#aquascaping

[chipped-chimera]

Since you guys liked the finished planted tank so much, have the tetra update!

A little bit of glass surfing is still happening but honestly was more because I was bugging them with my phone camera than anything. Most of today they were all over the place exploring~ also weird thing in the tank is a Banksia Seed Pod, threw it in for some extra tannins to help with any transition stress (natural antibacterial).

#kerytalk #fishblr #aquablr #planted tank #aquascaping #planted aquarium #freshwater aquarium #green neon tetra #idk if tumblo has content ID but I guess I'll find out #I just ripped this from my personal instagram #music is by Nujabes <3 #fish nonsense #there is also a real bossy lady? among them - she's the biggest #was guarding the leftover algae wafer bits and telling the rest to rat off haha

[waterskies]

Went to the Canadian Aquatic Expo today! They had an aquascaping competition. Here's some of the tanks that were set up~

#canadian aquatic expo #aquascape #aquablr #aquascaping #fishblr #planted aquarium #aquarium #freshwater aquarium #plantedtank #fish #aquatic plants

[frostbite-merun]

Aquarium tips!

So if you're new to aquascaping, here's a very simple thing you can do to make your scape look better.

The S l o p e

Angling your substrate towards the back, be it steep or shallow, gives the whole thing depth, and it means that you'll see more of your scape from the front. Obviously don't do this if you want it to look good from all angles, but if it's meant to be seen from one angle, that's a non-issue.

Below the cut are some entries to AGA's 2022 aquascaping competition that demonstrate the S l o p e better than I can.

This is a very dramatic S l o p e for a more dramatic scape. Showing off all of those lovely rocks.

Here's a more subtle S l o p e. It gives the illusion that the path in the middle extends further back than it actually does.

Another path illusion here!

Here's one of the 1st place winners. You can learn a lot about aquascaping just looking at this bad boy, but as far as the S l o p e is concerned, it gives the illusion of extra depth, and it raises bits of hardscape higher up so that you can see them from a level, front angle.

In fact, just go look at AGAs aquascaping contest backlog if you want to improve. A lot of them also have judge's critiques which are very useful.

Also also! Keep in mind that these scapes have their picture taken when they look their best! For the rest of the year they ABSOLUTELY look more wild and frazzled. Plus hundreds of dollars go into them because the cash prizes for these kinds of contest are very, very high. So it's 100% okay if you aren't able to make a big, sexy tank that wins contests and looks good 24/7 365 days a year.

As long as you end up with something that you love, or learn a lot of new things making something that you hate, you're on the right path!

#queue #fishblr #aquablr #aquariumposting #aquascaping

[aquabasedesign]

Aquarium Inspiration 🌿

Some Aquascapes from the Aqua Expo exhibition.

You can see more beautiful aquariums in my latest YouTube videos.

#aquarium #aquascape #plantedtank #aquascaping #aquariumhobby #natureaquarium

[mandsleanan]

Last aquarium build of 2023, the Mill Pond.

It's based off water features at a couple different miniature golf courses I played regularly growing up, plus a modification of indoor lily pond aquascapes. It's meant to be viewed from above as well as the front.

Constructing the submerged weir/planting shelf:

An early cold snap meant Blackberry had to come inside before it was fully planted.

I don't think he cared.

And why is it called the Mill Pond? Because it has a water wheel.

#Fishblr #Bettablr #Mill Pond #Aquascaping #Planted tanks #Blackberry betta

[wetmek]

Tanichthys albonubes - White Cloud Mountain Minnow

#aquascape #fishblr #aquarium #fish #planted aquarium #shrimpblr #plantblr #nature aquarium #aquablr #aquascaping #minnow #wcmm #whitecloudmoutainminnow #white cloud mountain minnow

[lazyworksinprogress]

A few different tank setups I've had between '21-'23. All of these are developments in my tetra community tank. The community tank is 80l planted tank with 3 black skirt tetras, some glo fish, neon tetras, a plecostomos, and shrimp&snails.

