Master the Art of Feeding Fish without Spending a Dime

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Believe it or not, Nature has provided a way for you to feed your fish naturally, and it's not pouring a bottle of fish food into the aquarium every week -fouling the water and -fattening your fish. It's called creating a food web. We are starting with incorporating the detritus, with the end result of providing food for the fish.

Nature's way is simple. First, you provide your fish with an aquarium similar to what they would find in nature. This type of aquarium has a deep substrate. This father fish aquarium has a two part substrate. The bottom layer is dirted. The top layer consists of sand. The sand is necessary because this is the layer that cleans the aquarium.

This substate works by the sand layer precipitating the mulm and the detritus down to the anaerobic and the aerobic area for processing. This is where the mulm and detritus are turned into fertilizer for the plants, which goes into the dirted layer.

Next, you go out into nature and find food for the fish.
"Why must I go out into nature?", you may ask. That is, because this is where we find the live natural fish food.

You will gather leaves and other things that have life on them.You cannot see the life, but it is there. Microfaune is everywhere. So when you put these leaves in your aquarium, your are putting microfauna in there, but, that is not all, macrofauna also live on this leaves. Macrofauna eat microfauna and guess what eats macrofauna -scuds, daphnia and other small water creatures. Then the fish feed on these little guys So, there you go.

Congratulations you have created an aquatic food web!


FATHER FISH is an advocate for natural aquariums. His research over 25 years provides a wealth of information about the creation and maintenance of natural aquariums.
On this channel you will find scientific research as well as personal testimonials by countless hobbyists who have applied the Father Fish System and are enjoying its amazing benefits.

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All Comments (21)
  • @KamsAquatics
    I went down to the creek and grabbed a mossy rock and put it in my tank… the fish were so happy they swarmed it for about 2 hours nonstop. Within days the snails found it and just hung out there constantly. Au naturelle is the way to go. I’ve never liked having artificial items in my tanks since I was a teen fish keeper.
  • @briankelly8630
    I started my aquarium maybe 6 months ago, I learnt most tricks to the trade from this channel. Now got a 3 foot that is almost a fully self sustained ecosystem because of this dude. Love the knowledge 🍻
  • The advice here is amazing, but the most impressive thing is how you are lugging around a net almost the size of you to collect gunk from a pond yourself! Kudos to that!
  • @davidbragg3964
    When the legend talks you should listen. Taking his advice has made my fish keeping much less work and much more enjoyable. Thank you legend
  • Ive been fascinated by this channel because I was developing the same process over 30 or 40 years from trial and error and you seem to have answered all the questions I had. This is by far the most informative aquarium channel on Youtube.
  • @n.2597
    Father fish I gotta tell ya, I’ve set up this system and after 2 weeks…my platys started spawning and now I have little baby’s swimming around. Thank you so much for showing us this knowledge and giving us so much joy.
  • @bully7865
    Im starting an aquarium, I got plants, sand etc not the fish yet, and I was researching and found this channel! WILL BE FOLLOWING ALL THE ADVICES FROM DAY 1. Tomorrow Ill be visiting a lake nearby to gather some stuff!
  • @Good13man
    I was really into aquariums in the late 90's, when I was convinced that an under-gravel filter was the only way to have a natural aquarium. I studied the hobby and did the best I could, but gave up after a few years of hard work and disappointing results. 20 years later, I'm back at it. I'm giving this approach a try and I'm loving it so far! Thank you!!
  • @alexnguyen3022
    Father Fish, thank you so much. I love keeping fish and have been keeping them on and off many times over the years. I quit many times because eventually I killed the fish and could not allow myself to repeat that. Thankfully, I found your channel. Following your advice has allowed me to keep my fish alive, active, and healthy and returned the enjoyment that I always have with fish keeping.
  • @vuongdang7640
    I don't even have an aquarium, but I love watching your videos.
  • I wish I had found this channel when I started this hobby. I am so excited to change my tanks over to this natural system. Thank you so much for all the great info!
  • Ironically, everything he says about the impact of over feeding fish is the same for humans
  • @royoakes1250
    I'm glad you explained how to keep the system going by adding More leaf matter😊
  • @Gomezforsure
    I just added dried leaf 🍂 from tree right outside my house and my guppies loved it!! They keep picking on it
  • Man these old school aquariums really take me back this is the stuff I grew up on I remember using t8 lighting and standard house bulbs growing Java ferns like a beast hahaha
  • @butkusfan23
    I recently gave into my curiosity and let go of my fears, and started a 20 long with dirt, lots of plants, and a couple inches of sand. I plan to add more sand soon, and more plants, although I do have an impressive amount of plants so far, as I’ve run planted tanks before and used several I already had. At any rate, I only added a very small filter on one side with seeded media from another tank, an air stone in the other corner, a small heater, and a handful of twigs and rocks and a couple leaves from a huge, clean lake. I grabbed a small amount of water as well. (I accidentally grabbed about 5 baby minnows too. I may release them if they get large) I have a few endlers in the tank, as well as a sparkling gourami and various “pest” snails. The tank is doing great. Plants are taking off, I feed the fish a small feeding every two days, and when I add more leaf litter I’ll start to feed even less. The fish have full bellies and great color. Water is clear. I saw a person in my social media group post a photo of a tank with deep sand and leaves. I asked her if she ever saw your videos, and she said she just discovered you recently, and her tank was inspired by you. You’re really catching on, Father Fish! That’s two of us in the Portland, Oregon area that have discovered you and gotten on board with your methods, and are trying to tell more folks about you. I’ve tried to tell folks about your methods, and the results are very mixed. People love to tell me to my face it can’t be done. Or that taking wild things will lead to disaster. But hopefully with time, we can convince them with our results! Thanks again.
  • @fnubie
    Yes Father...Thank you Father...
  • @josemac7891
    Es de agradecer la incorporación de subtítulos en lengua española para nosotros los NO bilingües, porque lograr saber el mensaje que el Padre Fish nos comunica a través de sus vídeos, realmente NO tiene PRECIO; muchas Gracias Padre Pez (Father Fish) por sus grandes consejos. Les envío un saludo desde Honduras en Centroamérica.