Medium Tech & Budget Guppy Nature Aquarium (Full Tutorial)

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[@odd830]

"I am currently a bit low on wood," proceeds to walk over to giant shelves of wood

[@silash.5535]

My thought exactly 😂😂 I'm so jealous

[@Squarebear_]

My grandpa recently died and my family is trying to get her a pet so she won’t be too lonely and we decided on fish but my family got a .5 gallon tank and a betta with one plant so I had to give them some pointers and told them to come look at your channel for how to do a proper tank without water changes

[@dawidjk]

So sorry for your loss, I know it’s a hard time for everyone in the family. You’re doing a really beautiful thing. For a tank without water changes, you generally need a bunch of plants (tldr - fish produce waste, bacteria convert waste to plant food, plants consume what was previously “waste”). You just need to come in and trim the plants once in a while (ie once a month or so?). You’ll also need to refill water into the tank every week or two (it evaporates). Make sure you have a light to let the plants grow, you want it on for about 8 hours a day (I keep mine on a smart plug that just auto turns on/off). I’m not sure if 0.5g was a typo, but a betta would be happiest in a 5 gallon tank. Hope this gives you a good primer of what to look for in MD’s videos!

[@Ren_1986]

Sorry for your loss but this isnt a good idea with a beta

[@jordanbeagle5779]

0.5 gallon is cruelty. Needs 3+ gallon minimum.

[@csharpe5787]

@@jordanbeagle5779 he said a 5 gallon tank, not a .5

[@YarnLoverRegina]

Bettas are lovely pets. They are personable and give you some of the peace that they seem to have.

[@johnwright6139]

Low on wood ... Then you go to a shelf with more wood than my three local stores combined !!! Always fun - thanks.

[@kristyburton3519]

MD I have a Suggestion: Talking about budget etc is great however I’ve watched your videos for a long time and as you admit you like to end up with a finished product straight away however for a lot of us this isn’t the achievable straight away, would you ever do a budget project based on A more realistic budget for plants etc and grow it out as we the poor growers would do at home 😂

[@stephanies9689]

Maybe a 5 plant species challenge? That way, he can pack it like he'd prefer for the views, but it's something you could cultivate at home over a period of months on a budget

[@dzonz4274]

Every time I was a md video I think "what a beautiful hard scape.... Aaannnddd it's gone" 😂😂

[@MDFishTanks]

🤣 harscape is for plants to attach to...I won't have it any other way haha

[@WarrenFahyAuthor]

My GOD, Man! You can't deny you make a beautiful aquarium. (Every time!)

[@cuwterthanu8087]

we need superfish to ship to the US 😭😭

[@xxsid1979xx]

I don't know why I'm so attached to guppies but I am, and you just made the perfect home for them. Can't wait for updates about babies!

[@artandgrow9240]

me too!!! i love my lil guppy and endlers the best :)

[@cking8776]

🎄MD & Matt: May you & your families have a lovely, joyful Christmas & Happy New Year. Your content ROCKS...plants, fishes, woods, substrates, filters, lights, tanks, etc.!!!! 👍💯👍

[@stephencox6012]

Our guppies love a good flow. They go into it on purpose. Its good exercise for them.

[@dimitrijekrstic7567]

Yep! And if they don't like it, there's plenty of space to move away from the flow. We often overfeed fish in this hobby, and a bit of exercise and less feeding will prolong their lives by quite a bit!

[@sicilianotoronto]

Focus more on Swordtails in the new year! They are awesome, and the lyretail variety are gorgeous.

[@carolebraswell982]

Loved the ease of the style of this tank... and the guppies have a blue or purple color on screen, just beautiful. They remind me of a guppy called mosaic.

[@pagewhite8177]

I love it MD, well done! It looks fantastic, I love the plant selection. The wood and rocks look so natural, it really does look like it’s been there forever. Thanks for the video.

[@maureenk-farmhousecharms903]

What a great tank build and those guppies are beautiful!!

[@ivanaranas3235]

Those are beautiful Mosaic Guppies. Another amazing tank setup.

[@mhikedelarosa8256]

That guppy strain is called blue dragon guppy.

[@Fingle_Fleetfoot]

Lovely tank again 🤠Something I would mention but only because it triggers myself, The strata on the rock went in lots of different directions. To my eye I would have preferred if you had lined up the strata so it looks like one solid piece of bedrock. All the same it was a great overall finish and this is not a criticism but a point made for some consideration or discussion. Keep up the good work.

