Aquascaping with rock on a budget
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
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I know this comment is almost two years after this video was posted but this pushed me over the edge. I have watched at least five of your videos tonight. You go far beyond what I see on other channels. Not only are your tanks beautiful but you explain the theory and method behind your skills. The most impressive thing is you address the concerns of those who don't have a firm grip on the science or don't have an unlimited budget. Well done. You just picked up a fan and a subscriber. Thank you.
Thanks man ~ Glad to be able to spread the hobby
a really beneficial inside tips for Aquascape, Dennis never shy on sharing all he knows for FREE ... i can watch it again and all over again and keeps learning some new tips ... this sifu is AWESOME !
This is such a great tip, Dennis, and so much more logical than using lots of substrate. I bought some gravel pave system from my local garden centre and will be building my hardscape this weekend. Thanks!
Dennis I am new to aquascaping and the use of drainage cells makes very good sense. Love your artistic flare, thanks for sharing your ideas.
You're welcome ~
Dennis Wong if I would like to request your services on Aquascaping my tank how do I go about it
I have just gotten to this video and it is very useful and I am going to use these tips to create my new aquascape. Much thanks!!
I gotta get my hands on this stuff! It looks like it allows more circulation in the substrate vs the regular egg crate.
Awesome work as always!
+AquaScapeGoat TV Yep, plants root quite easily in this one
Thank you for sharing. Always good to learn a new way to build a support structure. Not every style is good for every situation, and sometimes you can't find the materials you need. Also, I really like those grates because you can usually get them (or something similar) for free from a local nursery. It's also easy to build a supporting frame into it when you need to support something tall or you have stones that are stacked.
You’re do great at conveying information. Thank you for lending your time to teach.
Thank you for the drainage crate idea! I'm currently setting up a new aquascape, piling up a rock wall, and the crate is GOLD. Hopefully I can find it in the garden store near me.
I found similar crating! It's for gravel and has a hexagon shape grid about three centimeter high. Perfect.
@@AquaPeetI know this is old but would love to know what you found !
This is a really good idea even if a person has lots of money. It provides a nice way to go higher with low weight and good strength. Some really nice ideas.
Heh thanks ! yeah, the weight is a consideration especially with larger tanks
The most useful video on youtube ! Ive watched it 5 times... just ordered some drainage cells yesterday
Can I ask where you ordered from? I ordered some online but what arrived today is NOT the honey comb shaped cells but some heavy triangle cells in hard plastic 🤨
Also curious where to order
Good idea. You can use lava rock in mesh bags also.
I went to home depot today and bought plastic grids that go over lights, I am going to try this.
I wish I had seen this video before completing the scape in my tanks. Awesome tip!
Looks like it works well. You know I will just say to use lava rubble. LOL It helps hold up sand slopes as well! haha. Great vid man.
+ADU Aquascaping haa, yeah lava rubble is quite cheap as well.
Youda man Dennis, can't wait to do my next scape. I'm going to do a big mountain scape and these egg crate tips will really help.
+Michael Gumm You're welcome ~
This was great Dennis, and you gave me some great ideas for rock scapes-I am starting my first scanning tank. I hope I can find the plastic grids here in US though, I garden a lot and haven't seen in shops.
Wow I just wasted 2 bags of lava rock building my 40 breeder up ! Nice out come but wish I’d have seen your video first! I would have also been able to manage my filtration differently! New subscriber just.......now
Good idea Dennis I will look for that stuff at the garden shop. Thanks buddy
Wow am I glad I came across this video, the drainage things are brilliant! I will definitely be utilizing those as I progress in the hobby.
The last tank was just spectacular. Perfect balance of rock, sand, plants, shapes and colours. You are very talented.
Can you tell me the exact name of the lighting setup you got there. Looks like some inexpensive armature with speciality bulbs?
+ManicMindTrick The center LED bar is the Dutch XB fixture by BuildMyLED.com (from Texas). The two silver lamps are Ikea desklamps with Phillips warm white 2700k fluorescent bulbs to give a warm look/reddish cast to the tank. The LED bar is somewhat expensive, the ikea lamps are very cheap ha.
Genius idea. Thank you very much for sharing
Nice material Dennis, I'll use it on an upcoming project, I have some rather large stones and this will make it quite stable
+Bubba Bumpkim Thanks Tom ~ Looking forward to seeing the scape; those stones you have look huge
I stay in Malaysia and looking for this too. It's difficult to get this item..
this is great tips, thanks for sharing! i going to my local garden shop to find these things tomorrow.
