saintly's 60cm optiwhite - Page 3 - Aquascaping

saintly · 06-13-2009, 12:33 AM

saintly's house party...bring your own food!

Bunbuku · 06-13-2009, 04:22 AM

Very lovely saintly! I like what you have done to fill out the middle ofscape around the driftwood. I have always struggled with that "dark zone" as the stems around it tend to cast a shadow. I have used a narrow leaf java fern like I have seen on some Amano scapes, but dark green leaves just did not work. Using the Anubias with its light green leaf was brilliant. Do you think the nana "petite" might work OK to?

arowanaman · 06-14-2009, 12:42 AM

That is a pritty amazing looking scape well done. Your photography is superb.

saintly · 06-14-2009, 06:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Bunbuku

Very lovely saintly! I like what you have done to fill out the middle ofscape around the driftwood. I have always struggled with that "dark zone" as the stems around it tend to cast a shadow. I have used a narrow leaf java fern like I have seen on some Amano scapes, but dark green leaves just did not work. Using the Anubias with its light green leaf was brilliant. Do you think the nana "petite" might work OK to?

thanks bunbuku.

i've always been challenged when it come to Anubias. i researched as much as possible, amanos work and i noticed in his 60cm tanks the choice always seemed to be a smaller variety of anubias.

Aquafleur over here in Europe, have an anubias which is labelled bonsai which looks identical to what amano uses, so I'm testing the water so to speak, and even after 9 days of submerged conditions the leaves are not infected with any type of algae what so ever....which i find strange as there emerged leaves. The rizome is now producing new leaves and i can see several showing.

another plant which has taken me by complete surprise is the Alternanthera reineckii 'Pink'...it's growing faster than the other stems

it's a new plant for me as are a lot of the others, but I'd of thought it was slow growing, but it's now due a trim already.

The new 150w MH lamp is proving its worth too. i was expecting algae if I'm honest but i've been rather strict in my regime and it seems to be paying off.

saintly · 06-14-2009, 06:34 AM

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Originally Posted by arowanaman

That is a pritty amazing looking scape well done. Your photography is superb.

WOW, jordan to get the nod from you means everything. your one of my favourite scapers, i drew inspiration from one of your tanks many months ago.

thanks for the vote of confidence re the photography. It's something I'm always looking to improve.
i just hope the forum is ready for a flood of images

here's a couple more...

check out my website for images in the galleries page

http://www.plantedbox.com/?page_id=185

it's under Autumn blush, actually does anyone know how i change the title of this thread?

hydrophyte · 06-14-2009, 07:05 AM

nice work, and really great, innovative photography. i wonder if you ahve specs on your picture-taking anywhere(?).

saintly · 06-14-2009, 07:13 AM

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Originally Posted by hydrophyte

nice work, and really great, innovative photography. i wonder if you ahve specs on your picture-taking anywhere(?).

good question.

Canon 5D
sigma 70-300mm (cheap version)
sigma 24-70mm
sigma 15-30mm

Flash 2 x bowens 200w heads and softbox.

everything i do is shot in RAW for absolute control over the image.

software, premium RAW shooter and Photoshop 7.0

hydrophyte · 06-14-2009, 07:57 AM

thanks! i really need to get a handle on using RAW files. i probably need to invest in an external hard drive. every time that i have tried to work with them--and i still don't understand just what to do--they have quickly occupied too much of my computer memory.

Bunbuku · 06-14-2009, 07:49 PM

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Originally Posted by saintly

thanks bunbuku.

i've always been challenged when it come to Anubias. i researched as much as possible, amanos work and i noticed in his 60cm tanks the choice always seemed to be a smaller variety of anubias.

Aquafleur over here in Europe, have an anubias which is labelled bonsai which looks identical to what amano uses, so I'm testing the water so to speak, and even after 9 days of submerged conditions the leaves are not infected with any type of algae what so ever....which i find strange as there emerged leaves. The rizome is now producing new leaves and i can see several showing.

another plant which has taken me by complete surprise is the Alternanthera reineckii 'Pink'...it's growing faster than the other stems

it's a new plant for me as are a lot of the others, but I'd of thought it was slow growing, but it's now due a trim already.

The new 150w MH lamp is proving its worth too. i was expecting algae if I'm honest but i've been rather strict in my regime and it seems to be paying off.

The 150 watt MH is great. I have one over my ADA 60-P also. I noticed that you seem to have yours a lot higher above the tank. The plants directly the light tend to grow really well due to the hot spot effect. I will have to give the Anubias a try. I think if I had a sand foreground that might brighten up that dark spot too.

Fabac · 06-15-2009, 10:41 AM

Beautiful! Your photos are great. Where are algae?

There are no trace of algae in your aquariums.