I MADE A SHALLOW RIVER FOR TINY FISH! Aquascape Tutorial 

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Did you say river aquarium? Yes please I would like one. River setup with nano fish is the best. Cheers MJ

Haven’t been watching aquascaping channels cause it’s gardening season but when an MJ video comes out, you watch!

Leaving the background transparent was a great idea👌💯

A suggestion : after the planting show and tell the difference about how plants grown after 5 weeks like each plant that is planted. Example i wanted to see how helanthium Tenellum and eriocaulon red will look like after 5 weeks. Btw im also going to make a aquarium like this 😂 the shaoe is very unique 👌

haven't watched yet but *i already love the thumbnail vs the tank in the first few moments.* i think sometimes we keep going with tanks that we kind of aren't really liking anymore, not enjoying or things about it don't work. and it's good to see an overhaul to show what is possible. plus the concept of this one is really cool. fast moving river for TINY fish, and that it's a slanted design for the scape.

Nothing beats a good river bed setup, love it!

i love simplicity of valisneria tank.

I LOOOOOVE borneo suckers. Super charismatic little fish! Make sure to keep an eye out around the rim in case any of them decide to get adventurous

FINALLY!!! would absolutely love to have a weekly update on this tank ❤

Dennerle: exists This guy: DENLA 😂😂😂

On a side note: despite of what it's called I am not so sure about the role/importance of carbon in the substrate (as Clear Super). I think (and I have been reading about this lately) it serves much more as a source to speed up bacterial growth. Nice work again, Mark.👍

MJ instead of soil you can get at the pond departement of Intratuin lava rock split from Superfish. Great stuff to get hight and for bacteria.

But,I love previous setup😢

I'm working on a 33L hillstream scape and this is exactly the inspiration I was looking for!

I really appreciate how your tanks are not over planted like so many other aquascapers! Please keep up the amazing work homie . Can’t wait for the next vid 🔥

Perfect Fish combo and I love the use of all the grasses

Gorgeous tank. When you said river, the picture in my head was more of a river flowing the length of the tank. What it turned out was a bit different. Your flow was what I expected, but the scape was more of a cross section of the river. You gave me some things to think about with my 10 gallon long bookshelf tank. I scaped mine where the flow is along the length, but the actual scape is a section from the middle of a river where rocks have fallen and a long piece of driftwood has caught in the rocks forming an underwater bridge between rocks, and it flows the length of the tank. I used natural colored course sand and the rocks are dragon stone. The fish are a school of Venezuelan Red Sail Cory’s and another school of Chili Rasboras with a clean up crew of Amano shrimp. I planted it with crypt parva and lucens along the rocks, small Buce on the wood, and in the open area at one end I used dwarf sag. The dwarf sag has covered and I have to keep it trimmed. I am hoping the chilis will scatter their eggs in the sag and I will get some babies. My Buce is not doing so good in this tank, but I think it is too much light and too close to the light as I have Buce in other tanks and it is doing good in those other tanks. I have changed up my light, so I hope my Buce recovers. Love the long tanks. They are so fun to scape. Thanks for sharing your long tank and your beautiful scape.

Hey MJ, great video! To enhance plant growth, I like to only put nutrients where the soil layer is thin. Then when you have a thicker layer, like here on the right side, I firstaddthe substrate and add nutrients. Then a final layer of 1-2cm of subtrate before the plants. This way newly planted plants straight away have access to the nutrients and grow much better in the beginning of your setup:)

Looks great! Thank you.

I feel like you have the same interest with mine on fish selection! I truly love the borneo sucker and badis. They're fun to watch.

Pretty interesting Size of the Tank. Great for River Style Tanks

Beautiful set-up, the loaches were just perfect for the tank

Nice! Please keep us updated on how this matures.

Lovely tank, MJ. Well done.

Production of video is amazing, keep it up!

it's soooo beautiful

Buen trabajo. Ha quedado muy natural y elegante .👍

Man I love your videos, keep up the good work, I am 17 and because of you I have 4 tanks running perfectly thank you.

Beautiful setup as always! 💚

I like how you explain everything and that is also a really nice video. Thank you!

Beautiful!

so lovely and tranquil!

Beautiful tank❤

This turned out great!

Love it, it looks great.

the tank looks amazing!!K

Very nice and different

The scape turned out amazing, love the stocking also. It did hurt my heart a little though when you said you was throwing away all of those plants.

Beautiful aquascape! I am excited to watch it grow in!

So nice

Fantastic tank!

Excellent!

Beautiful aquascape. Love this❤️

That turned out beautiful. One of my favorites from your work!

Love the look of this tank 🔥

Love the video! And the Eriocaulon, such a pretty plant 🌿

You never disappoint

Nice work as usual. Thanks.

i just love how you maintain a natural set up! Hoping for a shallow planted tank soon! and yes the plant selection is perfect for low light setting.

