For the 5.35 minutes I was in paradise.I respect the person who have uploaded this video and thank them for the same.The background music was excellent and magnified the whole experience of being in paradise.God bless you all.Prayers and wishes from India.
You can try weeping moss or christmass moss. They can also produce nice tree effect. It takes a couple of months for the moss to grow completely. Regular trimming is required in order to maintain its shape and prevent it from out growing.
With hairgrass, it's difficult to keep it from the sand because it shoots new grass (rhizome) under the gravel. You'll have to very carefully pull the rhizome out without disturbing the soil. Another option is to add a plastic divider inside the substrate between sand and soil to prevent the rhizome from crawling. But not sure if that will work efficiently. Tenellus works because they grow rhizomes on top of the substrate and you could cut it out. Hemianthus callitrichoides works too. Good luck
What you do is a live water art. I believe this is fresh water. If not PLZ let me know. I have watched your other vids and have a few questions and hope I don't sound too dumb. 1. Why do you put plastic down before your planting? Isn't it hard to clean or do yo have to with all the shrimp and cleaners with the fish? I will have more questions but don't want to over do it. And thankyou for sharing your beautiful work. I am in love wi this tank. Hope u put up more vids. Thank you
Haha.. agree! We need to constantly pick up 'wild' moss growing among the grasses. The path is also very high maintenance, need to constantly remove the tenellus and hairgrass creeping over it.
very very nice, great vid also. I have a simular setup and the only problem i have is , my moss gets into my hairgrass, oh well, picking it out and making it look pretty is part of the hobby. Good job.
You can use a mixture of aquarium soil and river sand. Helps the plants to root better. I would recommend these plants for you. Carpeting Plants: Glossostigma Elatinoides, Hairgrass, Japanese Hairgrass, Echinodorus Tenellus Foreground/Midground Plants: Staurogyne .sp, Japonica Blyxa, Downoi Tie to wood/rocks: Java Ferns, Moss Background: Cyperus Helferi and most cheap stem plants
Thanks! Yes, our aquariums now are all freshwater. Here's to answer your questions: 1) The plastic sheets are used to prevent stirring up of the substrates when we pour in or fill up the tank with water. Different people use different methods. Some use newspaper. But we prefer using plastic sheets. :) 2) If your aquarium is a fully planted tank, there is no need to "clean" your tank so throughoutly like vaccuming the bottom etc. Just clean off any visible algae growing on glass and water change.
Thabk you! I bought a nice "SeaStar Sunstrip 5K/14K freshwater" light, which I saw on several aqua scape shows here in LA, and big nape suppliers use it to grow and seed "multiply" plants. Also, it is good for color enhancing. For canister I will get the Fluval 206 for my 30gal long. I will get a CO2 system soon
Thanks. Yes, it can still work for a 125L. But the bigger the tank, the more difficult it is to grow the 'Tree'. So far from our experience, a 68L tank is still the best for treescape.
Thank you for your advice. Your tank here with the music is 1 of the most elegant ones I ever saw. The 39W tube T5HO is actually 34 inches long, so it is almost double the length of my tank. Too bad I cannot utilize it completely.
I want to make a tank with a walkway and a tree so bad that looks truly Epic. Great filming this video inspires me to the planted tanks. I'm guessing that anchor moss on the tree? I really like the song as well.
To have CO2 or not really depends on the type of aquatic plants you intend to keep. Hardier or less demanding plants like Java Ferns or Anubias Nana does not require CO2. There are 2 ways to inject CO2, one is to use a pressurized cylinder and proper accessories, the other method is DIY, i.e. using sugar & yeast. With regards to the light, we are using high output T5, 24W x 4 tube with 10,000K.
I love your tank feels more like a garden than a marine world with corals and other plants How you have your aquarium will have taken well by the way do you have any advice for a newbie as well have my aquarium?
thanks alot for you suggestion. Actully I just tried it and it works. hopefully this will last forever :) I tried to put 2 white cloud mountain minnows together with 50 rili and 3 amano. 3 days has passed and no sign of agression
Hi Aquaticstory, your tanks are always my favorites. One question, I see you mixed shrimp and tetras in every of your tanks. Don't you find that the fish eat the shrimp ? Can you suggest me fishes that don't disturb the shrimp ? because I see that all your shrimp live happily together with the fish
We just need to pump out a certain percentage of the water (10% to 50%) depending on the water quality. We did it on a weekly, sometime bi-weekly basis.
