Beautiful tank! Love what you did with the design. My 145 gallon has grown in nicely from when I got it set up a year ago (fully planted amazon style as well), and enjoy working out at home while watching the fish in there. Very relaxing and helps pass the time faster. Hope you & your family are staying safe and healthy!!!
You say sometimes your not good at aquascaping, but you time on time surprise me/us with your creations and I looks great!! Keep them coming! Stay safe everyone
Looks awesome. Totally unique concept. Also ... I think it's hilarious how your cat watches everything you do with your fish tanks. Mine does the same. Until he falls asleep
I really like this one. It gives me some great inspiration for an axolotl tank. I love that Aqua Decor makes bottom mats for a tank, so I could set up something to look like a muddy riverbed and still have the ease of a bare-bottom setup for the axolotls' safety and health!
The roots look maybe a little too dense parallel and same size. Jist some tiny tweaks could mend it. Oh i love the over all look. Its unique and beautiful and better than I could ever do
He should not because those small "art" type tanks or anything under 20g should never be used to keep jellyfish moon jellies and upside down jellyfish may be possible for him but only in a suitable kreisel tank for moon jellies or a specialized setup with good lighting for upside down jellyfish
Love the tank. It looks natural. Maybe some tannins would look good. And I think a school of neon tetras or something similar would look great. A flash of colour against the dimness of the tank. 💕
This tank is amazing, it reminds me of the roots and reeds in the river behind my house! Many fish would love this, they feel safe and comfortable in between all those vines and will have a place for breeding.
The tank looks awesome! Absolutely love it! But since the twigs take up some water volume I wouldn't recommend big fish! I'd love to see it as a dwarf cichlid tank tho! Some rams like gbrs, electric blues, etc. Their blues would pop out from the naturally dark substrate/background and would be a great contrast!
I think some classic angelfish would look amazing in that tank because of the vertical stripes. Then put in a rope fish or three for the exact opposite effect. The other idea I had would be to put in some colorful Boseman's Rainbow fish that would just pop in that 'scape.
I like the tank, I think the leaves really make it and the vines work super well. The dark bottom was a good choice to help let the leaves pop out. I was def going with SA vibes and was thinking angelfish would look good weaving in and out of the vines and if you want to keep going the pufferfish route, bumblebee puffers are good community ones, far less aggressive, and schooling. This is going to be a fun and mysterious tank lol
The darkness gives me a monster fish vibe. Maybe another bichir? I believe that’s how you spell it. I feel like you need something big and scary lookin. Maybe give it a decent sized cave in the middle and maybe some surface level small fish above. That way you can admire the movement of the small fish up top, but still give an ominous feeling of what beast lurks in the cave below.
I really like this tbh, this is pretty much exacly what i imagine u'll see if u take a dive into the amazon near the bank, super natural look to it, super simplisic yet very unique scape from anything i'v ever seen! I have no idea what fish would go well with this but im sure whatever u end up puting in it will look awesome!
Would love to see this tank with more catappa leaves and the school of cardinal tetras swimming in between the twigs. Maybe even a few apistogramma as well.
More leaf litter and botanicals! 🌿 dude i bet shrimps would love to forage on the vines! overall i really dig it, would like to try something like that one day
Looks quite great to be honest, but I think that over a short period of time it won't be as fun because of the darkness. I think you should maybe go out and see what your backyard has to offer, such as rocks and sticks, and make a Canadian like aquarium.
Love the tank. I'd really like to see some sort of pike cichlid in the fish room. They are super underrated in the hobby even though there are many dwarf species suitable for 30-55 gallon tanks. A colony of dwarf pike would be incredible and challenging.
This was really calming to watch. I was admitted in the ER today (not for covid though), and the combination of your voice and watching you setup the aquarium provided a little distraction from all of the chaos.
It doesn't matter what I think because you're the one that needs to be happy with it. However, since you asked what we think, it's too busy for me. It's also too dark for my taste. I love the background though. I would have added more sticks like you did, but I would have used less of them and arranged them so they were coming out towards the front of the tank rather than up towards the surface. Love the vines/twigs concept, you just have, for me, too many of them in there.
