Garuf
Member
Hello all at ukaps, as some of you might be aware recently I've been thinking about selling up and leaving the hobby, a series of misfortunes, frustration and struggling tanks being the catalysts which brought me to this.
Regrettably I'm posting this as a partial truth. Bringing my tank back from Leeds to Stoke caused the scape to irreparably move and shift. The cube being drained after the eden 501's impeller jammed and I lost the tanks inhabitants sufferes a similar fate in that both sit dry, unscaped and unloved. Further bad news is that you haven't seen the back of me, the equipment has been cleaned and mothballed waiting for me to find a job, I've too much spare time and need the distraction from a recent rough parch, at which point you should see a newly invigorated Gareth producing a similarly successful tank as some of Mark or George or Graeme or any other scaper who's impressed and surprised me here on this forum (congratulate yourselfs now, go on, pat yourself on the back for not giving up and taking part you're what keep us all going). A change of materials and ideology for me in the future too, I plan to use some of the new innovations in my comeback scape and plan it much more thoroughly. I also hope to use petrified rock, driftwood chunks and graded gravels as well as clever substrate barriers as well as honing my skills in maintenance and pruning when the tank sees water. Also, a first I plan to use vast plant orders and will not be compromising with plants and materials like I have in the past. Somewhere in there I'll learn to grow plants too.
So there's the battle plan, it's so long for now but come the first pay cheque I'll be back with arms full of petrified rock, driftwood and gravels and sand.
Thank you all for the continued support and I look forward to be fortunate enough to have a scape of my own.
Regrettably I'm posting this as a partial truth. Bringing my tank back from Leeds to Stoke caused the scape to irreparably move and shift. The cube being drained after the eden 501's impeller jammed and I lost the tanks inhabitants sufferes a similar fate in that both sit dry, unscaped and unloved. Further bad news is that you haven't seen the back of me, the equipment has been cleaned and mothballed waiting for me to find a job, I've too much spare time and need the distraction from a recent rough parch, at which point you should see a newly invigorated Gareth producing a similarly successful tank as some of Mark or George or Graeme or any other scaper who's impressed and surprised me here on this forum (congratulate yourselfs now, go on, pat yourself on the back for not giving up and taking part you're what keep us all going). A change of materials and ideology for me in the future too, I plan to use some of the new innovations in my comeback scape and plan it much more thoroughly. I also hope to use petrified rock, driftwood chunks and graded gravels as well as clever substrate barriers as well as honing my skills in maintenance and pruning when the tank sees water. Also, a first I plan to use vast plant orders and will not be compromising with plants and materials like I have in the past. Somewhere in there I'll learn to grow plants too.
So there's the battle plan, it's so long for now but come the first pay cheque I'll be back with arms full of petrified rock, driftwood and gravels and sand.
Thank you all for the continued support and I look forward to be fortunate enough to have a scape of my own.