My First Aquascape 42 4

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This is my first real attempt on aquascaping. No fake plants or wood ect. In planing i watched a few How to videos as well as did alot of reading on plants. Let me know what you think and drop a like and subscribe if you enjoyed :) In the tank i currently have 1 red spider driftwood telanthera dwarf hairgrass dwarf baby tears anubius nana petite hygrophila kompakt staurogyne repens Im using eco complete for substrate as well as white inert sand The tank is a Fluval spec V with the addition of a marineland 17" hidden led for extra lighting i walk you threw my layout as well as all ferts being used, updates with livestock to come :) extra tags fish fishtank aquarium tropical fish how to tips how to water change beginner cichlid discus acrylic glass fish tank freshwater fresh salt water saltwater tank gold fish ram tetra pleco l 046 how to start tank to buy fish beginner fish hardy fish plants dirted tank planted tank reef wood drift wood driftwood l 102 snowball pleco lda33 l 201 l 046 zebra pleco angle fish discus dwarf ram LFS Local fish store

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Ryan Kay - 7 years ago

good job except for the rocks out of the tank....

coc black - 7 years ago

you ahould add more plants

SirenSea_Reviews_Aquariums - 8 years ago

im so ready to put together an aqua scape for the first time to. nice tank

BOB THE MAN - 8 years ago

You took the idea right out of my head and placed it in a tank . Awesome job

Ella S - 9 years ago

I love it

Daren rosier - 10 years ago

Hyrgro is real easy plant but you may need to keep it trimmed not sure if it will out grow your tank or not i was aware of a small type, the baby tears and hair grass may not do well without co2 and high light but keep us updated on how yours does also might want to swap the hair grass with the stauorgyn it looks like its kinda shaded by the wood, Stauoryn repens stays shorter and bushier under high lets but can grow fine in low light but will get a little taller and not as bushy, the alternathera is a great plant the tops of the leaves stay green in lower light but get bronze/red in higher light, I'm not an expert but i figured I'd give my thoughts maybe help ya out, if the baby tears don't work out a good easy ground cover plant is dwarf Sagittaria or crypt parva both cheap and easy to come by

Danny Chung - 10 years ago

Really good job! Looks awesome! (:

Jacob Ellis - 10 years ago

very nicely done for a first attempt. I thought it was at least a 10 gallon so was surprised when you said it was a 5 gallon. I would give this aquarium an 8/10. I may be a 9/10 if i saw it in person but from the video it looks a little to "green" for me.

Joris van der Kamp - 10 years ago

nice!
subscribe yeayea!!

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Cam'sJungleAquaria - 10 years ago

Wow great piece of driftwood, where did you get it? It fits the tank perfectly

Cam'sJungleAquaria - 10 years ago

Yeah you're right about the red coloring.

Fish Tank Family - 10 years ago

i picked it up from my local LFS. they got a shipment in and i purchased 4 pieces as i don't see this type of wood very often. love the deep red color it shows.

Infamous Aquatics - 10 years ago

This is a ton better than what my first attempt looked like. Great work on this. You will only get better.

Infamous Aquatics - 10 years ago

I saw that on my subs. I will be watching the video after i get ready for bed. TMI

Fish Tank Family - 10 years ago

Thanks man! glad your digging the tank, pretty pumped i got my first fish in it

Infamous Aquatics - 10 years ago

I am still learning about all that stuff. I will be following this tank all the way through!

Fish Tank Family - 10 years ago

thanks alot man, i did a ton of reading and hours of video watching checking out other peoples tanks :) im finding right now the hardest part is not the layout, but balancing the tank so the plants grow and you don't get algea....

Ryan Tran - 10 years ago

In case you need the help on pronunciations lol

Hygrophilia( hi-grow-feel- E- ah)

Stauragyne(store-ah-guy-n)

And awesome tank man wish I could find both those plants lol

Fish Tank Family - 10 years ago

lol thanks :) the hygrophilia was a plant i dident think i was gonna be able to use, but the day i want plant shoping they just got it in so i was pretty pumped :) thanks again haha

shizdank - 10 years ago

very cool scape! subbed

Fish Tank Family - 10 years ago

thanks! glad you liked it

difrent7 - 10 years ago

Hey man, I really like what you did with the tank it looks great. These tanks are the easiest to scape but I'd say you did a great job. The wood is such a nice piece. I'm about to rescape my Spec V to be a high tech tank I'll post it on reddit to show my progress.

difrent7 - 10 years ago

+Fish Tank Family Glad to hear some of my vids helped you decide on the tank! Can't wait to see more videos on the tank and watch the plants grow in.

Fish Tank Family - 10 years ago

thanks man, i was on the fence for so long getting one, dident think it would be big enough. after seeing some of your vids i made up my mind and went for it :)

jeremiemcd - 10 years ago

Great scape, looking forward to seeing it transform :)

Fish Tank Family - 10 years ago

thanks! me too haha, hopefully it does well and the plants don't die off. like i said first time so here's hoping :)

Freshwaterfishvids - 10 years ago

looks great man

Fish Tank Family - 10 years ago

awesome thank you!

petlover997 - 10 years ago

Looks really good dude!

Fish Tank Family - 10 years ago

thank you!

Dannys Fishtanks - 10 years ago

Looks awesome!

Fish Tank Family - 10 years ago

Thanks man, glad you liked

Jwhiser1302 - 10 years ago

I personally love the specv's! You did a magnificent job planting and scaping this tank man! Can't wait for more updates on this!

Fish Tank Family - 10 years ago

Thank you! really glad you enjoyed, im acclimating my first fish as i type this :)

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Doug C - 10 years ago

I think youve made my choice for me. I am going to get me some spider driftwood today.

Doug C - 10 years ago

I know there is a guy with the chicago cichlid assoc that sells it all the time. So i mught have to call him this weekend. I think it will finish off ny aquascape really nicely.

Fish Tank Family - 10 years ago

I am such a huge fan of spider driftwood, we have some other kinds but this red spider is our fav by far, we have 4 other pieces not in tanks yet just because we liked the look and know we will use them haha