Planted tank.

simply amazing! It's like a piece of nature has been preserved in your house in a tank.

i was once enjoying aquascaping. Looking at the plants pearl. Then suddenly out of no where, my dad ask me to take away the aquarium. So sad, but i will never give up. Gonna plant a 6 ft tank after buying my own house wakaka.(erm, 2-3years later?).lols.

The guppy tank only 2 footer. But the other is 4 footer and 6 footer. All the equipments, soil and etc used in that aquarium is around 4-5 thousand ringgit for a 2 footer. the male guppy bite other male guppy tail due to too hungry. Or when they are mating with female, there is another male coming in. Fighting and biting each other.

If you have a planted tank like this, that will not happen. Because their have plenty of hiding space. And I am believe of a healthy eco-system will create a better environment for fishes. And they can survive longer and maintain nicer color.

Please come over to my place and check out my rubbish tanks. Then i will poison you guys into planted tank.

Terrance, this is for you..full with cardinal tetra.

Hi Shawn,
The pictures posted is not mine. It is from a guru in Japan. His name is Takashi Amano. world wide famous guru in planted tank and photographer. And he has his own series of equipments and material for the planted tank. Price is the top among the rest. But quality also superb.

You can google on Takashi Amano, Amano Design Aquatic or ADA. For sure you can get lot of info. But remember, what you saw is the aquarium fill with water ya...

Hi,
Not sure you have seen this in Projects or not. I had done something similiar...
petpitcher.proboards61.com/index.cgi?board=projects&action=display&thread=1205805591

haha..yes. It helps to release stress from work.

YEAH DOM! That's exactly what I had in mind! Great job!

I have a rather large project coming up in a couple months involving building a pond with waterfall in an enclosed space behind a house. The architect had his mind elsewhere when he was designing so there's a 15 meter long row of windows at chest height that look out the back of the living room staring directly at a 2 meter tall retaining wall! I'm planning to turn the entire space into a terrarium with a 6 meter long pond, 2 meter waterfall and hopefully plant the entire wall so that it disappears. I've told the owner the idea is to make it look like a large screen tv of the nature channel! ;D

Have you ever seen the French guy, Peter Blanc's work doing what he calls "vertical wall gardens"? Here's a taste;




Then try ;
www.verticalgardenpatrickblanc.com/
;D ;D ;D

Hee, hee I know what you mean Robert! Last year the N. mirabilis, that was my first nepenthes ever bought about 4-5 years ago, finally decided that my thatched roof was an ideal growing ground and took off. When I finally cut it back I made over 100 cuttings to give away to get more people interested in CPs, and still had a lot of stem that went into the trash!

My "outdoor" bathroom/shower is pretty jungle-like these days, unfortunately there's no room to take pictures! I'll post as I get going on that pond/wall project. I'm looking forward to it!

Peter's walls use a capillary mat material, a few layers thick and operate on hydroponic principles. He says that they are actually quite light weight and he has spent his career researching plants growing on vertical cliff faces. His mixes of plants are quite nice. If you get time do a google on his name and I think you'll be inspired by some of his work! Hoping to use the same process on my "project".

Those tanks (both terrestrial and aquatic) that Dom posted are great! I wish more people would plant like that, even in containers rather than terrariums. I'm experimenting with 50 cm diameter, 20 cm high clay pots. Results in a few months! ;D

Hi Dom,

I believe he puts a PVC liner against the wall so that moisture does not penetrate or even form on the wall surface. The capillary mat (3 layers) is on the outside of the liner and all the roots grow in this, never penetrating the PVC liner. Many of his installations are at least 5-7 years old now, some older. He says that based on the plants he uses, they only have to do a once-every-six-months pruning. I noticed one that looks like it is almost entirely made up of Hoya!

I've seen the ones in "The Emporium" in Bangkok, but only from a distance. I'll check them out up close next time I have to make a trip up there.