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SteveUK , this is in Kyoto , a place called Arashiyama :wink: here are a few pics of the tank tonight , no big changes , i'll remove the hygrophila soon :D

Thank you for your comments :D London Dragon , i dont think the glosso would survive the travel from Osaka to your place :wink: i went to the mountain this morning to find inspiration and some stones ... forest starts to look red , was quite nice , here are a few pics :D

Thank you for your comments :D here are a few shots tonight , no big changes but the plantation starts to mature well , especially the microsorum , crypts and the bolbitis that finally starts to show ...i love this plant :D hope you like it :D

Thank you for your comments :D Samc , it is very exciting in fact , going in the mountain looking for good spots , the hard part is to bring back stones from where you find them to your car , as often you go deeper and deeper in the mountain and have to come back with heavy loads , a bit...

thank you for your comments , i'm glad you like it :D there is going to be some work to do with moss in the long term , in the end i'd like to be able to keep the moss quite low in the front not to cover the stones a bit higher in the back of the foreground :lol: ) and be able to let some...

here is a better picture with a white background , i also cleaned the stones and the sand :D have to wait a couple of months to have a more natural plantation , for the fishes i am thinking about H. amandae :D

Re: Saintly's 120cm private scape Hi Saintly :D its a great start , the hardscape looks even better this way :wink: with the plantation you planned i think thst it is going to be a great tank :D by the way good luck doing the 100 moss stones :lol: :wink:

Saintly , i didnt have any white sheet big enough to put on the wall , i'll get it for next time :wink: George those rocks come from a river in the north of Osaka , it's quite a beautiful place , i can put some pictures if you want (although i think i did already ...not so sure... :mrgreen: )...

some news of this tank , it is going low tech as i planted only moss and tenellus , light 0.3W/L , co2 1bp3s , nearly no fert , water changes every 2 or 3 weeks at the best , i added moss recently , did not grow much yet , anyways this one will take some time , i have to brush the stones as they...

Neelhound , i am still wondering about what to do with the red stem plants in this tank , i dont know if they will stay or not , as the tank is turning nearly low tech (18W/65L , co2 1bp3s , ferts at water changes only ...) the red plants have some hard time to take a nice coloration , if they...

thank you for your comments :D Hydrophyte , i think that it is classic E.tenellus and not red E.tenellus ...i am not sute though ....i some other tanks i do with lower lights it stays green :wink: the background is high enough i will trim it this week to give it a better shape as it is...

plants finally start to show all over the background , still there is a lot of work of trimming to do as it is still quite thin , anyways here is a picture , hope you like it :D

great tanks! i especially like the 1st and the 3rd :thumbup: anyways what is FOF?

great hardscape :thumbup: your plantation is also very nice , i like the hydrocotile touch , it mixes very nice with the HC :wink:

very nice nano , i think this one has a great potential , maybe only be careful that the most doesn't cover all the hardscape , would you have a front picture taken from a bit higher than this one and without the filter ? (i edited it a bit , sorry :mrgreen: :wink: )

Re: Saintly's 120cm private scape it seems that Amano does huge slopes for iwagumi but for his "nature aquarium" style (wood only type) slopes are way more moderate , even more for the ones using sand where sometimes they seem nearly flat :wink:

Saintly , if you have enough wood to make something with a good balance , it might definitly work , but that also might mean to rethink the rock part to integrate the wood , if you can do it without changing the central part which is great the way it is, that would do it :wink: tropic_john ...

some updates of this tank , it is running kind of low-tech , 18W (0,3W/Liter) , co2 1b/3sec , nearly no ferts . i still have to put some moss on the foreground behind the stones on the sand , had no time to take care of this yet :wink:

Re: Saintly's 120cm private scape great start :thumbup: i like the way you used the stones , even though you used them making a line it doesn't seems linear at all , i especially like the disposition of the stones in the center part , the angle you used (especially for the right stone) is great...

Re: Mark's 60cm Iwagumi (NEW PICS ADDED 01/10/09)) great hardscape , very nice slope in the back , your main stone is beautiful and very nicely used , looking forward to see this one finished :wink:

you have quite a unique style , i must say that everytime i see one of your posts here and there i am always quite excited to open it and see what you have for us :D looking at your tank in live must feel like being in the jungle , i like a lot the luxurious plantation , yet organised enough...

Re: 240l tank rescape (name coming later) your nano looks great , i like a lot this kind of natural look , all in green , the use of may different plants in the foreground and a lot of moss , the use of the wood also seems quite perfect to me , all together this has a very "simple" feeling...

Re: Saintly's 120cm private scape Looking forward to see this one :wink:

Thank you Saintly , pictures dont really show the depth of the tank , video is way better to see it :wink: Rawr , thanks a lot though there is still a lot of work to try to get to the level of some tanks we can see here and there , simply by looking in this forum you can see some wonders...

here is my passport picture ...that would explain why i always got so much troubles with immigration when i come back to Japan .... :mrgreen:

thank you :D Mark Webb , for the wood , i used many different varieties , some come from a mountain in the north of Osaka some from some friends who didnt use it anymore , most from aqua shops :wink: here is a video of the tank , quality s*cks but we can see better the depth of the...

Thank you :D i added some stem plants as i am worried i am a bit worried about algaes , still , there is no problem yet :) i added some red plants , but not too flashy ones , i'll keep them untill other plants grow enough then i'll remove them . new plants are hygrophila sp and ludvigia...

Thank you for your comments :D Hi Alex , long time no read , everything's fine? for driftwood i am looking for a piece that would fit in the right part but didn't find it yet as i have a precise idea of what i want .... :? a few new pics from the tanks , the background is not full yet so...

