#537: 360L Dutch Aquascape Back to the origins

Mario Perez marcos Madrid, Spain

Awards and Comments

Third Place
A very good shot at Dutch Style; well executed on the amount of plants contrasts and neatly structured plant groups. The echinodorus as an eye-catcher should be placed on a focus point rather than in the dead centre of the tank. Maybe point #10 would be suitable for it. Where I truly understand the love for the Anubias and can only imagine how long it took to grow to such coverage it is now a bit to much dominating the overall impression. It partially has to do with the reflection on the water surface as well but using more of the height of the tank with the other plants also could partially solve it.
— Marco Aukes
I really like the Anubias wall! Overall the plant arrangement is too linear and parallel. The Echinodorus in the back would be better suited as a specimen plant in one of the front focal points. Rather than arranging the plants in rectangles try making the groupings roughly triangular and make sure to stagger them so the lower portions of the plants behind them are obscured. The Lysimachia in the right front needs to be larger and moved forward more to better obscure the right glass pane. Consider expanding the Anubias wall to the side panes in the future.
— Phil Edwards
Your Anubias wall is very nice and I'm sure took a lot of work to achieve. However there are too clear divisions between the front middle and back sections of your tank. You need to have plant streets that run diagonally carrying the eye back trhough the tank. I would also like to see some plants other than the balansae that come closer to reaching the top of the tank. The Echinodorus would have made a lovely focal point were it not dead center in the tank and allowed to grow even larger. But over all a good attempt at a Dutch style tank!
— Karen Randall

Aquascape Details

Dimensions 120 × 60 × 50 cm
Title Back to the origins
Volume 360L
Background A plastic net to attach anubias
Lighting 6x54x T5
Filtration sicce whale 500
eheim professional 4+
extra pump sicce xstream SDC
Plants 1.Cryptocoryne balansae
2.Lobelia cardinalis mini
3.Pogostemon erectus
4.Michrantemun montecarlo
5.Rotala macrandra
6.Bucephalandra sp.
7.Echinodorus sp.
8.Staurogyne repens
9.Lindernia rotundifolia
10.Microsorum sp mini
11.Limnophila hippuridoides
12.Lysimachia nummularia
13. Eleocharis sp min
14. Anubia petite
Animals melanotaenia praecox, snails, shrimps
Materials Aquavitro aquasolum substrate
Additional Information Aquavitro plants

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