Firstly, the video is even better than last year! Secondly, the scape is beautiful Jacky. Your style of scaping is what I prefer, where the plants and hardscape speak for themselves - not a sand path in sight! You inspire me, you really do!
Thank you so much, Courtney! Your comment means a lot to me! 🥰🙏 I really love NA style and will keep doing this because I really enjoy the aquarium everyday, not only for the contest purpose. Yeah! 😍
Hahaha! I know right! I think that is a fun part of Aquascaping, the scape keeps evolving and changes throughout the time and surprises you with its beauty. 😊 Initially, I would like to have a neat flat carpet, but suddenly one part was growing faster than the other, then the idea of 🌊 waves started. And I love it very much. 😊🥰
To add to so many here, you have a wonderful style. IAPLC seems to give a lot of weight to heavily constructed dioramas, with impact that I suspect doesn't read so well in reality. Sometimes I think it should be called the International Aquatic Rock Layout Competition. Something about your tanks is really fresh and welcoming. Rich, vibrant, lush. Great job
Thank you very much, Richard! I really appreciate your compliments! 🥰🙏 I personally really love Nature Aquarium Style and hence I keep doing this style for my contest. The contest is part of the motivation for me to start setting up and creating new tanks. During the process, it's important for me and my family can enjoy this tank, too. NA style is just right for that. Not only from the front view for the photo taking, but also from may visible angles that we admire it everyday. Have a great day ahead! 🥰
I feel like the tank appears smaller than it's because of the height of the substrate near the front glass. I think one could say it's a bit overgrown but I think this is the key to this very natural look. It reminds me what ADA / Amano used to do 10+ years ago ;) Crazy you got that much algae with a mature filter + substrate and considering your experience. Thank you for showing this !
Thanks for your comment, buddy! Yeah, algae is always part of the game and I would like to share it so that our hobbyists won't lose heart if they seeing it in the planted tanks. Just keep on going and do the treatment, it will be alright. I love how Amano-san created his scape so naturally and I appreciate your kind compliment on the style that I have for this tank. Thank you. 🥰
I’m just in awe of your process and development! I love that you stay away from the extreme gluing and really let the plants shape and form the scape! Your visions are remarkable and so very inspiring. I adore your passion Jacky!
Thank you so much for your compliments, Christine! Yes, I don't use any glue in this scape. I think I got much influenced by ADA style on doing Nature Aquarium. Even rocks or driftwoods, it's all constructed and in placed by gravity. 😄 I find it's more natural that way. 🙏🙏😊😊
Beautiful mate 🫶🏼 top 100 worthy for sure! Great vid 👌🏼 I have an IAPLC build vid coming but nowhere near this quality, more of a slideshow 😅 Can’t wait to see what you come up with for next year! 🙌🏼👊🏼
Really appreciate your compliment, buddy. It means a lot to me. 🙏 IAPLC is normally a long project, so I would plan to film it whenever I can, so that it would be the good references for hobbyists. I hope it somehow useful. 😊
Nice 👍 first time I've seen an iaplc tank planted when full of water which is cool since I think most people with non contest home scapes probably do it that way but most pro videos tell you not to.
Thanks Stuart. I normally keep the tank with full of water level for contest tank or not. I don't really see the needs of lower down the water level for photo taking of my scapes so far. 😄
The beauty!!! (subscription but why was the aquas divided into three parts when composing the composition? in any case, these parameters were not used by you when composing the composition. according to science, when compiling a composition, this is necessary. but in your case it was redundant.
Thanks buddy. It's basically the 'rule of third" that similar to photography art. I draw the lines to remind myself time to time in case I forgot about it during the setting up time. 😊
Thanks Paulus! I am glad you liked it! 🥰 Ya, the sketch was general idea but when the plants started to grow, the plan also changed here and there, buddy. 😂
Thanks Daniel for your encouragement. The woods there are "spider woods" as so it is called in Singapore. Probably is redmoore woods in your place. It's added in as details at the later phase of the project. 😊
Thank you so much! I normally set my Chihiros RGB Vivid 2 with the ratio of R-G-B as 100-60-80. I like warmer colours so Red is more and the rest of Green and Blue just tweak up on my liking. 🥰
@@ongwanchoon You are most welcome! :) I kept the light settting at max at all time. Algae issue is part of the process for the new tank. Water change always helps. You can do several water change per week at the first few weeks, it will helps a lot. Theoritically, if we can do water change daily, the algae is very minimal. 😊😊 Lighting is essential for plants growth, so it should be at full potential. You can also plant more stem plants, it will help to outcompete the algae growth. :)
Hey brother, love your tank! Anyway, did u manage to get rid of the algae just by introducing the crew or are there some tweaks done as well to the lighting etc..
Thanks bro. 😄 I normally set lighting period of new tanks at 6hrs per day and gradually increase it to max 8hrs per day when the plants mass is dense and tank is more stable. I do plant lots of stem plants which is fast growing, too. So it would outcompete the algae in the long run. For new tanks, algae is very normal. If it is on hardscape or equipment, you can withdraw water and use paint brush to apply H2O2 on them. Algae will die and algae eaters will eat those quicker. I introduce many types of algae eaters in the tank. Each of them have their target on some type of algae. So the more varieties the better (i.e. Amano shrimps, fire red shrimps, SAE, oto catfish, snails....etc.). Having said that, bigger tanks are normally more stable than small / nano tanks. Once the tank is stable, the algae is very minimal as the water parameters does not fluctuate a lot. Hope it is useful info for you, bro. 😄
Hi buddy, yes. I used ProCreate to plan the plants layout. I actually forgot what brush to use. It's more on the plant's colours that I was focusing on. ^^
Hey ! very nice IAPLC tank, congratz ! I have one question, 2 weeks after planting your rotala were actually already very red. Did your have already CO2 ? or just your 8 hours light ? Thanks for your answer :)
Many thanks, Christophe! Yes, I blasted CO2 from the very beginning when first planted. Lighting and CO2 duration at the beginning was 6hrs per day and increased gradually when plants more mature. Max duration for light and CO2 is 8hrs per day when the tank is stable. Lighting is very important for plants colours. 😊🙏
Hi buddy, for this tank, I use very minimal liquid fertilizers and mostly depends on the base substrate with rich nutrients throughout the time. For the fertilizer brand, I normally use Seachem or JBL.
Thank you, Kawshik. This tank I use one bag 5L of JBL AquaBasic Plus as base substrate and some ADA slow released fertilizers in substrate, too. So I don't need to use much liquid fertilizers. Plants also can grow very well. :)
i've been looking at several setups, can anyone pls advise why spend soooo much time doing the hardscape design which eventually you wont see any hardscape which been covered or blocked by the plants
Hi buddy, in aquascaping, designing the hardscape is essential for structural stability, visual depth, plant placement, creating aquatic habitats, and long-term aesthetic vision, even if some of it ends up being covered by plants. :)
I have not changed it since the tank setup till now, about 1.5 years already. I am still having this tank and things are OK. Normally I rescape every 2 years for contest tanks.
Don’t be mad at me, but I think it is a bloody mess. For me it looks like pure chaos 🤷🏻♀️ I know it is a question of taste I think. 🤔 And congratulations to the high rank of IAPLC! 👍🏻
Not at all, buddy! I totally understand your feeling. It's a nature chaos to me, too. The scape at that times represented my feeling and emotion so it marked something for me to remember. :) You probably like something neat and organized, like my scape in 2020 here: ua-cam.com/video/8Te5CC1bysc/v-deo.html
after 2 years this tank still look super stunning , now really looking forward your 2024 iaplc tank hahahah ~~
Thanks buddy! Coming soon the new video today! ^_^
@@LitiAquaria yeahhhhh
Firstly, the video is even better than last year! Secondly, the scape is beautiful Jacky. Your style of scaping is what I prefer, where the plants and hardscape speak for themselves - not a sand path in sight! You inspire me, you really do!
Thank you so much, Courtney! Your comment means a lot to me! 🥰🙏 I really love NA style and will keep doing this because I really enjoy the aquarium everyday, not only for the contest purpose. Yeah! 😍
Thank you for sharing in your journey towards IAPLC 2022.
My pleasure, Justin! Thank you! 😊🙏
You are a point reference for me , your aquariums are awesome .
Thank you, Lorenzo! Really appreciate your encouragement words! 🥰
Funny how you start with so much attention to a level frontline and then end with such a lush wavy carpet 😊. Awesome work
Hahaha! I know right! I think that is a fun part of Aquascaping, the scape keeps evolving and changes throughout the time and surprises you with its beauty. 😊 Initially, I would like to have a neat flat carpet, but suddenly one part was growing faster than the other, then the idea of 🌊 waves started. And I love it very much. 😊🥰
I love your scapes as a begginer I learn alot
I am so glad that's useful, buddy. Enjoy scaping! 😊
mind-blowing aquascape
Thank you so much!! 😊🙏
To add to so many here, you have a wonderful style. IAPLC seems to give a lot of weight to heavily constructed dioramas, with impact that I suspect doesn't read so well in reality. Sometimes I think it should be called the International Aquatic Rock Layout Competition. Something about your tanks is really fresh and welcoming. Rich, vibrant, lush. Great job
Thank you very much, Richard! I really appreciate your compliments! 🥰🙏 I personally really love Nature Aquarium Style and hence I keep doing this style for my contest. The contest is part of the motivation for me to start setting up and creating new tanks. During the process, it's important for me and my family can enjoy this tank, too. NA style is just right for that. Not only from the front view for the photo taking, but also from may visible angles that we admire it everyday. Have a great day ahead! 🥰
I feel like the tank appears smaller than it's because of the height of the substrate near the front glass. I think one could say it's a bit overgrown but I think this is the key to this very natural look. It reminds me what ADA / Amano used to do 10+ years ago ;) Crazy you got that much algae with a mature filter + substrate and considering your experience. Thank you for showing this !
Thanks for your comment, buddy! Yeah, algae is always part of the game and I would like to share it so that our hobbyists won't lose heart if they seeing it in the planted tanks. Just keep on going and do the treatment, it will be alright.
I love how Amano-san created his scape so naturally and I appreciate your kind compliment on the style that I have for this tank. Thank you. 🥰
Simply amazing!!!
Thanks a lot, buddy! 😍
Thanks for sharing. Amazing tank wellicht done .gongrats 👍😉👌
Many thanks, Theo! 🥰 Appreciate your compliments! 🙏😊
Salute your effort and dedication! ✌️
Thank you so much for your encouragement! Appreciate it! 🥰🙏
I’m just in awe of your process and development! I love that you stay away from the extreme gluing and really let the plants shape and form the scape! Your visions are remarkable and so very inspiring. I adore your passion Jacky!
Thank you so much for your compliments, Christine! Yes, I don't use any glue in this scape. I think I got much influenced by ADA style on doing Nature Aquarium. Even rocks or driftwoods, it's all constructed and in placed by gravity. 😄 I find it's more natural that way. 🙏🙏😊😊
Thank you for this great explanation and job..very helpful.
Thanks buddy. I am glad to hear that. 😊
So satisfying to watch! Thanks for sharing the whole process! Aquascaping is truly a hobby that is both an art and science!
Thank you so much. I am glad that you like it and find it is useful.
Love your style. Beautiful!
Thank you so much, David! 🥰
Beautiful mate 🫶🏼 top 100 worthy for sure!
Great vid 👌🏼
I have an IAPLC build vid coming but nowhere near this quality, more of a slideshow 😅
Can’t wait to see what you come up with for next year! 🙌🏼👊🏼
Really appreciate your compliment, buddy. It means a lot to me. 🙏 IAPLC is normally a long project, so I would plan to film it whenever I can, so that it would be the good references for hobbyists. I hope it somehow useful. 😊
This really is a beautiful tank! the video was really well done, thank you for giving us a glimpse of your journey!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you. :D
Thank for everything you've done ! BRILLIANT WORK
Thank you so much for your encouragement 😊
Thank you for visiting my channel the other day.
I subscribed to your channel because your work is wonderful.
Thanks a lot, buddy! Your compliment makes my day! 🙏☺️
Brilliant!
Thanks mate! ^^
Amazing bro! Love the colours! 😍
Thank you so much, bro! 🙏🙏😊😊
Great effort, Looking great, I liked to very much. keep it up man.
Thanks a lot, buddy! I really appreciate your compliment! 😊🙏
Inspirational as always. Great job bro! 👏👏👏
Many thanks for your compliment, buddy! ☺️🙏
Congrats
Many thanks, buddy! 🥰
Great video and awsome aquarium at the end. Thanks for the explanation steps, really helpful.
You're most welcome, buddy! I am so glad to hear that. ☺️
Fantastically detailed video... A Beautiful Scape as well... Congratulation's...
Thank you so much, brother!😀 Appreciate it! 🥰
This is a beautiful tank! But you should have seen the look on my face when you “decommissioned “your valley of harmony tank! 😳😂
There was no other choices as the space is limited. I wish I can keep all the tanks! :D
best surprise buddy 🙌🏼❤️
Thanks a lot, bro! 😊😊😊 I hope you like it! :D
порадовали..интересно
порадовали..интересно! 😊
Nice 👍 first time I've seen an iaplc tank planted when full of water which is cool since I think most people with non contest home scapes probably do it that way but most pro videos tell you not to.
Thanks Stuart. I normally keep the tank with full of water level for contest tank or not. I don't really see the needs of lower down the water level for photo taking of my scapes so far. 😄
congratulations on your good ranking :))))))
Yo, thanks buddy! 😊👍
very good videos, thaks!
Thanks for your comment, buddy! I am so glad to hear that. 🥰
The beauty!!! (subscription
but why was the aquas divided into three parts when composing the composition? in any case, these parameters were not used by you when composing the composition.
according to science, when compiling a composition, this is necessary. but in your case it was redundant.
Thanks buddy. It's basically the 'rule of third" that similar to photography art. I draw the lines to remind myself time to time in case I forgot about it during the setting up time. 😊
Bro respect you done very nice aquarium.
Thank you so much, bro! Appreciate it! 🙏
That sketch part in the video was awesome! Great video and scape. 👍
Thanks Paulus! I am glad you liked it! 🥰 Ya, the sketch was general idea but when the plants started to grow, the plan also changed here and there, buddy. 😂
@@LitiAquaria what do/did u use for fertilizer in this scape?
Believe it or not, I rarely dose any liquid fertilizers to this tank. It mostly uses the base substrate nutrients to grow.
So creative brother
Thank you so much, brother! 😀
Excellent work bro.
Thanks bro Michael! 🙏😊
Amazing!!!!
Many thanks, bro Anthony!!! 🥰🙏🙏🙏
Beautiful 😍
How can you create it so easily 🥰
Many thanks Axror! 🥰 It's a long term commitment for a project like this, so we need to relax a bit to get it done ya! ^^
bể nhìn quá tự nhiên a ơi 😍
Yeah! Cảm ơn Minh nhiều nha! Năm sau sẽ cố gắng hơn nữa. Lười tỉa cây đâm ra tự nhiên nhỉ :P
Very nice
Thank you so much! 🥰🥰
Woooow..Its so beautiful.Excellent work .What kind of wood did you use for the trees on the left,middle and the right side?Is it red moorwood?
Thanks Daniel for your encouragement. The woods there are "spider woods" as so it is called in Singapore. Probably is redmoore woods in your place. It's added in as details at the later phase of the project. 😊
Tuyệt quá bro..:)))
Cảm ơn bro nhiều nhé! 😍
Please add some Vietnamese info and descriptions to show you and your aquascape are from Vietnam.
Surely in the future, brother! 😎
Very beautiful tank. I like the colorful background plant very much..
How u setting the rgb light to get such colourful plant?
Thank you so much! I normally set my Chihiros RGB Vivid 2 with the ratio of R-G-B as 100-60-80. I like warmer colours so Red is more and the rest of Green and Blue just tweak up on my liking. 🥰
@@LitiAquaria thanks for your kind reply. Do you reduce the light setting during the beginning? I been deal with algae issue due to the light setting
@@ongwanchoon You are most welcome! :) I kept the light settting at max at all time. Algae issue is part of the process for the new tank. Water change always helps. You can do several water change per week at the first few weeks, it will helps a lot. Theoritically, if we can do water change daily, the algae is very minimal. 😊😊 Lighting is essential for plants growth, so it should be at full potential. You can also plant more stem plants, it will help to outcompete the algae growth. :)
I'm ordering an aquarium to make an aquascape, 100 x 60 in size, I hope I can make it like yours
You surely can do it, mate! 🥰
👍👍👍👍👍👍
♥♥♥
Hey brother, love your tank! Anyway, did u manage to get rid of the algae just by introducing the crew or are there some tweaks done as well to the lighting etc..
Thanks bro. 😄 I normally set lighting period of new tanks at 6hrs per day and gradually increase it to max 8hrs per day when the plants mass is dense and tank is more stable. I do plant lots of stem plants which is fast growing, too. So it would outcompete the algae in the long run.
For new tanks, algae is very normal. If it is on hardscape or equipment, you can withdraw water and use paint brush to apply H2O2 on them. Algae will die and algae eaters will eat those quicker. I introduce many types of algae eaters in the tank. Each of them have their target on some type of algae. So the more varieties the better (i.e. Amano shrimps, fire red shrimps, SAE, oto catfish, snails....etc.).
Having said that, bigger tanks are normally more stable than small / nano tanks. Once the tank is stable, the algae is very minimal as the water parameters does not fluctuate a lot.
Hope it is useful info for you, bro. 😄
Is it procreate that you are using to plan you plants? Would you like to share the brushes you use?
Hi buddy, yes. I used ProCreate to plan the plants layout. I actually forgot what brush to use. It's more on the plant's colours that I was focusing on. ^^
Hey ! very nice IAPLC tank, congratz !
I have one question, 2 weeks after planting your rotala were actually already very red. Did your have already CO2 ? or just your 8 hours light ?
Thanks for your answer :)
Many thanks, Christophe! Yes, I blasted CO2 from the very beginning when first planted. Lighting and CO2 duration at the beginning was 6hrs per day and increased gradually when plants more mature. Max duration for light and CO2 is 8hrs per day when the tank is stable. Lighting is very important for plants colours. 😊🙏
@@LitiAquaria thanks for another great hint
Sir, would like to know what liquid fertilizer are you using? 🙏🙏🙏
Hi buddy, for this tank, I use very minimal liquid fertilizers and mostly depends on the base substrate with rich nutrients throughout the time. For the fertilizer brand, I normally use Seachem or JBL.
Please tell all fertilizers name ( If you use).
Take Love from Bangladesh 🇧🇩
Thank you, Kawshik. This tank I use one bag 5L of JBL AquaBasic Plus as base substrate and some ADA slow released fertilizers in substrate, too. So I don't need to use much liquid fertilizers. Plants also can grow very well. :)
i've been looking at several setups, can anyone pls advise why spend soooo much time doing the hardscape design which eventually you wont see any hardscape which been covered or blocked by the plants
Hi buddy, in aquascaping, designing the hardscape is essential for structural stability, visual depth, plant placement, creating aquatic habitats, and long-term aesthetic vision, even if some of it ends up being covered by plants. :)
anh cho em hỏi cây ở tiền cảnh là cây gì vậy anh, em cám ơn anh
Cây tiền cảnh là Micranthemum Monte Carlo (trân châu ngọc trai) đó em. 🙂
Hi bro. Beautiful tank. Care to share your Vivid 2 RGB light settings? And whats your fertiliser regime?
Thanks bro! I keep the ratio of R-G-B as 100-80-90 percent. This tank used a rich nutrients base substrate hence, not much liquid fertilizer added.
@@LitiAquaria wow nice!
How high do you fix your lights from the tank? Its the light stand in your store right?
@@branongable Yes, it's pendant from the lighting stands, bro. Can use 2 LitiAquaria lighting stand (cabinet mount) for this 120cm tank. 😊
Thanks bro, How often do you change or top up your base substrate?
I have not changed it since the tank setup till now, about 1.5 years already. I am still having this tank and things are OK. Normally I rescape every 2 years for contest tanks.
Do you run co2 in this tank ? :)
Yes, Arthur. This tank has CO2 injection. :)
What types of light you use in this scape?
I am using 2 x Chihiros RGB Vivid II. 😊
@@LitiAquaria thanks man🥰🥰🥰.wish you good luck for next IAPLC 2023.keep me on yoir pray.I also want to take part in IAPLC 2024.Nice scape❤️❤️❤️
Surely, buddy! 💪🥰
Don’t be mad at me, but I think it is a bloody mess. For me it looks like pure chaos 🤷🏻♀️ I know it is a question of taste I think. 🤔 And congratulations to the high rank of IAPLC! 👍🏻
Not at all, buddy! I totally understand your feeling. It's a nature chaos to me, too. The scape at that times represented my feeling and emotion so it marked something for me to remember. :) You probably like something neat and organized, like my scape in 2020 here:
ua-cam.com/video/8Te5CC1bysc/v-deo.html