THE AMAZON INSPIRED BIG SHALLOW - Full Step By Step Aquascape Tutorial
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- This is the step by step aquascape tutorial of my amazon inspired big shallow! This project took a full month from start to finish, so everything was split into smaller episodes. This video is all episodes combined with a few cuts and edits. Enjoy!
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0:00 - Intro
0:45 - Taking down old layout
9:08 - The new hardscape
22:12 - Problems
23:14 - Water drip system
29:21 - Planting
41:11 - Equipment + upgrades
54:29 - Buying fish
1:10:14 - Final thoughts
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Filter
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Mist maker: amzn.to/3PwtmDf
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add some air plants to the top. Looks excellent!
I would have opted for only one species of apisto. Those things are pretty territorial.
The design is fantastic though
Aaaand I just got to the part where you said you lost the borelli. Sorry for your loss. I breed those things, downright vicious towards each other
ik zou de combi apisto en corys niet samen houden
in de natuur komen deze soorten elkaar zo goed als nooit tegen doordat ze in verschillende delen van de wateren voorkomen.
daarbij komt dat apistogramma zeker met jongen een territorium hebben welke ze vel verdedigen en corydoras buldozeren er gewoon doorheen wat soms tot gewonden corydoras maar ook gewonde apistogrammas leid door corydoras hun gif stekels. waarbij corydoras vaak juist een oog kwijt raken doordat apisto door hebben dat dit een zwak deel van de corydoras is.
kaan ook goed gaan als ze genoeg ruimte hebben maar toch vermijd ik deze combi altijd
HAHAHA the cloudiness actually reminded me of my first setup after being introduced to filters and a bit of aquascaping. Had a little internal filter that failed to clear up my water for about a month, had to redo it may times with different hardscape and sand etc till i just said to myself let me build a huge DIY filter with a lot of stuff in it maybe it will clear up and in a day it did clear up in a way that was so shocking, Loved the experience, almost gave up since i had seen nice crystal clear tanks by the gallery.
I'm watching this because of the good aquascape ideas and the handsome aquascaper. Loveyou!
I did not know where we were going to end up, but from the moment you introduced the wood I was captivated. All of the little spaces that the fish can use really bring this to another level. You have built my dream tank 😂
Wow, this video is going to be epic! I watched all the shorter ones, but who doesn't like to watch 1h aquascaping video in the background :D
I absolutely love that you use small details like twigs. In nature in lakes and rivers we see fallen trees to broken branches to sticks and twigs. It’s rare to see in aquascaping. You just got me to subscribe based on that detail. Thank you
the amount of time and energy you have put into this is beyond impressive.....love your work! keep it up MJ
Wow! Love the scape and fish. The darker water fits actually nicely with the idea of the Amazon.
Thanks for putting the whole thing together, was great to watch.
Filter floss in the tank at the end of the siphon! 💚 I'll be using that tip moving forward.
Thank you
At the end of every video, I sit back and think "I want one like this."
I don't want one like this
But you make me want one. Every time.
I think, so far, this is the best shallow tank aquascaping I have ever seen in TH-cam. Thanks for sharing!
You're a very conscientious pet parent.
I wish my plants arrived looking as good as yours, mine usually arrive dead or dying.
I love the green neon tetras!
Well done, very nice.
The diversity of plant species adds so much richness to the scene🤩
Excellent Mark. Really loved watching the separate episodes, but nice to see them all edited together. Love the big shallow .... wouldn't change a thing!
That looks super cool!! Loved it. Thank you for your gigantic effort and sharing it with us.
Such a awesome scape Mark! Love all the details and out of water plants!
Looks absolutely incredible
great video!! i’m honestly hoping to see more of these long ones. this is also probably my favorite tank you’ve ever done, i love this type of scapes.
Love the big shallow! It really does the fish justice, they look so comfortable in there. Only thing I would change is opening up the wall of rocks by removing one in the middle, and pushing the sand back so that it looks more like a cave, which will give some depth and make the structure less uniform. You could also have some bigger pond plants (I think cyperus papyrus might be cool) in the back where the echinodorus melted, they are often quite strong! But I love the scape nonetheless, you are brilliant 👏👏👏
Looks great MJ. You always have the right touch!
Thanks for all the details you mentioned in this longer video. Nice work !
I like your style and also your patience. Great video.
