Great Beginner Plants for Your Aquarium! — Transcript

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1. 0:00hello everyone this is Jason from Prime
2. 0:01Time Aquatics and today we're going to
3. 0:03do something a little bit different we
4. 0:05wanted to actually take a look at the
5. 0:06plants that we keep we are fairly new to
6. 0:09keeping plants and so I wanted to give
7. 0:10you the perspective of someone who's not
8. 0:12an expert in Plants but we've got some
9. 0:14plants here that are relatively easy to
10. 0:16grow and we wanted to share that with
11. 0:18you in case you're thinking about
12. 0:19getting into plants and you're looking
13. 0:20for something that's not going to cause
14. 0:21you a lot of problems so stay tuned and
15. 0:23we're going to show you what we've got
16. 0:25all right so I wanted to start at this
17. 0:27tank because there's a couple plants
18. 0:29here that I think would be relatively
19. 0:30easy for a new plant keeper by the way
20. 0:33this is a tank if you go back in our 500
21. 0:36subscriber thank you which happened a
22. 0:37little while ago a month or so ago we
23. 0:39haven't forgotten about you this is the
24. 0:40tank that is going to fulfill that that
25. 0:44promise to put some fish in here that
26. 0:46you guys want to see and based on a lot
27. 0:48of the suggestions we felt we could do a
28. 0:50planted tank and so the plants are in
29. 0:52here we got to get the fish in and that
30. 0:53will be coming soon but this tank also
31. 0:57is a good example of some plants that
32. 0:59are really easy to grow and so in this
33. 1:0229 we have in the the center here this
34. 1:05is uh water wisteria and this started
35. 1:08out as a very small plant and it has
36. 1:10just gone absolutely crazy and one of
37. 1:12the things that you'll see as this plant
38. 1:14starts to grow is it actually starts to
39. 1:16send out Runners all along the bottom
40. 1:20and you can see that here and it was
41. 1:22just one little plant in the back and
42. 1:24now it's really starting to take off and
43. 1:26the only thing that we put in this tank
44. 1:28to start is some easy green liquid
45. 1:31fertilizer and I've got a review of that
46. 1:34product it's fantastic it really helps a
47. 1:36lot I will put a card up in the top hand
48. 1:39corner of the video right now
49. 1:41so that is definitely one I think a lot
50. 1:43of people could do well on with just
51. 1:45some liquid fertilizer I don't have any
52. 1:47CO2 in this tank this is gravel just
53. 1:50regular black gravel so no special
54. 1:52substrate the light on top is a phoenix
55. 1:55Stingray and it's a 29 gallon so it's a
56. 1:57you know it's a decently deep tank and
57. 1:59the light is plenty sufficient to allow
58. 2:02this thing to grow so this is definitely
59. 2:04a plant the water Wisteria if you have a
60. 2:07chance to get that as a new plant keeper
61. 2:09it's probably going to do fairly well at
62. 2:11least it has for us
63. 2:13the other plant that does really well
64. 2:14for us is this one right here
65. 2:17and that is one Daddy and we've got
66. 2:19this in a number of Tanks this was a
67. 2:21very tiny plant that was in our five and
68. 2:24a half gallon and it got huge like this
69. 2:26and so we took it out and put it in this
70. 2:28tank and it's doing really great again
71. 2:31we have the uh easy green again it's
72. 2:36just regular black gravel and the
73. 2:38Finnick Stingray light and this plant
74. 2:40generally grows in just about any tank
75. 2:42we put it in so a very easy plant I like
76. 2:45its appearance it's kind of I can get
77. 2:48quite large you can break it apart over
78. 2:51by the roots and plant new plants the
79. 2:54nice thing about the water Wisteria is
80. 2:56you can cut off a stem float it when you
81. 2:58start to see Roots grow like you're
82. 3:00starting to see right there
83. 3:02you can plant those roots if you want
84. 3:04and then you're going to get what you
85. 3:06see down here
86. 3:07so these are definitely two of the
87. 3:10easier plants this plant over here is a
88. 3:13sword I don't remember what kind of
89. 3:15Sword it was we got it from a local fish
90. 3:16Club it's there it's surviving it's
91. 3:19looking okay we have hit or missed luck
92. 3:22with our swords the one thing that we
