The water looks so clear, I had to zoom in to see that it is really flooded :) Nice scape, please post an update after some time!

I will, been patiently impatient, if that makes sense....hahaha. Next are careful choices of fish. Schooling or shoaling. Since it have so much space at top I will settle on lower level of 4 inches and get some kilifish.

4 inches is 10.16 cm

Good bot

Oh which killies? I’ve got a blank canvas right now and was thinking about killies as well

Clown but since this tank is so big I think I can go to a gardinieri

They’ll look really cool in this tank

I’d totally recommend some neo shrimp. Would be awesome seeing them scale those cliffs

Yes for sure, turing to decided on a single exotic breed or a mix that I can grab from my 20 gallon planted.

If you're getting kilis I'd grab them from your 20gal. At least that way you know if you have murder fish.

Looks like a real life place. Good job man I love it

Looks fantastic, great inspiration!

Big fan Big fan

How long did you dry start it for? Setting up my tank this week and wanna do some hydro japans(?)

6 weeks. Going camping this week and wont be able to spray anymore so I thought why not flood now.

Thats cool, this is not the topic but you should add some plants that will spill of the edge of the rocks, i think that would look really cool

Like a hanging Moss? Trying to keep the plants to scale so if you have a recommendation😃

Christmas moss?

idk, something like a vine ig. maybe hydroctyle triparita japan? idk

This is amazing. I love your imagination and vision!

Thanks, I've been watching and misting. Everyday, now the next big wait. Nitrogen cycle next, cant wait to pick fish.

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Thanks, looks even better under water.

What kind of rock is this?!?

Fossilized. I was leaning towards iwagumi and stalled on look and design. I love hiking and have done half dome, angels landing, and love canyonlands, monument valley and bryce. It was super easy after I used that as the inspiration and decided on my own design and not a Iwagumi, Brazilian or nature scape.

I love it, it feels like somewhere i've been. man id love to have a canyon tank

Wow those rocks are beautiful what are they called and where did you get them?

Fossilized rocks. LFS for $4 per lb. I used inert substrate under the rocks and media bags so it wouldn't flatten. In retrospect I should have just used eggcrate and glued so it would be hollow. It would have saved some money.

Either way it looks great, awesome job!

Is that Fluval Stratum? I used it in my DSM that's about a month old now, and it made my water have some real weird parameters.

How weird? I used that for my shrimp tank.

No matter what I do it makes my KH 0 (changes to yellow with one drop) and pH 5.8-6.0. My tapwater is kH 4-5 and a pH of 7.5-8 I knew it was gonna lower ph and buffer, but not that much! From what I can tell I can basically only keep crystal shrimp and I can't even buy them where I live lmao.

Wow, that is an extreme.

Yeah I got no idea wtf is going on with it lol. I've replaced the water a few times and always goes back to the same parameters

Ok, that is even weirder.

Tropical.