Contest Calendar 2: Aquascaping Contest Project Management, Check-in for Planning Planted Aquariums

2nd part of the Contest Calendar series, which will be a casual check-in to talk about the project management behind a contest tank, the different stages to be reached: Design, Hardscape Start, Hardscape Completion, Planting, Fill-- the timing, the reasoning behind the timing, managing workstreams that come together for the final photo.
Follow the series, ask questions in chat about your own Road to the 2024 Contests, and I'll feedback my thoughts about your final photos!
My contest scapes supported by ‪@UltumNatureSystems‬ | ultumnaturesystems.com/

[@stefan00123]

Hi steven san,
What a great video i just love the way you are learning me so much i hope your work will have a nice result at the IAPLC and hope to meet you at one time 🙏
Have a great weekend and hope to see more videos from you in the near future!
With love from the Netherlands
Stefan

[@SteveScapesYT]

Thank you!

[@neilrobins3329]

Thanks for this, really helpful. Thank you! This year will be my first contest😬. Could you do a bit on photography as I only have a phone and was wondering is this good enough? Do I need a wide-angle SLR? How do I take a RAW image with a phone camera? Any tips and tricks?

[@SteveScapesYT]

Sure! Good idea; I can do a session on photography when we get into April/May-ish

[@MyVlogFish2U]

Your videos are so useful brother!!
But i have a quetion! Can you do this kind of video, like show us the tanks. And not being descualificated from iaplc?

[@SteveScapesYT]

Thanks! No official rules but, better safe than sorry

[@jmaquascaping]

Glad things are coming along nicely. Do you know the actual time actively working on the hardscape? I wonder what that would be Versus your time estimates. Another words do you think it is possible to spend say two 10 hour days and knock it out to accelerate the process on the calendar? Or are you already working a lot of active hours on the layout over that duration?

[@SteveScapesYT]

For this one… maybe. For many of my older layouts I already did days like that on top of working for ~.5-2 hours on it before work almost everyday.

[@Fox.Men05]

❤️🇹🇷

[@Fox.Men05]

Can you add Turkish subtitles please my friend please🙏🤩🇹🇷

[@SteveScapesYT]

Thanks for watching! Can Google translate for me? O.o