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Discussion in 'General Aquascaping and Planted Tank Discussions' started by Garuf, Jun 7, 2012.

  1. Garuf Moderator

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    Some sandstones just turn to mud, others dissolve sending water rock hard some nothing happens at all that I've noticed. Where I'm from is famous for its sandstone and I have to agree you never get anything interesting.

    It is called lunar stone, I've only ever seen it in Poland, I originally thought it was maten stone but the detail is different. I suspect it's a slate of some kind but I don't know, that's just a hunch.

    I remember a program on that particular garden, I think on bbc gardeners world and the monk maintaining it was so ocd about keeping the grass out of his moss, total opposite of around here.

    You gonna do a toy car scape, Jet?
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    I think it is just the lower pH breaks it down quicker. Like Garuf said..the sandstone falls apart. I've heard it does it faster with CO2 injection. I've never tried sandstone personally. I just pay the money for the ADA stones because I'm a sucker.:oops:
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    Even sirayu stone isn't inert though, I've known some bits to have crumbled or the surface become very very soft indeed. I've tried sandstone and if you get stuff that's already weather warn it's brilliant for growing moss on but otherwise it comes out the ground as nothing just bland lumps. That's not to say you couldn't scape with it provided it didn't melt.
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    Source: http://www.aquascapingworld.com/threads/without-foundation.1970/
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    Working lights on that too!
    I think I'm going to have to do a hardscape geams, there's a lot out there that's come into the hobby that i'd love to get my hands on.
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    I'm currently in the middle of packing up to move house so I'm gonna be a little on the busy side for GEAMS however, there will be a mammoth post at some point in the week so keep an eye out!
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    Another pair of filler GEAMS I'm afraid, the work never ends when you're moving house does it?!
    Two scapes that I really think bring something new to scaping in my opinion.
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    This one makes me want to start scaping straight away, a great idea well executed, I wouldn't have added quite as much detail to the substrate myself but still great never the less!
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    Love these two for exactly how you state it... something different. Additionally, #1 illustrates just how important a stone with character can be. Boring stones, even in the hands of a master aquascaper can somehow lack that crucial element which turns it into something magical.
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    The promised mega post slips another day further away I'm afraid.
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    Todays filler geams is something special.
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    Source:http://pds.exblog.jp check for more pictures! The guy has basically taken the emersed aquascape thing and made it his own.
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    Anyone know what these delightful little sods are? (middle 3, look like tiny colourful trout).[IMG]
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    It's meant to be a myan temple, I aren't much into the actual scape but the ingenuity is fantastic.
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    Good lord.... pure insanity:
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    Technically it's good and all that, but I hated the film and I find the dirge of avatar scapes tacky at best, they sail too close to plastic castles or chucking in a toy tiger for my liking, sadly, even one as well executed as this. :/
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    The scape itself doesn't slay me. However, the "sand machine" or whatever they used to create the waterfall illusion is the best I've seen. Obviously, it's contest-impossible, but it's a cool trick either way. On another forum, they are currently debating the relevance if including 100% plastic train-model trees in their scapes. All I do is shudder and try not to piss anyone off with my replies.
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    It's been around for a while now, 07 I think is the first time I saw one, was in ADA comp of that year I think.
    I was a railway modeller in my youth, aquascapes that look like train sets now properly make me shudder, there's a time and place for it.
    I died a little bit inside learning that people are actually considering it. :(
    I wouldn't be able to help myself, tree scapes annoy me, let alone plastic, it's a gimmick that's gone too far, it's a trend I hope dies soon. I should do a anti-GEAMS of just things that annoy me actually...
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    Most people feel that way who have been in the hobby for any length of time. After awhile you have seen so many "tricks", and you have seen them so many times, that everything starts resembling a gimmick somehow. It's easy to get jaded. It's the same reason why some are so turned off by any type of iwagumi. I also have to stop myself sometimes and realize that just because it's not relevant for me does not mean that it's not relevant for someone else whose eyes have not seem the same thing 1000 times over.

    I actually had to attempt to explain to someone why using a ready-made plastic figurine was "less natural" than using wood and moss to create such a tree because, as they explained, "neither are natural". Well, yeah, neither are "a tree". This much is true. After awhile, it's not worth the time it would take to create the text.

    10 years from now, are these GLEAMS still going to hold their inherent beauty for you? That's the kind of thing you won't be able to answer with much authority until the time comes. Just like with any other hobby, the denizens of these hobbies are often quite transient.

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