Aquascape Tutorial: Golden Nugget Pleco Aquarium (How To Step by Step Planted Fish Tank Guide)

[@MDFishTanks]

NEW MERCH CLICK HERE: teespring.com/en-GB/stores/md-fish-tanks After just over a month of having the golden nugget pleco....my plants are trashed 🤣. I'm pretty sure it is just this pleco as there were no problems with the plants in the amazon tank until i put this fish in. Hopefully things will sort themselves out. o I really like the little nugget but i never see it. Let's make a scape so I can enjoy it a bit more :) Equipment (all links affiliate): GOOD BUDGET LIGHT: US amzn.to/2MDfjk1 UK amzn.to/3iYlfQQ SMALL HANG ON BACK FILTER: US amzn.to/2Mw63OO UK amzn.to/39rx3b5 NANO INTERNAL FILTER: US amzn.to/3oxGBWm UK amzn.to/3vwIG9M LED FLOODLIGHTS: US amzn.to/3t6HOHD UK amzn.to/3orIdRv CANISTER FILTER: US amzn.to/3iNeVtW UK amzn.to/2Fo774a GOOSENECK CLIP ON LAMP: (similar as product is now discontinued) US amzn.to/2IlwLVA UK amzn.to/2LNat13 MINI WATER PUMP: US amzn.to/2oAmf5y UK amzn.to/2mjHDez TANKS: US amzn.to/2SOocHG UK amzn.to/2SPA24i STRIP LED LIGHT: US (similar) amzn.to/2SNgbm7 UK amzn.to/2Fn9aW1 ASTA LED LIGHT: US amzn.to/3k9EmpY UK amzn.to/3p5XUPY AQUARIUM RACKING: Shelving: US amzn.to/2SrYZ5k UK amzn.to/2GFWKJ2 AIRPUMP (FILTER SYSTEM): US amzn.to/31z8FA9 UK amzn.to/37GIoUa FILTER SPONGES: US amzn.to/3dQLUfM UK amzn.to/3dS2k7K MEDIA BAGS: US amzn.to/34Kaf2N UK amzn.to/3lAj3z1 STAINLESS LILY PIPES: US amzn.to/2FqHpvR UK amzn.to/2RlfrnC BOWL AQUARIUMS: US amzn.to/2M4FwFO Amazo UK: amzn.to/2Vx73CL

[@closetocreamy]

You should get phantom plecos next their awesome.

[@henk4700]

Hey MD thit you ever thout about an dwarf crawfish for the shrimp reck? Its an great animal that looks like an amano shrimp but orange or other colors.

[@Sharing_Our_Planet]

I hope you see the pleco more now MD.

[@steamy1233]

Can you show a video where you show your plant storage tanks. I am setting up a farm so.😀

[@veryrandom3666]

Epic vid

[@kathrynkuhn9649]

I am in the states. I have had aquariums my whole life. I got big into it and got busy with life and kind of put it on the back burner for a while. After seeing your videos and the way you explain things, i have reworked and am in the process of getting everything back to what it was and better. You have reawakened my love for aquariums. Thank you sooooo much!!!!!!

[@MDFishTanks]

that's great kathryn. nice one :)

[@aquaracer65]

MD, your Golden Nugget (Baryancistrus xanthellus) is endemic to the Rio Xingú river system in Brazil where it lives in rapids between rocks and boulders.There are no plants in their habitat, only scattered driftwood and overall temperatures are pretty high, up to 30°C. It feeds from algea and small invertebrates and crustaceans that live on the rocks. The water flows really fast. Most of the tetras and dwarf cichlids in your Amazon tank live in jungle streams and lakes (Igarapés) with lots of shade from floating plants and overhanging jungle vegetation. Also lots of driftwood and leaves in the water and sometimes submerged plants if there is enough light. Both Amazon biotopes but very different habitats. The Amazon is vast! ;) To make your nuggy super happy, I would put a flow pump in the tank, up the temp a few degrees if possible and feed it also some bloodworms, artemia or likewise because the fish is omnivorous. And it will grow big for sure. Only recently stumbled over your chanel by the way. Great work and you’re a very talented aquascaper! Keep up the good work!

[@AG-wf4mu]

Crime: Eating plants Suspect: Gold Nugget Pleco Verdict: Guilty Sentence : his/her very own tank

[@crys1859]

@Star Shine thank you for recognising this and for recognising that nb people like me exist.

