I MADE A SHALLOW RIVER FOR TINY FISH! Aquascape Tutorial

[@MJAquascaping]

In this video I'm making a shallow river style aquascape in a small 45 litre / 12 gallon UNS 90B APT SKY RO MINERALS bit.ly/3Ujs43X USE CODE MJAQUA FOR 15% OFF Everything I've used for this tank (affiliate links) UNS 90B US: bit.ly/47suCRo EU: bit.ly/49NJBa7 Skylight Hyperbar EU: bit.ly/3RW3DrH Filter US: bit.ly/3yxFttR EU: amzn.to/3QLFUZO SMALL LILY PIPE SET WITH SKIMMER US: amzn.to/49X8XSV EU: amzn.to/3GoGLuG Seachem Purigen US: amzn.to/47qUWeI EU: bit.ly/3MWQsUO Active Carbon US: amzn.to/49PAAgy EU: bit.ly/3MTsfyQ Co2 regulator WW bit.ly/3uuAwmp use code ''amsterdam'' for a discount CRUSHED LAVA ROCK US: bit.ly/436I1w1 EU: bit.ly/3Ci1uPv AQUASOIL US: bit.ly/3Rea86F EU: bit.ly/3qhHDt4 Bacter 100 bit.ly/3utbrZ9 Tourmaline BC bit.ly/3RelQAE Clear Super bit.ly/3sNDUbo LIQUID FERT bit.ly/3tIVFsv USE CODE MJAQUA FOR 15% OFF Super glue Liquid EU: bit.ly/3rC0rY3 US: amzn.to/408UAqi Super glue Gel EU: amzn.to/46B3L52 US: amzn.to/3J2owwM 🚨Watch this next!🚨 Inspiration playlist! • Build Videos CO2 buying guide! • BEST CO2 SYSTEM FOR BEGINNERS?🤔 CO2 S... How to SETUP your CO2! • EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW TO SETUP ... Simple fertilizer dosing! • SIMPLE AQUARIUM PLANT LIQUID FERTILIZ... 👉🏻10% DISCOUNT on CO2Art with code: Amsterdam 👉🏻15% off 2hraquarist.com with code: MJAQUA 👉🏻Be sure to SUBSCRIBE to my KZbin channel: / mjaquascaping #plantedtank #aquascape #mjaquascaping

[@stephenevans7884]

The king is back

[@IMaqua]

Did you say river aquarium? Yes please I would like one. River setup with nano fish is the best. Cheers MJ

[@vinny0406]

Love your river series! What is your next project?

[@dylanwilliams430]

Would also love to see a natural habitiat for something like those little rover loaches

[@vinny0406]

@@dylanwilliams430 yea or a southeast asian stream biotope with a betta,rasboras,and loaches

[@vinny0406]

@@dylanwilliams430 yea like a Asian river with Kuhli loaches chili rasboras and honey gourami or betta fish maybe black water

[@GardenEvolution]

Haven’t been watching aquascaping channels cause it’s gardening season but when an MJ video comes out, you watch!

[@MJAquascaping]

Thanks 😄

[@888fluffy]

Winter is definitely aquascaping season

[@yahya_176]

​@@888fluffyis it really? Why so?

[@888fluffy]

@@yahya_176 plants do better when it's colder, less likely to grow algae. Also there's a big crossover with gardeners and aquascapers. You don't need good weather to aquascape but you do to garden.

[@ElementalAquaticDesign]

love the tank! This gives me inspiration to setup a 20 gallon low I have sitting around. Much love from the US brotha!

[@ollie_acorn]

I LOOOOOVE borneo suckers. Super charismatic little fish! Make sure to keep an eye out around the rim in case any of them decide to get adventurous

[@sshiep]

I 2nd this. Bornero suckers are very cool. i have a few myself, but I had one that was adventurous and after that I made sure to have a lid

[@rayanebourhim1742]

Man I love your videos, keep up the good work, I am 17 and because of you I have 4 tanks running perfectly thank you.

[@Aylasuki]

Nothing beats a good river bed setup, love it!

[@Matt-su8yl]

I really appreciate how your tanks are not over planted like so many other aquascapers! Please keep up the amazing work homie . Can’t wait for the next vid 🔥

[@boebender]

First-Class as always. Thanks!

