I made and aquarium to replicate the white cloud mountain habitat. A very simple design using seiryu stone, quartz sand and a plant that is not designed for aquariums haha. This is something I have had planned for a while now and I'm really happy with how it turned out. A very simple design but I feel it gives and nice effect. Keeping things simple but still look half decent is a whole skill in itself. Equipment used in this video (all links affiliate): Tank: amzn.to/3nD5UHm Light: US amzn.to/2G1vVPO UK amzn.to/3kqhB2h Filter: US amzn.to/3opQXJh UK amzn.to/2Tjq9vM Stainless Lily Pipes: US amzn.to/2FqHpvR UK amzn.to/2RlfrnC Hardscape & Plants: www.aquariumgardens.co.uk/
These rock scapes always resonate with me. I like to go for walks, and we have a lot of streams, rivers, creeks, pools, outlets and such around. What most of them have in common are minnows, rocks and sticks. Not much by the way of vegetation in the water itself. As an aside, I love white clouds too. Easy to get, easy to care for and the look good.
Get creative and fix that than! Also, remember our friend M.D. has a load of sponsored stuff. That makes it a lot easier. If thing don't look as good or just don't work out he can just use some other stone, wood, plant ect. Just learn from him(and others) and most of all, enjoy your hobby!
I would love to see you attempt a tall aquascape that's similar to the paludarium tanks you've used but solely water/an aquarium. It would be interesting to see the different fish in the varying areas of the water column!
i actually caught white clouds in a shallow stream running near a temple on top of a mountain, when i was a teenager. i didn't know what fish they were until i read that thin fish book i had back then. i still keep this fish and paradise fish, they are my childhood memory.
Great design for a great fish! Love them. Been thinking about starting some tanks after 20 odd years away from them, and this video has been the push I've needed! Now I have to source some healthy minnows! Thanks.
I love the layout of the room, it's quite easy on the eye, very colorful and welcoming...adding the red root pulled the color to that side of the tank...good job...!
Sorry that this is a reply to a long-ago comment, but would you or MD be able to tell me what plant he used? I couldn't read the label, but I actually looked up this video because I saw the tank in one of his more recent videos and thought the plant was beautiful.
I believe that the plant is Nandina, commonly known as heavenly bamboo. Depending on the cultivar, it grows from 3-8’. But, I am sure it can be trimmed down to keep it very small.
its a beauty.. Put a few strains of thick cotton yarn, trough the bottom of the plastic planter. have it in contact with both the soil and the water and it will wick up water to the plant.
This is the best habitat that anyone has created for the ubiquitous minnows. They are so adaptable and so versatile that mostly we match them with the parameters that are more suitable for other fish in the tank. Nice job haha.
I love this! Very simple, anyone could do it. Also with an easy to find fish that, I think, doesn't need a heater. This may be one of my favorites :) Beautiful!
Another beautiful scape. I winced at 2:20 when you dropped that rock. Probably because I dropped and cracked my iPhone glass yesterday😁 I never thought of Nandina as an aquarium plant, or even an indoor plant. Here in SoCal, where is called Heavenly Bamboo, it’s a major landscape plant. People have 6’ hedges of the stuff in full sun. It looks great, but you might want to keep an eye out for an eventual replacement. Luckily, the way you have it set up, that will be easy.
Wow, it looks so pretty and calming Edit: if I ever get the chance to go back into the freshwater hobby then I will take it but now I’m into the full saltwater hobby
Absolutely love this aquarium. I'm picking up a tank today,it needs abit of TLC but I'm confident I can get it up and running. This video is just perfect and I will be doing my best to replicate your gorgeous set up❤
Back here to watch this video a second time around as I'm about to set up my White Cloud Mountain Minnow tank. Now that I've done more preparation, I can get more out of this video, and appreciate the effort and planning you have put into this tank. Sure it's not complicated, but bearing in mind all the different aspects this video gives a great overview of an example setup for this species.
