Aquascaping a planted tank to create a bold, imaginative aquarium

An aquarium can showcase its creator's imagination beautifully, as this example shows.

The author is a German aquarist. This tank is very long and very shallow, but what makes it special isn't its dimensions, it's the wildly imaginative design.

Tank dimensions: 118*20*18cm

Tank assembly completed

Now comes the part where the imagination runs wild. With these oddly shaped pieces of glass, what does the author intend to make?

Like this

Some other strange glass puzzle pieces

DUANG! A trapezoidal box

Place the previously made box on the left side of the tank

Extend a long tube, and seal the joint between the box and the tube with silicone

While stabilizing the tube, weigh it down with a dumbbell plate

The dumbbell plate will be removed later, so a triangle built from pieces of glass is used to secure the tube

Once the glass pieces are glued in place, remove the dumbbell plate

On the right side of the tank, use the glass box made later, and the other end of the tube is also here

Smash the tiles made of slate into pieces

This step seems to be stuffing sand between the glass box and the tank

Install the water pump on this side

Layer the schist on the left side to hide the tube and pump

Finally, add azalea root, and the left side is complete

On the right side, what appears to be sow thistle is planted. Because the outlet is on this side, the plants sway with the current, giving a strong sense of flow

There are no plants on the left side, so an ordinary desk lamp is used, giving a very warm tone

Compared with the left, the right side leans toward cooler tones, which is also lighting better suited for plant growth

And so, you get a tank with a visually striking warm-and-cool contrast

Cultivating new plants. The bottle-like object is a CO2 generator, placed in sunlight to speed up growth.

To improve efficiency, the author cultivates these plants in layers

So what is this? This is a type of moss, leptodictyum riparium, known in Chinese as thin-net moss, more commonly called stringy moss.

An aquascape made with stringy moss

Back to the topic. The stringy moss is divided up, then fixed onto the rocks

How it looks right after planting

After about 6 weeks, the stringy moss has grown into a forest

Carry out trimming

One side has no plants, formed from schist and azalea root

The other side has plants of various colors

One left and one right; one stone and one plant; one yin and one yang.

What makes aquascaping special is that there are so many small details to explore that make a work feel fresh. So, let's get our little brains turning.

Source: aquariumforum

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