Aquariums: Anything I should know before trying to make an aquarium like this?
What type of scape is this? Are these just different types of moss? Is this a maintenance nightmare? Im allured by this style of aquascaping but not sure on how hard it would be to pull off.
Posted by Quirky-Ad3386
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SnoopNL on
It’s not too bad once you get it started, it’ll just take massive amounts of CO2 and plant feeders, or a ton of patience.
Kitchen_Safe6405 on
It’s either going to take wayyyy more money than you are expecting or it’s going to take wayyyyy longer than you expected to grow or maybe even both . That looks like a mix of some multiple very curated mosses with some kind of stem plant growing through it and popping out some leaves. That is minimum a years worth of growth with lots of trimming.
JASHIKO_ on
It will take you a very, very long time to get this result.
Moss grows extremely slow and is prone to thread algae so you will have to get your lighting balance just right. Then it’s trimming and shaping it over the rocks/wood.
A tank like this probably took 9 to 12 months to reach this form.
Nageek84 on
This is Iwagumi style I believe but with covered rocks. Looks very takashi amano (founder of ADA) to me. Green aqua and ADA both have videos on setting up this kind of scape + great tips on YouTube, you might want to check it out. đ
I mention green aqua since their videos are in English and, in my opinion, more beginner friendly.
Jimmi11 on
Hedge trimmers dont work underwater.
shotgunabi on
It isnât gonna look like that when itâs first planted, trust the process.
BeardedUnicornBeard on
Shrimp
weird_is_fun on
Alge breakouts.
LordOfRuinsOtherSelf on
Don’t have a pleco or cichlids. They’ll destroy such beauty.
I really love that look, maybe one day my tank will have a sad accident which will mean I can start over. That’d be a mixed feelings day.
CN8YLW on
Needs CO2 for sure. That ecosystem is so plant heavy that it’s almost impossible to provide an equivalent bioload in that limited space. So once the CO2 is taken off you can be sure that your plants are gonna have a mass melt off.
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It’s not too bad once you get it started, it’ll just take massive amounts of CO2 and plant feeders, or a ton of patience.
It’s either going to take wayyyy more money than you are expecting or it’s going to take wayyyyy longer than you expected to grow or maybe even both . That looks like a mix of some multiple very curated mosses with some kind of stem plant growing through it and popping out some leaves. That is minimum a years worth of growth with lots of trimming.
It will take you a very, very long time to get this result.
Moss grows extremely slow and is prone to thread algae so you will have to get your lighting balance just right. Then it’s trimming and shaping it over the rocks/wood.
A tank like this probably took 9 to 12 months to reach this form.
This is Iwagumi style I believe but with covered rocks. Looks very takashi amano (founder of ADA) to me. Green aqua and ADA both have videos on setting up this kind of scape + great tips on YouTube, you might want to check it out. đ
I mention green aqua since their videos are in English and, in my opinion, more beginner friendly.
Hedge trimmers dont work underwater.
It isnât gonna look like that when itâs first planted, trust the process.
Shrimp
Alge breakouts.
Don’t have a pleco or cichlids. They’ll destroy such beauty.
I really love that look, maybe one day my tank will have a sad accident which will mean I can start over. That’d be a mixed feelings day.
Needs CO2 for sure. That ecosystem is so plant heavy that it’s almost impossible to provide an equivalent bioload in that limited space. So once the CO2 is taken off you can be sure that your plants are gonna have a mass melt off.