Reaquascaped 10 gallon

[es31710]

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[stalefish83]

Woa, crazy. Never seen a giant hill right in the middle... is that just a huge pile of the substrate? (must be, otherwise the substrate would just slip down the side, I would think)
I'm curious how that's holding up, have the rocks moved around? an updated pic might be cool.

Really sweet idea, I dig it

[PhillipOrigami]

Nice!
@above:
its actually quite common. And you apparently put rocks down and cover it with stubstrate and put in cardboard peices to make sure it doesn't fall.

[Cory Catfish]

LOL, I always try to make big hills in the back but my fish dig, and dig, and...yeah.

[es31710]

Yep that is my problem now the betta feels that the anacharis bushes need to be rearranged -_- Thanks for the compliments I think I am switching to black gravel tomorrow. I need to redo the tank haha.

[stalefish83]

Thanks Philip, that makes more sense that just a huge pile. Doing it that way you could kind of sculpt the hill... hmm, I'm intrigued, I've seen a lot of tanks and I can't believe this is the first time I've seen this.

How does the cardboard not break down? Maybe it's just that the water doesn't get to it...?

[PhillipOrigami]

cardboard doesn't seem too. I don't know.

:shrug:

See "Natures Chaos aquascape" on youtube for an amazing 30 minute vid of building an enourmous aquascape plus commentary.
Volcano

[es31710]

Ya well it also depends what kind of plants you have it was not working for me so I tore the tank down and redid it again.... I never can get it right. I will post a new pic.

[stalefish83]

Right on, I'll check that video out for sure. Thx! :22:

Can't wait to see the new pics thumbs2:

[es31710]

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here it is
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here is one oto

[PhillipOrigami]

muchas better
I would get one branchy peice of wood and some supportive rocks and make something awesome.

[es31710]

Believe me I will once the budget is there haha.

[Lady Hobbs]

Now you're talkin'. Looks great without the ski hill to slide down. LOL

[es31710]

I love my ten gallon but I just never can get it right but I think it is right this time. My Betta is like thank god that stupid hill is gone haha.

[Lady Hobbs]

:hmm3grin2orange: Dang woman. Do you blame him. It even scared me because I thought something was gonna crawl out of there.
:hmm3grin2orange: It does look very, very nice now and calming. (Thank God)

[PhillipOrigami]

@LH you should see Natures chaos then.... rocks for everything to creep out of...

though not as bad as a rocked reef. 0,0

[Lady Hobbs]

I would never have reef. I see some of the weird things people find sneaking out of their rocks. All kinds of worms and critters. ewwwww I'd be removing the rocks and spraying them with RAID.

[es31710]

It looked like the yhetti lived in there lol.

[mermaidwannabe]

Ah, yes! The deep blue substrate and peaceful ambience -- much, much better than the precarious hill. I wouldn't change a thing about this latest . . . Soothing to watch.

-- mermaidwannabe

[es31710]

Haha it is actually black and yes thanks. The hill looked out of place haha.

[wijnands]

I disagree. I think it had potential to turn into something interesting once the plants grew in.

[Old Marine]

I like the second look Much betterthumbs2: