check out the new guys in the 30 gallon.

the crayfish got out again but don’t worry now he is truly Contained. gotta find time next week to cut down the driftwood so it fits under the lid. then I’ll redo the scape. no big changes, just making it shorter.

Wabi-kusa starting to establish itself.

Tossed anubias and one piece of buce in the underwater section because I thought it was too empty

Here's a picture of my first ever attempt at a nature aquarium (had no idea aquascaping was a thing back then) It held my Spanish ribbed newts (pleurodeles waltl) I think I was 10 when I made this aquarium, and it was pretty shitty, atleast I did a lot of water changes but all the plants died, had the newts for absolute ages so I guess I got their care right atleast. I stopped and sold everything when i was 15ish years old and started again at age 22 with just some red cherry shrimp.

2,5 years after starting the hobby and learning a lot about aquascaping, golden ratio's, water parameters, lighting, keeping plants healthy, animal care. Just tying to learn everything in general, resulted in my latest aquascape and its a world of difference.

Now I'm not saying if your aquarium looks like my first that yours is bad or ugly, not at all. I just prefer the second and I thought it would be a nice comparison to show the difference in effort and knowledge. (this post its about the aquascaping aspect of keeping aquariums)

Ah yes, an other completed aquascape, not going say too much about it since it's all on my blog (I'll respond to any questions tho) but yeah apart from some bba and staghorn algae it was a fun journey, I set this up on the 7th of January so it's 6 months old.

gonna keep it going for another 3 months at which point I'll be sick of maintenance and trying to keep the same scape going so after that I'll make a Dutch style aquascape. Since I'm Dutch myself and just like the look of that lushness.

I'll try to make a feeding video of the green neon tetra's soon cause they're like piranhas when it comes to food, also probably why I never see baby shrimp, so I might set those apart again to breed some day.