Hi Dennis. I'm ashamed to say I've only just discovered your UA-cam channel after hearing your excellent interview on The Aquascaping Podcast. I've watched all of your videos now and have to say it's one of my favourite channels. Keep up the great work and thank you. Cheers, George
WOW! this tank is incredibly beautiful - excellent work, man. Thanks for the upload. If this doesn't inspire people then they aren't looking at the screen.
One of the best aquascaping videos iv ever. Normally they just build an aquascape step by step but none of them are ever this level of difficulty. And thanks for the tip about the wood I always wondered how you found the perfect piece. Please do more videos
You truly are one of the best teachers on Aquascape, not only your sense of aesthetics is fantastic but the work and skills you show in such condensed videos are amazing, big fan of yours!
Awesome video Mr. Wong. Nothing but respect for you. That scape is mind blowing to me. I try so hard to get my tank to look like yours but I might as well endeavor to paint like Michelangelo. Hard to even imitate a master. Like I said.....nothing but respect for you.
Thanks man ~ things look complicated as a whole, but remember it's still just basic (but meticulous) stacking of widely available hardscape materials (common lava rock, spiderwood). It takes a bit of time, but work on things one part at a time and I'm sure you will do well too
Yeah I'm speechless man, this is a mindblowing scape. When I first saw this tank I must have stared at it for a good 15 minutes just taking it all in. Big thumbs up from us.
Dennis Wong Thank you very much Denis. its looking great so far, its only been a few days but i do see some new growth already, were pretty excited about it.
You do some magnificent work, and all of your videos are extremely helpful. It is so great to have experienced people like you giving back to the novices so we can potentially make beautiful scapes such as yours. Amazing aquascape and keep the videos coming!
Another awesome video by Dennis Wong! (My Planted Tank Guru!) I love the look you got in this aquascape. raising the horizon line really created a sense of depth and intricacy . Beautiful.
Dennis once again you prove you are a master when it comes to planted tanks. Probably one of the best guides of harscaping I have seen, and the only one detailing own how to build a more intricate and detailed design like the ones we are used to seeing on the top places of the IAPLC.
I am not putting up an entry this year Dennis. I am leaving the UK and going back to Portugal permanently later this year, all my tanks apart from a small cube have already been shipped home.
Dennis Wong well people love normalcy and conformity. I don't do either one very well. Let the hate continue. Tons of fools on YT now that don't know much about anything. People love to bring down confidence. I don't really even care if I am over confident at this point. Better than being meek in my opinion.
lol. I know your channel has helped lots of people get better at planted tanks, that's the important part. Don't worry about the noise. There is a chinese saying 树大招风 ; it means the larger, taller a tree, the more it is exposed to the wind, as it stands above the crowd ( meaning the more prominent you are, you more haters you attract ).
Super tank Dennis. Great to see a new upload from you too. I had been thinking about attempting a more elaborate hardscape for my tank after a recent house move. However, I chickened out as it was a stressful move for me, my livestock and plants! I damaged my CO2 reg on my nano tank and lost my oldest Discus (8yrs old) in my main display tank soon after the move. Also, my first successful attempt of growing a HC cuba carpet didnt survive the house move because of my damaged CO2 reg. (I was succesful growing HC after following your advice in one off your videos, so thank for the help! ). Anyway, your tank looks great, and it might just be the motivation i need to give a more complex hardscape a try. Thanks again for the videos man.
You're welcome~ sorry to hear about your fish. Good thing about hardscape building is you can try out the concepts outside the tank first, slowly collect materials over time...
Great tutorial! Thanks for sharing! I am working on a 60 cube now. I just received the The International Aquatic Plants Layout Contest 2016 book in the mail and it's providing some great ideas. While I have been in the hobby for 35 years, the last 15 have been in SPS reef tanks. This will be my first planted tank and I am going all out. :-) Keep the videos coming. Cheers, Greg
This is such a helpful video Dennis. Thanks for giving so much information regarding the how to of hardscaping. I've been looking for such detail but have found it difficult to find on you tube
Hi Dennis, I recently started watching your videos. You provide lot of detailed information. Appreciate your effort on providing knowledge. Could you please covering on different species/varieties of plants. defects and important factors and information over them. It would help lot of professionals over getting things right.
