High-Spec Minimalist Iwagumi Aquascape (180 gal / 600 litre) 

Something extremely peaceful about this one. It reminds me of the beach in front of our family vacation home. Soothes this old soul. Thank you.

That is a ton of grass. I love the minimalist. Very peaceful

This has to be by far my favorite scape in your channel. So simple but captivating.

Cracking tank. Brilliant hardscape. Gutted that the video was only 9mins long was looking forward to this video.

Very nice. The Aquascape reminds me of the Dunes of Denmark and the rocks of the shoreline of parts of Scandinavia.

please do a update on this tank around the 6-8 weeks mark if u can! would love to see how it turns out

Beautiful scaping excellent system! You know when you do something this grand the next one is harder to do. Expectations of your work is very high. So no pressure just keep on scaping!

So great, beautiful classic tuto for timeless iwagumi style !!! Keep going so nice videos !!!

You've captured the Iwagumi style perfectly. The scape already looks outstanding. A large school of green neon tetras would look lovely.

You are such an inspiration, here in the USA, Denver specifically hasn’t seen anything like this. Shoot 90% of people I’ve met don’t even know what cherry shrimp are! The aquascaping revolution must begin!

Love the scape. Brilliant team. Ste’s rock work skills are another league 😃

Stunning as ever George ,clean and minimalist. Please do a follow up after a month or so ,as for the fish, I just love a huge shoal of rummy nose tetra’s.

That's a Beautiful piece of art! 💖.Purple Emperor tetra will be Perfect for this.

Everything is absolutely stunning! From equipment to aquascape...supercool. Thanks for sharing George 👍 🤗

Wow nice expensive setup although much better than a new car, at first i thought bit of a waste doing iwagumi style but.. i like it, beautiful rocks and placement...saweeeet

Great scape George! Love the minimalist style. I’m setting up my first aquascape. Bought everything and just waiting for aquarium 120x50x50 to arrive. Heater, canister, UV and CO2 willl be inline (i got inspiration from one of your videos). For my scape I will go for a more nature style, similar to your big tank at home. Thx again for the inspiration! Take care, best Martin.

Looks amazing. Thanks for sharing this project with everyone.

Good Evening Sir. How are you? The Aquascape is really splendid, I'm loving the simplicity of the scape! Awesome Job George, you always go that step further in the Aquascaping World! Thank you for sharing. I hope you have a pleasant weekend my friend.

Looks like a quality setup.

Updates on tanks like these and others you’ve scaped in the past would be really great, and would connect all your great vids together 👌👌👌

I’m looking for an Acrylic Aquarium of about the same size. I want no seams on it. Rounded corners, or close to oval edges; and a one foot bow in the front. 6’ long. 2’ at the bow, and about 18” at the edges oval. About 2’ high. I want to make the stand. I need stress loads of certain woods to build accordingly. I want to have circulation all around the tank. No corners, because they create dead zones. I like your setup. Enjoyed watching. You’re an inspiration to us all!

Great job love the clean look less is more

What a setup. Imagine a nature setup in there, awesome. Still looks great though, love the stone. Think I'll get a similar sized tank when I retire!!

Gonna be some work to get it going well. Will look great once established. I like the natural/jungle tanks personally. All though this style scape looks awesome with any large group of schooling small fish. Cant wait to see it in a few months.👍👍👍

I like the minimalist scapes

Gorgeous as ever! And the tank is worth looking at also ❤ best

Great looking tank.

Could go with two large shoals of Ember tetra and kubotai rasboras. Or one large shoal of green fire tetras.

Nice George, very nice.

Great scape! I love Iwagumi!

Hello George!! Fantastic scape again!! My personal favourite to contrast this particular iwagumi scape would be about 100-200 red ember tetras.. it would just give this scape a completely new look.. #keeponscaping

One of the most beautiful! Thanks..

I’d add 42 Red Minor Tetras ...the colours will lift the tank to another level! The sharp orange red, white tips, black dashes..against that solid green grass and blue rock background...it would be stunning when grown up, the fish being big enough to see from across the room also 😁👍🏻

Simply Stunning!