Love it, one of my favourites by you since the big shallow

Actually sick layout

Great setup

Simply beautiful! 😍

Beautiful! I really like this setup. Great work!

GOOD JOB

Exactly the inspiration I was looking for

Beautiful. The perfect aquarium to sit beside.

Excellent video and excellent tank!

Beautiful tank Mark 🙂Love your plants selection, rocks..Its really amazing and the tank looks optically much bigger than it is (I mean liters) Love it 😎🙏

One of your best setups MJ,stunning

The video is top quality like always! It is fun to watch and I love your style. If you ask me, you could show the endresult and the fish a little bit longer with this chill music. Gratulations to you for this wonderful build and video!

Beautiful setup! It really grew in nice

my favourite little fish!!! ❤️🥰❤️

Amazing scape ... I was going through MJ withdrawls for a week and was so happy when this vid dropped. I really do love that you did an after setup follow up after a good amount of time.

Looks great, as always! Thanks for the content(:

Appreciated the explanation of all the stuff you added to the substrate :) The tank looks fantastic, great work

Keen as for this one man

Could you do a video on how you did the hanging aquarium lights? Id love to set mine up like yours🙏

this has to be one my favorite aquascapes by you!!!!

Wow, this turned out very beautiful and "zen". Nicely done 👍😃

Top quality entertainment once again. Cheers 🎉 Love your new studio.

looks very serene and beautiful careful, those rainbows are jumpers

Stunning mate. I have a 90L collecting dust till I figure out what scape to do. I really like this set up. Thanks for the inspiration

the green machine guy "james findely" is awesome and his works are so amazing. i feel some takashi amano in his works.

Even though I switched to reefing I still enjoy watching your content, you are an artist 🚀 thanks for sharing your journey and skills with the rest of us!

Please use units when measuring TDS, there is difference between PPS and us/cm

good

Love your videos! Also like how you blurred it in the beginning… but it’s in the video thumbnail 😂

hi MJ , love your content. you videos are always very inspiring. hello from Australia, keep up the great work. cheers.

nice

Very natural. Good choice not to use a backing on the tank. I love your work 😎

Bagus sekali ❤

Think the frosted background would be good.Gonna try it.Thanks

I also like Dennerle aquasoil, especially since it comes so cheap at Hornbach, relative to other shops.

Great video!!!

Really cool stuff. I bet if it was a bit deeper (from front to back) you'd be able to keep a greater volume of fish with less problems. It's just so little volume for that amount of light and fish. Beautiful design as usual though. Love the channel!

Watching your videos has really given me the nudge to get back into planted tanks after years of Saltwater. Plants and the constant battles with hair algae really turned me off. Set up a fish rack for nano specied and neos. Definitely appreciated your videos on the diy co2 and decent budget lights.

You mentioned fine tuning the CO2. Could you please elaborate on what you did and how it affects the algea you mentioned? 🙂 Love the look of the tank by the way, great job!

Great composition with the rocks and grasslike planting! 👍 I am planning something similar at some point, but with a UNS 90L (so 90x30x30).

I really want to make some nice aquascapes but honestly I'm not good at it (I'm currently reading George farmers book on aquascaping) but basically I got a UNS 3N and a bunch of hard scape and I stared at it and was like how do these people come up with this stuff so I decided to just play around and right now I'm just adjusting things before I buy the plants, but they're definitely not as good as some of your nano scapes 😅

put water lettuce it looks amazing would work great

As decedant Amano stated some tricks to make aquascape looking nature as odd number of rocks and sizes to arrange big size in front and small in back , please could you mention it in comming next video . Thanks

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Beautiful setup! Streams setup have always been a favorite of mine! 😍🥰 The different colored tails in the gastromyzon might be different species altogether since differences in sex are usually seen in body shape. I am a little bit worried about those loaches climbing out however given how high the water level is without lid but otherwise a very nice matured setup for those species~

Love this scape MJ...you beat me to it.....just had my first sponsored tank sent to me and I am going for a river aquascape also. ...I will have a much higher flow rate than yours though to try and mirror an actual river.

Throwing out all those beautifully growing plants hurt to watchhh. Wish I had enough plants to confidently throw out that much.

You added the minerals to bring up the tds.... is that for ppvetter plant growth or more for the fish?? Also beautiful tank mark looks aweesome

Bei dem Becken hast du aber lange gewartet mit der Neueinrichtung .. 😂..Was ist eigentlich mit James Finley? Existiert "The Green Machine" noch? 🙄 Sehr schöne Steine und gute Tipps zur Einrichtung eines Aquariums! 👍

it's strange I didn't get a notification of this video. I usually do.