I think you are right. Would love to see you do a IAPLC entry in the 130-150cm range. Your plant selection and growing skill is undeniable. If anyone want to place in the top 10 next year you need to come up with a really breathtaking and original design. The level gets higher and higher each year. I have thought about making a run for the competition but unless I feel I have a layout that I personally feel is better than most of the top 10 last year I don't feel it's worth the effort on my part.
Bro I'm still not done drooling over your ridgeline scape ad now this?! Killing me! I'm very fond of how you construct and edit your videos. Very well done Dennis! Did I see the clay chips at the bottom of this substrate as well?
Thank you so much for these videos!! No one out there explains things as clearly and thoroughly as you. Things finally make sense when I watch your videos, like seeing how lava rock can be stacked for height. Do you happen to know where I can get twisted wood like you use? Can't seem to find it locally and not really happy with what I have been seeing on line. Thanks!
heh thanks... you can try looking through Ebay, or alibaba / taobao (chinese sites), shipping might be costly though, can think about sharing with other people in your area
i just ordered a nano aquarium, this is the kind of quality i want. i do wonder how long it will take to master the skill, im definatly not expecting my first tank to be awesome :P i subbed and hope you will upload more!
Awesome!!! Can I ask how you attached the plants to the stone? I am looking at making my scape with wood and stone, taking your approach to use crates to lift the hard scape up. But looking to plant heavily (as you have). Thanks in advance.
Visit Fishy Business Elements at jalan senang~ They have good selection of wood as well. For lower budget option, can visit Nangyang seaview at sengkang, or the C328 stretch at clementi
How do you get such wonderfully smooth and thick pieces of driftwood? Such as the piece used in the picture on the bottom of your Making Slopes and Paths web page. I'd love to use more driftwood but it's difficult finding thicker pieces without a lot of little branches that I'd have to sand off for my betta's fins.
Very informative. So basically you make the hardscape with spiderwood and lava stones and when you like it you add some clay chips to fill all the gaps and add a layer of 2 inch soil substrate on top of it? I don't really see any soil in the scape how is this? Only in the middle after the main tree with some dwarf hair grass. Did you fill all the gaps in the drainage cells?
The cavity in the middle is made by filling up the holes available with coarse lava rock and clay chips, then a layer of substrate is added. Not all the drainage cells are filled, quite a lot of empty space below
Love this tank! Couple of quick question for you if you have the time - 1; I see you're using drainage crate, do you just fill these with lava rock? I'm trying to save on ADA costs and was looking at mesh bags filled with rocks, but the drainage crate system feels easier to arrange to your liking. 2; when you mention trying out multiple arrangements over weeks before locking it down I couldnt agree more; however how are you dealing with unglueing/un-epoxying pieces once theyve already been joined once? And lastly, I love the overall impression of the tank, is this enough plant material to fight algae back? Thanks so much!
yes I fill them with lava chips for stability. You can leave blank spaces but the substrate may fall into it over time. 2. The glue isn't hard to break, but it leaves marks that need to be filed /scrapped off. The stronger the glue, the more marks it tends to leave. Making large changes after the tank is wet is probably the most troublesome part (but maybe worthwhile for folks doing competitions). Yea this tank has enough plant mass that algae isn't much of an issue. Also, if you are doing this style of aquacape, its mostly easy plants and light levels can be tuned way down as well, making trigger algae much less of an issue
@@2hrAquarist Thank you for the thorough answers Dennis, I'll be making sure to grab fertilizer from you when I'm set up! In a tank like this most of the plant's arent in a substrate it looks like? Is there a way to know which can and cannot do so easily, or is it just memorization
@@JohnnyHalcyon3D no. If there is no organic matter; there is not much food for microbes, so the O2 draw is low. Besides, even if the area was deeply anaerobic, there is no downside as there are no other compounds to transform into harmful compounds. It might be different for soils with heavy sulphur content or high amount of organic material. Inert large grain substrates going anaerobic is of low concern by comparison.
