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Lovely little island scape and nice use of epiphytes. Very much like how you've filled the canvas, but left enough negative space for contrast and to give the whole thing some tension.

Beautiful 🙂

What are the dimensions of your tank? Post a pic of possible it’ll help folk visualise the possibilities

Welcome 🙂

Very nice 🙂

Very nice 🙂

Great looking tanks and healthy plants.

Well done, it’s a great looking scape with very healthy looking plants.

Welcome 🙂 It’s a very good start, and looks great as is. It’s a nice composition. Maybe experiment with more hardscape and see how it looks. The principle is fairly simple really. It’s like drawing a picture on paper. Use the whole sheet, fill the canvas. Don’t just draw in one corner. This...

I already use it, a lot . . .

Thanks @foxfish I’m hoping it wasn’t just luck and I can carry the experience through to this one. And thanks also @Geoffrey Rea, good to be back 🙂

Finally got around to creating a scape, the first in a long while. It'll be dry start, and likely stay that way for a few months or more whilst home renovations are undertaken. I've been on a bit of a journey over the last 20 months or so, and I've still yet to arrive. But it's good to be...

Very nice. I like how you've used just a few species and resisted the temptation to cram more in.

That looks spectacular. The lighting combination appears to make the colours pop.

Wow, just wow. That's amazing. You've done it now. You've got no choice but to keep this thread updated 😁 Seriously though, it'd be great to see all of these together again and how they're coming along at some point in the future.

Looks great 👍

Thanks for the info. That’s one of my favourites as well. Seen it in the flesh more than a few times. I like what Tai and Dave have done with the planting very much. It takes me back to when more natural looking scapes were the norm not the exception. And reminds me of how I first started out. I...

Very nice, What are your low-energy plant choices?

Looking good :cool:

Welcome :) Nice looking tank

Quite a few folk have had a similar experience, including me. It’s very strange, it’s almost as though vallis has forgotten how to grow in an aquarium. Probably because very few try to grow it these days. It’s a much maligned and underrated plant. Maybe it’s playing hard to get as a result. It...

Welcome :)

Welcome :) Politics aren't allowed, and we won't judge regardless who's in government, so don't worry ;)

Very nicely done 👍

Very nice 👍 I think it's a very decent read.

Really great to see an old school tank, just how I used to do them back in the day. With regards UG filters, they always worked fine for me… https://www.ukaps.org/forum/threads/dr-timothy-hovanecs-comments-about-bacterial-supplements.62201/page-3#post-614068

Welcome, lovely scapes :)

Really stunning, shared on Instagram :)

Welcome :) Very nice scape 👍

Looks spectacular. Start a journal and keep us all updated with progress :) Can we have a square on FTS please?

Very nice and very impressive without CO2 👍

Very nice, I'd leave it for a while yet too.

Welcome 👍

Very nice and great to see a lace plant in there too ;)

Welcome back Fred, looking good so far :) You may want to think about transferring your images to Flickr. I migrated when photobucket started doing weird things and demanding money from me. It took me a couple of hours but I'm glad I made the change.

I think it's probably more common than was thought to be. Apparently a wide range of fish species posses this adaptation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_in_fishes I think spectrum matters to lifecycle and growth morphology, any white light is full spectrum, as far as plants and humans are...

Welcome back Steve. Good to hear you were successful breeding discus. And your friends tanks are very nice :) I know the wholesaler in Bedfordshire ALF had some monster pieces of bogwood. Give them a go and see, although they're big on supporting the high street so chances are they won't sell...

Not really, it's too dim. I doubt it's even anywhere near the light compensation point, for instance. The goldfish Carassius auratus has tetrachromatic color vision it can see in the red, green, blue, and UV regions of the spectrum.

Outside the photoperiod my light is on but somewhat dimmed, only enough to view the tank and appreciate the colours of the plants and critters. Obviously it goes off completely at bedtime :)

Absolutely stunning, thanks for posting Shawn :)

NatureScape ADA 60-P

Hi and welcome. Nice setup, how long has it been running?

NatureScape ADA 60-P Dec 2018 June 2019

Clive, the expert that just keeps on giving... Does the charcoal in my filter take the fertiliser out of the water? Tank looks great btw.

