How to Aquascape like a Pro - MAD Aquariums (Store Tour)

In this video we take a tour through beginner to advanced aquascapes, showing you all types of ways you can set up an aquarium. From Iwagumi to dutch scapes, and everything in-between this video will give you inspiration for setting up your own aquascape that suits your style!
Timestamps:
0:52 - Giant gourami display tank
2:04 - 6ft Lake Malawi Hardscape (very simple)
3:41 - Nano scapes by staff
6:35 - Planted mountain scape
6:59 - Diorama scape
8:05 - Dutch scape (very difficult)
9:25 - SpongeBob squarepants/fun scape
9:55 - Naturalistic aquascape, similar to a biotope
10:59 - Paludarium scape with mist
11:41 - Using glue to create aquascapes
15:28 - Iwagumi aqauscape
17:47 - Competition idea - who wants to enter?
19:12 - Aquascape by Luis Navarro
23:25 - Nature scapes
27:37 - Sand waterfall scape
30:28 - Wood only hardscape
33:45 - Artificial plant scape with goldfish
35:27 - Lake Malawi hardscape with mbuna
Jack and the team at MAD Aquariums collaborated with Seachem to host aquascaper, Luis Navarro in store. After the event, we stayed until midnight to go through all of the tanks! I really hope you enjoy this fun video and it inspires you :) A big thank you to Bree for filming and Khai for helping show us around.
Come and check out the scapes in person:
MAD Aquariums
1/2940 Logan Rd
Underwood QLD 4119
Australia
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[@Kaityscichlids]

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[@MrEvilmitch]

Done 🙏 my favourite fresh water store

[@pattykake7195]

Really enjoyed the presentation…MAD is the best…nice to talk with you too…👍🏽

[@StainedGlassEyeBalls]

He seems like a decent guy! Great video 👍Love the giant gourami tank.

[@nitesh_am]

Great video as usual, loved those scapes ...

[@Kaityscichlids]

I'm glad you enjoyed it!! Hopefully we'll get to see more scapes from the MAD Aquariums team :D

[@cosmicshy637]

Been catching up on your vids & loving them! (I was out of the loop a while.) ❤ Thank you for continuing to make interesting and fun content! 🐟

[@Kaityscichlids]

Welcome back!! And thank you so much 😊🙏🏻

[@donhabel1590]

Beautiful SCAPES unbelievable 🎉👏👏

[@Kaityscichlids]

They are so beautiful!!

[@TrippyTrev45]

Giving me so many ideas. And a lot of inspiration, such a diverse aquarium channel thank you keep the great content coming

[@Kaityscichlids]

I'm really glad to hear you enjoyed it!! Thank you so much 😊🙏🏻

[@norbertthoens3561]

Interessanter Rundgang in diesem Geschäft mit schönen Aquarien! 😀

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you 🙏🏻 I'm glad you enjoyed it!! 😊

[@johnwoodall3791]

That's really nice & very well done Kaity.

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you so much John 😊🙏🏻

[@sheikhshakib55]

So relaxing to see that

[@Kaityscichlids]

I'm glad you enjoyed it :D

[@user-kp8lb5lk6f]

You look wonderful all dressed up Kaity! Such a great video!

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you so much!! I'm glad you enjoyed it 😊

[@Yelsin_Salazar]

Wow, your local store has many well-designed and thought-out aquascapes and artistic skills that make them truly amazing. Very inspiring and interesting too. Congrats, have a nice week!!

[@Kaityscichlids]

They are very, very talented! I'm glad you enjoyed seeing it 😊🙏🏻

[@anthonyeveler4820]

Great video I am glad I got into the fishing keeping hobbie I will have to use these tips in future aquariums I make.