Took around 3 weeks of intermittent tweaking to setup the initial hardscape. Quite a few modifications to the hardscape & plants even after planting. Couple of the larger modifications take 4-5 hours of work each... Quite a lot of time spend on hardscape work in that sense. But less time spent on pruning compared to stem heavy scapes...
HAVNT SEE U UPDATE LONG LONG LONG TIME. CAN YOU MAKE A VIDEO TO USE OHKO STONE FOR SCAPING? I LIKE OHKO STONE BUT SEEMS NOT MUCH PPL USE IT FOR SCAPING. EVEN THE COMPETITION.
My plants are doing well growing fast. But They keep growing ugly white roots in the stems and in the center it looks like a whitr spider web of roots. Bacopa and rotala rotundifolia. Is this an issue? Is there something the plants need? Can it be prevented?
I absolutely love your scientific and not holistic approach to your videos. It's all about that chemical equilibrium and rates. I have a question. When it comes to cyanobacteria, I'm guessing causes include too much light and too little nitrate and flow? Forums gives convoluted and holistic information. My reasoning is because since it's a single-celled photosynthetic organism, it requires light and a dead zone (lack of flow) for it to settle and colonize. I only see it emerge when a tank is new (no nitrates as of yet). Could it also be from a lack of oxygen (due to lack of nitrates and other nutrients for plants) that encourages the cyano to uptake that ecological niche you created in your tank? It seems that the reaction of many people to reduce algae is to reduce nutrients, but plants are much more complex and need more nutrients compared to algaes and cyano. I wanna believe its because the simplicity algae and cyano have evolved to absorb trace amounts of nutrients that simply wouldn't suffice for plants. This is based purely off of my education and experience. Thank you so much for your time, but if you cannot respond to this, I completely understand. We all have lives haha! ~ That's the beauty of aquarium keeping to me; it's like trying to replicate a slice of the earth and its chemical rates to each biome. No matter how extreme you make the parameters, theres always an algae or bacteria that'll gladly fill in that niche. It's chemical art. :)
From observation, I'd say cyano often comes from poor oxygen, high organics and/or decaying material lying around. Low NO3 can be a cause but I see that as a side factor... as in what you said, if NO3 is too low, plant growth may lack vigor and the advantage shifts to algae.
This is such a helpful video Dennis. Thanks for giving so much information regarding the how to of hardscaping. I've been looking for such detail but have found it difficult to find on you tube
This is such a helpful video Dennis. Thanks for giving so much information regarding the how to of hardscaping. I've been looking for such detail but have found it difficult to find on you tube
Hi Dennis. I'm ashamed to say I've only just discovered your UA-cam channel after hearing your excellent interview on The Aquascaping Podcast. I've watched all of your videos now and have to say it's one of my favourite channels. Keep up the great work and thank you.
Cheers,
George
Thanks man ~ Good to see you around
Hi George, I've only recently found your channel and watched most of your videos too! Now I've found Dennis's I have more great videos to watch :-)
WOW! this tank is incredibly beautiful - excellent work, man.
Thanks for the upload. If this doesn't inspire people then they aren't looking at the screen.
Thanks man, hope you're doing well too ~
One of the best aquascaping videos iv ever. Normally they just build an aquascape step by step but none of them are ever this level of difficulty. And thanks for the tip about the wood I always wondered how you found the perfect piece. Please do more videos
My 5 year old was watching this with me and said whoa that tank is better than ours. :) Great video.
haa that's funny ~ Start em young !
You truly are one of the best teachers on Aquascape, not only your sense of aesthetics is fantastic but the work and skills you show in such condensed videos are amazing, big fan of yours!
Thanks man~
Awesome video Mr. Wong. Nothing but respect for you. That scape is mind blowing to me. I try so hard to get my tank to look like yours but I might as well endeavor to paint like Michelangelo. Hard to even imitate a master. Like I said.....nothing but respect for you.
