All of my Aquascapes - Success vs Failure 💚

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Here's a full update video on all of my aquascapes at home in the GFS Gallery. I cover progress on the Oase Highline 175 Malawi cichlid aquarium, Fluval Flex aquascape for my Betta fish, Nimrod. My Aquascaper 1200 Nature Aquarium planted tank is looking great by my Aquascaper 600 Iwagumi is not!
Let me know what you'd like me to do in the Aquascaper 600!
Keep on scaping!
George
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@awardsentrant 4 года назад

I've binged hours of your videos. Building up the courage to begin my first scape so your educational approach has been unbelievably valuable for me 🙏 thank you

@GeorgeFarmerStudios 4 года назад

That’s music to my ears! Thanks for the feedback. 😊

@blann1 4 года назад

Hi George, make it educational and show us how to recover from your disaster. good luck keep on skapeing

@jescowan26 4 года назад

Advice with the tank is basically “if you can’t accept me at my worst then don’t expect me at my best” effort always shows. Keep the sick vids phones are amazing

@dusk1947 4 года назад

Personally; I think you should fix that tank and if you want the cost and maintenance of another tank, then set up a black water. I greatly dislike the idea a "rescaping" or tearing down an old tank that is still functional. How many plant, fish, and invertebrates will be affected? Aquascapes are often treated as decore and art, but they have a large living component that should be respected. I am not saying that you personally would simply kill half or more of that tanks inhabitants. But many do. "Rescaping" promotes the idea that the organism are somehow disposable. So while I personally love seeing new scapes, I also enjoy seeing them cared for long-term

@christiansakai 4 года назад

I love the way you put this

@sys434 4 года назад

good point, except that all plants and livestock can be relocated.

@fabulously695 3 года назад

I agree that many people treat plants as disposables, but if you decide to rescape periodically, as long as you have a cycled holding tank for the livestock and re-use or rehome the plants, there is no harm done :) Any plants I rip out that I can't or don't want to reuse in the next scape go into my emersed stock plant setup and then possibly terrariums if they work out well, or eventually another scape if I don't like the way it grows out of water

@BillyBasford 4 года назад

I think a repair job, it would be a good film to watch it come back to life.

@MDFishTanks 4 года назад

Love the cichlid tank George. Not really a content type of tank but really good as a personal enjoyment tank. And +1 for camera phone (of course 🤣).

@augustvukosovich4683 4 года назад

I'm not a crier, my husband can count on one hand how many times he's seen me cry since we've been married, but there are a couple classical pieces of music that bring me to tears too. I get so emotional with the beauty of the sound. Thank you for sharing that with us.

@bweb6 4 года назад

I loved the black water tank you set up in the past which the apistogramma were breeding in. Beautiful tanks, George! 👍

@kiddoutdoors 4 года назад

Thailand/Cambodia sparkling gouramis. 👍 also I hope to see you at aquashella in a few weeks!

@jzbendy2780 4 года назад

I don't mind the phone shots at all George. I'm amazed at how steady you are with it!

@alexscherweb 4 года назад

You should do a black water Biotop with the tucano Tetra 👍🐟

@LizzieBlock 4 года назад

Nimrod laying at the bottom of the flex had me cracking up 😂😂 George! please do another blackwater biotope of literally any kind, your last one was so gorgeous.

@wxlurker 4 года назад

Lizzie Block My betta does something similar as well by tucking his head behind a leaf and lying on the soil, they really do sleep in all sorts of strange ways. It gives me both a heart attack and makes me laugh as well.

@2friendstoking 4 года назад

@@wxlurker One of my bettas likes to sleep half out of the water on the frogbit in his tank. I thought he was dead the first time I saw him doing it but it's been about 9 months since I got him and every morning before I go to work I check on him and the majority of the time he's laying on a frogbit leaf with his head out of the water

@Yarky1 4 года назад

If you do a blackwater biotope... I suggest chocolate gouramis! Awesome fish with a lot of personality.

@aaaquascaping9774 Год назад

you are like the most talented aquascape artist

@jamiebaker6516 4 года назад

Rio Negro blackwater for that 600. This time use duckweed or red root floaters as the foating plants. That way you can still have epiphites and crypts in the tank itself. It might actually look great with the Kessil light and a "ceiling" of duckweed. Go MD style with that one.