I'm happy with the progress and looking at how much I've learned while doing this hobby feels good. In the beginning, keeping the plants alive, felt like a huge deal. I was so excited to see new growth and would go through lots of heartache seeing plants melt away. It took months before I felt prepared enough to get my first fish. Now watching the fish living among the plants, shoaling, and looking healthy is one of the certain pleasures of my day 🐟🌱

#fish tank #aquascaping #aquaposting #tetra #fishkeeping #fishblr #planted aquarium #plants #shrimpblr

[prince-liest]

It's been a solid few months now of Her Highness living in her own little tank with the company of only a single nerite snail that she isn't physically capable of assaulting, and I am happy to report that not only is she still exhibiting active and curious behavior, but also that I am finally actually starting to be happy with how the tank turned out.

My original plan for the visual design of the tank was to have a mix of Iwagumi and Dutch: I wanted some pretty seiryu stones with a foreground of monte carlo carpet, and a Dutch-style planted backdrop behind the stones.

The monte carlo carpet is growing in great now that I've yanked out the last vestiges of the glossostigma I'd also planted in there, but unfortunately 3/5 of the background plants that I used either died off or just weren't what I wanted and expected. I finally just yanked out the slowly decomposing stems and replaced them with a small forest of crypt wendtiis, and I think I'm very happy with that. Crypts are pretty, they'll grow pretty huge if the ones in my big tank are anything to go by, and they're nowhere near as much maintenance as stem plants. I'm tired of trimming, replanting, and dead lower stems.

I am hoping this will also help the algae get under control. The diatoms are finally dissipating, but I've started getting hair algae, and I'm convinced that it was at least partly from the decomposition of the struggling plants, since it's extremely easy to not overfeed a single betta fish. That, or I'm not fertilizing enough. Fingers crossed!

#personal #petblogging #aquariums #fishblr #planted tank #aquascaping #no full tank shot sorry I'll do one when the crypts grow in a bit #this is a high tech tank so hopefully they'll settle in well

[ilikeit-art]

#butterfly koi #aquarium fish #aquascaping

[chipped-chimera]

Today in fish nonsense! 🐟🐠- Tank is good to go! Cool wood piece is cleaned and time to spend way too long on a plan painting.

More below the cut.

Tank has been set up, leak tested so it's good to go (after I overhauled the layout of my office ... still dealing with the fallout of that though lol) and the piece of jarrah/mirra? wood that my Dad grabbed from the tree he cut down on a farm (noting this specifically because it's actually now illegal to commercially harvest Jarrah in my state - this was on private property so it's legal) has had the absolute crap scrubbed out of it - I mean literally, in the process I found yet another interesting hole in it so that's cool, then high-pressure blasted with water so I am finally ready to think about scaping.

Which apparently means spending longer than I should drawing a plan lol. This piece is super awkward to work with I think - while functionally interesting it has a silhouette that makes me oscillate between 'boring' and 'awkward'. After talking to some artist friends, generally it was agreed I'd need to put more stuff in there to actually make it look better, right now naked glass is super harsh. Problem is, rocks and wood? Well in the aquarium hobby that shit is expensive. We're talking 60 AUD+ for pieces of wood. I mean they are fully cleaned and treated (?) and selected for being interesting, but I have a budget and I'd like to save as much of it as I can for more than just harscape sooooo planning is just the right idea here.

Thinking seiryu stone because I looooove the white veining through it, and then for the branches to break up the shape it's probably going to be spiderwood or something (as much as I love mopani wood I don't think it usually sells branched like this - but I will watch out for it) but the good part is these pieces are all probably going to be on the smaller side since I have my huge hunk of feature wood for free.

I don't know how this piece of wood will interact with inhabitants, I've soaked it for probably a month at this point to get a large amount of the tannins out (and I know it waterlogs, which is great because I won't have to play 'how long will this take to sink') but also to help the looser material come off so all I'm left with now is the hard stuff. It's also now sitting in the sun (and I mean sun - it is going to be 40C today and the next few days so that shit is gonna bake 💀) but prior to that has been sitting in the sun either here or the farm for a total of about idk ... at least a month? Maybe more?

I've struggled to find information on whether Jarrah or Mirra wood is safe beyond one post on a forum where someone-who-knew-someone at a local fish shop had put a piece of this in his store tank and all the fish died. Beyond that? no more context. According to my freshwater ecologist friend I caught up with, she thinks it's probably going to be okay given the amount of time/work put in. I have not done a bleach soak and I don't think I really need to given the amount of time it's been soaking in regular tap water (so already contains chlorine) and sun exposure. There will still probably be tannin leakage into the water but I'm okay with having a mild blackwater tank after seeing one in my LFS, I actually like the slight tannin tint of water and how it makes everything a little 'softer'. But I do ACTUALLY want to be able to see though lmao. I've also seen Jarrah seed pods sold locally specifically for blackwater tank setups so it might be fine?