Thanks man ~ things look complicated as a whole, but remember it's still just basic (but meticulous) stacking of widely available hardscape materials (common lava rock, spiderwood). It takes a bit of time, but work on things one part at a time and I'm sure you will do well too
Yeah I'm speechless man, this is a mindblowing scape. When I first saw this tank I must have stared at it for a good 15 minutes just taking it all in. Big thumbs up from us.
thanks man, hope your new planted aquascape grows in well ~
Dennis Wong Thank you very much Denis. its looking great so far, its only been a few days but i do see some new growth already, were pretty excited about it.
You do some magnificent work, and all of your videos are extremely helpful. It is so great to have experienced people like you giving back to the novices so we can potentially make beautiful scapes such as yours. Amazing aquascape and keep the videos coming!
Another awesome video by Dennis Wong! (My Planted Tank Guru!) I love the look you got in this aquascape. raising the horizon line really created a sense of depth and intricacy . Beautiful.
great video as always. So cool that you mentioned the putty....i have used it often but have never heard anyone mention it before. Great job again!
Literally my favorite scape of all time. Simply stunning...
aww thanks man ~
Really impressive. Great to see you back. Been re-watching a number of your videos as I try to balance my planted tank.
Thanks ~ Remember, light & CO2 are still the biggest factors
Great scape! Your videos have really helped me to get better with balance in my tanks. Keep em coming!
Jesus Dennis, yur a master....
Yes.
Hi Mike!
thanks man
he is much better than you aquapros, and rest of the youtuber aquarium guide channels
@@angelus2790 why the negativity lol? Everyone is sharing and learning.
Absolutely breathtaking!! Thank you for sharing your mind blowing creations 😊
Hi Dennis, thanks for sharing your knowledge with us, it's greatly appreciated! I really enjoy your videos!
Dennis once again you prove you are a master when it comes to planted tanks. Probably one of the best guides of harscaping I have seen, and the only one detailing own how to build a more intricate and detailed design like the ones we are used to seeing on the top places of the IAPLC.
Thanks man, good luck for your entry this year ~
I am not putting up an entry this year Dennis. I am leaving the UK and going back to Portugal permanently later this year, all my tanks apart from a small cube have already been shipped home.
Damn, is it because of Brexit ? Hope your move goes smoothly
It's not because of Brexit. I planned returning home now 3 years ago. . I miss home and my kids are there.
Thanks. I hope it goes smoothly too.
Wow! That is a beautiful scape. Thanks for sharing.
sweetness!!! You definitely helped me with my 60P! Glad to see a new episode. I got super glue on my lip the other day, don't ask how or why. haha
Haa I need to hear that story ~ Must fill me in on the trolls as well, good to see you around
Dennis Wong well people love normalcy and conformity. I don't do either one very well. Let the hate continue. Tons of fools on YT now that don't know much about anything. People love to bring down confidence. I don't really even care if I am over confident at this point. Better than being meek in my opinion.
Dennis Wong It's okay I'll be the bad guy in the hobby. Every niche needs one. haha
lol. I know your channel has helped lots of people get better at planted tanks, that's the important part. Don't worry about the noise. There is a chinese saying 树大招风 ; it means the larger, taller a tree, the more it is exposed to the wind, as it stands above the crowd ( meaning the more prominent you are, you more haters you attract ).
Teach me your ways master! I'm a young padawan ready to learn the force...
Truly beautiful tank. Just amazing!
the final scape is stunning!
Super tank Dennis. Great to see a new upload from you too.
I had been thinking about attempting a more elaborate hardscape for my tank after a recent house move.
However, I chickened out as it was a stressful move for me, my livestock and plants! I damaged my CO2 reg on my nano tank and lost my oldest Discus (8yrs old) in my main display tank soon after the move.
Also, my first successful attempt of growing a HC cuba carpet didnt survive the house move because of my damaged CO2 reg. (I was succesful growing HC after following your advice in one off your videos, so thank for the help! ).
Anyway, your tank looks great, and it might just be the motivation i need to give a more complex hardscape a try.
Thanks again for the videos man.
You're welcome~ sorry to hear about your fish. Good thing about hardscape building is you can try out the concepts outside the tank first, slowly collect materials over time...
Great tutorial! Thanks for sharing! I am working on a 60 cube now. I just received the The International Aquatic Plants Layout Contest 2016 book in the mail and it's providing some great ideas. While I have been in the hobby for 35 years, the last 15 have been in SPS reef tanks. This will be my first planted tank and I am going all out. :-) Keep the videos coming.