Looks really amazing Joey! Amazon biotopes are among my favorites. When I think of the Amazon I think of tetras and other Characins. Of course neons or cardinals always look great in such tanks, but you have that already. Smaller piranha? Or Metynnis-types. Possibly with some Leporinus?
I like it! Looks like a riverbank. Very natural and believable. Angels woold look cool or perhaps a big school of tetras, serpas, neons or even congos, has to bee a lot to look cool though.
The twigs are actually a nice idea, but I think the execution was bad for 2 reasons. First, the floating styrofoam is as ugly as hell. I think it is ok as a proof of concept, but I wouldn't keep it long term. Maybe tieing the twigs to some egg-crate light diffuser and glueing the egg-crate to the glass lid would give a neater finish. Second, because the twigs are too grouped in a single plane, so it looks like a organized wall or curtain instead rather than "messy" roots. With the egg-crate idea (or any other), they could be more randomly dispersed.
i like the tank a lot the back drop is great with the dark bed personally i wouldn’t change any of it as it does have a good natural look to it all i would stock with Cichlids which happen to be my favorite fish to raise i like a wide mixture of them my last tank was a 250 gallon Acrylic made from 2 6 footers connected at a right angle with a 90 degree swim tube i custom made
We're putting together a 33long for our Apistogramma Cacatuoides and this video gives me some much needed inspiration. I love the set up. I too have been cutting my own hair. Calling it the" Rona 19 cut".
I LOVE THAT IS SO DOPE it allows the fish to get to swim in the open and then if they want they can kind of explore within those twigs thats super cool
Gotta think any vertical striped fish would feel at home in here and I really love it maybe seeing the styrofoam would bug me though, the concept is perfect.
Love it festivums and angles bwould look fantastic. To many roots you need to make them look more natural buy more in some areas and less in others so the cover looks denser in some areas
I actually like it as-is with 1 caveat: remove some of the roots from the center-foreground. (To lesson those up a bit because right now, it's a little "crowded"--but I think the concept is AWESOME. I love these kinds of aquariums because not many people seem to set them up.)
I think it looks amazing! Sorta dark lagoon, very different from anything I've seen from you before. I think something very colorful to contrast the gloominess. Kinda like rays of sunshine through the clouds. I don't know I could be way off with my thinking.
I love it most natural tank yet .... stocking idea 🤔🤔🤔 what about some banjo cats with few african butterfly fish and some fresh water pipefish 🤩🤩 with few rabbit snails or some clams
Stunning looking tank Joey! You got me all worked up and i can't sleep now. Thanks man. What I'm thinking is a challenge: a tank, nothing in it bought at all. Well, except for maybe sand but preferable dirt. Eveything collected outside. Rocks, sticks, plants, whatever. Well water only. Thanks for all the amazing fun!
I like the idea Joey but maybe use some different shaped things to float the roots so they aren’t in straight (ish) lines. As for stocking how about emperor tetras? Corydoras?
A bunch of blackwater nano fish would look awesome
Maybe some neons or cardinals?
Maybe a Platydora aka striped raphael catfish
Green neon tetras I reckon
@Axton Heath Yea, I've been using flixzone for years myself =)
Make it Some sort of shrimp/ community tank! I feel like seeing the shrimp scattered about on the vines would be phenomenal!
I really enjoy this scape, I can imagine a load of small schooling fish zig zagging around it through the sticks/vines. Very nice :)
Beautiful tank! Love what you did with the design. My 145 gallon has grown in nicely from when I got it set up a year ago (fully planted amazon style as well), and enjoy working out at home while watching the fish in there. Very relaxing and helps pass the time faster. Hope you & your family are staying safe and healthy!!!
Looks awesome Joey! Leave it as-is and stock it!
I think a huge school of rummynose tetras would look amazing swimming through those vines.
a school of altum angel fish would look fantastic in this tank!
This set up is perfect for the wild discus!!!