Extremely helpful tip! Thank you :)
Best solution I've seen yet!
The tanks... appear so very finely constructed. Superlative! Material, manufacturer?
+4FunRC No idea ! ? They're cheap, fairly well made China imports, all crystal glass at very good prices. The 3ft tank at the end of the vid costs around 90 USD
+Dennis Wong taobao?
+Joel Lim - An eBay-like site located in China, I presume. The low iron, rimless, all glass tanks I've searched for are all overpriced here in the USA. I'll keep looking. Thanks.
+4FunRC Not really, I'm in Singapore and the shops here have contacts from China. If you're in SG: C328, seaview all have relatively cheap crystal glass options. Quality varies so check before buying a particular tank
+Dennis Wong - Thank you. I'm located in the USA, about 4 1/2 hrs. from Seattle, WA.
another awesome vid from Dennis the Menace... tnx again mate
Now thats something.
It surely makes the rockwork bill smaller.
I will try that at some stage.
The only but is in that i like designing my rockwork paying alot of attention to details that cannot be seen as much as those that can.
Overall it makes no sense, if it can't be seen why worry.
But i like to think i am building a real mountain or any other type of rock formation from the ground up
+AQUADESIGN by aquamaniac I know what you mean, wish I had a cheaper source of stone as well, not much variety on this island. We have a few imported varieties, but it gets costly
Thanks for the very informative video! I’ve been wandering how much rock weight my new 25 rimless could hold, but this solves the issue.
Invaluable information! Much thanks Dennis 🤗
Thanks! Very nice work and thanks for the ideas and help!
so simple yet so effective
Nice vid, I might use this information when I redo my tank.
Dennis, thank you for sharing. Amazing work.
Brilliant idea! Thanks for sharing! I'll definitely be using this method on my next tank.
Beautiful scapes Dennis!
Always great stuff from you!
Wow! Dennis, I was searching across youtube on solving the problem of rock falling.
You have solve my problem :) thanks so much
Fellow Singaporean, do you have a step by step video? By the way keep up your great work!
Thank you for posting this.
love your work keep it up!!
+Ray Lee thanks!
Thank you for your time and nice video.... wish i saw this before creating my first iwagumi.
+Steve Hung You're welcome... don't worry there will always be the next one ha
Wow, you are so talented!
wow brilliant this will cut down lot of money to spend on rock.
Doesn't the soil settle out to a level position after a while, even with the crate structure supporting the rock? I see a lot of aquascapes with a higher soil level in the back of the tank. If what I know about soil (ANY soil) is correct, that large pile of soil is going to slowly level itself out to one flat plane of soil throughout the entire aquarium. Even with a heavily planted tank, this will likely happen, as the soil is waterlogged.
So, again, will the soil settle itself out to a flat plane even if using garden crates like you show?
Please correct me if I'm wrong about all of the above.
it holds surprisingly well, especially if its planted. However, need to be careful at initial planting stage. For every steep slopes, using rocks underneath helps also.
Anybody know where to find these 'drainage cells' locally in the US? Not finding any from googling or nearby hydroponic shop.
Youn Kim I just found something similar. Type in gravel path grid. Looks like you’ll have to cut it down with power tools like circular saw. A website called start safety sells them the cheapest. I haven’t bought any yet.
Thank you
good short video. nice and simple
Badass tank!! Thanks for the tips and tricks.
Great movies and really educational.
You're welcome ~
thank you, brother! appreciate it X
Thank you that's a wonderful idea.
Excellent!
Ingenious idea.
The best i seen to thanks Dennis
Nice tank. Thinking of restarting this hobby of mine..but due to higher cost for materials and equipment i think i shld just hold back first.😣
Such a great idea! Now I want to make a new tank to try it out. :)
+Forgot3nBurrito You should ! and take a video and post the link here for people to see
Awesome idea thanks for your help 🙂
GREAT JOB!! GO SG AQUASCAPES!
ha thanks man
This is a great tip! But I've looked all over for these drainage cells and they are very hard to find. I went to several garden & hardware stores and none of them had this type of crate. Does anyone know where you can find them in 2022? Thanks!
Very helpful. Thanks!! 🙏🏻
Just droppin a quick message for this video which gave me the idea to do my hardscape. 'Keep up the good job in providing informative and practical aquascaping videos!