[@jeffedwards823]

@Star Shine oh god,WHERES TRUMP

[@thehannahgaylord]

The easiest sentence ever. Custom made solitude. 🤣

[@nick-her9275]

@Star Shine your either he or she. If your Male I will use Male pronouns and female pronouns for females.

[@Nomadistar]

LOL. Nailed it! :)

[@Chezmeralda]

Awww hopefully you'll get to see more of the little guy now!

[@MDFishTanks]

yeah for sure. Seeing him loads already. More to come :)

[@johnlanger7852]

plecos like places to graze on algae and hide from traffic. Love the fact you share your positive and negative experiences as you have them.

[@deb5110]

Please bring a long Cinematic Video on the Amazon aquarium, it feels like heaven

[@Forgot3nBurrito]

I’m impressed you were able to net that pleco in that tank. Great job with the new scape. It could be a good tank for a betta fish to go with the pleco

[@geyourmoder]

every time you are renovating a aquascape, its looks like new

[@UKFishCam]

You are so talented, all the scapes are next level

[@Dracolyte96]

Holy shit, even your simpler scapes are really good ! You really are a great inspiration to many aquascapist around the world. Keep up the good work !

[@marktopp745]

Got one of these Beauties about 12 months ago at a reasonable price as a Stand out Pleco. And Wow like you said He/She is gorgeous. It’s grown a little but not a great deal at only about 4 inches. Master of my South American cichlid tank.

[@stormtrooper2010]

MD, I’ve never kept a Gold Nugget pleco, but the Bristle Nose, and Dwarf Gold Spot plecos I do keep are not plant eaters. Now the Ramshorn snails in my tanks are another story, they turn planted tanks into an all you can eat salad bar and trash all my plants. I’m in the process of “removing” them all now, let’s just say I have a friend with a happy puffer fish, and I have a dozen Assassin snails that are hunting down the elusive remainder. Oh,… TIMMMAAAAYYY!!!!

[@MoneyMeech]

MD getting giddy about the Pearl Weed growing out of water was great content 😂👍🏼

[@alejthagreat]

Bought a very nice snowball pleco yesterday. But oh boy he’s uprooting all my plants and mixing up my sand and aqua soil. So here I am now planning on using my spare 10 gallon for him 😀

[@ndbyers23]

I am so happy I found your channel. Just beautiful ❣️❣️ I really want your fish room but smaller, with 3 tanks! And all your rock and wood. Thanks for sharing such beauty!!

[@SunFlower-cq6gi]

You have a video for every fresh water fish😂. I’m trying to make my bristlenose pleco more happy and I just knew you’d have a video 😂

[@LuisRomero-xt3be]

Beautiful pleco fish, beautiful planted tank, I love everything about this hobby

[@SCHEY101]

Love your passion for the hobby, you got me into planted tanks, from Aussie living in France.

[@hondasaurusrex6998]

It's always a good day when MD puts out a video!

[@mtrzkagalwala]

Finally he gets his own tank🔥

[@finsmith540]

Wow this Tank has really come Together!

[@collinskj1963]

I'm sure that most of us can relate to the excitement in your voice when you caught the pleco.

[@thestonetortoise]

From what I have learned on aquarium coop the pleco is more likely to eat soft fiber plants like econodoris and Alternanthera type plants. Thank you for all the inspiration and information that you provide on your channel!!!

[@darrenderousse4804]

Nice scape MD! I like the cave you created with the wood! I know the joys of a pleco tearing up your scape! My bristle nose doesn’t like when I put plants around his driftwood! I’ve had to glue all my anubius down cause he doesn’t let it root to the wood! Always knocking them off! That’s a beautiful pleco though! Hope it all works out!

[@faedoyle4147]

Just a beautiful specimen!! I agree, it’ll be cool to see what plants get munched on and which ones it’ll leave alone! ❤️❤️

[@iamDarrennn]

Superb content MD :) This bloke needs a million subs man :)

[@justaguyontheinternet9751]

Haha look who predicted the pleco incident....... BTW nice scape as always

[@MDFishTanks]

my bad lol.

[@AndeeKiss]

Another beautiful aquarium for that naughty fish! 😍 I know it was built for him/her specially, but I would put a few nano fish in it also. Just to have a little more "life" in it... Something like a little group of Pseudomugil furcatus aka Popondetta furcata aka Forktail blue-eye maybe? 🤔😉😁

[@williamannelli3684]

3-18-21,MD put in more plants. That is a beautiful fish. I might get one, William

[@mladenivankovic9139]

super nice! heaven tank for any pleco :) maybe floating plants to dim the light... cuz they don't like over brightness

[@adamski7956]

MD, The King Of DIY set up a podcast channel you should be on it Love the gold nugget pleco it looks soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cool!

[@SlickNick3]

I love watching your build videos! Helps me be more creative in setting up my own aquariums!

[@martinicu]

hey MD . I've been procrastinating on my build because you supply all your videos. BTW learning a lot of early England Hx by viewing 'The Last Kingdom" on Netflix . :D

[@keikol.7110]

So happy your making a pleco tank 😊 long fin bristtlenose are great too 😊

[@rogervignesh]

Nicee!! You managed to catch the pleco😅😅 Your content is really good!! Keep up the good work MD🐟🐠🐟🐠

[@chrisj6243]

Such am awesome fish, love the scape u made for him. Hope to see him more often now, another great tank MD👍👍👍

[@michellemonraz]

Gosh I love your videos so much! After just one video I definitely had to subscribe!

[@jackanddan]

nice job Mate....it's so hard to catch these little suckers....we recently moved our royal blue pleco and it took an hour hahaha....hopefully he stays where he is for a while....this little dude is so handsome MD....looks great where he is is know and he'll like his zuchs for sure!

[@toothpicdinosaur3777]

Glad too see more pristilla maxillaris out there!

[@lolripz4377]

Its always good to see you upload videos

[@wyattmurdock152]

Omg MD another great aquascape

[@benhoward3415]

What an incredibly gorgeous fish!!!

[@VonArx_]

Timmy is my spirit animal

[@_nen0002_]

Yeyy!! Pleco Very nice tank! 🥇

[@MDFishTanks]

thank you

[@magda8189]

when i watched started to watch this video there were 17 views after nine minutes there were 410 ps. love your aquariums

[@zendanglperfecttiming8055]

Wow. Another video from you MD Fish Tank. ☺️

[@doubleechoproductions]

When are you doing the buddha tank update? I love your chanel it's super informative!

[@elsedavila9832]

Love too watch ur videos I have gold fish turtles n guppies in different tanks I wish I can do ur decorations like u u r amazing thank you 👍🏻

[@christopher_scott]

AMAZING as always MD!

[@AbLaV]

So I have a pleco, who I think is full grown? I got it when it was a baby, only a few months old, and it hasn't really gotten bigger. I have no idea what type of pleco it is but it has been doing fine in the tank have for it. However, I want to get a bigger tank and get some plant life in there and get some more small fish or shrimp or both. I came here for inspiration and I think besides inspiration, I found a new favorite animal channel to watch. I love how beautiful your aquariums are!!!

[@bennylegend0704]

Great looking aquarium!!!

[@aw4always]

That was nice. He really is a beautiful fish.

[@jacktinga3581]

great scape again there MD

[@AndrewNicholasC]

The whisper subscribe from AntsCanada 🤣✌

[@vichu2160]

MD ,how about nicely coloured 8 to 10 thread fin rainbow fish along with the pleco in that tank? It would definitely look cool and they are suitable for nano tanks!

[@Troklo]

I hope you get him lots of buddies, feel kind of sad that he's all alone now :(

[@amyjones2490]

What a cool looking fish!

[@jozplays]

hey @MD Fish Tanks what song did you use at around 6:00?

[@jackle2594]

You should make an aquarium for the red rail shark, would look really nice in a big planted tank as the main centre piece.

[@grahamfishkeeper6397]

I knew it ...... he’s going to be a great fish to grow out 👍🏻

[@AquariumOdysseys]

Another inspiring video... MD you are a living legend

[@tubetrotter7]

Yay MD, was just missing this :) 🤗

[@arobik3131]

Awesome tank and pleco !

[@DylanP7734-o7y]

I’m so happy I partiley guessed it

[@irishmanbd8447]

They also eat protein, like brine shrimp, tubifex worm, blood worm etc. Im sure it'll eat pellets and wafers that is protein based as well. So it does eat a mix of plant and protein.

[@ashleywickett9]

Hi. Just a tip on these guys. You can never have a big enough tank for these guys. When i put mine in a 100L tank so I could sort her tank out she kept leaping out of the tank so I had to lid the tank. The i would hear her hitting the tank lid. I took her out of a 500L tank that she thrived in. I woke up the next morning to find she knocked the lid off and jumped out. So if your tank lid is not secure or you dont have length in the tank they will escape. She was my most expensive fish costing $200nzst dollars which is £100 which is expensive in new zealand. I cried when i found her as I had had her for three years and she was the star of the tank

[@jesbenji9742]

Could paint the back of tank with mirror paint. Then you can always see him if he's hiding around the back.