Cheers,
Greg
Thanks man, hope your plants are doing well ~
This is such a helpful video Dennis. Thanks for giving so much information regarding the how to of hardscaping. I've been looking for such detail but have found it difficult to find on you tube
Great Stuff!! I like how you show the whole process and how you build it up. Keep the videos coming thank you : )
While watching this video, I was smh the whole time... because I couldnt believe how great this is!!!!
Thanx man, a quality free course. Your project looks great too.
you're welcome ~
thanks for the info bro!
everytime i watch your tips on aquascaping, makes me get more knowledge about aquascaping, cheers bro!
Thanks man, glad to be able to contribute to the hobby ~
Incredible work! Thx for sharing! Cant wait for next video. :) 👍
This is amazing, I really like your scape and I'm thinking of doing something like this for my tank.Thank you for inspiring me, new sub.
Nice tank Dennis, you are a master ! :)
:O Dennis Wong is back .... Thanks for the tips!
unbelievable dennis. great work.
Thanks !~
Very good idea.Thank you Dennis!
Thanks for all the support ~
It's funny and nice to see all these aquarist youtube titans meeting here.
Another awesome designe thank you for sharing your method to create hardscape
damn man this is the best aquascape i have ever seen, and i have seen all greenmachine and that amano guys aquascapes
Wow! Amazing hardscape ideas....
Perfect timing for this! Thanks. :D
Love your videos. Keep going please!
Great tips, thank you!
dang your tanks are amazing!
beautiful tanks bro. love it, keep it up!
Hi Dennis, I recently started watching your videos. You provide lot of detailed information. Appreciate your effort on providing knowledge. Could you please covering on different species/varieties of plants. defects and important factors and information over them.
It would help lot of professionals over getting things right.
Wonderful video!
Great video and scape. Love the educational side. Really valuable information!
Thanks, congrats on your new showroom opening ~ I will visit you one day
Thank you :) You're welcome anytime Dennis. 😊👍
Thank you Sifu
Nice design and detail
Amazing scape just beutiful. Thanks for sharing the video with us.
Thanks man, hope your tanks are doing well too~
Love it, I learned a lot Bless you!
Excellent video!
Thanks man, hope your tanks are doing well~
nice! Great advices
amazing work. thanks for the video lesson.
you're welcome~
Stepping up your hardscape game big time. If you want to place higher at IAPLC focus on negative space Dennis.
heh thanks, yep, this tank is a little crowded cos of squeezing the hardscape into 90p dimensions, would have been better on a 4ft tank
I think you are right. Would love to see you do a IAPLC entry in the 130-150cm range.
Your plant selection and growing skill is undeniable. If anyone want to place in the top 10 next year you need to come up with a really breathtaking and original design. The level gets higher and higher each year. I have thought about making a run for the competition but unless I feel I have a layout that I personally feel is better than most of the top 10 last year I don't feel it's worth the effort on my part.
Swee lah! Great tips and a wonderful tank!
Thanks man, good to see more locals here ha
Very nice!
love your work
Thanks !
good video! thanks
Bro I'm still not done drooling over your ridgeline scape ad now this?! Killing me!
I'm very fond of how you construct and edit your videos. Very well done Dennis!
Did I see the clay chips at the bottom of this substrate as well?
Ha thanks man, yea I use clay chips at the lower levels as filler
One day I will try this!
U r the best.... 👍👌
amazing tank thanks
That thank is a masterpiece omg
Awesome channel, glad I stumbled onto it. What plastic are you using as your protective layer? It seems better than the typical egg crate
Way to advance for me . awsome work
oh. my. amazing.
Thank you so much for these videos!! No one out there explains things as clearly and thoroughly as you. Things finally make sense when I watch your videos, like seeing how lava rock can be stacked for height. Do you happen to know where I can get twisted wood like you use? Can't seem to find it locally and not really happy with what I have been seeing on line. Thanks!
heh thanks... you can try looking through Ebay, or alibaba / taobao (chinese sites), shipping might be costly though, can think about sharing with other people in your area
Epic tank 😁😁😁
Great work, very informative. +1 Sub!!!!
