"Drop Off Style" Aqauscape

[Ratvan]

So I may have managed to get my long suffering better half to agree to a large aquarium (finally) and we are currently looking at A Fluval Roma 200.

I would like to do something a bit different with the Aquascape in this tank and I do enjoy the river bank style Aqauscapes, however I stumbled upon the below image while searching and really like the Cross section style to this tank
Any ideas how i would achieve this style of Bank? I am assuming Lava rock sections or something similar with plants and wood to cover this up?


I unfortunately cannot access the website as my works firewall blocks it

 

[ScareCrow]

This YouTube video should hopefully help. It's the guy from Australian biotopes creating a river style tank. He uses gravel retaining or cellular drainage plastic to create height.

Spray foam is another popular option. AVP aquariums made a nice paludarium. You'd just need to raise the water level achieve what you're after.

 

[Ratvan]

This YouTube video should hopefully help. It's the guy from Australian biotopes creating a river style tank. He uses gravel retaining or cellular drainage plastic to create height.

Spray foam is another popular option. AVP aquariums made a nice paludarium. You'd just need to raise the water level achieve what you're after.

perfect thank you

 

[castle]

Nothing to add other than that aquarium is a beauty

 

[castle]

Alrighty, went and found it, it’s arguably one of the simpler layouts to make in a biotope style;

Get some pipe, ideally some 110, 70, 50mm and cut that down into lengths approx 3/5 of the total bank size you want to create. Drill holes in these pipes, ideally about 20mm in width, Should look like that holy cheese. Fill pipes with lava rock. When full, cover with a fabric and then place larger rocks over it to create that “hill”. If you’re wanting to use sticks to protrude out of the bank, then you’ll need to cut holes in fabric. Then pour over sand. Add a load of leaves, and the mulm should appear shortly.

You don’t need to use pipes, but depending on if you fill them it can reduce weight in the tank and it’s an easy way to control height.


The roots they used are straight from a recently (ish) dug up tree/shrub. Wio do some nice root things.

Rocks look like a basalt to me.

My one criticism is that the sand is far far to light for the rocks that are on it, if they had eroded the sand would be much darker imo.