@randyshart5160 4 года назад

Absolutely love the Flex and 1200, both look incredible and at opposite ends of the high end/low end scale 👌

@ChristopherCharman 4 года назад

Hey George. I reckon a black water biotope is a great shout. As much as i’d enjoy watching you repair the 600 and deal with the algae, it would be going over information and techniques that you’ve already covered in other videos. A fresh scape would be great to see, and i think it would add even more diversity to the gallery, alongside the other tanks. Would also be a good chapter for your book. Keep up the great work mate.

@RLCAquatics 4 года назад

I can sit there and stare at those tanks all day long..... beautiful! 🤝

@ShawnHineidi 4 года назад

beautiful gallery George. I hope you can work on the iwagumi tank and make it look stunning again as it is my favor tank you got there! thanks for sharing the update video.

@vitamin2038 4 года назад

Thank you George, I really like the flex .

@mikeinca3762 4 года назад

Beautiful aquascapes and beautiful home George!

@bjjbrawler1 4 года назад

The phone footage looks great. It looks like you move around more naturally with it. So, keep doing it!

@madfishdiva 4 года назад

Your tanks are so amazing. Thanks for sharing the successes and the failures as new Aquascapers often give up. Planted tanks are a marathon not a sprint with trial and error as we work to dial in all the elements including lighting, ferts, CO2 and other variables. Yes, do a black water Asian.

@Evil_Genius_888 4 года назад

Love the fish gallery. It’s so beautiful. I’ve been thinking of redoing my 29 gallon as a Amazonian blackwater for awhile now, so to see you do one of those would be very cool!

@charliemalinis5028 4 года назад

All your tanks are beautiful!

@aquamind9996 4 года назад

For the black water, I would choose chocolate gourami or samurai gourami if you can find them. Throw in some chili rasbora too just for fun.

@meiyuan2134 3 года назад

i loved your fluval flex 15 tutorial! really awesome and it actually helped me a lot when i did my fluval flex 15 scape. i'm having trouble with hardscapes but i'm figuring it out

@KanbaruS4n 4 года назад

I was a huge fan of the blackwater tank you once had so I'd be all for it if you decided to make one!

@Brantov 4 года назад

Gorgeous your aquascapes my dear friend George. Have luck.

@jimlubeskie4312 4 года назад

George - the aquascaper 1200 looks fantastic! Would love to see a blackwater scape with angelfish.

@Sispheor 4 года назад

I vote for a rescue ! With a day to day evolve video! I think a lot of people would be interested by some advice for this kind of accident.

@justinbrock1943 4 года назад

Any new scape is educational, go for it.👍🐠

@robbvanputte8193 4 года назад

Hi from the state of Illinois, USA, George! So many of us struggle with the realities of keeping these aquascapes on top of all the other responsibilities of our adult lives. I think showing how one can successfully recover a scape like your Iwagumi will inspire and convince many who might want to quit the hobby faced with this to keep going and ultimately overcome these issues. Keep up your great work!!

@ALLDAYEVERYDAYKIM 4 года назад

Watching the tutorial video made me buy the 15gal flex. Great aquarium thanks Mr Farmer.

@GeorgeFarmerStudios 4 года назад

Thanks Kim 👍

@ALLDAYEVERYDAYKIM 4 года назад

Welcome

@TangoSierra86 4 года назад

Hi George, Another great video! I agree with Dusk194. I say you should fix the iwagumi and do a blackwater setup in a new tank :) The satisfaction from fixing all the hard work that went into the iwagumi tank will be awesome. Flex your scaping muscles! And then move onto a new tank for the Blackwater because you have been talking about it for a while now, and I am very curious to see how it would turn out! Cheers!

@janofe2232 4 года назад

Hi George, RE: the nerite snail eggs. I've found that clown Plecs are really good at cleaning them up. They are a plec that doesn't have many greens in its diet preferring meatier foods. They also don't grow very large which is another bonus! Its been really helpful in preventing those eggs appearing everywhere in our tank with nerites!

@rexena1381 4 года назад

I like the cellphone in updates it makes it more person and carefree. Also BLACK WATER! I'd like to see some classic neons. My neons are in black water and the look amazing! When their far away their blue is almost purple and as they approach the glass their colour changes to a vibrant blue. I think it's something more people should see of such a common fish in the aquarium hobby

@vaibhava1983 4 года назад

George you work is beautiful and inspirational:-)

@paulwestcott8171 4 года назад

Yep a Black water tank i reckon, its something different then your normal scapes (not that there is anything wrong with them) and we can all learn something along the way.

