The Future of Planted Aquariums?

[techman81]

Here I am staying up late again and perusing Youtube when I come across this.
Takes me back to the days of undergravel filters. The only aquarium I ever had before getting back in the hobby last year, was in the 80s and I used an undergravel filter in combination with a HOB. I was a terrible aquarium keeper back then.

So what are your thoughts? Will it be a boom or bust?

Edit to add: I guess, based on their oldest videos, this has been around at least a year.

 

[Kwyet]

Interesting!

 

[Pepere]

So what are your thoughts? Will it be a boom or bust?

I guess if there is a giant unmet need that people feel to empty their aquariums of water and turn them upside down, or to plant an aquarium and ship out the planted substrate, it might replace all other systems….

Other than that what is the perceived benefit?

How is that foam going to hold up to repeated uprootings and plantings?

How well will it work in a larger aquarium with larger background plants with a lot more buoyancy that is uprooted with the bottoms thrown out and replanting that buoyant plant mass? Will it have enough hold?

How are you going to clean that foam as it gets clogged? Fine pour foam clogs in weeks… will it sprout BBA from being filled with organics?

Will the foam tear apart with repeated uprooting and movement of plants?

How will it look if you dont have full substrate coverage? And the base later under the foam isnt really a beauty mark…

If you add hardscape, you cant really drain the water and turn it upside down anymore either…

Honestly it seems to me a solution in search of a problem…

It doesnt hold much appeal to me… I just dont see it solving a problem for me..