DEFY GRAVITY - Aqua Rocks Colorado Aquascaping Demonstration

Massive Aquascaping demo tank at ‪@aquarockscolorado‬ - honored to be there surrounded by amazing people and AMAZING hardscape! After this check out their channel for PART 2 - PUBLISHING SAME DAY!! ( • DEFY GRAVITY - Aqua Ro... )
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Thanks Tommy and Colorado for having me!

[@neilrobins3329]

I'm always amazed at your skill to build an amazing natural looking high impact aquascape. The commentary and communication of the building process is second to none! A true master that we all can learn from. My goal is to create an aquascape that communicates nature and that hasn't been created, just formed over time. Love all of your work!

[@SteveScapesYT]

Thank you!

[@TheNanoAquariumGuy]

Beautiful Hardscape! I know I said it before but every time I watch one of your videos I learn so much. You are a master!

[@RandB_Aquatics]

My man you are talented. I can never be able to do a setup that nice while talking through the whole process, ma 1MB ram would make me freeze

[@stigblue]

Absolutely love listening to your stories while doing the most mondane of tasks. Amazing how the expanding foam played a role in the stability of that main piece of rock in the end. Didn't think it would be that stable. Wow

[@stefan00123]

Hi Steve san, I hope you are doing well! I have watched this video now for the 5th time and it helped me a lot with my first iwagumi aquascape 🙏 it took me several months by learning, planning and the most time of it was my confidence to start. Its so great to have all this helpfull information in just one video 🙏thank you for sharing all this information with us. I hope you will have a wonderful weekend! With love from the Netherlands 🇳🇱 Stefan

[@SteveScapesYT]

Thank you so much Stefan! Good luck with your scapes!

[@davidpung851]

Finally the video is here!!! Thankz for sharing your ideas. Great work

[@SteveScapesYT]

My pleasure 😊

[@narcisoeusebio4867]

Awesome work Steve 👏🏼 👌 👍 🙌 💪

[@adrianasaftei3879]

always something new to learn from your video.

[@Kyle_Mo]

Absolutely amazing!

[@SteveScapesYT]

Thanks!

[@hoseyar6183]

The perspective of this scape is immaculate. I really love the way you shaped the "path" to the vanishing point in the final picture, its so subtle yet intricate. The way the towering rock outscales the flat ones at the end point to create even more depth is just artistic. Thanks a lot for this video workshop Steve! Looking forward to your competition scapes this year, all the best!

[@SteveScapesYT]

🙏🙏🙏

[@patriknemeth1136]

Absolutely amazing Hard scape!

[@SteveScapesYT]

Thank you!

[@tomgilberg8038]

I was there and it was unbelievable how time flew and the art gained gravity and dimension as you did your thing.

[@SteveScapesYT]

Thanks for coming 👏

[@RobertVillalobos]

Amazing talk + amazing looking scape 10/10

[@SteveScapesYT]

Thank you!

[@Scaping_the_six]

I really enjoyed this hardscape video Steven. It’s inspiring me to scape something similar

[@SteveScapesYT]

❤️❤️❤️

[@andresmgrafico]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge. For competition tanks, do you prefer to start them in DSM, in a dark start, or in a traditional way from day one?

[@SteveScapesYT]

Traditional almost always

[@dantanigawa5072]

Was the rock held together with that landscape foam? The other parts superglue?

[@dragonknifeful]

Love this. How do you take this hard scape out when you want to do a new scape

[@SteveScapesYT]

Just pull it out. :D

[@JLubbe]

Question @SteveScapesYT. How much will the rocks cost for a scape like this? Not everyone will be able to afford soo much stone at one time. What is your advise to someone that loves scaping but has a budget?

[@SteveScapesYT]

If I was starting off from ground zero, I’d check local quarries/landscape shops, scour local materials- anything I could find a LOT of, no matter how ugly/simplistic, is going to be more useful than a beautiful material that I have too little of. In using $$$, quantity > quality in hardscape EVERY time unless adding to an already sufficient collection

[@aquascapebarendrecht946]

Maby a stupid question,but why don't you use a black foil on the outside of the tank and not use black tape in the tank

[@SteveScapesYT]

no stupid question! It doesn't do either job of the black tape inside, which is to 1) kill side reflections, turning them into shadows, or 2) provide an anchor spot to attach to.

[@xmanu100]

another way is to just frost the sides of the tank when making the tank if thats going to be diy