The Amazon Aquarium: Amazing Budget Friendly Aquascape Tutorial 

Really really enjoyed this one Nick. The subject, the pacing, the soundtrack, the outdoor edits - just perfect 👍

The tank looks absolutely amazing!! I love the Amazon aquascape or biotope if you will. I can’t wait to see if the leopard frog pleco will breed in this environment. As well as you breeding the neon tetras. I hope you will continue to build biotope or aquascaping more on the channel

This is actually a niche I haven't seen in the fishtubers I follow. There's legends like Serpa Design, but there's not really people showing off how to scape when you aren't talented at carpentry. I really appreciated seeing this scape and how easy it is. As someone who is not visually artistic, hearing why you are placing things in the tank and where helps me understand a little more about how to scape. Give me music and I can tell you things about its composition. Give me a novel and I can pick out themes and interesting parts of it. I can't for the life of me comment about pictures or decorating choices beyond, "it pretty".

Take a bow mate, that looks superb even before the Val grows in. Looks super natural for a breeding tank too.

Lovely manscape, tiger!

I recommend removing the Eucalyptus leaves, as the oils that some eucalyptus varieties contain are poisonous to fish. Tank looks good though!

I shall be really interested to see how this works out. Accepted wisdom within the hobby is that any wood should have all the bark removed and certain trees should be avoided, eucalyptus being pretty near the top of the list. I really hope this works out because in my locality there are very few trees and all of them are on the 'prohibited' list. My LFS is a 10 hour boat trip away and the cost of importing any sort of driftwood is prohibitive. Please keep us updated, it looks great.

I need help, can anyone give me a hand? I'm setting up a planted Amazonian aquarium. The current fauna in this aquarium consists of 4 neon tetras and 4 albino lemon tetras. The fish are all fine, but one of the albino lemon tetras hasn't eaten for two days and seems to be gasping for air. It swims very little and appears somewhat lethargic. No other fish show any similar symptoms; they're all doing well. The water parameters are fine. I don't want to euthanize the fish and I don't have a quarantine tank. Does anyone have any suggestions about what might be going on and what I can do to help it recover?

Love it! Blackwater is my fav tank scape style. Keep an eye out for magnolia trees in your local area - the dried seed pods look great in these set ups and are a decent size that don't break down as quickly as other botanicals. Otherwise "blackwater aquariums" online sells a bunch of botanicals if you want to add some extra elements to tank. So does Mappins Nursery next time you're in West End. Hope to see a few more tanks like this in the fish room one day :)

Amazing!!! Can’t wait to see more aquascape videos 😍

For the algorithm!

Where did you find the wood?

We want more vlogs

Well done, Nick! Educational as usual, too. Reminding you to check for clear passages (to avoid getting stuck). 😉

Heya Guys, I have a question for everyone. I'm wanting to get a 94 litre tank and put in 1 female betta, 6 neon tetras, 6 mollies, 6 guppies, 2 loaches, 2 zebra snails and 6 elder guppies Would this be a good sized tank? Also, what live plants would people suggest I add? I'm wanting to have a bioactive tank that doesn't require much changing. Thanks for any advice people have for this

Can you suggest which practices should i follow to make a fish tank for black tetras, anges and corydoras. How to avoid angels attacks on tetras and corydoras? Thanks

Doesnt boiling the leaves remove all tannins too? U can get leaves online which are safe but ordering stuff gets expensive fast, your right. Why did you buy sand when you are lucky enough to live near a beach? Maybe boiling the sand, just to be safe? Nice work, nice tanks, i enjoyed your vid 👍

Looks good mate pretty risky using botanicals from a park the workers spray weeds especially in Summer. Encouraging people to collect from beaches is illegal too and pretty frowned upon. Next time try pool filter sand it doesn't need rinsing.

I absolutely love it. Living in SEQ I loved seeing materials local to my area used in an aquascape and has inspired me to try a new cost effective scape

Like the look, but thinking so many branches are going to be in your way, and the plants are going to have a tough time stuck in those dark corners. BUT, the fish ought to enjoy your efforts and should settle in nicely.

