Step by step aquascape time lapse: Aqueous Reflection 90cm Aquavas
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Welcome back guys! After a couple months of hoarding plants, wood, stones, and gathering all the components I needed for this aquascape, I was finally ready to put it all together and I recorded the whole process for you all to enjoy and learn from. This 90cm Aquavas System is truely the tank of my dreams and the closest you can get to an ADA system without spending a ridiculous amount of money. I will be posting up a full plant/fish stocklist next week when I do a one week update video, by then all the fish should be in the tank and the water will be crystal clear for y'all. I want to give a special thanks to ADG (Aquarium Design Group) where I bought all of the hardscape materials and the majority of the plants, I'm truely lucky to have a nature aquarium retail store like ADG here in Houston. Also a special thank you to Aquavas for creating such a nice tank and platform for aquascapers like me to work with. lastly, I would love some feedback from you guys, what kind of videos would you like to see? do you see any improvements I can make from my current videos for my future videos? I have some tutorials coming and plan to do little profile videos for any new fish or plants I buy. I would love to hear your feedback, let me know in the comments! song credit: Peace of Mind - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Which kind of wood is this?
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1. Your water gets blurry each time you plant-unplant something in those areas and even after every water change
2. Each time those blury water comes, there's a risk for habitants because depending on the amount it may trigger amonium exploit in your tank. It may also trigger algea problems too.
The hardscaping process is in the wrong order for this style. After you decide your whole scape,, you need to put some "fixer stones" to help you fix your driftwood. In your specific work, they need to be in the size as your stones that you used at the end.
You can either put those fixer stones on to the substrate gravel OR (if you want to have your driftwood at higher levels, like an island or so) just add a thin layer of Ada Amazonia sand before doing that. But do NOT push them into the sand. Just leave them onto the sand. For your situation, I would use the final stones as the fixer stones. While they are looking good, they can also work to stabilize the driftwood.
Then you can start putting your woods where you want them to be. Those stones will help you to fix your driftwood, just make sure they are right positioned for your driftwood edges. Can you see the difference now? This way you don't need to push anything inside the sand, instead, just leave them on top. When you want to change the position, you will by the way to get your final scape, just lift the stone and leave it elsewhere. No pushing = no problem at all. Just move them until you get what you want. Lift and drop...
After you stabilized your driftwood with the stones, now you can add more Ada Amazonia to stabilize even more and finalize your setup.
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Terry
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And just like that I have a new favorite channel. Your videos are marvelous. Your aquascaping skills are superb. Everybody in this hobby needs to subscribe to your channel. Brilliant.
The stand to hold the aquarium has a metal structure? Or just wood?
Regards!
Everything is on point! Thank you for the frosted glass look film idea! :D