I missed you man!
second that
Your tanks are incredible as always! The rock you used in this scape really caught my eye. What type of rock is it? Reminds me of lava rock
thanks... it is lava rocK~
master scaper!
i just ordered a nano aquarium, this is the kind of quality i want. i do wonder how long it will take to master the skill, im definatly not expecting my first tank to be awesome :P i subbed and hope you will upload more!
Keep practising with hardscape in a dry tank first, cos once you commit to planting, it's hard to practise on hardscape construction
Allright, solid tip! I checked out your channel yesterday and i liked what i saw. If u can do like a showcase of your aquariums id like to see that!
swee as usual bro!!!!
Thanks man~ Good to see you
Hi, Great insight to aquascaping I can just sit and watch your videos for hours... please list the plants used in this video.
They're mainly mosses: mini pelia/riccardia, flame moss, christmas moss, fissidens and mini fissidens, Bucephalandra
Amazing . Very creative. Where do you buy your plants especially your stem plant on your previous video?
I buy them from local shops mostly, sometimes when I travel around the region as well~
Thanks
All hail to you Mister :p
Hope you can take part in the international aquatic competition.
This year I will, I think, ha thanks
Awesome!!! Can I ask how you attached the plants to the stone? I am looking at making my scape with wood and stone, taking your approach to use crates to lift the hard scape up. But looking to plant heavily (as you have). Thanks in advance.
All of them are superglued on ~
Nice work. Any recommendation on where to get rocks from LFS in Singapore? Thanks!
Visit Fishy Business Elements at jalan senang~ They have good selection of wood as well. For lower budget option, can visit Nangyang seaview at sengkang, or the C328 stretch at clementi
How do you get such wonderfully smooth and thick pieces of driftwood? Such as the piece used in the picture on the bottom of your Making Slopes and Paths web page. I'd love to use more driftwood but it's difficult finding thicker pieces without a lot of little branches that I'd have to sand off for my betta's fins.
Those are spiderwood (azalea root) I think... Its available in many aquarium shops/online, but shipping long distances might be expensive
Great work, you should do a talk at some fish clubs just saying.
Heh I'll think about that, thanks
Very informative.
So basically you make the hardscape with spiderwood and lava stones and when you like it you add some clay chips to fill all the gaps and add a layer of 2 inch soil substrate on top of it? I don't really see any soil in the scape how is this? Only in the middle after the main tree with some dwarf hair grass.
Did you fill all the gaps in the drainage cells?
The cavity in the middle is made by filling up the holes available with coarse lava rock and clay chips, then a layer of substrate is added. Not all the drainage cells are filled, quite a lot of empty space below
Love this tank! Couple of quick question for you if you have the time - 1; I see you're using drainage crate, do you just fill these with lava rock? I'm trying to save on ADA costs and was looking at mesh bags filled with rocks, but the drainage crate system feels easier to arrange to your liking.
2; when you mention trying out multiple arrangements over weeks before locking it down I couldnt agree more; however how are you dealing with unglueing/un-epoxying pieces once theyve already been joined once?
And lastly, I love the overall impression of the tank, is this enough plant material to fight algae back?
Thanks so much!
yes I fill them with lava chips for stability. You can leave blank spaces but the substrate may fall into it over time. 2. The glue isn't hard to break, but it leaves marks that need to be filed /scrapped off. The stronger the glue, the more marks it tends to leave. Making large changes after the tank is wet is probably the most troublesome part (but maybe worthwhile for folks doing competitions). Yea this tank has enough plant mass that algae isn't much of an issue. Also, if you are doing this style of aquacape, its mostly easy plants and light levels can be tuned way down as well, making trigger algae much less of an issue
@@2hrAquarist Thank you for the thorough answers Dennis, I'll be making sure to grab fertilizer from you when I'm set up! In a tank like this most of the plant's arent in a substrate it looks like? Is there a way to know which can and cannot do so easily, or is it just memorization
@@2hrAquarist Are you at all concerned with the lava chips creating an anaeronbic condition?
