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doylecolmdoyle

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Hi guys, I am trying to plan my next scape and have thought about a mixed carpet of plants, trying to source some photos, if you have seen any mixed carpet tanks or grown one yourself post them here. I am also unsure if I should truely mix the carpet up or plant in zones and let them creep into each other.

Thanks
 
Great question, I'm also planning a new scape and was also thinking about a mixed carpet. So I'm very interested to see the upcoming photo's of ukaps members

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I like mixed carpets, I think they work well...below mixed carpet of Hydrocotyle sp."Japan", Echinodorus tenellus, Glossostigma elatinoides, and Staurogyne repens.
Planting in discrete zones and allowing it to interdigitate will give you a different effect than planting it all mixed up together, it depends on the look you're after. Mine was planted mixed up.

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Tim Harrison said:
I like mixed carpets, I think they work well...below mixed carpet of Hydrocotyle sp."Japan", Echinodorus tenellus, Glossostigma elatinoides, and Staurogyne repens.
Planting in discrete zones and allowing it to interdigitate will give you a different effect than planting it all mixed up together, it depends on the look you're after. Mine was planted mixed up.


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Cant see your photo!
 
If you have access to Takashi Amano Nature Aquarium World book series, he does a quite lot of mixed planting where there are no apparent borders or zones - think wild meadow
These are still some of my favourite nature aquarium designs
(not a diorama fan here ;) )

I think Mark Evans also did some mixed carpet though I can't recall which journal - it will always result in a more textured appearance than a mono-planting
 
doylecolmdoyle said:
Hi guys, I am trying to plan my next scape and have thought about a mixed carpet of plants, trying to source some photos, if you have seen any mixed carpet tanks or grown one yourself post them here. I am also unsure if I should truely mix the carpet up or plant in zones and let them creep into each other.

Thanks
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I mixed HC with Eleocharis but HC took over completely. In a second attempt I mixed Monte Carlo with Eleocharis and Marsilea hirsuta, and this time MC did the job alone... So, maybe these combinations are not the best for mixing
 
alto said:
If you have access to Takashi Amano Nature Aquarium World book series, he does a quite lot of mixed planting where there are no apparent borders or zones - think wild meadow
These are still some of my favourite nature aquarium designs
(not a diorama fan here ;) )

I think Mark Evans also did some mixed carpet though I can't recall which journal - it will always result in a more textured appearance than a mono-planting
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Thanks for the lead on the Amano books, I will have to try source a copy, they dont seem widely available online, I am guessing they are older books, I wonder if the public library in Perth will have them, I did just purchase Nature Aquarium Complete Works 1985-2009!
 
Tim Harrison said:
How about now?
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I see it now, that looks nice, thanks, I think I will go with zones and hope they creep to create a mix while still staying slightly dominate in areas.
 
The edition I have is copyrighted 1996 but the preface is 1992 so that is a more likely original publication date ... just to give you a relative timeline,
Book (1) overview of all size aquariums & basic discussion (nothing you won't have read elsewhere by now, though unique at the time)
Book 2 100mm - 350mm, 400mm - 450mm, 400mm - 550mm cubic aquariums, 600mm - 750mm aquariums
Book 3 900mm - 1200mm aquariums, 1800mm - 5500mm aquariums

I vaguely recall looking at the book you have but not well enough to compare (looking at online commentary seems most of these photos are from 2002 onwards & some complaints on colour (over) saturation in the English edition vs the more expensive Japanese edition)
 
alto said:
The edition I have is copyrighted 1996 but the preface is 1992 so that is a more likely original publication date ... just to give you a relative timeline,
Book (1) overview of all size aquariums & basic discussion (nothing you won't have read elsewhere by now, though unique at the time)
Book 2 100mm - 350mm, 400mm - 450mm, 400mm - 550mm cubic aquariums, 600mm - 750mm aquariums
Book 3 900mm - 1200mm aquariums, 1800mm - 5500mm aquariums

I vaguely recall looking at the book you have but not well enough to compare (looking at online commentary seems most of these photos are from 2002 onwards & some complaints on colour (over) saturation in the English edition vs the more expensive Japanese edition)
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Cheers for the info, I ordered the "Nature Aquarium Complete Works 1985-2009" book from Book Depository so will take a few weeks to get to Australia, I did see Book 1 - 3 on amazon but delivery to Australia was more expensive than the physical book, will keep an eye out tho, book 2 really interests me as I only keep small aquariums
 
alto said:
The edition I have is copyrighted 1996 but the preface is 1992 so that is a more likely original publication date ... just to give you a relative timeline,
Book (1) overview of all size aquariums & basic discussion (nothing you won't have read elsewhere by now, though unique at the time)
Book 2 100mm - 350mm, 400mm - 450mm, 400mm - 550mm cubic aquariums, 600mm - 750mm aquariums
Book 3 900mm - 1200mm aquariums, 1800mm - 5500mm aquariums

I vaguely recall looking at the book you have but not well enough to compare (looking at online commentary seems most of these photos are from 2002 onwards & some complaints on colour (over) saturation in the English edition vs the more expensive Japanese edition)
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Managed to get a copy of book 1 and 2, great books, Takashi Amano did some wonderful stuff way back when I was only a young kid.
 
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