Dimensions 80 × 50 × 40 cm
Title TALAWA FLOW
Volume 160L
Background DIY Led Retroiluminated
Lighting Chihiros RGB Vivid II (8 hours/day)
Filtration Eheim Professionel II (2128)
Plants Ceratopteris Tallitrichoides, Bolbitis Heudelotti, Elantium Tenellum Green, Elantium Tenellum Red, Anubia Bonsai, Anubia Needle Leaf, Hemianthus Callitrichoides Cuba, Juncus Repens, Cryptocoryne X Willisy, Cryptocoryne Pigmaea, Hygrophila Pinnatifida, Marsilea Crenata, Christmas Moss, Taiwan moss, Fissidens Fontanus.
Animals Hyphessobricon Amandae, Ottocinclus Affinis, Neocaridina Davidi, Caridina Multidentata, Farlowela Acus, Clithon Corona.
Materials Ada Power Sand, Ada Amazonia Soil, Ada La Plata Sand, Seiryu Stone, Talawa Wood.
Very nice natural atmosphere with high level of detail but present the same mistakes that always are recurrent in this kind of layout.
1. Wood in excess. When some elements are repeated they lose relevance because one takes away the force of the other.
2. It is not necessary nor desirable to interrupt or cross the paths with logs. Why just in planted aquariums is this beautiful?
3. The foreground is flat parallel with the front glass. In this way the foreground stays without dynamism and without points of interest.
4. The pruning technique is not adequate. In some parts of the layout the plants have a messy appearance needing to be pruned.
But the reflections are very good and the occupation of the space is good and natural. Nice perspective and sense of depth are the high points of this amazing layout!
Congratulations!