OK, after fiddling around with the RAWs, I managed to prepare a batch of photos. Just a warning: they come from different devices, and unfortunately, the guy who did the photos at the end did just provide them in low resolution, for unknown reasons. Lesson learnt anyway. Next time I use my own equipment to avoid this.
I have also excluded at purpose the final hardscape, for obvious reasons...
😉 I will post them later...around 24th February.
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1. Getting ready, me at home, with a shirt courtesy from Emperor Tropicals! It was unexpected but lovely!
2. Explaining the hardscape strategy in an early stage. Photo is not good, but I spent quite a lot of time to do the hardscape and explain each step to people, as they had lot of questions about it. Apart from me (I was 3rd), shop counts with 4th and 6th positions in last UKASC (they are employees of the shop). The shop itself was awarded as winner shops for plants (Fishkeeper´s Magazine) and also finished in the Top 40 of global best shops in UK. The certificates were on top of the aquarium.
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3. Better shot of the hardscape at this stage. The tank was difficult to deal with, due to the dimensions (very narrow) which made really difficult to work with it. I love the contrast between the colour of the rocks and this sand.
4. Final hardscape (to be shown later!)
5. First stage of planting. Attaching mosses (
Taxiphyllum berbieri and
Vesicularia ferrieri), adding
Anubias bateri nana "Petite" and also
Eleocharis acicularis "Mini".
6. Adding
Cryptocoryne wendtii "Green" and
Cryptocoryne lutea. I usually plant forward and back so I can get a better idea of the aspect is about to get, adjusting it if necessary. I intended to get the "Mini" version for
C. lutea, but was not possible this time.
7. More planting in progress. I completed
Cryptocorynes and started to add
Staurogyne repens
8. More planting but I did not got the photos so far. I will keep trying.
9. Final aquascape (but very low resolution, sorry! I am trying to get the high resolution ones). Main differences from above are
Blyxa japonica, Alternanthera reineckii "Mini", and
Microsorum pteropus "Narrow".
Well, I hope you enjoyed it. I had a lovely experience I hope to repeat. People coming to the workshop were lovely and I managed to get some of them staying the whole two days with me and the shop staff was very happy with it! Any comments are welcome.
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Looking forward to the final photo 
