Master Aquarist Secret For Growing Live Food in Your Aquarium
In this captivating KZhead video, we delve into the mesmerizing world of "Resurrection Jars." These unique containers hold a secret: the power to sustain and nurture living organisms within their glass confines. Watch in awe as we unlock the mysteries of life in a jar. Learn to use this life force to feed your aquarium fish.
Resurrection Jars are miniature ecosystems, teeming with tiny but essential life forms. Within, you'll discover the intricate dance of phytoplankton, the microscopic plants responsible for oxygen production on Earth. These minuscule organisms kickstart the food chain by providing sustenance for zooplankton, the tiny animals that call the jar home. And let's not forget about algae, which adds vibrant colors and fascinating patterns to this microcosmic world.
Our video explores the delicate balance within these jars, revealing how these self-sustaining ecosystems offer a glimpse into the wonders of nature. Join us on this scientific journey as we witness the beauty and complexity of life thriving within the confines of a Resurrection Jar.
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0:00 Teaser
0:34 Intro
0:58 The Process
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I can listen him all day.
Me too!
I learned this from my 7th grade science teacher back in the 70s. The life in those jars is more interesting than the fish in the tanks. 😮
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More intresting then msm 😂
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@@salcedomark yes
So I just set up a 75 gallon mostly following FF’s method but I gave it a little twist. I had the dirt and sand layers laid down but when it was time to add water, instead I added first the entire contents of a resurrection jar. Actually it was a resurrection bucket, a 10 gallon bucket that I filled by going to a very healthy fishing pond in a state park near me hear in northeast Pennsylvania. I went to a shallow corner of the pond that’s the richest part, almost a marsh. I used a smaller jar to scoop up water from the top, from the middle and from near the bottom, picking up a little bit of mud and silt in the process, not so much to overpower it. Then I collected decaying leaves, twigs, etc from that pond then I went to a couple other spots like a ditch along some cliffs in the forest formed by spring water seeping out of the cliffs, with layers of decomposing leaves. Also threw in some big clumps ofhornwort and bladderwort from the pond. I let that bucket sit outside for a couple weeks as I got the stuff for my 75 gallon & it collected rainwater and mosquitoes and other insects laid eggs in it. Every once in a while I’d look closely at the bucket and I’d see alarmingly large creatures moving in the darkness, I thought I might have accidentally grabbed some minnows. So when my tank was ready, like I said instead of putting water in it i first just poured the whole 10 gallon bucket in it (using a plate on the sand to disperse the water). Then I saw what was moving around, it was a tadpole, huge insect larvae, and a gazillion other creatures, it was absolutely teeming with life. Basically a resurrection jar in a 75 gallon (though only the bottom few inches). Then I added some feeder minnows to help get the nitrogen cycle going. Then over the next few days I added more buckets of water I got from a spring, sort of scraping the sides of the spring where algae had built up to get clumps of it in the water. The minnows went nuts over all the debris, leaves, algae etc. I then squeezed the filter of an established tank into the water of the new tank and let the old filter sit on top of my new sponge filter where it still sits. Then I added a ton of plants including jungle val and ludwigia from local lakes and streams. Then moss covered rocks and driftwood from a local river. About a week later I tested the water and parameters were perfect. So I then added a ton of fish. I recently made another resurrection jar from some wetlands in the Poconos. I started it to cultivate daphnia but got impatient and dumped the whole thing in the tank. Fish went nuts. Anyway i consider my tank itself to be a 75 gallon resurrection jar and I’m sure there’s a complex food web developing. Thanks FF for the inspiration.
Wow, a recipe for magnificence!
Harika!
Oof careful. Are you just keeping that entire tank for critters from ponds, no actual fish? Because that is a recipe for disaster for illnesses you can give the fish, or parasites, especially with mosquito larvae. There are tons of other species that are just not good for fish. Mostly the concern would be types of molds, slime, and parasites. Just be careful. A whole 10 gallon bucket of a medley of outdoor stuff, brewing and fermenting for a month, you're getting a bunch of everything, and it's not all good.
That sounds cool
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I used a container to only hold more water to increase overall water volume, I had it connected to tank with only a u pipe with siphon, no water flowed through it really, tossed in a piece of moss from tree base in my yard and 3 weeks later just happened to look and it's now full of a Daphnia population (free food for Master now... He's my Betta fish!)
