Greenfinger2
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Hi, Scape Exquisite. And the shoal of fish adapting to the flow and moving as one So natural 😎
Hi Plantbrain, Some people are fans of ADA but that's there choice.As I am new to Aquascaping only 7 months Well everything looks fantastic some are jaw dropping But all look Beautiful to me. My thing at the moment is Nature scape's i Know old hat well so i have read Never mind i just love the look But that's my taste So all i can say if you like it go with it. But am a big fan Of Wabi-Kusa Have learnt more about growing plants in 6 months well with a lot reading too than ever before😎
I've had a few Asian folks really hate this scape and the rocks. Mostly ADA fan boys. They felt like I just tossed the stones in here any which way🙂
They did not justify it much, said it lacked a focal point. But it's clear as day when you sit in front of the tank.
Scaping for a specific picture and viewpoint/perspective is very different than scaping for a live, moving thing.
The fish dart through the stones just as I'd planned.
There are few large schools of fish more powerful than hundred's of fat healthy cardinal tetras schooling through and around large dark stones with a bright green lawn below.
Now I could have done something like this with the same position of rooty trees for placement where each rock was...............and added a few other elements, using Monte carlo as the theme plant and then Blyxa around the trees etc.
This also would have looked nice with very little design change, just materials alone and swap the plant species.
But, the client could not grow MC for some reasons, but grass is easy. He was also tied of wood and wanted to try something no one else had.
I was wondering, with this amount of fish you need to feed a lot and get a lot of droppings. How do you clear in betweeen the gras? I Always got a lot of mulm between my carpets. Do they have to "hoover" diligently?
I’m with you on this one Tom. Something like this scape captures the essence of nature, which for me, and many others, is what it’s all about. So who cares if it doesn't adhere to a set of rules arrived at by the mutual consent of others. Less is definitely more in this case. I really like the minimal aesthetic and it definitely makes a refreshing change from wood.
The Asian aesthetic seems to be increasingly heading in the direction of the diorama which I consider a corruption of the original naturescape vision - I've read somewhere Amano himself isn't very fond of it either. It appears to be more about miniature landscape modelling, and reminds me more of my kids train set than a natural habitat; in essence it’s the antithesis of a biome.
IMO diorama’s often rob the aquatic critters placed in them of dignity…it’s almost as though they’re forced to become performing circus animals, and for me that completely misses the point. So I don’t think you’re alone in this. I've also read that a lot of prominent aquascapers are turning away from competitions like the IAPLC for similar reasons.
This is nice, but perhaps I felt the rocks were too uniform in size and kind of pointing in the same direction = lack of dynamism. I also think that slightly smaller stones might have created a better sense of scale. But impressive indeed and doing this over a distance of 3000 miles not less so 🙂.
And agree with Troi: old school NA rocks!
Thomas
Seems the focus of this tank is the fish. The green a contrast to them and the rocks provide highways for their movement. If the rocks were small the fish would move differently. With different plants they would have opportunity to hide, so this scape is built around viewing the fish, they create the movement within the scape. Dare I say it is a fish keepers tank?
3000 mile tank install, I'd much rather watch this than tanked! You need to start a tv program Tom 🙂