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Originally Posted by Steven_Chong  90% Newb-- (this category includes people who've been in the hobby for a week or 20 years, if they haven't made the resolve to aquascape and learned the basic skills, they're newb no matter how many tonina species they've grown before)
8% Elementary-- (Again, come from varying levels of plant growing skills, but have made the resolve to aquascape and have some understanding of the basic design ideas)
2% Intermediate-Amano 
Edit: Granted, there probably is a fairly strong positive correlation between aquascaping skill and plant growing. But we probably all know a fair number of members where one is much stronger than the other (though guys with better design than plant-growing skills are pretty uncommon). Er . . . actually, off the top of my head, I can't think of ANY besides myself (I still classify myself as "Newb-Elementary" class when it comes to growing plants) |
Hi
Nice overal thread - propably if my english was better i will speak more about things you speak about, Steven.
About part i quote...
I disagree with that because I know people which know lot about growning plants (know loooot about macros, traces, algae etc.), they plants are very high condition but overal they layouts are average. I know also people which layouts are very good but they don't have any special knowledge about plants - if you ask them how do this and do that they propably answer "i just us this fertilizer and i don't know lot about water parameters in my tank"
. Speaking true i find only few planted tank junkies which are very good aquascapers and have big knowledge about "water chemistry and plant biology"
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Ah...one thing - newbes are scared use scissors
. Plants love trimming...just like hair do.