Recent content by MarcoB

Here's a quickpic to give you an idea of the scale. Pics of the CDM's from the inside will follow. I don't have them available.

Thanks guys! You're right. It's Hydrocotyle leucocephala. On the foreground H. tripartata. If anyone want cuttings, no problem.... I'm considering to change the right side. Changing this tank is a bit hard. The natural growth of this tank makes it hard to change the scape easily. Specially...

:thumbdown: I absolutely love the shades. I must be honest. On pics it's much darker as for real because of the high lux output of the bright sun's I always have to adjust the diafragma. Fish love shady spots also. I have less stressy fish and those CMD lights give a very natural sun effect.

Gday folks, Need some tips and tricks from you guys how to make this scape even better. Don't hesitate to break it down completely :mrgreen:

Wim is a friend of mine. I helped him with the build! This Palu is an inspiration. surely but with a depth of just 50cm it's hard to realize the same effect! I'll check the loachessite. Thanks for that tip!

Yeah, that's a nice one but a littlebit to boring for me to have that for a showtank in the office on 2meter size. It doesnt have to be a heavily planted tank and I tend to an asian fastflowing river is a biotopedirection.

Hi Guys, I'm searching for nice pics for inspiration. The goal is to create a hillstream tank with a bit of iwagumi flavour in a 200x50x50 tank. Biggest issue is the background of the tank. This tank needs a background because of the sorry state of the glass. Any ideas?

Talking about massive: Here's the background we made during the 2 day fair. Now installed in the 3 meters tank. It looks a bit silly now, a fresh background with no water in the tank. Anyway within a few weeks this background will look stunning hopefully.

lots of photo's! http://series.peterdehoog.nl/vivarium2011/

Well, it was great to see you guys again! Although it was way to short and way to busy to really talk for a longer period of time and share info. Hopefully we will see you again next year! I'll try to visit the UK in fall and surely will offer more UK rare plants on the forum when available. I...

here's our second try. This time in a small jewel metertank. Color of the wood is much better this time.

I will ask for updatephoto's. check vivariumbackground.com Maybe it's an idea to import a few pots from vivarium 2011 to the UK. I know some guys overhere are coming to the fair. With a bit of organising they can take some with them for you.

Well, a lot has changed the last months. Again I had KH problems due to the rocks I added. I lost a lot of species again but new are added to the scene! H. costata, V, americana var. natans for example. Except of the ferns the herbarium now is pretty much guinea/australia orientated as possible...

Now with the first plants and fish and the renewed lights.

Try to speak the subjecttitle repeatitaly very fast! You can't! Anyway: here's the result of a few weeks of hard work: A tutorial of this creation will be shown on vivariumbackground.com What do you think about this? IMHO a great result for showing all kinds of echino's. We will try to...