Either way the plan is going to be: Scape, plant, cycle and then introduction of some cheap shrimp as my poor guinea pigs to see if that wood actually is awful.

Right now I'll just have to painstakingly go through plant choices and placement and making sure it lines up with the planned parameters for the community. I absolutely will take suggestions btw.

More soon. Fish nonsense will contain fish ... at some point. I swear lmao.

#kerytalk #aquablr #fishblr #my art #I guess even though this is a grossly overconfident doodle #aquascaping #yes that is a sandpit for enrichment #though I'm debating corydoras #I worry tetras + corydoras might be too much schooling happening for the eventual last edition - Betta fish #if not then it'll be tetras + one pleco #... I swear I saw a video of a pleco thoroughly enjoying burrowing in sand - I'd love that #yes all of this is primarily because I want a betta #but if I only get one tank ... go hard or go home right? #ngl considering getting a small 5-10 gallon for my bedroom for shrimp breeding so that could be a feasible second plan #in case the betta is an asshole #do not tell my parents lmao #I'd love a male in the tank but know it's probably not going to work so female is more likely - or at least plakat type #it's got quite a bit of height to traverse so I don't think anything with super big fins would be great - especially with age #even if I basically have a stepped up network of holes in this wood right to where it nearly touches the surface

[exorcismz]

nature_scape_studio

#glow #glow blog #edits #neon #exorcismz #neon lights #purple glow #blue glow #cyberpunk #dreamcore #glow in the dark #cyber #vaporwave #v a p o r w a v e #v a p o r #aquascape #aquascaping #aquarium #fish tank

[frostbite-merun]

Aquarium tips!

Here's some random tips for making aquascapes look """professional"""! Obviously do whatever you want and never be afraid to experiment, but if you're, let's say, aquascaping for someone else for whatever reason or plan to enter a contest, or just want one, these are things I've absorbed from professional aquascapers over the years.

Don't use multiple types of rock for your hardscape. Stick to one.

Make sure your ohko is 'going' the same way or emerging from the same point. There is no comprehensible way to phrase it so I'm providing a diagram.

Similar to the above, in any rocks with striations or marks, make sure those are going the same way too.

If you're going for a more natural-looking tank, you can sprinkle similarly-colored gravel around the base of your rocks and fade it out.

Utilize the rule of thirds.

REMEMBER THE S L O P E. I have a whole other post about it.

Group your plants. Don't put several types of plants scattered all around the tank.

Use a "pallette" of about 2 to 5 types of plant.

Remember! Tall plants and stems in the background, medium-height plants in the midground, and low-growing carpeting plants in the foreground.

Moss is your friend. You can glue it to wood and rock using cyanoacrylate super-glue which is inert in water. It hardens into a plastic.

Look at reference pictures! Specifically of forests and mountains!

Group things in odd numbers. It looks more natural.

RESEARCH. Plants have water parameters just like fish! Plus they have light requirements!

Most non-aquarists are drawn to tanks that are either super complicated and jungly and have a million things to look at or minimalist in such a way that it makes the fish pop. I once had a plant storage tank that everyone liked way more than the actually scaped tanks. There is no fighting this.

And lastly, always always always do what's best for any animals you have inside the tank. Ultimately, everything is second to their health and well-being.

#queue #aquablr #fishblr #aquarium #aquascaping

[aquabasedesign]

The Betta home 🐟

Planted nano aquarium 🌿

Full overview of this tank here ⬇️

#aquarium #aquascape #plantedtank #aquascaping #aquariumhobby #betta splendens #betta fish #betta #shrimptank #Youtube

[likesplatterpaint]

God it looks so much better, look how cleeeear.

Louie house!

#Louie feesh #Fahaka puffer #180 gallon #aquascaping #planted tank #fishblr #fishkeeping #gen and mike’s tanks

[wetmek]

Gorp

#aquascape #fishblr #aquarium #fish #planted aquarium #plantblr #shrimpblr #aquablr #nature aquarium #aquascaping

[lazyworksinprogress]

Some pleco action this morning

#pleco #fish tank #fishkeeping #planted aquarium #aquaposting #aquascaping #fishblr #plecostomos #bristlenose pleco