20 Betta Sorority Forest Tank (All in One Aquarium System)

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[@sebastianpichiu5415]

Hi, we do have a couple of fish stores around in scotland but they have a very poor selection of plants, I don`t know why. I was wondering if you can buy them online tho

[@erin_mae_7987]

Ok you definitely need to get a coral reef tank and some clownfish

[@mattdawson5393]

Wish they would ship to the US

[@mcrib5727]

I’ve gotten into aquascaping bc of you MD, thank you for being an inspiration

[@BreadOnDeckk]

You mean tank you right 😉

[@jacobwilliams876]

Me too

[@anthonyamato9405]

Yeah same here! Thank you MD!!

[@JamesSmith-ij3jb]

Do u want a straw 😅😅😅

[@hendywijaya3213]

Yeah same, I'm so addicted to this but my room just has so much space.. What do you guys do with those tanks?

[@leefi1]

I'm not very likely to set up a tank again, I'm old and have enough hobbies to fill my days until I wind up in an urn on some poor unlucky relative's mantelpiece, but I enjoy you immensely. I'm really spoiled by British content, I just can't take my fellow American's weird obsessions with predatory fish, the bravado, the boasting about the "most epic fish room ever", it's embarrassing that we are so sure that we are the best at everything. I've winnowed down my list to you and Matt for fishy entertainment. Give me that self-deprecating British humor, slagging off your friends, and the quiet confidence of a guy like you building one beautiful environment after another, making fun of your own quirks, while educating and entertaining us with ease and grace just for the love of your hobby. It is so gratifying to see a new post from MD Fish Tanks, it is always guaranteed entertainment. Thank you for hours of fun!

[@OVHabitats]

I was concerned that the wood pieces were so symmetrical but as always you created another beautiful scape.

[@MDFishTanks]

so was I 😂😂

[@motoboxtv7548]

31:17 magic happen🎉 it was like watching on 4K TV. Stunning kit, gorgeous aquascape

[@angiebear8727]

For my fellow Americans this is about 38.5 gallons 😉 Beautiful setup 😊really like those wood pieces

[@Bobbitthehobbit]

I had to google it, since it looks very similar in size to my 29, was surprised it’s 10 gallons bigger

[@laosboyhazel6308]

Thank you for this comment 😭

[@angiebear8727]

@@laosboyhazel6308 Yw lol

[@falslea]

Coming to this a year later to say thank you!!!☺️

[@thatonedog819]

Thank you, I appreciate the freedom unit conversion 😂

[@trashmonarch4138]

Amazing how small the tank can look before the scape, and how huge it looks afterwards. 😍 What a gorgeous build! Hats off to you, sir.

[@metukkalover1]

small?💀

[@IndoorEcosystem]

That light is exceptional! Nice looking tank! The wood looking so red is brilliant!

[@akuehn95]

I have enjoyed watch your aqua shaping videos of the years. Even my now 3 year old daughter loves watching the videos with me.

[@elmo101AUS]

I’ve spent the weekend turning two of my tanks into ecosystems following all your wonderful advice! I’m so excited to watch them grow and develop and less maintenance!

[@AndyMahnFL411]

How well that bold red ludwigia pulls it all together tying in with the red from the stems and roots, brilliant!

[@DanielleRobertson-vw4lh]

I tried a sorority like this in my 40 gallon breeder. The two keys with female betta sororities is number and foliage. I found that when i let them get down to 6 the aggression got bad. 16 was a good number, 20 seems perfect to curve the aggression. Lots of plants is key as well. There should be no visibility from one side of tank to the other. Lots of floating plants as well since bettas are labyrinth fish and love to hang out at the top. I miss my sorority. It was so fun. I disagree with those who say its inhumane. You just need to do your research. Mine were thriving. No stress stripes and always dancing around wonderfully at feeding time. Will keep these again in thr future. Im a betta fan for sure. Have 2 males now.

[@lukewallenbeck7645]

I know you're very concerned about the beta fish health and well being. Easy way to test the theory about stress stripes, is to take one of the fish and put them in a smaller set up alone and see if their stripes go away. Might be an interesting video!

[@4kays160]

Been watching you and a few others do these aquascapes lately, so i got a 2ft tank last week heatercand filter, today i went to the local pet store and found there fish really cheap for what they were which is great, then i saw the plant prices and tissue cultures and nearly had a heart attack 😂..