[@thmroger]

According to me, this is your best looking tank so far! Good job and tanks for the inspiration!

[@adrianesy339]

Leaving the background transparent was a great idea👌💯

[@commonsense246]

This is my dream tank, I would like to put it on my TV cabinet and mount my TV on the wall above it, probably never do it though. I love minimalism and your rock scape is just perfect! I would only do lettuce or red root floaters as plants, nothing planted. Just simple......I only have a nano tank of 5 Gals now. But I can dream!

[@markjustinejalandoni7299]

FINALLY!!! would absolutely love to have a weekly update on this tank ❤

[@lurklingX]

haven't watched yet but *i already love the thumbnail vs the tank in the first few moments.* i think sometimes we keep going with tanks that we kind of aren't really liking anymore, not enjoying or things about it don't work. and it's good to see an overhaul to show what is possible. plus the concept of this one is really cool. fast moving river for TINY fish, and that it's a slanted design for the scape.

[@dayankkumarasinghe]

Outstanding, MJ! This is, so far, my favourite shallow aquascape with boulder stones... WOW!

[@postlife7835]

Amazing scape ... I was going through MJ withdrawls for a week and was so happy when this vid dropped. I really do love that you did an after setup follow up after a good amount of time.

[@yashtapase3821]

A suggestion : after the planting show and tell the difference about how plants grown after 5 weeks like each plant that is planted. Example i wanted to see how helanthium Tenellum and eriocaulon red will look like after 5 weeks. Btw im also going to make a aquarium like this 😂 the shaoe is very unique 👌

[@PsalmCourier]

I lit up when you showed James and his build. Great source of inspiration. I miss him and his team i loved the green machine. Thank you.

[@colemanpushlar8358]

Perfect Fish combo and I love the use of all the grasses

[@cebucapgamers2424]

i just love how you maintain a natural set up! Hoping for a shallow planted tank soon! and yes the plant selection is perfect for low light setting.

[@AquaticMaster]

I'm working on a 33L hillstream scape and this is exactly the inspiration I was looking for!

[@MakkaPakka_77]

Production of video is amazing, keep it up!

[@Sojhpe]

this has to be one my favorite aquascapes by you!!!!

[@suvinuoska]

Appreciated the explanation of all the stuff you added to the substrate :) The tank looks fantastic, great work

[@adamhuckfeldt2895]

Top quality entertainment once again. Cheers 🎉 Love your new studio.

[@JJLewin1]

Beautiful set-up, the loaches were just perfect for the tank

[@aguma2067]

Buen trabajo. Ha quedado muy natural y elegante .👍

[@JJBAquariums]

hi MJ , love your content. you videos are always very inspiring. hello from Australia, keep up the great work. cheers.

[@raybro2216]

One of your best setups MJ,stunning

[@umarc2010]

That turned out beautiful. One of my favorites from your work!

[@arthurboritzka]

Even though I switched to reefing I still enjoy watching your content, you are an artist 🚀 thanks for sharing your journey and skills with the rest of us!

[@sumitavadas713]

Woow, amazing... I want to try this... 😊😊😊 Just loved it... 😍😍😍

[@eddyoso]

Hey MJ, great video! To enhance plant growth, I like to only put nutrients where the soil layer is thin. Then when you have a thicker layer, like here on the right side, I firstaddthe substrate and add nutrients. Then a final layer of 1-2cm of subtrate before the plants. This way newly planted plants straight away have access to the nutrients and grow much better in the beginning of your setup:)

[@themacroworld_]

it's soooo beautiful

[@jscapes782]

Love it, one of my favourites by you since the big shallow

[@TalisaAquarist]

Beautiful aquascape! I am excited to watch it grow in!

[@greenslovaktherapy]

Beautiful tank Mark 🙂Love your plants selection, rocks..Its really amazing and the tank looks optically much bigger than it is (I mean liters) Love it 😎🙏

[@Lois.aquadesign]

Love the video! And the Eriocaulon, such a pretty plant 🌿

[@Ankescapes]

Wow, this turned out very beautiful and "zen". Nicely done 👍😃

[@evilone543]

This turned out great!

[@Frankje01]

Lovely tank, MJ. Well done.

