I really love Kribensis too. All the fishes that I loved as a kid, are now getting introduced into planted setups/biotopes..seeing this is pure joy..thanks a lot again...
New & different but always another beautiful aquascape. Although I think that Crinum Calamistratum deserves a more prominent location as opposed to being tucked away as just a background plant.
That is a spectacular piece of driftwood, I don't blame you for wanting to give it another chance. Can't wait to see how the tank ages over the next few weeks, looks really lovely already.
This is a really unique tank idea. Other than the lake cichlids, african fish don't get a whole lot of mainstream attention over here in the states. I want to set up an African river tank now 😂 thanks MJ
These are extremely popular in the US. While the aquascaping prestige plants stuff are lacking for us in the US and I am always envious of European aquascapers
another amazing build, we have a planted display at our store with albino congo tetras, columbian tetras, and a breeding pair of kribensis (we have so many babies). your local store looks like a slice of heaven!
You are a very talented aquascaper, but your biotype creations are my absolute favorite. This one was another great addition to your accomplished list. Can't wait to see how this all matures. I would like to set something up similar but Asian fish biotype. Take care.
And... They're gone. 😂 Story of my life. Nice tank, growing plants, not even a spot of algae, but... I barely see my fish. They've been in the tank for not even a week, so I should give it some time, I guess. I like this setup, very straight forward. Although I think a black background would make the colours of the fish pop more. Curious to see what's going to happen with the other tank! 😀
Thanks for showing the whole process, even going to the fish store. I have been to that store multiple times together with a good friend, as my nephew also had worked there. Even though I did not have a tank myself at that time, I really enjoyed it over there! Special place :)
I’m not gonna lie that bag of mulch for a natural tank is a really great idea! Tank turned out great hopefully you’re planning on using the other tank to house their babies once they mature
lovely tank i really like it im in the process of setting up a 300 litre tank im still undecided i have a synodontis petricola and a neolamprogulus bricardi to add from another tank. all the very best keep us posted with new videos please.
Kribensis are my favourites too, but be prepared they might rearrange your scape I have 2 generations from my pair had to split mum and dad up because she bashed him and the kids are in grow out tanks Beautiful tank set up too can’t believe you’re paying for “Aquarium Mulch” 😅 Thx again from Oz 🇦🇺🥰
ahh so beautiful and inspiring! i love the natural look with the leaf litter and all. at 16:40 it's so cute how they were hanging out in the botanical together! cannot wait to see future updates c:
Man i love these projects so much, guess that the theme aquarium is my type of scape, i love to see the interactions that could possibly happen also in the nature
love the natural look and i also have the nymphaea plant too but a smaller one, greetings from cebu, philippines keep on scaping and inspiring new aquascapers 😊
Really nice looking scape and those Kribensis were a good choice. I am still in the process of choosing centrepiece fish for my new 90p and something like this pair would be perfect - if I can find them - or similar. All the best from the UK.
Lovely tank! I've been doing some reading on African fish and a biotope like this is something I'd love to do myself someday. Some very beautiful, yet relatively unknown, fish over there like those Tetras!
Love that you've gone for a biotope scape this time. ❤ The wood is a great choice as are the kribensis. I'm also loving the Norman's Lampeyes, a very underrated dither fish imho. Another great scape but not Dutch style this time. Great content. Look forward to the updates.
Hi, something new and very different, if you stepping to biotope, I recommend to look at Bartłomiej Paśnik tanks, he is a polish master of biotopes. I know he is more in to cold water fish, but anyway, is good to look at.
Random thoughts: Wrap the wires with the glass film, to make them "less dark", so they don't show as much? Coat the wood in CA glue to prevent it from clouding the water?
Beautiful aquarium, I really enjoyed the biotope style. The botanicals are a nice extra touch. Sorry if you've already answered this, but what do you use to fill up your tanks? Is it a hose attached to an indoor tap? Cheers!
The bristlenoses shown at the end of the video appear to have small white dots attached to their bodies. Might be oxygen bubbles, hopefully not Ichthyo.
Are those common bristle nose plecos? I’ve never seen them with spots , for a moment I thought they were snowball plecos but at the end I noticed the tail and the weird patterns on the back.
I hid the cables in a white plastic profile for cable fixing. It's near impossible to see, that there's anything behind the tank despite the milky background.
Hoii ik heb een dry start en een dark start gedaan maar bij de dry start krijg ik nu schimmel op het hout,moet ik dat laten zitten tot ik de aquarium ga vullen met watervervangingen,of moet ik dat steeds weghalen🙈
De schimmel kan voor problemen bij je planten zorgen... Ik zou iets vaker ''luchten'' zodat de vochtigheid iets minder wordt. Hopelijk gaat de schimmel dan weg. Je kan ook kijken voor springstaartjes, die eten schimmel!
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I love the natural look of it especially Nymphaea plant. Greetings from sunny and hot Croatia
Beautiful mate looks great awesome lower tech build
I like that you gave information about the plants 👍.
Beautifuk Tank.....love the use of mulch, makes it look line a natural river seen. cant wait ti see the update and how everything grows
Wow! A very beautiful tank and setup. I love schools of small fish in an aquarium!
Amazing video, I literally could listen to your voice al day, so peaceful and mellow. Wow. Hello from the Uk.🇬🇧
Nice step by step biotope 👍🏻
I really love Kribensis too. All the fishes that I loved as a kid, are now getting introduced into planted setups/biotopes..seeing this is pure joy..thanks a lot again...
Great video. I also kept Kribensis in my youth. Understand your nostalgia.
Love lampeyes, they are very underrated in the hobby imo. Some of the coolest fish. My favorite killifish by far
this is really beautiful! That wood. Wow
New & different but always another beautiful aquascape. Although I think that Crinum Calamistratum deserves a more prominent location as opposed to being tucked away as just a background plant.
I see that you always approach each aquarium specifically and this is the level of aquaristics 👍😎
Love your work mate 👍🏻🏴
Your voice is so peaceful to hear and this biotope 😍
Best after a long time!! Love Biotope 👌
That is a spectacular piece of driftwood, I don't blame you for wanting to give it another chance. Can't wait to see how the tank ages over the next few weeks, looks really lovely already.
Those first Kribs were stunning.
I've got a lot of love for Kribs. You will have thousands of them before long though regardless of parameters.
This is a really unique tank idea. Other than the lake cichlids, african fish don't get a whole lot of mainstream attention over here in the states. I want to set up an African river tank now 😂 thanks MJ
These are extremely popular in the US. While the aquascaping prestige plants stuff are lacking for us in the US and I am always envious of European aquascapers
😍😍 beautiful scape MJ! Lovely selection of fish especially the lamp eyes! They’re on my to buy list :)
With the two sticks (you took out), the hard scape looked like a Picasso sculpture!
This is exactly what I’ve been looking for, for inspiration. I love these kinds of scapes and you executed it perfectly, for me at least.
Thanks buddy for idea😁👍🏼👍🏼🔥🔥🔥
A great natural recreation. Looks so calm and peaceful.
Loving the natural scape-very nice
I love it. Really like the biotop/natural style your created.
Cool setup for the kribensis Mark.
another amazing build, we have a planted display at our store with albino congo tetras, columbian tetras, and a breeding pair of kribensis (we have so many babies). your local store looks like a slice of heaven!
Beautiful Tank!!!🎉
I like this scape a lot. It’s similar to one I have for my apistos.
You are a very talented aquascaper, but your biotype creations are my absolute favorite. This one was another great addition to your accomplished list. Can't wait to see how this all matures. I would like to set something up similar but Asian fish biotype. Take care.
And... They're gone. 😂
Story of my life. Nice tank, growing plants, not even a spot of algae, but... I barely see my fish. They've been in the tank for not even a week, so I should give it some time, I guess.
I like this setup, very straight forward. Although I think a black background would make the colours of the fish pop more.
Curious to see what's going to happen with the other tank! 😀
Thanks for showing the whole process, even going to the fish store. I have been to that store multiple times together with a good friend, as my nephew also had worked there. Even though I did not have a tank myself at that time, I really enjoyed it over there! Special place :)
Nice biotope scape and goodl fish choice 👍🏻
Very very nice the video !!!😍😍😍
Love the biotope Mark! Great work.
I’m not gonna lie that bag of mulch for a natural tank is a really great idea! Tank turned out great hopefully you’re planning on using the other tank to house their babies once they mature
Yeah it’s going to be interesting to see what happens when they get babies and how many will survive
Definitely! Also I’ve never heard of those jelly bean tetras excited to see how they look once mature
lovely tank i really like it im in the process of setting up a 300 litre tank im still undecided i have a synodontis petricola and a neolamprogulus bricardi to add from another tank. all the very best keep us posted with new videos please.
Great video Mark. Love biotopes!
I’ve always wanted to see two tanks next to each other with one hard scape that flows through both of them
Kribensis are my favourites too, but be prepared they might rearrange your scape
I have 2 generations from my pair had to split mum and dad up because she bashed him and the kids are in grow out tanks
Beautiful tank set up too can’t believe you’re paying for “Aquarium Mulch” 😅
Thx again from Oz 🇦🇺🥰
Interesting tank and beautifully done!
❓️Why did you use a different filter? Interesting video, thanks!
Love it! I'll hope in the dark places on the left the plants will have enough light to grow healthy. 😉
ahh so beautiful and inspiring! i love the natural look with the leaf litter and all. at 16:40 it's so cute how they were hanging out in the botanical together! cannot wait to see future updates c:
Really cute right? 😊 and now imagine that with a large swarm of babies 😁
Wow! Love the fish. Haven't seen any of them before. The tank looks amazing😍
For some reason I already had this idea in mind from last month, so basically I can use this as a reference of sort during setup
it's really beautiful ❣️
Man i love these projects so much, guess that the theme aquarium is my type of scape, i love to see the interactions that could possibly happen also in the nature
love the natural look and i also have the nymphaea plant too but a smaller one, greetings from cebu, philippines keep on scaping and inspiring new aquascapers 😊
Excellent video! Love the sneak peek at the 2nd tank as well ❤
This one came up really nice and natural.
