30 gallon aquarium RESCAPE!

[clownbaby]

🐟 AQUARIUM RESCAPE PHOTOS! SCROLL DOWN 👇 FOR MORE INFO & THE BEFORE PICTURES 🌱🌿📷

 

 

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THE BEFORE

This was my first attempt ever at a planted aquarium, or an aquarium over 10 gallons. I had no idea what I was doing, which can show. 

This aquascape wasn't bad! But... I did not like it.

Here were the major things I disliked:

• the grow light being oddly attached
• the fact that the wood pieces all blended in really well
• lack of rocks in the hardscape - just pebbles
• pebbles ended up covering a lot of the substrate
• nothing in the corners made it feel unbalanced, and since it wasn't really an island scape, it was just meh

So, I did try to balance it out by moving more substrate in, and adding in some corner plants:

And eventually I replaced the light with an LED grow light that doesn't just clip on and bend all weird, and I was happier. But I wasn't happy with it. 

 

So, when I was visiting some of my family members (who own land on a major river), I picked up some really pretty and angular rocks. When I got home, I sanded the corners down to be less sharp and boiled them. I found all the wood pieces in the scape in my own backyard wetland, and processed them myself too. 

During the rescape a lot of the dirt got kicked up (as my tank is a dirted tank), and so I ended up losing a bit of the upper-most substrate. (Miscommunication with parents - but oh well.) So I am heading to a local stream to get some river sand on Saturday, since the weather will be nice!

So, I will update on my 30 gallon aquarium journal when I add in the sand.

I am really happy with the result, so please be nice! ⭐🍀❤️🌈🤩

[FLFishChik]

It looks great! You did a fantastic job!