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I am learning a lot about planted tanks while raising a monster. I would love to keep this guy full term but I have put in a learning experience in with it. I am very interested in planted aquariums along with Large fish. This project will double as a first for the type of fish and a large planted aquarium (soon to be high tech). I will try to update this weekly to keep progression logged. The tank is currently running a Marineland 48" Plant LED with integrated timer. The filters are a cascade 1000 along with a Tetra ex70 Whisper HOB. The substrate is sand at the moment until I make the swap to Fluorite. The plants I will have to go through and get the correct names and common names to make it easier to identify for everyone. At the moment I have been dosing fertilizers along with Liquid Co2. My dosing is alternate on different stuff and some is dosed daily. I am trying to get it down to small daily doses vs larger every other day doses to be able to control the parameters better.
Pressurized Co2 is going to happen but time and money will tell.
These pictures are a few weeks old more to come....

Rambled on a bit but this is what makes Youtube. It comes out with out edits most of the time.

More great videos from Flippercon!
I liked them both, especially the plants tour with the discussion.

That was a great shout out to Liz.

The videos always come at the spur of the moment. I have made a video every monday on this guy for the last 10 weeks. The plant progression and start was 8 weeks ago. I am hoping he slows in growth.
The tough thing I find about YouTube is getting everything right with no edits. I like to just record once and upload. I have to go through and add annotations sometimes but it makes it real. So when are you going to start a vlog Deb?

I love the tank I have been wanting to get live plants my self not sure if its more complicated or not , is that and led strip or bar you use for lighting i saw some led strips on ebay was thinkin of getting 1

That was an awesome shoutout, Brian - I really appreciate your flattery, and it has worked! I've got a bunch of subscribers now and some great interaction.

I am working on some more videos now, with commentary so I can get more involved. I have been checking out some of the other channels and there is some great stuff going on out there - this is a great way to see what other hobbyists are up to, and it is inspiring!

As soon as I can find a moment when there's not Olympic TV blaring, dogs rattling collars and tossing toys around, coffee grinders, kids bickering, etc. I'll get some more videos up.

No problem Liz . We just need to get Deb to start a VLog

We first need to get that girl a new computer, and we'll have her vlogging nonstop!

I just added several new vids to my channel, so check 'em out, everyone!

Brian, you have created a monster....

Hey brian where can I find red sand like that and what's it called?

Red sand I found at animal jungle. I belive it was called marine sand. It is inert.

we supposedly get stock in every wednsday night russ so come check int on thursday o see what we have.. alos everyone remember the "wet wednsday sale" from 5:00-8:00!

So I have been doing weekly updates on "Jaws" My peacock bass and all the different tanks he has been in. Mainly to track growth and see my plants progression. The video is pretty long but shows how fast these guys grow. Jaws has been moved from the planted tank since he was uprooting everything. I have also given him a few feeders (bred in house). All of them have been documented on Youtube. His main diet is Omega one natural protein formula large cichlid pellets (floating). Towards the end of the Video is where I feed him the Guppies and convicts, So if you don't like that stop week 15. Hope everyone enjoys

Great time line video Flip! Pretty cool to watch Jaws come up and tag the feeders. The guppy looked like it was ambushed as he came from behind the log. With the other one I thought he was going to knock the log over as hard as he hit it!

Great job!