[@Kaityscichlids]

I'm glad you enjoyed it! 🤗

[@davidwoods7720]

awesome upload

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you :D

[@garageaquatics2023]

Well that was great fun, Kaity! And thank you to Jack, Bree and Kai ( I sure hope I'm spelling their names correctly 🙂) When you were looking at the goldfish tank with the plastic plants I got to thinking that all aquascapes, no matter how natural looking they are, are still contrived. Each one is its own work of art. No two are ever alike. And as you said with the goldfish tank - looking at it makes you happy. And that's what it's all about. That's what keeps me coming back and looking at and building tanks. They make me happy. And then when the inhabitants are added and the tanks come to life, there's a whole new level of joy brought out. When I sit in front of one of my tanks and the fish do something and I catch my self smiling . . . well that's what it's all about! Have a great trip back to the States, Kaity! ~Ron

[@Kaityscichlids]

That is very true!! Like art, it's always going to come down to the person and how it impacts them so that looks different for different people. And thank you so much Ron :D I'm really looking forward to coming back to the States, I had an absolute blast there last year

[@Kirks_Aquariums]

Missed out going to the aquascape night but really wanted too. Jack’s cardinal tank is my favourite tank in M.A.D too, great video thank you

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it!! That's a shame you missed it, it was a great night. Luis is a great presenter and very talented. Hopefully they'll have another night again soon 😊

[@Davey333]

Amazing

[@roohollahyeylaghiashrafi7095]

Very informative and entertaining

[@Kaityscichlids]

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[@forestpassion4464]

Hi great video thank you i like it i like your way when you talking without mistake 🙂 you make long videos look short because you make it interesting thank you again🐡🐟🐠💕

[@Kaityscichlids]

Awww, thank you so much! I'm really glad you enjoyed it and are enjoying the videos 😊🐟🐟

[@max.0328]

Hello kaity Those are some next level aquascapes!! True art!! I believe that i commented once on one of your earlier videos that if i was a manager of a tv network,i would offer you a job as a presenter.this video proves how right i was.well done!! Hmm...🤔 I'm not a manager,but maybe i should be a talentscout.😉

[@Kaityscichlids]

Hahaha, so funny!! 🤣 Maybe you can make your own agency lol. And the scapes are always spectacular, always so nice going into MAD Aquariums and seeing them 😊

[@rejalmathew]

First one, nice video Katy 🍃🐠

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you 😁😁

[@MizeryScratcher]

Hello Kaitygreat vid with good info! My credit card was squirming in my wallet!! Sooo tempting!!🤔😘

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you 😊🙏🏻 it made me want to setup planted aquascapes too 🤣

[@tylermeyers2104]

I bet pvc pipe would work for the rolling hills idea. You can choose the diameter of the pipe that gives that desired look of depth for high/low spots.

[@IronTiger84]

Awesome video Kaity, those are great looking scapes! Aquascaping is one of my favorite aspects of the hobby! 🌿🪨🌱🍃🍂🪷🐠🐟🦐

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you so much Joey, I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it! I've always loved looking at aquascapes as well, there's some very talented people out there :)

[@Deepakkumar-wf5pl]

🤩🤩🤩

[@Fin2FinAquariums]

I'm thinking about spring some aquescaping bit unsure if I have time to maintain them

[@gregoryrunningelk865]

I would love to learn how to aqua scape and learn about the plants involved, the nutrients they need, plus water quality to keep it looking great.

[@Kaityscichlids]

That would be great!! Maybe we can do another video on all of that :)

[@opaldustmalone5207]

It was a lovely night and loved getting to meet you that night

[@Kaityscichlids]

It sure was!! It was so great being able to talk to everyone there :)

[@unsocialbutterfly5760]

Why don’t they do any of these things in Melbourne? Arrrrgh so frustrating! I guess because there are not really any big decent aquariums here. When I was a child, my family owned an aquarium shop, called hi-tide aquarium, and we had a pet giant gourami too, his name was Charlie. I remember feeding him frozen peas. It was a huge shop we had, but my father, being the terrible business owner he was, lost the shop after a couple of years. I also remember having a fish room in our house at the same time, and my much older brother bred fish for the shop in there. One day I sneaked in, because my brother said to never go in there, and it was eerily dark, I stood on a big fish, that obviously had jumped out of a tank, and I freaked out, never going in that room again 😂 Here I am 40 years later, with 5 aquariums in my home.

[@Kaityscichlids]

Omg!! 🤣 Thank you for sharing your story, that's so funny! (except the losing the shop part haha). Of course you would be unlucky enough to step on a fish after being told not to go in there lol. It's great you are still in the hobby after all of that though!

[@refakmakeen5248]

Great video Kaity. I think you should start scaping now 😅

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you!! I'm seriously considering it 😅 I would definitely have the right people close by to help me!

[@refakmakeen5248]

@@Kaityscichlids looking forward to seeing your aquascaped tanks soon 😇

[@lynnrobertson4657]

Beautiful thank you for sharing ❤🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you - I'm glad you enjoyed it!!

[@phillipreausaw1774]

You make me want to put together a tank again..

[@Kaityscichlids]

Watching it was making me want more tanks too 🤣

[@MrEvilmitch]

I really wanted to go to this but i work afternoon shift and it was a week night 😢 but atleast i got to see this video 🙏

[@Kaityscichlids]

Oh no!! I missed the first part of Luis' aquascaping too which I was disappointed about because he is an amazing teacher. Maybe you'll be able to make the next one! (Hopefully they'll be another)

[@MrEvilmitch]

​@Kaityscichlids I was also at fragorama getting some bargain corals lol I would have said hello if I seen you there

[@the88tench3]

Really cool video, there's some awesome aquascapes there! Do you have a favourite aquascape you saw? Looks like you've got the bug for aquascaping now, will you be entering any of their aquascaping competitions 😀 The giant gourami are really cool too, they seem really friendly especially as you can hand feed them! I wrote one of my uni assignments on how you can farm giant gourami and what setup you'd use for that. Its essentially the same as the RAS systems you can farm tilapia with, but at a lower stocking density! Was really interesting to research!

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you!! I think my favourite would have to be the Iwagumi scape at the front with the cardinal tetras and HC Cuba. I love how to looks like a hill, and that the fish stand out. And that is very cool! I didn't know people farm giant gouramis :O

[@the88tench3]

@@Kaityscichlids That's really cool, definitely is a really nice aquascape! Like the idea of building a Windows XP hill screensaver style aquascape too. You could even go further with it and put the aquarium on a stand that looks like an old PC case, and make the frame of the aquarium look like an old CRT monitor 🤣🤣 It certainly is very interesting! They're farmed for food a lot in places like South East Asia, usually in ponds but our assignment was to design a RAS system for them. There's lots of things like multi-trophic aquaculture done there as well where multiple different food sources are grown together in the same system! It's a really interesting type of fish farming!

[@Kaityscichlids]

@@the88tench3 that would be very very cool! I hope someone does it 🤣 or maybe I will one day lol. And how interesting, you learn something new every day

[@the88tench3]

@@Kaityscichlids you could probably go one further and connect up a raspberry pi or something to the electrics so the Windows XP startup/shutdown sounds play when the lights turn on/off 😂 Aquaculture is such a rabbit hole to go down! If you wanted to try some multi-trophic aquaculture a go, you could always try setting up an aquaponics setup with one of your aquariums! If you also do a UK trip, I'd also definitely recommend a visit to Sparsholt college and their fish department which is where I graduated from almost 6 years ago now! They usually have an open day in May where you can see the aquatics centre with freshwater and marine aquariums one side, commercial carp, catfish and tilapia systems on the other side of the building and an indoor koi pond to walk over in the entrance! There's a salmonid building and lake on site too, plus other things like an on site zoo, farm animals and other outdoor land based stuff!

[@Kaityscichlids]

@@the88tench3 omg, thank you so much for the recommendation, that sounds amazing!! And I am definitely interested in aquaponics, it's one of those things I have in the back of my mind that I'd like to set up when I (fingers crossed) get my own property and have some acreage one day 😁

[@Nofacecsgo]

Mad aquarium legit has the best quality fish for sale in brisbane

[@aaaquascaping9774]

I did not know that there is a local aquascape shop. I even went all the way to Japan just to see ADA labs and the ADA headquarters to see aquascapes.

[@Kaityscichlids]

Oh no way!! 😱 Yes MAD Aquariums have some super talented aquascapers and are very into it. You'll have to come next time they have an aquascaping event!

[@aaaquascaping9774]

@@Kaityscichlids I will try

[@user-kp8lb5lk6f]

Does Texas holey rock even come from Texas ? I'm genuinely curious because I'm from Texas and have never heard of it until I started watching yours and a few other similar channels.

[@Kaityscichlids]

I think it is legitimately from Texas! And they ship it over

[@user-kp8lb5lk6f]

@@Kaityscichlids you're absolutely correct! I had to look it up lol it comes from a limestone quarry around Austin Texas which is also the capital of Texas.

[@Kaityscichlids]

@@user-kp8lb5lk6f so funny!! I bet it's cheaper in Texas 😅

[@user-kp8lb5lk6f]

@@Kaityscichlids I found some for a dollar a pound.I have no clue if that's a good deal or not!