[@morneschaap2944]

Beautiful! I really like this setup. Great work!

[@buwanpablo]

Beautiful setup as always! 💚

[@maxtru1074]

I like how you explain everything and that is also a really nice video. Thank you!

[@MandyJane123700]

Beautiful. The perfect aquarium to sit beside.

[@dndndndndn419]

Beautiful setup! It really grew in nice

[@LuisSilva-kh9hk]

Just bought a 125cm shallow tank, gonna do somethinbg similar but with hakkai stone. thanks for the ideas u keep giving and trying, keep it up!!💪👌

[@HolyCao5]

Stunning mate. I have a 90L collecting dust till I figure out what scape to do. I really like this set up. Thanks for the inspiration

[@detlefh.7090]

On a side note: despite of what it's called I am not so sure about the role/importance of carbon in the substrate (as Clear Super). I think (and I have been reading about this lately) it serves much more as a source to speed up bacterial growth. Nice work again, Mark.👍

[@conradbo1]

Great and informative Aquascape Tutorial 🌍🌍🌎🌎🌏🌏👍👍

[@deckwithmatter]

I feel like you have the same interest with mine on fish selection! I truly love the borneo sucker and badis. They're fun to watch.

[@BTQ410]

Gorgeous tank. When you said river, the picture in my head was more of a river flowing the length of the tank. What it turned out was a bit different. Your flow was what I expected, but the scape was more of a cross section of the river. You gave me some things to think about with my 10 gallon long bookshelf tank. I scaped mine where the flow is along the length, but the actual scape is a section from the middle of a river where rocks have fallen and a long piece of driftwood has caught in the rocks forming an underwater bridge between rocks, and it flows the length of the tank. I used natural colored course sand and the rocks are dragon stone. The fish are a school of Venezuelan Red Sail Cory’s and another school of Chili Rasboras with a clean up crew of Amano shrimp. I planted it with crypt parva and lucens along the rocks, small Buce on the wood, and in the open area at one end I used dwarf sag. The dwarf sag has covered and I have to keep it trimmed. I am hoping the chilis will scatter their eggs in the sag and I will get some babies. My Buce is not doing so good in this tank, but I think it is too much light and too close to the light as I have Buce in other tanks and it is doing good in those other tanks. I have changed up my light, so I hope my Buce recovers. Love the long tanks. They are so fun to scape. Thanks for sharing your long tank and your beautiful scape.

[@ozzyheather9242]

Simply beautiful! 😍

[@MJAquascaping]

Thank you! 😊

[@Thomas-nc4ec]

the tank looks amazing!!K

[@anushkaranasinghe1901]

Beautiful aquascape. Love this❤️

[@jordow63]

Love the look of this tank 🔥

[@marsimotocrew5322]

The video is top quality like always! It is fun to watch and I love your style. If you ask me, you could show the endresult and the fish a little bit longer with this chill music. Gratulations to you for this wonderful build and video!

[@PujaKarmacharya-e2l]

This man's getting me into planteddddd

[@biswajitbarik1724]

You never disappoint

[@billsherman6129]

so lovely and tranquil!

[@carnajom8831]

Love your videos! Also like how you blurred it in the beginning… but it’s in the video thumbnail 😂

[@tombarb2864]

Very natural. Good choice not to use a backing on the tank. I love your work 😎

[@aqhan]

Excellent video and excellent tank!

[@themountain59]

Very nice and different

[@anonymeralkoholiker2880]

Pretty interesting Size of the Tank. Great for River Style Tanks

[@jorisvd2762]

MJ instead of soil you can get at the pond departement of Intratuin lava rock split from Superfish. Great stuff to get hight and for bacteria.

[@chrisgeorge4429]

Looks great! Thank you.

[@TaleOfTwoIdiots]

Beautiful! I might have to copy it. :)

[@luigidepari8977]

Fantastic tank!

[@natitougaku7912]

Love it, it looks great.

[@alexhutton155]

Watching your videos has really given me the nudge to get back into planted tanks after years of Saltwater. Plants and the constant battles with hair algae really turned me off. Set up a fish rack for nano specied and neos. Definitely appreciated your videos on the diy co2 and decent budget lights.

[@MJAquascaping]

Great to hear!

[@lapis.exilis]

my favourite little fish!!! ❤️🥰❤️

[@DevRiv]

Looks great, as always! Thanks for the content(:

[@davemac7945]

Think the frosted background would be good.Gonna try it.Thanks

[@JamesUmim]

Nice! Please keep us updated on how this matures.

[@thierryfelix7796]

Nice work as usual. Thanks.

[@GeetabenSharma-zt9hq]

Great setup

[@doubleoz2711]

Exactly the inspiration I was looking for

[@halo2something]

looks very serene and beautiful careful, those rainbows are jumpers

[@michaelfirestone7440]

GOOD JOB

[@andrescontrerasvargas5865]

Beautiful!

[@frankvermeulen4621]

Great composition with the rocks and grasslike planting! 👍 I am planning something similar at some point, but with a UNS 90L (so 90x30x30).

[@MJAquascaping]

Sounds great!

[@arkapadma]

i love simplicity of valisneria tank.

[@fortunesfishing4766]

Keen as for this one man

[@elite6657]

We have the same tds pen lol honestly thing is goated

[@dusty8937]

Beautiful setup! Streams setup have always been a favorite of mine! 😍🥰 The different colored tails in the gastromyzon might be different species altogether since differences in sex are usually seen in body shape. I am a little bit worried about those loaches climbing out however given how high the water level is without lid but otherwise a very nice matured setup for those species~

[@brandonwilson1954]

Could you do a video on how you did the hanging aquarium lights? Id love to set mine up like yours🙏

[@philcarlino6942]

Excellent!

[@HITOPAquarium]

Treasure Blogger, I like your videos

[@JVVivarium]

So nice

[@jth0099]

Really cool stuff. I bet if it was a bit deeper (from front to back) you'd be able to keep a greater volume of fish with less problems. It's just so little volume for that amount of light and fish. Beautiful design as usual though. Love the channel!

[@glenakatsr]

Ahhh Jaqen H'ghar, the Many Faceless Men approve of this build, very nice

[@MJAquascaping]

😁

[@BJD12thDoctor]

I also like Dennerle aquasoil, especially since it comes so cheap at Hornbach, relative to other shops.

[@smashino]

You mentioned fine tuning the CO2. Could you please elaborate on what you did and how it affects the algea you mentioned? 🙂 Love the look of the tank by the way, great job!

[@Hebhansen]

Hi MJ - Great videos for inspiration. I think more in depth plant parring could be instering to learn more about. Here I mean rare and difficult plants. Why they go well together, why is it a difficult plant and how to work it. Basically more on your plant research I guess. Maybe stuff on truly rare plants. Just a thought. Thx.

[@ChillGuyBonsai]

Great video!!!

[@MJAquascaping]

Glad you liked it!

[@ChillGuyBonsai]

@MJAquascaping I didn't like it. I loved it!!👍

[@FreckledGingerFromGuadalajara]

I loved you in Bloodsport bro

[@humility-righteous-giving]

i like the tank shape,i want to do fish in support of my houseplant water culture hobby with lowest cost and care needs,, my idea is too just have a flat live ground cover with a nice houseplant arrangement on top having its roots dangling in for character ,theoretically the fish are always visible and i guess the dangling roots will need trimming from time to time ,i think i am about to do my first tank like that!! a 10 gallon ,plexy glass with holes on top with 2 inch walls ,place terry cloth with some strips hanging into water to keep it damp add ceramic rings for a substrate to stabilize the houseplants,, add half inch soil with inch cap in tank, plant some low growth green low light vegetation,, add cherry shrimp, endlers or killifish and a nerite snail and viola ,a nice low tech tank with no need for added light heater or filter, perhaps i will add a sponge filter with airator and airstone as an extra boost to help fish and plants thrive,feed as little as needed for them to thrive and reproduce so that it does not create probelms, no added fertilzer in tank,,perhaps in the terry cloth on top but maybe not so that it does not seep into the water,,what have i missed? how wrong am i? what can i do better? PLEASE TELL ME, I WANT MY FIRST TANK TO ROCK AND EXCITE ME ABOUT THE HOBBY🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@heaven7360]

it's strange I didn't get a notification of this video. I usually do.

[@mrnoname2459]

Bagus sekali ❤