#96: 450L Aquatic Garden Glacier Valley

Wu Kwok Fai Gary Discovery Bay, Hong Kong

Awards and Comments

Second Place
Your plantings are pretty but if you need to label the features of a design so that people know what they are they are not doing their job. I actually think a little more natural looking materials would not break the aquascape so harshly in two.
— Karen Randall
Perfect title! The uses of mosses combined with the very clever hardscape selection and composition results in a very effective illusion of the 'Glacier Valley'. The snow mountain is a clever touch helping to reinforce the intention. Excellent work!
— George Farmer
The way of using moss is very good but I felt the central part with white sand unnatural. I understand the creator’s intentions but I believe it is not so easily understandable for normal people the reasons of this white sand use. In my opinion the layout could have been better if the gravels in the foreground covered the white sand area.
— Takashi Amano
That snow cap miles and miles off in the horizon is what gives this aquascape its power. One can only imagine the breathtaking scenery between here and there.
Look closely at all the detailed ways that that masterful sense of depth was created.
— Bob Vivian

Aquascape Details

Dimensions 152 × 51 × 58 cm
Title Glacier Valley
Volume 450L
Lighting 12 x Philips 18W T8, 10 hours per day with a break 2 hours in between
Filtration 2 x Tetra P120 External Filters
Plants 1 Monosolenium tenerum ("Pellia")
2 Vesicularia sp.
3 Taxiphyllum sp.(Flame Moss)
4 bryum billardieri
5 Taxiphyllum sp.
6 Eleocharis ''parvula'' sp
Animals Rummy-Nose Tetra, Blue Shrimp, Amano Shrimp
Materials Seachem Fluorite, ADA Manten Stone, Ryuo Stone, ADA AQUA RIO NEGRO SAND

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