93. 3:23have to be careful of is when you have
94. 3:26sword plants and a tank that's got
95. 3:27bristlenose sometimes they will be a
96. 3:29little bit hard on the sword plants
97. 3:30they're not as the leaves aren't as
98. 3:32thick but this one's doing okay even
99. 3:34though we've got two smells smaller
100. 3:36bristl nose in there but I don't know if
101. 3:38it's necessarily a good beginner plant
102. 3:39at least for me it's can be like I said
103. 3:42Hit or Miss but certainly the water
104. 3:45wisteria and the when Daddy
105. 3:48definitely good options so I'm going to
106. 3:51go ahead and take you to another place
107. 3:53in our fish room
108. 3:55another plant that's been pretty good
109. 3:56for us and it's the one right here in
110. 3:58the center is anubias all types of
111. 4:01anubias have grown fairly well they
112. 4:03don't grow fast and if you use too much
113. 4:05light they're prone to getting some
114. 4:06algae on the leaves which grams horn
115. 4:09snails will more than take care of as
116. 4:12you can see here all along the substrate
117. 4:13this happens to be in our peacock
118. 4:16gudgeon tank but it's been growing well
119. 4:17it's a relatively low light plant in
120. 4:21this tank I think at one point I did put
121. 4:23in
122. 4:24some root tabs but it's been a while
123. 4:28maybe over a year but this plant this
124. 4:31tank will sometimes also get
125. 4:34some
126. 4:35Liquid Fertilizer
127. 4:37but you can see here it's it's a good
128. 4:38plant like I said it's not going to grow
129. 4:40fast but most the time most beginners
130. 4:42will do okay with it the other plant
131. 4:44that I think it's just if you really
132. 4:47just want something to grow this stuff
133. 4:49at the top
134. 4:51hornwort is it grows like a weed we
135. 4:56started out we've got a bunch here in
136. 4:58this peacock Gadget tank as you can see
137. 5:00that started out as basically just a
138. 5:03little tiny piece and it all all the
139. 5:06horn we have originated from this
140. 5:09Superette bristlenose tank and this tank
141. 5:11it was literally we got it with some
142. 5:14cherry shrimp it was one little tiny
143. 5:17Branch or piece and it didn't grow for a
144. 5:21long time and then all of a sudden it
145. 5:23started to grow and I started to Branch
146. 5:25off and pretty soon we had a bunch of it
147. 5:27and I pull stuff out of this tank just
148. 5:30about every week and feed it to fish
149. 5:31that will eat it tin foil barbs like to
150. 5:34eat it severums will eat it
151. 5:36some cichlids will eat it we have some
152. 5:39tilapia that will eat this stuff but you
153. 5:42can see here this tank is overrun with
154. 5:44it it's okay because I've got cherry
155. 5:45shrimp in there and they're really
156. 5:46enjoying that but you can see there's a
157. 5:48lot here
158. 5:49if we go over to the uh regular
159. 5:53bristlenose tank there's a bunch in here
160. 5:54and again it's great because we have a
161. 5:57ton of red cherry shrimp in this tank
162. 6:00but you can see it's a lot and so we do
163. 6:02uh we do pull a lot of this stuff out
164. 6:05just to keep it down because it does
165. 6:07block the light of other plants that we
166. 6:09have in the tank and it's in just about
167. 6:12every tank that we have here we can see
168. 6:15it in with our Thrifty's macular penis
169. 6:17and if I go around the fish room it's up
170. 6:20there
171. 6:21it's in there I have it in the
172. 6:25multi-tank here if we come down here
173. 6:28into this 20 there is some up here this
174. 6:31is where this is really just a
175. 6:33quarantine tank but it's here as well if
176. 6:37we go over to the Oscar tank you would
177. 6:40see it in there
178. 6:42up in our cichlid tank so basically it
179. 6:44really is everywhere and one of the nice
180. 6:47things about this plant
181. 6:49is it will use up nitrates it like I
182. 6:52said it will grow super fast and the
183. 6:55lighting
184. 6:56it's growing best under the Phoenix
185. 6:59stingrays but it's it's really gross it
186. 7:02grows and it sucks up a lot of the
187. 7:05nitrates in the tank which is a good
188. 7:06thing that's why we have it in so many
189. 7:08of our tanks and like I said when it
190. 7:10gets to be too much we wind up just
191. 7:12feeding it to the fish that will eat it
