You ready? Three, two, one
oh, nice.
Previously on Aquascaping, the Waterbox 220
I am using E Marco 400
Check out how beautiful this thing is.
I'm so inspired by this piece.
It's like like I'm talking about art
These are the inside measurements of your tank
So these are the inside where the line is?
Look at this.
Look at that beautiful shelf rock
Allof this rock out, I realized I don't really want a rock
base, I actually want to craft a base that's made out of cement.
If you take a look, this is what it ended up turning out, I don't think this is
sturdy enough to hold definitely both this up a bit for extra strength.
So I decided that instead of using this,
this initially was supposed to be for the smaller structure.
But I kind of like it more for the big one.
What we're going to end up doing is right now
This thing looks like a pancake,
but what we're going to end up doing is we're going to dremel it
We're going to dremel it in the shape that it needs to be to support the weight.
Right now, it's just a flat pancake.
But I'll show you.
I'll just show you when we actually end up doing it.
I guess. Let's start honestly.
I was going I'm just going to smash it.
Let's smash the rock ya'll
one, two,
three.
Are you scared?
It's kind of perfect, it's a little too perfect
Bam
this is the fun part, guys.
Interesting little ledge.
Just like the way that sounds.
Bam, just drop it on the floor.
I think that be so much more fun
So now that i've smashed
those, I'm going to go ahead and smash some more.
This is the best part of Aquascaping.
Let's let's hit this bad boy and this bad boy.
Let's smash him. OK, you ready ya'll?
Are you ready? Three, two, one.
Oh, nice. I like that.
This is nice. Look at that.
Yeah.
These are good pieces now it's like smash smash
I barely hit that
so that I've broken a few of those up.
I definitely want to play around with it a little bit.
I kind of have an idea in my head of what I want to do.
They're like a big branch and.
And elongating over the tank
OK, also, after working on this aquascape
a little bit last night, I didn't really do much, but this is what I came up with.
This is going to be the base structure of one of the two rock structures.
I'm thinking the bigger one.
What I ended up doing is, of course,
the base here that we made earlier, but I attached it using superglue and this
insta set for the super glue to set really fast.
So basically, it just kind of temporarily
stuck the stuff together so I can get an idea of what it's going to look like.
I'm going to actually end up obviously
like putting this together with concrete, but it's a start.
OK, it's a start.
Did you see the recoil?
That's a cool one that one is nice.
OK,
there we go.
The piece I'm going to be working on now is I'm going to be making a kind
of extended one like, oh, my gosh, it's like falling apart
and going to be making like an extended branch coming out there.
So I'm going to just take some of this rock and play around with it.
Cementing down the back area right here.
So that would be the next step is
cementing this area here, reinforcing it just like so if you guys
can see all of that down there is concrete.
So the goal is to make it continue on because it's the backside.
You can't see it right after that.
We have already made our arch
It's definitely coming together.
So I'm excited.
Update on the aquascape, you guys,
this is what I have so far, this initially was going to be the
the larger structure and I actually added this or I glued this.
I glued this arc together.
And my initial idea was to have like kind of like an overhanging arch like that.
And while it looks pretty cool,
I'm really not liking the size of this thing.
Like, I feel like compared to our wooden
stake here, it just doesn't have that much height here to really consider it being
like my main structure, my main structure, I mean, the larger of the two structures.
And I was kind of thinking like by itself,
like it looks kind of sick, is like a smaller structure, you know what I mean?
Like, I feel like tilted like that, like it would be a pretty sick, smaller,
smaller structure here for the right side because it's still relatively small.
And of course, I'm going to be adding
little details like making this come up a bit more here or something like that.
But essentially,
I think I've decided that this is going to be my small, small structure here now
currently trying to figure something out for the larger one.
Not really sure what I'm doing, so I'm just playing around at this point.
I don't know. Let's see how it goes today.
Hopefully I get this main rock structure done so I can start detailing this smaller
guy or hey, maybe I'll end up making that still the big structure bigger.
Something else for the smaller one, I don't know.
