Today is a special thanks to Illumaqua for being the Videographer and Editor of the talk I gave in Charlotte. The Aquatic Expo 2023. I have given this talk to many clubs around the USA and Canada. When it comes to aquarium keeping there is a lot of information to learn. This talk breaks down how to keep them more natural and simple with lots of information you can carry towards your style of aquarium keeping and or just help you with beginning to keep aquariums. I have been doing this a long time in many ways people have not and have rewritten the standards on a lot of how we keep aquariums through out the years and my time on being social media. This is an compostion creation of what Ive learned. Hope you all enjoy! If you love clean Homebred top quality aquatics and rarities check out the site below. Thanks for watching! 😀
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Absolutely loved the end. 💕 That was a great talk!
Thanks Lucas. Would love to come back to this video in the future so I created timestamps.
00:44 Intro
06:33 Save money (Low tech)
07:50 Monster, Cichlid & Goldfish tanks
12:04 Symbiotic relationships
15:06 Filtration choices if I did use
19:28 Substrate types & bare bottom tanks
22:16 Driftwood, rocks & leaves
26:55 Lighting options
30:37 Algae control
34:07 Natural tank maintenance
37:33 Shrimp
41:22 Herd instincts
43:28 Biotopes & Benefits of replication
44:33 Breeding: Community & Species only
50:56 Benefits of breeding and raising fry in "dirty" natural tanks
51:55 Water change vs No water change
54:10 Changing parameters naturally & How nature changes parameters
57:25 Pinpointing problems
01:00:50 The end
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Great talk. I really like the team filming it too, they did a super good job (they even tried to make the questions audible, that's cool)
Thank You brother for uploading your talk! Listening on my commute to work ❤
the only thing I would warn people about using thread in tanks to tie plants and stuff, be really carefull that there are no gaps and its not loose I had a young pleco injure itself pretty bad getting caught in some thread that was tying java fern down it had come loose and I didn't notice. I had to rescue the fish and do a minor surgury to remove the thread out of its body apply some antiseptic and kept it in a salty hospital tank till it healed. It did survive but it made me not use thread anymore.
Really great talk shared it on my facebook
Ive actually been breeding some neocaridina in soft water and quite acidic water and hard water and everything in between. They seem to just adapt wherever I put them. ive bred them in pure rainwater with tonnes of tanins and leaves. I think they have just got used to it over time ive chucked them from one to the other, I have mostly blues and blacks but also greens and yellow/red/orange. The blues and blacks do seem the most adaptable so far. Ive got them in vases on the kitchen bench.
Loved the whole talk, but awww that ending! Even I'M tearing up, ha ha! Beautiful moment!
Very interesting Q&A, good questions!
Thank you for sharing it with us all 🙂
So many gems…GREAT presentation…THANKS FOR SHARING ‼️ 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🥰
Awesome presentation- thank you Lucas💕👍
@LRB: You Rock!!! 👍🏾💙
LRB! Damn man! You showed out on your presentation. For me though was how you fielded the first question. Kind of you to give as much time for her as you did, and then of course seeing you hold it together regarding the living your dream. Much love brother!
A very nice lecture LRB 🤓🐠🎸
Great Talk👍🌾🐠🌿🐟🌾
great vid lucas. you inspire me and so many others
Very Nice Lucas lots of information for all aquarium keeper.
It was an absolute treat to see this live! I learned so much
Every house has a close line hear in aus its not a back in the day thing 😂
Really, really awesome — as expected. Much love to you, Lady LRB, Wes and the cats!
Awesome presentation Lucas! You nailed it, great job!
You are awesome always giving stuff away for free, who says there's nothing free in life. Excellent vid very informative.
very nice🎉
@LRBAquatics – This video should come with a “might make you cry” warning… (I’m not crying, you’re crying 😅)
Seriously, the best fish talk I’ve ever had a pleasure to hear! It was a pleasure to witness it live and to film/edit this vid. Happy to see you put it on your channel for everyone to watch and learn 😃👍
The one and only you rock
Does anyone know how big do baby guppies have to be before I can put them with the adult guppies aside from the general statement that anything that can fit in any fishes mouth is fair game. I was hoping to find out if wake up you should be like a quarter inch or half inch because I seriously doubt that needs to be like a whole 1 inch because surely a quarter inch or half inch is enough for them to grow out and be put with the adult puppies, because I don’t want my babies to get eaten.
This is insanely good. THANK YOU!
I've got to be honest. I'm disappointed. I thought for sure this was when you were finally going to admit to creating Tetra Color Tropical Granules. 🫠
Ahhhhh MANNN,this was such a cool bit to watch.😊
Love your stuff,Lucas.
Sitting on pins and needles waiting for shipping to Canada to be added to your website.
Much love to you and yours.❤✌️
i have rocks that scratches and rises the ph up to 8.5 how can i add this to my aquarium? would it be ok to add some of that water to my aquarium if i can't add those rocks to my aquarium?, when the aquarium water stays at 6.8?
Cool man! Just came across this and watching now, already shot a like up thanks for the content, its so much i cant keep up!🤣👍 no complaints brother!
🤣🤣🤣plantaclause
Yea man, if the plant isnt growing its not “moving” fast enough to outgrow the algae!👍 ive noticed that in my 55gallon! Slow growing plants get littered with algae! Thats another reason trimming plants is a good idea if they get caked with algae. Trim them bad boys and throw the trimmings in a bucket and put it in the dark and the algae dies and then replant the trimmings if you want
Really nice presentation man 👍
Amazing video man. I’m a bio major and I model my fishkeeping after you. I can’t wait to get some more guppies from you. Really top quality fish for low cost
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Scuds are Amphipods, not Isopods.
Lol I have one male guppy trying to breed with some white cloud minnows😂😂
Diana Walstad wrote about keeping a natural tank and Father Fish has improved upon the system.
I am just about done with LED's. I miss the old lights.