How To Re-Aquascape Your Existing Tank, With Fish In It The Whole Time! The Crucial Steps (Low Tech)
this is the not-so-glamorous process of setting up an Aquascape in an existing gravel bottom fish tank. I had a pair of mating Nigerian red Kribs, which I did not want to disturb to the extent of redoing the substrate in the entire tank. So I picked up some mature ADA ecocomplete / Fluval / Amazonia substrate from a friend, a bag of sand, and got to work.
this rescape required keeping the fish in their current tank in approximately 40% of their normal water. this allows the beneficial bacteria and nitrifying colonies that already exist in my tank and filter- to remain, while remodeling 30% of the substrate.
I also used plants from the same aquarium to scape this tank. Often times you don’t realize what you have at your disposal in your own tank, until you pull out all your aquatic plants, trim your stem plants, split your crypts, and pull apart your moss.
I know this may be a rather dry or boring video to some of you, but I am imparting some of what I have learned thus far and I do not claim to be an expert at the art of hardscaping or aquascaping. however I did recently win an aquascaping contest locally, and have been keeping fish for over 20 years now.
The feeling I was going for in this Aquascaping project was slightly Amano ADA , Slightly Iwagumi ( with my heavy use of dragon stone and wonderstone ) as well as a bit of the miniature landscape look, by adding pathways and perspective to the tank.
It still has months left to mature, fill in and grow out, be manicured and tinkered with, but the basic structure of my new landscape is now in place and actually finished as I write this description.
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