I think the anubias adds a great level of naturalism to the tank You did an amazing job making the rocks look like they naturally fell apart that way and the way youve tucked in that anubias amongst the stones really makes me think "those anubias found those little crevices and just grew" All in all i think it was a great choice aesthetically and giving the fry some extra shelter and potential food is an added bonus
I love the green, its great contrast. It even adds to the living feeling of the scape. the rocks can feel stagnant sometimes dead even. The green feels alive like nature!
I think that this looks really good. I am a Tanganyikan Cichlid junkie. I am trying to have one of every species in a future aquarium and use Cypochromis as my dither fish. Great video 👍🏾
Yes you are right. It’s cool to see how for it has come along Back 40 years ago no one knew a thing about African cichlids they were so hard to find and now they are like gold fish it’s crazy. Love what you do man great job
I love all 3 aquariums but I still feel the Oscar tank is my favorite. Mainly just because of the stocking but that African tank is amazing also. Love how the fish are interacting.
Another super cool African cichlid tank there cheers Joey, and cant waitttttt to see the results , rock works looks awesome there, and how many more tanks can you house in your fish room ;D wWOw incrediblely nice video after video, your energy is addictive dupe there, and adding those beauty frontosa will be the ultimate tank, and also add in more plants to make it look even more awesome like plants in flowing waters on the riverbed or near riverbanks to the edge right before going off the edge, so that there is a drop in the tank, for one it gives the frontosa, future to be giant fishes more space to swim as well, these guys will need them for sure. and hope they will breed in there as well too, cheers and btw anyone there aquarium friends here have frontosa as well, i would love to see it too cheers to Joey and all friend
Thanks for the underwater search tip. I think this tank is a fine example of lake tanganyikan shore shelf example. Round rocks found more toward the middle from what I seen. I think the Anubias is great. Don’t know much more than what if picked up from UA-cam about cichlids. I think it looks great the way it was with the current of it drifting off the shores and falling into the sand.
love the other tanks , but the shell dwellers have always been a fav since you first made that 20 gallon long tank in your office for them. This tank is easily going to be the one id want to replicate at home.
Joey: "Search up your favorite fish or favorite place with keywords like underwater or in the wild." >Mudskippers in the wild. Not even Oscars have the personality of Mudskippers. >Japanse freshwater lake fish. Just to name some interesting ones; Kirikuchi Char, endemic to the Kii peninsula of Honshu, beautiful stipes and colors. Bachschmerlen-Wels(Liobagrus reinii), a unique kind of Catfish endemic to South Japan. Nekogigi, endemic to the Mie prefecture of Honshu provence. Red-spotted Mosu Salmon, not a huge salmon but still absolutely stunning in appearance. Giant lake Biwa Catfish, endemic to Lake Biwa in Shiga west Honshu, can grow over 3ft(1m) and over 35lbs(17kg). Stringfish, found in Tohoku and Hokkaido provinces as well as coastal east Russia including Sakhalin and Kuril islands, a critically endangered species of salmon.
Thats probably one of the most stressful part about being a youtuber i guess. You never know uf its because of the content or because of the algo or the trend of what the viewers watch has shifted.. but he is great man.
@@penninefarmer5120 I'd say he shows his excitement more so than anything else, how can you expect others to be excited about the videos if your not yourself 😉
Looks awesome joey can’t wait to see the frontosa in there I have a frontosa tank myself never had them before just had Malawi cichlids or community tanks but love the frontosa each one has a different character I have one we call the grumpy old man
Joey the next David Attenborough? Only time will tell. I think I prefer the plants around the larger rock and leaving the right rock with the small rock bare, but looks great!
I would take out most of the plants and add more really bog rocks. Frontosa life in water so deep plants barely can life there. So by adding the plants you actually make it less natural for the Frontosa.
Love the scape looks natural im sure the fish well do great! How bout a rock scape Mbuna tank for one of your next tanks..i would really enjoy seeing some colorful breeding behavior from them in a nicely scaped tank of yours!
