r/Aquascape

Hello aquascapers!

I'll start this off saying that I'm brand new to the r/Aquascape and have never owned fish or a tank or anything. I'm a ceramicist and I fell down a bit of rabbit hole last year making these ceramic houses. They were originally meant to be lamps or candle luminaries, but a ton of people have seen them and said they should go into a fish tank! This video doesn't quite do the color justice, the top of the roofs are a really nice copper green/aquamarine with a pretty marbled texture that I think would really pop underwater.

I'm posting here to ask the community if i took some quality photos and posted this on eBay what would be a reasonable price to ask for? I put a lot of hours into it (probably 100+) but its a bit cracked and missing a wall. I was thinking of asking around $300-500 but have no idea how much money aquascapers tend to drop on big decor like this (the base is about 1.25" square and about 1" tall).

I would really appreciate any tips or advice!

Also I wasn't sure if selling things on this sub is frowned upon, deepest apologies if I've broken any community guidelines!

Since last post I made, I redistributed some of the H. tenellum to more patchy areas, and as seen here, add an Anubias congensis attached to the right driftwood.

The bacopas and H. tenellum have already picked up pace and is growing robustly.

Current inhabitants at the time of writing this are three platies, a single amano and single cherry shrimp.

Also to note about the biofilm slime on the driftwood; I decided to keep it as both a food source for the shrimp and also as a “living fossil” that resembles microbial mats seen in Precambrian Earth (for the paleontology and geology nerds like me)

There was another cherry and a goldback neo and another amano but they died. Turns out the water was too soft and since then, have boosted the KH and GH to 80-90 PPM (GH) and no further shrimp losses.

There was also another platy but it died a few weeks ago as it suffered a gill injury from going into the gap between the glass and pump which I have sealed off since then with sponge tied to the pump however this was an isolated incident.

Overall, despite these losses nitrite and ammonia are nonexistent and nitrate is at a healthy level.

Reposted here as nobody answered my previous post

Hi, my tank 3feet , 4 mths old setup . Want to convert to fully bucephalandra plants in future.

What are suitable plants to place at background?.

Running on canister filter oase 850 , chihiros wrgb2 , water chiller set at 22C.

Prefer rhizomes plants because soil is seachem - not very fertile soil .

12 Cardinal tetras

Gonna put

6 Pygmy corydoras

1 honey gourami

I am setting up a Fish room and looking for a bulk source of Seiryu Stone.

I know whoever I go with I’m inevitably going to get some small pieces, but I really am looking for large to medium pieces to fill some tank tanks.

This is one wall with three 40 breeders and four 20 highs. I also need to scape a 90 a 33 long and other tanks. Plus eventually I will be setting up a second wall with 19 feet of tanks. Various sizes still planning that wall though.

I have a pile of driftwood already, I also have a ton of brown lava stone and dragon stone piled up for other tanks.

Anybody have a good source for stone that is not incredibly expensive? I know it’s not cheap. Nothing in this hobby is but I don’t want to have to pay Fish store prices.

I recently manicured my betta's tank. The Amazon sword was super overgrown and blocking the flow of the tank. I uprooted a clump of it that was in the front left corner and planted some new Monte Carlo, with the hopes of a carpet growing in. I removed a bunch of duckweed and my Anubias started to flower ... So far so good

Then I looked at my community tank...where to start?! I do regularly trim it back when it gets super long, but something about it doesn't look quite right. I have a centrepiece of spiderwood that some Christmas moss has taken over , and lots of Amazon sword. I still want the fry to be able to hide somewhere safe, but I would like something that still looks pretty. Should I just accept it as is, or change it up somehow?

7 weeks update on my 7 gal. Inhabitants thus far are two Otto’s and 5 neo yellow shrimp. First time running Co2 on a tank and have been using the Amazon Neo Co2 kit. Works great for me so far I’d say. The Dwarf sag Is popping off as well as the Ludwigia super red! Struggling to get my S.repens and Bacopa Going though. Any advice for those plants!? Anyways just wanted to share the process! Hoping to add more inhabitants soon! Thoughts and critiques welcome!

Hi all. I just received my new 80 gallon and wanted to make sure I have this all setup correctly. Using the level mat. Want to also ensure this corner looks fully supported. The stand is exactly the same size as the tank so tough to get everything perfectly flush with the mat.

Made the big rock with tunnels under it for the catfish. This is a small part of the tank but the most beautiful part.

Just started a new scape about 5 days ago, tank is already seeded as I had a secondary filter running in another tank which I used here, used some aqua soil from that tank as well as water.

I’ve only ever had one other tank and never used spider wood.

What is the white stuff forming on the wood?

I’d also like advice on elephant rock, I see white lines in the rock and apparently that might be calcium carbonate which affects your water parameters? If so then how so?

Lastly any tips on keeping these plants alive, bought them emerged and last time most of my plants melted and turned to mush.

i have this wooden tank (OD70x70x40) and i am planning to make it my first aquascape. does anyone know where i can see cool examples of top-view scapes?

Any advice on how to make it more visually appealing? Since this is my first scape and I only have these 3 rocks and more soil, I will be planting monte carlo carpet soon, but I also don't know what to expect of the result

so for some information/context,

the above plants are waterweed, amazon sword and giant vallisneria, currently its arranged to look like a river, but how do i increase it, looking for a wild/loose look, but do want to keep the middle area open as the goldies love digging there. and maybe a change of background, idk so thats why im posting here

Brand new 75 gallon, I didn’t have time to buy plants but I have hardscape in (slate temporarily holding wood down). What plants would you recommend for foreground? I plan on putting jungle Val in the back but I’m empty on what to do for the foreground/mid-ground plants.

I plan to add white sand to the right side. Plants am thinking mostly val at the back and brazilian micro swords at the front mixed with anubias on the wood and some crypts in the mid