The South America Tank: EPIC Aquascape Tutorial w/ Electric Blue Acara
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
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I've been planning for over a month. The time has finally come!! The South American Electric Blue Acara tank. Remember, This is just the start. There is so so much more to come from this tank. Hope you follow it's journey with me and enjoy it as much as I have 😊
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I've been planning for over a month. The time has finally come!! The South American Electric Blue Acara tank. Remember, This is just the start. There is so so much more to come from this tank. Hope you follow it's journey with me and enjoy it as much as I have 😊
Equipment (all links affiliate):
LIGHT: US amzn.to/3qz3zRD UK amzn.to/3kxIcMU
SMALL HANG ON BACK FILTER: US amzn.to/2Mw63OO UK amzn.to/39rx3b5
NANO INTERNAL FILTER: US amzn.to/3oxGBWm UK
LED FLOODLIGHTS: US amzn.to/3t6HOHD UK amzn.to/3orIdRv
CANISTER FILTER: US amzn.to/3iNeVtW UK amzn.to/2Fo774a
GOOSENECK CLIP ON LAMP: (similar as product is now discontinued) US amzn.to/2IlwLVA UK amzn.to/2LNat13
MINI WATER PUMP: US amzn.to/2oAmf5y UK amzn.to/2mjHDez
TANKS: US amzn.to/2SOocHG UK amzn.to/2SPA24i
STRIP LED LIGHT: US (similar) amzn.to/2SNgbm7 UK amzn.to/2Fn9aW1
ASTA LED LIGHT: US amzn.to/3k9EmpY UK amzn.to/3p5XUPY
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Maybe you should sell aquarium stuff.
Wow, an amazing build. When is Ember getting a new tank mate?
With the music and the lighting you made really sad becase I had to think about my chidhood!! Love the scape btw
@@unknownguy3273 Ember passed away 😔
where do you get your plants online?
Huge respect to all our soldiers that fought for us on this remembrance Sunday as well 🙏
Thank you sir 😊 from Iraq Army veteran
Blue acara & Apistho, do they fight each other if goin to be in the sama tank?
Thanks for that.
Screw them I say
@@sergeiz.5815 pussio
MD seriously the last maybe... 6-10 builds you've done have just been on another level, I cannot tell you how much I love them, I struggle to have a favourite tank now, this natural/jungle-y style is definitely where you out do yourself every time!
Thank Rach :)
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THIS HAS TO BE ONE OF THE BEST SCAPES YOU HAVE EVER DONE
thank you very much :)
Period
@@MDFishTanks welcome!
@@tugbatas8330 yup
Cracks me up, all the plant storage tanks and MD buys more plants
I need help...
I’ve decided I’m flying MD out to my house to build my next tank. An interior designer but for fish keeping ha, thanks in advance MD!
Because of you my wife and I have absolutely fallen in love with aqua scaping, we will have a center piece in our living room of our very first home soon, insperated by you! Thanks for everything you do in the teaching aspect.
You're correct about the Echinodoras Palifolius... the leaves will comfortably exceed 2 feet in height! and are quite comfortable out of water. I have the same plant - 2 foot focal specimen plant - in a shallow tank (the tank is only 7 inches high). The effect is quite striking.
The rootstock is emmense: it has spread across the majority of the substate base, providing the energy throw up a new leaf every 3 weeks or so.
It is a plant well suited to open-top aquariums... But the same plant is a total waste in a closed top aquarium: the leaves quickly shoot up into the hood and get dried out and scorched by the lights; all you see in the aquarium are a bunch of leaf stems and the occasional leaf, as it races for the surface...
Plant one behind a specimen amazon sword in an open top aquarium and the result is impressive when the leaves emerge from the surface and power over the amazon sword!
