AMAZING Nature Aquarium Setup - The AQUASCAPING Story of TAKASHI AMANO
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- Опубліковано 7 жов 2024
- Check out this ada nature aquarium setup gallery and the beautiful world of aquascaping including the inspiring story about Takashi Amano in Japan.
During my trip to Japan I visited the ADA nature aquarium setup gallery which has over 50 aquascaping creations. Some of them are made by Takashi Amano and are still very well maintained after all these years. The reason why I went to the nature aquarium setup party was because of my unexpected result in the IAPLC aquascaping contest. It was always something on my bucket list to visit. After this result I decided this was the perfect time to visit. I also visited Sumida aquarium in Tokyo which has a beautiful nature aquarium aquascape.
In this video I am also describing some interesting facts about Mr. Takashi Amano who invented the brand aqua design amano. It was amazing to see his home aquarium which is more than 20 years old.
After all this effort I put in this video, I hope you like the end result. For me personally it was a very inspiring trip and something I will never forget.
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I will answer all questions related to aquascaping in the comments below.
Thanks for watching my video and all the support on my channel! 🌱💚
Beautiful aquascape and video! Congratulations. :D
Thank you so much George 💚🌿
Do you use RO water for this instead of tap water because the water is so clear it’s because it’s what I use
Really very beautiful video❤️😊👍
Thank you very much ☺️
Congrats mate! Amazing video btw :)
Thanks so much bro 💚
Brings back good memories of Amano-sensei, and a view of how his vision lives on. Thanks for the video.
Glad you enjoyed it man. Keep on scaping 💚
Stunnig tanks and video
Thank you Claus!
Ok seriously, this video is perfect. From the nature to the nature, said Mr. Amano.
This is really nice. I hope you achieve greater heights in the future, and one day become an IAPLC champion. Your aquascaping skills and enthusiasm have motivated me to get into planted tanks even more without doubt.
Best of luck for all your future videos and aquascapes. Cheers!
Great to hear I could inspire you man. It's a wonderful journey aquascaping with ups and downs. Worth it in the end IMO. Thanks for the support Jay!
Beautiful video ❤❤❤
Beautiful video! Congratulations on your IALPC aquarium, it's wonderful
Thanks my friend have a nice day!!
A lot of money is needed to keep up with this hobby
Congratulations Nigel,
Great work and thank you for showing to us ADA gallery Sumida and Tokyo, looks amazing from your perspective. 👍🏻
Thanks again Krzyszrof, you're welcome. Have a nice weekend my friend.
Wow wonderful video Nigel!
Thank you!
amazed again! 😉
Congratulations, you deserved it! And of course great video again.
Thank you so much man! I appreciate the support.
Kudos Nigel!
Amazingly done. One of the must to be visited destination. 🤟
Yes man it was on my bucket list. The result from IAPLC 2019 was much better than expected. I told myself before if I ever rank in top 27, I would go to Japan. Letter came in. Asked another scaping friend if he would like to join the trip. Amazing experience I will never forget. Have a nice day my friend.
I love your scapes...they show that you can create great dioramas in nano aquariums..thank you
Thanks man appreciate your support . If you have any questions feel free to ask. 😊
love it 😍
Thank you very much!
Oooook... maybe i have to throw my video skills in the trash and watch more your videos 😂✌🏽. Awesome storytelling Nigel!
Well thanks for the compliment because your videos are amazing bro!! You do a great job no doubt, keep up the great work my friend.
beautiful video editing and cinematography , also congratulations on the IAPLC rank!!
Thanks man!
Amazing Love
Thank you!
what a wonderful video! U showcased the Niigata gallery so beautifully! Your videography is as spectacular as your scaping!
Thank you very much for the kind words man. 💪
its been great watching your videos and aquascaping works really amazing stuff
Appreciate the support thank you
Great video and beautiful setting! 💚🌿🌱
Thanks mate
very inspiring video thanks for sharing
Let's scape hard 🌿🌿
I don't have words..great video ....congratulations
Thanks for the support bro 💚
Great video 😃
Thank you Sam 😊
Great video.
Thanks Andre
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Hey welcome hope you enjoyed the video ✌🏻🌿
Your story is inspiring. I'm deeply thinking of joining the IAPLC this year. But was having second thoughts till i saw your inspiring video. Filmmaker from the Philippines here. 🙏🏽🐟🎥
Hey man thanks glad you like the story I tried to tell. I wish you good luck in Iaplc my friend!! And good luck with your camera as well in the field. 🎥💪
What a video
Good to hear you like it!
