A bit of inspiration for anyone starting a new aquascape in 2022:
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The Art of Nature Aquarium
- Thread starter Geoffrey Rea
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Yalai
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Any art, is built by time and money and the most important is, hobby.
Possibly a bit like Marmite for folks. Love or hate and nothing in between. Nice conversation between Inoue and Uchida, need to hit the captions if you want English subtitles:
plantnoobdude
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love it! that sphaerocarpa is stunning!
john arnold
Member
Just seen this about the lily pipes that is a legendary alternative, ADA aint as good as they think aye haha
Classic 180cm Iwagumi:
Hit the closed captions button (CC) in the top right corner if you want English subtitles.
Hit the closed captions button (CC) in the top right corner if you want English subtitles.
Nature Aquarium Exhibition 2022:
Beautiful tanks - the first and second in particular look incredible. Makes me wish I could fit an 1800 somewhere! 🤔
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Love this thread @Geoffrey Rea always nice to see a new post, especially when the content is in 4K 👍
PARAGUAY
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Amazing aquariums 😍
Neat little 90cm NA. Lots of planting hints and tips too:
Not an ADA show reel, but some nice tanks in this gallery - I particularly love the one scaped by the late Filipe Oliveira with the massive Echinodorus growing out of the tank, and the big paladrium:
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Love Felipe's scape with the huge emersed Echinodorus. It's a fitting epitaph to a truly talented artist.
zozo
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That wall painting at 16:38 is out of this world... 😍 I always wanted to do something like this as an aquarium background in my home, but never did because I'm afraid I'll mess it up and never finish it and will look silly. After all, I can paint a bit but I'm far from an artist myself.
Mat H
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I did three years art college and would still be a little nervous about it!
However you've now got it in my head, I love a shortcut so have been looking for wallpaper solutions as a tank backdrop.
Am particularly liking these two, the trees is my preference for its open feeling but might be limited depending on scape.
The gallery is beautiful as are the tanks and would echo other comments on Filipe's tank! ❤️ I have an emersed Echinodorus in my smaller tank but can only dream of it ever looking anything like that!
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zozo
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I've seen a few nice ones too, but it won't work in my old antique farmhouse... The walls are plastered to rough and too bumpy old Hacienda style like plastered with a shovel. I would need to replaster the wall to put paper on it, it will not be in contrast with the rest and look off. So painting it would be the next best option. A giant real-life-sized wall painting is a brand apart from getting texture and depth, which I haven't mastered yet. For now, I know it will look too flat if I would do it.
FIlipe's scape with the emersed Sword plants is also my favourite and an inspiration to me. It reminds me of my very first Aquascape, the one I joined this forum with in 2015. And one day I really want to do this again but better.
My first - "3 of life" :)
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I was thinking of doing something similar on the wall behind my tank - I was looking at large canvases though:
Or some arty split one:
Or some arty split one:
