Simple Tips & Tricks To Make Better Hardscapes!

We need an update on this one MJ.

What a brilliant idea regarding the gap for the pipes in the cabinet!

Talking much doing less

I come to the same shop!

Helpful. I've been trying to scape a tank full of water. Not going well and not enjoying it. Going to drain and take my time rather than trying to position everything submerged which is alot harder.

Is het secondelijm wat je gebruikt om hout en stenen te binden?

I really appreciate that you showed the wood in different configurations - I still find it hard to see in my mind what the final layout could look like and your examples are very helpful. My last tank set up is 36x18 inch base and I had only a few large pieces of hardscape available - one huge piece of wood and 6 rather large pieces of rock. I broke up one of the rocks and started playing. Chose concave layout. Love your videos.

Nice video. Salute

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Man what a great store!

boiling and baking lava rock can cause them to explode. its rare but being a know possibility washing is the only waay to go in my mind

Any advice for scaping for corydoras? I have 50L tank with aquasoil, some 10cm on the back and 1 cm in the front. Topped with 2cm of sand and gravel. Have stones and plants. Everything looked perfect until I brought corys. They mixed and rescaped everything up. Aquasoil is mixed with sand and it looks awful. They even level the ground, so now there is 5cm in the back and front.

de maanvis 😮 ik volg je videos al een tijdje weet nupas zeker dat je een landgenoot bent 🧡😄

Elegant !

Hey Brotha ,,, Cheers from CA ,, a question for you:: when it’s all said and done ,how much would you say this whole aqua scape weighs total, in lbs pls jk ,,, love your channel

Wow jealous of that shop.

An amazing video MJ. Love the channel and content. Every time you post, it makes me want to go out and try my hand at real aquascaping.

We need a video where you show us how to convince our wives to let us throw up more than one aquarium in the house 😂.

Cheers

great guide, helped me

Awesome tips for me as a Aquascape beginner!

Wish there were any aqua scaping stores near me. Only like 2 in the US.

Not at all a fan of glueing hardscape together ... especially wood to stones. You eventually run into regretting it, no matter if you rebuild tanks fairly often over the years or keeping them for a long time running that things like rot comes into play.
Better take the time to just soak the stuff correctly and putting it together with just gravity ... you thank yourself later when changes need to be made.
Also can easily lead to unnaturally looks when you glue stuff together into constructs which never would come together naturally. And consider that ugly glue spots can come back to be visible when a plant which covered it for example doesnt develop like you expected.
Glue is a shortcut for impatient people when it comes to hardscapes and it usually shows ... especially with beginners. So its not the best beginner tip&trick to share.

Hi MJ, I like the hardscape. A question, were do you get the nice glass foil? I have seen similar backgrounds before in black or white. It really adds another dimension to the tank having one.

Great job, that store is beautiful also

Now this is a proper tutorial. Great explanations on how you decide your scapes. Thank you for sharing

Good Lord! We do NOT have stores like that around here.

Please help me: Last sunday i have managed to setup new aquarium. Next morning my aquarium turned cloudy! Did water change next 3 days its turned more cloudy. This is first time have seen this in my last 6-7 set-ups. What to do? I know that it maybe because of bacterial bloom but what i can do to speed up that cycle and get clear water. Tissue culture plants are expensive here so please help.

Shallows get old real quick

The large piece of wood just on on the substrate in the right side is perfect. Keep this wood visible❤

Great information and tips. I like to boil my wood since it’ll reduce the tannins released and help with the reduction of fungus growth. Problem is not having a huge pot for larger pieces.

Can you help me i planted bucephalandras on stones and its 3 days now and they already have a sort of white stringy algy on them is this bad flow? Or too much light? Please help

Great video and the background music was nice and relaxing too

Great educational video,I enjoyed it,well done!!...👌👍

Will come in very hand as I'm setting up 5 new tanks❤

Almost all your tanks looks the same do something different

Loved this video and that tank is awesome already even without plants. Looking forward to seeing it completed

Non usi il termoriscaldatore?? ❤

When you were applying the background, was that water or alcohol in the spray bottle? Great content as always!

Mot thing in life are practice, practice, practice for sure. But you can be born with characteristics that allow you to be creative more easily and quicker. There's definitely a genetic advantage for some things, but that shouldn't discourage anybody.

Are you going to use a DIY CO2 system on the 90 ScaperLine? Really liked your cheap CO2 system review but like all cheap CO2 systems it's only good for nano aquariums. I remember you experimenting with a large scale DIY CO2 system ages ago. Your experiment failed but only because you didn't use a container designed for high pressure. If you had used a beer brewing barrel I think the experiment would have had dramatically different results. I'd love to see you come up with a cheap CO2 solution for your ScaperLine. Could be worth another try.

I've been waiting for this..
Great video Mark. Really nice to see your process. Have to say the spider wood was a pretty safe option and I'm not sure the rocks are going to be big or high enough in the composition to be seen by the time the plants have matured. It was kind of what I was expecting from you though, simple, minimal hardscape layout for a composition with the emphasis on the plants. Nothing wrong with that but nothing you haven't done a million times before. Really exciting to see you take on a bigger aquarium though. Glad you're going to go for some sort of carpet, a mixed carpet like the one in your Dwarf Pea Puffer Paradise could look really good on a bigger scale. Also glad you left plenty of room for stems at the back too. I know that your plant choice is going to be great so I'm really looking forward to seeing the planting and watching it all grow out in future videos.

Beautiful job. Hoping to visit that store when we come to NL in the next two weeks. Looks amazing compared with the stores we have in New Zealand.

Thanks for all the energy you put into your videos. The result truly speaks for itself! 🙌

Another awesome video! Can't wait to get more into this hobby. So enjoy watching - thank you.

Looking forward to the planting process! Love being a part of this community. How do you go about tearing down scapes and setting up new ones, fish included? I’ve got a 20gal long that’s got some algae issues and the Fluval stratum is like mush and covered with brown diatoms.. I’m thinking of buying a 40gal breeder + canister + cO2 in-line atomizer but don’t know what to do with my existing tank :(

I ordered a new tank with the same dimensions as yours about a week before you uploaded the first video, for the same reasons, I live in an apartment, I was looking for the 120p but was worried about the weight. As soon as I scape it, I will send you pictures and a vídeo vía Facebook messenger. Nice job again bro!!!!

Weer top gemaakt. Misschien wel advies om einde van de tak af te breken om niet zo stompen einde te krijgen. Teven ben ik weer benieuwd na je planten keuze.

Looks great, like they always do!

I do have a question, its my first time in 8 or 9 years using wood in a hardscape (being inspired by your scapes) and is currently doing the dark cycling. However there are white mold spots growing above the water, under water there is no issue due to the less available oxygen i suspect. You ever had this issue? Im pouring boiled water from time to time on the wood, and it seems its get lesser by the week fortunately.

Hey bro, how come you went with a 90 instead of 120 :D seems like it would fit even better in that space

Looks awesome MJ. Clean simple beautiful. Nice work