Talking of co2 leaking, once my co2 hoses kept getting small holes in them, i probably went through about 25 meters of piping from 3 different brands before i found the issue. Turns out mu cat likes to bite the pipes
Great video! Throws light on the not so beautiful side of the world of aquascaping, my first tank was most of these mistakes together with some more and eventually ended up re-scaping it in two months
This is my new favorite channel! I can't live without a tank in my life. I've gone from hundreds of gallons to now a nano tank. And even though I've never scaped a tank, with your help I'm going to be great at it. Thank you for this awesome channel! 🙂
Really happy to see this video guys! It can sometimes be frustrating to see only wonderful success everywhere when you have a normal failure rate. You start to stress out or think you're not good enough. But everyone fails, and you have to accept that if you want to enjoy the hobby. This video helps a lot, so thanks! Plus it's super well done and funny ^^
I think this is the part of the beautiful world of aquascaping, the mistakes, the disasters that makes us learn a lot and not repeating the same mistakes.. It's a lot of fun and it's something beautiful
Thanks for the humility. Most people are not comfortable sharing about mistakes. Often, we learn more from things that have gone wrong than right. Hilarious ending !
True,i'm going to keep this video in a playlist so I can remember to watch out for these types of mistakes if I dare to forget them,I don't think i'd like to pierce an ADA CO2 Diffuser through my palm.
@@GreenAquaShop watching you guys making the same sort of mistakes I'm making while I'm learning the hobby has been great for my confidence with the hobby. Thanks for all your great content!
Tommy's aquascape, looks great, the whole Ideo of a fallen valley due to erosion/ weather is amazing. I suggest he tries to go with that theme to have something truly unique and beautiful
On my first aquascape, I use DIY CO2 using baking soda and citric acid in soda bottle to cut the cost. One night, it just explode. The splatter are just difficult to clean. Decided to buy a gas cylinder the next day.
Great video! My own sharing: I once spoiled 2 motor heads by forgetting to put the top cover on in the cannister filter. Apparently the initial suction is strong enough when the motor starts to suck in filter material and damage the impeller blades. Always remember to leave the cover on after the last filter layer!
Aquarium horror stories be like: *breakage of lily pipes *hardscapes banging the glass *death of fishes/shrimps *expensive lighting starts to flicker *canister filter leaking *plants melting *MTS (Multiple Tanks Syndrome) and the scariest of them all, Algae :D lol Happy Halloween everybody.
Hey Balázs, it's not just male aquascapers... Here it's my guy who has to forgive my feminine and refined mistakes: flooding because I forgot the reverse osmosis unit, screaming because I broke my lily pipe, an aquarium exploded with 60l of water in the living room at midnight.. but that was because of the cat !!
Great video, those were some relatable and crazy stories. A few months back a friend of mine was given a 60p from another friend of ours that was moving. He took a taxi with the tank back to his apartment and didn't realize that one of the corners on the bottom of the tank got chipped at some point. While carrying it into his apartment it sliced open his forearm and he didn't notice until he got all the way up to his apartment and set the tank down. Blood was pouring out and he had left a trail of blood all over the place. He ended up having to go to the hospital to get a bunch of stitches across his arm. This was his entrance into the hobby lol, amazingly he purchased another tank and still got really into aquascaping. Also looks like you guys recovered nicely and were able to salvage that scape from last video, can't wait to see the update video for that.
Thanks for sharing this video! it reminds me of many disasters i had when i just started the hobby, particularly one incident when i first setup my own co2 system, the bubble counter exploded and one of the glass shard that flew out cut my face just below my eye. :o
I bought about 60 blue velvet shrimp. Goldfish, dojo loaches, and the African butterfly really enjoyed them. Also, I had very many snails at one point, then I went away for a while and my brother didn't feed the tank. I was left with maybe 5 snails afterwards. I had about 250 mL of empty snail shells.
Great video, I enjoyed that! I used to have a big pile of old aquarium supplies that I would store in my garage. I grabbed a heater for a new set up - turned out the cable had been chewed up by mice and I got electrocuted. Another time I had built a custom aquarium and dropped in on the ground right as I was getting ready to set it up. Shattered into a million pieces. I have so many aquarium fails, it was fun hearing yours.