Huge group of celestial pearl danio (Danio margaritatus) or daisy's ficefish for schooling (oryzias woworae) with a group of stiphodon gobies for foreground/bottom interest, they will love the algae on the rocks. All can be kept at temperate temperatures so you'd get less evaporation. Go all out and make it a hillstream iwagumi, that would be unique and the hair grass would look amazing in the flow 😊

Awesome scape.

Lovely! I am getting behind some of these minamalist layouts... as for stocking I would go with something small and active- Celestial Pearl or zebra danios or lambchop rasboras. I just put dwarf rainbowfish in my aquascape, I think they would look lovely here as well!

A large shoal of black neons or purple emperor tetra or white cloud mountain minnows would look great.

Hi George, after the Scape at Wilton recently I've been bitten by the bug after keeping fish for over thirty years. Great Scape and I'd think a tank full of Dennison barb's will finish it off with five banded barb's.

waooo excellent different aspect for planted aquarium.

Hmmmm really puristic. .but also very nice. .and please install a door stopper. ..I am afraid that this door will hit the tank. ..

I like jungle style for my own home, but this is lovely, George. I can see how it would offer peaceful contemplation, and it brings to mind the feeling of some of Takashi Amano’s “gathering plain” styled works. How about old school with Amano shrimp, a zillion red cherries and a zillion cardinals?

Wow nice minimalist aquascape George, I have a 5 ft 6 inch aquarium heavily planted, can you tell me what co2 regulator you are using and where you get the 10kg co2 bottle also how long the bottle would last before needing to be refilled. Thank you.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🌞❤️

Very nice rock work and the simplicity of using one type of plant. I would love to get a rimless tank like that. Kind of difficult to find an aquarium without back flow parts or black silicone

Love the stone work on this one. Top notch. Have you ever done any suiseki with stones?

These tanks with the white sand and grass beds with rocks that are of pitted, coral, limestone appearance really remind me of the grass beds in Floridas cold water aquifers like Rainbow River. Spent many hours there snorkeling and on our canoe. www.floridapaddlenotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Below-Rainbow-River.jpg

Beautiful and peaceful! Love your work! The only thing I don't like is the black substrate. It is distracting me little bit.

This is definitely a beautiful scape. Being that the client seems to want something very clean and simple I would say a school of 100 Kubotai rasboras. Also, a big school of gertrudae or similar rainbow would definitely look nice here.

will algae grow in the sand with so many light and so "little^ plants¿? saludos desde Argentina George! i love your beautiful work!

Absolutely wowed! Awesome scape guys. Very very nice! I think some Chili Rasbora would make this scape pop. Please tell us how you got that blue hue background

Thanks for sharing this with us! Rummy nose or emperor tetras would be cool.

Very nice! Just hope that door doesn't ruin it.

Beautiful tank ! I think a large school of Asian Rummy nose tetra would look amazing !!

Awesome iwagumi

Absolutely stunning! I'd stock with a big shoal of Bentosi tetra 👍🏻

Nice to meet you. Very beautiful.👍

It would be great if one of the aquascapes you make have Felix installed, so we kind of have a general idea of how useful the tech is.

Wonderful as always.

Very nice aquascape, George! Just beautiful! I would put Green Neons in there. And thanks for remembering your American friends! 😁☝️🇺🇸 Oh, and how are you going to prevent the sloped gravel from sliding forward?

Beautiful!

A shoal of Rosa tetras would look great in there or if you require a colour popping/eye catching shoal I think cardinal tetras but that's if it was my tank love the scape

Very nice scape, would love to see it when fully grown in. As for fish choice, I ‘d choose Paracheirodon Simulans, to add up to the minimalist style, but that’s just my humble opinion.

Beautiful hardscape. Cardinals or neons would be the safe choice, would contrast well. Maybe purple harlequin or glowlight rasbora for something different

Looks incredible - Odessa barbs for stocking

Those lights look superb ! I'd stick a turtle in there :D nah but seriously good job man love the rock set up... any precautions to stop the larger rocks falling ?