Nano NatureScape 30cm Cube

Nano Nature Scape 30cm cube From this... April 25 2017 To this... Dec 21 2017

Looks fine to me also, and you obviously can grow plants. I'm sure your new scape will be just as good, if not better. So onward and upward ;)

Return of the Shallow 60x40x25(h)cm IMG_0085 by Tim Harrison, on Flickr

From this 25.08.2017... To this 31.03.2018...

Congratulations on your win Andy, well deserved ;)

It sure does look amazing...I like it a lot :)

It's never grown well for me low-energy, but it can be a little temperamental high-energy as well.

Very nice Ray, all looks very healthy :)

Well you certainly planted it for immediate effect, I'm sure it will look even more stunning when it's grown in.

...Jean-Michel is that you...aquarist/ horticulturist at the Royal botanical gardens of Kew? :)

Hello Napoleon, welcome. Nice work ;)

I've never kept them but thought in most cases it was best to keep them on their own even males and females except of course when they are actually breeding.

Looking good, but how do you manage to make two Bettas compatible ?

Technically speaking LC makes it high-energy. But either way looking great ;)

Wow, that is spectacular ;)

Welcome to UKAPS, looking good ;)

You're going to have to sort something out with regards that water supply of yours Keith, it's a great shame you've had to give up your tanks because of it :(

It's a great jungle scape;)

Looking good Mr Hidley;)

From this, 4 May 2016... To this 18 Aug 2016... Windswept Eternity Custom Optiwhite 60x40x25(h) https://www.ukaps.org/forum/threads/windswept-eternity.37490/

Great scape...there's some major artistry demonstrated in the placement of the plants:)...

Windswept Eternity Custom Optiwhite 60x40x25(h) https://www.ukaps.org/forum/threads/windswept-eternity.37490/

Spectacular, sort of a dutch jungle hybrid, it reminds me of the images in the book that got me started way back in the late 1970s...The Complete Aquarium Encyclopedia of Tropical Freshwater Fish by J.D, von Ramshorst.

Vallis can synthesis carbon from bicarbonate so it will usually do very well in hard water. So will crypts, Bucephalandra and anubias species and very probably a variety of mosses. I'm not sure about H. tripartita...I haven't had the same low-energy success as it appears MrHidley has had...

Lovely...delicate and well tended garden:thumbup:

That's looking very cool:cool:

Great little scape:thumbup:

Paulo, according to Google translate he called you a Portuguese shovel:eek:

Nice...very natural looking;)

Always liked the Osaka range...scape's looking great.

Yep good idea. Should all be fine;)

Just take as much water out as possible and cover the tank top with cling film, it should be fine. But I suppose it depends on how far you're travelling.

Well done MrHidley...a triumph;)

I thought it was just the camera angle, unless you're referring to the black mollies http://www.seriouslyfish.com/species/poecilia-sphenops/?;)

Nice, your fish seem very at home, and I particularly like this image...

Very nice scape...and video of it happening... In my view it deserved better...well done;)

Great looking tank, and low maintenance - best of both worlds.

Hello Matthew, and welcome to UKaps, nice scape.

Nice corner;) Love the improvised stand.

That looks great...Glowlights were one of the first fish I kept...underrated IMO;)

Wow...fantastic, that tank looks very accomplished indeed.

Stunning as usual Yoda:)

Hi and welcome, nice tank

Fantastic, healthy plants and great to see my old favourite - platies.

Hi, and welcome...nice.

Really nice and well executed.

It's all good dude...you're doing an awesome job...you should post more frequently...

Tulgey Wood 60l From this - April 2014 To this-ish - Dec 2014 Or alternatively this - Jan 2015

Hello Jeff...very nice scapes, and what Iain said - spectacular moss!

Amen to that...I've tried to coin the phrase Hybrid-energy in my tutorial...but it doesn't seem to be catching on:rolleyes:

Yep...I think that'd be a good idea too...it detracts from your obvious genius...

Sounds awesome...:)

I can see that, even without too much imagination...it's what makes the UK's landscape so special:)

Nice, and I like the themed Decoupage...