Again thanks a lot for sharing I really learned from some mistakes you showed, so I'll keep in mind for future projects or acquires like L. Pipes or any glass gadgets XD cheers
First tank as a teenager, bought it in de LFS as a set including a '3d' background, but without instructions. It didn't fit so I removed a thin slice, put it in, added gravel (bottom half mixed with some powder fertiliser) and added water. The background was made out of styrofoam, so it floated up, taking along a lot of fertiliser, messing up the tank. Had to start all over, glued the background and set it all up. After a while the glue got loose, but the background was held by the cover, which I then could no longer remove. Luckily it had two panels for maintenance, so throughout its lifetime I always accessed the tank through there.
I am so frustrated, remaking my 120 the x tsd time and so many mistakes have happened yet. But with your video I feel much better. Keep going you do an amazing job👏
Way to go Balacs, you scared the fish in that tank. But thank you for this. If it can go wrong, it will. Lots of good tips that people don't usually think of.
This is epic video...i lv green aqua...this vidoe show our mistakes make us so strong and we always in learning process..Tommy sir I m in waiting for your tank scape..plz.do 🙏👍
Great video!!!! Lots of great stories and some tips which is always a plus! Love the last tip! As they say, happy wife, happy life lol! Thanks for the video Green Aqua team! Always a pleasure to watch!
Excellent Guidence about how to heal the disaster and how to learn from it... Love the video and channel.... ❤❤ Green Aqua.. And feeling sad 😢😢for Tommy ..but it was a really amazing Hardascape... ❤❤
Got my first 3ft tank from my dad months ago... try to cheap out on diy metal frame table. Didnt properly screw up every corner so when filling up the tank more than half the whole tank frame slide towards left side and there goes... my whole living room flooded... (Soil and stones were already placed nicely into the tank during the disaster).. gone
Overflowing during water changes, broken drop checker by trying to hard to insert the drop checker under water into the suction holder. Now I do the setup outside water and then apply suction cup to the tank wall before sliding the whole thing down
muy buen video muchachos todos pero todo cometemos estos errores pero de los errores se aprenden es bueno equivocarse para poder hacer bien las cosas sigan asi exitos
lol. Tommy... Anyway looking forward to the plantless tank! I think ADG has proven many times, plantless nature aquarium can be absolutely awesome-- definitely well oriented towards a gallery setting as well.
Hey! I always wanted to see plantless tank, but I never found any. What is ADG? Where can I see their works like plantless aquariums? Thanks for the answer!
Aqua Design Group in Texas. Search for their stuff- you can’t miss it. Senske brothers were always an inspiration to me, pre-date me in representing American aquascaping.
I'm about to move my tank to my parent's house for a couple of weeks because we're getting some work done in our home. I was gonna move it with the hardscape and sand still inside... luckily this video made me think again!
That was so good. You guys couldn't have done a better Halloween edit. Every single mistake presented was fully relatable and weirdly it was very satisfying to watch these being made by you. To stay on the horror side of things I think my most painful aquascaping experience was when I was assembling a new external filter. I basically wanted to cut the hose with a very sharp knife, without any thinking I did pull the knife towards me until it slipped through and I managed to cut in between two fingers. It opened so wide that it ended up with an immediate journey to the hospital where they fixed me up with 5 stitches. I can still feel it as I'm writing this story. 🎃👻 Thanks for this video, made my day!
Tommy is talking about lifting aquariums between 13-14min ive lifted a lot of tanks with no water but fully scaped and also when you go to a contest/exhibition you lift those tanks with rocks and the scape inside i guess there was some product failure on that one
Doing a water change and no turning off the heater, low water level and the heater got really hot. Refilled the tank and heard a explosion..that was the heater and my home lights off..turn off your heater when you do water changes.
Chipping my glass sump with my co2 canister and cutting myself with my algae scraper are my disasters so far. Fixed the sump with some silicone and some L shaped acrylic. Finger healed but the scar is still there after a year.
I accidentally bumped tot the co2 regulator without me knowing it. So the co2 skyrocketed, pH was around 5.5-6. a few fish actually tried jumping out of the tank, killing themselves in the process... I did manage to save one which was only knocked out on the floor... also all of my fan shrimp died., Which I only had for about 1 or 2 weeks.. I did a very quick water change and luckily the rest of the community is doing great now.
