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Give it time :)

Jammy sod! Thats the hardscape done and dusted then! Sam

Enough said here I think. You get people who dont care about the health and welfare of their fish on any and every forum, thats just the way some people are. How people treat their fish is no reflection on this forum or indeed is it in anyway the result of what this forum promotes. If someone...

A few of our sponsours will custom make tanks almost without limit on their dimentions so give them a try or google it :) Sam

Love it, love it. Just gets better :) Sam

Loving the cascade effect from the glosso :)

Quality planting and use of hardscape :) love it. Thats it truely different, not even a variation on a theme. Sam

Looks good for a first bash, the central pointy rock esp. The only thing I would say is that the smaller, flatter rocks might get hidden by the planting? Just a thought. Sam

I cant honestly say I know, but quite frankly, you cant tell you have anyway, so I wouldn't worry! :lol: given the lengths some of the top aquascapers go to when taking photos, reducing the water level is the least of your worries. Sam

Looking at them again, I really like the layered rock effect in number 8. Sam

Definitely.

18 is the most interesting for me, I love the shape and curve of the wood. Some Im not really sure about, but that could also just be the way the photos look. Sam

Yep, the wood is very nice :) How about just having the wood on its own? I think a carpet of hairgrass or something would look cool with that bit of wood emerging out of it. Sam

Great idea for the FoF George :thumbup: really allow people to get hands on which you cant usually do with displays. Inspire a few more people. Have to agree with James here, went with No4 also. Sam

It could also be to stop disease, the wood might look clean but could carry all sorts of things below the surface. Sam

Nice site, not see that one before. Might be worth an email to find out the shipping costs as it might be rather expensive. Sam

Up load them to something like photobucket, and they provide a link that looks something like :) Sam

Definately No3 as its unusual and coulg work really well. Sam

I wouldn't use 'green' pieces only those that are very dried. Also, might b worth soaking them for a few weeks in a bucket or something just to be sure. Boiling them would probably also be a worthwhile safeguard from any potential nastiest. Sam

Thats a good few months away so my 4ft should be ready by then, fingered crossed anyway! Sam

Yeh there is onward postage as well I guess, but that should be too much and I guess overall its cheaper than buying it. Who's gonna stump up for the initial postage? £200 is a fair investment. Sam

Had anyone sorted postage? I asked DHL and they said ~£200 to ship 25kg from USA to UK. Sam

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Quality, but you're right, its all a learning curve, I dare say without these early scape's you'd not be producing the quality scape's you are now :) Sam

Its the TetraPlant CO2-Optimat systems on the right that's worrying me! :lol: Sam EDIT - at least you were adding CO2!

As its a small tank I'd be tempted to just have three rocks, the three on the left that make the path, they look cool. Also how about a small patch of HC on the front left corner? It looks like it could use a bit of planting just to completed the scape? Hope that helps. Sam

Take out the large left rock and just have the three large rocks with two small ;) Sam

Thats a quality scape! :) I know what you mean about the HC it can be tricky sometimes. Its just a case of finding the 'sweet spot' in the tank and it takes off like wild fire! BTW is the rock on the left two close together or one? To my eyes it looks like you've got four rocks in there and...

Yep, just raises the GH. Think cichlid people use it for that very reason. Sam

Cool, cheers :) Sam

Yeh to many rocks for my liking. Sam

I've got 2x54w T5's on my 120x45cm and find it perfect, even for HC. I have run 3x54w T5's but it was to much for the plants and they started dieing. Sam

Ive seen mini landscape rocks sold pre-stuck together to form larger pieces in LFS :) Sam

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I dont see why now. I also dont see why you cant mix it. The advice on the packet is prob just to get you to buy more! Sam

Hi just out of interest, what lighting do you have and how much? Your HC looks a bit sorry, and I've had it looking exactly the same. Reducing the lighting did the trick, either by having it higher or having one less bulb. It was as if it couldn't couple with the amount of the Iight I had...

Check out http://www.cau-aqua.net/index.php?lang=en and http://showcase.aquatic-gardeners.org/2008.cgi for loads and loads of great ideas. Sam

Great idea :)

Don't bin the wood, just perhaps reposition it. It'd be better on one side IMHO :) for the time being, try to cultivate the stems, i.e. by cutting the top half off and replanting it, there by doubling the amount you have. That's a free way of getting lots more plants pretty quickly. Sam

You need more order to things, i.e. the some plants planted close together and the wood does little for the scape at the moment. I would also get a load more plants in there. That way they will have more of an impact and will likely also make it easier to see what works and what doesn't :)...

Yeh, for me you need fewer rocks and more variation in size and spacing. I would also try putting one of the smaller pieces of wood on the far right over on the left side to balance it up? Try and see, might not work in reality. Hope that helps :) Sam

Guess thats half the problem! If there were just two choices it'd be easy! Sam

Yeh, with careful planning tanks like the ones at TGM look awesome from ALL angles. Sam

I noticed a oily film on the water from the redmoor wood when I soaked mine. Not totally dissimilar to the film you get on tanks, but more oily looking. Glad I soaked it first. Sam

Its also introduced into the UK, so hack it down people! :lol: Sam

Very nice Dave :) Sam

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Granite is igneous if I remember rightly? So would think it would be fine. Its not a lime or sand stone so should inert and OK in the tank. BTW which Lafarge site do you work at? I've been to quite a few of them with my job! Sam EDIT - could look really nice is a tank. Be different too.