Absolutely love that I think I might be going to the aquarium shop and getting a new tank set up and md was thinking you are still more then welcome to pop round and see my koi pond be 4 I start to knock it down and build the new pond I am planning 👍👌
@@MDFishTanks well I hope to start the new pond in the spring big better and just massive improvements all round but I am very much like yourself when jobs need to get done I jump on it !!! who needs sleep ha ha ha But would love to show you my pond as it is now and show you what I am going to do in the future Don’t tell my wife thou 😂😂10k plus pond 😂😂😂 I am free most nights of the week if easyer and weekends and even have Mondays off I am easy mate anytime that suits you this time of the year the pond looks very nice with good light to film the koi as well I can send you my WhatsApp at some point on email if you like ? Be cool to meet you as I only live a few miles away trying to be a TH-camr my self but when I say trying I am 😂😂👍
Bro i have no words, everything looks fantastic! I look to your aquariums and I will like to have one of them ... Love your work !!! And I just wait for next video
I am doing a vampire crab tank with a nano tank like this. I've been scowering the internet, not successfully I may say, and then all of a sudden you drop this brilliant "how to" on the pump setup I need. Thank you sir
I really really like this tank. I think I would have stopped with the mosses for a while and see what I thought about adding more. The multi colored plant at the top of the “mountain” is brilliant!
Hi! I think you should give Utricularia graminofolia a shot in that setup. Plant it somewhere above the water on the rocks with a thin layer of javamoss as it's "substrate" whith some water running through it from the waterfall. It has worked out really well for me and it looks amazing when they bloom.
Love watching your channel, every video is something new and I like your creations, very inspiring, keep up the great content and can't wait for another video
wonderful choice of fish - got them myself in gold! They are my favorite aquarium fish up so far! I would give them some little pinches of green in the foreground to complement the look!
It is a very nice tank! One thing for me - I wouldn't use a plant that has a higher potential to be toxic when there are other options. Just for me, I wouldn't want to have to stress about making sure I pick the berries off.
I love your full set up bro.. i subed the other day and literally binged watched all your vids.. i used to keep african cichlids a few year back but got rid of them. I was devastated, but watching you do your set ups and everything else is making me want to keep fish again think al be going for the same as you this time. Ive learned so much off watching your vids so thanks for sharing your knowledge bro keep them coming 👍😎👊
I literally just dropped 6 white clouds in my tank i've been growing for a few months! and some of mine already seem pregnant, no doubt you'll be having fry in here!
Great work with this scape!! Although I think a tiny amount of dwarf hairgrass or something similar would look incredible inbetween the seiyru stone! That's probably just me tho tbh Also I think that other tank would be great for a betta! Whether you move Mike in or get a second betta, seeing a single betta in a tank a good deal larger than they need always looks great! Edit: I think inbetween the stone is not quite the word I was looking for, more so near the base of the stone is probably closer to what I mean ^^'
I made and aquarium to replicate the white cloud mountain habitat. A very simple design using seiryu stone, quartz sand and a plant that is not designed for aquariums haha.
This is something I have had planned for a while now and I'm really happy with how it turned out. A very simple design but I feel it gives and nice effect. Keeping things simple but still look half decent is a whole skill in itself.
Equipment used in this video (all links affiliate):
Tank: amzn.to/3nD5UHm
Light: US amzn.to/2G1vVPO UK amzn.to/3kqhB2h
Filter: US amzn.to/3opQXJh UK amzn.to/2Tjq9vM
Stainless Lily Pipes: US amzn.to/2FqHpvR UK amzn.to/2RlfrnC
Hardscape & Plants: www.aquariumgardens.co.uk/
Hello from Brazil!
This is really one of my favorite TH-cam channels that inspires me. Tanks!