Hi Joey the tanks look awesome can’t wait to see the fish in it. I’m in the process of setting my 55 gal tank with shell dwellers to. If you have any advice on them I will appreciate it.
You should make a basic 'Dr Office' style community tank. The most basic tetras, mollys, angels, catfish, danios, gouramis,..ect. All the cheapest fish little kids wanna buy. A lot of family's start that way. It would be a good replica of what a true novice would have in their home. Great content Joey. Keep it up!
Good work Joey! For the next tank think about doing a river setup. Rounded river rocks sand and different sized gravel with many types of plants. High flow. Fresh water gobies and horse face loaches. Rachel oleary style
As you all can see in my profile pic. Yellow head tri-color cyprichromis is my all time fav. Been into lake tanganyikan tank for years. Can’t get enough of them.
I believe you're really great at DIY and one of the best fish Keepers I see on UA-cam I just have a question on which are the top five best fish for schooling tanks
First learned about the african shell dwellers from your channel, and it's kinda nostalgic to see them again ^_^ Looking forward to see how they'll do in the new scape!
Wassup joey, I appreciate all your contributions to the hobby. But I’d appreciate your input, I had an arrowana for about a year and he was perfectly fine. I went away for a weekend and the tank was over fed to the point I had to do about a 75% water change immediately. When I came home the arrowana wouldn’t eat even after I did the massive water change. There was no physical ailment that was visual but he didn’t eat and eventually died about a couple weeks later. From your experience have you seen this before with arrowana? This has been about a year since he had past but still bothers me to this day.
Get some Ompok siluroides or Silurus asotus for one tank. Or perhaps Marbled Goby or Dusky sleeper tank? Love your setups btw, learnt so much from you. Thank you for so many tutorials and awesome scapes.
No lake Victoria love?!?! Joey, you need to look at Lake Victoria. As someone that travels to Uganda a lot it really has beautiful cichlids as well. Its a shame it's always over looked. I really like red fire Ugandan cichlids and ruby greens. Also i recommend anyone that wants to experience Africa, Uganda is the place to go.
A Malawi tank would be a good comparison to this tank , I don't know if you can get them over there but an Australian Murray Cod or Barramundi would be cool to see on someone's channel
Joey, with your experience, ability, tank space and I suspect contacts, you could do something to help keep a fish species alive. Mexican goodeids, Ameca Splendens, probably extinct in the wild, a good example. Only captive breeding is keeping them around. Something like that would be great.
I never did much research into lake Malawi or Tanganyika's appearance but I've Always attributed Malawi with more round porous rocks while Tanganyika I've imagined to be almost trench like with sharp rocky shelves.
My favorite lake is Tanganyika also but I prefer the smaller fish. I have had Frontosa but they were too unstable, they would often be startled and crash trough the 125 gallon tank and I always feared them being injured or injuring other fish.
I would have left a bit more open space and put some melanogenus or ventralis in as well. But thats just me, Melanogenus are almost impossible to get here in australia, but thay are one of my favourite Tanganyika fish!
Nice and calm voice. No screaming ;) Perfect !
I just subscribed to Joey on Monday and I’ve already watched all his videos from this year. He has reignited my love for fish tanks
Go back to the beginning of the aquarium gallery (three or four years I think) and watch all those.
I love this style of video. Much more calm with the voiceover. Great video!
I think the anubias adds a great level of naturalism to the tank
You did an amazing job making the rocks look like they naturally fell apart that way and the way youve tucked in that anubias amongst the stones really makes me think "those anubias found those little crevices and just grew"
All in all i think it was a great choice aesthetically and giving the fry some extra shelter and potential food is an added bonus
I love anubias. I have different types in both planted aquariums and it always grows so nicely. Looks awesome!
Loving the scape with the plants. It will look absolutely phenomenal with the fish.