How about getting a large school of Beckford’s Pencilfish. Those would be beautiful, get some schooling action, and aren’t what everyone else has. They’d leave shrimp and snails alone, and eat at topwater. Perhaps they’d prefer a more densely planted tank, with cover, but I’d like to see that large school.

That’s a nice looking aquascape 😁👍

Great job! :)

Great scape again George! That hanging kit looks different to say the 1500. That is not all in one like this one, which I prefer.

Great scape! Did you actually use all of that rock? That's one heavy tank! I'd add a few hundred black or green neons, emporor tetras or cardinals. :)

Would use a bunch of Black Widow tertra to contrast with the white sand. Some Torpedo for some colour and some red phantom tera or Serpea for some red bottom level. However, I feel you will go for the rainbow fish 😀 I like the minimalism, will be a challenge to keep the sand clean. Anyhow well done guys.

Very nice tank how do you like the kessils?

Cardinal tetras! Either i'm a mind reader or just pay close attention 😉

A large school of emperor tetras or serpae tetras would look great as well

Deffo a Neon Tetra tank. One huge school will contrast against those rocks perfectly. But isn't that an awful lot of light for such a lightly planted tank?

how about those rare moenkhausia costae that school incredibly tight? that would look amazing

Stunning but just a shame the visible pipework on show on the sides to create a vortex spoils the finish .

Is this a case of form before function i ask myself. It's a beautifully scaped tank no denying that. But... the practicality leaves me wondering. 3 powerful lights in such a lightly planted tank could be an algae nightmare. Plus those Oase filters have an actual flow rate of nearer 900 litres p/h almost as soon as they are taken out of the box. Not their quoted 1250 "max" flow rate. Then there is that mass of white sand. Oh boy that's a maintenance nightmare in itself. And then you have the joy of doing 50% water changes weekly with massive volume. I'd love to see this tank in a few months. And not after several hours of cleaning it to present it to the camera. It looks a great tank for a weekend show but i'm not sure i would want to live with the hassles that are to come long term. I'd want that big boy heavily planted.

What's your thought on mineralization inside the aquarium? Ergo the dissolving of waste to supplement plant growth micros.

seriously man this scape just make me super crazy i am in love with it wish to have like that tanks but in future i will scape my 6 feet tank same like that but which kind of plants is this and name of that rocks and did u paint the background if u did then whats the colour of it❤❤❤❤❤❤

Also grey rock is all the rage at the minute I've been looking for jet black Rock but can only find Grey.

Hi George, I have been writing under your first movie about this scape, regarding this question but have not received answer and can not find it. So, about the Kessil led lights, I have been reading about this lamps and the are many problems with them (burning off led chips). What is your point of view, as I know you have them above your tank?

Love it up close but from a distance hate. Not liking the gap when seen from across the room. Love all the stuff you can’t see or is concealed. I think a lone pair of Gold severum cichlids or any gold cichlids would look amazing.

very nice scape! Zen modus on!!

Awesome!

I'm using tropica soil for the first time and my ph in my tank now is 7.0-7.2 but tap ph is 8.2 Does tropica soil usually drop ph that low? 90 liter bag in a 15.5 gallon

A big group of sawbwa Rasbora also call rummy nose Rasbora!

Hi , the stand that you have had custom made are they all made the same for your smaller line of tanks and stands

I would do a huge cardinal school... Or a dwarf rainbow Tetra. And then maybe 3 or 4 male apistos...

Very nice...As for fish, I'm guessing Cardinals?

nice

Fish choice Spotted blue pseudomugil gertrudae would really energise the tank

School of black line tetras

What CO2 inline diffuser do you have and recommend?

Wow

Please do an update on this aquarium

Really considering minimalist planted tank after running heavy maintenance ones 🤔

I have a question. In an iwagumi layout, sometimes there's one side heavy with hardscape(big rocks), and the other side much less, so which is the best place to position the lily pipe? The heavy side or the lighter side ? for better water flow

How did you get a blue background?

from where do you get these stones dude