When I first got my own place to live I set up a 0 gallon aquarium as a quarantine tank. I had some guppies and other fish in it that I was going to plaace in my 55 gallon tank. I was doing some maintenance on the 10G tank before bed and not sure when but I bumped the heater temperature knob. The next morning I woke up and went to my 0G tank to feed the fish. I opened the glass lid and steam rose off the water's surface and a wave of hot moist air hit me in the face along with the smell of dead fish. The only fish to survive 9 hours 150F were some corydoras cats, some kuhli loaches, and some various gouramis. Lesson learned: Never do maintenance/water changes before bed or when you are tired (I did both). Always check water parameters before and after water changes or other maintenance done on your tanks: pH, GH, KH, Temperature, check CO2 bubble counter and air lines for back flow (always use back flow regulators). Check that all your equipment is replaced correctly and plugged in correctly. Check temperature on a in tank thermometer ever ten minutes for an hour to make sure it is in the correct temperature zone for your fish.I lost over $300 in fancy guppies and other live bearers. All the other fish survived because they could breathe atmospheric air.
Happened around 7 years ago. I was moving to a new dwelling so the aquarium also had to be transported. Was a 54l aquarium, emptied it to a level where fish could still live and then placed it on a different table seemingly flat. After some 30 minutes heard a loud cracking sound and suddenly all the water came gushing on the floor... the bottom glass pane split in half. Fish had to live in a bucket for a few days, some ending up dead.
I've scratched 2 of my glass tanks using an old credit card and toothbrush. The scratch marks from the credit card is on the mid and top level of the tank and not at the bottom area where the substrate could have been caught in between the card and the glass tank. This happens when you use force to try and scrape off hard to get rid of algae or calcium build up at the water line. The old toothbrush (with "Medium" bristles) is another item that we need to be careful off when using on glass. I'm not sure if you can scratch the glass with toothbrushes with "Soft" bristles but i'm pretty sure they scratch the glass especially if you're rough or use force to try and brush off those pesky algae. You read from online forums on what to avoid to prevent scratching your newly bought glass tanks and thought that you've got everything covered, so it's very very frustrating to see scratch marks appearing from nowhere.
Excellent video today , how it can all go so wrong, It's nice to know you guys are mortal just like us . My worst experience was setting up my new osmosis machine in our basement , connected to a 250 ltr container . The basement is the size of the house so quite large . I switched on and went off to do something else . Next morning my wife screamed up to me , I rushed down and found 10 cm of water covering the floor, oops , I had set the timer up wrong and it kept making water all night. Needless to say I was not very popular, there was quite a lot of stuff stored down there too. Thanks for sharing , very interesting. Take care and stay safe.
Installed a canister filter on a nano tank of mine and thought I’d be fancy and use a glass inlet and glass spin outflow. This morning I was doing my class work at my desk and heard a wet smack on my desk. I looked over and saw one of my CPDs laying on my desk. Apparently it swam through the outflow spin and got rocketed out of the aquarium. I quickly went back to a HOB filter after that!
If I had to list all the bad things that happened to me, I had a huge list... The worse that happened to me was during the process of moving a 1400 liter tank from Netherlands to Germany for Interzoo exhibition. That tank with drilled holes in the bottom got some soil in the tubes and without noticed and after flood the tank at the exhibition, plugged the filter and the tank was completely brown one day before the exhibition. I couldn't use water from the exhibition (wasn't safe for livestock) and I had to keep the same water because of the very expensive livestock and be sure we didn't have any problems with it during exhibition. To solve that was a nightmare, we are already in big stress to have the all tanks clean and to make that one shinning like a diamond. I had to improvise a lot, pre-filter the water while I was vacuum it and add a few water bottles full of filter floss attached to some powerheads... What a nightmare! But it is part of the job and lots of people don't have an idea how much time consuming and the things that happen during some events. Most important advise, don't be distracted when you do water changes, I flooded my floor at home twice.
That was super cool. I enjoyed all the stroies and was able to relate to a few of them. Looking forward to the new setup as I interested to see how Balaz will set up the new tank with no plants thanks to Tommy lol
This video is very reassuring : we do learn from our mistakes. I started a nano iwagumi with utricularia graminifolia two months ago. Your story worries me a little bit about the future of this tank ;) I do not want to switch to HC ;)
Thank You! #Greenaqua# Only Master is able to admit to the mistakes! And You also showed the cases!🤩 You're a MasterPro! Thank You for that way of teaching🤓🤠! I really enjoyed!!!🤣👍👏
The tank looks good, it looks more natural in the broken way. The perfection of nature is imperfection.
Cheers.
This was a really fun and informative video.
Thanks!