@steveng666 4 года назад

Love how it’s filmed from a phone George no issues with that as regards to the tank I would love to see you do a black water you’ll have to go back to crowders aquatics for your supplies though with their amazing stock for black water 😀 I love angel fish so would like to see a tank with them or even a big school of cardinal tetras would be cool hope you do a black water tank 🤞🌱

@Aquagold.goldysingh1313 4 года назад

Beautiful room with full of nature

@HAlves-ip9cn 4 года назад

This is what I really like about you and your channel. You are straight honest and are not afraid of showing success but also failure. And this is what aquascaping is all about. You are an amazing guy and I really like your honesty towards the viewers. Many successful aquascapers kind of show the tank but no detail behind it, they don't tell the story of the thought process behind it, the struggles, what was done to fix it, the routines, the material and fertilisation scheme, etc... Regarding your question, I would say, recover that thank. make it an educational video and then, after a month or so, if you are still not happy with it, go for blackwater.

@GeorgeFarmerStudios 4 года назад

Thanks so much. Really grateful for your words 👍

@volteface69 4 года назад

Toujours magnifique George et merci !!! 👍👍👍

@jreustle76 4 года назад

Camera: I like the first person view with the phone but I also like the cinematic videos that you do - loved the ones where you go super close to the shrimp and you can see the tiny bubbles coming up off the plants 😁

@lorenzospina3174 4 года назад

Good job George 🙂👍.

@rickyabdullah4758 4 года назад

Nice full update George, all your aquascape tanks are inspiring, I see one tank quite unclear

@uomorana71 4 года назад

09:40 the apistogramma cacatuoides is really an amazing fish and about the iwagumi aquarium i'd strip it down and do a blackwater biotope setup from scratch

@manfredkiel3667 4 года назад

Once again a great video. I always liked that you as a pro talk about failure and algae, too. Nice intro btw =)

@inspector4133 4 года назад

George, I always enjoy your reviews. Your candor and stream of consciousness just seem so great. Entertaining and educational. Keep it up! ...and I'd like to see a black water tank with S. American fish.

@GeorgeFarmerStudios 4 года назад

Thanks so much 🙏

@dansoncjf 4 года назад

Real bummer about the Iwagumi, but also excited to see you create a blackwater tank!

@63MRFLAG 4 года назад

Beautiful tanks !!!

@mountainhobbit1971 4 года назад

You keep talking about wanting to do a black water tank so my vote would be to strip down the 600P and create a South American biotope with pencil fish, corydoras, hatchet fish and small tetras.

@mujacko2002 4 года назад

i love george he is very endearing

@spencerbray2054 4 года назад

Thanks for the update George! The 1200 is my favourite scape and its looking amazing! Also the mixture of filming techniques works for me personally. Its nice to have really cinematic videos but the informal "cell phone" footage is better for vlog or update style videos I think. Anyways thanks again for the inspirational update! If you do redo the iwagumi, dont look at is as a bad experience. I would say bad luck and maybe this is a chance to make something new that youve wanted to do!

@sidwellavfc 4 года назад

1200 looking ridiculously good, love it. Unless you need to keep the iwagumi for images for your book, the biotope would be cool!

@michaelrojas7240 4 года назад

George, your a busy guy and things are only going to get busier. You've demonstrated that an Iwagumi is doable but also a little higher on the maintenance. So I'm voting for the blackwater. Last time it was South American, how about a SE Asian? Nimrod would love it!

@daveshanahan3413 4 года назад

I was looking forward to seeing the Iwagumi evolve a bit. I do like a Blackwater though. I'm split.

@geekroute 4 года назад

i recently bought a few pots of tropica 53B thanks to your videos. trying to grow them without co2 now

@burchwoodgaming 4 года назад

Great update! I like the idea of a Blackwater tank however I think they are showcased best in a larger tank. I say rehab the Iwagumi and if you are set on a Blackwater setup maybe do a 900 or something along those lines in addition. Great vid as usual!

@Gaaraape 4 года назад

I'm generally not a fan of Malawi tanks but yours made me want to get one for myself

@Jack-ye6fm 3 года назад

Love the tanks! You could add some inlet sponge to your flex outtake to help reduce the flow - as it seems a bit wild for your Betta.

