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david lim · 08-23-2006, 12:35 PM

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Originally Posted by msenske

Thanks again for the kind words . I did not intentionally mean for the the branches to cross in the middle section . When I create an aquascape sometimes things happen that are not conventional . I may notice this when creating a layout . Somehow I find reason and purpose with how it relates to what I am trying to accomplish . It is interesting to receive comments on one's "scape" . I never noticed this until it was pointed out .

I understand your sentiments, Mike, and do not get me wrong I believe you have an awesome scape. Honestly, it should not matter what others think, but, like you said, that does not mean that the artist should not consider what others are thinking. Also, a picture can only show so much. Maybe when viewing the tank in real person the tank gives a greatly different feel.

Anyway.... now that I have pointed it out, what do you think about the branches crossing?

Originally, when I saw this scape, I thought that you had purposefully crossed the branches to place tension in that area as compared to the left side. But since it seems not to be done on purpose then maybe I've been overanalyzing things

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msenske · 08-23-2006, 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by david lim

I understand your sentiments, Mike, and do not get me wrong I believe you have an awesome scape. Honestly, it should not matter what others think, but, like you said, that does not mean that the artist should not consider what others are thinking. Also, a picture can only show so much. Maybe when viewing the tank in real person the tank gives a greatly different feel.

Anyway.... now that I have pointed it out, what do you think about the branches crossing?

Originally, when I saw this scape, I thought that you had purposefully crossed the branches to place tension in that area as compared to the left side. But since it seems not to be done on purpose then maybe I've been over analyzing things

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David , what you said about placing tension is a great way of wording what I did . That area falls off a little and the eye is automatically drawn to the left side . It was not done intentionally for that purpose but your observation is correct . You did not over analyze but better yet helped me in words understand what I was actually doing in this aquascape . I love it ...the dissection of an aquascape .

shewey · 08-23-2006, 06:40 PM

Hello Mike and Jeff,

Thanks for the inspirational tank pictures. I have a question on the lighting that you have used...unless I read it wrong, you have a total of 710 watts over a 75 gal tank? That sure is a lot of light and I can imagine you will be doing a lot of trimming in that tank due to the high growth rates.

I am looking at having 3 150watt MH's and perhaps some t5's over my next setup which is in the pipeline. I was thinking this way I could have the t5's on for the full duration of the lighting period, and then just have the MH's on for say 6 hours during the middle of the day. I was wondering if this is the way you have this tank setup, as I would have thought 710watts over it for 10 hours would be too much?

Thanks again for your images and discussions.
Mark

Salt · 08-20-2006, 02:30 AM

I noticed you took Penac-W and Penac-P off your site. I'm speculating because of the negative publicity?

Any chance of adding them back?

jeff@adg · 08-20-2006, 08:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Salt

I noticed you took Penac-W and Penac-P off your site. I'm speculating because of the negative publicity?

Any chance of adding them back?

I didn't take them off-- they are there under substrate system:

http://www.adgshop.com/Penac_W_p/150-003.htm

http://www.adgshop.com/Penac_P_p/150-005.htm

Honestly I couldn't care less about the "negative publicity" behind these products.

jeff@adg · 08-20-2006, 08:10 AM

I'll let Mike speak to the layout/design questions though I will say that as far as the wood placement, he is trying some different things-- experimenting, trying to break the mold of the standard "Amano" style wood layout/positioning. These things do not always work perfectly in a photo (or at all for that matter) but may have an altogeter affective/effective impact when viewed in person, which is more what our gallery is geared toward. This aquascape works very well in person, though I agree the wood placement is a little tough to convey in the right perspective in the classic "head on" front view only photo.