Talking of co2 leaking, once my co2 hoses kept getting small holes in them, i probably went through about 25 meters of piping from 3 different brands before i found the issue. Turns out mu cat likes to bite the pipes
Wow. :(
My cat once grab a fish from the aquarium! :(
@@kevingustav123 same
Ugh, I hear that. Any air line I have has to be armoured with the plastic wire loom wrap that is used for electrical wires under the hoods of cars
@@kevingustav123 have you heard of a lid
In my opinion, the hardscape after the collapse is even more better than the previous one :). It’s look more natural
17:11 it’s mostly his scream that scared me
Yeah sorry about that. No plan for similar actions in the future 😜
Its nice to hear things like this. Keeps me from getting discouraged.
That was our main goal, yes. Good to hear.
I really appreciate the opening and ending
Cheers! Thx for the feedback!
Great video! Throws light on the not so beautiful side of the world of aquascaping, my first tank was most of these mistakes together with some more and eventually ended up re-scaping it in two months
Sorry to hear that, but hope things are better now :)
This is my new favorite channel! I can't live without a tank in my life. I've gone from hundreds of gallons to now a nano tank. And even though I've never scaped a tank, with your help I'm going to be great at it. Thank you for this awesome channel! 🙂
You are welcome, thanks so much for the support! Good luck with your scaping! Cheers!
Really happy to see this video guys! It can sometimes be frustrating to see only wonderful success everywhere when you have a normal failure rate. You start to stress out or think you're not good enough. But everyone fails, and you have to accept that if you want to enjoy the hobby. This video helps a lot, so thanks! Plus it's super well done and funny ^^
Yeah, we all make mistakes!
Very nice and informative video, years of experience in a few minutes. Impressive...
Cheers!
Your self-sarcasm leaves me speechless !!!
so find children !!!
truths and only truths !!!
this is the only way we can all move forward together !!!
Cheers!
I think this is the part of the beautiful world of aquascaping, the mistakes, the disasters that makes us learn a lot and not repeating the same mistakes.. It's a lot of fun and it's something beautiful
Yeah!
Thanks for the humility. Most people are not comfortable sharing about mistakes. Often, we learn more from things that have gone wrong than right.
Hilarious ending !
Cheers!
I love learning from the team at Green Aqua, good to know they run into the same problems as other fish keepers
Yeah!
Great video good to see you dont hide your mistakes just learn from Them 😁
Glad to read this. :)
Cheers Dean.
Lóri
Thanks for the video.Failure is good for new lessons.🙏👍
Yeah, it is!
Oh so Dramatic intro so seasonal.. A Smart Man learns from his own mistakes, A Wise man learns from the mistakes of others...
Yup that's true. Wish we could collect all these silly mistakes from the beginning. We had so many 😂
True,i'm going to keep this video in a playlist so I can remember to watch out for these types of mistakes if I dare to forget them,I don't think i'd like to pierce an ADA CO2 Diffuser through my palm.
@@GreenAquaShop watching you guys making the same sort of mistakes I'm making while I'm learning the hobby has been great for my confidence with the hobby. Thanks for all your great content!
Smarter man learn from others mistake😅
Tommy's aquascape, looks great, the whole Ideo of a fallen valley due to erosion/ weather is amazing. I suggest he tries to go with that theme to have something truly unique and beautiful
That’s just what I was thinking, it looks really natural, I’m Sure they can improve it and make it perfect
Stay tuned, you'll see!
@@GreenAquaShop cant wait!
Yea yesterday re -scaped then re-rescaped and wood floating, plants everywhere ,fish not happy😩 all during a water change at midnight
wow.
great video, thanks for sharing. It really gives the rest of us hope that we are not the only ones making mistakes!
Nah we all make mistakes. But this is ok. We're here to do less, hopefully :)
On my first aquascape, I use DIY CO2 using baking soda and citric acid in soda bottle to cut the cost. One night, it just explode. The splatter are just difficult to clean. Decided to buy a gas cylinder the next day.
Sad story.
Thank you for showing us your mistakes. I think we should all learn from our mistakes and grow from them
Yeah!
Thanks for this. It makes me feel better knowing I’m not alone with my aquascaping disasters 😉
Definitely not! We're on the same side 😀
Great video! My own sharing: I once spoiled 2 motor heads by forgetting to put the top cover on in the cannister filter. Apparently the initial suction is strong enough when the motor starts to suck in filter material and damage the impeller blades. Always remember to leave the cover on after the last filter layer!
