Full Home Aquascape Studio Tour *New Scape* 4k

Welcome to my home studio. It's been a while. I've been busy working on the scapes as usual and the purpose of this video is to show you all the scapes, what I've been working on, what you can expect coming soon and yeah just great to give you guys an update of things that have been going on. Check this out, this is really cool. I bought this at the RHS Malvern show which is a beautiful show dedicated to plants and gardening and yeah it's really cool. This is the Oase Highline 300 room divider. Plenty of videos on this now. It's filtered with two Oase Biomaster 850 filters. If you can see in there, there's two running. Surprisingly quiet, just using the regular media that comes supplied with the Biomasters but you do have a lot more options now available so you can tailor your media to your own requirements. But yeah, fish are doing great. I've stopped feeding them so much and 50% water change a week or thereabouts, very gradually pruning the Anubias back. It goes very slowly but surprisingly little algae considering the fish load and there's no CO2 or very little fertilizers. I do occasionally, very occasionally, add liquid fertilizers but yeah this has been running at least three or four years now. The fish are at least six six years old but yeah I just love it. It's just a lovely fish tank to live with. I really really love it. Let's move on to one of my favorite scapes at the moment because I'm not injecting CO2 so it's really really easy and slow growing and nuisance algae free and there is more scope to put some more fish in here. There's just a few juvenile platys at the moment. You see I'm filtering here with the new internal filters from Oase. This is the EcoFlow, very cool, very modular, magnetic so it's dead simple to clean and tailor. Again you can custom with different media if you wish. Quite a discreet filter. The grey matches the grey of the cabinet perfectly. I'd usually have this in the background hidden by the plants but I kind of wanted to show you the filter. You've got a directable nozzle here and flow rate adjustment on top but yeah just a cool little filter, reasonably priced. I'll leave a link in my description if you want to consider buying one in North America. Okay so that's the Oase Scaperline 60. This was originally actually scaped as part of a workshop a good few months ago now and I ran out of CO2. Well I didn't run out of CO2. The CO2 is actually over here and I didn't want to run, I didn't really want to run a long hose all the way over here and I didn't have a spare CO2 regulator so I thought you know what I'll just turn off the CO2 and see what happens. Kept everything the same apart from dosing fertilizers once a week instead of every day but other than that everything is exactly the same and the growth is just slow and steady. There's hardly any algae growth. Those are shrimps are breeding in here, cherry shrimps. I love these little textures of the Anubias minicoin and the Marsalaea Ursuta, the round textures. We've got a Weeping Moss there, there's some Java Moss down here. This is moving Rotala Blood Red that's staying red despite no CO2. Sagittaria in the back and there's Crypt Balansi and there's a couple of other crypts, Crypt Undulatus and there's Crypt Nurei as well. Hydrocotyle Tripartita, this grows really quite quickly, it's probably the fastest growing here so I do thin that out but yeah just it's a real surprise, a lovely surprise this aquascape and relatively low maintenance. I'm just changing 30% of the water every week and dosing 15 milliliters of Tropica Specialized once a week so really really straightforward. The regular filter I run, this is just to show off this filter, but the regular filter I use is Biomaster 250 there, again just with the supplied internal media and then I'm using clear hose and glass lily pipe of course. Okay the big tank, this is just maturing beautifully as always and just yeah just a real joy, the fish are just really healthy. We've got a dead plant in there, let's get that out. So yeah just looking really really lovely and colourful and lush and healthy and yeah my favourite aquarium that I've ever owned I'd say that Oase Highline 400, had this six years now and yeah the scape's three and a half years old I'd say, just doing really well. Fish are getting quite, some of the fish are getting a bit old in the tooth now, they're quite old but the angelfish are still growing, doing really well. I don't think they're a pair, they've not spawned or shown any behaviours like that yet but they do get on, they don't fight, that's good. We've got a couple of Echinodorus reds in here, this is Red Diamond and Flame I believe, I did mislabel it as Hormonio Red so grateful to the chap on Facebook for correcting that. You can see the CO2 mist there in the background, just those white bubbles, that's from a CO2 diffuser which is in line on the Biomaster 850, you can see it there. So two Biomaster 850s there, there's the old style on the left and then the new one on the right. The new one is basically more efficient and has some design improvements to just improve the overall functionality and reliability but yeah I love this tank, really really lovely, going to keep it running for as long as possible really, let's see why it can't go another few years. This is looking amazing, I think this is nearly six months old now and I actually did a big maintenance session on it the other day. For those that aren't aware this is just a Weo Shallow, it's a 25 centimetre footprint, nine centimetres tall which is what, nine inches, ten inches and about two or three inches high and then there's just about four or five lava stones kind of siliconed together as a little island and then I've just attached a load of moss and small epiphytes and there's a small filter running