[@griffinrulez2310]

You should do like a lofi hip hop thing but it is one of your favorite fish tanks live, I know fish for you does it, just an idea, love your content keep it up

[@PlayfullyPainting]

Absolutely beautiful❤ my two favorite fish, neon tetras and bettas. You did it again and created a gorgeous planted tank and with the priority being the fish fish. Love this. Thankyou for another fantastic video.

[@tonilynn1597]

This is one of my favourite shapes I've ever seen...I love that wood. Amazing artistry

[@AceButHalfAsSwag]

Thanks to you MD, I finally setup my first aquascape. Thank you so much

[@DieterHuckstedt]

Jo Pokémon

[@stuartreed37]

I like how different your approach for the substrate is, it goes to show there's not just 1 way only that works.

[@kulrock7157]

Thank you! ... I stumbled upon your channel several days ago, one of your shows just appeared in my random list of to watch stuff. I have not stopped... 3 days straight of watching your incredible videos, and I don't even own fish. This video was the final straw.. I couldn't hold out any longer and have bought this very tank as a beginner, and pretty much everything else in your aquascape... not exactly, but close enough. Thanks to your excellent videos, I now own an aquarium and cannot wait to get my gorgeous fish this weekend.. My wife is not happy with you at all :)

[@RicardoJunqueira]

This build actually surprised me. I don't usually like tanks with lids but this one in particular kinda looks good. And of course, you make it even better with that scape. Gorgeous. I wish we had Superfish here in Brasil. Thanks and congrats on another amazing build MD. You rock.

[@clintenjamessulter226]

Im based in South Africa. I love your videos. I have learnt so much about what fish to have together in a tank, aquascaping and what products you use. Thanks for being thorough. Keep those videos coming.

[@daysofmisery94]

Been watching you for a few years now and finally got my first tank and started aquascaping it. Love your videos and thanks for all the tips made my build easy. ❤

[@joeaspley3441]

Good to see what can be done with an off the shelf start up kit. The color of the middle piece of wood really stands out when you put the original lights on👍

[@alanaballoon5661]

i love this tank! the little picture of the discus on the wall made it look like a nice tank displayed in someone’s home

[@filipm_g]

Looks absolutelly stunning 🤩 One of the best aquascapes I have ever seen

[@brandhark7935]

Wait til you see his other videos! :)

[@filipm_g]

@@brandhark7935 been watching him for over 2 years, I know how good his aquascapes can get. Defienietlly recommend

[@MoodyMarkV]

This is really helpful direction on a betta tank, the ecosystem of plants and colors is a piece of are itself

[@oliviaclick6368]

"lets see if we can make a starter tank look as good as the box so if it's your first tank you can see how easy it is!" **proceeds to use materials from older tanks** - I love your videos i'm just poking fun. It would be pretty funny to see you do a challenge where you have to go to petsmart or petco and you can only use what you buy that trip for that tank. It'd be fun to see the growth and if it really does make a huge difference to use already cycled substrate, etc.

[@hightopshannah]

Inspired me to set up my first 10 gallon a year ago, this year its 40 gallon and you're still inspiring me

[@spartacus9311]

That came together very nicely. The vision is now reality!

[@jojocool555]

That was an absorbing video, thanks MD. A real stress buster. x x

[@MandyJane123700]

I love the design of the lid, looks like it would be great if you want to keep fish that jump.

[@aaussie2438]

Always looking forward to an MD fish tanks video

[@dr-k1667]

Beautiful tank that doesn't look budget at all but will allow so many to create something special at an affordable price. Well done MD! Thanks for sharing this brand with us.

[@dianejordan8852]

You got me doing tanks back in Sep.. I thank I have come a long way doing them.. ALSO looked at ever one of your video's you are also on my face book page... And Congratulations on your new work shop...

[@nathanturner8266]

Heat them stickers up and they come right off, my buddy showed me simple tip!! But saves a ton of time and bad words lol.. love your set ups

[@shayxie8318]

their elevated stress was probably from being the cup. I about had a heart attack when you put the neons in, and left the girls in the cup for an additional bit :D I'm sure they've settled down beautifully though. Tank looks gorgeous!

[@AnubisFenrir]

The light that came with the tank is nice I like the way it makes it pop

[@bbfishkc]

Love the color of the wood against the green! I just noticed the other day super fish is making its way out to the US! I saw their home 85 tank on Amazon the other day.

[@bonniegoodwin5653]

You are truly so talented, and it’s a joy to watch your creative process.

[@chazm9458]

This aquarium is absolutely stunning! Definitely saving this video as a reference for when I end up upgrading my set up… eventually.

