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At the AGA, as I watched Mr Amano aquascape, Jeff Senske talk about scaping, the Iron Aquascaper contest, and comments again from Mr Amano about AGA winners, I realized something. These 'pros' set up an aquarium with the plants they want, without thinking that after 'maturation' they will remove them and really install the 'scape they want. They install the scape they want, then watch it mature.
This goes against a lot of the advice we give out here where typically we tell newbies to start with fast growing stems, then over time gradually change out these to generate your 'desired' scape. So I'm just curious what others think about this. Those of you with lots of experience out there, which way to you go? Do you start out with the idea of changing out the plants as the tanks matures, or do you just do the scape and let it mature? How do you avoid what so many of us go through with early algae issues? I'm not talking about the slow start up that Edward is posting in the fert forum. These are fully planted, and scaped tanks.
Comments anyone?
This goes against a lot of the advice we give out here where typically we tell newbies to start with fast growing stems, then over time gradually change out these to generate your 'desired' scape. So I'm just curious what others think about this. Those of you with lots of experience out there, which way to you go? Do you start out with the idea of changing out the plants as the tanks matures, or do you just do the scape and let it mature? How do you avoid what so many of us go through with early algae issues? I'm not talking about the slow start up that Edward is posting in the fert forum. These are fully planted, and scaped tanks.
Comments anyone?