Steven_Chong

The aquasketch [spring 2006]



Original Hardscape [August 25, 2006]



Add twigs, raise substrate level



Bright Sand



Foreground plants in



Me at work



Aquascape is planted [September 1st 2006]


Thanks for viewing everyone, and for the help I've received through this forum that made this possible. If you want to see a better step-by-step, I'll post more photos soon in the "scraps" of my deviant art page (click banner)

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Looking cool. What are the fish intended?

Off-topic, but are/were you a dragonboater?

Steven_Chong

I was thinking a mix of some of the more common, unused tetras

Dragon boater? No, but that sounds cool. I've never even seen a dragon boat before-- never even been to china ^^;

houseofcards

That aquasketch is great. I had to look twice to see if it was real or not. Nice work on the beachfront. Curious about the twigs? Will they hold up long-term or will the decompose and have to be replaced maybe 2 or 3 months out?

Steven_Chong

The twigs were collected from a stream bed in Hawai'i. I've used these in tanks before, so I know that they are basically innert and won't decay-- or at least if they do it's so slow that it's not noticable.

Jdinh04

Looks good Steven, I like your hardscape and how you placed the rocks. Looking forward to seeing some progress on this tank. Keep it up!

turtlehead

Very nice works of art.

redstrat

Beautiful tank I really like the setup pictures too.

bioch

nvm

slickwillislim

I believe the person who asked was from singapore. Probably thought he looked like someone he saw at a dragonboat race. I really doubt it was a racist comment.