Paul Kettless
Member
Hi All,
Recently I purchased some of Andrew's lovely Frodo stone, approx 20kg and a bag of ADA La Plata sand 8kg which I am really pleased with and I already had 2 fairly large pieces of Mopani. These are interesting pieces but in an ideal world I would now swap them out for redwood or something similar. My dilemma is, they were both bought for me by my partner and daughter as "a gift for me" I know the guys paid quite a lot on money on these and also now feel I have a moral reason to use them. Plus I absolutly love the wood as it has some real dark colours too it
Im not an aquascaper, and I wont even pretend to be. However, for my liking I lean more to biotope and natural scapes. I say this as I am not worried about sticking to the exact rules but I do want my aquascaper 900 to look balanced. As by the advice I have been given by you guys I am going to start out low tech, and easy plants, maybe a couple of middle for colour although I have also just purchased a new light from adavin, so am now the rather proud owner of an ONF flat one 90cm 90w. Goods new with this light is that I can adjust the intensity when needed for the move to c02.
Mopani doesnt seem that fashionable in the scaping world, and I am struggling to find the inspiration for a style of scape. Im hoping this is where you more experienced folk can help me out a little. If you have the hardscape materials that I have, what would your direction be, plants, fish etc I know that this is a subjective question as we are all different, but Im just trying to get a different perspective and maybe help me think outside of the box a little.
Thanks
Recently I purchased some of Andrew's lovely Frodo stone, approx 20kg and a bag of ADA La Plata sand 8kg which I am really pleased with and I already had 2 fairly large pieces of Mopani. These are interesting pieces but in an ideal world I would now swap them out for redwood or something similar. My dilemma is, they were both bought for me by my partner and daughter as "a gift for me" I know the guys paid quite a lot on money on these and also now feel I have a moral reason to use them. Plus I absolutly love the wood as it has some real dark colours too it
Im not an aquascaper, and I wont even pretend to be. However, for my liking I lean more to biotope and natural scapes. I say this as I am not worried about sticking to the exact rules but I do want my aquascaper 900 to look balanced. As by the advice I have been given by you guys I am going to start out low tech, and easy plants, maybe a couple of middle for colour although I have also just purchased a new light from adavin, so am now the rather proud owner of an ONF flat one 90cm 90w. Goods new with this light is that I can adjust the intensity when needed for the move to c02.
Mopani doesnt seem that fashionable in the scaping world, and I am struggling to find the inspiration for a style of scape. Im hoping this is where you more experienced folk can help me out a little. If you have the hardscape materials that I have, what would your direction be, plants, fish etc I know that this is a subjective question as we are all different, but Im just trying to get a different perspective and maybe help me think outside of the box a little.
Thanks