Can't wait to see it all grown in!
I actually really like the yellow tinge in the water as well.
Beautiful! Awesome long-term choices. Cant wait to see how everything settles in and every colors up. Cheers!
Really nice looking scape and those Kribensis were a good choice. I am still in the process of choosing centrepiece fish for my new 90p and something like this pair would be perfect - if I can find them - or similar. All the best from the UK.
Lovely tank! I've been doing some reading on African fish and a biotope like this is something I'd love to do myself someday. Some very beautiful, yet relatively unknown, fish over there like those Tetras!
Love that you've gone for a biotope scape this time. ❤
The wood is a great choice as are the kribensis.
I'm also loving the Norman's Lampeyes, a very underrated dither fish imho.
Another great scape but not Dutch style this time. Great content. Look forward to the updates.
Hi, something new and very different, if you stepping to biotope, I recommend to look at Bartłomiej Paśnik tanks, he is a polish master of biotopes. I know he is more in to cold water fish, but anyway, is good to look at.
Pelvicachromis taeniatus are also wonderful fishes.
Random thoughts:
Wrap the wires with the glass film, to make them "less dark", so they don't show as much?
Coat the wood in CA glue to prevent it from clouding the water?
Prachtig
Beautiful aquarium, I really enjoyed the biotope style. The botanicals are a nice extra touch.
Sorry if you've already answered this, but what do you use to fill up your tanks? Is it a hose attached to an indoor tap? Cheers!
Yeah a long hose attached to a submersible pump. The pump goes in my kitchen sink, and that's how I fill it up
The bristlenoses shown at the end of the video appear to have small white dots attached to their bodies. Might be oxygen bubbles, hopefully not Ichthyo.
Noticed this as well, looks like ich
Yeah I see it now as well... I'll keep an eye on it
Are those common bristle nose plecos? I’ve never seen them with spots , for a moment I thought they were snowball plecos but at the end I noticed the tail and the weird patterns on the back.
Yeah common bristle nose plecos! I think they have spots when they are young, and after a while they kind of fade out.
@@MJAquascaping makes sense I never seen common in my local fish shops just the albino types not even the reds .
What filter do you use in like fluvel edge 23?
Update 👍🏾
WOW 👌😊
Have you ever glued stuff together so well that u cant break it apart and cant get it out of the tank anymore? How did u solve that if yes? :D
Never happened 😅
What were them yellow colored fish next to the first pair of kribensis? Were they a variety of Jewel cichilids
Yeah looks like it! They are called Rubricatochromis sp. 'Guinea I'
Thanks MJ
They are a type of hemichromis jewel with turquoise colouring. They look yellow because of the lighting.
Hoe, heb jij de in en out flow van de filter bevestigd boven in het aquarium?
Verder leuke video!💪
Ik gebruik de originele in en outflow van Oase. Past precies in de opening links achter
Heb je een spraybar boven of iets anders?
@@OhhSanii nee geen spray bar, gewoon een rechte outflow
Bravo from Romania Dracula land ❤
I hid the cables in a white plastic profile for cable fixing. It's near impossible to see, that there's anything behind the tank despite the milky background.
Smart! I might copy it 😎
Hoii ik heb een dry start en een dark start gedaan maar bij de dry start krijg ik nu schimmel op het hout,moet ik dat laten zitten tot ik de aquarium ga vullen met watervervangingen,of moet ik dat steeds weghalen🙈
De schimmel kan voor problemen bij je planten zorgen... Ik zou iets vaker ''luchten'' zodat de vochtigheid iets minder wordt. Hopelijk gaat de schimmel dan weg. Je kan ook kijken voor springstaartjes, die eten schimmel!
@@MJAquascaping dankje voor de info
Yo bro we need an update on the dirted vs aqua soil tank. It has been a year i think. or did i miss an update?
You probably didn't see this video ruclips.net/video/Yvw0qjsNVQc/видео.html
Cichlid are a bit expensive in India
Cosa ai messo nel fondo
I do like cribs but for a scaper they dig a lot and messes up the tanks. Secondly they breed like crazy should have a plan for the babies
Tips: never put the rhizome of your crinum calamistratum into the soil. This plant must be planted like an anubia
i really like your videos, but as a side note seeing that empty space between the 2 identical tanks makes my eye twitch :D.
Really? 😬 I actually like it that way hahaha
having sound problems watching this goes on and off
man those oase styline tanks dont look as good as the opti whites..
I have kribensis fish but I don't like it, there eating my shrimps nd small fish
“Beginner line” meanwhile these tanks are over 400 dollars. Entry level my arse. No one is spending that on their first Aquarium, what a joke. 😂
First :)