Trimming this Beautiful 4ft Nature Aquarium

Today we're back at the biochemia office and we're going to be trimming the tank that I set up about two months ago. So right here you can see the progress it's gone through since we set this up. If you haven't seen the setup video, I'll put it right up here. But I think it's done very well and I'm really happy with the progress so far. In just a few days this should flower. This is the flower bud and you can see some of the floating leaves. And the one on this side hasn't put out any floating leaves yet. You can see it's still all submerged and I think the submerged form looks better. But I really wanted it to flower this time. I want the staff to enjoy the flower that this plant produces. And they're also really excited to see this when it blooms. But here's what a closer look of the submerged leaf. It's also called the tricolor water lily and it's a very nice plant for aquariums. You can see I've gone for a very classic nature style. We've used all the biochemia products in this tank from the soil, the rocks and the driftwood. And I really wanted to create a lush green aquascape. Not just green but a colorful aquascape. And we've used Glossostigma in the foreground. You can see it's growing a little bit tall so we're going to trim that today and try to keep it as low as possible. I've used some mid-ground plants like tenellas. Two types of tenellas. We've used Anubias and Cryptocoryns. The Cryptocoryns, when we first planted them, they were all melted. So it was just the roots that we planted. But you can see after two months how much they've grown. They still need a lot of growing to do. I really want them to cover the bottom areas of the driftwood. So hopefully in a few more months that can happen. Then we've got some Microsorums. This here is the Microsorum narrowleaf. And we've also got some Bolbitis. So those are the two types of epiphyte plants that we have on the driftwood. And then for stem plants I went with a few different kinds. So we've got Hagrophila polysperma, Ludwigia repens green, then we've got Rotala fujian, Rotala orange juice, Rotala rotundifolia green, and Rotala nangensian. I think that's about it. Oh and we've also got Proserpinaca palustris, which is this unique leaf plant right here. The fish we've got swimming in this tank are some Ember tetras. A nice bunch of them. And we've also got some cherry barbs in here. Right here is a nice female. And we've also got a very colorful male. And I hope that one day they will give birth to some nice little babies in this tank. I'm sure they will produce in the future. And because there's a lot of hiding areas in all these plants, I'm pretty sure that a good majority of the babies will make it. But I really really like how this tank is coming out. Now we just have to shape it and make it look a little bit nicer. Give it a good design. All right I'm gonna start by lowering the water level and then we're gonna trim all those plants. All right so the trimming is done. I've trimmed the foreground. The glosso was growing tall a little bit. I think there was too much shade from all the floating plants. I also cut back a lot of floating plants. There were more leaves than this. I was actually here yesterday and I was trimming some of them. But yeah it looks a lot more neat and clean. But I'm excited to see this thing grow again. I feel like I cut a bit too much of a stem plant. But I want it to last a long time before the next trimming. So it's gonna be fun to see how this thing turns out. You can see all the fish are enjoying all the space they have. And I've also filled the tank back up to the top. Yeah let me know what you guys think of this fresh cut. Since the glossostigma was growing mostly upwards, there's a lot of open areas where you can see soil. And I am thinking of maybe putting more glossostigma planting in the open spots. But I think we'll just wait it out and see if it can grow in on its own. So with this scape I'm going for kind of a concave composition. A v-shape in the middle. It's a very gentle v-shape as you can see here. It's not like one of those v-shape where there's a pathway in the middle. But it's kind of a connecting v-shape. So I've always wanted to try this style. I think this is my favorite composition. It just looks the most balanced out of the three main compositions there are. There's the concave composition, which is this one. There's the convex, which is like an island style. And then there's the triangular. And the triangular composition is also very nice. But I think if you want more, if you want it to be more bold and have a powerful impact, I think the concave is the way to go. So let me know what you guys think of this scape in the comments below. I hope you enjoyed this video. If you did, be sure to give thumbs up, subscribe if you haven't already, and consider becoming a member. And I'll see you guys next time.