Waterbox 2420 Black

[Matt1994]

Hi all,
(Firstly hope this is in the right place for the subject, as only my 3rd post)

Matt here, so long story short I've ordered a waterbox 2420 tank and cabinet.

I currently have an aquascaper 600 which has been running around 6 and a half months. It was my first ever aquascape and I have enjoyed it so much I just wanted another project.

You might ask why not just rescape the 600?
The 600 was not only my proper aquascape it got me through a very very tough time in my life.

Not sure on times yet but the waterbox was ordered this morning, not going to deny it its probably going to be another project over months with ambition to set it up around December all being well.


Anyone have the tank ? How've you scared it ?

Many thanks
Matt.


Will post a picture of my aquascaper 600 currently to this post

 

[Tom72]

A face on picture would be good,

 

[Matt1994]

A face on picture would be good,

Hi Tom72! probably would help haha
Will post one now

 

[Matt1994]

Hi all,
Little update.
Tank arrived a month or so ago maybe 6 weeks, now has the onf flat one plus 60cm
And hardscape , the hardscape I have just sat in the tank for now to get it off the floor. Hoping to have a play with it over the weekend to see how I can have it.


Many thanks to horizon aquatics for the hardscape
(The bowl is just to support it so I'd doesn't scratch the glass and fall)



Also love the onf flat one plus 60cm, also from horizon aquatics
The colour rendition is amazing. Tried it over the aquascaper 600 to compare to the twinstar 600s. And wow the greens popped!!!!



Will keep everyone updated as this progresses and will upload some more pics at the weekend when I'm happy with the hardscape

Oh and my geordie scaper t shirt and scraper arrived 😁😁😁

Thanks all
Matt 😃

 

[Matt1994]

Evening all, the latest hardscape layout the one I'm happy with !

I also have a bag of ada aqua gravel to add to the foreground but can't decide on whether to have laplata sand and grade it to the aqua gravel

Also do I stick with oase 350 thermo or go for the 600 (have the oase 350 on the aquascaper 600)



Really wanting to stock this once complete with croaking gourami


Thanks everyone for viewing this thread

Thanks
Matt 😃

 

[Wolf6]

Looking like a good start this far

 

[Matt1994]

Looking like a good start this far

Thanks wolf6 got a few more pieces of millenium stone to break up at some point and the cardboard is there just to try reduce scratches

 

[Deano3]

Love that scape looks great and oase 600 should be fine as flow isn't too powerful also ada laplata sand is really nice sand my favourite

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[bazz]

It's all looking good mate!

 

[Matt1994]

Evening all,
It's been a long time since I've added any updates to this thread, journal

I had some surgery in September
And had a few set backs but on the road to full health again


My birthday was October and all the family bought me some very special things

Got 2 bags of ada amazonia
2 backs of ada power sand advance
1 bag of la plata sand
1 back of ada aqua gravel

Way to much and progress on this tank has slowed down a little due to been off work at the minute due to the surgery

The other night I glued the wood to the rocks using cigarette filters and liquid superglue


But this evening I've had my brother come round and he's helped me put in the substrate

He's left me to add the aqua gravel (can use a cup and scatter it about where i want it)

But the tank now has substrate in
Sand foreground and with some finer details to add over the next few days

Filter floss was used to close the gaps in between the milenium stone.


I have never done a sand foreground before and this is only going to be my second scaped tank
Put a lot more thought into this one and hoping for a less amateur result I guess


Thanks all for reading
Will attach a photo now

And again sorry for the very delayed thread with not as many updates as I hoped to have at this point


Many thanks
Matt 😀

 

[Djoko Sauza]

Looking good! What are the dimensions of the tank? And have you already decided which plants you'll be using?

 

[Karmicnull]

That millennium stone looks great. And compared to my last scape your progress is positively bionic. Hope you recover back to full health quickly.

 

[Matt1994]

Looking good! What are the dimensions of the tank? And have you already decided which plants you'll be using?

Thankyou very much Diogo Sousa
The tank dimensions are 60cm wide
50cm front to back and 45cm height

I originally went for this tank as it is the same footprint as my aquascape 600 which I love but with more height


I haven't yet decided I don't want a lot of red in there but definitely want a little so think h'Ra will be in it somewhere but plant list is still to do !!

Thanks for your kind words
All the best
Matt 😃

 

[Matt1994]

That millennium stone looks great. And compared to my last scape your progress is positively bionic. Hope you recover back to full health quickly.

Thankyou Karmicnull

I really like it, for some reason I love grey stone, have mini landscape in my aquascaper 600 but absolutely love the textures of this millenium stone

Thankyou, I've mostly tried to correct what I feel could have been improved on my last scape

Main ones being I love the manzanita wood in my current tank and loved my initial idea but since the plants growing in it can't really be seen
And also it was my first planted tank and as you do I went for plants I liked on pictures but not knowing how they'd grow I placed them a bit all over, it has bugged me since around the 6month mark
I've never done sand foreground before but felt it added some depth to this scape but also hopefully going to make the fish stand out and give me a viewing point

I am really happy with it and it has turned out or (turning out) better than I could have hoped for

But thankyou very much for your kind words really appreciate them and makes all the changing of hardscape ideas I had till this one

It's nice to hear considering the levels of scapes you find on this forum I've got a lot more to learn but definitely learnt from my first scape have I feel a bit more of a dramatic and bold hardscape for when the plants mature and to go out your comfort zone

Thanks again
All the best
Matt 😃

 

[sparkyweasel]

The tank is looking good.
All the best for your recovery.

 

[Matt1994]

The tank is looking good.
All the best for your recovery.

Thanks sparkyweasel

Touch wood 🪵
But think I'm on the last stretch of recovery now got my fingers crossed ad itching to do a large maintenance session on my current tank as appose to family members haha
All the best
Matt 😃

 

[Matt1994]

Evening everyone, hope everyone OK,


Started to add a few little details to the scape, need to smash up a little bit more of leftover pieces of milenium stone to get some more tiny pieces but a bit more detail added, tried to add a sense of depth especially in the front hand left side with the rocks as I intend to have some ephyphites creeping through the rocks here, still can't decide on plants

So just a little more done not much more yet but every little counts

This is my second aquascape so by no means professional level just trying to use and encorporate what I've learnt over the best past of the past year (almost) from when I set up my aquascaper 600


Many thanks
Matt 😃

 

[Angus]

For a second aquascape, that hardscape is mad.... very natural looking and the transition between wood rocks stones and sand really flows....

 

[Matt1994]

For a second aquascape, that hardscape is mad.... very natural looking and the transition between wood rocks stones and sand really flows....

Wow! Thanks Angus for those kind words!
Means a lot! I've tried just to encorporate some of the few bits I've learnt since setting up my aquascaper 600 last December
There's bits that have bothered me in the tank since (was no real sense of depth) and I just put the plants everywhere and anywhere with out real thought !

So that's really made my day cheers mate!

All the best
Matt 😃

 

[Angus]

As far as a sense of depth goes, in person it's very hard to achieve, but you can sort of cheat and gain depth by changing photography angles etc, also planting schemes and different heights of plants can help to create the illusion of deeper spaces in the tank, i have to say you have much more patience for hardscaping than myself, never do yourself down.

your 600 is also a really lovely jungle style, now you have to test yourself with the planting on the waterbox.

Keep up the good work matt.

Gus.