240-liter Delightful STEM PLANT Aquarium by Viktor & Balazs

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AQUARIUM SPECS
AQUARIUM
Green Aqua Opti-White Aquarium - 243 liters, 120x45x45 cm (120-P)
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AQUARIUM CABINET
Green Aqua Premium aquarium cabinet 120x45x80 cm
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AQUARIUM FILTRATION
Eheim 2080 Professionel 3 external filter
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AQUARIUM LIGHTING
2x ADA Solar RGB
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CO2
Pressurized CO2 system with
Aquamedic 1000 external CO2 reactor
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SUBSTRATE
ADA Power Sand Advance 'M'
ADA Aqua Soil Amazonia Ver.2
ADA La Plata Sand
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AQUARIUM DECORATION
30kg Frodo Stone
10kg Rama Twisted Wood
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AQUATIC PLANTS
5x Anubias sp. 'Mini Coin'
12x Rotala rotundifolia 'Hra'
9x Taxiphyllum 'Flame' moss
5x Rotala macrandra
7x Eleocharis acicularis 'Mini'
4x Hemianthus micranthemoides
11x Ludwigia palustris 'Super Red'
5x Cryptocoryne parva
12x Taxiphyllum sp. 'Spiky' moss
5x Pogostemon erectus
3x Anubias nana 'Bonsai'
5x Rotala rotundifolia 'Laos'
5x Rotala sp. 'Wayanad'
5x Ludwigia arcuata
6x Riccardia chamedryfolia moss
9x Anubias sp. 'Petite'
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FISH
Green Neon Tetra (Paracheirodon simulans)
Ruby Tetra (Axelrodia riesei)
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
01:06 The Plan
03:57 Hardscape
11:40 Planting
18:42 Final look
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Camera Operators: Csaba Viczián, Miki Bacskai, Áron Tamaskó
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#greenaqua #aquascaping #stemplants

[@lukewilliamhayes]

Uk viewer here, came to the shop for the first time whilst on vacation in Budapest last week. What a pleasure it was, came back to find this video as this scape was incredible to see in-person. Thankyou for making my trip special!

[@RyoWatanabee]

Yeah!!! I love this classic style with stems! Love the driftwood design as well, great job :)

[@rideralarm]

As someone who loves stem plants, this tank is a great inspiration. Plus, this is the first time I learned that flame moss can be planted!

[@loiceklund6624]

So happy to see a scape with a plant focus. Love the contrast you guys put with the green and red stems.

[@Chelovek_100]

Как же красиво!!! Смотрю и узнаю много нового. Смотреть приходиться по несколько раз, т.к. хочется увидеть всё, но глаза бегают по субтитрам))) и пропускаешь то что вы делаете. Спасибо вам!!!

[@jenpink4298]

Absolutely stunning! The contrast in the color is just gorgeous and those red stems are absolutely breathtaking!

[@patrickmeier83]

I love stem plants but they are definitely for people with fewer tanks, and those of us that like getting their arms wet quite often.

[@GreenAquaShop]

Yup agree 👍 also need much more time to develop. But their colors are just mesmerizing

[@LuckAqua]

I am one of those people.

[@klebberbrazilian.theprofessor]

I like it!

[@GreenAquaShop]

😀👍

[@nbrant19]

Please do more natural style, i always love your works, but natural ADA style would be amazing, love from indonesia guys

[@GreenAquaShop]

Noted, thanks for the feedback, will work on that 👍

[@FLOMALS63]

Прекрасное творение вы создали 👍супер видео 🤩

[@MarcoHdz90]

That tank looks amazing!!!, great work and excellent choice of the stem plants, the contrast between the plants and hardscape looks amazing.

[@user-et9th4ie4j]

Молодцы! Удачи вам! Очень красивые коряги и дизайн растений !

[@philcarlino6942]

Excellent work. The two of you make an incredible team. I love it; I wasn't so sure when you were putting all that moss on the wood, but what a great appearance in the end. Can't wait to see this in a few months, it'll look immense. Take care.

[@GreenAquaShop]

Thanks so much Phil. 💚Yeah, we rushed a lot with the planting, as the setup process was a little long. With more detailed work, we would trim the moss into small chunks and only glue that. Well, this is the lazy way 😜but we will shape it as it progress. I can't wait to see the stem grow and give a rich background to the tank.