[@dimitrijekrstic7567]

He mentions it though. He just doesn't care. Neither do I!

[@melissadalke6548]

Always a good morning if I have a MD video with my cup of tea 🇨🇦

[@Scaperoot79]

Back to the basics, I love it!

[@dimitrijekrstic7567]

Exactly. Much more relatable to the majority of people!

[@markhamilton2329]

Another aquatic masterpiece by your talented self.

[@The1BlackKrow]

That turned out beautifully. Excellent job.

[@littlemidwestrebornsdolls]

I always love your tank builds. Truly wish I could just hire you to do a tank for me. I'm not at all currently happy with my tank. I'm redoing the entire thing. Thanks for the inspiration. Gina

[@tylerjohnson4600]

Build video woohoo!!! I'm so excited got my coffee tanks all fed time to sit and enjoy lol

[@pink_alchemist]

i don't care what anyone says, as you mentioned someone says your stuff all looks the same. It doesn't! I notice the differences even in "similar" style ones. You manage to make them all uniquely interesting.

[@Chinco_NL]

You make it look so, sooo easy. But that's your talent showing, bc it's definitely not easy to make it work like you do. Thanks, MD!

[@CamsAquatics]

Great video as always, Love the tank. Happy Holidays.

[@chrisweston3029]

Should try get your hands on some of the nano rainbow fish. There’re incredible for colour and really active. Done my 90 litre tank with them and based it on an old angelfish scape you done a few years back and it’s amazing. Or so I think 🤣

[@dimitrijekrstic7567]

I bet it really is amazing!

[@1inchtankbarrel834]

Loved the time lapse music from when you where scaping

[@tinchytarantula]

Yes another great build by the man himself Mr MD

[@danielholmkristensen365]

One of the best videos you have made. Good inspiration

[@lindakochan774]

I love the scape in fact I have loved every one you have done. Have a very merry Christmas MD.

[@Sophia1991sd]

this setup looks absolutely amazing😍😍

[@yashtapase3821]

Im gonna do this this type of scape to my rainbows ❤😂

[@johnpatterson9219]

Wow, this is gorgeous!

[@christyjuranic-hw2zs]

I do love your giant spectacular tank builds but I love love love these builds because these I can aspire to.

[@jessethabarber]

I always call my full planted tank "medium" tech. It's a 20 long with 2 fluval awuasky lights, fluval canister, and a paintball tank set up for co2. Under $500 getting everything on sale.

[@shaymaanburkatally3544]

Loving this❤I hope there be video on the 25th too!

[@gibbnasta]

"Running low on wood" Has more wood than I'll probably ever buy in my life behind him. 😂

[@AhaFishtank]

beautiful tank!

[@homefishmedia]

the environment so clean and beautify suitable for them to living

[@TapishnuOP_MC]

its a really good scape idea i might try it actually

[@stephanieshaw8048]

Hey MD! I stumbled across your channel about 6 months ago. I love watching all your videos. Have you thought of doing a planted volcanic albino fish tank? I think that would look really neat. I hope you and Matt and your families have a wonderful holiday!

[@markzig1429]

I have guppies like that. I think they are called Purple Dragon Mosaic Guppies. Also, if you ever get the chance to get some Kamaka Rainbow fish, I would suggest those. They are my favorite rainbow fish.

[@belafishhobby]

Loving your content all the way from Johannesburg South Africa

[@jjhanabal]

I like the way you set up you aquwarum nice one we'll done

[@taylorhale1035]

I think i heard a shoutout to my “cowboy western” idea! Lol hope that’s on the docket for the near future. 😉

[@DieterHuckstedt]

Nice job 👍🏻

[@fredlysmoothgrass5534]

I love your videos love the content just love how you keep everything so dang neat and tidy .......I know your busy but water those dang plants ubove the tanks near the ceiling it sticks out so much lololol

[@thexnewyorker7284]

Another sweet tank

[@angiebear8727]

I think lava rock would look good, work just as well for a retaining wall, and can be a more budget friendly option for some if bought for fire pits or something of the sort. Beautiful build.

[@Krishnath.Dragon]

In my experience, Lava Rock also makes a great anchor for epiphytes, as they connect to all the little indents and holes quite rapidly. It is also a good base for beneficial bacteria.

