !! Great content!

[@PsRetrogamer]

Amazing video as always. Just an important thing to notice: be careful with peace lilies around your cat. I'm sure you know this, but this info might be helpful for someone else watching the video. Source: I'm a vet 👨‍⚕️

[@sthomas978]

Wow! He speaks!!

[@Palamont]

Very informative and inspiring

[@basschurink]

This is very inspiring!! Thank you so much!

[@michaelmoryl9675]

hi, your video is very nice. I would like to know if you put your emerged plants directly with their roots in the water or if you adapt them? I would like to be inspired by your creations but the plants need, I think, to adapt to being permanently in water. what do you think?

[@riverwoodaquatics7028]

Beautiful video as always 🌱🙌🏻

[@izadajda5082]

Pięknie wygląda 👍.

[@AlekBureaucrat]

Спасибо за советы, очень ценим:)

[@Thomas81000]

That’s exactly what I needed !

[@K-FOREST_Original]

Hi! How are you? October has begun. It's getting winter. I wish you good health and good things this week as well. Thank you very much.

[@asyraaafs]

First time we hear you talking in the video (i think) hahahah. Great vid!!!

[@SupremeScapes]

You deserve much more subscribers

[@emmanuelalfonso8943]

Wow..,one day I will be like you!!!😀✌️❤️

[@didnthurt4077]

Editing is on point as usual! Thanks for another high quality video 🙂 Greets from Austria!

[@darrenderousse4804]

Cool video! I want to try this one day! Keep up the great content!

[@iwakhias]

Cantiknya 🌿❤

[@dmitrimikrioukov5935]

I grew rice and lucky bamboo in my aquarium until I added a goldfish... Cryptocoryne can also be grown as a regular houseplant, by the way.

[@killertank3168]

So amazing 😍

[@robstyles2675]

I put some pothos cutting inna fishbowl with a couple wild fish a couple months ago and the pothos has turned into a full bush with large roots the fish poop I believe fertilizes it it's pretty cool

[@AndrewStuderVisuals]

Amazing!

[@Mahavegan]

I've been having Ripariums and Paludariums for so many years and it is definitely my favorite! All of them I tested myself throughout the years: Anthurium, different types of Fern, different types of Palm, Spider Plant, Red Dracaena/ Green Dracaena, Dracaena Trifasciata Pothos, Tradescantia Zebrina, Tradescantia Pallida, Zebra Plant, Peace Lily, Chinese Money Plant, Lucky Bamboo, Fittonia, Syngonium, Bacopas, Basil, Rosemary, Thyme, etc. They are all Low to Medium light but I recommend Medium to all. Liquid Fertilizer helps too!

[@pip1591]

Many thanks, very helpful...what do you use for fertiliser please?

[@sashanthreddy170]

Finally your *voice*

[@nurseyj9]

This is how I have my tanks, with Peace lily, Monstera minima, Anthurium, Pothos, Creeping jenny, mint, all growing like crazy bursting out of them

[@stevenpavan327]

Great video. Bravo.

[@Robert_A_Keyboards4948]

Fantastic! Do you have a problem with fungus gnats?

[@proteinman1981]

Aquarium water is highly oxygenated comparative to a stagnant body of water, which is why house plants can handle submerged roots. I have a forest of peace lily, pothos and arrowleaf growing from my aquariums to the point where I consider the plants to the star of the show.

[@squeezejoy]

Hi! Have you tried growing orchid above an aquarium? I have that idea for a while. Still brainstorming it :-) 😊

[@secession77]

What is a monthly cost of maintaining such hydroponic tank? How often do you need to change water? I want this so badly 😍

[@ThearanumkhCustombike]

Good idea 😊

[@richwhatelse1256]

Does fertilizer need to be used to keep the bonsai alive? If so which one do you use? :)

[@dhammaboy1203]

This is a really cool idea - it does look great. If i did this with Cichlids can it harm them if they try to eat them?

[@MorningStar5354]

Please come back with a new video, I am waiting for you . Your videos are of different level