[@Krishore_Aquatics]

Another Awesome Tank Setup, Hardscape was mesmerizing, Plants Wow that is huge, I love Green Aqua especially for the dense plantation, three weeks video are extremely good shows a Great Progress in plant growth, I will eagerly wait for the 4k Cinematic and want to See the full potential of this tank Hats off Green Aqua and Thank You Very Much Green Aqua, and I am really enjoying the Beautiful World of Aquascaping

[@levemsan]

Wow! The final result is just amazing! Excellent!

[@GreenAquaShop]

Thanks so much 💚

[@fotispet]

Fantastic job guys. Thank you for your content!

[@J1Detailing]

Beautiful aquarium

[@GreenAquaShop]

Glad to read you like it 👍

[@sd.aquascaping]

Great work! Love this layout with stems!

[@GreenAquaShop]

Thank you 💚

[@darrenderousse4804]

Beautiful scape as always guys! Keep up the great content and inspiring new aquascapers!

[@GreenAquaShop]

Thanks so much Darren 🙏

[@darrenderousse4804]

@@GreenAquaShop you’re welcome bud

[@h2Aquatics]

Great work!! I love this layout.

[@erdemonkardes2443]

peaceful as always

[@LuckAqua]

Wow. What a badass scape. Thank you.

[@GreenAquaShop]

😀👍

[@klebberbrazilian.theprofessor]

Balazs and STEM PLANTS? The world definetely can be figured out! Hahaha. Cheers from Brazil!

[@GreenAquaShop]

Not sure why he resists, will do more work together with him to change it - Viktor 😀

[@klebberbrazilian.theprofessor]

@@GreenAquaShop good idea, Viktor! 😀 Congratulations for the great layout you planned (this video aquarium).👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Cheers from Brazil! 🇧🇷

[@TheNanoAquariumGuy]

That moss looks so good on the wood!

[@GreenAquaShop]

Moss is always awesome! Just need to keep them healthy 😜

[@edstaart8548]

2 masterminds ,gotta be great . I really like it a lot.

[@GreenAquaShop]

Thanks so much Ed. I am sure after 2-3 months, it will look better once it develops fully. 👍

[@JoseTorres-fn1vk]

Yes!

[@sandortoth6219]

Very good, green aqua top1 aquarium

[@GreenAquaShop]

😊🙏💚

[@aquascapeangelfish]

Magnifique scap !

[@kirtimaykhurasiya9595]

this is good so people will like it Viktor 2022

[@peterhubocan9612]

Beautiful, something amazing...😎

[@GreenAquaShop]

Thanks Peter 👍

[@gmlgml1]

Great scape by a great team. Final result will be fantastic........as always !😀😀

[@GreenAquaShop]

Knock on wood! 😜👍

[@friedrichpetrik1419]

Wunderschön👏👏👏

[@GreenAquaShop]

Thank you for your kind words. 🙏😇

[@stefan00123]

Hi Green Aqua, This tank is looking amazing just love the wood 😍 Keep up the good work 💪💪 And hope to see your guys next year at vivarium 🙏 With love from the netherlands 👋👋

[@GreenAquaShop]

Thanks Stefan, hope to see you too!

[@LuckAqua]

I hope they could visit Asia some day.

[@ernapichry7429]

Greetings from Belgium

[@GreenAquaShop]

💚🙏😊

[@liaml9992]

The best of the best Beautiful 😍

[@GreenAquaShop]

😀💚

[@Riescaper]

masterpiece 👍

[@the.lazy.knight]

great scape

[@Eques099]

Great video. Please do more Nature Aquariums in your gallery

[@GreenAquaShop]

We will do that for sure 👍

[@martinbohm9372]

Old school team 👍👍👍

[@GreenAquaShop]

😜💚🙏

[@kiran1254]

I love the background songs you select- as beautiful as ur scapes. Can you share the playlist??

