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28'C - 29'C for me. I live in the tropics where afternoon temps regularly reach 31-32'C indoors. I use fans to cool down the water, it's usually at 29'C. If my discus fall sick, I switch off the fans and the temp goes up to 30-31'C for a few days.

Very nice and healthy plants!

Yeap the ones growing at the substrate is the one I'm looking at. I'm looking for a smallish roundish brownish leaf crypt and yours is just nice. Might be petchii?

I think you like ferns a lot... :) What is the crypt on the bottom right of the fern bridge?

Dude this is my dream tank! I've been trying to create a color by numbers tank for about 2 years now with no success. How much CO2 are you running?

That Badis badis looks awesome!

Wow... 5-6 bps? That sounds like a lot! LOL those fertiliser names - dino pee and dino spit. Sounds like you dose the macros once a week, micros every 2 days and carbon every 2 days?

Also what's your fertilisation routine?

Those are seriously beautiful. Got some specific questions on the 60cm if you don't mind. What's your CO2 bubble rate and how long do you run your lights for?

Great inspiration and superb execution. Really interesting scape.

Very nice!

Very nice! I think my next rescape is gonna look something like this. And oh Troi... check out the wallpaper!

I remember your first few planted tanks and my gosh you have improved by leaps and bounds!

This is one of the scapes where I look at the hardscape and think to myself... nah it ain't gonna work. No focal point, rocks too small, blah blah and then scroll down a few inches and I immediately stuff my face with humble pie. Looks super!! Lots of detail.

4 hours of maintenance every night! My tanks would look superb with that amount of maintenance too LOL. Viktor, I looked through your Japan trip photos. Even their fish holding tanks have healthy growing plants in them!

For you Tom, this is business as usual. Not sure which hell froze over :cigar:

Sounds like push-ups need to be added to all aquascaping guides now. Great tanks by everyone. Ian's is still the best in my opinion! So well grown-in after 90 days.

Nice and healthy.

This has got a natural chaos feel to it. Real nice!

That is properly brilliant! It does look as thought your tank is sat on the counter without any foam or mat in-between?

Superb scapes and photography all around. Eagerly awaiting 2013's photos to go onto the list.

Thats really lush and dense considering that you don't inject CO2 or dose any ferts. May I know how long you turn your lights on for and do you do a weekly waterchange? My own low-tech is looking quite pathethic in comparison.

If you had a chance to thicken up those stems behind, I think you would've scored a lot higher. The composition itself is pleasing.

Hey mate, was wondering what happened to this scape. Congrats on your placing.

Very nice George. I would've used shorter hairgrasses in-between rocks to enhance the perception of depth. I still prefer your evolved scape in every way though.

Hey James, nice tank! You got the Boeing jumbo jet ranking! It looks like a hedgehog emerging from the ground after winter, if you don't mind. :)

Top 100! Fantastic result!

That is very beautiful and nicely executed.

I like that a lot as a fish-focused scape. Can't see any trace of your algae battles so hats off to you!

Very impressive all around. I wonder how much time you spend on maintenance everyday :shock:

Nice texture differences between the planting groups. A little more colour would've brightened it up a little bit IMHO. Also, have you tried to shoot this tank with a long lens to compress it rather than a wide-angle to deepen it? Check out Filipe's blog link below. I think planting bushes...

Base of stairs Tank ends up with loads of human hair and cat hair and dust when we sweep it on the weekends! :thumbdown:

From this... to this... and this... which was eventually completed as "Forest Edge"... rescaped to this... and finally these which I called "Cascades"...

The minimum tank size for the competition is 60cm. So no nanos!

Paul, glad you made it. Hopefully you stopped by at the MAC booth to say hi. You guys can see more pictures of the competition tanks over on MAC - http://www.my-mac.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=71&t=13955

First time I've heard of replica rock before. They're made of fibreglass? This sorta scapes are not meant to be photographed from dead on I think. It's meant to be placed right smack in the middle of the room and have people walk around it.

Peter, that scape of yours is gorgeous! I shall crown thee the king of twigs. Your use of little twigs in your IAPLC2009 scape was really well done as well! All in a tank 70cm long. It looked 90cm at least before I read the specs!

Nice and clean George. Something to recommend to beginners for a simple low maintenance setup.

Tonser, that is a really nice pad!

Re: Seven years of 'scaping - updated Feb '10 Wow George... truly stunning scapes, especially the marine which is a lot different compared to the others you've done so far. Makes me rethink my plan to do a Lake Malawi/Tanganyika style cichlid tank :roll:

I admire your ability to churn out different biotopes each month. I do wish I had the money, patience and time (in that order of importance :lol:) to follow in your footsteps :thumbup:

Stop lurking and start posting more! This is a beautiful tank, gives me a lotta ideas for a low maintenance discus tank I'm planning.

The first one, Sonata and the 97L unnamed one are my favourites. The rest are plenty superb too. How do you get those red plants so red?

I second that. I've had BGA in my tank twice now, and it completely went away when I improved the flow. First time by trimming the plants. Second time by adding a smaller canister filter.