No they dont, they only sell wholesale to the trade. Sam

You lucky bugger :wink:

Nice scape, Dave, glad you're back on track with your tanks :) Sam

This guy ships all over the world http://www.aquaristic.net/shop.php/sid/ ... per%20kg./ As do aquaessentails.co.uk Sam

Re: my first aquascape 33l Hi and welcome :) Nice scape, very nice :) a path would help I think. Sam

When I look back at the first tank I got 5 years ago, I remember wondering my the anubias I got didn't do very well, despite me pushing it deep into the substrate after each water changes and why the leaves on my Mondo Grass (Ophiopogon japonicus var) where dieing :shock: :roll: :lol: Sam

Ive just started a 4ft, watch out for my journal which I'll be starting soon, if not today! Sam

YhU CAU is worth a look too :)

I'm sure you already have, but AGA is always worth a visit http://showcase.aquatic-gardeners.org/2008.cgi Sam

Superb scape :) I think you learn something every time to try a new scape and/or plants. I find its only by growing the plant myself can I work out exactly how it will behave (or not! ;)) in the tank. Keep us posted. Sam

Good work everyone, lets keep it up :) Sam

How come you're selling?

Just a shame we have to wait until the Aug issue to see it in full! Sam

Your scape's just never look real, amazing as usual. Sam

I think I'll enter my 20g just for the sheer hell of it. Why not!?!? Haha. If I can get some decent photos of my nano I'll enter that instead. Sam

Nice :)

Looking good :) Sam

Unless you are wiling to keep on top of pruning the leaves, I tend to think Lotus plants are really only for big tanks as they can just get so big they dominate the scape. If you can tame them though, the red is stunning when the plant is healthy. Sam

Either plan looks good to me. Sam

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IMHO it doesnt need it, once the stems get some height on them the valls wont add anything. Sam

Haha I'll add to mine and say its the crypts, think they are a bit big which means you lose the mound effect created by the rocks, but thats just me ;) Sam

Rocks look good, its difficult to get a true idea of how it'll look until its in the tank. If you can keep them from looking to samey then they should look great. Sam

Woo its grown out a fair bit. Perhaps a bit too much? The harlequin's are perfect. Sam

Yeh I agree re the stones. Think you could use some midground plants to grade it more from front to back. Its a bit stark at the moment i.e. lots of tall plants at the back which gives it height but needs some shorter ones in the front. Sam

Lovely contrast with the green of the plants. Sam

Cool little tank Mate, I love small tanks. Sam

2 is my preferred option but I think 4 had some potential too. Sam

Tanks looking really nice :)

Nice work Peter, well deserved :) Sam

Oh crap, thats a real shame Gareth. Think you have two choices. Rip it all apart and start again or battle through and let the plants sort the algae out. Which they can and will in time. If you ever feel like giving up read my nano journal over on TFF, its taken me two years to get that tank...

Interesting tank George, must be a nice change for planty tanks? I've just set up a hillstream loach tank, get something a bit more unusual. Sam

Another great scape Dave :) Sam

Google if memory serves, or perhaps CAU or AGA, cant exactly remember!! Nice tanks though, hey? Sam

Looks good for a plan :) Weclome back to the green side. Sam

Very nice, clean scape that George, the valls work really well as 'wall' along the back. What make of filter are those BTW? Sam

Very nice Dave :)

Yeh a monthly publications, in particular a free one, is ambitious, but good luck to them, lets hope they manage it :) Sam

Nice one Zig :)

Definitely, not that rubbish 30cm nano anymore ;) :P Nice to see Jeremy on here :) Sam

Interesting idea George

I did wonder if you were running at full wattage! :lol: Sam

Love the path way, esp at the back where the really steep adjacent rocks give it a real sense of huge mountains. You'd feel very small walking along that path. Sam

That Ech is huge! Re the plants, how about a sag carpet? I find them very hardy, if a little unruly sometimes and you have to keep on top of them re pruning by they make a useful carpet that is probably easier to maintain than riccia. Having said that, with the lighting you have you could...

Wonder if the blyxa, would look better pushed back against the Cyperus Helferi a gap between the two could a bit odd? Sam

According to tropica the following are from South America :) Alternanthera reineckii 'Pink' (roseafolia) Alternanthera reineckii 'Purple' (lilacina) Bacopa australis Bacopa monnieri Cabomba caroliniana Ceratophyllum demersum 'Foxtail' Ceratopteris thalictroides Echinodorus 'Aquartica'...

Yeh see what you're saying Graeme thought that might be the case. George could you post or link to a pic of a true dutch? just out of curiosity :) cheers guys Sam

Ive just been giving someone on TFF advice re dutch and NA scape, and it got me to thinking where one style stops and the other one begins. For example, this is clearly Dutch (to my mind anyway) And this is NA But this seems to have elements of both? And what style would you call this...

Who'd ever think fissidens could be a stem plant! :lol: Sam

Haha thats quality!!! I want one!

Right, think you're first requirement is to sort the rocks, check out either aquaessentials or this place dose a decent selection. http://www.aquaristic.net/shop.php/sid/ ... l/-/lang/1 Re the scape, given that you have a fair bit of floor space, you could have quite a steep substrate from the...

Very nice