Ya. It's hard to choose a compatible fish for the aquascape. I thought the yellow of furcata is enough to brighten up the entire aquascape but it is still not sufficient. Using ember tetra tetra may give a different result because of its red.
After dozens of hours of research I decided to use layered substrate with SeaChem flourite standard, which has the most of most engredients, and it is the most balanced SeaChem. The other SeaChems are region and plant specialized (restricted), and I needed a multi-purpose substrate. While those will grow most things too, I went with the standard. The top layer will be 1.5" to 2" of ADA Soil Amazonia. So when the plants are bigger, they will have more minerals from the SeaChem. I love these two.
You can start putting in livestock by batches when ammonia is near or at 0ppm. Usually 2 to 4 weeks later. But do not put in too many at a time because they may generate waste faster than the bacteria can break down.
The entire process is about 4 months. Including the making of tree and the actual scaping. The 'tree' itself took about 3 month to grow. As for the grass, took probably 2 to 3 weeks to grow. I will test the water 2 to 3 times a week and remove any algae as and when required during the 1st 2 months of setup. After that, aquarium stabilizes and cleaning took place once a week.
Thanks for the help anyway! I subbed and liked. I might use sand still for decoration. But I am not sure I need them with ADA soil on top of SeaChem substrate. And the plants look great. I haven't decided yet the plant layout, so it helped a lot! It gives me ideas!
thanks for the awesome information :), i'll go with the plastic divider for the current tank, will be a bit messy but still better than replant everything :P
This tiny bubbles are actually oxygen bubbles released by the plants when they photosynthesis. You can get this effect if there is enough light and CO2 for the plants.
Also, a year from now (after I have money saved up XD) I will get 2 Kessil Amazon Suns 150W, and 1 Kessil Blue 150W as an extra. I will still keep this light. With fixtures all three will cost me $1000, but that is for the future. The Sunstrips were well recommended in Age of Aquariums and Strictly fish in Long Beach CA, and on 2 aquascape shows.
Thanks! From our experience, most fish eat shrimps, even small tetras. But if you introduce the livestocks by order, such hunting behavior can be minimized. E.g. we introduce shrimps into our aquarium first for a few weeks before the fish. This way, the fish, as a "newcomer" will not disturb the original inhabitants. You can try this method. It works for us. :)
To do an aquascape with a path, you mus be prepared for lots of maintenance work. For a start let the plants grow completely to cover the ground,. Then do a force trimming to shape out a path. After that. you need to add in the sand of your choice to create the path. And finally, constant trimming of plants that creeps towards the path. Probably once every 2-3 days. Hope this helps. :)
Different plants have different requirements. So make sure you get everything right. For examples, amount of light, CO2, PH and water temperature. All these can affect the health of the plants.
your aqua scape is gorgeous, i have set up my tank it is almost cycled, i have a good plant substrate , i will have co2 , i want to make my own 'tree' i want a moss that isnt java moss, i will get anchormoss if i cant find otheres, but do you know of any other moss? that grow pretty and a lil fast dont mind a little time just love the look, how long did it take to grow out? :)
I've been seeing a lot of planted aquariums lately and it makes me wonder, how do you clean it? Do the live plants clean the wastes and etc. by themselves? If not, wouldn't it be a hassle/harmful to have to use an aquarium vacuum to clean the bottom? I think this is a really beautiful aquarium and I want to make one similar to it, that's why I want to ask, I want to know what to expect before I blindly jump into using live plants.
Most moss can do well. But try avoid stringy moss like flame moss. With regards to the path, it is very high maintenance, you need regular, cleaning and trimming away of creeping plants.
We never vacuum our planted aquarium especially those with soil. First of all, you need a good filter system that can give you good mechanical and bio filtration. Once the aquarium is well cycled, the bacteria will break down ammonia to nitrite and then to nitrate. Nitrate is then taken up by the aquatic plants or from water change. Point to note, always keep the aquarium well balanced. I.e. Light, CO2, Nutrients and Temperature.
And I ordered an aquarium fan. Also I use a certified custom built reef tank. Designed for extreme live stone and corall weights. It is perfect for my freshwater plans. I hope I wrote everything XD
Not really. This tank used to have algae too! At the initial stage, there Diatom and followed by Green Spot Algae (GSA). But later, was slowly removed. Different algae tells you a different imbalance you have in your aquarium. Take GSA for example, it is imbalance of NO3 and PO4. Essentially no PO4. So by increasing PO4 slowly, you can observed that GSA slowly disappearing.
What kind of background did you use on the aquarium walls? It almost looks like mirrors ^^ beautiful tank, no matter how old the video. I'm currently growing my carpet emersed, can't wait to flood it!
Wow, how much amount of time required a week to get the same result as this tank not including the path maintenance (I've been thinking of getting one myself).
For the 5.35 minutes I was in paradise.I respect the person who have uploaded this video and thank them for the same.The background music was excellent and magnified the whole experience of being in paradise.God bless you all.Prayers and wishes from India.
One of the most green and beautiful freshwater tanks I've ever seen
This is one of the coolest tanks I've seen. Looks like the fish are swimming in air.
Nice decoration,,,,, fishes are leaving happily in the planted aquarium!!!!!
I'd love to live there with the animals
what a beautiful aquascape , beautiful song and im beautiful
you just feel so Calm by watching them.. and the Setup is just Wonderful....
Wow, very nicely done. simple, peaceful and beautiful.
You can try weeping moss or christmass moss. They can also produce nice tree effect. It takes a couple of months for the moss to grow completely. Regular trimming is required in order to maintain its shape and prevent it from out growing.
Yup. The tree was created using anchor moss. This type of moss produce very good tree effect.
I love how you did the walkway in the middle. How cool! I'm new to Aquascaping as well. This is too neat.
gorgeous tank! :) Mine is currently cycling so no where near as clean and clear as yours yet! Love the tree!!
With hairgrass, it's difficult to keep it from the sand because it shoots new grass (rhizome) under the gravel. You'll have to very carefully pull the rhizome out without disturbing the soil. Another option is to add a plastic divider inside the substrate between sand and soil to prevent the rhizome from crawling. But not sure if that will work efficiently. Tenellus works because they grow rhizomes on top of the substrate and you could cut it out. Hemianthus callitrichoides works too. Good luck
It was on together with the light. A timer was used to control the on/off of light + CO2 system. About 8 hours a day.
One of the best videos on TH-cam. 5 Stars.
Also really clean
Very nice tank and very nice video. Thanks for the post- keep up the good work...
Beautiful Tank... Peaceful
What you do is a live water art. I believe this is fresh water. If not PLZ let me know. I have watched your other vids and have a few questions and hope I don't sound too dumb. 1. Why do you put plastic down before your planting? Isn't it hard to clean or do yo have to with all the shrimp and cleaners with the fish? I will have more questions but don't want to over do it. And thankyou for sharing your beautiful work. I am in love wi this tank. Hope u put up more vids. Thank you
Haha.. agree! We need to constantly pick up 'wild' moss growing among the grasses. The path is also very high maintenance, need to constantly remove the tenellus and hairgrass creeping over it.
very very nice, great vid also. I have a simular setup and the only problem i have is , my moss gets into my hairgrass, oh well, picking it out and making it look pretty is part of the hobby. Good job.
You can use a mixture of aquarium soil and river sand. Helps the plants to root better. I would recommend these plants for you.
Carpeting Plants: Glossostigma Elatinoides, Hairgrass, Japanese Hairgrass, Echinodorus Tenellus
Foreground/Midground Plants: Staurogyne .sp, Japonica Blyxa, Downoi
Tie to wood/rocks: Java Ferns, Moss
Background: Cyperus Helferi and most cheap stem plants
That is some real classy selection of fauna and flora
stunning mate
I love watching the little shrimps
I love it! the camera was just amazing and whoever edited it is very good ;)
Thanks! Yes, our aquariums now are all freshwater. Here's to answer your questions:
1) The plastic sheets are used to prevent stirring up of the substrates when we pour in or fill up the tank with water. Different people use different methods. Some use newspaper. But we prefer using plastic sheets. :)
2) If your aquarium is a fully planted tank, there is no need to "clean" your tank so throughoutly like vaccuming the bottom etc. Just clean off any visible algae growing on glass and water change.
Thabk you! I bought a nice "SeaStar Sunstrip 5K/14K freshwater" light, which I saw on several aqua scape shows here in LA, and big nape suppliers use it to grow and seed "multiply" plants. Also, it is good for color enhancing. For canister I will get the Fluval 206 for my 30gal long. I will get a CO2 system soon
Thanks. Yes, it can still work for a 125L. But the bigger the tank, the more difficult it is to grow the 'Tree'. So far from our experience, a 68L tank is still the best for treescape.
Thank you for your advice. Your tank here with the music is 1 of the most elegant ones I ever saw. The 39W tube T5HO is actually 34 inches long, so it is almost double the length of my tank. Too bad I cannot utilize it completely.
I want to make a tank with a walkway and a tree so bad that looks truly Epic. Great filming this video inspires me to the planted tanks. I'm guessing that anchor moss on the tree? I really like the song as well.
To have CO2 or not really depends on the type of aquatic plants you intend to keep. Hardier or less demanding plants like Java Ferns or Anubias Nana does not require CO2. There are 2 ways to inject CO2, one is to use a pressurized cylinder and proper accessories, the other method is DIY, i.e. using sugar & yeast.
With regards to the light, we are using high output T5, 24W x 4 tube with 10,000K.
This is one amazing aquarium. very very nice....
39W is very good for your tank size. Light is strong, so you need to balance up the CO2 and nutrients as well.
I just fell in love this a great tank.
Nice inspiration to make something like that
Amazing aquarium!
I love your tank feels more like a garden than a marine world with corals and other plants How you have your aquarium will have taken well by the way do you have any advice for a newbie as well have my aquarium?
Amazing Photography, Stunning Tank.
thanks alot for you suggestion. Actully I just tried it and it works. hopefully this will last forever :)
I tried to put 2 white cloud mountain minnows together with 50 rili and 3 amano. 3 days has passed and no sign of agression
Hi Aquaticstory,
your tanks are always my favorites.
One question, I see you mixed shrimp and tetras in every of your tanks. Don't you find that the fish eat the shrimp ?
Can you suggest me fishes that don't disturb the shrimp ? because I see that all your shrimp live happily together with the fish
We just need to pump out a certain percentage of the water (10% to 50%) depending on the water quality. We did it on a weekly, sometime bi-weekly basis.
Thx! I guess the shrimps helped maintained the moss clean. They are always at the moss, picking on them, making the debris fall to the ground.
Ya. It's hard to choose a compatible fish for the aquascape. I thought the yellow of furcata is enough to brighten up the entire aquascape but it is still not sufficient. Using ember tetra tetra may give a different result because of its red.
After dozens of hours of research I decided to use layered substrate with SeaChem flourite standard, which has the most of most engredients, and it is the most balanced SeaChem. The other SeaChems are region and plant specialized (restricted), and I needed a multi-purpose substrate. While those will grow most things too, I went with the standard. The top layer will be 1.5" to 2" of ADA Soil Amazonia. So when the plants are bigger, they will have more minerals from the SeaChem. I love these two.
You can start putting in livestock by batches when ammonia is near or at 0ppm. Usually 2 to 4 weeks later. But do not put in too many at a time because they may generate waste faster than the bacteria can break down.
my favorite tank of your channel so far :) just think choice of fish could be ember tetra but :)
The entire process is about 4 months. Including the making of tree and the actual scaping. The 'tree' itself took about 3 month to grow. As for the grass, took probably 2 to 3 weeks to grow. I will test the water 2 to 3 times a week and remove any algae as and when required during the 1st 2 months of setup. After that, aquarium stabilizes and cleaning took place once a week.
Truly stunning.
This set-up seems to fit perfectly in a 68L tank. I am just wondering if it would work just as well in a 125L?
Thanks for the help anyway! I subbed and liked. I might use sand still for decoration. But I am not sure I need them with ADA soil on top of SeaChem substrate. And the plants look great. I haven't decided yet the plant layout, so it helped a lot! It gives me ideas!
thanks for the awesome information :), i'll go with the plastic divider for the current tank, will be a bit messy but still better than replant everything :P
Yup. It help plants to grow better.
This tiny bubbles are actually oxygen bubbles released by the plants when they photosynthesis. You can get this effect if there is enough light and CO2 for the plants.
What filter is that?
I don't see one
Great looking elegant tank. May I ask how you got the tree to look like that? Is it an artificial stem with miss on top? Thanks
Also, a year from now (after I have money saved up XD) I will get 2 Kessil Amazon Suns 150W, and 1 Kessil Blue 150W as an extra. I will still keep this light. With fixtures all three will cost me $1000, but that is for the future. The Sunstrips were well recommended in Age of Aquariums and Strictly fish in Long Beach CA, and on 2 aquascape shows.
How many gallons is that?
Thanks! From our experience, most fish eat shrimps, even small tetras. But if you introduce the livestocks by order, such hunting behavior can be minimized. E.g. we introduce shrimps into our aquarium first for a few weeks before the fish. This way, the fish, as a "newcomer" will not disturb the original inhabitants. You can try this method. It works for us. :)
To do an aquascape with a path, you mus be prepared for lots of maintenance work. For a start let the plants grow completely to cover the ground,. Then do a force trimming to shape out a path. After that. you need to add in the sand of your choice to create the path. And finally, constant trimming of plants that creeps towards the path. Probably once every 2-3 days. Hope this helps. :)
The plants released the bubbles. It is produced when the plants photosynthesis when lights are on.