But let's see.
So due to my lack of inspiration and just kind of not feeling this aquascaping
anymore because I'm getting so overwhelmed,
I decided to place that little originally left structure now right structure piece
into the tank to just kind of get an idea of what it looks like.
And you know what? I think it looks pretty darn cool.
I don't know about you, but I think it looks pretty darn cool.
I mean, what I'm thinking from now is I
got to make one heck of a big structure here.
And I actually came up a little bit with a little bit of something with Reef Mama.
But obviously this still needs to be touched up.
I need to get the final detailing done on this thing.
But I just wanted to get an idea and just
quickly show you guys what this thing is eventually capable of, I guess.
Right Bao Bao?
You like it, Bao Bao?
I don't know where I left off in the last video because I made so many little
updates, because this aquascaping thing has been like all over the place.
But I ended up with this space structure, say, hi, Reef Mama.
She's helping me out here because I'm feeling very uninspired.
We came up with this base structure.
I can't say I'm exactly happy with it,
but I have to remember that it is a base structure.
Right. So we're going to build off of that.
I was thinking,
you know, I made this arc for the other side that I decided not to use
on the other side to make that the smaller structure.
And honestly, I still kind of dig it like I really like this arc.
It's like it was meant to be for some reason.
So I was thinking originally, go is kind of like the same thing I was
going to do with the last one originally and just give it another shot
with a different base that I guess I'm not more happy about.
But I mean, it'll work.
I keep looking at it and thinking this is going to be the final product,
which is why I'm kind of upset that I have to remember that this these this concrete
is going to be pretty much hidden once I'm done with it.
So yesterday we cemented this guy here
and we were kind of silly because while we were cementing this guy,
we decided to be proactive and make a concrete support for it.
But we're so silly.
It was so propped up with Styrofoam that
we actually got the Styrofoam caught in it.
It didn't actually attach to this.
So definitely today I want to cut
that part off and reinforce this space for the twentieth time now, I guess,
but really make sure that that base is sturdy by the time I'm done with it.
I want to as you can see, I've cemented this portion.
I need to flip it over and cement the back portion.
And Obama has actually done a pretty
stellar job here of breaking up this rock, as you can see.
So I'm just going to play around with it.
I'm just going to play around with it.
I'm going to figure out what I'm going
to attach to here to make this the height that I anticipate it to be.
I'm not really going to worry about the size of this thing right now,
because I think that's it's like giving me like I think this is what I keep tripping
out about and why I guess this is taking so long, because I'm too like.
If I can't envision it all at once.
I'm like, kind of like, oh, I can't do this.
So I think if I just get the bulk of this done, I'm going to figure it out as I go.
Like I'm sick of trying to make this so
perfect that I can't actually figure out what I want to do, you know?
Let me show you guys what we ended up
doing, so we cemented this little arc right here.
We do this little thing is just for weight to hold it down.
But I'm looking pretty good, I guess. I don't really know.
I think the plan is from here is once this
dries to have like a separate arch coming down here from that area and have a separate arch
come down there towards the front and maybe something more trailing back
there, we end up reinforcing the cement leg that's been giving us all these
problems and reinforced it with these little pebbles, rocks we have right here
to hopefully make that base way more sturdy.
And I mean, it's looking looking like hopefully it will hold.
So let's see.
Only time will tell it's a slow process.
But I feel like I'm getting somewhere now, I guess.
Very important point, and I'm so glad you brought this up.
Happy fishies need caves,
so I'll definitely be incorporating some overhanging ledges and cave structures
towards the back of this aquascape moving forward.
And joke's on you.
They're actually rubber grapes grape lights, to be specific.
You know, we have a real grapevine on top, so it feels real.
But the squirrels get those grapes before
anyone ever tries to even attempt to reach one.
I hate that so much, but mad respect to that.
Squirrel's hustle on getting there the first day of grape ripeness.
And Dustin, I'm always yelling, especially when I'm excited.
And Chris spread the word, bro.
I'm trying to get to that one million this month, though.