[@angiebear8727]

@@Krishnath.Dragon absolutely 👍

[@Yajie_]

This is amazing!

[@MandyJane123700]

I have got to get some hygrophila pinnatifida for my two epiphyte tanks. It looks so good.

[@darrelldrury257]

Hi, another great video thannkyou. A very merry Christmas to you and your family and Matt and his family. Would it be possible to make a short video showing us how you get electricity to your tanks. It is quiet daunting when setting up how to wire up and hide the cables. Cheers. Darrell

[@UnitedWAO]

Awesome video

[@AutumnalSpirit]

Love the tank and I love the decorative sand that was used, need to know where I can get it!

[@Aqua-insight]

Good video!

[@shel.b.1090]

Stunning MD xxx❤❤❤

[@henrybonner8388]

i would love to see him do this with just a regular tank you can get at the pet store not the scaping ones. love what he does and thoroughly enjoy watching though.

[@Marc-qz9sx]

awesome! greetings from germany!

[@vanessacassidy6846]

Love this tank its very authentic looking. The fish are beautiful. Do your angels have enough swim room with all those plants 😂

[@rickbooher8224]

MD and Matt may you both and your Families have a wonderful Christmas and New Year. I really like the aqua scape. I had a 33 gallon long once with nothing but guppies and live plants had several varieties the produces some very interesting colored babies. The biggest problem with guppies they are so prolific so I put a smaller cichlid to predate upon the babies but I grew so fast it go big so fast it begin eating the mature adults. I know that a cichlid was a bad choice but it solved the over population rather quickly had to move the cichlid before it ate them all. But it wasn't long and the guppy tank became over populated again. But this time I saved the best color and shape and culled the as live fish food for my other tanks. And having live plants in all my tanks some of the culled guppies survived to adulthood. And glad some did as they grew up to be beautiful fish so I would return them to the guppy tank as they deserve to keep their genetics going thorough survival of the fittest. Actually it provided stronger babies genetics I believe. Sold a lot of beautiful males as trade offs at my local fish store at the time for store credit, merchandise and other new fish. I did that with other fish as well over time it keep my hobby going and growing without spending much money. I didn't make a lot but had a lot of fun and learned a lot. I truly like watch you channel it reminds me of those days. Had to move so took down all my ranks with the hope of reseting them back up so put in a temporary storage that ended up getting broken into and they took all my stuff including all the aquariums. But watching you channel has give me the urge to try again after 30 years without major tanks. I kept Betta tanks for my kids but they have all growed up and thinking of one large community tank. And watching you and Matt has caused me to want to step back into the hobby again. So many new things and techniques it getting over whelming and the varieties of aquatic creatures makes it hard to decide which way to go.

[@tw1stymint]

'"I am currently a little bit low on wood" cuts to two whole racking systems full of wood. Jokes aside though I only discovered your videos about a month ago and I have to say I'm a huge fan of how you get your scapes to look with how the plants and hardscape tend to tie together extremely well. I've caught up on all your videos already though and am halfway through matt"s so keep up the good work.

[@danielcopeland2758]

Nice music selection

[@KrispyKiKi]

"I'm a little low on wood" proceeds to go to his two racks of wood (I'm here choosing between 2 random pieces of wood lmao)

[@rameazsiddiqui6068]

Your pearlweed phase is back

[@user-wu6qj8yc4t]

cool to see the plants you are using are from aquafleur, i used to work there a couple months ago

[@madhatterjones4781]

Medium tech I'd the way to go more options for plants

[@keepingfishiseasy]

i love Guppy Fish 🎉🎉🎉

[@adeptusmagi]

Good one Ive been using superfish products for a few years now and they are the best value for plant lights that actually work the only problem ive found is life span but if you dial them back to 80% or lower with the controler they sell this greatly improves lifespan and the lights produce more than enough PAR to grow almost all plants even at 80% plus less algae problems basically LED lifespan is greatly effected by heat generated but since the heat curve is expotential even a 10% reduction in power can double the lifespan of the LEDs the retroled tubes superfish make are more affected by heat (being sealed in glass so no heat dissipation) than the scaperled i think but time will tell anyway cant recommend Superfish lights highly enough very underrated IMHO they even give you a PAR rateing which many manufacturers seem to not want to give out oh sorry but i think your female guppies look more colourfull mainly because the males are a bit drab try magenta x snakeskin or lace strains if you really want bright coloured fish

[@MDFishTanks]

strange, I've had them for about 3 years now and never had a single LED go out??

