Challenge!!!!!!!!

[mrjackdempsey]

Hi all, really enjoying the site and some of the fantastic aquascapes contained within,whereas I'm still haven't tried to 'scape properly yet in any of my tanks but will as soon as I get my fish house built or so I tell myself. At the moment have 10 four foot tanks sitting in the garden awaiting deployment plus a few smaller tanks.The reason I'm writing isn't about this but a challenge ;could you use any of these pictures to make a eye pleasing aquarium as I don't think it's possible but I thought that about some 'scapes at the start yet they turn into real work of art.Here goes
http://i966.photobucket.com/albums/ae14 ... ey/054.jpg
http://i966.photobucket.com/albums/ae14 ... ey/056.jpg
http://i966.photobucket.com/albums/ae14 ... ey/055.jpg
These were taken in the Burren, in Co. Clare in west Ireland but while looking interesting above ground do you think you could make it look right under water?

 

[Nick16]

you are going to need some support stones, otherwise that will look like a tacky fake ornament sticking out like a sore thumb.

if you could incorporate some smaller stones around it, it would look better. perhaps have a lower foreground, surround the stone with blyxa (to make it look like some lost aztec structure), and then go jungle at the rear with stems and vallis etc.

 

[mlgt]

I think the idea is a good one, howver to really appreciate the scaping, because the ornament will be quite low you cant really sense the scape.
How high will the tank be sitting? I think if its a standard tank, then to really appreciate it is when you are sitting down.

But as Nick says, support stones are a must as over time the ornament may topple.

 

[mrjackdempsey]

Sorry if I was a bit misleading as I don't think it could look good in a aquarium but then alot of what I think will be hard or ugly turns out really well .The Burren in Co Clare is a limestone formation with many unique plants found no where else in the British Isles .The stones in the pictures are a stone age grave and the man in the picture is to give a sense of scale to the sheer size of these stones.The idea of the challenge was that you take your inspiration from nature and what you see around you yet something like this is certainly attention grabbing yet could it translate into a attention grabbing aquarium?Here are some images of the Burren
http://www.fotosearch.com/photos-images/burren.html
Would YOU be confident in using this landscape as your inspiration?There is a saying about the Burren 'Not a tree to hang a man,nor water enough to drown him and if you finally succeeded in killing him it's too rocky to bury him 😀