Making The Perfect Shallow Aquarium

Hey guys, welcome back to a new video. I got some exciting news that you can already see standing behind me. The UNS-60S. UNS was kind enough to send this tank to me and I think this project has my name written all over it. I really like to do a shallow tank and I have some ideas in mind. I have some epic rocks. So without further ado, let's get started. To start off with the tank dimensions, the tank is 60 centimeters across, 36 centimeters deep and 18 centimeters high. That leaves us with 38 liters to work with. Obviously there's some hardscape going off. We're going to also use the Skylight Hyperbar FM45 with built-in controller and the metal lily pipes that lead to a Wasserfilter Smart 100. And then I can show you the hardscape. I told you I had some pretty epic rocks and as you can see, this is the highly detailed Hakai stone. It's already one of my favorites. I really love the Eldery rock but this one is pretty outstanding. I got one big party from France and I got one big party from Holland as well. They tend to be a little bit different in color but if you put water on it, they will just look the same. And as you can see, I already started building. What I'm using is the mesh bags that we usually use for filters and biomass. To clean it easier, I will now just do lava stone in it or lava pumice, how they call it. And I can create more height putting it underneath the rock and also putting them a little bit more stable than just on soil. And as you can see, we're starting on the left side and we're going to slope it down to the right side also to the right front so it creates a little more depth. Then later on, we're gonna fill it up with Dennerle soil and also some Rio Heaven sand above that. Because I don't like the sand in contrast with the soil, it needs to be a little go from dark to light. I'm gonna fill it up with some ADA gravel and some gravel that was unbranded as well. So it will look a little bit more grayish like the rocks we're using. shot. That's the ADA gravel we we talked about. And I think it's easier to to throw on some more because later with planting always some soil will pop up because you put your tweezers in and out. So I think it's easier to it's good to to have it covered a little bit more and I can always remove the the soil that came up with with a magnet if needed. I think the color is almost the same as the gravel so it wouldn't be an eyesore. We're going to start off with some cypress species. I always wanted to use them. You have them in all different species as well in the aquarium hobby. I got this one from my local garden center from the pond section and I think I'm going to mix it up with some easy species for the back as well. I just want to have it to look more natural so we're going to mix it up. So let me try to name the list that I used. I will probably mispronounce a few letter names but let's get started. So in the back the cypress species we're going to use some Lysimachia numeralia. It looks a little bit like the Bacopa australis that we're also going to use. Some Hydrocotyle verticalata. That's the bigger leaf than the ones that we use in normal like tinier tanks. It's pretty invasive. It grows pretty quick but it's cool to have like a little round between all the straightforward plants. The Hygrophila corimboza thailand. Then we're going to use some floaters. Some mosses like Java moss and some Riccardia jamae dryfolia. Also some Eleocharis pursula and that will be more like a front plaque. So that's more mini hairgrass style. Some Anubias nana mini kirin and I'm also gonna lower it down on the back side with some Styrogen repens. You will see the plants all in the screen when I'm starting planting them and I think it will turn out like a nice mix. Also the Hygrophila will have some flowers. The Bacopa as well and maybe the Numerala also. But we have to see how it grows and if I need to water it. I was attempting to cut them down as well because usually when you cut them down they get a little growth spurt. But I don't know if it helps. So they didn't dry out. So I'm gonna leave it like this so it's already a little bit fuller. But we shall see. And as you can see we're almost at the end of the video. I want to thank my sponsors Weo, Skylight, Ultimate Nature Systems and Dennerle for providing me with these beautiful products. Without you I couldn't even start this beautiful project. So I can't wait to show you guys the livestock and how it will grow out in the future. And if you have the time please like and comment on my video. A subscription would be really helpful especially as me as a starting YouTuber. So I hope to see you at the next video.