[@goodmuffin3542]

Great scape as always! One thing that might look better is if you remove some of the plants between the three "points". I believe it will highlight the wood and plants around it. Otherwise the background seems so "flat" if it is full with plants but that's just my opinion 😆

[@carolebraswell982]

Thank you for making videos like this, so educational, encouraging and inspiring!

[@outdoorfr3ak]

I went full planted into gravel to see how it did. No root tabs. Everything is taking off and doing well. Besides the cryp I had

[@E.T.musics]

Great ones you create. İ have sone questions : 1-) the plants that you stick on the rocks and woods hoe do they grow they do not benefit from the susbtract in the end right ? Why did not put a male betta into this tank ? 3-) in general how many hours a day you leave the lights on to grow the plants

[@heaven8032]

I am going to start a sorority tank thanks to this video... Let's see if everything will go well. I have ordered a LOT of plants you mentioned.

[@rickybell2.056]

Snails and shrimp are some clean up crew , endler guppies also do a good job at cleaning, cherry shrimp are great and breed like anything 😊

[@neilwood1557]

Thanks

[@MDFishTanks]

wow! thanks a lot Neil 👍👍

[@neilwood1557]

@@MDFishTanks You're an inspiration to my Wife and Myself. We're currently up to seven tanks. Lol.

[@MDFishTanks]

@@neilwood1557 thats awesome mate

[@barbarastrohmenger6123]

What a beautiful scape!! I was starting to have withdrawals waiting for you to make another video. Bravo

[@simonbuys]

This is exactly the video i was waiting for. I was hoping you would test the start kit, great video!

[@timherstel5445]

Cool scape mate. Looking at cardinals next to neons, cardinals really are so much more elegant and pretty. Thanks for the upload!

[@aqhan]

I used to use backgrounds like that, but I never had much luck in having them stay on and once a little water gets in between, that's it, it looks bad. In my opinion, obviously. So I started to paint my tanks and they look amazing!

[@conradbo1]

Once again you built an amazing setup. Your videos and talent are very inspirational

[@matthewcarey7323]

She's a beauty Clark! Another job well done.

[@DavinderSingh-wv7eh]

Love the hardscape! I feel like tall vertical leaves in the back would compliment the scape more, eg valis and less plants in the midground. This video has provided great inspiration, thank you!

[@georgiamacdonald7874]

The wood looks so symertrical i was concerned but it definitely turned out to be a beautiful scape!

[@shaikmubasheer8222]

Super awesome as you said it looks exactly like a tv... the credit goes all to you MD keep them videos coming and waiting for the discus tank 🎉🎉 Best Best setup great setup ❤

[@chaddavid1528]

Beautiful Scape. Stay Hydrated. YOU ROCK MD ❤

[@yashtapase3821]

This turns out so well 😍 I really like the bottom root thing it looks so natural 😍 I'm gonna try that md sir 😅 Huge respect and love from india 🇮🇳 brother 🙏 ❤️

[@chiprodda2634]

Super fish needs to go to America!!! Amazing tank and scape. You made me feel good about owning 5 luxury items. 😂

[@ant_corp2517]

this might be my favourite scape you have done yet

[@Scorpielle]

WOW ! Another Gorgeous tank. Thank you!!! ❤

[@Leon_vd69]

Such a simple but beautiful scape👌🤌

[@davidcampbell4050]

Could you do a more long-term set up? That requires that time for the plants to grow? do an updates on it so that we can see how it grows overtime?

[@alphafalcon7008]

this channel really does make me feel happy seeing this amazing tanks for the fishes and plants 😄

[@TheRealTMar]

Superfish is available all around here. I've made a nice scape in an SF 50, but I'm moving the whole lot into an SF 70 soon for practicality.

[@luisablonk2510]

Wow i love the way its decorated.❤

[@splittheredsea]

This might be "The One" until the next one 😂 I love it! Thx for all the content. I almost said hard work, but you love it to much to qualify as work.

[@kevin113423]

Do you eventually have to replace the bottom soil layer or does the nitrogen cycle put nutrients back into it as things breakdown?

[@FreakyT333]

Wow that looks crisp!

