An old aquarium does not have to be empty. Instead, you can plant it attractively. Below you can find out which plants are suitable for the aquarium and how to plant your aquarium step by step - without water.
The soil layers can also be seen in the planted aquarium
The plant landscape in the aquarium
The aquarium is ideal not only to be used as a planter, but also to create a real plant landscape in it. It is best to choose small, drought-loving plants such as succulents and cacti and create a kind of green sandy desert.
Plant the aquarium without water step by step
For planting you will need:
- Gravel or drainage concrete
- Special soil for succulents or garden soil and some sand
- beautiful pebbles
- succulents
- natural decorative elements such as roots, stones (boulders from the garden), shells
- alternatively: artificial decoration such as small figures, houses etc.
Then proceed as follows:
- Thoroughly clean your aquarium.
- Put it in its final location so you don't have to move it with the weight of the earth. Remember that your plants need light!
- Put a layer of gravel or drainage concrete as the bottom layer in the aquarium.
- Mix soil and sand and spread this mixture in the aquarium. Build in small dips and hills to create a mini-landscape feel.
- Spread out your succulents. Notice the landscape effect here too. A larger succulent can represent a tree on a hill, for example, while flat-growing ones can represent the grassy landscape.
- Once all the succulents are in place, spread pebbles over the exposed soil.
- Finally, place your decorative elements.
tips
You can also place your succulents next to larger stones so that over time they will grow over them and give the impression of overgrown mountains.