God we miss you everyday Jake! cannot image all the beautiful tanks you have through the gates of heaven!

You make it look so easy! I want to buy a third tank now just so i can aquascape something that makes me feel all “warm and fuzzy”. Awesome instructional Jake!

Watching your videos had a tank a few years ago, sadly lost my fish and sold the tank but uve decided to go back in with a nano these videos are pretty helpful

Another great video. I've been away from the hobby for about 7 years but I so want to start up again and your videos show me what's new, Thanks.

Man, i literally needed this the day you uploaded this video but am just now seeing it.

Nice set up and nice rocks too. Easy to arrange corals on them

Merci Jake pour cette deuxième partie !!! 👍👍👍

Cool video. I used the same rocks in my tank. Great scape.

i'm getting exicited with this hobby

wtg always on point jake 🤙🏻

I was waiting for it, 😍, u never do break my expectations!

Love the arches

I love your show thank you show is to me.

Nice set up

Wow i fell off my chair you are using sand! Well done mate i love it 👍

Very cool!

Whaou incredible ! what is your playlist music so good vibe? Thank u 🙏

Miss you Jake, wish you were here….

Its better to place the rock first! Also its not a bad idea to place a mat under just in case members of the CUC are burrows. So, if a rock shift then it doesn't impact on glass. Which is why I think you laid the sand first. But, it is more than likely to shift if there is burrows in either case. Now you could use that proxy like material to make it permanent so it doesn't move but the down side its allot harder to change later if you don't like it or want to change the look. Then after it's done the sand goes down. Now, one of the points you made on the sand it's necessarily true. You rather have the sand even. In the 70's it was to build up the back so that the food would settle in the lower levels. That didn't really work out so it was a myth sales guys said at the time. As far as the layout, no, I didn't like it for myself. I normally do two islands: large, small and medium. This way I can place different corals so they will not be close enough to sting another one. Hard to do in a small Aquarium.

The caribsea rocks look great

What video do you suggest for aquascaping a larger tank? I have red sea max500 the 119 gallon display.

Cukup membantu.....salam from indonesia

What brand marker are you using on the fish tank glass?

R.I.P jack adams💔🥀

Shouldn't you always place rock first, and make it solid and stable, and then add sand? That way any digging fish or inverts don't topple the rock and cause disaster?

I started a reef tank with same rocks. I notice sponges I believe sycon. Wondering how this happen. All I added was fish and copepods. Did they come in copepods?

Hey hello ,i see all your video s ,nice job❤but i have a question ,i buy today this thank ,were put you the heater in this tank??

Jake what frag tanks do you have and where can I buy one?

the warm and fuzzies ha ha awesome

Puttings shims on the back of the cabinet will put a lot of weight on that side and could stress the cabinet. If i have to level a cabinet, i put a thick wooden shelf on the floor first, level that with shims, and then put the cabinet on the shelf.

Do you have a link so i can buy the rock?? please RM

Hi.. what is the sand product name? Fiji pink or Bahamas Oolite?

Can we get this banger of an intro song on the newer videos, Jake and Evan?!

Would you glue these life rock connections? If so, what would you use Jake? Thx!

"Flush"? "Square"? Think you meant "level" ... ah got it right at the end! Overall nicely done! Good tips.

how much rock have actualy ended up in the tank ? 10 / 16 pounds ? hard to tell

where to buy an aquarium? there is an online shop

Wait! SAND? What happened to all bare bottom? @reefbuilders Gripes, now I have to rethink my new build. 😆

I thought that the general rule was 1 pound of live rock per gallon of water. Having said that, 30 pounds of rock in a 30 gallon tank was too much. I used maybe 20 pounds and it seems crowded. I thought the live rock was an essential part of biological filtration. It's been up and running for a year now with fish only and water parameters are perfect. I want to add corals and remove some live rock. Any thoughts on this?

And make sure you leave enough room to clean your glass.

Late subscriber here, watching all the Nano vids backwards of course lol. Question, does the #lbs/gallon of rock "rule" not apply on smaller tanks? I want to setup a 30g and want enough Rock for beneficial bacteria without putting 30lbs of rock (likely blocking too many areas?) But it is also not a plumbed or AIO tank unfortunately, so with less Rock I'd be relying on solely sand and filter media (unless there's a product/way to convert to an AIO? where I can stash more bio media) I guess that's 2 questions. Thanks!

Nice aquascape. When I added snails after hours of precise architectural aquascape, all my hard efforts got wrecked because that one snail decided to push the rock over... Sad life.

SAND ALWAYS LAST!

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Really like the video and really everything you do haha I wish you would have done a close up of the scape and how it turned out. Also won’t the sand just settle out?

What kinda sand comes in a bucket?

Nice setup, but whyyyy Jake did you put the rocks on the sand?? I thought you would show the correct way setting a tank like that up.

What was the point of the tic tac toe board??

Why is it so important to level the aquarium so perfectly on the floor? What would happen if it was leaning to the back a tiny bit? Serious question :)

Is this the only tank with sand in your studio?

You look like a young Harry Hamlin.

Would you not recommend gluing or pinning the rocks together? With high flow and fish that doesnt looks like it will last.

place rock first and then sand

Hi

You mentioned nothing about a heater...?

You had to level it 😅😅

Aquascaping 101 rocks first then sand...

Cocaine is a hell of a drug.

Thanks men your my go too. thanks for this great vids 🫡

Must be nice to have 500.00 of rocks to work with lol

Português?😭

Was he vaxxed?

Solche grossen Keile zu Hause zu verwende ist nicht besonders schlau Sorry 👎