Aquascaping - Aquarium Ideas from nature (karst spring) 166 8

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FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/DefiniteAquascapeTV YOUTUBE: http://www.youtube.com/user/DefiniteAquascapeTV SITE: http://definiteaquascape.tv The purpose of this video is to serve as an inspiration for all the aquarists and aquascapers who are interested in natural underwater biotopes. This is how karst spring looks like. There are almost no aquatic plants underwater, nor are there any fish, which is surprising, because there is a lot o fish food in the water (small Crustaceans). Aquascape of karst spring can be recreated in aquarium quite easily - you don't need expensive LED lighting, CO2 supply system or aquarium plant fertilizers. All what is needed are some stones and driftwood used as decoration, as well as some dried leaves put on the aquarium substrate. However, quite good filtration system should be used. First, becasue there are no aquarium plants which help to keep the water clean, second, because it would be good to create current, which is also present in the spring. If one would like to keep coldwater fish in such biotope aquarium, I would strongly advise to use aquarium chiller to keep water temperature below 10-15 Celsius degrees.

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Giber - 6 years ago

I enjoyed it. nice video!

Mill F - 6 years ago

nice shots

Joseph Karthic - 6 years ago

great video but shitty police music..wtf

ss ss - 8 years ago

Really enjoyed this... some great underwater shots.

PunkSkaful - 9 years ago

is that a snake head at the end?

1nation1love - 9 years ago

that forrest look real healthy

NATUREmag - 10 years ago

Thank you very much!

akwabiotop - 10 years ago

Hehe, same to you :)

NATUREmag - 10 years ago

Too cold?? Oh boy!! This has to be a very hot summer, lol - haha!! Happy weekend for you!!

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akwabiotop - 10 years ago

Place the outlet of the filter underneath the sand, facing up. Check my other channel, DefiniteAquascapeTV, and two of my videos, "Aquascaping - The Art of the Planted Aquarium 2013 XL pt.4" and "Aquascaping - The Art of the Planted Aquarium 2013 Nano pt.6". There are two examples of aquariums with such effect.

akwabiotop - 10 years ago

Hehe, I think it's much too cold for summer time :) I barely could straighten my fingers when I was filming underwater for more than 2-3 minutes :)

NATUREmag - 10 years ago

Ohhh!! Oh than its good for summertime, haha! Thank you very much!

akwabiotop - 10 years ago

Nope, they are not hot wells :) On the contrary - they are just normal springs, and the water is %@#$@#$%@ cold :)

NATUREmag - 10 years ago

Really really great video! Are these hot wells in the first third of the video? Thank you very much!

akwabiotop - 10 years ago

Hey, nice area! (I mean, the Artvin city) :) Seems to be in the mountains - are there any reeds in rivers in the mountains?

bi_yorumda_benden - 10 years ago

and you can try to take some equip. with you for new ideas. ex. i am collecting my own plants from rivers and lakes but its not easy as seen. some has hairy roots and they are really hard to clean and can carry different water animals that we don't want in aquarium. but i find a thin reed in a river near me ( Turkey,Artvin ) you can look city pictures in google has a large flora and that reed becomes the best guppy home to me. plant root types and tastes if the fish like its also problem

akwabiotop - 11 years ago

Thanks, mate :) This year I'm planning to make some more underwater filming in Poland, this time in HD! :)

bi_yorumda_benden - 11 years ago

good job dude

akwabiotop - 11 years ago

Hej, można i po polsku pisać ;) A w ogóle to wiesz że mam też drugi kanał, "DefiniteAquascapeTV", a na nim ponad 150 różnych akwarystycznych filmów? :)

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Ryszard Balawajder - 11 years ago

nice

akwabiotop - 11 years ago

You're welcome :) I plan to visit more site like this in the future, so there will be more inspirational videos from underwater - but I'll upload them to my other channel DefiniteAquascapeTV, not here.

RELAXPRIM - 11 years ago

great idea for inspiration thanks

akwabiotop - 11 years ago

Thanks! :) Do you know that I have another YT channel, DefiniteAquascapeTV, with over 150 aquarium and biotope related videos? :)

clint92pythons4life - 11 years ago

me and my buddies would go out and do the same thing without filming it. makes room for great ideas ,this hobby is one of the best and most rewarding. really love the video nice work

akwabiotop - 11 years ago

It's in Poland, in Jura Krakowsko-Częstochowska region (area north-west from Cracow city)

findingusername sux - 11 years ago

Where is this?

akwabiotop - 11 years ago

Yes, I was wondering about it, too... There are some Crustaceans in the water, even a lot of them, but there are absolutely no fish - or I couldn't see them. There are trouts in the ponds farter away (the stream is running into these ponds), but there are no fish in the stream. Maybe it's too shallow, too cold, or too sth else...?

akwabiotop - 11 years ago

Nooo, it's oxygen produced by the algae. In shallow water, during sunny days of the summer, you would be surpised how many oxygen bubbles are produced :) It looks really great! :)

Mr.Blue - 11 years ago

check out the pearling on those dead leave at 5:30 .. dyi co2?

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akwabiotop - 12 years ago

@salalalam Thanks! And the music was chosen deliberately - I was inspired by this quickly flowing small stream at the beginning of the movie.

salalalam - 12 years ago

great filming but a little stressful music!

akwabiotop - 12 years ago

@martyhowie75 That's right :)

martyhowie75 - 12 years ago

@DefiniteAquascapeTV Good point! I feel a natural biotope is what nature created. We all try in the create a natural look in our aquariums and base it on real biotope. The other created by humans for fish growing is called aquaculture.

DefiniteAquascapeTV - 12 years ago

@martyhowie75 Well, you're right - to some extent ;) It all depends on what one will call a "natural" biotope. In my opinion this karst spring is more "natural" than, say, a semi-natural pond, created by humans for fish growing. I could call the movie "90% natural biotope", this would probably reflect the presence of this dam... ;)

martyhowie75 - 12 years ago

Great vid, but how can you call your vid a Natural biotope with a man made dam on it. That pool is man made not a natural biotope.

spk210 - 12 years ago

Beautiful video

spk210 - 12 years ago

@akwabiotop The water level looked low, Dry season? summer time? Where I'm from the trout and other fish leave river systems and streams during times of lower water level.

akwabiotop - 12 years ago

@drjazzisme You're right - it's not tropical. The site is located in Central Europe, namely in Poland :) The absence of fish surprised me, too. There is one trout at the end of the movie, in the biggest pond, but it seems that there are no fish in pools and creeks situated before this pond. Two possiibilities - either there really are no fish there (which would be strange due to the abundance of small Crustaceans), or there are fish, but they were hiding when I was filming...

drjazzisme - 12 years ago

BUT WHERE'S THE FISH?NOT QUITE TROPICAL.COUPLE OF IDEAS FOR AQUASCAPE THOUGH.

akwabiotop - 12 years ago

@blackfese Thanks :) Actually it was the first time I was filming something more seriously... :)

Donnie - 12 years ago

cool, thanks foe sharing.

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