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Japan gets acrylic lilys! C'mon Europe!
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That 60 is amazing, And Looks like it is a Peace Lilly as the main focal plant

Garuf, Can you repost the link, getting 403 forbidden
 
Bobtastic said:
If I had a window ledge big enough I would love to do something like that!

I'm getting the same on the link.


I have Window Ledges big enough in every room and have done a similar tank before. But not with a Peace Lilly.
 
Awesome. Strangely I can't get my head around seeing them in the wild and not in a tank! I'm surprised the water is so low in PH with that amount of rock around, but then theres a lot of dying organics so that must explain it?
 
It's basically pure rain water and leaf litter, the rock is hard and inert (or so is assumed) meaning that the water remains so extremely low in hardness.
I actually prefer them in these biotope type situations, the colourings make so much more sense!
 
Hi all,
I'm surprised the water is so low in PH with that amount of rock around, but then theres a lot of dying organics so that must explain it?
Most of Hong Kong is granite, but that rock looks like it is Old Red Sandstone (ORS, Devonian age) (here is some nearer to home <http://www.bosci.net/LOWV/LOWV geology.htm>) and Wikipedia says "Northeast New Territories Sedimentary Rock Region .... North and south coasts of Tolo Channel. Most of the rocks along the north shore of Tolo Channel and at Bluff Head are the oldest in Hong Kong, formed about 400 million years ago during the Devonian Period."

Assuming the rocks are ORS, it is impermeable, very hard and doesn't contain any carbonates. The water in the stream would be largely rain-water (and the vegetation, with the ferns etc, looks like it rains fairly frequently). Because the rain-water has no carbonate buffering (dKH) and the rocks are impermeable you would only need a small amount of H+ donor compounds ("acids"), like the humic acids from the dead leaves and the carbonic acid from dissolved CO2 to give a very low pH.

cheers Darrel
 
YAKUSHIMA FOREST

COUNTRY :Japan

NAME:Yakushima

NATURAL WORLD HERITAGE SERIAL SITE
1993: Inscribed on the World Heritage List under Natural criteria vii and ix.
INTERNATIONAL DESIGNATIONS
1980: Designated a Biosphere Reserve under the UNESCO Man & Biosphere Programme (19,000 ha).
2005: Yakushima Nagata-hama designated a Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar

GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION
Yaku Island, at the northern end of the Ryukyu archipelago, is separated from the southernmost tip of Kyushu mainland by a 120m deep, 60 km wide strait. The area has a complex boundary, which is less than 1km wide in some places. It lies in the centre of the island, with a main arm extending down to the coast to the west and sinuous arms stretching south and east. Located at 30°20'5”N by 130° 31'32”E.

PHYSICAL FEATURES
Yakushima Island is 500 sq.km in area. Its central peak is 1,935m high and is the highest mountain in Kyushu. There are several peaks over 1,800m with mountain ridges and 40 peaks over 1,000m surrounding them. The topography from coastline to summits is extremely steep. The predominant bedrock is granite, but small areas of sandstone and shale occur at the foot of the central mountain (Anon.,1992; Numata, 1986).

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Ha Long Bay

COUNTRY : Vietnam
Ha Long Bay (literally: "Descending Dragon Bay"; Vietnamese: V?nh H? Long) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and a popular travel destination, located in Qu?ng Ninh province, Vietnam. Administratively, the bay belongs to H? Long City, C?m Ph? town, and part of Van Don district. The bay features thousands of limestone karsts and isles in various sizes and shapes. Ha Long Bay is a center of a larger zone which includes Bái T? Long bay to the northeast, and Cát Bà islands to the southwest. These larger zones share similar geological, geographical, geomorphological, climate, and cultural characters.

Location
Ha Long Bay is located in northeastern Vietnam, from E106°56' to E107°37' and from N20°43' to N21°09'. The bay stretches from Yên Hung district, past H? Long city, C?m Ph? town to Vân Ð?n district, bordered on the south and southeast by the Gulf of Tonkin, on the north by China, and on the west and southwest by Cát Bà island. The bay has a 120 km long coastline and is approximately 1,553 km² in size with about 2000 islets. The area designated by UNESCO as the World Natural Heritage Site incorporates 434 km² with 775 islets, of which the core zone is delimited by 69 points: Ð?u G? island on the west, Ba H?m lake on the south and C?ng Tây island on the east. The protected area is from the Cái Dam petrol store to Quang Hanh commune, C?m Ph? town and the surrounding zone.

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Thank you for the much more comprehensive version, Darrel! ;)
 
BELITUNG BEACH

Belitung, (or in English, Billiton), is an island on the east coast of Sumatra, Indonesia in the Java Sea. The island is known for its pepper and for its tin. It was in the possession of the British from 1812 until the British ceded control of the island to the Dutch in the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824. Its main town is Tanjung Pandan.

It is a medium sized island of about 3,000 square miles (7,800 km2), it consists of moderately rugged terrain with several hills. The highest one is Mount Tajam with the height of only less than 500 meters (1,600 ft). Belitung is bordered by the Gaspar Strait, the South China Sea and the Java Sea. Its turquoise blue sea is moderately calm and shallow, making for great sailing, snorkeling and swimming. Belitung is popular for its abstract granite boulders and brilliant white sand beaches in Tanjung Tinggi, Tanjung Kelayang, Tanjung Binga and Lengkuas island.

The population is centered in several small towns, populated by approximately 200,000 inhabitants. The largest is Tanjung Pandan in the west and Mangar in the east. While ethnic Malay people make up the largest percentage, Belitung has large populations of Bugis, Sundanese, and ethnic Chinese people who formerly worked for the Dutch, mining tin. There are also sizeable populations of Balinese and Maduranese who were settled there in the Suharto era transmigration.

Belitung is a source of tin, clay, iron ore and silica sands. The Dutch mining company NV Billiton Maatschappij derives its name from the island's name. Billiton merged with BHP in 2001 to form the largest diversified resources company, BHP Billiton. The island is also a producer of fishery products, pepper, coconut, and palm oil. People work as farmers, fishermen and miners. The island is easily accessible with 4 daily 50-minute flights from Jakarta. Due to the fantastic white sand beaches and picturesque offshore islands, tourism is starting to become a larger part of the local economy.

The mainly tourist destinations are beaches and islands/islets. The beaches are Seru Beach and Awan Mendung Beach which both have blue clear water, sand and rocky beaches. The islands/islets are Batu Berlayar Island which full of granite, Pasir Island which is made of sand (= pasir in Indonesian language) and submerged during high tide, Burung Island, Lengkuas Island which is a home of 129-year-old lighthouse and a good place for snorkeling, Babi Island and Kelayang Islet.
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