You have outdone yourself once again with another magnificent scape! Can’t wait to see how it’s going to progress. ✌️ ❤️
Hello, professional painter/artist here! I realize this video is a year old, but I wanted to offer some input about painting the background with acrylics. With that amount of paint, use one-third of the water that you used in this video. With the roller you will still get an even coating, and plenty of coverage. You'll only need to do two coats, and it will look better in the long run. Acrylic is not water-base, it's plastic based, so mixing it with a lot of water doesn't work out very well and results in uneven layering and the paint will age in a way that will make it chip easily.
I was looking forward to this build and as always the hype was waranted :)) Love your enthusiasem and excitment you display always turrific job on the scape and the electric blue acaras are awesome fish but they do tend to develop personalities like the bettas but that tank will be loved by the fish be warned occasionaly they like to dig :D
Please make a 45cm cube tank,
Love from India❤️
You are too much MD even after all of these scapes you are still producing even more and better scapes as time goes by, those acara are going to look amazing in that scape, MD you are the best.
10/10 for this.
The perfect blend, with it being lovely to look at for the viewer and great environment for the fish with just the right about of plants & hardscape along with plenty of swim space and places for them to explore and hide when they want to.
Plus, those fish are so damn cute!
I want to live in there!
It's beautiful, the Electric Blues are amazing in there.
I am new I really enjoy your videos your fish build are so creative
Superb, superb superb ..wow ..👌🏻👌🏻🙌
I can't wait for more EBA videos! I have a pair myself. Would love to know the best plants to put in mine as they continue to eat them all! 🤣 Doing a great job MD!
I can’t even get swords like that in Australia! Watching scaping videos from around the world just reminds me how over priced and poor quality the plants are that our suppliers pedal! Beautiful tank, very tranquil.
I was adding up what it would cost here and choked
Gotta say, after finding you 3-4 months ago, you’ve definitely re started my enthusiasm for the hobby. Started my 1st “AQUASCAPE” 45 days ago. Gone through the diatom stage, now seeing the beauty of the habitat. Cheers pal👊
Can literally see the excitement in you eyes when the Buddha tank is empty and ready. I’m currently waiting on an aquarium from Aquariums4life - nice people! The music is insanely epic - love it!! Awesome video!!!
I love how MD does his own thing! Beautiful tank and adorable puppies. My next tank, I wanna do MD's thing by doing my own thing!
"I want to keep some swimming room in the back there"... 2min later stuffs everything full of fast growing stemp plants...
🤣 I class planted areas as swimming room. The fish love it :)
OH YA 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
Oh this is going to be awesome to watch! I’ve waited and wanted to do something like this! Looks awesome MD 👌🏼
Sir make India style aquarium you promise you make Indian style aquarium ❤️❤️
Nice build, I like the fact that your slowly tip-toein' into new waters..., such as SA Dwarf Cichlids, African Lake Cichlids & So-On...& away from your comfort zone of common SA/CA/MEXICO Community Tropical Species (Platy, Molli, Guppy, Tetras & Cory/Pleco Catfishes) or that of Eastern Hemisphere which commonly your Asian/Asian Isles Tropical Community Species (Barbs, Rasboras, Betta & Gourami). Branching out to new, bigger & better less commonly bred or sold fishes will turn this channel up yet another notch.....Dare I Say Predator Community or Species tank(s) in your immediate future, Hope So!!! Now a days so many feed options that's it's almost pointless feeding live anymore, I'd say even less beneficial than readily available frozen/freeze dried options...in case live feedings were a deterant from going bigger via future builds...GDLK. LATA 🐊.
I always love seeing builds like this 😀 amazing work!
In the inimitable words of The Incredible Mr. Limpet: “I wish I were a fish” (in an MD tank). 😃
Oh yay, I've been clicking refresh all day for this one! Can't wait to see it....
Beautifull tank for young Acaras.
What i love about your setups is that you value the needs of your fish over aesthetics.
What i found funny was that you had doubts about the moss cause it wasnt from that Area.
But at that point you allready had 2 Asian Stemplants in, the Limnophila and the Hygrophila.😉👌
And Some websites claim that Christmass moss is found in Brasil.