Yeah, good tip.
Probably their best video. Thanks!
You're very kind.
Cheers. :)
Excellent information
Easy Explained by Nice Aqua Scapers
Cheers.
Complete learnings & full of enjoyment from first to last moment of this vlog... GreenAqua awesome!❤️❤️
Thanks so much for the feedback 🙏
Yes
I do over fill my tank s with water
Flooded my shop
Dropped lights in the water
yeah! it happens!
Awesome as usual Balaz ..... u might consider next topic as how to convince ur spouse to give up space for aquarium ....😊😊
🤣😅😭 watching the intro, when it fell downy eyes went wide open 🤣 I could relate, can imagine
Yeah, these moments... :)
Love story time! Would like to hear more with different subject material!
Thanks for that, will do similar ones in the future.
Fantastic video. Mistakes will happen but it’s great to be able to learn from them ( and laugh at them) once the mistake has been remedied.
Absolutely, thanks Mike 😀
This was a great video, thank you for sharing! Made me feel so good about myself now :D
LOL, there you go.
I can't express how much I like green aqua's videos
Thanks so much for your words. Promise we will be back soon with some real aquascaping 😀
Good video again 👍 We learn from our mistakes.
Yeah, but hopefully you'll learn from ours. :)
By far your best video ever! :D
Glad you like this!
Green Aqua ailesini gördüğümde yüzümde bir gülücük oluşuyor. Gerçekten sizi görmekten mutlu oluyorum. Her zaman yanınızdayız 😂😂👊
Thanks for the support - always!
Aquarium horror stories be like:
*breakage of lily pipes
*hardscapes banging the glass
*death of fishes/shrimps
*expensive lighting starts to flicker
*canister filter leaking
*plants melting
*MTS (Multiple Tanks Syndrome)
and the scariest of them all,
Algae :D lol Happy Halloween everybody.
LOL, thx Bailey.
Yasuo?
@@NoobLeviathon he sure is
@@baileybeluga425 😂
@@NoobLeviathon I assume you play Lol? Yasuo's into aquascaping now😂
Very nice. Thank you for sharing! - Little Bobby
Cheers Bobby. :)
You need a wet-vac to do quick drying of overflow situations.
Yeah, we have one now, thanks!
Hey Balázs, it's not just male aquascapers... Here it's my guy who has to forgive my feminine and refined mistakes: flooding because I forgot the reverse osmosis unit, screaming because I broke my lily pipe, an aquarium exploded with 60l of water in the living room at midnight.. but that was because of the cat !!
LOL, you are right!
Great video, those were some relatable and crazy stories. A few months back a friend of mine was given a 60p from another friend of ours that was moving. He took a taxi with the tank back to his apartment and didn't realize that one of the corners on the bottom of the tank got chipped at some point. While carrying it into his apartment it sliced open his forearm and he didn't notice until he got all the way up to his apartment and set the tank down. Blood was pouring out and he had left a trail of blood all over the place. He ended up having to go to the hospital to get a bunch of stitches across his arm. This was his entrance into the hobby lol, amazingly he purchased another tank and still got really into aquascaping. Also looks like you guys recovered nicely and were able to salvage that scape from last video, can't wait to see the update video for that.
Wow, bloody story too. LOL. Good that there's happy ending in it.
Thanks for sharing this video! it reminds me of many disasters i had when i just started the hobby, particularly one incident when i first setup my own co2 system, the bubble counter exploded and one of the glass shard that flew out cut my face just below my eye. :o
Oh. Sounds terrible.
So this is the Green Aqua's holloween episode. lol
love you guys from Philippines ❤️
Yeah :)
Thanks Green Aqua,best warning ..👍
Cheers.
I bought about 60 blue velvet shrimp. Goldfish, dojo loaches, and the African butterfly really enjoyed them.
Also, I had very many snails at one point, then I went away for a while and my brother didn't feed the tank. I was left with maybe 5 snails afterwards. I had about 250 mL of empty snail shells.
A video I can finally relate to.
LOL. Hope you'll relate to our other videos too, soon. :)
Jajaja... nice video guys! All fails are inspiration for us.
Cheers!
Great video, I enjoyed that! I used to have a big pile of old aquarium supplies that I would store in my garage. I grabbed a heater for a new set up - turned out the cable had been chewed up by mice and I got electrocuted. Another time I had built a custom aquarium and dropped in on the ground right as I was getting ready to set it up. Shattered into a million pieces. I have so many aquarium fails, it was fun hearing yours.