I need to learn what to do for my betta fish as well. I only have him by himself in a small bowl. He looks bored. 😢
@@ChristinaVargas21 They sell mirrors to keep them occupied but don't leave it in there or use it too long
@@ChristinaVargas21 a nice five gallon heated and filtered tank would help it out greatly.
the first thing to do is set up a 10 gallon, theyre cheap at any walmart. a bowl is not suitable for anything but a few male guppies. betta are like 3 inch fish afterall. @@ChristinaVargas21
@@ChristinaVargas21 Bettas need a minimum of five gallons and a heater… 78 degrees.
You're amazing, Father Fish! I am amazed by your passion for creating ecosystems and every time I watch one of your videos it renews my spirit and makes we want to try something new in the hobby. Thank you for always creating such great content and for bringing so much love for the hobby into our lives!
I know! He literally saved my fishes and shrimps.They where in a really bad state and cyano bacterias where everywhere, and when i whatched one of his videos, i took all the tech except for the lamp out, build the base for an eco system, and all the animals recovered and the dying stopped, except for the last little guppy, who died a few months later. But without the ideas of this channel, all my animals where dead now
I am going on 71 years of life, and father fish has rekindled a passion that I had 60 years ago!😊 I have 4 tanks going now and I am planning more!😂
Set up a 60 gallon with this method. The fish look so happy and have been disease free so far! The only issue I've had is the fish picking every single corner of the tank clean. Thank you Fish Einstein!
I can’t help but wish you were my grandpa!! Your knowledge and way of teaching is exactly what so many in this hobby need.
Thank you so very much for making this. I made 2 jars and get lots of questions and I wasn’t sure most of the answers. Now I will be directing everyone to this video.
Glad it was helpful!
Your videos keep getting better and better. Whoever does the editing did a great job on this one.
I went to Petco and the lady was talking to me about buying bacteria for my tank and I told her that I just put water from the creek by my house in my tank and she looked at me like I was crazy and like my fish were going to be killed they're alive and well they just had a birthday.
They use that stuff to cycle starter tanks. I found it was better just to put some plants and a couple of cheap fish in and wait. It will cycle itself over time.
lol… its amazing that a hobby which is all about putting nature in a glass box (ie a fish) can be so terrified of nature😂 A bucket of water outside for 6 months has a million more bacteria than what she was trying to sell. Your average aquarium fish from a sterile aquarium shop probably has more bacteria in its stomach than what she was trying to sell you. If you spat in your aquarium you have probably introduced more bacteria to your tank than what she is trying to sell you😂😂😂
This is so true guys. When I setup my second tank. I was pretty much more knowledgable than when I was at first tank. So, I readied the substrate and sand for the new tank and added the already conditioned water from my old planted tank. But rather than filling it I left it to only flood the sand and substrate not above the level of sand. Left it there for week so the bacteria can colonise. A week or two later I planted and flooded the tank and wanted to leave it for a week again. But on the 3-4 days after planting and filling water I noticed bugs, critters, larvae, and worms so much that I could not post pone it and around midnight 2am I put in one of the juvenile female blue betta in. And when I looked in the morning it was a ghost town . Looks like Bluey ma girl hunted every single one and had a buffet for herself. Honestly I felt happy looking at it have fun and planning to take down my first planted tank to remake it properly.
P.S. All this knowledge is tanks to KZheadrs like Father Fish, Fish for thought,MD fish tanks, KGTropical , Aquarium Co-Op , girl talks fish and many more. And guy this is a line where you learn every day so have fun in the experience.
can i put a betta into a resurrection jar?
@@carmie2431 you can but it won't be a resurrection jar anymore since betta hunt them down pretty fast.
@@kaizakim4612 is there any fish i could put in one? thank you.
@@carmie2431 not recommend fishes but try cherry shrimps they're amazing to watch too
Thank you! Please also tell your video editor that he/she is doing a great job. :)
Yrs he is!
2:41 just saw that you’ve used my video and you’ve highlighted the issue! Thanks Father fish! Your channel deserves a lot of appreciation ❤️
What surprises me is that there are very few old tanks on those very "perfect aquascape" channels. It's the one of a few channels on KZhead, actually, where you can find a 20 yo aquarium. I will try your method with my new tank, that i got after big pause in a hobby ( moved to another country), but i gotta say, that i am always laughing, that aquarium ppl are just not lazy enough to have a well established old tank. I had mine, without any knowledge or deep substrate for this matter for Years, without water changes, with thriving fish, shrimp and plants. But i find your idea amusing to try and also very healthy, i don't think anything will go wrong, though ofc i was tought like everyone else to not bring stuff from the outside into my tank, i was just lazy enough to let nature run the way it goes in there and thats why i didn't need to change my water, or constantly treat my aquarium. But thank you for crushing this outdoor stuff myth, now it will be even more fun for me ;)
most of aquariums are for looks. fancy aquascapes or dutch style gardens are made to grow out, take best pictures and not long after that taken apart and starting all over again. not many lasts long. and if they last - aquasoill burns out max in 2 years and again - a new beginning. it is consumerism at its finest - you buy and buy and buy. substrate, new plants, filters, fertilizers, co2, alagae control chemicals etc. peopple are being made into slaves of their hobby and money bringers to companies. and if you do not succeed or get tired - there are new people everyday that want to enjoy those aquascape pictures in their home, but are never told that those perfect pictures are very temporary.
