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Not sure what to compliment more, the layout, the plants or the fish. Great work, this is a beautiful tank.😊

Very nice hardscape! The Myriophyllum "Guyana" is from South America though! 😉 But the Thomas cichlids took care of that problem their own way! Lol 😋

I have a 6 foot tank. The first scape I did was really amateur. Your videos inspired me to start from scratch and now it's a masterpiece :)

Weer een super bak geworden, erg mooi, de beste wensen nog, Guyana ligt naast Suriname, Zuid Amerika dus. 😊

Absolutely gorgeous. The bulb plants give it a very unique look compared to most scapes you see. I had never heard of either African butterfly cichlids nor the banded barbs before your channel--amazing fish selection!

This has become my favorite of all your tank vids. One the overall scape and I love that your take the time to list each plant individually with side description and facts.

This is definitely one of my favourite tanks! I live the mixture of the different aponogeton and the Lotus, and the fish are gorgeous. Very well done!!!

Using all those bulbs as background plants turned out really beautiful. The whole tank looks great, and the fish are really cool.

I just love themed tanks. Not every fish or plant needs to be from the same region, just the majority. This looks great. 👍

Wow! Love the bulb plant development and the addition of the barbs and Congo tetras. Stunner!😮

Absolutely love this tank and aquascape. Has a bit of a wild natural look to it which I love. Fish selection was outstanding as well. MJ this is definitely one of my favorites! Amazing job!

I think the issue with the Lilaeopsis is a light issue. They are very light hungry little plants. As for the layout, absolutely stunning, and a lovely selection of fish on top of it. I adore it.

I really like the look of this aquascape! it looks more like something you would see in nature compared to something like an iwagumi or dutch style aquascape, the forest of aponogeton really looks natural. Great job Mark!

The colors of the fish really shine against all the green of the plants. Very nice!

Really nice! Having watched scaping videos for ages I often find the thumbnails less enticing but the video content always turns out to show how nice the tanks are. It's testament to how strong this scape is that even the thumbnail has punch. Definitely something a bit different. Loving the big greens

This is definitely one of my absolute favorites aquascapes I’ve ever seen 😍

Man that grew in really, really nicely! Great fish selection as well. Those banded barbs are really pretty fish!

That first frame after "6 weeks later" lands strong!

Those banded barbs really compliment the aquascape! Perfect selection of fish and gorgeous background plants! Simply amazing! You inspire many of us who do aquascaping as a hobby!

Hey MJ, I recently got into the hobby and am a huge fan. I would love to see you do an aquascape where all of the plants are trimmings/propagated from other tanks to see how you approach it. I live in Bermuda where it's next to impossible to get new aquarium plants because of regulation and 95% of my plants are trimmings from someone else's tank

This is jaw dropping… absolutely my favorite scape I’ve seen anywhere and now i want an African tank with a similar vibe!!

I find this scape quite original and while you were building I could not imagine how awsome it would turn......kudos again! African barbs....how beautifull!

got mine aponegetons for 9years!! the boivianus ant they grow BIGG..but dont forget that these plants sometimes will stop growing and go in some kind of sleep mode, after some time you thingk to take them out!..dont do that..let them survive..they have some kind of sleeping periode , they loose leaves and give you the feeling that they die!!..and afther that they will grow again..i love this plant specialy in the big tanks..mine got in the best times leaves about 70cm's !! yes..so big! love this tank..the maanvis in nijmegen is such a good shop! and maarten is a good friend of mine..i will follow this tank..thanks..mike

Really beautiful creation! One of your best works 😊

All time favorite aquascaping channel 🙌🏽🙌🏽 every upload is a hit, keep it up 🔥

Really stunning!

Hey, late comment but you might want to consider having the basket with sponges in the bottom of the filter. If I remember correctly water flows through prefilter > through heater section > from bottom and up through baskets and then out. So having sponges at the bottom should keep the biomedia and carbon less clogged with bad stuff and leave more space for beneficial bacteria. Love your channel! This tank looks amazing, lovely fish choice as well

Loving the video already!

Have been looking forward to this one! I love the format of the 90!

Beautiful as always! 🎉

What a tank set up .. great work Recently bought my new 3rd tank and I’m going to give this a go Keep up the great work 👌

Superb looking set up with a nice big selection of fantastic looking fish.

Those barbs are awesome!

Thank you for sharing both the good and the bad parts of your experience, I think it makes baby aquascapers like me feel better about tanks that don’t always work out :)

Stunning mate 👍👍

Looks fantastic 😍.

