My planted aquarium build

I would keep a betta and few gold fish or some chicklets

Where do you get your acrylic sheets an how much?

With a tank that small and such thick sides I would definitely go with a peacock mantis shrimp, I don't think it would be able to break the sides with his punch. Add some substrate a few hardy plants some LED's and a decent filter … sounds good to me 🙂

i'd make the tank a pico tank with some hammer corals and some yellow tail damsels

Kessil a360 and c02 hi tech tank German blue Rams and cardinals

I am late catching up on your videos. I hope it is ok to mention what I would make in a cube shaped tank. I have always dreamed of having an aquarium/terrarium build similar in appearance to the tank in this video. I want it to be a 36" by 36" cube. The way I would decorate it inside would be broken down into thirds going from top to bottom and in thirds from front to back.

In the very front, in the bottom, front 1/3 of the tank (imagine a 12"x12"x36" aquarium inside of the tank, positioned in the very front on the bottom going from side to side), I would build an aquarium feature and have an Xenopus in there.

I had one of those from a kit I bought as a kid. I sent the certificate off and he came to me as a tadpole. I fed him drops until he turned into a medium size fat cool looking water frog. I named him Robin and fed him earthworms when he grew up. He lived about 6 years old. When fishing season was slow in this area, I learned to go to stores at night (with the owners permission so I wouldn't get shot, lol) and catch bugs in the air around the security lights. I had to do what I had to do to feed Robin and I did not know about vermiculture back then.

Back to the aquarium/terrarium diorama setup I would like to do:
In the very back, in the top 1/3 of the tank, I would make a fake miniature snow capped mountain range with small artificial homemade "trees."

In the middle 1/3 closer to the center of the tank, in front of but below the mountains, I would build a miniature log cabin out of pencil size twigs. Next to the cabin, closer to one of the ends of that section is where the water would come into a river type feature. That water would go down a waterfall into the Xenopus "river" area below and in the front. The idea would be to have a gentle, slow moving river or stream for the Xenopus at the bottom in the front.

Those are the areas that would actually be visible and decorated. All other areas, (the bottom 2/3 in the back below the mountain range and the 1/3 at the bottom in the center under the cabin area, I would hide filtration and tubing to route the water where it needs to go to keep it circulating and clean. I would make the mountain range and part of the cabin area into one removable piece to access the filtration area.

At one time, I thought about adding a turtle too, but I would rather the Xenopus be the main focus and not have to worry about something else living in there that might like frog legs for dinner.

My main concern would be lighting. I would definitely want miniature live lily pads in the bottom area with the Xenopus, but I have never been able to find a good grow light that is affordable enough for me and good enough to grow plants without the plants becoming too "leggy." Years ago, when I experimented with trying to grow various things inside the house in winter, I used to use the BriteStik fluorescent tube grow lights, but I haven't seen any of those in years now. I think they discontinued them. I would definitely want to find an affordable decent grow light for area with the lily pads, but the rest could be just regular lights.

I have no clue if it would work or not, but I would love to see it done, even if I can't do it just yet.

I'm a bit late to the party but I love chilli rasboras, they'd give that tank a great sense of scale!

Where is the best place to buy these acrylic sheets?

I'd either go with an iwagumi with Kubotai Rasboras (aquatic arts sells them) and some really colorful shrimp, or alternatively I'd go with some type of Jungle tank. This tank could look amazing with a really high quality betta in it too.

I've also thought about a blackwater biotope, that could be neat.

I'll say though, any type of planted tank I'll do from now on will be a variation of a Walstad Method tank (soil capped with inert sand or fine gravel). The Walstad's (or at least soil capped) are so much better for the plants and I think even the fish. Soil microbes live even underwater and your tank will have much more natural life. The plant health in a soil capped is much healthier than an inert substrate.

I would love the planted tank! I have really been digging the planted tank with underwater trees. I know for my next build i would love to make one. Preferably with a rectangular tank (to get more of a panoramic Forrest look).
With the Cube I would say a Grand Tree with a thick trunk (I would find Huge/thick Drift wood. and tie java moss to the top of the drift wood.) I would also carpet the substrate with probably monte carlo. I do prefer dwarf baby tears but they grow at a slower rate. OH! You can try the Dry start method with Dwarf baby tears if you have never done it!!!! I am in the process of my first time, and it is showing great results!

great timing im seting up a planted tank too im going for a grass carpet

I'm excited to see the tropheous , I'm picking 16 red rainbow kasanga this weekend ..

i would do led lights for plant aquarium and do co 2 with that tank and dirt bottom

Zen Garden style 🙂

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I would make a Orinoco-Rio Negro tank with fish such as Apistogramma breitbinden, Apistogramma velifera or Apistogramma guttata and some tetras, oto cats and pencil fishes