I been keeping fish since inwas a young kid with my grandfather. We never had anything like this. I can't wait to try it!. We're going out tomorrow to get started
Wow! I never thought that just getting jars filled with rotting leaves could be so FASCINATING! I just found your channel and I definitely want to make all of my aquariums into food 🕸️
I see all of your videos as not just about a mere aquarium, but it is about the way of NATURE demonstrated by aquarium. It is about Life
I can listen to you teach for hours! Thank you for sharing your infinite wealth of knowledge!💜
I love that you have inspired so many people (including me) to do more than just keep fish. It makes this hobby so much more fun and interesting.
Wonderful. As below stated. Your videos are getting much better, especially for the newcomers IMHO. I've just this week converted my 20 UK Gallon to the deep substrate method after months of intensive research including a small 5 Gallon test tank running from the beginning to iron out any unforeseen problems along the way. I have heavily planted the new tank and have a few small fish in at present, and now researching plants. I made a resurrection jar way back when you said add mud, and yes it was overwhelming. I always wondered if the resurrection jar was sustainable, but the shoe box breeding station is genius. Thank you Father Fish.
Thanks Father Fish. You've made fish keeping a much simpler and enjoyable process for me. Im going to try this today.
This detailed video is exactly what I needed to understand the jar. Thank you so much!
You’re really inspiring me to go back to the hobby after a looong time, thank you Father Fish ❤
I just wanted to thank you for sharing you vast experience and knowledge of the most natural and healthy fish keeping techniques. You are the bomb Father Fish. ❤❤❤❤
Now the resurrection jar is perfect ! Awesome info . Really revived .
This is the most intriguing concept I’ve never heard before and came to it thru this channel. Many of the other concepts like bringing some material from a creek or pond when setting up the tank or building a healthy and deep enough substrate I’ve heard before. This is fantastic.
Picked up my jar yesterday. Will be gathering contents for it tomorrow. Very excited. Thanks FF!
One of my favourite things about keeping fish (when I had room for tanks) was the dozens of jars of micro foods I kept. Copepods are some of my favourites. I would spend just as much time enjoying the food jars as I did my fish. This video brings back so many wonderful memories, thank-You so much. I really hope You turn many more people onto the joys of doing this
This is wonderful. When I built my resurrection jar, I grabbed mud from the bottom of the lake. It's actually more of a sandy, gravelly dirt. So I don't think it is making the water too rich. But I have kept the jar on a south facing window seal. So I'll move it off and see if that helps it thrive. In the fall I'll be able to dedicate a lot more time to this hobby, we just have so much going on right now I'm barely able to think twice about my tanks.
Exactly the video I needed to get more living things into my tank. Thanks.
Thank you for this explanation! It is just what I was looking for!
You're voice is so calming and you are so well educated and informative. You're channel is amazing.
BEST CHANNEL ON THE TUBE!! YOU SIR ARE THE PICASSO OF THE FISH KEEPING HOBBY!!!
thank you for sharing your knowledge with us
Thank you for teaching me this trick. I can’t wait to get started. ❤
Very very high quality video ❤
Great video Father Fish. Thanks! I recharge my jar from my outdoor tub ponds when activity starts to lessen.
Beautiful tanks! ❤
What an awesome idea
The combination of the piano in the background and your easy going pace give me wonderful nostalgia of watching Mr Rogers on PBS as a child. Thank you
I love your channel you give good raw natural advice
Thank you! 🙏🏽☺️
Thank you for that video! 😃👍
I love hearing you so much . Thank you for the great joy you deliver to our hearts ❤
Thank you for the details on this Father Fish.
I love who's been doing your videos, FF. They're doing a great job! (I've done a little YTing myself, so I know what goes into it. Much appreciated)
wow fascinating! eager to try this out thanks!
I just found your channel searching betta breeding, and I'm overwhemled with joy finding this treasure of a human ❤
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Very helpful thank you
Excellent video FatherFish!
