Im New Too + A Pic of My Tank

[Jack-WoRReL]

Hi Ther,

Im Jack from NL 25 years old. Last month i restyled my 400 litre tank to a amazon biotope.
Within a few months ill put 5 Ðiscus in it(dont know witch one yet)
Here's a pic of my tank, is an "old" pic, soon ill take one when i have a digi-cam.
http://www.aquaforum.nl/gallery/upload/aquariumjack.jpg

Behind the left piece of wood, there's now a huge Echinodorus amazonicus that reaches the surface.

My fishes r
-22x Hemigrammus bleheri
-2x Ramirezi Gold
-2x Peckoltia Vitatta
-5x Corydora(2 panda 3 aneus)
-4x Carnegiella strigata strigata
-1x Red Lizard catfish (L-10a)

Size of my tank is 150x50x60

[jules]

Looks really amazing - I think you need some wilds in there. ;D

[Northwestcoastdisc]

look very nice. I agree with Jules :)

[SmellsFishy0]

what did u use on the background???

[Jack-WoRReL]

what did u use on the background???


I used cork

[SmellsFishy0]

i think it looks pretty cool can u explain how u did it ::)....thanks -----AndyM

[Jack-WoRReL]

I just bought the cork plates(dunno if its the right word for it ::)), the size of such wall is 100cmx50cm
So i needed 2 ::)
Total costs was €15(think thats almost same as $15)
But i read that this cork background going to rot in 5 years orso. :-\
When that time will come, ill put new 1 in ther + a restyling ;)

GreetZ
Jack

[ChloroPhil]

Jack,

Could you help me out please? I'm looking for internet sites, other than NBAT, that have good information on Dutch style aquascaping. Any links would be appreciated.

Thank you,
Phil

[António Vitor]

hello!
I really like this tank!
feel a lot more natural than my own tank...
;)

»Ðiscu§»«Wo®®eL« you are using cork, I once had a discussion with someone, I really don't remember where (some forum), with the cork subject...

there were some that naively were trying to remove the cork from the aquascape scene!

they said:

"you are using the rest of a dead tree"
"it could be alive"
;)

Nonsense, that type of mentality promote the plastic capsules for bottles...yaicks...
:)

The only thing saving the cork trees (sobreiro) is the cork industry!

Portugal is the biggest producer of cork in the world (more than 60% of all the cork around is Portuguese), if cork is not used, then most trees would get pulled out for other more productive agriculture products...
:)

Cork is the skin of the cork-tree (sobreiro), it doesn't die when we plulled that skin out...
it's a skin to protect the tree against fires and stuff, the tree survives and produces another skin in a few years...that is the way we use to collect cork.

Cork is something very resistant, I do believe it will endure more than those 5 years, well some champagne bottles last for centuries and no problem on the cork capsule...
;)

Regards!
António Vitor

[Jack-WoRReL]

Jack,

Could you help me out please? I'm looking for internet sites, other than NBAT, that have good information on Dutch style aquascaping. Any links would be appreciated.

Thank you,
Phil


Hi Phil,

Here i have sum Dutch links for u. Hope u like them.

http://www.discus-centrum.nl/

http://dphnet.com/

http://www.discusashobby.com/


This links is a startpage with links from al over the world
http://discus.pagina.nl/

Hope u find sum nice pics or info :)

GreetZ
Jack

[Jack-WoRReL]

Hey António,

Thx for the info about cork, and mabe it wil not rot within 5 years.
We shall see in the future. :)
Jack

[António Vitor]

No problem Jack!

A little off topic...sorry folks!

well, I saw something on CNN international 5 minutes ago..
They showed an european wine exposition...
with producers of all over the world.

well there were australian wine producers, trying to atract clients with plastic capsules.

they said..."the wine is fresher with this capsules..."

I guess they don't age their's wine in wooden barrils, maybe in steel barrils, I even think they don't use yeast...

This is involution!

When there are biodegradeble materials than can indeed be better than anything man made, there are still some who look for Nastier alternatives.

because there are still lack of information, the consumer might think that trees are being protected this way.
more than 95% of the people think that cork is taken from dead trees.

quite the contrary, if it was not the need for cork capsules, Cork trees might get extinct...

what we won?
non biodegradable garbage, and a less diversity in Nature...
this is really SAD!