@newmexicoaquatics282 4 года назад

Thanks for the tour. That 1200 is looking wonderful. I wanna see George Farmer do a tank with Killifish! I know it would require a lid, but still, their beauty with your taste would be great. Plus I am going to get my first killifish soon and need ideas. P.s. Looking forward to the book! Cheeri-O!- Little Bobby

@isonovoso8312 4 года назад

great work.

@siobhonphillips2295 4 года назад

Looking fab George! I did laugh out loud when you introduced Nimrod as playing dead, my Betta Darth Fishy does exactly the same thing all the time lol !! On his side, all sorts of positions and I have to put my glasses on and have a really close look to see if his gills are moving. I love my Betta fish too :-) Oh and please please do a blackwater tank!!

@lilirose72 4 года назад

Yes! Do a Southeast Asian biotope with Sparkling Gourami, they are awesome- and I'd love to see someone do a tank with riparian vegetation as well!

@stephenburke8581 4 года назад

The benefits of the snails mean I’ll happily tolerate the eggs. As for the black water aquarium, I’d be really interested in seeing one set up as I have no experience of them but do find them really interesting.

@karsten5969 4 года назад

Hi George I would say black water biotope as south America some small cichlids

@dopey_duck_944 4 года назад

amazon biotope, but with as many different tetras as you can, i think that would be awesome

@antsfrance9999 4 года назад

@@dopey_duck_944 South Amarican biotopes are too overdone George should do another region like southeast asia.

@pedromoreira9385 4 года назад

Hello George.You should do a black water Biotope and put in there the Apistogramma Cacatuoides you have in the bigger tank...they will love it!

@vinniejudilla3921 4 года назад

I like the black water idea George.. You did a great job with it last time. As always I'll leave the fish up to you😁 Man, the 1200 is looking beautiful as well as the African tank and Nimrod. Just when i fall back in love with the 1200, you mention tearing it down😕 I'm sure it will be sweet whatever you might put in it's place...(salty?) 👍👍👍

@metalstax3915 4 года назад

I would love to see you creating a black water south american tank. Some dwarf cichlids and you're good to go, I'd say. The other tanks are marvelous! The cichlid tank just hits it!

@champion_i_r Год назад

I Love that 175 😍

@tanveersheikh2293 4 года назад

for black water fish suggestion that would be strawberry betta (also know as Betta albimarginata) for sure!

@notsure9802 4 года назад

Yes, a blackwater would be lovely and a nice contrast to your other scapes. Personally I love Corydoras, so maybe center the stocking around a school of dwarf cories?

@neilthomson4402 4 года назад

Really enjoyed that George. I started laughing at the same time you were smirking regards the 53b. I’ve got mostly 53b in my Flex too. Where do you get the T-shirt from please? Black water scape would be interesting. Keep up the good work, and get writing, I’ve ‘requested’ your book for Christmas!!! Neil.

@shaneo.5992 4 года назад

Thanks for the update video George. I think the cell phone footage looks great for videos like this, whereas the dslr is probably better suited for the more cinematic shots. As for the iwagumi, it seems like you’re leaning towards tearing it down and converting it to a blackwater biotope. It’s probably best to go with what you will enjoy more and can put the most passion behind. But before tearing it down, maybe contemplate the scape and figure out what you don’t like about it, and what can be added/changed to fix it. Perhaps add some wood and do a nature style iwagumi hybrid. Or a add tall delicate plant like eleocharis vivapara behind the rocks to fill the upper negative space. Either way, it means we get more videos, so I can’t complain :)

@Ritaxbaby 4 года назад

I think you had great success with your first blackwater aquascape. I'd say go with a blackwater biotope again. Given that the Amazon is on fire and being destroyed, maybe you could do an Amazon aquascape as an omage to it. With it you could do a livestream where people can donate money while you're setting up the tank (doesn't have to be just the Amazon, could be for different habitats). I believe that now that you're a figure in the aquascaping community, you could use your knowledge and popularity to get people to donate to some really amazing causes.

@randysearle2702 4 года назад

Hey George - love the idea of a blackwater tank - since you were thinking of starting from the fish and moving out - perhaps an African theme, and a cute little Hydrocynus goliath would be a fun, interactive companion fish to keep! A joy to interact with, and clearly family and friend safe for dinner and garden parties. As for your nerite snail problem - there is some anecdotal evidence here in the colonies that Pygmy Corys will eat those snail eggs off the rocks - don't know what you've heard.... thanks for this video!