I think it looks amazing! The leaves look great. There's always leaves, twigs etc on river beds so I'd say go for it.
this video had a real old joey vibe to it you even had the old joey voice going
You say sometimes your not good at aquascaping, but you time on time surprise me/us with your creations and I looks great!! Keep them coming! Stay safe everyone
I just LOVE it. Keep it this way for sure.
I think it is one of the best scape of yours. It's super-cool imo and the least generic aquarium in your galery! Great job!
Looks great. Love it (and you) Now I want to do one the same. Altum type Angels maybe? Cardinals would look good too I reckon.
I say do some kind of cool pike and leave it as is. Looks like a mangrove root forest from Florida
I love your creativity and use of materials.
Please give us a follow up with the fish in place.
Jim
Looks awesome. Totally unique concept. Also ... I think it's hilarious how your cat watches everything you do with your fish tanks. Mine does the same. Until he falls asleep
Some wild discus would look sick in that
Probably my favorite so far. Great feeling to this one. Some forktail rainbow fish would look SO good in this 😳
I really like this one. It gives me some great inspiration for an axolotl tank. I love that Aqua Decor makes bottom mats for a tank, so I could set up something to look like a muddy riverbed and still have the ease of a bare-bottom setup for the axolotls' safety and health!
Would this necessarily be a brackish tank?
The roots look maybe a little too dense parallel and same size. Jist some tiny tweaks could mend it. Oh i love the over all look. Its unique and beautiful and better than I could ever do
Ashley DiSantis yeah some too short to not make it half way down, everything in between.
This is a great set up for rummynose tetras as dither fish! Perfect biotope for them
A small schooling fish would be amazing. Looks great
Like barbs
It looks amazing joey, It does look very natural, can't wait to see what u stock it with. Thanks for sharing
Joey, have you ever considered giving one of those jellyfish tanks a try? Might be an interesting project...
He should not because those small "art" type tanks or anything under 20g should never be used to keep jellyfish moon jellies and upside down jellyfish may be possible for him but only in a suitable kreisel tank for moon jellies or a specialized setup with good lighting for upside down jellyfish
Yasssss! Love that idea!
Jelly fish have to be kept in a cylindrical tank. No corners!
Love the tank. It looks natural. Maybe some tannins would look good. And I think a school of neon tetras or something similar would look great. A flash of colour against the dimness of the tank. 💕
I like it. I like the idea if imagining small fish weaving through the branches.
Absolutely love the tank and am so hopeful you stock it and keep it going for awhile.
Additional twigs down the substrate just like fallen twigs in the river will make it more natural i think.
Definitely
This tank is amazing, it reminds me of the roots and reeds in the river behind my house! Many fish would love this, they feel safe and comfortable in between all those vines and will have a place for breeding.
Nice, when will you break it down and rescape it?
The tank looks awesome! Absolutely love it! But since the twigs take up some water volume I wouldn't recommend big fish! I'd love to see it as a dwarf cichlid tank tho! Some rams like gbrs, electric blues, etc. Their blues would pop out from the naturally dark substrate/background and would be a great contrast!
I think some classic angelfish would look amazing in that tank because of the vertical stripes. Then put in a rope fish or three for the exact opposite effect. The other idea I had would be to put in some colorful Boseman's Rainbow fish that would just pop in that 'scape.
Khuli loaches would also be cool, if he can net them up. lol
I like the tank, I think the leaves really make it and the vines work super well. The dark bottom was a good choice to help let the leaves pop out. I was def going with SA vibes and was thinking angelfish would look good weaving in and out of the vines and if you want to keep going the pufferfish route, bumblebee puffers are good community ones, far less aggressive, and schooling. This is going to be a fun and mysterious tank lol
I love those darker looking thanks
My kind of tank that i want to build in my future fish tank. Thanks for the idea. It's simple but elegant. 👌👍
The darkness gives me a monster fish vibe. Maybe another bichir? I believe that’s how you spell it. I feel like you need something big and scary lookin. Maybe give it a decent sized cave in the middle and maybe some surface level small fish above. That way you can admire the movement of the small fish up top, but still give an ominous feeling of what beast lurks in the cave below.