But others say its also Asian.
So i dont know. 🤔
But very nice setup.👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
yeah screw it. I think as long as the overall feel is right then all good.
Male acara: what is he doing over there?
Female acara: getting creative again 😍
Male acara: showoff 😒
Me: 🤣🤣🤣
It's so harmonious, awesome! 😍
Mine didn't touch my java ferns or anubians Nana petites, they like to pull on the moss though
Just come on here confidently thinking I missed yday video hoping it was the blue accara vid, you weren't at the top of the homescreen, thought I'd type MD into search bar and what a surprise 31 seconds ago the vid is up 😂💪🏻👍🏼
we have to be all connect in some way. This sort of thing happens way too often.
@@MDFishTanks 100% 💫🌎
Very keen to see what you do for the apistogramma Cacatuoides. I just got a young male myself and I'm prepared to be inspired
Perfect time for this vid to drop. I have a new scape planned for next week, exact same tank dimensions and im going for a south american biotope. A few of your plants are planned for my scape
Thank You MD. Your videos give me so many inspiration to make aquascape design. Especially for your discus tank and apistograma tank. I love your Discus Tank and I hope, i have one. My Name Dennis and im from Indonesia 🇮🇩. I already subs your YT channel.
Respond to this saying hi and sub to means ur fans wel get u to 4mil
Love u MD ❤️
Love from India
IM SO IMPRESSED!!!! loved these fish since the day you got them and have been so excited waiting for this build video. Also there colours are really popping in this tank great job.
😍😍😍😍
This fish is a fast or slow flowing fish. I have a blue acara in a 89 litre tank with a fluval 307 filter which reportedly moves 1150 litres per hour. I have it set to 40-50%. If I leave it at 100, the blue acara gets out like it's in a blender and I have a side flute that runs along the longest part of the tank... Is this ok?
Looks amazing right from the start! What tank mates are you thinking of for the Acaras? I personally think a nice group of Diamond Tetras would look great in there, their shimmering colors and long fins on the males would complement the electric blue color of the Acaras beautifully!
I cancelled my schedule to see your video upload yesterday. There is 24 hours I'll never get back 😵
You dont have a schedule Joe
it's like Christmas came early watching this video and sharing the joy with MD of this build. Thanks for uploading this so quickly. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Btw. I'm thinking about building your hillstream loach nano tank style aquarium for my 60L for Christmas... Do you still have it if yes, how it's going with it? Actually my 60L is full right now so I'm going to buy and build something like this (this videos tank) for fish that is right now in my 60L. Love your builds ♥️
u are the best tank scaper in the world!. I dont know how u do it like that. Its a whole another level!
I'm definitely not, but I really enjoy doing it in my random way lol.
Biggest fan here from philippines 😇 i hope you can read my post sir MD. I had two danios and red cherry shrimps. And i only use a plastic pond DIY in my tank. I hope you have a left over tank that you dont use. Christmas wish for this year. Is to have a simple glass set up for my shrimps and danios. I just dont have enough money to buy some aquatic stuff. Dont have a work yet currently studying in automotive. And when i go home. My plastic pond and fishes relaxes my mind. I hope you can read this sir MD. Keep safe to you and your family sir. Keep up your awesome videos. i can gain also knowledge to your vids. Godbless sir md.
Mesmerizing work... Really love it...
Christmas Moos is my alltime favorite moss!
Take a look at my Juwel Rio 180 in my channel. Looks amazing 👍
the music is awesome md🤣🤣
Shame you didn't get any echinodorus rubin to have red colour in the tank instead the ludwigia. Nevertheless, It looks great. Regards
Yo no entiendo absolutamente nada de lo que dices pero desde que descubrí tu canal no paro de verlo por que me encantan todos tus acuario y haces un trabajo espectacular. Felicidades🎉🎊
A mi me pasa lo mismo😂
@@samucuenca7511 🤣🤣🤣 me alegra que no sea yo solita.