192. 7:16another type of plant that will grow
193. 7:18like crazy is guppy grass this is a
194. 7:21guppy tank believe it or not and one of
195. 7:24the nice things about this stuff kind of
196. 7:26like the horn word is it will it'll take
197. 7:28a tank over if you want it to and we can
198. 7:31see here we've got the guppy grass and
199. 7:33there's another anubias here
200. 7:35but this stuff is great for a couple
201. 7:37reasons and there's a couple reasons why
202. 7:38we have it in this tank reason number
203. 7:40one is when our Guppies have fry they
204. 7:44get kind of caught up in the guppy grass
205. 7:46and so the adults can't eat them and so
206. 7:47if you're looking for
207. 7:49some type of vegetation that's going to
208. 7:51help protect fry from predation this is
209. 7:54a great option guppy grass the hornwort
210. 7:56that I just mentioned is a fantastic
211. 7:58option for that as well also both of
212. 8:01these are great if you are trying to
213. 8:03raise shrimp and so they'll have places
214. 8:06to kind of hang on to places to hide if
215. 8:08you've got fishing in the tank and you
216. 8:10don't want the shrimpless to get eaten
217. 8:12so all of this definitely helps in fact
218. 8:15there is a little tiny fry
219. 8:18know if we can see it right there up
220. 8:20just went behind
221. 8:21The Guppy grass that's in there but
222. 8:24again makes it a little bit easier for
223. 8:26them to survive with such
224. 8:28a thick group of guppy grass
225. 8:35all right the last plant I wanted to
226. 8:36mention is this right here it's water
227. 8:38Sprite this one again it's we have
228. 8:41pretty good luck with it it's a like
229. 8:45most of what we've mentioned it does
230. 8:47better if you do some liquid fertilizers
231. 8:50but on this tank we've just got an old
232. 8:53fluorescent light
233. 8:55substrate is just regular old pool
234. 8:58filter sand no root tabs or anything
235. 9:00like that because this is primarily a
236. 9:02water column feeding plant anyway so a
237. 9:06little bit of easy green
238. 9:08fertilizer and it stays in pretty good
239. 9:11shape if there's any downside to this
240. 9:13plant every once in a while it will be
241. 9:15stubborn at least in terms of its
242. 9:16rooting you can float this plant just
243. 9:19like you can Flo float the Wisteria but
244. 9:23again it's it's a nice plant it's got
245. 9:26very thin leaves some fish will eat it
246. 9:29you know again you have to do your
247. 9:30homework in terms of the size or the
248. 9:32types of fish that you plan to keep with
249. 9:33plants but in terms of growth and ease
250. 9:36of you know being able to grow it and
251. 9:39make it look good this is a pretty good
252. 9:41plant for beginners I think we've had
253. 9:42pretty good luck with it
254. 9:45the last plant I wanted to mention was
255. 9:47java fern and this is one where we have
256. 9:49it in some of our tanks here you can see
257. 9:51it in a 20 gallon with some barred
258. 9:53goodies this is a plant for us that
259. 9:56we've probably got it in five or six
260. 9:58tanks it doesn't really grow all that
261. 10:00fast for us again what we're doing is
262. 10:03very very low Tech there's a phoenix
263. 10:04Stingray on here we've got just plain
264. 10:06old black gravel and that's about all we
265. 10:10have in any of the tanks that have this
266. 10:12particular plant in those tanks we do
267. 10:15some depending on the plants we will put
268. 10:17in some liquid fertilizers this tank
269. 10:18gets some liquid fertilizers I believe
270. 10:21there is we put root tabs in this tank
271. 10:24for this java fern in the job of ferns
272. 10:27that we have but it's a good plant for
273. 10:29us it doesn't grow particularly fast and
274. 10:31we found that after we plant it
275. 10:33sometimes we'll get some die off but it
276. 10:36does do a pretty good job it is pretty
277. 10:38Hardy
278. 10:40all right everyone so I hope you enjoyed
279. 10:41that again just wanted to give you a
280. 10:43little bit of background as to some of
281. 10:44the plants that we think are super easy
282. 10:46to keep plants that I think would be
283. 10:48great for a beginner and would allow you
284. 10:50some success early on so if you like
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286. 10:54see in the next one