on its side down there, an internal filter with an uplift tube, can you see that? And then that just pumps the water and it cascades and dribbles down the island, keeps all the plants suitably moist and wet so I'm really happy with this. Yeah the Echolurus is looking really great, I love the way the kind of roots have curled round, I did that deliberately for aesthetics, using roots as a visual focal point which we don't normally do. So yeah I just lifted the whole island out in one go, rinsed it under running water, tap water in fact, just to rinse off any detritus and loose organics and rinsed off all of the substrate in old water just to maintain the bacteria, repositioned the Echolurus, cleaned the filter in the back, put everything back and the whole thing was like completely maintained in about 15 minutes and that's the only maintenance I've really done in six months, the other maintenance is just topping off for evaporation and cleaning the glass. So this is a real joy to live with this and this is actually for sale on my website so if you're in the UK and you can take this home and check it out. Okay this is a new addition and I'm not going to talk too much about this because this will have its own series of videos, this is the Scaperline 90 and as you can see I've done quite a lot of work on the hardscape over the last, this has actually been here for about five weeks now and I've been just tinkering with the hardscape, evolving it gradually, really really happy with it. I do love a triangular layout and I just love to add some of these details, it's going to be a very minimalist plant layout so we'll chat about that in another video. But yeah, shout out to Oase for supplying such beautiful aquariums, you know, whether it's the Hi9, you know, the Scaperline 100 or even this is the Scaperline 90 so they do three Scaperlines, all really really high quality, look at that silicon work there in the corner, low iron glass so you get that kind of nice blue glow instead of green and yes it'll be filtered with a Biomaster 850 inline CO2. I'm going to add some more substrates to the back, got the scaper soil there and we've got Oase's improved LED lighting here so that will replace this, this is just a TwinStar G, just sort of balanced over top but that's quite effective and it has, yeah, we've got some controllers as well so this is the EAC, I can't remember the name what it stands for but it basically controls the lighting so that'll be interesting to set up. Oh and a little print here that a creator down in Bristol sent me so shout out to Wild Studio, I'll leave a link but yeah thank you, it's so beautiful and yeah so oh just some Oase products there just on display, these are the ones I'll be using for the 90, all the fertilizers and the fertilizer I also use in here now instead of the Tropica Specialized which I now just use in here and the Cichlid tank if necessary. So there we go that's an update of all of the tanks, just wanted to have a little bit of a chat I just, it's been a while hasn't it since I last did a video and I did try to do a live stream last Sunday and it didn't really work out so apologies for that, had a bit of a technical issue with the sound and the streaming quality so I'll, before I do the next one I'll do some more kind of checks and I will actually consider using my digital SLR camera for the live stream instead of a phone which should be much higher quality hopefully. So yeah last kind of few months I've been quite, I've not been busy that's the thing, I've been busy working on myself if you like and doing a lot of work, a lot of inner work, excuse the noise in the background, and as a result haven't been producing so much content because I believe if I, if I just have a reset, a bit of a rest I can come back to being a content creator with a bit more, a bit more passion and yeah maybe take the channel in a bit of a newer direction I'm not sure yet but just, just to let you know I haven't stopped creating content and there's still plenty of opportunity for me to do so, I'm just having a bit of a reflective time really. So first of all if you, if you are a subscriber thank you so much it's really appreciated and it makes what I do obviously worthwhile hopefully to know that the content I'm producing is of value to you guys and yeah for me I guess I started out aquascaping and creating content to, to show off you know new creations and my traveling and a, it was a bit of education and inspiration visiting other people and it was very varied, it was very diverse the content in terms of the aquascaping whether that was a step-by-step on a low-tech nanotank or you know setting up a 28,000 litre or 7,000 gallon aquascaping in Germany and everything in between but now my, my life situation has evolved to the point where I do spend a lot more time at home and I'm very happy with that and as a consequence of spending more time at home I'm evolving the home to make it more of a, more of a, I don't want to say efficient but just making the interior space more in line with what I would like my lifestyle to be so very much connected with nature, very much balancing home life with work life you know I'm very grateful that my wife actually has a really a good job that allows her to have, allows us as a family to have a lot of financial freedom and so now I can use my time to support you know my wife more and the home running of the home rather than me focusing on my own career so there's just a little bit of background for you you know doing a bit of soul searching about purpose and you know how work comes into that family and just kind of looking after yourself and realizing why you're doing what you're doing consciously rather than doing it as some form of autopilot or survival mode you know which many of us seem to be living in in these modern times.