Nicely made Nigel. You have achieved a lot since your 1st Iwagumi scape in 2017.
Then I wrote to you (and then I quote myself): if you only started the hobby 3 months ago, this promises a lot of great things for the future.
And see here; developed into the best scaper in the Netherlands.👌🏽
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Thanks a lot Cor for the kind words! It has been a wonderful journey. Let's scape hard together my friend.
I loved your video, very inspiring
Thank you.
Thanks a lot. Have a nice weekend!
Great video! Thank you for sharing
Thanks for the support bro!
amazing
Thanks mate
Not much to say about this aside from the fact that this was fantastically shot and produced. While watching, I felt nostalgic for a place in time I’ve never even been to. Well done.
Thank you so much my friend. It was quite some work to edit together. In the end this video will last forever to remember my beautiful trip to Japan. Glad to hear other people like it as well. It comes highly recommended to visit Japan if you have any chance in the future.
@@NigelAquascaping It’s definitely on my list. Maybe even owning a piece of java fern from Amano’s tank haha!
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You're an artist. Good job, sir
Thanks mate 🌿
Brilliant 👏
Thank you Dean!
Congrats
Thanks!
Sweet video and amazing editing!
Thank you so much!
Nice video, awesome scape!
Thanks a lot!
well done
Thank you very much!
Prachtig! Ik ben geroerd door de beelden.
Mooi compliment om te horen dat ik wat emoties kon losmaken. Bedankt man.
Can we have a video on your camera gear? Wonderful video!
Good idea for the future. I drop my gear list in the mean time. It's a bit expensive for just being a hobbyist. You have to understand that better gear doesn't necasserily mean better videos as a beginner. It makes life easier and is fun for sure but knowledge and practice is king! A beginner with the most expensive gear will probably make a less interesting video than a experienced filmmaker with just a mobile phone. Anyways here is a part of my list:
Canon 200d
Sigma 18-35 F1.8
Canon 10-18 mm
Canon 60mm macro
Zhiyun Weebill S gimbal
Zeapon micro 2 slider
Godox sl60w LED
Video tripod
If you have any further questions let me know!
the 6th time watching now 😍
Thank you so much for the support 💚
@@NigelAquascaping watching again 💝💖
@@ZEAPONTech Thank you 😊😊
@@NigelAquascaping amazing stuff~
Hello, I am a student who dreams of becoming an aquacaper in Korea.
I'm going to enjoy the video with the cool tanks!
I want to be like you if I can do UA-cam.
Good luck mate!!
Hi Nigel, nice footage as always! However, I‘d like to make some critique points this time:
- the title is somehwat misleading. Considering the content, the video was to a good part about your aquascape and progress in the IAPLC which is in my opinion less relevant to the history of aquascaping and Takashi Amano. I was also irritated by the product placement (?) at the end of the video, which also has nothing to with Amano per se.
- You have great footage from your trip to Japan, but the constant switches between Tokyo and Niigata are kind of confusing. Again, I see little relevance to the aquascaping history of Amano. Yes, he did create the Sumida scapes in Tokyo, but that does not really tell us more about himself.
- you touched little upon other interesting facts such as e.g. his career as a cyclist and how his style evolved over time (which it did quite significantly when looking at his old works)
Overall I am somewhat missing the „informative“ parts. I really enjoy your content and I hope you don‘t take my critique personally. Maybe I‘m just overly picky this time, sorry! I just wanted to let you know about what I thought when watching the video while being a passionate Amano fan myself. Thanks and all the best!!
Thanks Robert for your constructive criticism. This will help me to create better projects in the future. I had to find a balance about how much text to add to the video. I didn't want it to be a big slideshow of text. Lots of other facts were on my list to add. Extending the video further in length was not my preference. Using text on every clip wasn't ideal in my opinion. Maybe I had to change some texts in the video now with other facts. As a creator it's hard as I can't see what my audience really wants when editing. Lots of guessing. Anyways thank you and have a nice day my friend.
@@NigelAquascaping Yeah, I totally understand that. I can imagine that it is incredibly hard to find out what the audience wants and I do understand your point with not overloading the video with facts and text, which would also be counterproductive. You are right that it would make the video probably less enjoyable for the wide audience. Thanks for the reply Nigel and also thanks for pushing the hobby forward!! Cheers
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Thanks!
Amazing video!
When did you decide to invest yourself in aquascaping, and how did it all start?
it is a time consuming hobby, and i find that a lot of contest aquascapers want to evolve, and change their aquarium every year, how do you do handle that? , and do you have more than one tank (how many)?
Hey interesting questions. On UA-cam I found a video about an ecosystem in a jar. I started experimenting with this and somehow I found videos about aquascaping on UA-cam while researching this. Aquascaping looked way more interesting to me as the ecosystems in a jar. I decided to research more about aquascaping and decided to start with a small nano aquascape. I went with the Iwagumi style as it looked easier to start with. Some rocks and carpet plants. It´s time consuming for sure especially if you want to do contest scapes and rescape every year. With more tanks and rescapes you can learn much faster compared to keeping one tank for more than 2 years. At a certain point I had 3 contest tanks (40cm , 80cm and a 45p). This was too much work for my taste. I rather focus on 1 contest tank now rather than several projects. Right now I have a 120cm tank and a 60cm high tech tank (farm tank to keep expensive species during rescapes and to hold some fish and shrimps.) I won't rescape every year now anymore just to enter a contest every year. I just follow my path and see what I want. If I want to rescape sure but if I want to enjoy the tank a bit longer than I will do that as well.
If you have any further questions feel free to ask here :)
Super video. Any suggestion to grow bolbitis healthy and speedy. What are the suitable fertilizers for it
Hi friend. Bolbitis is slow by nature so there is not much you can do to increase that. Ofc avoid to lean dosing and starving as this won't help with the speed of growing new leaves. With Bolbitis when used in a new layout I usually cut of all the old leaves. Bolbitis has a relative hard time to adapt to a new tank environment. When you cut them off all the new leaves will be adapted to your conditions. What fertilisers are you using right now? I can try to check if it's complete enough.
@@NigelAquascaping Thanks for the quick reply. I'm using seachem products. (iron/pottasium/flourish/advance/excel)
@@harshanimantha7030 Do you have co2 on your tank? If not my advice is slightly different let me know. Seachem is very lean dosing and it could work if you have a rich aqua soil but over time as the soil ages the dosing of Seachem is very lean with your bottles for a high tech setup. You could easily dose 3x the recommended dose of seachem and still don't have many nutrients in the water column. Cheapest and relative easy option would be mixing macros yourself and buying some micros for example from the brand Masterline. If you don't want to mix nutrients yourself you can also buy an all in one bottle. I would recommend APT all in one fertilizer or Masterline all in one (whatever is more available for you to buy). Both brands have owners who are highly capable of growing plants healthy. This is a much better complete option and cheaper as well. Another important thing is not focusing only on nutrients. There are many factors who are very important in a planted tank. How is your maintenance schedule? If it's not clear or if you have further questions let me know. Glad I can help :)
@@NigelAquascaping Yes im using preasurized Co2 system. But im using led stripes for my lights. My tank size is 4x2x2 and im doing weeky 30-40% water change. I'm not using rich aqua soils. Im using ocean free aqua soil as my substrate. I'll try you method for fertilizing. Really appreciate your support
@@harshanimantha7030 If you have the time and want to do you can try experimenting with two water changes a week. See if your tank will benefit from that. Also use a turkey baster to stir up organic waste between hardscape, substrate (gentle) and on moss/plants during a water change. Reducing organic waste is highly effective against many algae problems in a tank. What is your kh level in the tank?
I've got 18m months aquascaping experience so I'm not a newbie, but what piece of advice do you have for someone who's not new, but hasn't perfected the craft yet?
