Natural River Style Aquascape 'The Catfish Castle' Full Build.

Welcome to the full build of my natural river aquascape aquarium. In this video we will cover some custom filtration, growing house plants or riparium plants in an aquarium and some diy aquarium lights.
This tank is home to several L600 Leopard Cactus plecos and a school of Black neon tetras.

[steverees]

Hi Gil, what I like about your videos is that you do things in a very practical way and give sensible tips on helping us save money. Some of your ideas are pure genius so thanks for sharing them mate. That log was mahoosive but looks impressive in that tank. I love natural looking tanks and this tank looks awesome. Thanks to you I'm looking into making my own under gravel filter system or plenum for anoxic filtration, but using a power head running around at 20 gallons per hour. I've also been watching Kevin on The aquarium specialist channel. Interesting stuff. I'm looking to set up my first tank in over 25 yrs after much research. Starting off with a Juwel lido 120 for the kitchen then if all goes well I'll get the Juwel rio 450 for our living room 😁

[sharonkaczorowski]

The bottle lights are brilliant…as a Texan, I approve. I’d use my favorite beer, Tecate, for the bottles, lol. Beautiful tank!

[sharonkaczorowski]

Love the bottle lights…made me laugh! Great idea!

[stubbsaquatics]

2nd time is a charm
Lol.. temporary.. right.. 😂
Your son has ski's on his feet.. man is he getting big.
Still playing spot the mug
Those plecos are beautiful
Lol barefoot welding
Beer o'clock goggles
Great water movement.. like the no noise..
Loving the scape and the black neons

[gregfletcher]

Great video!! Cant wait to see the new "temporary" fish!!

[AusHerps]

Really cool, build this turned out awesome!

[BodgieFromStraya]

Awesome video Gil! Everything about your videos is just super enjoyable, your jokes, the music, the actual content. LOVE IT!

[pattys_aquatics]

Absolutely amazing tank Gil, I love the natural look of it and that center piece log is amazing. The beer bottle idea was great as well. I’m all about saving money . Outstanding video all around 😁👍

[tabarakaquatics]

Very well done Gil, I love the lights 😂

[markfranklin]

What a great video. Awesome tank. Thanks for sharing

[chichlidcrazy]

Beautiful tank. The end was hilarious 🤣🤣

[philcarlino]

Welding barefoot is hilarious. Subscribed just for that. Amazing setup too, this is one I would have in my living room (maybe minus the beer bottles lol). Great video.

[tropicalfishhub]

This is a stunning rio Negro setup Gil! I love that log and lighting solution is soo innovative. P.leopardus are great plecos. I used to have one years ago. One trick to lure them out of their logs is adding substantially more flow, such as by wavemaker. They live in high current in the wild, and they will most likely come out to hang out in areas with strong flow. It works with all pseudacanthicus plecos. Good suggestions for more fish would be cardinal and rummynose tetras. both are from rio Negro and both share the same habitats with L600 (also can handle flow).

[nelsonsshrimp]

Hi Gil, I think adding a school of rummynose tetras would really help fill out the tank. Keep up the great content mate.

[TarasTankFriends]

That turned out great! That enormous log looks right at home in the tank and those are some really cool looking plecos, too! The lights look great, glad you went with the brown glass, I think it gives a warmer look than the green. Suggestions for tetras you might like for blackwater: yellow tail Congo, lampeye Congo (pricey, but stunning looking), Cardinal, green neon, hummingbird, Columbian, etc. I think all those are shoaling but the green neons and hummingbirds are true schoolers if I'm not mistaken. Cochu Blue tetras might like blackwater, but I don't know off the top of my head. Anyway, I like leaving likes, so I did. Nice job! 🙂👍

[LK]

very beautiful tank awesome escape cool catfish

[matman]

Love me a nice pleco and they are such a nice fish.Tank really looks great.So good having the tank in the living room.You dont look at the tv much lol.

[jonalongHBink]

Marble Hatchet or Silver Hatchet seem like a nice idea. Beautiful Tank. It looks great.

[lee_]

Just came across your video gave it a watch and subscribed right away 😊 great job on that tank, keep up the great work 👍thanks from me Lee in the UK

[samuelzobeley]

Awesome build, and very well presented! I think a large school of green neon tetras would offer a nice contrast to the black neons