[@Luke_Ray16]

I can’t understand how someone can be this bloody talented 😂

[@pievoso7145]

I want to do my first aquarium, and yours helping me so much!! I had one last year with only a snail (but e little bigger) it was an artificial aquarium boring and ugly, and this year I wanted to make an forest one

[@frittibreezedancer]

Very nice indeed! I do like these starter kits, they're great value for money. I haven't seen SuperFish here in the Netherlands, but a few weeks ago I picked up a Tetra starter kit, which was 100 euros for a 60x30x30 including filter with media and flat sponges, heater that goes in the filter housing, light in the lid, a bottle of SafeStart and a small jar of food, for my Platies, and it's been doing fantastic. Just like you, I would definitely recommend these starter kits, both for new enthusiasts in the hobby as well as for more experienced aquarists like myself; you just can't beat the value for money ^_^

[@markpegler3277]

You make it look so easy another great tank

[@jonathanpelser8218]

Love the scape MD!! ❤ Have you considered doing a snakehead/bichir scape ? I think that'll be awesome to see

[@maurinedoyle9964]

The word cheaper has the connotation of being low quality - Better to say low price, less expensive, budget friendly ❤

[@karikristinehaugberg3890]

Oh wow! I'm at 26 minutes in, and that wood seriously popped ! With the vibrant green and that reddish hued wood - my mind when straight into - "I wonder how it would look with gold tetras or other really gold shimmer fish

[@AsianAmericanGuy]

Every video that MD fishtanks posts always makes me wanna just go out and buy a new aquarium then stock it up with 100s of fishes.

[@Poeticfloetic]

*fish always singular

[@xcistens]

Beautiful tank, looks gorgeous! A fun project might be that you could do a proper budget build and show how it develops with time, and skip the "KZbinr setup" for us to follow, I know it would be great for me that wants to get into the hobby/lifestyle. Cheers!

[@BudBando]

Would be cool to perhaps see a shallow tank made with Timmy's old tank. Maybe a small school of nano fish that will be fine in shallow water. If not even a shrimp setup would be nice as I think it would be a bit of a different scape for you which would be quite a cool "challenge" to see

[@MC-HaveFaithInJesus]

Super Fish HAS to start distributing in the US!

[@gidgitvonlarue9972]

Have you done a similar tank but it's 'free standing' as in not against a wall - but can see it from the kitchen and the lounge room - either side? I just bought a new tank - thanks to you - now trying to work out how to 'decorate' it so it's beautiful both sides and can see the fish swimming around while I'm cooking. xxxx

[@raylexa]

I have two for those filters one in my 3 foot tank and one in my 4 foot tank along with my canister filter they are really good easy enough to clean and have great flow rate even if they haven't been cleaned out for a month or two would recommend they also have charcoal inside the sponges so they filter out all the fine dust my fish keep digging up

[@loribalderston214]

Gorgeous tank as always!

[@yashtapase3821]

28:38 U know that's the problem with hobbyist to build planted tanks. BTW great message 👍

[@TobiasWeberRSA]

Started the video. My wife "my favorite bald fish person!" 😂 She also says she finds your voice really soothing and thinks you should do voice over work. 🤣

[@theaquascapecorner]

i have 2 superfish starts, they were my 2nd and 3rd tanks! really recommend.

[@NoahsDimension]

Love the tank! New to the hobby! I’ve always wondered, call me stupid, what do we do once the soil is depleted of nutrients? Switch to liquid fertilizer? CO2 installation? Anyways, your tanks are amazing! Hopefully i can have a few at my bureau as well in the future

[@victoriablack5552]

The way I was taught to remember the difference between concave and convex, was that you can walk into a cave and the concave shape reflects this.

[@KebunH]

Love this one, has kind of a japanese vibe to it for some reason

[@rettag2020]

When you said, "looks like a t.v.", I was thinking this is BETTER than t.v. 😂 Awesome, beautiful tank as always MD ❤

[@sea9850]

love your videos hope there will be more cichlids and hardscape vids in the future🎉

[@lorispencer2046]

Lovely tank. I had a 55 gallon tank years ago, and I'm really considering getting a Superfish tank kit. I live in a tiny house though so, I've gotta find the room first. I had to tell you this, when I hit the link to see if there was a store near me that sells the kits in Tennessee, the only hit it got was the body farm at the University of Tennessee. I laughed a bit. If you don't know what that is, you've got to look it up.

[@GodisTruth914]

I love it!!! it's gorgeous!!!

[@markfranklin8831]

Great job just beautiful as always thanks for sharing 💗👍✌️💯

[@prashanthgururaj]

Amazing Scape 👌🏾looks like HD TV 📺

[@samruddhashivakumar1460]

sad to see the giant betta sorority go was one of my favorites on the channel

[@AlikDr82]

Шикарно смотрится !

[@mickehaglund4119]

Very nice! Love that tank!

[@renaldsmith4492]

For those windows u can get those blinds the one used in offices . That way u can adjust the lighting 😅