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Hey everyone.
I hope the topic of this thread does not sound offensive to anyone.
I love this forum. It has the right attitude and culture towards its members.
The forum is all about creative plant aquascapes and the challenges that come with it.
For a long time however, I've been wondering why all the aquariums I see around look the same to me.. I can't see originality anymore. I see the same thing over and over again....I see members that want to re-create the same thing someone else did...
I am a person with little imagination when it comes to aquascaping. I love numbers, mathematics. I love literature and books. I don't care much about visual things although I absolutely get enthralled with nature, probably because I don't feel I can re-create it. I love animals too. I yearn of understanding their ways of being. At the same time, I don't see nature in fish keeping. We buy and buy plastics and we destroy and replace animals as if they are plastics.
I could be in a philosophical mood but well arranged/aquascaped fish tanks make little sense to me and I find little beauty in looking at them. They look like old pictures without history, like a memento of something that is never going to be, something that has no sustainability. At the same time I hate the marketing power companies have at addicted fellow fish keepers. Aren't we about preserving nature, not just being irresponsible consumers...
I hope the topic of this thread does not sound offensive to anyone.
I love this forum. It has the right attitude and culture towards its members.
The forum is all about creative plant aquascapes and the challenges that come with it.
For a long time however, I've been wondering why all the aquariums I see around look the same to me.. I can't see originality anymore. I see the same thing over and over again....I see members that want to re-create the same thing someone else did...
I am a person with little imagination when it comes to aquascaping. I love numbers, mathematics. I love literature and books. I don't care much about visual things although I absolutely get enthralled with nature, probably because I don't feel I can re-create it. I love animals too. I yearn of understanding their ways of being. At the same time, I don't see nature in fish keeping. We buy and buy plastics and we destroy and replace animals as if they are plastics.
I could be in a philosophical mood but well arranged/aquascaped fish tanks make little sense to me and I find little beauty in looking at them. They look like old pictures without history, like a memento of something that is never going to be, something that has no sustainability. At the same time I hate the marketing power companies have at addicted fellow fish keepers. Aren't we about preserving nature, not just being irresponsible consumers...