Have you no heating in this tank?
mist maker? i think it'd complete the white cloud mountain look
@@jannerkev no, these are temperate fish. Ambient temperature is preferred.
what size is this tank? I didn't understand the website description given 😅
These rock scapes always resonate with me. I like to go for walks, and we have a lot of streams, rivers, creeks, pools, outlets and such around. What most of them have in common are minnows, rocks and sticks. Not much by the way of vegetation in the water itself.
As an aside, I love white clouds too. Easy to get, easy to care for and the look good.
Man, every one of these tanks are unreal. Love this channel, only negative ... Makes me dislike my own tank
Same.
Get creative and fix that than! Also, remember our friend M.D. has a load of sponsored stuff. That makes it a lot easier. If thing don't look as good or just don't work out he can just use some other stone, wood, plant ect. Just learn from him(and others) and most of all, enjoy your hobby!
I would love to see you attempt a tall aquascape that's similar to the paludarium tanks you've used but solely water/an aquarium. It would be interesting to see the different fish in the varying areas of the water column!
Please make one of the three a betta tank, you don't see many amazingly scaled betta tanks and it would be fantastic❤️❤️
Mo' betta.
I am normally a more plants person, but I think this could be your best scape yet. Everyone should keep White Cloud Mountain Minnows at least once.
i actually caught white clouds in a shallow stream running near a temple on top of a mountain, when i was a teenager. i didn't know what fish they were until i read that thin fish book i had back then. i still keep this fish and paradise fish, they are my childhood memory.
Great design for a great fish! Love them.
Been thinking about starting some tanks after 20 odd years away from them, and this video has been the push I've needed!
Now I have to source some healthy minnows!
Thanks.
Floaters match the emersed plant so well 👍🏻
You've raised your own bar on this one... Brilliant!!
Simplistic yet complex. Amazing setup and would love to see the moss take over and see the development of the big plant.
I love the layout of the room, it's quite easy on the eye, very colorful and welcoming...adding the red root pulled the color to that side of the tank...good job...!
I love white clouds. Such an easy fish and so pretty.
Brilliant MD! I love this look.
I love it... I think we had those in front of our house as a kid and if I remember correctly they got pretty big like a small tree Shrub
...shhhesh, I better get a bigger tank 🤣
Sorry that this is a reply to a long-ago comment, but would you or MD be able to tell me what plant he used? I couldn't read the label, but I actually looked up this video because I saw the tank in one of his more recent videos and thought the plant was beautiful.
@@miridove Not off the top of head I haven't seen plants like that in 30 years but I'll ask my Dad next time I call home
I believe that the plant is Nandina, commonly known as heavenly bamboo. Depending on the cultivar, it grows from 3-8’. But, I am sure it can be trimmed down to keep it very small.
its a beauty.. Put a few strains of thick cotton yarn, trough the bottom of the plastic planter. have it in contact with both the soil and the water and it will wick up water to the plant.
nice one. Think i will do this :)
This is the best habitat that anyone has created for the ubiquitous minnows. They are so adaptable and so versatile that mostly we match them with the parameters that are more suitable for other fish in the tank. Nice job haha.
What an artist! That's beautiful. Lucky little White Clouds
Looks amazing, maybe some terrestrial moss on the rocks under the big plant
Stunning! And WCMMs are so underrated but seem to be making a come back. Awesome fish and so easy to care for.
MD.....the natural born scaper....
What a talent.
Greetz from the Netherlands.
I'm planning a white cloud setup so your video was really inspirational. So clearly explained.
Awesome looking tank
that tank looks AMAZING
I love this! Very simple, anyone could do it. Also with an easy to find fish that, I think, doesn't need a heater. This may be one of my favorites :) Beautiful!
Another beautiful scape. I winced at 2:20 when you dropped that rock. Probably because I dropped and cracked my iPhone glass yesterday😁 I never thought of Nandina as an aquarium plant, or even an indoor plant. Here in SoCal, where is called Heavenly Bamboo, it’s a major landscape plant. People have 6’ hedges of the stuff in full sun. It looks great, but you might want to keep an eye out for an eventual replacement. Luckily, the way you have it set up, that will be easy.