Wow, good nothing serious happened though.
Again thanks a lot for sharing I really learned from some mistakes you showed, so I'll keep in mind for future projects or acquires like L. Pipes or any glass gadgets XD
cheers
Cheers
First tank as a teenager, bought it in de LFS as a set including a '3d' background, but without instructions. It didn't fit so I removed a thin slice, put it in, added gravel (bottom half mixed with some powder fertiliser) and added water. The background was made out of styrofoam, so it floated up, taking along a lot of fertiliser, messing up the tank. Had to start all over, glued the background and set it all up. After a while the glue got loose, but the background was held by the cover, which I then could no longer remove. Luckily it had two panels for maintenance, so throughout its lifetime I always accessed the tank through there.
wow. :)
I am so frustrated, remaking my 120 the x tsd time and so many mistakes have happened yet. But with your video I feel much better. Keep going you do an amazing job👏
Sounds good, this is why we do. ;)
Cheers.
Lóri
Thanks for this and other videos! Super
Thanks for watching 👍
Way to go Balacs, you scared the fish in that tank. But thank you for this. If it can go wrong, it will. Lots of good tips that people don't usually think of.
They're not very scared in this big crowd. LOL. Gives them strength. No social distancing though.
The best Aqua canal!
Thanks for the support!
This is epic video...i lv green aqua...this vidoe show our mistakes make us so strong and we always in learning process..Tommy sir I m in waiting for your tank scape..plz.do 🙏👍
Cheers! Thx for the feedback as usual.
Great video!!!! Lots of great stories and some tips which is always a plus! Love the last tip! As they say, happy wife, happy life lol! Thanks for the video Green Aqua team! Always a pleasure to watch!
You're welcome, as always. Thanks for watching us - always.
Excellent Guidence about how to heal the disaster and how to learn from it... Love the video and channel.... ❤❤ Green Aqua.. And feeling sad 😢😢for Tommy ..but it was a really amazing Hardascape... ❤❤
Thanks so much for the support 💚
Got my first 3ft tank from my dad months ago... try to cheap out on diy metal frame table. Didnt properly screw up every corner so when filling up the tank more than half the whole tank frame slide towards left side and there goes... my whole living room flooded... (Soil and stones were already placed nicely into the tank during the disaster).. gone
OH, sad story :(
@@GreenAquaShop yea.. Nonetheless, thanks to your channel it has inspired me and my circles of friend around to not give up haha. Cheers
Awesome video, thank you.
you're welcome!
this channel is therapy
Cool, glad you think so!
@@GreenAquaShop yezzir! been watching since like 3 years now 🐟💧🌿🍃
Thanks for the longtime support! You are great!
amazing video, i have experience with a lot of these issues aswell 😅
Welcome to the Club Jelle 😀 We need a Tshirt for this.
@@GreenAquaShop i would definately buy 😂
OHHHHH MANNNNN, been waiting for this episode. Everybody messes up. 🤣🤣
Sure!
Overflowing during water changes, broken drop checker by trying to hard to insert the drop checker under water into the suction holder. Now I do the setup outside water and then apply suction cup to the tank wall before sliding the whole thing down
OHH GOD
Wow.
muy buen video muchachos todos pero todo cometemos estos errores pero de los errores se aprenden es bueno equivocarse para poder hacer bien las cosas sigan asi exitos
Thanks!
lol. Tommy... Anyway looking forward to the plantless tank! I think ADG has proven many times, plantless nature aquarium can be absolutely awesome-- definitely well oriented towards a gallery setting as well.
Hey! I always wanted to see plantless tank, but I never found any. What is ADG? Where can I see their works like plantless aquariums? Thanks for the answer!
Aqua Design Group in Texas. Search for their stuff- you can’t miss it. Senske brothers were always an inspiration to me, pre-date me in representing American aquascaping.
Yup we love the work from the ADG team and those manzanita awesomeness 😀
Aquarium Design Group Huston TX google it :)
I'm about to move my tank to my parent's house for a couple of weeks because we're getting some work done in our home. I was gonna move it with the hardscape and sand still inside... luckily this video made me think again!
Well, you can do it, if you slide the empty tank onto a wooden table-top or something, without lifting it. Be careful, but it can be done.
U are master aquascape brother...👍
Cheers brother.
