I'm a little good at aquascaping now! (4k)

This video is sponsored by Squarespace. Hi, I'm Adam Ragusea, I'm a YouTube cook  and in my spare time I tool around in this greenhouse in my backyard. I have an updated  tour for you today. As you'll see, I've been working on my aquaspacing skillz with a z, and  things are really starting to come together.

If you've watched previous tours, the first thing  you will note is the big metal trough is gone, replaced with an acrylic bathtub. It looks ...  best at night, so we'll save that for the end.

We'll start in the morning. I've got  something new to install. I glued a magnet to the underside of this hanging  planter and I bought a magnetic light, turn her on and that is gonna be very  flattering on my new mini shallow tank.

It's a stack of lava rocks with  a tiny filter in the back corner, which sends a little waterfall  trickling over the front face there. It's just starting to grow into  itself. There's two kinds of hydrocotyle, pennywort, growing up out of the water, and the  floating rosette on the right is water lettuce.

Don't try to eat it. Though apparently the  powdered leaves are a traditional analgesic. And then I've got the mini purple bamboo sticking  up tall in the background. Awesome plant, though I'm hoping it'll stand up a little straighter  as it matures. It's kinda floppy right now.

Underwater we have hairgrass and pogostemon  helferi, which really likes my hard water that I've got here. And of course, blue  shrimp. This is a shrimp breeding tank.

Fun fact: Baby shrimp are called "shrimplets"  because they don't go through a larval stage. They hatch as tiny copies of their parents. I always  imagine a fast casual family chain restaurant putting "shrimplets" on their appetizer menu. Just  the name, I mean. It sounds like an "appeteaser."

Pretty much any tank with no fish in it will  become a shrimp breeding tank, because neocaridina shrimp breed so readily. As long as there are  no fish to eat the babies, there will be babies.

Many babies, and shrimp don't mind the wild  temperature swings I get in this tank, because there's such little water to retain heat. I do  have a tiny heater in the back corner as well.

I just love how wild this little tank  looks. It was swamped with algae until one day it just wasn't anymore. The snails and the  microfauna tipped the ecological balance, I think.

Never had a scrap of algae on this aquascape.  I used to have my golf course tank in here, but it kinda petered out and I  started fresh using a traditional Japanese method that worked like a charm  — and by traditional, of course, I mean,

from the 1990s. This is my first attempt at a  "nature" aquarium in the style of Takashi Amano. Somebody is hiding there. Is he gonna  come out and put on a show? Yes he is.