Half a year ago I bought a 6ft Waterbox fish tank. I always wanted to take advantage of the peninsula style by creating a cliff face/river bank scape at the base of the tank. However, after many attempts, I still couldn't quite get it right!
A couple of months ago, my friend Nick introduced me to Jason Sulda on a rainbow fish catching trip. Jason has his own channel Australian Biotopes where he documents and creates biotopes of native environments. I was lucky enough to have Jason offer to create the scape I had always wanted for this tank and he did an INCREDIBLE job. In this video I show you exactly how he did it so you can enjoy watching the process and maybe learn a thing or two about aquascaping!
Jason's channel Australian Biotopes:
https://www.youtube.com/@australianbiotopes4563
There may be an issue with the channel link so I have pinned a comment from Jason (Australian Biotopes) which you can click on his channel from, or search Australian Biotopes and it will come up :)
Timestamps:
1:54 - STEP 1 Preparing the tank
2:20 - STEP 2 Adding a geo fabric base
2:53 - STEP 3 Adding drainage cell
4:06 - STEP 4 Filling drainage cell with sand
4:30 - STEP 5 How to layer the scape
5:46 - STEP 6 Choosing natural rocks and driftwood
8:32 - STEP 7 Adding different sizes of rocks
9:52 - STEP 8 Cutting smaller pieces of drainage cell
10:45 - Liquid glue from MAD Aquariums
11:45 - Ornate rainbow fish/Rhads
12:35 - STEP 9 Adding different grades of substrate
14:22 - STEP 10 Adding aquasoil and plants
15:54 - The tank one week later
16:17 - Crimson spotted rainbowfish
16:31 - Adding more plants and roots
17:31 - Glass fish from KeepingFishSimple
18:17 - Before and after of the aquascape!
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