That was so good. You guys couldn't have done a better Halloween edit. Every single mistake presented was fully relatable and weirdly it was very satisfying to watch these being made by you.
To stay on the horror side of things I think my most painful aquascaping experience was when I was assembling a new external filter. I basically wanted to cut the hose with a very sharp knife, without any thinking I did pull the knife towards me until it slipped through and I managed to cut in between two fingers. It opened so wide that it ended up with an immediate journey to the hospital where they fixed me up with 5 stitches. I can still feel it as I'm writing this story. 🎃👻
Thanks for this video, made my day!
Ahhh was hard to read. Felt this on my hand... visual type 😁
That was a very entertaining video guys. Thank you for showing that shit happens!
Thx for watching!
Never give up keep scaping
Right!
First time watcher with over 50 yr of trying to get better. Thx for the laughs…been there done that…lol
About moving the aquarium: i move mine together with the table, works like a charm 😂
Yup there are good examples 😀
Tommy is talking about lifting aquariums between 13-14min
ive lifted a lot of tanks with no water but fully scaped
and also when you go to a contest/exhibition you lift those tanks with rocks and the scape inside
i guess there was some product failure on that one
It can happen unfortunately. There are good examples, but also many problems including tank issues etc.
Doing a water change and no turning off the heater, low water level and the heater got really hot. Refilled the tank and heard a explosion..that was the heater and my home lights off..turn off your heater when you do water changes.
Wohooo, yeah, it is better to turn that off.
Great episode. I think we all learn more from our mistakes and successes better. Remember we look at you guys like GODS !
Please don't, we are people. :)
Thanks for providing Hong Kong Chinese subtitles🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
You are welcome! Enjoy!
haha i loved this. very funny especially at the end. xD
Cheers!
Chipping my glass sump with my co2 canister and cutting myself with my algae scraper are my disasters so far. Fixed the sump with some silicone and some L shaped acrylic. Finger healed but the scar is still there after a year.
Wow, that sound serious. :(
I accidentally bumped tot the co2 regulator without me knowing it. So the co2 skyrocketed, pH was around 5.5-6. a few fish actually tried jumping out of the tank, killing themselves in the process... I did manage to save one which was only knocked out on the floor... also all of my fan shrimp died., Which I only had for about 1 or 2 weeks.. I did a very quick water change and luckily the rest of the community is doing great now.
Yeah CO2 is not that hard to manage, but these stories keep people away from that. :) Thanks for sharing :)
@@GreenAquaShop Co2 is still one of the best thinges is bought for my aquarium. Love your content, love your goofness even more!
When I first got my own place to live I set up a 0 gallon aquarium as a quarantine tank. I had some guppies and other fish in it that I was going to plaace in my 55 gallon tank. I was doing some maintenance on the 10G tank before bed and not sure when but I bumped the heater temperature knob. The next morning I woke up and went to my 0G tank to feed the fish. I opened the glass lid and steam rose off the water's surface and a wave of hot moist air hit me in the face along with the smell of dead fish. The only fish to survive 9 hours 150F were some corydoras cats, some kuhli loaches, and some various gouramis. Lesson learned: Never do maintenance/water changes before bed or when you are tired (I did both). Always check water parameters before and after water changes or other maintenance done on your tanks: pH, GH, KH, Temperature, check CO2 bubble counter and air lines for back flow (always use back flow regulators). Check that all your equipment is replaced correctly and plugged in correctly. Check temperature on a in tank thermometer ever ten minutes for an hour to make sure it is in the correct temperature zone for your fish.I lost over $300 in fancy guppies and other live bearers. All the other fish survived because they could breathe atmospheric air.
That was a terrible story, thanks for sharing.
I rarely get this channel notification now
so I have to visit this channel manually.
the effect was that I missed the aqua green video for a few weeks
How we missed that notification? :) We need to work harder here
there may be bugs in the yt system, but never mind. I am still a fan of this channel, good luck and don't get bored educating beginner scapers
I am sri lankan
I like yours aqua scaping
Thanks so much for the support 😀
Happened around 7 years ago. I was moving to a new dwelling so the aquarium also had to be transported. Was a 54l aquarium, emptied it to a level where fish could still live and then placed it on a different table seemingly flat. After some 30 minutes heard a loud cracking sound and suddenly all the water came gushing on the floor... the bottom glass pane split in half. Fish had to live in a bucket for a few days, some ending up dead.
