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sams wabi kusa

samc

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this last few days i have been bored :( and found a piece of glass from a picture frame and it popped into my head that i could cut is myself and make a little wabi kusa which i have wanted to try for a while now. The glass cutting was the hard part. i used a tile cutter so score the surface where i marked out with marker pen i then placed 2 cocktail sticks under the the score line and pressed each side and it snapped along the line(thankfully :lol:) i then spent the next day siliconing it together.

in the back left hand corner will be utricularia sandersoni which is a carnivorious plant and a relation to UG

next i siliconed a corner off so that it was watertight. and today i have put all the bits together in the tank. this is again pebbles from the garden, twigs and sand. i then added some moss which i also got from the garden. and here is what i have so far. it only took about 30mins to collect and put together. beats bordem :lol:

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you can see that there is 2 tiers. the second tier done by sandwiching the moss between the siliconed piece of plastic and another bit the same so it sit's higher (hard to explain)

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this shows the corner i put in using thin clear plastic which you get in printing paper, which is A4 size but pretty usefull

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and thats one of the mosses i found which it pretty interesting

i am not really sure if you can call this an wabi kusa but what do you call it?
 
thanks guys :D

i dont have any equipment for this as its so small. it will be on the windowsill so its get light for some of the day but not too much. and then do a water change quite regularly. i dont think there is much you could put in shrimp/fish wise though.

in the back corner will be this

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I got told off on another forum for using wabi kusa correctly, apparently it's actually a name coined by ada and it's a product just like aquasoil.
Your wabi is nicer than mine anywho, I'll be watching it intently.
 
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