thank you so much! yeah I was very happy to find them all in my local shop.

thank you so much! that's still good, a 250 liter is a good size to play around with and make some scapes and enjoy the fish

yeah I've definitely thought about the harlequin rasboras, I had them in a previous tank and they were pretty good for schooling so I might look at them again or maybe the copper rasbora which are very similar. thanks for the suggestion

thank you so much! yeah I wanted t work with the stones for a while but they were kind of expensive so when I got the tank I thought it was perfect for an iwagumi cause it wasn't so big.

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hey yes its heavy duty garage storage from the brand pinnacle. it has mesh shelves so I got some plywood and cut and stained it to go on top for the tanks. ive seen some better ones that other people use but that one is pretty cheap for that kind or storage and easy to setup so I just started with it.

thanks! its a a heavy duty garage storage rack from my local hardware store (Bunnings) and I have some plywood over the mesh as it only has a mesh shelf with some supports on it. so I can run some cable from the light hanging kits through the mesh and under the plywood

thanks! im hoping to have them done soon once they are grown in and have done the editing

thanks! yeah they are good lights and the app is super handy. but my favourite thing is cause they are so popular I can always find them second hand for super cheap

thank you so much!

thank you so much! you can make a tank easy

thank you so much. yeah it really was a great big java fern narrow. it looks so cool when you get a big bunch.

im not sure about that. it could be a lighting or fertiliser problem. when I first had it I was dosing a really lean fert and there was so much plant mass that there weren't enough nitrates in the water for it so it had more damaged leaves and damaged tip. so maybe test your nitrates to make sure you have some in the water. cause if you have lots of plants it can be really low. and if you do maybe see the light if its got enough power. I have had some of the java fern in tanks with less light and they remained pretty small. but I never had them in there for really long periods of time.

@lifewaterscapes I have hygrophila corymbosa so it was sucking so much of nitrates and all the fertz I was dropping in So I removed a big clump of it and I see 1 rhizome is trying to produce a long leaf maybe I need to see how my other plants gets what they need and will make sure that jaba fern also gets their food

thanks! yeah in the end it found its balance and looks good after the rocky start

hey there thank you! so for the price I paid around $700 aud for the tank, stand, filter, light and hardscape, I bought it all second hand from one person so it was a great price. for the plants I paid $500 for the ones I planted in this video but some of them were expensive and fancy which made the price higher. and then I paid another $250 ish for more plants later. where I am plants are pretty expensive. Western Australia has a fair few aquascapers but unfortunately it's difficult for shops to get plants as we have very strict bio security for plants which makes it harder and more expensive to get them. but that being said because the plants are harder to get it does make it so you can sell a bunch of them once they are growing well. when I pulled the tank down I took a bunch of them to a local shop and traded a bunch in for credit and traded half in and almost got my money back and had some left for other scapes. so that is one bonus of it being difficult to get plants. I hope you get to make a great scape and find some good plants to buy in Puerto Rico.

thank you so much!

thanks! I have another video coming soon where there's more lagenandra

thank you so much! I hope you have good fun with the first scape. one thing I found was at the start all my scapes get algae but after a few months it starts to get more in balance and becomes easier to manage and find the balance of light and nutrients, so don't be too alarmed with the starting algae.

@lifewaterscapes Thank you, I know not to panic when that happens, I look forward to your upcoming videos 😄

thanks! I have a Sony a7iv and I use the Sony 90mm macro and the sigma 24-70mm f2.8.

thank you so much!

hey I had the old UNS soil is a scape for about 6 months before but I think I lost the bacteria a bit as I didn't really plant in wet soil. so I put the used wet soil in then topped up with the new soil. but it took me about an hour or more to plant with the filming and I did it dry without adding any water to the soil. which would have lead to a lot of the bacteria dying, and also made it much harder to plant. now I use a wet soil as its much easier for me. but it ended up being about 30% used soil and 70% new contra soil. yeah for crypts and stuff like that ive been using more dark starts to help keep the ammonia down and have a more stable start which I think is a lot better for the more sensitive plants.

@@lifewaterscapes I look forward to seeing this tank and your channel progress!

thanks! yeah it definitely needed to be trimmed and kept more under control so it didn't take over the whole hardscape like it did.

thank you so much!

thank you so much!

thank you so much!

yeah they are one of my fave plants so I have it in a few scapes now

im not sure, it probably depends on the stones, some people when using really big stones will put them on aquasoil or a material like foam so they don't scratch and potentially crack the glass. I think the weight isn't a problem but more the contact point. if all the weight is on a single point it will be more likely to break it than if its dispersed with a material. I hope that helps a bit, but im not 100% sure about the glass strength

@@lifewaterscapes Yes you have answered my question.. thank you.

thanks it started to green up and look more healthy after a while which is good

thanks. I just checked your channel as well and have seen a few videos before so I just subscribed. yeah I never even thought about companies painting gravel but when I looked at the packet after they started to change colour it said it was a painted gravel. now I know to double check when I buy from a big hardware store

yeah I try to wait now with the crypts so they have a better chance but I put some into my 4ft which has been dark started for 2 months and had perfect clean water and had a lot of crypt melt, but they look to be coming back in that tank better after the melt

hey mate, yeah I need to organise all that stuff, the house has been in a bit of chaos cause I moved and have been doing some Renos, but ill definitely be taking that onboard. it just needs that little bit of production work to make it look better. cheers

@@lifewaterscapes happy to help, I heard you say you’re in WA, greetings from the far south 👍

thank you! its definitely improving as the plants grow out more

Thank you so much!

thank you so much! ill keep making them