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My latest Aquarium 2025

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My IAPLC entries from 2012 - 2016 .

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My most recent aquascape.

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So I made these today :)

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Road to IAPLC 2015 pt 1

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The newest member of PAC

Current Hardscape update

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Hi, Brad here. I'd like to tell you about my CB600, a CADE tank 60x45x45 (like you didn't know). Old Scape The first scape in this tank (and the first serious scape I'd ever accomplished) lasted about 2 years. As the tank progressed my inspiration came from Dutch scapes. At its best (Dec 2013) it looked like this: Just a couple weeks ago (Christmas 2014) I tore it down. I traded all the plants for 3 bags of soil. At the time it was looking like this: New Scape I purchase a lot of ohko rock. I like this rock. I like how you can smash it up and I love its texture. Algae scrapes off it relatively easily too. I found my inspiration in The Great Wave by Katsushika Hokusai: And mocked-up this Ohko Ocean: The curve in the mock-up was sooooo delicate; opening the window caused it to collapse. Getting these rocks to stay put it's easy. At this point I thought I'd have to use a lot of glue. Then began the process of walking handfuls of rocks from the mock-up in the spare bedroom to the tank. I used a lot of floor tiles to lift the rocks. The first somewhat finished scape didn't have the curve because I couldn't make it stable. After some online encouragement I went back to it the next day and came up with this (no glue): The tank was flooded and just yesterday I put the sand in (50/50 La Plata and Sarawak). Tried putting some snow on 'Mt Fuji (not sure about this). Here it is under just 2 tubes: More to come...

Ohko Ocean

Hi, Brad here. I'd like to tell you about my CB600, a CADE tank 60x45x45 (like you didn't know).

Old Scape

The first scape in this tank (and the first serious scape I'd ever accomplished) lasted about 2 years. As the tank progressed my inspiration came from Dutch scapes. At its best (Dec 2013) it looked like this:

Just a couple weeks ago (Christmas 2014) I tore it down. I traded all the plants for 3 bags of soil. At the time it was looking like this:

New Scape

I purchase a lot of ohko rock. I like this rock. I like how you can smash it up and I love its texture. Algae scrapes off it relatively easily too.

I found my inspiration in The Great Wave by Katsushika Hokusai:

And mocked-up this Ohko Ocean:

The curve in the mock-up was sooooo delicate; opening the window caused it to collapse. Getting these rocks to stay put it's easy. At this point I thought I'd have to use a lot of glue.

Then began the process of walking handfuls of rocks from the mock-up in the spare bedroom to the tank. I used a lot of floor tiles to lift the rocks.

The first somewhat finished scape didn't have the curve because I couldn't make it stable.

After some online encouragement I went back to it the next day and came up with this (no glue):

The tank was flooded and just yesterday I put the sand in (50/50 La Plata and Sarawak). Tried putting some snow on 'Mt Fuji (not sure about this). Here it is under just 2 tubes:

More to come...