Fantastic! 👍

It is just beautiful! Very nice👍

Great job. Love the fish. Thanks for sharing

Beautiful! Can't wait to see how this grows. Those blue eyed congo tetra are the perfect addition 👍

Love your videos! Your setups are always super inspiring 🙌🏼😎

Nice plants, Guyana is east of Venezuela

Love this scape, great work mate and great video 🙌

Everything looks amazing nice work!

Really gorgeous, as all of your setups.

Awesome 👍

Unique setup, looks amazing

Wow! Love it!! Beautiful how the bulbs in back grew out. Love the fish choices too. Another winner!! ☺️

A very unique scape and very very natural, love this!

So beautiful brother I love this ❤

Love the new layout. Very interesting choice of background plants. I think it came out great! Thanks for the video. I really enjoyed it.

Very beautiful aqua scape as usual! You never seem to disappoint

Goed bezig MJ. Super mooi die Jade Stones!

love this MJ, the cichlids are a great choice for the tank, they look like a Jack Dempsey breed (you may of said this) I'll have to show you my cichlids. The tetras are lovely, I can never get these when I go looking.

Top marks MJ~! Great concept and execution.

Gorgeous

Heel mooi resultaat 👍👌

I think it’s by far my favourite one yet!!! Beautiful and inspiring 👍👍👍

Wow…those bulbs! Very nice!

Hello, anubia congensis and crinum calamistratum may have a place into an African tank, but you did an Amazing work, like everytime! 😊

Your tank looks great. Keep up the good work brother I really like it 👍👍

Awesome aquascape its probably my favorite one of your scapes next to the big shallow v2

beautiful tank! those bulbs really turned out well!

Thanks for the inspiration Mate 😉👍 Very beautiful Tank !!! Congratz 😊

Really beautiful tank again!

Very nice, thank you.

Masterpiece aquarium ❤

Gorgeous! Fish selection great also. Bulbs give background a whole different look. Enjoy the tank. Thanks for sharing.

great story telling.

Nice tank 🙂, finally something easier to maintain 😜

Looks amazing. All the plants in the background gives almost forrestry feelings.

Nice tank!

Great work mate👌 I think the whole aquarium with everything in it is also popping because of the light... Those skylights are still my favourite and absolutely beautiful 😊.

Beautiful scape

Awesome

Loving the scape. And the longer cinematic video at the end. Kudos!

It's really beutiful!

een heel erg mooi aquarium mooie planten

Great Africa aquarium

TÜRKÇE ALT YAZI Kullandığın için çok teşekkür ederim . Senin mükemmel bilgilerini arkadaşlarımla paylaşacağım.

C'est un merveilleux cadeau et en même temps une incroyable leçon de simplicité et de perfection.. BRAVO ET BONNE ANNÉE 🎉❤

This comes right on time as I’m debating with myself if I want to do an all-Africa tank. Thanks!

Looks beautiful and the finish look amazing

Beautiful tank! I have been thinking about setting up a similar tank and was very happy to see the banded barbs in there at the end. Thanks for sharing.

the layout is mmuch beatiful than last one, love it!

Mooie natuurlijke layout! Leuke vissen ook.

This is very much a more-is-more kind of aquascape, which is not my thing (because I'm a greige Nordic person lol) but it's a refreshing change of pace for the channel :) Looking forward to updates on this!

Heel mooi gelukt

this is my favorite tank you've made. non biased opinion from an African

Happy New Year to you. Excellentaquarium. Not much is known about the Non Cichlid African species. Great to see them get some exposure. More like this would be great. Excellent project and awesome outcome.

Love your choice of fish Congo and butterfly cichlids are so underrated. Don't need to say much about your scape always spot on! 👍🏻

Wow well do a man, really great tank!

Love it

This is perfect timing MJ!!!!! I was just trying to do an Iwagumi scape and figuring out how to mesh rocks with aquasoil and sand! This gave me an amazing idea and a good way to separate sand and aquasoil! You’re the best!!! Much love from US Delaware!

Inspiring

Thanks for showing us a very nice scape, love the coloring on the jade stones in combo with the plants and wood. Personally like less population, but each there own ;-)

Wow!!!!

love the layout and the banded barbs!! gorgeous bunch of fish altogether. great execution of the rock barrier. rescaping a uns 45l partly because of the decorative sand mixing. it had some of the same lilies and they did great in the mix of caribsea sand and fluval stratum haha. going to have to comb through past videos for the nano long ideas, the smaller space has been tough to figure out. thanks for the video!!!

you inspire me to rescape my congo tank!