Yes,! Joey you really stepped your game up here, this is great
I love the green, its great contrast. It even adds to the living feeling of the scape. the rocks can feel stagnant sometimes dead even. The green feels alive like nature!
Hands down my favorite! Also That's a tons of rocks :^O
More African Cichlids tanks!!!
I liked what you did, you do you Joey!! Thanks for sharing 👍✌️
Looks so natural, well done
As usual awesome video 🙌❤
I like these voice over videos. Much better way to communicate information
Wow. That egg crate idea is really good.
Thanks for that
CANT WAIT TO SEE IT WITH FISH! About to go from a 85 gallon to a 300 with my Tropheus and im deciding on rock layout!
I think that this looks really good. I am a Tanganyikan Cichlid junkie. I am trying to have one of every species in a future aquarium and use Cypochromis as my dither fish. Great video 👍🏾
Yes you are right. It’s cool to see how for it has come along Back 40 years ago no one knew a thing about African cichlids they were so hard to find and now they are like gold fish it’s crazy. Love what you do man great job
Daily content has been awesome joey!
Joey "I have no idea what I'm gonna do in the next tanks"
Tamara "guppies guppies guppies guppies"
You have inspired me for my upcoming frontosa aquarium . I think the Anubias look good in there
Joey my February brother and my favorite fish hobbyist ty for actually doing a REAL
cichlid scape !!!!!!
I have a malawi tank with anubias, they love it and it was definitely a good addition. Takes it a little further from bland rock tank. Well worth it.
Anubias is a great idea, even for nitrate/nitrite management! Great tank.
The anubias is fantastic. I love it bro, keep it
I love all 3 aquariums but I still feel the Oscar tank is my favorite. Mainly just because of the stocking but that African tank is amazing also. Love how the fish are interacting.
Another super cool African cichlid tank there cheers Joey, and cant waitttttt to see the results , rock works looks awesome there, and how many more tanks can you house in your fish room ;D wWOw incrediblely nice video after video, your energy is addictive dupe there, and adding those beauty frontosa will be the ultimate tank, and also add in more plants to make it look even more awesome like plants in flowing waters on the riverbed or near riverbanks to the edge right before going off the edge, so that there is a drop in the tank, for one it gives the frontosa, future to be giant fishes more space to swim as well, these guys will need them for sure. and hope they will breed in there as well too, cheers and btw anyone there aquarium friends here have frontosa as well, i would love to see it too cheers to Joey and all friend
Absolutely phenomenal
Thanks for the underwater search tip. I think this tank is a fine example of lake tanganyikan shore shelf example. Round rocks found more toward the middle from what I seen. I think the Anubias is great. Don’t know much more than what if picked up from UA-cam about cichlids. I think it looks great the way it was with the current of it drifting off the shores and falling into the sand.
love the other tanks , but the shell dwellers have always been a fav since you first made that 20 gallon long tank in your office for them. This tank is easily going to be the one id want to replicate at home.
It's looks familiar but unique...love it...❤❤❤✌
Plants look great!
The annubius looks 👍! Can't wait to see it finished.
I like how you're starting to push "UA-cam" boundaries when it comes to stocking. Gosh, I've got Shrimp and Goldfish living together. Thanks Joey.✌
The Anubias looks awesome in there! One of my favourite plants
Joey: "Search up your favorite fish or favorite place with keywords like underwater or in the wild."
>Mudskippers in the wild.
Not even Oscars have the personality of Mudskippers.
>Japanse freshwater lake fish.
Just to name some interesting ones; Kirikuchi Char, endemic to the Kii peninsula of Honshu, beautiful stipes and colors. Bachschmerlen-Wels(Liobagrus reinii), a unique kind of Catfish endemic to South Japan. Nekogigi, endemic to the Mie prefecture of Honshu provence. Red-spotted Mosu Salmon, not a huge salmon but still absolutely stunning in appearance. Giant lake Biwa Catfish, endemic to Lake Biwa in Shiga west Honshu, can grow over 3ft(1m) and over 35lbs(17kg). Stringfish, found in Tohoku and Hokkaido provinces as well as coastal east Russia including Sakhalin and Kuril islands, a critically endangered species of salmon.