[@user-gq2np9pw8c]

Miusic sounds greet 👏

[@GreenAquaShop]

Thanks for your feedback 👍

[@martinsokac2392]

Well, this is an extremely good work with stones, wood too, but no. 1 are the SHADOWS... gorgeous.. BUT, why do you guys hate your maintenance team so much? So much moss... in few months would be my tank overtaken by moss.. crazy. Cross te fingers and cheers, of course :D

[@namvu-qs9nn]

Hi Mr.Viktor and Mr.Balazs. That is a wonderful tank!! Im impressed by the bright background. Did you use a Led Background or white Decal ? Thank you so muchhh ❤

[@GreenAquaShop]

Thanks so much. 🙏The background is only a decal. The pendant light is so strong that it easily illuminates the background

[@namvu-qs9nn]

@@GreenAquaShop Thanks for reply. It’s very helpful

[@GreenAquaShop]

Glad if i was help 👍

[@LuckAqua]

I like a dark decal more than a light decal. It would make the tank look deeper.

[@GreenAquaShop]

And more contrasty, but we have a standard look in the showroom. It would not look good in the overall pic with a different background. 👍

[@karelyou2]

The transition with the sand in the middle is dope! I found that quire hard to replicate. Also do you somehow prevent the white fungi to form on the hardscape? Lastly, do you ever get snail infection from non-in-vitro plants? Cheerz!

[@karelyou2]

16:40 you need more plant mess -> mass 😆

[@lebaronclub]

Hello Green Aqua, thank you again for this fantastic landscape. Just a question: I'm going to use twisted root in my new tank, do you have any advice for using this wood? Did you have any brown water issues or did you soak your roots before using them?

[@bramaramadhan9114]

Mantap 🥳

[@GreenAquaShop]

😊🙏

[@dhaneeshunni9243]

❤️

[@klebberbrazilian.theprofessor]

How to combine the desired acid ph (6.8, 6.6) for planted tanks and shrimps & snails? I really need to know that...

[@tomvermeulen8003]

Its been a while since I commented, but i keep on watching. Its been a while since i've seen this type of video. I really really really really liked this one. Its also a great inspirational video. I think i am going to try to do a similar tank. 2 questions, how do the plants thrive in the inate substrate? And 2, i've never planted moss in substrate, is it a special type of moss?

[@GreenAquaShop]

Hey Tom, thanks for your feedback, glad you like the video 😀👍Plants will do well in inert substrate too, but you need to add more nutrients to the substrate to have decent growth. The result will not be the same as the clay soils, but it will look good too. The moss was flame moss which grows upwards. Very slow moss, but gives a special touch to any layout 👍

[@4urizny]

Wooooow

[@GreenAquaShop]

🙏😀

[@michalperhac3461]

Nice shadow's.less moss on the left side.remind me serenity from cardoso,well done guy's

[@GreenAquaShop]

Luis builds lovely tanks. 👍We love them too! Let's see how this tank will progress. The end shot was too early. Probably 3 weeks after the start. After 2-3 months, the stems will show their full colors.

[@EduStarling]

Great work, guys! Congrats! Why do you put pieces of perlon between rocks?

[@GreenAquaShop]

To avoid the soil falling down in between the rocks mainly. 👍

[@klebberbrazilian.theprofessor]

@@GreenAquaShop I learned that technique here in this channel and from than on I've been using it on my personal tanks (I got 2, after I've turned myself into a "greenaquaner"😍)

[@EduStarling]

@@GreenAquaShop thank you! I'll be using it on my next aquarium

[@vukelicdavor8718]

hello, in this video Balaš plants eloharis mini and cryptocoryna parva in the sand of ada la plata, is that ok? will those plants be able to develop properly only with feeding through the water column. and one more question, what is the layer (cm) of la plata in the foreground

[@GreenAquaShop]

You can plant these into sand, yes, but growth will be slower, and it will need a year or two to develop a full carpet, obviously, here we didn't want a carpet... The thickness should be enough to hold the plant roots in place. Maybe 3-4 cm.

[@klebberbrazilian.theprofessor]

🙋🏽‍♂️PLEASE, guys, help me out, 'cause I wonder if planting in a innert substrate as sand will require the use of some ferts capsules. Will it or not? Thanks in advance!

[@paullb2440]

For the density you’re planting stems here approx what area does one Tropica grow pot cover, is it about 10x10cm (100cm2)?