Ecospheres are so interesting. We have a few running. The oldest has been running for 6 months. Only ever have to trim the plants
So much great information. Thank you for sharing it
You are the best. Thank you for all the wonderful ideas. You have shown me so much. Keep posting this great information. Please know besides the knowledge you #hare. The videos themselves are so soothing to watch.
I have been adding leaves to my tanks periodically over the years becythe shrimp live eating the stuff off them. Great video 😊
great video! I just set up my very first aquarium and I did it FF style. it is a 20 gallon high and houses 2 nerite snails, 7 neon tetras, and a betta. there also seems to be a pond snail that emerged from the mud i used in the deep substrate, an unexpected but welcome surprise! I will definitely be doing a ressurection jar to culture some live food for them, any suggestions on what kind of cultures I should look out for to feed my fish?
Thank you Father Fish for this teaching on the Resurrection Jar and how to add leaf litter to a tank.
Amazing FF...
One way I did it was to get a plastic tub (that had a water lily in it )and rinse out my filter gunk in it after many months I noticed Daphnia in it
The last few minutes of this video answered all my questions about incorporating the resurrection jar into my aquarium. Thank you!
This is the exactly what we have instinctively been trying to accomplish in our tanks over the last few years. This information is going to bring it to the next level for us! Amazing! Thank you so much Sir! What a delight you are. Your voice and your content...so enjoyable!!
I love this!!!
Truly enjoyed this video. As always, extremely informative! Thank you for sharing your plethora of knowledge with us!
finally a use for all those extra masks. they make perfect jar covers
Thank you!
Much love to you, sir. We really appreciate it!
I love ur channel. I have gotten better at this hobby because of you and keeping my fish alive.
Thank you for continuing sharing your knowledge, this is a totally new world for me!
Great video, thanks!
Father Fish!! I am new to the hobby and so happy that I found you! I am doing a planted tank and my goal is to have it as self sufficient and chemical free as possible. Thank you so much for spreading the wisdom you have gained.
Some copepods popped up in my basil jar on the kitchen counter. Pretty exciting free fry food!
So cool, luv this. Best aquarium channel out there.
I have been making resurrection jars without realizing that's what it is. I have tons of pearl weed and hornwort so I threw them in their own jars
Thank you for this information.
great school science project. use a magnifying glass to look at all of the cute little critters in the water. FUN !
This is brilliant
Nice jr bartolome. ❤️
SOOOOOO glad i found you!!!!
You might be close to figuring out how us as a civilization first started. Been fish keeping for a long time and still learning things from you. Thanks for giving wisdom 😊
15+ years by the way your amazing please post more
I love the resurrection jar.. So amazing to see what appears in them ❤
Hello! Ik from the Netherlands and after about 3,5 years of having 2 aquaria i stumbeld in over at Father fish. This is so cool! I made my first resurrection jar for a tiny bowl in the garden. It stand for years with a pond plant in it. Over the years some leaves and twigs got in the 0.5 gallon bowl. I put my hand in and droped ela bunch of black brown juckie stuf in and put it in a empty clean spaghetti sauce jar. Topped of with the remaining water. And behold alfter just 2 days i have noticed life!!! Red blood worms are in there🎉🎉
Thanks for sharing this! A fun project.
Very nice and smart comments...thanks
This is so amazing 🤩 Thank you father fish! I had done this inadvertently when I tried to grow plants in a small bottle in natural sun light. I spent as much time with these tiny critters as I did with my tanks, if not more! Like it’s happening all by itself without my involvement whatsoever! It was truly magical! So glad to see this again after a long time 😊
Great video thank you .
Your way of explanation is just so easy to understand and practice Thanks man🙌
Thank you for sharing this sage advice.
It's always a privilege to listen to and gain benifit from the experience of veterans. ❤
Oh my goodness. I stumbled across your channel a few weeks ago and I have been having so much fun learning! You're like Ms. Frizzle in real life! I am ready to continue my field trip in Father Fish's magic school bus :)
love u and your videos
One must have balance, organization and Universal Love.
My hero!
Hola amigo saludos!! I like your videos it's very good!!
Thank you Father Fish! I´m new to your channel, but am a fan. Just came across this video. What a great idea. I might just keep some Jars as they are. I love watching nature do its thing. What a marvelous thing to do. I used to do that with just moss that i found while living in Washington State. Having a little microcosmos in a glas. Just beautiful! Thank you and keep up your videos. Best wishes from the Austian Alps.
something about your voice calms me. its like talking to my wise grandpa. thankz for the sharing by the way!
Fantastic advice!!! Leaf 1st , ask questions later!!
Thanks for all the information you provided to us
Thank you, this is a beautiful piece of information.
God bless you, Father Fish!