number four in the world say that again number four in the world right here oh
I'll bet it's that right it's not rated or four in the world so here we go
nothing
I know you're trained by the the sense key brother are not trained vibe I
should say but like you've been mentored by the sense key brothers who spoke
earlier and so bringing a lot of heat out of Texas and came number four in the
world will say that again number four in the world right here oh how bad is that
right in Chicago hangover four in the world so there you go tear it up man all
right first of all let me think Dustin really appreciate the funny look
appreciate you having me on yeah so I guess today I just wanted to
talk about expanding the hobby and getting you guys into it I know you see
a lot of our aquariums they get a little bit intimidated or wonder if you can do
it yourself and I want to try to alleviate that a little bit so I'm gonna
go through some of my styles of malaya of grams and just talk about you know
how aquascaping can can apply to anybody anybody can do it we have all levels of
difficulty or I don't know how to say yeah sorts of skill level style tanks
that you can do whether you are a beginner or if you're you know always
been a saltwater guy really like high-tech expensive stuff if you like a
really big challenge office keeping doing a heavily planted tank it's
absolutely a great new adventure for you if you're into saltwater like a big
challenge but if you're a beginner and this is your first freshwater aquarium
you can still do it yourself too you don't meet plants like this was one of
my favorite aquascapes it's a single plant in there so anybody can do it and
I really want to drive that point home that I really want to inspire everybody
to just try it and get into it it's a real
you know my most favorite people in the world I've met through this hobby other
said Mike Cenci and jeff schinske they've mentored me over the past few
years Dustin he's a really great guy and does a lot to try and expand the Hobby
anymore so thank you Dustin other he's done a
lot and you know that's what we do here with the the aquascape is collective is
we just want to inspire people and get people into it so a little bit about me
and my style I typically like to go with the classic major style although I do
delve into the you know diorama idea realm of type landscaping styles as well
you point of different amounts for people oh yeah so the difference the
classic nature style you're gonna consist of something like this where
it's a one-to-one scale underwater like imagine if you just stuck your head in a
river the kinds of things you would see so the goal is to kind of replicate that
not to to the degree of a bio tell tank where you try to look replicated 100%
but it's all about creating your vision an idealized vision of nature so you
know nature can be wild and crazy and ugly but if we just tune it a little bit
towards you know our aesthetic you can make something really beautiful they can
come home to every day relax and enjoy that's my favorite part of the hobby is
you know to be able to enjoy your aquarium safe and just forget about all
the problems that you're having and just sit there being an observer you're
nobody you're not you know I'm not hitting I'm just a body observing what's
in front of me it brings like a really peaceful feeling
over you and I think we all need that so that's you know that's why I love this
hobby so much is that we have an escape in it's just right there in your living
room so the nature style so I like to use a lot of ferns so just drip with
rocks and friends and things like that I don't do a whole lot of like force
perspective yeah so something like this is more of the diorama also - diorama
style here I competed in Germany and got second place Man Alive and basically
what I was trying to do here is create the image of a mountain range with a
valley in the middle so this is the other style that people really like to
do in aquascaping and if you want to try this it's really fun too because you're
creating an illusion you know this isn't a three gallon tank
in your living room but it's actually a wide mountain range and I think it's
really nice so we try to use big big pieces in the front small pieces in the
back it really gives you that force perspective we Bank up the substrate
really high yeah I kind of create this like pathway to the back smaller rocks
so it looks like a mountain this size but really far away from you this is
pretty cool cool sign of style to try and go with that tank and how many
pounds of rock you have in there they don't think people know the scale of
that sure so this is probably I think it was like four or five gallons and I'd
say I have around 20 pounds of stone veneer this is elephant skin stone one
of my favorite ones that have been using lately it's got a lot of really nice
texture and color and yeah so a lot of texture in your stones could really help
you create that illusion that you're looking at something really
from far away so yeah about four or five jobs it's roughly less than a foot long
if I remember correctly and that really small take it took five seconds to go
home especially with that much spilling in there did you talk about how to hit
scale in such a small tank yeah I saw people's jaw drop when you said that was
a four gallon tanks I want you to kind of dive into that yeah so I think the
main the main thing to create this kind of illusion is to Bank the substrate so
first when you put like six inches of substrate in the back and a little bit
to like one inch in the front what you're getting is you're doubling and
tripling in that surface area that you would have had if you just had a flat
substrate so you have a lot more work room to work with that's one of the
important things so you see the substrate is really little here but
halfway up the tank back here that's one good way to you know get some
perspective in there then I use big stones in the front and gradually get
smaller in the back that's another really great way to create that
perspective another big thing for me is using a lot of pebbles that will you
know create you know not only detail and texture but it also makes you feel like
these are you know big boulders around these mountain mountain ranges and
that's really basically it doesn't take much to talk about and it's just a
little bit of practice before you can get really really good at it
and I think another way to really get good practices to find a few scapers
that you really like and start to try and emulate their techniques you know
take notice of the shapes of the stones that they use and how they use them and
