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Originally Posted by AQUAMX  ...
We certainly dont want our hobby to feel like a job, but some thrive in the work it takes to create a CAU type masterpiece. Infact many aspire to it. Those tanks, i imagine would be hard to create in a low tech world. But at the end of the day its our own decision.
We can relax and enjoy low tech, or work hard to create a competition style masterpiece.
Either way, you get nothing for nothing.
Good work guys. |
You make some excellent points and I don't necessarily disagree with a lot of things that you have stated. I apologize if my post came across the wrong way or offended you in any way. Keep in mind that sufficient beautiful low light plants exist to create a beautifully scaped tank(Lol, not by me as my aquascaping skills totally suck). I have seen some excellent low tech beautifully aquascaped tanks with nothing more than a collection of low light plants, many of which are identified in James list. What I would love to see is for John(APC Admin) to give some thought to creating seperate planted tank competition categories involving low light and natural planted tanks. It would be interested to compare winners from all categories: High Tech, Low Light Low Tech, and Low Tech Natural Planted tank.
These are leaves from my apongenton bulb. I have to prune the leaves weekly as they would otherwise totally choke out my tank. This bulb was not appropriate for the tank but I had no idea what the bulb would do until I threw it into the tank. The leaves are from a bulb in a 5 gallon low tech tank with only 10 watts(as low light as you are going to get for a 5 gallon) coralife colarmax 6500K compact fluorescent in the canopy. If someone could identify what type of apongenton that these leaves are from, I would definitely say that the apongenton bulb would make a good addition to the low light plant list.