I really like this tbh, this is pretty much exacly what i imagine u'll see if u take a dive into the amazon near the bank, super natural look to it, super simplisic yet very unique scape from anything i'v ever seen! I have no idea what fish would go well with this but im sure whatever u end up puting in it will look awesome!
Would love to see this tank with more catappa leaves and the school of cardinal tetras swimming in between the twigs. Maybe even a few apistogramma as well.
Dwarf gouramis and cardinals would be amazing
More leaf litter and botanicals! 🌿
dude i bet shrimps would love to forage on the vines!
overall i really dig it, would like to try something like that one day
Looks quite great to be honest, but I think that over a short period of time it won't be as fun because of the darkness. I think you should maybe go out and see what your backyard has to offer, such as rocks and sticks, and make a Canadian like aquarium.
Nice scape, loving the natural look you've created
I want to use the vine idea for a betta tank! It looks great to me!
Love the tank. I'd really like to see some sort of pike cichlid in the fish room. They are super underrated in the hobby even though there are many dwarf species suitable for 30-55 gallon tanks. A colony of dwarf pike would be incredible and challenging.
I'm thinking try some naturalistic twigs, and maybe some wild angels, discus, or a dwarf cichlid group, with some tetras/pencils
Too generic everyone who keeps amazon biotopes has that or close to that definitely want to see 30+ pencilfish though
@@zafishguy5166 True... Geophagus? or a breeding tank for his Uaru
I think that tank looks AWESOME!!! Good job Joey. I really love how the leaves look on the bottom
I love it!! I say maybe angelfish and tetras
looks good!! 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽 and i think a couple discus would be pretty cool to see in that tank
Go with wild discus!! Or some severums
This was really calming to watch. I was admitted in the ER today (not for covid though), and the combination of your voice and watching you setup the aquarium provided a little distraction from all of the chaos.
*JOEY!!! THAT TANK NEEDS BLUE RAMS!!!*
I second this! Love blue rams..
Love it. Wild type discus or angels would be amazing.
It doesn't matter what I think because you're the one that needs to be happy with it. However, since you asked what we think, it's too busy for me. It's also too dark for my taste. I love the background though. I would have added more sticks like you did, but I would have used less of them and arranged them so they were coming out towards the front of the tank rather than up towards the surface. Love the vines/twigs concept, you just have, for me, too many of them in there.
Looks really amazing Joey! Amazon biotopes are among my favorites. When I think of the Amazon I think of tetras and other Characins. Of course neons or cardinals always look great in such tanks, but you have that already. Smaller piranha? Or Metynnis-types. Possibly with some Leporinus?
looks great stock with white cloud minnows
I like it! Looks like a riverbank. Very natural and believable. Angels woold look cool or perhaps a big school of tetras, serpas, neons or even congos, has to bee a lot to look cool though.
Why not both?
Amazon leaf fish would be awesome ^_^
Or some apistogrammas ^_^
My favorite style tank. Very nice man.
The twigs are actually a nice idea, but I think the execution was bad for 2 reasons. First, the floating styrofoam is as ugly as hell. I think it is ok as a proof of concept, but I wouldn't keep it long term. Maybe tieing the twigs to some egg-crate light diffuser and glueing the egg-crate to the glass lid would give a neater finish. Second, because the twigs are too grouped in a single plane, so it looks like a organized wall or curtain instead rather than "messy" roots. With the egg-crate idea (or any other), they could be more randomly dispersed.
King of DIY Joey wins 2020 Aqua Scaping Design of the Year! This is awesome! Can’t wait to see what fish look like in it!
