Graeme Edwards
Founder
Hi all,
I thought it would be nice to share with you all the work Ukaps is doing in the hobby. We were approached by Roy Devani Director of Unipac, http://www.unipacpet.co.uk/index.html to attend the Glee Show at the NEC - http://www.gleebirmingham.com/ He asked us to aquascape a tank using a selection of his products and a healthy number of freshly delivered Tropica plants. http://www.tropica.com/default.asp .
Obviously it was a must and me and Dan attended. It was a great opportunity to present Ukaps, even if it wasn't with our own stand, at the Glee show. Hopefully spreading the word to traders that UK is serious about aquatic plants.
It was very interesting to see it from the business point of view. Dennerle and JBL where there, and also Tropica attended.
Me and Dan where a little excited at the initial stages of set up, so we had to take a breather and a step back. As you all should know, these things cant be rushed.
We were presented with the challenge of aquascaping a tank using 7 yes 7 different materials. Not what we would choose, nor would we recommend, but we had our brief and ever the professionals, ( Oi, I heard that snigger then!! ) we set about the task in hand. There was a dry run done before the show which Dan and Jeramey Gay constructed. We set to try and recreate that original idea.
The XL bog wood in position.
Im positioning the fossilized wood, while Dan is leveling the fine silver sand.
Ukaps baby!!!! Nuff said.
The box of plants strait from Tropica.
Check out the amazing quality.
Nice!
Hard at work! Yes, work
Errmm - Me.
Finished.
Here is where we met Lottie and Troels from tropica. Really nice people, and taught me a few things as well. It was nice to network with such people, as you can imagine.
They liked it!
Lottie and Troels talking to Roy.
Plant list and materials used to follow.
I think we did rather well considering our brief and that we had to make up an instant aquascape.
Cheers.
I thought it would be nice to share with you all the work Ukaps is doing in the hobby. We were approached by Roy Devani Director of Unipac, http://www.unipacpet.co.uk/index.html to attend the Glee Show at the NEC - http://www.gleebirmingham.com/ He asked us to aquascape a tank using a selection of his products and a healthy number of freshly delivered Tropica plants. http://www.tropica.com/default.asp .
Obviously it was a must and me and Dan attended. It was a great opportunity to present Ukaps, even if it wasn't with our own stand, at the Glee show. Hopefully spreading the word to traders that UK is serious about aquatic plants.
It was very interesting to see it from the business point of view. Dennerle and JBL where there, and also Tropica attended.
Me and Dan where a little excited at the initial stages of set up, so we had to take a breather and a step back. As you all should know, these things cant be rushed.
We were presented with the challenge of aquascaping a tank using 7 yes 7 different materials. Not what we would choose, nor would we recommend, but we had our brief and ever the professionals, ( Oi, I heard that snigger then!! ) we set about the task in hand. There was a dry run done before the show which Dan and Jeramey Gay constructed. We set to try and recreate that original idea.
The XL bog wood in position.
Im positioning the fossilized wood, while Dan is leveling the fine silver sand.
Ukaps baby!!!! Nuff said.
The box of plants strait from Tropica.
Check out the amazing quality.
Nice!
Hard at work! Yes, work
Errmm - Me.
Finished.
Here is where we met Lottie and Troels from tropica. Really nice people, and taught me a few things as well. It was nice to network with such people, as you can imagine.
They liked it!
Lottie and Troels talking to Roy.
Plant list and materials used to follow.
I think we did rather well considering our brief and that we had to make up an instant aquascape.
Cheers.