Mudskippers and a tidal tank with the archers would be ace
You are spot on about the differences in rock type! With your well water, they might start breeding!
I got it super! Good job.
These fish don't know what the real life looks like . Looks good !
Beautiful gorgeous tank
I don't understand why joeys views has dropped, he's still just as great as ever 🤷♂️
Maybe the voice-overs compared to his usual absolutely phenomenal vlog style. Either way still loving the videos
Thats probably one of the most stressful part about being a youtuber i guess. You never know uf its because of the content or because of the algo or the trend of what the viewers watch has shifted.. but he is great man.
Maybe the dramatisation he puts into the videos,
@@penninefarmer5120 I'd say he shows his excitement more so than anything else, how can you expect others to be excited about the videos if your not yourself 😉
I love this scape ngl it looks great
Liked the scape, looking forward to seeing the next step. 👍
I love the added plants 🪴
Love the scape with the plants 👌
Hey just a random question but can you make acrylic that's been frosted clear ?
Looks awesome joey can’t wait to see the frontosa in there I have a frontosa tank myself never had them before just had Malawi cichlids or community tanks but love the frontosa each one has a different character I have one we call the grumpy old man
Joey the next David Attenborough? Only time will tell. I think I prefer the plants around the larger rock and leaving the right rock with the small rock bare, but looks great!
Maybe a mbunua and peacock setup in one of the 180s. Awesome hard scape, either or on the Anubis. Fired Up!!!
I would take out most of the plants and add more really bog rocks. Frontosa life in water so deep plants barely can life there. So by adding the plants you actually make it less natural for the Frontosa.
All the plants - mine ripped up plants and shook them, literally like a dog with a toy.
♥️ my favorite fish! Before you got them that was always my comment when you always asked about stocking
Dwarf cichlids set-up would be awesome
Joey you HAVE to do a coral tank!! Cmon man you could do something amazing and us fans will 10000% be following it
some julidochromis would look awesome in that scape
The tank generally speaking looks great
Im a plant lover I love it keep it!
Love the scape looks natural im sure the fish well do great! How bout a rock scape Mbuna tank for one of your next tanks..i would really enjoy seeing some colorful breeding behavior from them in a nicely scaped tank of yours!
Joey... every tank is your favorite tank but more specifically the most resent scape is always your favorite tank. lol! It looks amazing.
I'm not the world's biggest cichlid fan but I am finding this very interesting and the fish are gorgeous.
Great video!
Wasn't to keen on the plants at first but once the water was in it looks good I always like some plants in my tanks
I always love these types of aquarium
Joey is the aquarist version of Bob Ross in these types of videos. 🤣
Looking forward to this video on my break!
Anubias is such an awesome plant. I’m really starting to love crypts too
Fill one of those remaining tanks with pea puffers!! They are such amazing little fish!
I always say "yes" to plants. 🌿
Hi Joey the tanks look awesome can’t wait to see the fish in it. I’m in the process of setting my 55 gal tank with shell dwellers to. If you have any advice on them I will appreciate it.
You should make a basic 'Dr Office' style community tank. The most basic tetras, mollys, angels, catfish, danios, gouramis,..ect. All the cheapest fish little kids wanna buy. A lot of family's start that way. It would be a good replica of what a true novice would have in their home.
Great content Joey. Keep it up!
In the videos you showed of Lake Tanganyika, most of he rocks were rather rounded. LOL. But it does also have a lot of jagged rocks, for sure.
What’s the purpose of the plastic on the bottom of the tank? Honest question, I’ve never seen that before.