eventually you'll get the hang of it this is another nature style from the
same competition I use the same type of stone because like I said I really love
it this is called elephant skin stone and River wood out of Germany again I
used a little bit of a perspective technique so this pathing if you guys
try to do the path within your tanks you want to go wide in the front and then
really narrow in the back so I don't know if you guys remember in art class
back in high school or middle school when these teach you how to draw train
tracks they would have a go like in a triangle shape instead of straight
parallel it really creates that sense of perspective so that's another actually
I've missed that on the last think it's a really important use of scale if you
go really wide the front with your path in middle and then go really narrow in
the background you know usually I like to snake it a little bit too that
creates a really nice effect I didn't kind of go straight on this one this is
another nature style that I did again just driftwood rocks and a lot of plants
over the past I don't know two or three years I really kind of find to my style
usually not people couldn't tell if it's one of my tanks if they look at it and
the thing to look for is just driftwood and a lot of java furnace Oh so yes this
was probably about four months of growth from the beginning four or five months
when you start out with the carpet you know just kind of plant plugs in and
eventually they're all spread and connect with each other the main point
here is to use co2 and have a good amount of light and things will just
start throwing for you really you know a lot of trimming is really fun to me and
yeah about four or five months of growth here so this is what I consider more of
like the higher and difficulty for a plaintiff aquarium we'll start with a
substrate so we have aqua soil here I used a DA office oil specifically but
there's so many brands that are available now in the US for aqua soil
and basically it's soil that's been balled up into like a like a small
little sphere so it's kind of like gravel but it's actually made of soil
and it's really good for the plants it's got a lot of nutrients in it that you
know release slowly over the period over the lifetime of the tank so I've got the
aqua soil that's one crucial key and almost all of my aquascape since I use
Papa soil
I think if you straight out of the bag I would run a tank one and a half to two
years no problem after that you might want to look into
either rese keeping the tank completely if you get a little bit tired of it or
there are products where you can just insert tabs into the soil to kind of
replenish the nutrients in your in your substrate the next thing I have on this
tank is a lot of high light so it is a LED light I know you can't really see it
so this is an LED pendant light again I have aqua soil in here talking about
that old that's a hole that's the Aquabats Aquabat
yes oh they're actually not for sale anymore they kind of went out of
business from what I can understand but they had this complete system that's
very beautiful real estate you know stainless steel filter pipes the like
arm stainless steel the pendant was really nice led super-bright and it also
came with a stainless steel canister filter as well and I really love those
especially you like to show off your record
did I answer your question about this oil okay so after the soil I think the
most important thing would be the light I mean a good amount of light over your
plants recognizing their needs is pretty important and then next would be the co2
carbon dioxide you know as you know plants need carbon dioxide for some
photosynthesis and so on the higher difficulty level you with certain plants
almost most plants actually are going to require that co2 to really thrive in
your aquarium and I think that's what intimidates the
most people is the co2 just because of the money that needs to be put in to
attempt a good regulator and a nice car carbon dioxide cannister to all the
system and you know a lot of people don't want to spend that much money like
a regulator could cost anywhere between $200 to 400 F C 500 $600 regulators so
that's pretty expensive for the Holley I think that's what keeps people from
doing it kept me from doing it for years then I finally decided to dive into it
and then I was able to keep all sorts of really cool plants so carbon dioxide
office oil good light and your imagination your creativity that's all
you need and there's so many people in the Hobby know in the United States
there's always people you can ask questions about I'm really trying to
make myself as approachable as possible so that people getting started can come
to somebody with device and you know really get good feedback as well so
that's that's my main goal is to get everybody that's you know keeping
aquariums to try to aquascaping and let's go back to the the geo famous tank
so this this is something that anybody can do you know I had a little bit of
imagination and creativity to do the layout but there's no plans here the
maintenance is just the same as when you're doing your aquarium right now you
got to do water changes in the algae off the glass big fishes but you can still
have something that's really enjoyable here and it's all it's all behind the
design which I really need to you know give a really big nod to Mike and
Jessica Mike and Jeff since Kia AEG a 40mm Design Group they really pioneered
this hardscape only style tank here in the United States and I took a lot of
inspiration from them so I just got some wood and some rocks and
laid out with a really pleasant manner and then white yeah it's a really cool
fish that I like this is a gym no geo fingerspelled line normally gym geo
figgus don't really have this nice round head home but that's what really
attracted me to this species and so I really wanted to keep some and I decided
to put this off escape together so that I could I could keep them I
guess that's really about all I wanted to say but I just wanted to remind you
guys anybody can do it try it out there's all levels of difficulty in
aquascaping there's definitely a niche there for you so try and find me I'm on
Facebook Instagram we'll have that information where you guys can come up
and ask and you know if you have any questions I'd be more than happy to
answer them for you and help you a lot of your journey if you decide to start
it so thank you very much for listening to me thank you again Joe Podesta it's
been really great I've had a really good weekend hope you guys did too

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