Plant aquarium without water

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 step by step without water

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 do the following:

• Thoroughly clean your aquarium.
• Set it in its final location so that 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 distribute this mixture in the aquarium. Build in small hollows and hills so that the feeling of a mini landscape arises.
• Spread out your succulents. Pay attention to the landscape effect here too. A larger succulent plant can e.g. B. present a tree, shallow ones can represent the grassy landscape.
• When all the succulents are in place, spread pebbles on the exposed earth.
• Finally, put your decorative elements.