During the renovations one of the tanks that we moved fish from was a wall from over here to over here
I took a couple logs popped them in the tank and tossed in a
Piece of or at least a mat of java fur and they quickly ate the java fern then I mentioned well
Having a couple logs in there didn't look so bad. I'm gonna make add in some more greenery, and I'm satisfied with that tank
I was lying to myself. I knew I could do better this story starts outside
You guys remember the time I took you around back of the shed and show you my wood
Well, I went back out there and I started contemplating what I could do for these guys
They do have a pleco within the aquarium. That is a wood eater
So I wanted to add in more natural wood with that said I realized that there were other tanks
I wanted to use certain types of wood for because I only have manzanita as well as Malaysian now
There is a tank that I'm using a lot of
Manzanita in and I figured well if I use that in other tanks as well. They're all going to start to look
Similar and the same I want all of these guys to look dramatically different
So I realized I'm gonna have to use Malaysian wood
But the Malaysian wood has smaller sizes that could fit in this tank are all kind of blocky
I mean, I guess I could stack them all up. That doesn't look good
I knew it then those giant pieces of wood caught my eye the pieces that used to be in the
2000 gallon aquarium the pieces that are considered
landscape
Sizes both over 6 feet long. Oh
I realized I'm probably never going to put them back in the 2000 and clearly
I don't really have any other tanks to fit them in other than the 375 which I don't plan to put them in there
What if I just cut them in half? Ooh?
That hurt that the woods dead. It didn't feel it. But I felt it deep inside this beautiful landscape piece
I went ahead and just cut it in half. I
Cut it to the length of a 4-foot aquarium and I got to admit
I created a one-of-a-kind piece of wood that I know nobody else will have
Not only because of the shape and wood grows in all different types of sizes and shapes, but it just fit this tank
Absolutely perfectly. So I decided that we're gonna go with this scape
I went and started draining the tank took out everything from the aquarium
And if you remember I got to plecos in here
we got vampire pleco which is black with white dots and then of course we also have
That broiled which is a wood eater fat royal
But it wouldn't come out of the log it was lodged and that's something that happens with plaque hoses
They can
extend their pectoral fins as well as their dorsal fin and you can't pull them out for
anything no matter what so I did have to
wait a quite a while for him to naturally come out and then jerk that wood out of there and that was
Time-consuming I had to sit there patiently and wait time to jiggle the wood here and there and it eventually came out
but with a bear aquarium I was able to
drain the tank
And the reason for draining is because I had braces on the tank that pieces of wood was too big but with these custom aquariums
aquariums
customers of clear hands
I can remove the brace as long as the water level is dropped almost emptied
And then remove the brace and put in the wood by myself now I cut this perfectly
There's only a couple of inches on one side
You know what?
I call that an inch maybe three-quarters of an inch, you know, you know 18 millimeters on one side
It was cut absolutely fantastic and reaches the entire height of the aquarium
But it's only a narrow piece only taking up maybe eight inches of width in its deepest place
now the reason why I added this piece of wood to such a big aquarium or such a
Considerably small aquarium for the size of wall root which can get up to 1012 inches is because of two reasons one
I plan to only have a pair in here and when we get the pair the rest will come out
Second is these guys are not really an active swimmer as we watch them
We can see that they're more of a dormant
methodical purposeful swimmer that prefer coverage and places to hide Timmy's in the back there, but
You can tell that these guys don't need a lot of tremendous
Amount of open swimming space, but if that is the case and it tends to happen and we might need to change it
It's no problem
We can rip this piece of wood out and do something different but the wood was just not enough I decided I'd bury this in
Rocks all around the base making it look like the piece of wood
collapsed into the water on top of a riverbed that started here and then
The greenery I went with some silk
Ferns with a lot of people think they're plastic plants when I did some sneak peeks on Instagram
But they are a silk plant that I just got at my local craft store
You can go ahead and grab them
But they do need to be soaked in warm water for a few hours
Just to release anything that might have collected on it from the store that you don't want on it
End result I think it's an absolutely amazing tank. I think it's perfect for the water that's warm in colors
This tank is warm and inviting I'm not sold on the ferns
For Shore and this is where you guys will come in. Let me know what you think
Should we go with the ferns which is some are put into the background another one back here and here
But I also have other plants that I picked up which is more of like a grass type and I have multiple sizes
I'm thinking of maybe
Switching to this one which might look a little bit better because the ferns are not necessarily an underwater plant
This looks more like an underwater plants maybe as a Sagittario or something like that or some sort of Val
I don't know what this could be but the ferns definitely don't grow underwater
I just thought they look lush green and you know completed the look of the tank and most importantly this aquarium looks
incredibly different from
everything else
so we set this tank up with one piece of wood box that I've already had that I collected locally and
Three silk plants that I simply got at my local craft store
This is yet another aquarium that you could potentially replicate not have a tremendous amount of scaping skills, or you know money
And still create something beautiful, I think it just comes down to
Considering the fish that you have and having a vision and trying to pull that together
I hope you guys enjoy this aquarium as much as I do
if you do
Let me know in the comment section below but more importantly let me know if you think Isis which the plants out
This tank isn't done completely but I think it's on the right track
The only thing that I would change is the plants
And I just might so let me know in the comments section below what you guys think and what do you think of this aquarium?
Obviously in time the fish are going to outgrow this scape, obviously
But like I said well now to to fish and that is the end result and the end plan or these walbro
So yeah
If you guys want to see more of this aquarium or the other
aquariums that I'm currently setting up make sure you subscribe if you're not already I can assure you you guys will enjoy and love
All of these aquariums maybe not this this is definitely my favorite aquarium when I'm looking at it
But if I'm looking at that one over there, that's my favorite aquarium. Ooh and
Susan got her own little plant, too
So in this square, I still want to add a substrate a brown substrate to complement the background almost the color of that stuff
That's already in there. We're going to add in maybe some rocks
Just near the bottom here if I could find some that match that color, but I just draped
These are a plastic plant
But I also got at the craft store that I thought looked like maybe a tree branch from above
Kind of fell in the water and it's just written Susan loves it. By the way. She thinks it's so fancy
She thinks she's so cool now with her
Plants. Yeah, I think this cake just looks so much different. Anyways guys, that's it
I hope you guys enjoyed the update to the water aquarium as well as Susan's fancy new digs
This tank will complete here in the near future, but I'll see you guys in the next video