You have come a long way MD. From a shed to a studio, great.
Dude these dioramas for your animals look sick✨
Wow, it looks so pretty and calming
Edit: if I ever get the chance to go back into the freshwater hobby then I will take it but now I’m into the full saltwater hobby
Absolutely love this aquarium. I'm picking up a tank today,it needs abit of TLC but I'm confident I can get it up and running. This video is just perfect and I will be doing my best to replicate your gorgeous set up❤
Back here to watch this video a second time around as I'm about to set up my White Cloud Mountain Minnow tank. Now that I've done more preparation, I can get more out of this video, and appreciate the effort and planning you have put into this tank. Sure it's not complicated, but bearing in mind all the different aspects this video gives a great overview of an example setup for this species.
Absolutely love that I think I might be going to the aquarium shop and getting a new tank set up and md was thinking you are still more then welcome to pop round and see my koi pond be 4 I start to knock it down and build the new pond I am planning 👍👌
yeah I really have to mate...when are you knocking it down?
@@MDFishTanks well I hope to start the new pond in the spring big better and just massive improvements all round but I am very much like yourself when jobs need to get done I jump on it !!! who needs sleep ha ha ha
But would love to show you my pond as it is now and show you what I am going to do in the future
Don’t tell my wife thou 😂😂10k plus pond 😂😂😂
I am free most nights of the week if easyer and weekends and even have Mondays off I am easy mate anytime that suits you this time of the year the pond looks very nice with good light to film the koi as well
I can send you my WhatsApp at some point on email if you like ?
Be cool to meet you as I only live a few miles away trying to be a TH-camr my self but when I say trying I am 😂😂👍
7:43 what’s that thing you used to fill up the water? I think I wanna buy one.
@@animetronic6689 I made it myself from an old filter inlet and hosepipe connectors.
@@MDFishTanks Oh, ok. Nice job. 👍
Really like this style. This aquarium is a really peaceful look such as an Japanese river !
Such an underrated fish, got some in my guppy tank. Smashing out the videos lately MD, not that I'm complaining lol keep them coming 👍
Absolutely gorgeous scape and your new room is amazing, it looks so good. What a wonderful space to spend time in. Love the weekend videos!
I love the minnows. They are a great fish and I’m sure they’ll enjoy the scape
Bro i have no words, everything looks fantastic!
I look to your aquariums and I will like to have one of them ...
Love your work !!! And I just wait for next video
Simple yet beautiful! Loved it!
I am doing a vampire crab tank with a nano tank like this. I've been scowering the internet, not successfully I may say, and then all of a sudden you drop this brilliant "how to" on the pump setup I need. Thank you sir
I really like this tank, simple and unique. Great job with pumping out amazing videos!
I’m just watching all of your videos since you made the angelfish tank and I’m loving every single sec and scape, I getting a lot of inspiration!!! Ty
I really really like this tank. I think I would have stopped with the mosses for a while and see what I thought about adding more. The multi colored plant at the top of the “mountain” is brilliant!
thank you for tutorial. I somehow like this tank very much. usually I like many plants in a tank, but this time I like this one
What a amazing tank. Even begainers can make such type. Very good idea. Awesome work 🙂
Amazing
HAPPY HAPPY
Hope you had an awesome day and lots of prezzies
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You sir are a genius, I am loving your work.
Hi! I think you should give Utricularia graminofolia a shot in that setup. Plant it somewhere above the water on the rocks with a thin layer of javamoss as it's "substrate" whith some water running through it from the waterfall. It has worked out really well for me and it looks amazing when they bloom.
Very nice mountain stream biotope.
Love this tank such a simple idea. Think I will try something similar for my White clouds 🐟
One of my favorites!
