I MADE A SHALLOW RIVER FOR TINY FISH! Aquascape Tutorial

In this video I'm making a shallow river style aquascape in a small 45 litre / 12 gallon UNS 90B

APT SKY RO MINERALS

Everything I've used for this tank (affiliate links)
UNS 90B
Skylight Hyperbar
Filter
SMALL LILY PIPE SET WITH SKIMMER
Seachem Purigen
Active Carbon
Co2 regulator
CRUSHED LAVA ROCK
AQUASOIL
Bacter 100
Tourmaline BC
Clear Super
LIQUID FERT
Super glue Liquid
Super glue Gel

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[MJAquascaping]

In this video I'm making a shallow river style aquascape in a small 45 litre / 12 gallon UNS 90B

APT SKY RO MINERALS

Everything I've used for this tank (affiliate links)
UNS 90B
Skylight Hyperbar
Filter
SMALL LILY PIPE SET WITH SKIMMER
Seachem Purigen
Active Carbon
Co2 regulator
CRUSHED LAVA ROCK
AQUASOIL
Bacter 100
Tourmaline BC
Clear Super
LIQUID FERT
Super glue Liquid
Super glue Gel


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[IMaqua]

Did you say river aquarium? Yes please I would like one. River setup with nano fish is the best. Cheers MJ

[GardenEvolution]

Haven’t been watching aquascaping channels cause it’s gardening season but when an MJ video comes out, you watch!

[yashtapase]

A suggestion : after the planting show and tell the difference about how plants grown after 5 weeks like each plant that is planted.
Example i wanted to see how helanthium Tenellum and eriocaulon red will look like after
5 weeks.
Btw im also going to make a aquarium like this 😂 the shaoe is very unique 👌

[lurklingX]

haven't watched yet but *i already love the thumbnail vs the tank in the first few moments.*
i think sometimes we keep going with tanks that we kind of aren't really liking anymore, not enjoying or things about it don't work. and it's good to see an overhaul to show what is possible. plus the concept of this one is really cool. fast moving river for TINY fish, and that it's a slanted design for the scape.

[adrianesy]

Leaving the background transparent was a great idea👌💯

[ollie_acorn]

I borneo suckers. Super charismatic little fish! Make sure to keep an eye out around the rim in case any of them decide to get adventurous

[detlefh.]

On a side note: despite of what it's called I am not so sure about the role/importance of carbon in the substrate (as Clear Super). I think (and I have been reading about this lately) it serves much more as a source to speed up bacterial growth.
Nice work again, Mark.👍

[Aylasuki]

Nothing beats a good river bed setup, love it!

[eddyoso]

Hey MJ, great video! To enhance plant growth, I like to only put nutrients where the soil layer is thin. Then when you have a thicker layer, like here on the right side, I firstaddthe substrate and add nutrients. Then a final layer of 1-2cm of subtrate before the plants. This way newly planted plants straight away have access to the nutrients and grow much better in the beginning of your setup:)

[jorisvd]

MJ instead of soil you can get at the pond departement of Intratuin lava rock split from Superfish. Great stuff to get hight and for bacteria.

[BTQ]

Gorgeous tank. When you said river, the picture in my head was more of a river flowing the length of the tank. What it turned out was a bit different. Your flow was what I expected, but the scape was more of a cross section of the river. You gave me some things to think about with my 10 gallon long bookshelf tank. I scaped mine where the flow is along the length, but the actual scape is a section from the middle of a river where rocks have fallen and a long piece of driftwood has caught in the rocks forming an underwater bridge between rocks, and it flows the length of the tank. I used natural colored course sand and the rocks are dragon stone. The fish are a school of Venezuelan Red Sail Cory’s and another school of Chili Rasboras with a clean up crew of Amano shrimp. I planted it with crypt parva and lucens along the rocks, small Buce on the wood, and in the open area at one end I used dwarf sag. The dwarf sag has covered and I have to keep it trimmed. I am hoping the chilis will scatter their eggs in the sag and I will get some babies. My Buce is not doing so good in this tank, but I think it is too much light and too close to the light as I have Buce in other tanks and it is doing good in those other tanks. I have changed up my light, so I hope my Buce recovers. Love the long tanks. They are so fun to scape. Thanks for sharing your long tank and your beautiful scape.

[Matt-suyl]

I really appreciate how your tanks are not over planted like so many other aquascapers! Please keep up the amazing work homie . Can’t wait for the next vid 🔥

[markjustinejalandoni]

FINALLY!!!
would absolutely love to have a weekly update on this tank ❤

[AquaticMaster]

I'm working on a 33L hillstream scape and this is exactly the inspiration I was looking for!

[rayanebourhim]

Man I love your videos, keep up the good work, I am 17 and because of you I have 4 tanks running perfectly thank you.

[aguma]

Buen trabajo. Ha quedado muy natural y elegante .👍

[colemanpushlar]

Perfect Fish combo and I love the use of all the grasses

[dayankkumarasinghe]

Outstanding, MJ! This is, so far, my favourite shallow aquascape with boulder stones... WOW!

[deckwithmatter]

I feel like you have the same interest with mine on fish selection! I truly love the borneo sucker and badis. They're fun to watch.