#918: 138L Paludarium Peace

Jean Gabriel Dal Ri Araraquara, Brazil

Awards and Comments

Second Place
I would suggest moving your aquatic plants closer to the front glass this should help create more depth.
— Nick Kinser
You have one of the best-developed water areas in the contest this year! Bravo! Your land area is beautiful too. Where your entry falls down is the interface between the land and water. It can be difficult but if you can construct a flow of hardscape at least but better yet hardscape AND plants flowing from land down into the water your scape would be even better!

Also and this does NOT affect your score at all but is something to think about in terms of presentation while this contest is not a "photo contest" first impressions do matter. Take a look at your horizon line! Make sure when you crop your photo that you straighten it out. It will look so much nicer!!!
— Karen Randall
This is beautifully done! I would love to see and hear it flowing!
— Cory Nudelman

Aquascape Details

Dimensions 100 × 38 × 38 cm
Title Peace
Volume 138L
Background Expansible foam, cyanoacrilato glue , foam board, 1000l/h pump for waterfall,
Lighting 2x chiriros série a 401
Filtration Hang on filter atman hf 800, Matrix ( Seachen ) , purigen ( Seachen )
Plants Aquatic plants: anubias nana, Anubias lanceolata, microsorum pteropus, microsorum pteropus "narrow leaf" , microsorum pteropus"windelov", cryptocoryne becketti, althernantera reinickii, ludwigia repens, Java Moss,

Terrestrial plants : fitonias, callisia repens, mini Hera, pteris ensiformis, 3 types of racinaea ( i dont know this plants names, this plants are coleted in the Nature), more 2 types of ferns ( i dont know this plants names, this plants are coleted in the Nature),
Animals 4 paracheirodon axelrodi, 6 paracheirodon simulans, 2 macrotocinclus affinis , 5 laetacara curviceps, 6 macrobrachium jelskii.
Materials River sand, Ada aquasoil substrat, driftwood, natural sandstones.
Additional Information This paludarium was build with foam board, and expandable foam and natural rocks glued with cyanoacrylate glue, a box was build tô hold the pump tô generate the waterfall qnd two mountains , one of them is the waterfall and the other a mountain where vessels were created for planting os terrestrial plants, fertile área were build in the front for planting aquatic plants, in the back ground was a blue paper , an important note os that the rear Glass os taller tô support the mountains being 75cm high.
Sorry my english is not good.

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