@@JohnnyHalcyon3D no. If there is no organic matter; there is not much food for microbes, so the O2 draw is low. Besides, even if the area was deeply anaerobic, there is no downside as there are no other compounds to transform into harmful compounds. It might be different for soils with heavy sulphur content or high amount of organic material. Inert large grain substrates going anaerobic is of low concern by comparison.
@@2hrAquarist gotcha, so does that become an issue if im looking to stack a bunch of Amazonia on top? My understanding is its very heavy on organics
Hi Dennis,
i need the plant varieties.
Thank you in advance
Amazing work. Are you entering iaplc?
thanks man, yeah this year will have to. Local ADA rep made me promise to enter
Wow!!
Good to see ya around ~
Can you tell us how many hours have gone into this work of art?
Took around 3 weeks of intermittent tweaking to setup the initial hardscape. Quite a few modifications to the hardscape & plants even after planting. Couple of the larger modifications take 4-5 hours of work each... Quite a lot of time spend on hardscape work in that sense. But less time spent on pruning compared to stem heavy scapes...
HAVNT SEE U UPDATE LONG LONG LONG TIME. CAN YOU MAKE A VIDEO TO USE OHKO STONE FOR SCAPING?
I LIKE OHKO STONE BUT SEEMS NOT MUCH PPL USE IT FOR SCAPING. EVEN THE COMPETITION.
Dennis
How much par do you use in the moss scape?
around 80+ at substrate
Which wood have you used in this layout?
My plants are doing well growing fast. But They keep growing ugly white roots in the stems and in the center it looks like a whitr spider web of roots. Bacopa and rotala rotundifolia. Is this an issue? Is there something the plants need? Can it be prevented?
It depends ? Hard to say without looking at exact pics... sometimes plants invest more energy to grow roots when its not getting enough nutrients
HEEEEEES BACK!
hahaa, I like the enthusiasm ~
I absolutely love your scientific and not holistic approach to your videos. It's all about that chemical equilibrium and rates. I have a question. When it comes to cyanobacteria, I'm guessing causes include too much light and too little nitrate and flow? Forums gives convoluted and holistic information. My reasoning is because since it's a single-celled photosynthetic organism, it requires light and a dead zone (lack of flow) for it to settle and colonize. I only see it emerge when a tank is new (no nitrates as of yet). Could it also be from a lack of oxygen (due to lack of nitrates and other nutrients for plants) that encourages the cyano to uptake that ecological niche you created in your tank? It seems that the reaction of many people to reduce algae is to reduce nutrients, but plants are much more complex and need more nutrients compared to algaes and cyano. I wanna believe its because the simplicity algae and cyano have evolved to absorb trace amounts of nutrients that simply wouldn't suffice for plants. This is based purely off of my education and experience. Thank you so much for your time, but if you cannot respond to this, I completely understand. We all have lives haha! ~
That's the beauty of aquarium keeping to me; it's like trying to replicate a slice of the earth and its chemical rates to each biome. No matter how extreme you make the parameters, theres always an algae or bacteria that'll gladly fill in that niche. It's chemical art. :)
From observation, I'd say cyano often comes from poor oxygen, high organics and/or decaying material lying around. Low NO3 can be a cause but I see that as a side factor... as in what you said, if NO3 is too low, plant growth may lack vigor and the advantage shifts to algae.
I think poor O2 does contribute to it, general tank cleanliness as well
where do you still get the bml lights from?
Hmm no more, the firm changed to Fluence bio-engineering selling "hydroponic" lights
thank you
dennis..where i gonna buy clay chip in malaysia.. nama dia apa??
I'm not sure ? Try garden nurseries, see whether they sell clay chips for potting orchids
orait..tq dennis
No hello UA-cam people?! :'(
nuoo more
at 2:56 - what happened?!?!?
He's my dad
really?)
lol...
This is such a helpful video Dennis. Thanks for giving so much information regarding the how to of hardscaping. I've been looking for such detail but have found it difficult to find on you tube
This is such a helpful video Dennis. Thanks for giving so much information regarding the how to of hardscaping. I've been looking for such detail but have found it difficult to find on you tube