75 gallon open forground - Page 4 - Journals

jerseyjay · 12-02-2005, 08:42 PM

Luis,

Well done and great progress ! Where is this tank located ?

Rek · 12-03-2005, 01:40 AM

fantastic

hir0 · 12-03-2005, 04:45 AM

very nice layout. I love the way this tank is looking.

side note:
about the crop of the photo - I'm not sure if you have access to adobe photoshop or not... but here's something you can try. when you click on the crop tool, along the top a selection called perspective will appear. if you click this box, then you can drag each 4 corner crop point to the corners and it will crop the photo and fix the perspective so that the bottom edges aren't leaning in the way they are.

Navarro · 12-03-2005, 04:46 AM

Thank you! this tank is in my office, and it has been a reall challenge due to the fact that the plants grow much slower than what I am used to work with.
My photography is really bad, but I wll ask a friend to take a couple pictures for me. The tank is by no means ready there are many Cryptocorines that are yet to show their best, and is not until then that the composition will make sense.
Since I started this layout every single tank in my office has been changed with slow growing plants and finally I have a little more time. Working with stem plants is indeed just more work.

Bert H · 12-05-2005, 09:38 AM

Great progression of the tank, Luis.

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Working with stem plants is indeed just more work.

How true!

TNguyen · 12-06-2005, 06:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Navarro

Thank you! this tank is in my office, and it has been a reall challenge due to the fact that the plants grow much slower than what I am used to work with.
My photography is really bad, but I wll ask a friend to take a couple pictures for me. The tank is by no means ready there are many Cryptocorines that are yet to show their best, and is not until then that the composition will make sense.
Since I started this layout every single tank in my office has been changed with slow growing plants and finally I have a little more time. Working with stem plants is indeed just more work.

Looking good Luis. Too bad you can't use metal halide on this tank. Non the less, the tank looks awesome. Very impress with the growth so far. Layout changes to all the tanks? Now I got to make an appointment to go check it out.

Thanh

tsunami · 12-28-2005, 02:28 PM

Update:

Carlos

gregorsamsa · 12-29-2005, 04:04 AM

Hey CArlos,

Are you sure it is the same tank you began with?

Initially, the centre bunch of C. Helferi (?) looked like an eyesore. Now that all the bck row plants have grown in, i must say that the tank looks very eye soothing.

i think it is a nice home for those rainbows (m. praecox?) .

my gripes are that somehow all the branches look as if they are a single piece and maybe you could have some smaller fishes. the smaller fishes would definitely enjoy swimming around in this tank

tsunami · 12-29-2005, 05:43 AM

This is Luis' tank, Greg.

I am just updating this thread for him as a favor!

Carlos

Navarro · 12-29-2005, 06:42 AM

Thank you Carlos.
Luis