Fascinating. Video is enjoyable and informative. Enjoy watching your aquascaping talents.
absolutely stunning!
Running airline tubing from the outflow spray nozzle to the driftwood is such a clever idea. I'm totally borrowing that for my 10 gallon shallow tank so I can saturate the emersed portion of my driftwood and grow some emersed plants on it.
My goodness this tank is really a masterpiece. Phenomenal job very impressed, mate.
This is a really well done aquarium, love blackwater with emerged part tanks !
That was a fantastic rewatch. I put it on to have in the background while I did a water change, but ended up just sitting down and watching it all!
Awesome! Thanks for watching!
At first when you started adding the rock and wood I was like that's not going to work!
But know its looking amazing so much contrast and detail! 😍
Great, great VIDEO!
Popcorn is a must!😀
Cheers from Brazil 🇧🇷
It’s one of the most beautiful black water scape i ´ce ever seen! Congrats from France
You sir are absolute perfection. 😍
Great setup! Enjoyed the whole video
I would be thrilled with this! Loved the whole video from set-up to finish and look forward to more of the same. I am GREEN with envy 😂
Beautiful!
I cannot believe I saw it completely. Very nice video
this is the best shallow tank I've ever seen! MJ
Great vid and tank setup. Thanks.
Very enjoyable. I'm doing an American 250L in a while and will borrow inspiration from this one for sure.
Great video, bravo!
WOW... what a great work... thx for this video 👌
Looks awesome.❤
Amazing look
This is one of the best aquascapes I've ever seen. I wish it was mine :D
Amazing
I love the shallow tank layouts, found your video getting inspiration for my "little shallow" 60f ;)
Nice job and well made video!
Greetz from Spain
Beautiful aquarium!
This is my dream tank 😍
This was truly amazing to watch, I really enjoyed it
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great aquascape tutorial 👍🏻
The hardscape in this tank while looking very unique is an example of bigger is not always better. I really did love the old scape on this shallow tank quite a bit more. The efforts are appreciated nonetheless.
Beautiful
great job...I took ideas for my 120 gallons.
Beautiful 👍😎🥳
Acuclear is the only product that works and has cleared many of my cloudy tanks
This aquascape is really stunning, I love this kind of nature vibe. Although the water is not crystal clear, it looks more natural and more like amazon style. And it's sad to hear that all the echinodorus have not survived🤣, but the emersed part still looks really nice.💪
love this long format video showing the "A to Z" per say. Love your work m8 keep it up !
Glad you enjoy it!
Looking at beautiful things makes my heart beautiful (water tank)
This man is just fineeee😍
Wanna know whats crazy is people out side walking past your house not knowing what kinda magic is going on in side.
Absolutely amazing 👏
Great videos !! I think you’re right up there with SerpaDesign and MD fishtanks!! Some videos are even better!! Love your voice too. Thanks for all the great content
Love this tank, My favorite shallow on Insta nd TH-cam :)
Hi ,love your content and knowledge is great , your a natural,
Show, ficou lindo!!! 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷 Brasil
Mooi geworden 👍👍👍
Really great video. Loved the long format.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Kijk dat is een goed einde van de werkdag!
Lekker een uurtje MJ kijken😄😄😄
Tot de 19e in terneuzen!
NICE TANK
a heads up when planting or trying to grow a condoris plants, You want to make sure that you feed the roots they need root tabs placed near the roots when you plant them in and they need to be re fertilized at least once a month to keep them healthy. otherwise they tend to melt like yours did.
I think the cloudy water was from the wood. I had that issue, even after boiling my driftwood. Can’t imagine it would be easy to prep a piece of wood that size.
Love this video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Bravo from Romania
Nice work
Such a great video the big shallow looks amazing 👀👍🏽✌🏽the only thing i would change is it would be in my fish room 😂
woah that amanita mushroom growing is somethin else! im without words :P
Nice video 👍🏼👍🏼
hey man! how would you go about growing multiple types of carpeting plants in the same tank without them growing into each other in the long run? (example - dwarf hair grass and HC)
Out standing design!! You might try getting a clean garbage can and soak the wood (preferably in hot water) before putting it in the tank.
That's a beautiful piece of centurion wood
On the left hand side that top piece awarded sticking out you could wrap or wedge some spag the moss In the Little Fork there And add a couple of either bromeliads small bromeliads tangelos or a couple of miniature orchids would look nice. i'd also add maybe a fern in the back right corner area behind or to the right of The Kenadorus. And you said you had some creeping fig that's cool that's good stuff but be aware If it gets a lot of nutrients and a lot of light and a lot of water it will grow exponentially so you're gonna be forever having to trim it down and nip it in the bud. the stegorn can get quite big you could also get a birds nest fern which is kind of nice and also place that somewhere in the back near the Canadoris or just to the left of that but you wanna raise up the land a little bit so it has some chance to have air to bree on the surface you could put it in a small pot and place the small pot I would make a clay pot and use that just to hold the plant in place. He said You're making us an African Tank so I would assume you're gonna add some crepensis possibly an upside down cat although I don't know if there's enough room for it but it should work um congo Tetris might work well although they're large fish So is the catfish The Sinidontis.
Made it till the end of the Video
The setup looks very beautiful ❤
I have a few questions though..
1. How did the grass grow so well even without a substrate ?
2. How often do you feed the fish
3. How often is the maintenance done and do you vacuum clean ?
I love this type of video when you can really get into the story of the build and see how it develops over time. I can’t really think of anything I don’t like but think you are correct in needing more emerged growth. Have you thought of using Peace Lily or Monstera?
Yeah maybe a piece lily would work well!
It looks like you are using grapevine wood. It does provide a lot of bacterial growth, quickly stinks, and is rotting relatively fast. It is better suited for terrariums. But it can look great if you get it through this intense phase :)
beautiful aquiarium. Was wondering if you add more light so it would be less cloudy?
Not just any mushroom but a fly agaric mushroom 🍄😵💫
Add a second large school of celestial pearl danios. They’re nano and look like micro trout.
Would love to know what the second terrestial plant was, very pretty.. can't wait to get some driftwood to add to mine, good to see what may be in store..thanks for the content 😊
To help get rid of the wood fungus He'd probably wanna add some ram to him snails and some a mono shrimp And maybe a few cherry shrimp or something similar and once that's done it might start to green up on you from algae blooming add a couple of freshwater clams or freshwater muscles. And you wanna seed it with Daphnia Cyclops Ostercards And freshwater fairy shrimp Those will be your main food sources for your small fish What's the help weep your water clear. Try not to introduce any clinaria into the system. On snails you could always add near eyed snails and or mystery snail slash Apple snails.
Cool video, lovely tanks, thanks for sharing. I think your sucker fish may jump the tank if you aren't careful unfortunately. I've had those fish jump in the past and its always sad when it happens. Hope it's going well :)
Echinodorus usually requires co2 amd very guuf lighting and guud nutrients in the soil.
Dit zou ik ook graag eens bouwen.
Whoa bucket of mayonnaise! 😳
SEACHEM PURIGEN.... It's the magic to get rid of water tanning and cloudiness :)
When you opened that left cabinet.. that's how women feel when you open our wardrobe 😅 Like, whoops, look at all those shoe boxes.
Nice tank, as always 👍 I was actually excited about the emerse echinodorus, too bad that didnt work out. You could try peace Lily (lepelplant) instead, it's a house plant but it loves wet feet. I use them in the filter of my shrimp tank, works really well.
It's great as always,I've been reading that mist makers are not 100% good for live stock and material getting rusted after awhile and just stop working what is your experience and how long you running mist makers weekly or daily,cheers mate
Was a challenge but found some WIO black sand to order in UK
Add some peace lily in background it will grow well like md fish tank 🙏🏻
Additional fish I would add are some autosync was probably bailed maybe 10 of those And maybe a pair of bristle nose One male and one female or maybe two males and a female the female will breed with both males and the males will Protect the babies and the eggs in a cave or in a crevice that they find in the tank. Both of them will help with elderly alchemy control and a bit of a cleanup crew as well.
Mr MJ I love watching you... you come up with cool ideas 💡 I like watching you.... you excellent 👍... and I'm learning alot from you.can you send me some valisneria nana don't know if I spelled it correctly lol
Thanks a lot Zaid! I can send you some vallisneria if you live in the netherlands?
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Here in cape town that tipe of plant is very rare to get ....I also want to learn how to create my own CO2 I saw your video that u made your own CO2 system but I think it's way cheaper to make your own keep well enjoy ....make the best scapes you can stay positive man ....!!!
Nice Video. Those female guppies look huge.