Have u ever had starlight bristlenose? The look like peppermint but they're bristlenose and more vibrant as in deep black and bright white

Hey everyone i want to ask that he just put sand only then how the plants get nutrients to grow As i know that val and crypts are known for heavy root feeder so it will work ? Im also want to add those plants in my biotope ❤😅

I've got to be that guy and mention the Jesus sandals with socks! lol!

Do u do anything to the branches or the rocks like clean them extra? And hoe long do you boil the leaves for

What kind of dry branch are you using?

Me and my mom went out today to get plants and 3 cherry blossoms and 2 cardinal tetras

Love your vids but y would u get rid of the plecos u could of made 2 tanks

Aren’t eucalyptus leaves poisonous though?

nice job🎉 _audience from Gold Coast

Very cool! Lightning at the end looks just prefect for this kind of build!

How did you boil those long pieces of wood? Gigantic pot?

That looks really good.

Can you do some video of neon tetra plz

If u had another channel like this what will be the name ??

Hey mate where do you get those external fry savers from?

Hi mate just a question that I'm sure you have answered many times but I was wondering if you can keep L333 and L134's with blue/black and black knight rams .

What size tank was that sir.

do those tetra have crooked spines or are they pregnant?

is there any update on this tank ? ty

Perect timing! This is literally what i wanted

Looks good mate! Hopefully it helps with breeding 👍🏻

Beautiful stuff mate love your videos. Absolutely love my Amazonian aquarium. Keep it up

Can you tell the size of these tanks?

Thank you so much

Great setup!! What are the leave u put in ?

tysm for this vid i am just starting off with my aquarium and dont know what fish to get fot it but now i do the neon tetras, L134s and bettas tell me if you know any other fish i can add to this collection

I was hoping this was for breeding neon tetras. Are you still trying to breed them?

Loved this vid Nick!! I had headed that beach pebbles can release too much calcium?? Looks awesome!!

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Awesome video nick!. I absolutely love this Aquascape! Looks so so natural, good luck with the breeding project . Keep us posted!

I love your videos bro!

Bravo!!!!👏👏👏

I personally would've gone with different sand. Not sure what type of sand it is exactly, but some paver or filler sand is made out of crushed / recycled rocks and concrete. Might want to double check the parameters not being affected too much by it.

I just recently stumbled across your channel, so glad it showed up on my YT feed. You got a great thing going on her and I’m truly enjoying each video you’ve put out. I’m from Brantford Ontario Canada and in my city we don’t have many options for LFS, however 45 mins away near Toronto there is a ton more options. I’ve been in the hobby for quiet sometime but have never tried breeding any fish. I’m feeling inspired to try something!!

looks fantastic! do you think the boiling of the leaves got rid of the eucalyptol oils from the eucalyptus leaves?

Cool video! Haven’t watched your videos in awhile, so I’m bingeing a lot of them today. I totally understand your feelings at the end when you get to scape this tank again. I have recently got back on my aquascaping hobby, so I totally get that. There’s literally no better feeling. That being said, I appreciate all the breeding videos you’ve done. Definitely pique my interest in maybe breeding fish in the future.

Great video. Planning to make something like this. One question- the logs did not float up? How did you manage to hold the logs into your desired places?

Really cool looking scape. What kind of size caves would I need to have for plecos?

Wow the end result was great ver y good natural looking Aquascape

Man this is my favorite video you’ve ever done keep expanding outside just breeding!

That's an awesome set up no lie I want to get into botanicals but they're hard to find here in colorado! Thanks for the vid

Very nice!

Looks good

Amazing

I enjoy all of your videos, this one in particular was a pleasure to watch.

Hello

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Amazing video as always Nick!

Did you test the rock to see if they were aquarium safe?

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nice work good luck the tank looks awesome

Enjoyed that, almost inspiring. A few questions, do you know what type of tree roots you used ?? Where did you source the foam for the mattern filter? Thanks

Great video Nick fingers crossed on breeding the L134s. I am also trying to breed them myself no joy as yet though

Nice job my friend!

Simply Brilliant

never been earlier to a video!

Looks awesome mate :)

Love it , great job.

It looks great 👍

Love this video!

Hi

the lighting and depth in this scape is pretty sick! Makes me tempted to do a setup with the tank long ways like that.

Looking forward to the progress of this tank & Plecos ty for sharing with us looks great