[@isthatafish...]

I demands the south park clip every time Timmys name is mentioned muhahahahahaha ..... get on with it....love the channel...

[@samjohnston544]

A kuhli loach tank would be cool

[@vEGan1909]

MD has some in the pearlweed jungle of the Asian tank. Never seen them again 🤣 But he wants to redo this tank. Curious if the kuhlis get into a new setup (hopefully with sand) where they can be seen more often too. I can see my kuhlis several times a day in spite (or because?) of the cryptocoryne forest 😀

[@pajonchakma1060]

How do you kept the plants so green? 😃😃😃

[@magrda]

I have one and they are amazing

[@EquiEsti6194]

I didn’t see Pumpkin in the goldfish tank. Did she pass away:( ?

[@charlieperry7553]

the fish tank you took the cool yellow brislenose out of, how many litres is that

[@greenwarrior8971]

I've got a 7 inch salfin and a 4 inch Bristlenose pleco they love my plants 🤣

[@ran_b]

Smart fish. He knew what had to be done to get its own tank.

[@DsoOty-ic8ut]

man you should try a bonsai aquascape !!! 🤣

[@マシュードーラン]

Pleco are lightening fast 😮 I have one and he/she zooms around when they want to like mad!

[@moo12395]

Hey md could you do a scape for a pleco tank 7 bristlenose and Cory's so no plants

[@ygmkay9049]

I like the uk drill music 😂

[@fredmunson8603]

Hey Mike, how are things going in the UK? I really like your videos. Keep up the good work.

[@owiexotics946]

Have you considered a Brackish setup?

[@CmBroncos420]

u do such a amazing job

[@VinceLeFeu]

This tank with less plants is definitely one of my favorite.

[@LuisRomero-xt3be]

Less to know the pleco fish to not getting hidden behind plants

[@lillyblomqvist3330]

Great job! 😀 Are you going to put some other fish in there with him too? Would look awesome with galaxy rasboras, chili rasboras or something 😀

[@allangonzalez2766]

You should get a tank and fill it with rainbow fish that would look amazing 🤩

[@erikmontin4176]

MD , I thought of an idea for your channel and / workshop! What if you do a livestream timeplapse thing where you display the latest aquarium build over the course of a month or two to show the actual progress in realtime (Sped up)

[@joshnroxy98]

Hey, MD! I absolutely love your art. What is that contraption I see you use to get water in and out of your tanks? Custom hose attachment or something I could find in the States?

[@wendydunnett-dagg9023]

Could s/he have some shrimp friends and/or an aquatic frog to share the tank with?

[@paperpanicstudio]

Hi. I am an avid supporter of your channel. I would just like to know what type of super glue that you use? May I know the exact type and brand? Thank you!

[@khoffmann1978]

What about High calcium Level in the aquarium, Can L018 live in it ? Our tapwater is about 15-18 dH

[@barbaracelia2437]

Beautiful fish!

[@nyongiso]

Wow, good idea for pleco..

[@kasrenzo3116]

He eats your echinodorus in the amazon tank so why wouldn’t he eat the echinodorus in his new tank? Seems a little bit weird to me, but he has a beautiful tank! Great job!

[@BacktoEdenUrbanFarm]

He wants the pleco to be able to eat plants...just not the plants in his showcase tank!

[@MissGlassButterfly]

Maybe as well in the plecos own tank he can also more easily supplement his diet

[@mcpeacey9227]

Review on the sparkling gourami tank ??

[@mountaingreenery]

What happened to the White Cloud Mountain minnows?

[@maxlehmann449]

Nice Video. This looks great! Do you have some advice for filming subjects in aquariums? (Dealing with reflexion while still remaining good lighting or for getting the right depth of field when trying to film a school of fish wich has quite a bit of volume)

[@nolansneeder]

Beautiful! Where do you get your rimless aquariums? They’re all gorgeous!

[@jamiewestover6760]

This is a stupid question, but how do you clean the gravel in all of your tanks? I layer my substrate, but it all gets mixed.

[@bigdaddymymanhoooyeaahh7235]

whether the roots you use for decoration come from a pet store, or do you search for them and prepare them yourself??? i from poland so sorry for the mistakes