[@adeptusmagi]

@@MDFishTanks Ive had the RetroLEds for about 4 years now and although no LEDs have blown 3 or more of the center ones in each tube now have a delay effect on lights off a sign of a problem developing but as i said they are now on the controler so life span should be greatly improved but im changing over to scaperleds anyway as one scaperled is equivilent to about 3 of the retroleds so declutters top of tank very pleased with scapperled and led controler and at the less than half the price of other makes where i am in Europe

[@xPapio]

mid-tech, woo best of both worlds

[@m00nnio]

Great video although I’d love for you to do a genuine ‘budget’ aquascape without using your store of stone and wood.. those pieces you’ve used in your tank would cost as much as the tank bundle itself in my area, and that’s before we’ve got on to the plants and livestock!

[@lakeshiamills1454]

Hmmm ive got a nice rimless 10 gallon and tons of clippings 😅 plenty of extra rocks and wood too new tank on the way

[@theresaabshire711]

MERRY CHRISTMAS !

[@bryanklitzke9723]

I am newer to the channel, but I have been trying to catch up and learn! I am a complete beginner, so please forgive my ignorance. In this set up when there are no plants in the sand, will cleaning of the sand be required to remove waste since plants obviously won't be using it? Especially with no shrimp, cory, etc. Thinking about the Mbuna tank as well. Thanks for the education!

[@kweenkitten6207]

Those are elephants ear guppies. I used to buy only females all the time 😂 The way you have the wood up like that, it looks like the side of a hiking trail and like trees

[@bimborocks]

Pretty sure they are blue dragon guppies. Beautiful whatever they are

[@Marauder99991]

Whoa whoa whoa, when did this become a tank cleaning channel! ;)

[@Sids09]

You should one of the aqua oak slim line tanks

[@marctimbol8312]

MD, you need to give us an update about these guppies and from your other videos too

[@MrMonkeymilk01]

Do you space heat your studio ? I never see you installing a heater. Thank you

[@TomDoddy]

Any ideas where hes got the plastic deflector from for the outflow from the filter?

[@trevsweb]

the super fish kit is amazing just the filter is super not friendly for shrimp which sucks. basically blended a few of my shrimp before i modded it heavily. superfish please fix the intakes!

[@MDFishTanks]

yeah for shrimp, I would add filter sponge over the inlet.

[@zodiak2461]

Can you please tell me a bit about your plant storage? How often do you change its water? Is there liquid ferts in the water? Does it have air stone so the water doesn't get stagnant? Can I use saran wrap as a lid for it?

[@MyNanoFish]

Had to laugh when he said not a lot of wood left after the last scape, then he turns to a shelf bloody full of it 😂

[@johnpatterson9219]

Japanese or French Blue Endler Guppies, would also be a great option for a smaller tank.

[@AaAa-je5eo]

Where 👏 is 👏 Matt? 👏

[@jacquelinemcmillan2793]

Hi guys when will yous be going back yo the saltwater set ups?

[@BlackHammerProd]

Get some Channa bleheris. You'll love em!

[@Madsolav83]

How is the aqua soil your using on lowring ph. Im using tropicas and struggling with heavy loss of ph every week

[@sicilianotoronto]

Try lace rock with guppies and other livebearers to increase water hardness and pH. I believe the stone you used does the same thing.

[@varuna1983]

I would like your opinion on something I notice you use rimless tanks Does anything need to be placed under them or can they sit on a table as is?

[@eatmynoobfood7461]

Not much choice of wood but still has more than my local shop's combined 😂

[@dlj529]

He almost used more wood in this tiny tank than my local shop typically carries 😅

[@emmanuelgloria9813]

i think those are blue dragon snake skin guppies. not sure hahaha

[@paulcatherall4545]

Wheres Matt ? You need to put the band back together. 😎😎

[@whatsupjavi]

What do you use to fill the tank without messing up the substrate?

[@BlackonBlackE46]

nice nice

[@craftyjo3170]

I think the guppies may be a line of blue grass 😊

[@hushfan]

Are the plants here ok for that much seiryu stones? I did my scape inspired by your tank but now I don't know what plants can withstand hard water since seiryu stones tend to increase the hardness of the water

[@rahuljoshi449]

What kind of filter do you use for such guppy fish tank