Hello Tom. To reach a higher level of Aquascaping, I would recommend to slow down in the process of building the hardscape. The hardscape is like the backbone of the aquarium. It's difficult to change when water is in the aquarium. Take a bit more time and have also days where you don't work with the hardscape. This way you will gather new energy and thoughts to recheck if you like your hardscape. It can help tremendously asking other scapers or people to give feedback on your work. You're probably biased and see things differently as the creator compared to others. Never be scared to change your hardscape again. IMO it always turns out better in the end. After finishing the hardscape to your liking. It's important to take enough time to think about the 'right' plants. A misuse of plants can easily ruin a well done hardscape. At a certain point you will have the knowledge to grow plants more healthy and keep algae at a minimum. However only knowledge isn't enough. It doesn't replace a proper consistent maintenance schedule with water changes, trimming and siphoning of organic waste. Thanks for your comment if you have any further questions, let me know. 💪
@@NigelAquascaping Hi Nigel! Thanks very much for your detailed and thoughtful reply!. There are so many plants, styles and rock types its quite overwhelming to begin with - and you also want to try everything once too (and that's just the plants, not even talk about the various styles, hardscape or fish!). In my latest tank, there are parts of it, where I've absolutely nailed it, and other parts which didn't turn out "right" for some reason - but I do feel like I'm making good progress, and having multiple tanks has really helped me. My latest is a nano Lake Inle Biotope because I'm breeding sawba resplendens. Are you on instagram? I'm on instagram.com/londonaquascaper/?hl=en
@@tompage8674 Indeed there are many styles and options. However this makes it also interesting for the long term to have some variation in your works. For now I would advice to do a step by step approach. One thing at a time. In the end you will always learn from your current scapes what could be better. This will be knowledge you can apply to your next scape. There are many types of hardscape but I would recommend to pick one wood and rock type that you like and also is easily available in your country. It helps tremendously to have a lot of hardscape to choose from. If a certain type of hardscape is easily available you also have more options to snipe the best looking pieces if a new batch comes into the store. Note that more tanks can really help especially in the beginning to learn more quickly about the hobby. However more tanks also means when your getting more advanced that it will divide your focus. I'm at a point where I rather focus on 1 'good' work instead of 3 'okay' works. That's just my style nowadays. Yes my ig is Nigelaquascaping but I'm not as active as before on there. Nice works on your ig keep up the good work!
How can an aquascape mature quickly? ... What to do?... Thank You ..
What can help a lot is having a mature filter so your new tank get a kick start in terms of bacteria. If that's not possible, try to get some filter media from friends or a local fish store. Another great idea is before you start planting the layout is to do a 'dark start'. This means you will finish the hardscape. Flood the aquarium and let it run without lights and co2 (only filter on). You wait till the cycle of ammonia and nitrite is completed and then start planting. This way you improve your chance to have a more 'stable' start (ofc your other factors should be optimized as well). Another plus with this dark start method, is that in vitro plant cups, have less risk to melt in a new setup.
@@NigelAquascaping ok thank you very much🙏
I would like to know how and what you dose your plants. (Fertilizer)
Now a days I mix macros (no3, po4 and K) myself with dry salts. For micros I use the Masterline brand from Marian. It depends on the layout what I will dose exactly. Depends if the plants has red plants (which I want to boost in color), the overall plantmass and if I have mostly slow growers. In general for tanks without red plants I like around No3 7 ppm per week, Po4 4 ppm per week and K 18 ppm per week. For micros the recommended dose or a bit lower. Hope it's a bit clear if not let me know and I will reply.
@@NigelAquascaping Firstly, thank you for replying Sir.
So I currently have only low tech plants, (Java fern, Anubias, Java Moss, Crypts and Amazon swords) therefore do you feel that N, P and K will be enough or do you also recommend micros like Fe, Mn etc..
@@tiptop235 I would always add the full range and don't skip any elements like NPK or micros (and mg if not available enough in your tap). I aim for like 5 ppm mg in the water column. Since you use low tech plants never add excessive amounts. It also depends if you add co2 in the system. If you don't add co2 only add ferts very sparingly. Even in low tech I would l still add all elements from time to time. Fish waste can give some no3 but things like K and micros you need to add by yourself.
@@NigelAquascaping Noted. Thank you so much for the advice, really appreciate it!!
Excelent video 👏 !! Saludos from Chile
Thanks man. Greetings from Holland. 😊
What are your thoughts on the chihiros vivid 2 light?
Hello my friend I have not seen the chihiros vivid 2 in person. I do have an old chihiros rgb V1 model on my farm tank. I am very impressed by it it certainly gives bang for the buck considering the price tag. I prefer the ADA RGB Solar compared to my Chihiros rgb V1 but the price is also 10 times more expensive! I heard good stories about the chihiros wrgb 2 as well.
Where have you been?
Japan Niigata and Tokyo
@@NigelAquascaping fair answer.... lol As long as you're alive. Lol
@@MrGrombie I am still in the hobby don't worry 😀
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The scape is fucking beautiful though
Hehe thanks for visiting mate. Thank you 🌿
Hey Nigel, I sent you a message on your instagram page with a dry start question, would really appreciate if you could take a look
I'm going to be uploading a video to help promote your channel today. Try to tune in if you can 👍🐠🐟💦