CADE CB1500 The Making of The Enchanted Cave

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jean claude douaumont - 7 years ago

how did u fix stones on glass ? with silicon ?

jean claude douaumont - 7 years ago

wow..very impressive..i am jalous :D
Great work my friend !
Hello from a french aquascaper !!

Asep Gunawan - 7 years ago

how can you stick the first rock on glasses .. can you show me ?

aybars baydede - 7 years ago

How can you stick together the rocks and plaçease advise to me what kind of rocks and are these kind of Dragon?

MrFloRolf - 7 years ago

That's insanely good! Really impressive!

janicee - 7 years ago

hi what gravel/sand was this?

SHAZZ BROADWAY - 7 years ago

where did u get the rocks from?

dziegan - 7 years ago

great

Goose14 - 7 years ago

awesome scape! I'm new to the planted aquarium and trying to think of something cool to make with some height. how do you get your height without having the substrate so thick that it causes gas pockets? thanks

Flyingdutchy33 - 7 years ago

I'm currently scaping a 55gallon tank with petrified wood pieces that weigh up to 10 kg a piece. I had the same concern, so I got me some plastic gravelroster slabs (the ones you use so your gravel on the driveway doesn't spread too much) Cut to shape, layered them and glued them with a hot glue gun, cut them some more untill it hit the height I wanted and supported the rocks properly. At every layer I picked a bunch of pockets and filled those with styrofoam, taking into account that I don't create empty enclosed pockets. The unfilled holes I left are left aligned vertically and are poured in with cement to decrease boyuancy up to a level I felt comfortable with while also creating rigidity. I wanted to compensate a little for the weight of the stones, while not creating something that I had to glue down.

I will be covering the entire thing in epoxy to seal it and to make sure the rocks do not damage the contraption. Since I'm running a soil based aquarium, I took into account that all my terraces have adequate substrate depth to avoid anaerobic spots.

Since some of my stones could not properly be fixed due to them overhanging, I carefully drilled a few holes in the back which are fitted with plexiglass tubes which in turn will be tied to the "contraption" to secure them into place.

The entire thing will be placed inside the aquarium on a rubber mat to further help spread the weight.

While this may be going a bit far, I'm sure at least the egg-crate thing could be of help.

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pradeep niroshan Bandara - 7 years ago

what is the light use for this amazing tank?

aquaticpimp - 7 years ago

God that's amazing. I wanna do something like this on my next tank I'm thinking up. I wanna go with the "cave to a open field with a tree in the field"

dmichaels fish den - 7 years ago

That is just incredible! Well done. Talk about advanced aquascaping. I would never think to silicone rocks to the class either. Really amazing scape

Moon Leah - 8 years ago

What kind of hardscape material is that?

CADE AUSTRALIA - 8 years ago

It's called Pagoda Stone. Great to work with.

Mals Aquaholics - 8 years ago

Stunning !

Harri Goldsmith - 8 years ago

Would really like to see what it looks like now

atik bukhari - 8 years ago

any update on this tank please

Matthew Besch - 8 years ago

so after the first stone was balanced on that post, you hit it with some silicon to to stick to the glass?

Matthew Besch - 8 years ago

+adamlovesfish
Smart idea. are there other pieces of the cave aspect that are cilaconed down? also, have a video of the filled and finished product?

adamlovesfish - 8 years ago

Yes that is correct

atik bukhari - 8 years ago

Stone name please

adamlovesfish - 8 years ago

Pagoda stone

OriginalMindTrick - 8 years ago

Really creative. I'm going to steal this idea one day :)
What's the name of the stone?

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adamlovesfish - 8 years ago

Thank you. Update posted on our Facebook pages Aquascape Design and CADE. Due for another clip soon.

MrWilcox - 8 years ago

That's the coolest aquascaping I've ever seen. Would love an update.

Ahmed Al Awadhi - 9 years ago

amazing scape. looking forward for the planting video!!

John Pini - 9 years ago

Beautiful, how did you suspend the stone at first?

adamlovesfish - 9 years ago

+John Pini I used Silicone.

Dominik l - 9 years ago

Stunning layout. Awesome

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