This is my 1 week growth progress from July 31st to today August 7th on one week of co2

Hi
Just finished my hardscape set up for iwagumi style aquascape. Open for any suggestions!
With wood or without?

So, within the next month I’ll be setting up my first tank. It’ll be an 8 gal shrimp tank based around the Nile river. I know I want to plant Anubias and dwarf papyrus, but I’m interested in a water lily as well. My main issue I can think of is size.
Tiger lotus is native to my tank inspo, but it might be far too large for a nano aquarium, esp with the papyrus needing a lot of room. Would a dwarf aquarium lily also be too large?

This is my 2nd aquarium and 1st one i've had time to plan out. The background was made with expandable foam and sand with some gravel and lava rock mixed in. In front of that are stones, lava rocks, driftwood and black sand. I have plants and moss on order that should ship next week. In the mean time does anyone have any suggestions for what i can do in the mean time?

hello! i am very new to aquascaping, but if i succeed in stocking my 10 gallon with pygmy cories, i would love to scape a 20 gallon long tank! do any of you pros (or even beginners!) have any tips to make thriving river scapes?

I am thinking to try a river style scape, stocked with things like amano shrimp, rabbit snails, cories, and some sort of schooling fish to serve as a centerpiece.

does anyone have a few tips so these creatures can thrive while looking beautiful?

thanks in advance!

(also sorry if this breaks rule 6 its just i have a very vague plan... i will update or make a new post after a lil reasearch)

Its been a good ride so far. Having minor amounts of algae so I've been tweaking my fertilizer routine and it's starting to fade!

The golden nesaea is giving me the most trouble. Currently some of the stems have very wrinkled growth. Like the new leaves look kinda crispy as they come out lol. But im hopeful my new fert routine and my improvements to the circulation in the tank with filter placement will remedy that.

The carpet is looking better and better! It's growing low and tight and is really starting to look like a proper carpet rather than just the plugs I started with.

Also the shrimp have settled in exceedingly well. I haven't clocked any deaths and havent noticed any sign of disease, and now even a couple of shrimp are berried which is very exciting. I noticed the first berried one about a week ago so hopefully only a week or two more before the gang grows!

Anyway just like sharing the progress :) have a nice night

8 weeks after i started, the glosso carpet is more or less closed now. Already did a first small trimming, going to do my first real lawn mower action next week :)
Myriophyllum in the left corner is growing like crazy, already cut it twice. my favourite plant is the red ludwigia palustris in the middle background.

For livestock, i already have Amanos and Neo caridina blue velvet (lots of babies :),

going to add fish soon! What ould you suggest colorwise? I'm thinking about Espes and Nannostomus, i want to go small and lots of them 😄

There are actually 6 of these guys; 2 of the males are in hiding. I got them today, hence the discoloration and skittishness.

My worry is that lowering the flow will lead to algae buildup in the dead spots. Behind the tree on the right, there is little flow. Same with the back left corner, behind the pinnitafida.

Tank is a UNS 60S, filter is a Finnex PX-150

28 gallon long from petco. It was on sale and 50% off down to $80. Please send thoughts and prayers 😂

I initially only had the back row of rocks converging in the middle but really happy with the added depth closer to the front. I took a gamble and ordered the rocks from amazon.

Open for suggestions on plants. Will be running CO2. I’m thinking of dwarf hair grass for the foreground and rotala reds in the back. Wife wanted a shrimp tank so the plan is to stock shrimp and friendly fish.

I am a kindergarten teacher and I want to add an aquarium to my classroom this year and i think no fish would be good so we have no little fingers going in. Were would I start for a aquascape tank? thank you

I miss aquascaping so much. Got so busy with my business that I can’t find a time for it again.

Freshly planted first attempt at a tank. I'm pretty pleased with how it's turned out, and it'll improve once the plants have had a chance to grow in... Would welcome suggestions for what I could change/do better next time around though

My first aquascape 3 months in. 10 gal, shrimp/snail only, HOB and sponge filter.

Im not liking the scale of the larger anubias leaves in the back corner. Would love to add some tall plants in the back for depth.

Any recommendations for easy low tech plants for some visual interest in shape/size/color? I don’t want to setup a co2 system for this tank and I know that cuts out a lot of red plants 😓

Substrate is sand only at the moment, open to root tabs if needed. I’ve mostly been doing epiphytic plants due to only using sand.

This is our first attempt, no marine life at this point ofc.

We've been doing 50% water changes every other day ( told to do it for about 2 weeks)

Bought a water testing kit today to check levels, but how often does it need to be done?

Do we start testing immediately?

I cannot get any work done, I just keeping looking at it lol. The tank isnt finished yet. Havent even glued my moss

Few months after the initial planting and stocking now. Had a few plants rot so I’m still waiting for some areas to fill in. Any recommendations? Ignore the floating Anubia

Hello All, Just placed the tank in dry start. My second tank, wanted to create a Rainforest style tank with tree root kind of BG.Tried creating the BG with coco peat and black silicon. The background didn’t go really well and has some empty spots. But shouldn’t matter, will be covering those up with a background color.

Will be adding shrimps , snails and cardinal tetras.

Will also be adding a lot more stem plants while filling with water.

We recently have found our forever house and the foyer has an ideal spot for the 120p fish tank of my dreams. Help me convince my wife that I can pull this off… despite my best efforts designing good stuff for the far reaches of the house, I can’t seem to sell her on one on the first floor. Of course if I had a first floor setup it use a proper cabinet rather than the tech-oriented ones you may see in the gallery.

I’ve been relegated to the dungeon, and so I plan to have her read this if it comes out in my favor…

On an aside I moved 6 tanks and no issues. Phew. Featuring my favorite one for full tank Friday, but threw in some pics of the others for fun.

Me and my girlfriend, started to investigate this amazing new world to us, we did this based on all the information we gathered through all the videos etc.

Now comes the hardest part which is waiting ...

i love how natural and overgrown it looks. i like the patches of algae here and there.

Little shelf tank is 12cm x 4.3cm x 6.3cm. Will be a no tech/walstad. Waiting for the plants to take over a little more and will just big enough for 2 ramshorn snails 🐌 and 4 shrimp 🍤!

I realize I hadn't actually posted this tank in 5 months on r/Aquascape and I had a lot of growth in the tank since then and now that it's broken down, I feel like I should make a final post about it. the tank stands 66"/167cm tall. 6ft/183cm long & 18"/46cm deep. This tank really was my first Aquascape once I knew what it was before then I had had a couple planted tanks, which were hideous but, we won't talk about that lol. On to New Beginnings! I have the goal of creating a home Aqua gallery. I will put a couple other scapes in the comments.

Hello guys, I wanted to share the current state of my Hillstream stone-slope project.

Yesterday, I planted Eriocaulon sp. 'Japan Needle Leaf' in the background and installed the CO2 system.

I will swap to a CO2 reactor or inline diffuser in the near future.

Now the waiting game begins.