@AcuariosRodriguez 4 года назад

Beautiful your aquariums, greetings from México ✌😁

@brandonsaquariumsandterrar8985 4 года назад

Nimrod is getting big!

@joshdean2376 4 года назад

Oh no few scratches on the 1200 glass! 😱 Other than that looks outstanding! Going to get a fluval flex 123l next week, long term can't with for an aquascaper 900 💪

@dasmidget1 4 года назад

i would love to see you do a forest type tank (which is perfectly suited for blackwater) in the diorama style. It's the perfect mix, in my oppinion, of your natural style aquascape mixed with a blackwater style. I believe this tank would be a showstopper coming from you.

@medwardbell 4 года назад

Love Nimrod!

@magstheonlyone 4 года назад

You could fix the iwagumi, I was really looking forward to watch as it develops. And buy another tank for the biotope of amazon angel fish and tetras 😂

@leonelreo 4 года назад

I really love simulans tetras in blackwater tanks.

@DeanR3 4 года назад

Great vid as always, what about showing us how to recover it then when ready do biotope , i really want you to do a nano setup at some point 🙄😁 great update. Dean

@chadkittleson5447 4 года назад

I'm uncertain what type I would like you to do, but I would love to see you try black water of some variety.

@davidfieldman8723 4 года назад

Hi George do a black water biotop love to see how you do one

@jonathanlaw6261 4 года назад

Hi George. Great video and great channel.. i have just planted a flex with a betta. Quick question. How often did you dose the tropica prem ferts.. cheers

@adamgarcia1530 4 года назад

I think Blackwater is a very good idea. Try to go a littl bir against the norm with this one. You should try a riparium setup. Use plants with a lot of emergent growth, scape that creeps up out of the tank, maybe some air plants. Nothing huge though, just have fun with it, give it a thought.

@cichlidscape 4 года назад

I would love to see you fix the tank & bring us a lovely cinematic video of the iwagumi before breaking it down👌🏻🤞🏻 Then maybe a biotope tank specifically for your apisto’s?

@timariums1620 4 года назад

Black water biotope 👍 With cardinal tetras 🐟 and some apistos

@jreustle76 4 года назад

Aquascaper 600: I’d love to see you do something that was angelfish centric but I don’t think the 600 would be big enough so maybe chocolate gourami would be cool - Jeff at adg has an awesome one going the last time I was there... All of your tanks look beautiful, even in equipment failure your plants are growing and recovering - I think it’s something that’s good for people to see that you can come back from disaster.

@rte64rte 4 года назад

Thank you for the updates. Nice super nice tanks. It would be really cool to do a black water tank. The South American fish are fun, but then again so is the Asian. How about the African? Brown African knife fish are beautiful. So many options. I am sure I will enjoy anything you do. Thanks George.

@Zulizu17 4 года назад

Black water biotope tank would really round out the corner of your home. I say do some sparkling gouramis in it!

@GIXXER270 4 года назад

Blackwater biotope! Or at least a sort of a jungle style/mangrove. Perfect fish i found out are keyhole ciclids (bit small tank tho). Love the big tank and really like the camera/phone. So cinematics with the expensive fancy pancy camera and rambling with the phone. Cheerio and #nimrooooood

@matthewgardner1568 4 года назад

Defo do a Blackwater, be great to learn about how to create that.

@GEORDIESCAPER 4 года назад

Great vid George, shame about the Iwagumi but good excuse to create new scape eh Haha? I think black water biotope for Green Neons👍👍

@davidhome6680 4 года назад

Love your scapes. I've only just started my first one and tbh, haven't got a scooby do what I'm doing, but fun and I've followed most of your instructions, so thank you for all help and inspiration. I don't know if you do requests, but I'd love to see a 'mangrove' scape, if you do?

@tyler357 4 года назад

Definitely Blackwater! Checkerboard cichlids or a really cool apisto species. With some pencils or tetras. It would be beautiful!

@Shane-ng5ud 4 года назад

Hi George great vid as per! Could you do a short vid on the equipment you use for and the method of your water changes need a better way to do it rather than carrying 20/30ltrs of water up a flight of stairs twice a week. Love the scapes and all the work you do for us! ♥️🌱🐟