Electric blue acaras would pop in that mangrove root tank 👌
i like the tank a lot the back drop is great with the dark bed personally i wouldn’t change any of it as it does have a good natural look to it all i would stock with Cichlids which happen to be my favorite fish to raise i like a wide mixture of them my last tank was a 250 gallon Acrylic made from 2 6 footers connected at a right angle with a 90 degree swim tube i custom made
Dude seriously do some Betta Macrostamas they would look perfect in there
Its not Amazon like most blackwater fish in the hobby are great choice and underated
Matthew Peters-Nahnee facts that could be crazy with some different breeding pairs
We're putting together a 33long for our Apistogramma Cacatuoides and this video gives me some much needed inspiration. I love the set up. I too have been cutting my own hair. Calling it the" Rona 19 cut".
Please consider keeping a school of Red back Angelfish (Pterophyllum scalare manacapuru red back) in this aquarium.
Those are beautiful. Some red would look stunning
I LOVE THAT IS SO DOPE it allows the fish to get to swim in the open and then if they want they can kind of explore within those twigs thats super cool
i like the concept but there's way too much going on. maybe use some thicker branges and have fewer in there.
The tank looks cool please keep going with it
Festivums and corydoras would be awesome
Gotta think any vertical striped fish would feel at home in here and I really love it maybe seeing the styrofoam would bug me though, the concept is perfect.
I thing tetras will look supper cool in that aquarium or and nano schooling fish for that matter
looklike the Amazonas river the water tone and the branches. Personally I like it a lot, very clever the creation.
I don’t know the logistics of this, but I just thought archer fish would look really good in there 🤷🏻♂️
Love it festivums and angles bwould look fantastic. To many roots you need to make them look more natural buy more in some areas and less in others so the cover looks denser in some areas
Go with long fin Angels with some tetras as in wild .
Pencilfish
Altum angels and a dither fish would look amazing 🐟🐠
Keep it! Throw some rainbow wolfish. Or electric catfish in there
I actually like it as-is with 1 caveat: remove some of the roots from the center-foreground. (To lesson those up a bit because right now, it's a little "crowded"--but I think the concept is AWESOME. I love these kinds of aquariums because not many people seem to set them up.)
Go with severums Joey
I love it! It looks like a mangrove habitat 😀 can’t wait to see the fish in after the tank cycle
Only one species, small school of wild discus fish... ;)
Awesome... Not only will it suit Festae but also those dwarf NE Indian Channa like Pardalis, Stiktos, Bleheri, Stewartii etc.
Female bettas, a lot of them, at least 15, kois would be extra eye catching just my idea
It's a bit deep for bettas as they need to go to the surface to breathe but could work
Like it - great depth to the tank - fish swimming through the ‘roots’ will give a great natural feel
Put some tetras in there.
Stock it with Dwarf Gouramis. They would look awesome! Like mini colourful Susans!
Appistos appistos appistos 🤫
I think it looks amazing! Sorta dark lagoon, very different from anything I've seen from you before. I think something very colorful to contrast the gloominess. Kinda like rays of sunshine through the clouds. I don't know I could be way off with my thinking.
Angelfish...
So amazing and beautiful natural setup... background is really great
..black water is so beautiful
Exodon tetras
I love the dense look of this build, I imagine it will make the fish feel comfortable!
Are you ok no more videos from you. I hope you are safe and healthy.
Looks great. I think the cardinal/neon tetras would look great in that tank.
Yo you are on another level bro, keep up the dope work! 💪
I love it most natural tank yet .... stocking idea 🤔🤔🤔 what about some banjo cats with few african butterfly fish and some fresh water pipefish 🤩🤩 with few rabbit snails or some clams
Nice to see You doing some scaping finally, looks really cool, keep it!
Stunning looking tank Joey! You got me all worked up and i can't sleep now. Thanks man. What I'm thinking is a challenge: a tank, nothing in it bought at all. Well, except for maybe sand but preferable dirt. Eveything collected outside. Rocks, sticks, plants, whatever. Well water only. Thanks for all the amazing fun!
I like the idea Joey but maybe use some different shaped things to float the roots so they aren’t in straight (ish) lines. As for stocking how about emperor tetras? Corydoras?
Im surprised, but i really like it! Some schools of smaller fish would look neat swimming around all the little "roots"