Very bad event... Yeah, using a pad is always advisable, no matter where you put the tank...
I've scratched 2 of my glass tanks using an old credit card and toothbrush. The scratch marks from the credit card is on the mid and top level of the tank and not at the bottom area where the substrate could have been caught in between the card and the glass tank. This happens when you use force to try and scrape off hard to get rid of algae or calcium build up at the water line. The old toothbrush (with "Medium" bristles) is another item that we need to be careful off when using on glass. I'm not sure if you can scratch the glass with toothbrushes with "Soft" bristles but i'm pretty sure they scratch the glass especially if you're rough or use force to try and brush off those pesky algae.
You read from online forums on what to avoid to prevent scratching your newly bought glass tanks and thought that you've got everything covered, so it's very very frustrating to see scratch marks appearing from nowhere.
Yeah, it happens to us all the time too.
Excellent video today , how it can all go so wrong, It's nice to know you guys are mortal just like us . My worst experience was setting up my new osmosis machine in our basement , connected to a 250 ltr container . The basement is the size of the house so quite large . I switched on and went off to do something else . Next morning my wife screamed up to me , I rushed down and found 10 cm of water covering the floor, oops , I had set the timer up wrong and it kept making water all night.
Needless to say I was not very popular, there was quite a lot of stuff stored down there too. Thanks for sharing , very interesting.
Take care and stay safe.
Well, I think you wanted to say you flooded the basement. :)
Hi, yes a bit long winded, 😂.
Bon weekend.
Brand new 30G tank. New substrate I've never used before. Trying to rearrange it to scape the tank. Ending up scratching the front glass :(
Oh :(
Ok, this is one of the best Green Aqua video ever. Nothing is perfect and shit happens...
Cheers Edwin. :)
Thanks a lot.
Lóri
I had the co2 problem also, it was leaking, fixed in the process i pushed the needle way to hard and i suffocated all my shrimps
That's a bummer. Sorry about that. 😢
@@GreenAquaShop like you say in the video, learn from your mistakes
Love this one!
Glad for that, thanks for the feedback!
Great video!
Thanks for watching!
Installed a canister filter on a nano tank of mine and thought I’d be fancy and use a glass inlet and glass spin outflow. This morning I was doing my class work at my desk and heard a wet smack on my desk. I looked over and saw one of my CPDs laying on my desk. Apparently it swam through the outflow spin and got rocketed out of the aquarium. I quickly went back to a HOB filter after that!
Wow.
If I had to list all the bad things that happened to me, I had a huge list...
The worse that happened to me was during the process of moving a 1400 liter tank from Netherlands to Germany for Interzoo exhibition. That tank with drilled holes in the bottom got some soil in the tubes and without noticed and after flood the tank at the exhibition, plugged the filter and the tank was completely brown one day before the exhibition.
I couldn't use water from the exhibition (wasn't safe for livestock) and I had to keep the same water because of the very expensive livestock and be sure we didn't have any problems with it during exhibition. To solve that was a nightmare, we are already in big stress to have the all tanks clean and to make that one shinning like a diamond. I had to improvise a lot, pre-filter the water while I was vacuum it and add a few water bottles full of filter floss attached to some powerheads...
What a nightmare! But it is part of the job and lots of people don't have an idea how much time consuming and the things that happen during some events.
Most important advise, don't be distracted when you do water changes, I flooded my floor at home twice.
Yeah, the bigger the tank is the bigger the catastrophe is. :) Thanks for that story Filipe, I was always worried about those Interzoo tanks.
That was super cool. I enjoyed all the stroies and was able to relate to a few of them. Looking forward to the new setup as I interested to see how Balaz will set up the new tank with no plants thanks to Tommy lol
LOL.
This video is very reassuring : we do learn from our mistakes. I started a nano iwagumi with utricularia graminifolia two months ago. Your story worries me a little bit about the future of this tank ;) I do not want to switch to HC ;)
Yeah, don't do that. :)
Great outro! 😂
Cheers, thx for watching all the way to the end.
ending was super funny......
Yeah, good that you stayed to the end.
Thank You! #Greenaqua# Only Master is able to admit to the mistakes! And You also showed the cases!🤩 You're a MasterPro! Thank You for that way of teaching🤓🤠! I really enjoyed!!!🤣👍👏
Glad you enjoyed this!
Explained almost everything that I have gone through except for the breaking of glass equipment 😄
LOL, you have a long list then.