Ah man MD, this one is very nice. I like the big plant idea and it worked out very well. God bless.
My male electic blur is like puppy he loves to be pet
Howdy 🤠
Keep up the work man
It’s so beautiful 🤩 😍😍😍😍😍
Notifications squad 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽 I’m so early to this
Amazing. You are a Aqua machine!!
i look at your akvariums and look att mine.... damn, i could do mine so much better.. mine is so damn boring
yours are amazing
MD this one is my favorite. Master Gardener here. USA/ Illinois a
Fabulous work. If you don't get " the bug" from this video. You never will. WELL DONE!!!!
I have to say I was a bit upset that you tore down the Buddha tank but this one turned out absolutely stunning! I think the Acaras are really going to love their new home going forward. They really are smart fish. Hopefully they will learn to trust you again after the stress of being caught and moved.
This should be good 💪
I knew I shouldn’t have clicked on this, now I want those acara
Beautiful tank and fish! You should check out Cichlid Bros. channel, they have allot of good info on the electric blue acara and good tank mates for them. Go big MD! Just for 1 for these guys and maybe some geos and severims. South American cichlids are awesome and so diverse!
Geos are another fish that I 100% want at some pint in the near future.
@@MDFishTanks Red head tapajos, they don't get as big as some of the others and would go great with the acara.
Yes the video is out . So excited to watch it. Amazing work MD. You are the best aqua scape builder in UA-cam
BRO I BEEN BINGE WATCHIN LETS GOOOO
12:00 this is emerged growth.
The new leaves will look like swords again.
I had this type once and i was pretty dissappointed back than :)
Love your videos!!!! Keep it up!
Ssstunning.
You inspires me to my Terrariums & aquariums ideas!
Mine like to pull at my moss 😆
Ohhhh yes!!! Here we go
Love your channel....beautiful fish, lovely aquascapes (for the real person, ie no CO2), plants and a gorgeous man. Thank you for all your hard work and positive attitude.
Amazing aquascape MD 🔥
It's finally here!
This is definitely my favourite scape of yours, it's absolutely awesome! I would be tempted by some leaf litter and keep the water tinted, but that's just to my taste. Incredible stuff!
I love the use of the driftwood, good job keep it up!!!!
I saw on amazon they are selling a buddha statue using your thumbnail
Those Acara will decide how they want that substrate arranged 😏
Wowwwwwww!!!! This is my favorite tank yet!!! I was so sad when you broke down the Buddha tank. It is soooo hard to do Amazon swords because of their proportions but you did them true justice. What an amazing scape!!!!
I actually found myself wishing I was a fish once it was done and I could see your EBAs swimming around such a lush, beautiful environment.
Piece of art and always a delight to watch ur builds
Your fish tanks always come out amazing man
Have you remembered to put your light on a timer? 😂😂😂
What a scape! 👍🔥🔥
I've watched about 30 of your videos... Very cool man. Thank you for sharing. I'm going to build out my own soon.
I can’t wait to see them when they get their colors back. That is a truly beautiful tank!
I love that I can live out my dream through your videos! One day I’d like to have a tank large enough for a pair of those awesome fish! For now I have a lovely pair of GBRs better fitting to my aquarium size!
I'm a Brazilian fan who learns a lot from your videos! And wants more and more to have many, many beautiful aquariums like these. Congratulations
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i need a lil tip how do keep algi away from ur tanks?
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It,s a nice tank realy. Frank from germany
Best tank yet. Absolutely brilliant mate
I love it that we can just write that the tank is going to be amazing and the end result isp going to be immaculately AMAZING 🐄✌️🔥💫💫
Hi friend
well done m8
Amazing!🤩
These are now my favourite species. Thank you for introducing them to me. New goal in life is to have Electric Blue Acara and of course the setup is absolutely increcible MD! Definitely ym favourite tank of yours. Love the arching wood