Thank you for your comments :D Chilled84 , at this point there is only vallisneria nana and tenellus in the tank , soon i'll put some moss on the hardscape , crypto wendtii green and maybe some ludwigia arcuata needle leaf on the back :wink: Vito , Jase , Hydrophyte , Hijac , the rock is...

Hi :D here is another new tank , 60*30*36 , 65L , plantation is not finished yet , i need to put some moss on the wood ans also a bit on the stones , at the separation between sand and stones and here and there between the stones . on the background there will be mainly vallisneria nana ...

Hi everybody , Here's a new tank i am starting now its a 60*30*36cm , 65Liters , at this point only the hardscape is done , plantation is going to be very simple , moss in the foreground , only in the central part sand will be visible , midground and background will be a mix of...

Thank you for your comments :D Dan , there are tons of tanks using wood with those plants and still they all look different , so i dont think that you have to worry about it :wink:

i modified a bit the hardscape , still i am not satisfied yet so i will work on it a bit more :D anyways here is the central part :wink:

Thank you for your comments :D Hydrophyte , the carpet is mainly composed of tenellus , but there are also 3 varieties of eleocharis some glosso and some moss , actually i am not even sure what it's going to look like once finished :mrgreen: for this lay-out i feel like something is missing...

Hi everybody , Here is a lay-out i'm working on, the tank is 240L , 120*45*45cm , i still have to finish the plantation , the background will be fully planted (nothing in the left part at this moment) , i want the background to be light and colorful , only have to wait for it to grow :D...

Do you mean that ADA found out that you posted this picture on this forum and complained about it? anyways , there is still the 2nd picture :D :wink: i could not develop so much my thinking in my last comment (it was hard to see the keybord with all the tears in my eyes :wink: ) the use...

this lay-out is breath taking , exactly the type i like the best , very natural , "simple" and efficient ...beautiful :thumbup: :wink:

Hi , here are the planted tanks i realized in the past 2 or 3 years , hope you like it :D 240L , Sonata 36L , Kamikakushi , low tech 240L , in lucem sanctam 65L , "classic nature aquarium" 65L , "classic iwagumi" 65L , "la clairiere" (never been finished) 240L , "mino no...

thank you again for your comments :D LondonDragon and Stuworrall , here are a few pictures of this tank's evolution over 3 months :wink:

George , its kind of hard those days to keep a scape ,what i like the most is the creation part , i have many new hardscapes ideas that i want to realize , so once a tank is finished i want to start something new quickly , i need to get busy :mrgreen: Dave ,for the plants textures myrio...

thank you :D i destroyed it 5 minutes ago , i needed the moss for another tank :lol: i've been sad 2 minutes ...but now i feel ok (cause i'm doing another one) :mrgreen: :wink:

thank you for your comments :D SteveUK , sorry i always forget the specs , eheim 2213 , co2 1b/2s , 3*18W ada Na-lamp (instead of my usual 2*18W ) , ferts brighty-K , step 2 , special lights . and a few close shots fishes are puntius gelius (i love this fish) , tanychtis and...

Hi everyone , i just finished a new tank , this one is 60*30*36 , 65L , i tried to do something natural with a lot of contrasts , i tried to balance the heavy hardscape with a light and aerian stem plants part , using myrio matogrossense seemed to be a good way to do so ,as well as not so much...

Hi Luis :D this tank is one of my favorites , seriously it is great in every point , the hardscape , the plantation , the picture , simply perfect :wink: the way you used the space is great .... i dont see anything that i dont like , that seems misplaced or whatsoever in that tank :wink: i...

i'm having difficulties taking nice pictures with a white background , but i'm working on it :wink: to be honnest i kind of strt to regret too :mrgreen: :wink: this one is called a "perruche catherine" in french , i dont know the english name , i had many sort of small perrots this race is...

was it a big one (240L) with some vivipara in the background or a small one (60L) all in short plants with a white background? :?: (maybe i should open a topic with all of my tanks...) :wink:

i think it looks empty :lol: :wink:

thank you for your comments :D Garuf , that's the spirit :lol: :wink: Dave Spencer , yes Uttoshii is an another name i go by :mrgreen: :wink: here is what the tank looks like now , there is still a lot to do , eleocharis parvula should appear from behind the main stone that looks kind of...

Re: Six years of 'scaping you see , that is what i am talking about , not a single bad tank/lay out , i even like the "sumatran chocolate" for its simple but still very convincing (english?) ambiance , George , you are the man :wink: i like the way your style evolve and wait with a lot of...

here are a few closer pics :wink: Stuworrall , as this version is finished i want to do something new , i have some ideas and i need to get busy with my tanks , but before rescaping it totally i really want to do the iwagumi version , i might be done with it very quickly :wink:

thank you for your comments :D sorry ,i always forget the technical part .... :mrgreen: tank is 60*30*36 , 65L lights: 36W (2*18W) ada na-lamp 11h/day i always use a rather small Watts/Liters ratio flitration: eheim 2213 , biological filtration (as for all of my tanks) co2 : 1bps industrial...

hi here's one of my tanks , this one is now a bit more than 2 months old , basicaly it was meant an iwagumi but the stem part went well so i kept it that way....anyways it is gonna turn to an iwagumi next week so here are the final pictures of this scape.i feel l ike the matogrossesse part...

hi there my name is Nico , i'm french (sure it doesn't help,lol) but i live in japan 'cause i hate france...(its a lie but i think it could help somehow). i discovered this forum tracking George F ,lol(if ever you wonder how i got here) anyways as we share the same passion for planted tanks i...