Beatiful. I love these tree setups.
The tree is made from real bogwood. We just cut and glue them to make it looks like a tree trunk with branches. Moss is then tied onto it.
That is sooooo cool! Hopefully in the future when I have space, time, and money for a high-tech setup I can do that!
beautiful tank is it the plants making the bubbles or do you have an airpump somewhere
Beautiful absolutely stunning
cute little shrimpies.
Willow moss and Christmas moss can be good for creating the tree. Personally I avoided Java moss because they usually grow stringy tips.
trimaksih Tuhan ,,Buat ciptaan mu yg bgitu mengaggumkan,,,,,,seandainya dunia sedamai ini,,,,seandainya semua orang saling mengasihi,,,,,
It is fine river sand. Mainly use for corydoras.
It's so wow... Can we do a setup like this for goldfish tank... ??
I would love to live in there!
P.S you look like you spent a lot of money on the tank and the fish!
Rach lighting is one of the key pieces to the puzzle
Gorgeous tank!!!
very inspiring
and beautiful..
Different plants have different requirements. So make sure you get everything right. For examples, amount of light, CO2, PH and water temperature. All these can affect the health of the plants.
your aqua scape is gorgeous, i have set up my tank it is almost cycled, i have a good plant substrate , i will have co2 , i want to make my own 'tree' i want a moss that isnt java moss, i will get anchormoss if i cant find otheres, but do you know of any other moss? that grow pretty and a lil fast dont mind a little time just love the look, how long did it take to grow out? :)
I am in love with your tank.
I've been seeing a lot of planted aquariums lately and it makes me wonder, how do you clean it? Do the live plants clean the wastes and etc. by themselves? If not, wouldn't it be a hassle/harmful to have to use an aquarium vacuum to clean the bottom? I think this is a really beautiful aquarium and I want to make one similar to it, that's why I want to ask, I want to know what to expect before I blindly jump into using live plants.
This is my dream holy crap.
its beautiful and peacefully
The music is "The Maiden".
Thanks
Most moss can do well. But try avoid stringy moss like flame moss. With regards to the path, it is very high maintenance, you need regular, cleaning and trimming away of creeping plants.
Your tanks and videos are truly wonderful. I'm so happy I stumbled upon your channel. Count me as a new subscriber.
We never vacuum our planted aquarium especially those with soil. First of all, you need a good filter system that can give you good mechanical and bio filtration. Once the aquarium is well cycled, the bacteria will break down ammonia to nitrite and then to nitrate. Nitrate is then taken up by the aquatic plants or from water change. Point to note, always keep the aquarium well balanced. I.e. Light, CO2, Nutrients and Temperature.
I would recommend an external canister filter though.
It is better for the hairgrass to root and creep with finer substrates like aquarium soil, garden soil or sand.
Really beautiful setup
This is gorgeous :O Aquarium goals
fantastic production.
Beautiful tank
Beatuful vedio!
BEAUTIFUL!
Did you took this video before the algae took over your tank?? How did you balance the nutrients, light and CO2 to keep your tank so clean?
And I ordered an aquarium fan. Also I use a certified custom built reef tank. Designed for extreme live stone and corall weights. It is perfect for my freshwater plans. I hope I wrote everything XD
wonderful😍amazing😘
Not really. This tank used to have algae too! At the initial stage, there Diatom and followed by Green Spot Algae (GSA). But later, was slowly removed. Different algae tells you a different imbalance you have in your aquarium. Take GSA for example, it is imbalance of NO3 and PO4. Essentially no PO4. So by increasing PO4 slowly, you can observed that GSA slowly disappearing.
Do it mean the moss? It is Anchormoss that we are using for this treescape.
A sponge filter won't filter a ten gallon by itself right? If so should a over a hang on the back filter?
What kind of background did you use on the aquarium walls? It almost looks like mirrors ^^ beautiful tank, no matter how old the video. I'm currently growing my carpet emersed, can't wait to flood it!
+Joshua Matthews
The glass has been frosted.
Hi! We do not have a tutorial on 'tree' making yet. We will try to work on one soon. :)
Wow, how much amount of time required a week to get the same result as this tank not including the path maintenance (I've been thinking of getting one myself).
Would willow moss work just as good? Or would Christmas tree moss be better?