Good work Joey! For the next tank think about doing a river setup. Rounded river rocks sand and different sized gravel with many types of plants. High flow. Fresh water gobies and horse face loaches. Rachel oleary style
This is gonna be a good one 👍
As you all can see in my profile pic. Yellow head tri-color cyprichromis is my all time fav. Been into lake tanganyikan tank for years. Can’t get enough of them.
I find them really hard to find here in Florida but they are amazing
Only if you were here in NYC. I could drop some fry. 😁
I believe you're really great at DIY and one of the best fish Keepers I see on UA-cam I just have a question on which are the top five best fish for schooling tanks
Are there anubias in Lake Tanganyika ? I love plants but thought you were trying to replicate Tanganyika . Looks great either way
First learned about the african shell dwellers from your channel, and it's kinda nostalgic to see them again ^_^ Looking forward to see how they'll do in the new scape!
Joey, you need to buy EnChroma glasses and do a video of a first look at your tanks!
He's already done that
@@derekboze4534 oh. Lol
I have reef rock in my tanks, I have used Lava Rock but lately, it's hard to find large pieces.
1 or 2 anubis, that's it. Love the widow's. My new favorite.
Wassup joey, I appreciate all your contributions to the hobby. But I’d appreciate your input, I had an arrowana for about a year and he was perfectly fine. I went away for a weekend and the tank was over fed to the point I had to do about a 75% water change immediately. When I came home the arrowana wouldn’t eat even after I did the massive water change. There was no physical ailment that was visual but he didn’t eat and eventually died about a couple weeks later. From your experience have you seen this before with arrowana? This has been about a year since he had past but still bothers me to this day.
Look awesome, I use jagged rock in my Mbuna tank great minds think alike 😂
Please add some syodontis pretracola they would add so much to the action in between the rocks and shells with the shell dwellers
The Anubias take away from the "biotope!" but still looks great in its own right ! Nice tank !
Get some Ompok siluroides or Silurus asotus for one tank. Or perhaps Marbled Goby or Dusky sleeper tank? Love your setups btw, learnt so much from you. Thank you for so many tutorials and awesome scapes.
You should do a neon tetra aquarium next, or a guppy aquarium
I think the Anubais looks great!
Hey Joey when is the saltwaters tank gonna get set up? Really look forward to see all the tangs swimming around
Would love to see a tank with some shrimp! 🦐
No lake Victoria love?!?! Joey, you need to look at Lake Victoria. As someone that travels to Uganda a lot it really has beautiful cichlids as well. Its a shame it's always over looked. I really like red fire Ugandan cichlids and ruby greens. Also i recommend anyone that wants to experience Africa, Uganda is the place to go.
Beautiful tank, got 3 archers and a mouth almighty the other day, native Aussie fish look it up very cool
A Malawi tank would be a good comparison to this tank , I don't know if you can get them over there but an Australian Murray Cod or Barramundi would be cool to see on someone's channel
A black water geophagus tank
Yes!
Joey, with your experience, ability, tank space and I suspect contacts, you could do something to help keep a fish species alive. Mexican goodeids, Ameca Splendens, probably extinct in the wild, a good example. Only captive breeding is keeping them around. Something like that would be great.
I never did much research into lake Malawi or Tanganyika's appearance but I've Always attributed Malawi with more round porous rocks while Tanganyika I've imagined to be almost trench like with sharp rocky shelves.
Maybe do blackwater in one of the remaning(perhaps gourami biotope?)
My favorite lake is Tanganyika also but I prefer the smaller fish. I have had Frontosa but they were too unstable, they would often be startled and crash trough the 125 gallon tank and I always feared them being injured or injuring other fish.
I would have left a bit more open space and put some melanogenus or ventralis in as well. But thats just me, Melanogenus are almost impossible to get here in australia, but thay are one of my favourite Tanganyika fish!
definitely do a huge guppy tank with one of the other 180s!
Anubias definitely makes it better. Keep it!!
Would you ever do a riparium?