That's an awesome idea, thanks for the vid!
Wow... beautiful tanks mate!!!
Thanks for sharing Dennis
wow awesome video!!
Very good idea. 👍😊
really useful
haha. I couldnt help but cuss you out at the end, looking at the last tank.
+rustilldown7 hahaa
Great tips!
Love all your videos man. I'm redesigning my planted tank and there's a lot of good info here! Thanks!
Hi Dennis, instead of filling the holes in the drainage cells with sand or similar (as I'm worried about anaerobic pockets), can I just use a weed mat to cover it and then put my substrate (Amazonia) on top)?
What do you think about using garden crate on the bottom and then putting a bag of lava rocks on top of that before adding soil to create that height? I have a very tall tank - 34 inches. My reason for wanting the lava rock is I hear that it helps with filtering/nitrification. What kind of stone is that? Can you get it at a landscape shop?
Please make a video on fertilizing the tank to achieve maximum growth and health of plants.
+C Math There is a vid on tank balance that somewhat covers this
Very clever Dennis Wong, thanks for sharing!
you're a life saver! thank you so much!
Please let me know what type of rocks are you using.
this is really awesome, thanks a lot.
awesome video
such a legend
love ur tanks. verry artistic
This is great! Thanks for the tip
I have seen grid like what you used in florescent light section of hardware store
+SuperKillifish Yes those are light diffusers, but I find that that has too much cell walls
LIMESTONE! Won't the limestone damage the gill rake's of the fish plus play havoc with the HP LEVEL etc?
Brilliant idea! Thank you for posting, keep up the great videos
Love your channel, very informative and creative. Where I live importing rocks and substrate isn't just expensive it is just not permitted and all I have access to is limestone (in abundance) and if lucky slate. I think I heard this aquascape was done using limestone, not sure, but if, how do you control your water parameters with the high carbonates in limestone, especially with fishes in the aquascape?
+PRhapsody Just regular water changes to prevent it getting sky high... in the limestone tanks, KH range between 8-12, most plants/fishes do fine
+Dennis Wong Awesome thanks.
Thanks that is very helpful 👍
What brand of grid is that? Can't find it anywhere
Dennis thanks buddy my problem solved
No disrespect, I’m having trouble understanding what the crate is called, do you mind spelling it for me? Thank you, great video
its in the description
Been to whole stretch of C328 - tak boleh man. can't find any as nice as the ones u hv... BTW u give the best vids so far. Thanks a lot man. For a noob like me - such advice really helps!!!
One more qn if it's ok- Do u think it's worth trying for a high tech planted tank with average tank temp around 28-30 degrees? Coz I dun hv aircon running all the time...
yes, but check which plants work well at high temps; most will be alright. I did planted tanks for years in that temp range
Dennis, what aquatic substrate do you use for freshwater aquariums? I have been looking at Caribsea and Seachem. I am looking for black and red substrates.
At the end of this video, saw E27 x2 light system. Can you share the e27 light information? 請問影片最後的E27是用什麼規格？ 瓦數跟色温..
Awesome tip, thanks!
Athlone Harris-Compton
Hi Dennis, great tips for a beginner like myself. In my case, my concern was about the weights of the rocks since I'm putting it on a shelf which could only carry 50kg. Thanks to your video I manage to deal with the issue.
Could you also share the bulbs you are using on your tertial work lamp?
Thank you in advance! (:
those are standard household CFL bulbs, but higher wattage; 20/23 watts spiral CFLs
hey question dennis, how do you separate Sand from substrate? and on the drainage cells, since it's open in the sides, how do you block the substrate from bleeding into the sand?
I use smaller lava rock pieces to block the substrate... For surface sand/substrate, I tend to plant the sides, carpets that overlap both areas will hold the soil back
Thank you! Informative video
Can I find something in Home Depot like this?
Hey, Dennis. What is the mat at the bottom of your tank? I really enjoy your videos, they are really informative and helped me out a lot as a beginning aquascaper. Thanks for the vids!
Heh thanks, it's just a plastic grid to prevent sharp points of the rock from scratching/cracking the bottom glass
@@2hrAquarist my bigger question is if you have a resource in the US who sells these grids. I can't seem to find anyone outside of wholesale commercial distributors who sell in bulk. Any advice? Thanks
Chad Beatty any luck? I too can’t find this “plastic crate”. I bought light defuser, but it’s too thin.
@Chad Beatty any luck?
magnifico!!