[@GreenAquaShop]

You can plant it more densely for faster results. But 10x10 is a good starting point. 👍

[@paullb2440]

@@GreenAquaShop thanks. I’m planning on a nano with base 45x32cm so plant budget not really an issue. I’d estimated about 15 pots (it’s going to be Dutch style). But if you recommend a higher density let me know the sq cm that one pot will fit optimally and I’ll recalculate each of my species based on that.

[@NatureCubes]

u said at the start that many tanks in iaplc used smaller plants in front and stems in back to get prespective. but isn't it the other way around where bigger plants in front smaller in back will give better depth?

[@GreenAquaShop]

That's 2 different concepts. And both can work beautifully 👍

[@klebberbrazilian.theprofessor]

I guess once the depth was achieved through the hardscape (perspective, big pieces in front/small in the back) and soil elevation towards the back as well, the stem plants would look as "small plants" on the tank's overall picture. But, as I mentioned in the beginning of this comment, I guess...😀

[@NUX77]

Can u guys runing a forever layout like one in ada galery?.

[@GreenAquaShop]

They are not forever ones but keeping them on a long term. Sure would be possible, but visitors are always after new ideas. So we rotate the layouts every year

[@thewatcher720]

"Stamps" or stems?

[@albertocastellgarcia1480]

I have been using amazonia light for about 3 month and actually I have the same problems. The stems are rotting. 0 nitrate and 0 fosfate.

[@GreenAquaShop]

Just dose more nitrate. If you forgot to use power sand, you need more fertilizers and root sticks in a high-light aquarium.

[@abcd-fs2de]

Very nice scape but is this really about stem plants? I do not think so!

[@GreenAquaShop]

Actually, it is. You don't really see them at the end of the video, because as we mentioned during the setup they did not have time to grow higher and cover the top part of the layout before we released the video. If you check back later, you'll see that they will dominate the scape. Cheers, thx for watching.

[@abcd-fs2de]

@@GreenAquaShop I did, I also saw the part where you were talking about low height for stem plants in your aquariums and you end the layout with soil nearly to the top at sides... I feel like you wanted to show something you are not able to do. Sorry. But if you talk about stem plants aquarium and you hide most of its parts behind hard scape and the surface you cover with them is maybe half or less of the bottom - it is just a joke...

[@GreenAquaShop]

Let this be a joke, then. But only for you OK? 😀

[@williammcdowell6257]

Excellent aesthetics, great use of red and shape, maybe still a little too much hardscape for me but a great look, the artistry is way above anything I even aspire to, the cosmetic sand is for others to keep pristine...and keep trimming. Let's be candid, twice a week small trims, once a fortnight significant?

[@checco1982]

You need to make an update video with grown stems and trimming. How about reviews? I've loved to be reviewed

[@GreenAquaShop]

Yup will do that within 2-3 months for sure. Maybe a maintenance vid as well later. Wil double-check the review. It would be nice to do that soon. We have a lot of things in the pipeline, but some fresh community fun would be awesome!

[@yndislegstelpa2859]

you can almost feel how uncomfortable balazs is when he has someone around telling him what to do....

[@GreenAquaShop]

Nah, he did extremely well. He is very strong on hardscape construction, so I focused more on planting. We're a great team! 👍The videos are recorded at different times. This one was during our opening hours when we easily get distracted.

[@DLVPRaju]

Hi can anyone tell me the name of the schooling fish @ 00:03 ?

[@GreenAquaShop]

Glowlight danio 👍

[@FuturoAnacronico]

I really loved your channel and all the work you put into your tanks. However, I do not agree anymore with the high Tec aquariums practices. Making gorgeous aquariums that only look good for a few hours and need lots of maintainance is not something sustainable. Changing so much water to get rid of fertilizers is not good, as water is not an unlimited resource. Dumping water with lots of fertilizer into the drain is not good for the enviroment either The more sustainable and aquarium is, the less impact it has on the enviroment has to be a goal for everyone in the hobby.

[@wheatoncloud]

Ballsack and his gloves...

[@GreenAquaShop]

My hand was full of glue after this recording - Viktor 😜

[@J1Detailing]

Beautiful aquarium