[@CarrionQueer]

4:30 I wonder if Zach is a fan of the YT channel Greyworm? His scape is kind of similar to one of theirs.

[@saputramaulana7731]

🍃🐠 👍🏼👍🏻❤

[@andrewmiller3767]

What’s the name of the stone used in the iwagumi scape? Thank you!

[@Kaityscichlids]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but that is seiryu stone I believe

[@suesun7072]

@@Kaityscichlids You are correct! Seiryu Ryuoh it is. 😉

[@oscarjungletank]

can we get a try on haul fish review?

[@MatteoBarrera4830]

SpongeBob tank wins but i seem to of become a dutch style aquascaper without even knowing what it is, a lot of tanks here in England are like that its very easy just put like a million plants

[@Kaityscichlids]

I too think the SpongeBob tank was pretty cool lol. And that's so funny! Maybe you have a talent for growing plants, apparently they're not easy to keep for most

[@davecox7384]

Cade makes a shallow tank

[@Kaityscichlids]

I've had a look at it I think, but it's quite small from memory

[@davecox7384]

@@Kaityscichlids they go up to 1500

[@hooch6381]

@Kaityscichlids Hiiiiii! Where are you going to be traveling in America??? I am from Linwood, NJ..which is south Jersey ..beach area near Ocean City/Atlantic City..ANYWHO... LOVE YOUR VIDEOS!😬❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤☮

[@Kaityscichlids]

I'm going to be mostly in Florida and down South for this trip!! But I'll be coming back again to go to New York too in not too long 😊

[@Kaityscichlids]

And thank you heaps 😁🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@jessecase-peach7895]

Iragumi

[@Kaityscichlids]

It's weird, it's spelt iwagumi but when you say it, it's iragumi :O

[@johnwoodall3791]

I know i have said this before Kaity but your Seriously Talented & I'm not just saying that. You should be a Marine Biologist with that Knowledge you Posess. You leave me for Dead in this Area & I got a top mark in College for Biology. I reckon One Day I'm going to Read about something else you have done within this sphere which is Truly Awesome & I will just say to myself yep that's Kaity all over Well & Truly. Respectfully.

[@Kaityscichlids]

Awwww, thank you so much John!! Your comments are always much appreciated :) If it wasn't for having some amazing friends and contacts in the hobby I wouldn't have picked up on all this info over time, so I'm so grateful for that, and it's great to be able to share it. I hope you have a great week!

[@Ind-fd6gf]

your name Cichlid?

[@Kaityscichlids]

Hahaha, no, that would be a funny coincidence. My name is Kaity, but I own cichlids, so it's "Kaity's Cichlids" :D

[@hooch6381]

😬❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤☮

[@omaeve]

My daughter’s boyfriend glued his finger to his eyelid

[@Kaityscichlids]

Omg 😲😲 that would not be fun!!

[@smokinjoe2122]

My cat’s breath smells like cat food

[@ChrisWijtmans]

My name is JEff.

[@AquaOne1]

Congrats 🤣

[@Mondegreen2020]

I love lamp.

[@Bens-Aquatic-Fish]

Hey Kaity, I’ve seen you’re tank in racks and Im in NSW Australia and I would love to gift you some tanks and just generally meet you Respond in comments if you need my contacts

[@leventkucuk1922]

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[@Kaityscichlids]

I will see what I can do!

[@malcolmmcguire2876]

66.6? You’re two thirds of the way there Kaity

[@Kaityscichlids]

Slowly getting there!!

[@malcolmmcguire2876]

Think it’s great you’re moving away from cichlids, there’s only so much you can say and it’s your personality that makes people keep watching I reckon. Take care, Malcolm

[@alexkwilliams]

dont put acetone on your hands wtf!!

[@madisonglattli9748]

I’m pretty artistic but unfortunately it didn’t really translate into aquascaping 🥲 These scapes are so inspiring, I will 100% copy the mbuna tank one day because that one looks the most doable, and even though I have a Tanganyika tank I also really want mbuna eventually.

[@Kaityscichlids]

Hahaha, I can totally relate!! I'm artistically challenged when it comes to aquascaping. It's definitely a skill that takes developing I think. I'm glad these were able to inspire you 😊