Love watching your channel, every video is something new and I like your creations, very inspiring, keep up the great content and can't wait for another video
How is it that everything your create is always beautiful? Amazing.
This is amazing setup...full of fun in this...fountain work amazingly...lv to see livestock in this
A fantastic exposition my friend. Beautiful. Bravo 👏👏
That is stunning! Wow you have an amazing talent, I have been binge watching all your video's!
Really love this setup and the single species tanks! Thanks for all your inspiration
wonderful choice of fish - got them myself in gold! They are my favorite aquarium fish up so far! I would give them some little pinches of green in the foreground to complement the look!
Another great tank looks so natural 👍
Now that is one properly scaped fish tank.
Lovely looking tank 👍
Me: I can't get more tanks, I already have 4 and no space ...
*MD uploads*
Me: well....guess I'll get another tank
It is a very nice tank! One thing for me - I wouldn't use a plant that has a higher potential to be toxic when there are other options. Just for me, I wouldn't want to have to stress about making sure I pick the berries off.
I love your full set up bro.. i subed the other day and literally binged watched all your vids.. i used to keep african cichlids a few year back but got rid of them. I was devastated, but watching you do your set ups and everything else is making me want to keep fish again think al be going for the same as you this time. Ive learned so much off watching your vids so thanks for sharing your knowledge bro keep them coming 👍😎👊
Great set up. Thanks for sharing! - Little Bobby
First !
Love you md ❤️🥰😍😘
I love this sometimes less is more and I think this tank proves that. It's really great! Showstopper 😃
Awesome scapes my friend absolutely beautiful
I literally just dropped 6 white clouds in my tank i've been growing for a few months! and some of mine already seem pregnant, no doubt you'll be having fry in here!
Love this! Best scape you’ve done in a while tbh. They are all great but this is especially 💥
You should set up a barb tank with just types of barbs and Maybe a pleco or two to clean the algae
Very nice. Just needs a few red shrimp to go with the red root floaters.
You're blasting out build videos atm! You've been busy! 😂
Lots going on lol. So I like to do a build video each weekend and then vlogs whenever something else is going on...which is tons haha
That tank is gorgeous! But then again, your entire collection is awesome! I just subscribed, and can't wait to watch more!
I really love it! Another fantastic tank 😊
Awesome job MD 😊👍
Great work with this scape!! Although I think a tiny amount of dwarf hairgrass or something similar would look incredible inbetween the seiyru stone! That's probably just me tho tbh
Also I think that other tank would be great for a betta! Whether you move Mike in or get a second betta, seeing a single betta in a tank a good deal larger than they need always looks great!
Edit: I think inbetween the stone is not quite the word I was looking for, more so near the base of the stone is probably closer to what I mean ^^'
Definately gonna make this ❤️
MD Fish Tanks: This piece is a Work of art. :)
Happy Birthday MD!!!!
haha. cheers bruv :D
I love it! It's so simple yet stunning!
Thats gorgeous and great music playlist for this
Very nice setup! 👍
beautiful! I actually went to the mountain near Guangzhou where WCMM were discovered
Amazing love it
now thats a nice looking unique setup!love it❤️
Congratulations, excellent work
from Portugal
The fish room is just being born guys. Wait till it becomes a adult . Good scape as always.
Looks beautiful. I wish I could have the space to do alot of tanks and scapes. 👌
such a cool scape!
Tank looks great 👍 I feel whats missing though is the effect of cold mist
superb....love it.... great video...and love the film quality.....cheers
That is beautiful. Only think i might try is putting a black background on the back.
Beautiful.
Gorgeous!
i gave mine a lengthy tank vs standard. yes it was smaller volume wise, but much longer with stream like flow and they would swim the whole length
Love it ! Nice work 😍
Great looking set up, sad as it, is your fill and empty setup is very satisfying! I’m still trying to use a siphon for mine 😫
always keep up a great work, u da best MD!!
so beautiful!