GWAPA 2.5G Aquascaping Contest

SCMurphy · Post by **SCMurphy** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 12:36 pm

That's OK Jay, we know you are busy with that 90 gallon masterpiece.

SCMurphy · Post by **SCMurphy** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 12:38 pm

Ghazanfar Ghori wrote:Shweet! Bring on the small leaved plants!

Note to self: load up the next auction with all the small leaved plants I have.

Ghazanfar Ghori · Post by **Ghazanfar Ghori** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 3:01 pm

Please do - I have almost NO stems.

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 3:11 pm

Ghazanfar Ghori wrote:Please do - I have almost NO stems.

We made an execute decision as a board that you get only duckweed and a blue/pink gravel mixture to work with as a handicap for being the best aquascaper.

Ghazanfar Ghori · Post by **Ghazanfar Ghori** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 4:07 pm

Dang!
That reminds me of this one guy back on Robert Hudsons forum several years
ago. This was when tying ricca down was still the hot thing. He kept posting his
woes on trying to tie ricca down. People suggested several methods. He had
no luck. Finally he posted a picture of his setup with a mat of floating 'riccia'.
The poor $@# had been trying to tie down duckweed all this time!
I think thats one of the few times I actually fell off the chair laughing.

My scaping skills are pale in comparison to all the folks out there now. Im
thinking about entering the beginners category - maybe I'll have a shot there.

Post by **krisw** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 4:19 pm

I was looking around a creek in Alabama this past January, and noticed large patches of duckweed rooted or matted together on the bottom of some pretty swift flowing sections. It actually looked pretty nice, but I haven't a clue how to plant that in an aquarium. I imagine if you add enough twigs and leaves, and enough duckweed flowing thru them, you're bound to eventually form what looks like a mat.

Ghazanfar Ghori · Post by **Ghazanfar Ghori** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 5:02 pm

Well, what you do is this..
You know how duckweed has this little root hanging off the bottom? Well, you get a good pair of tweezers and then...

Cristy Keister · Post by **Cristy Keister** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 6:23 pm

Well, I get some pretty thick mats on the surface of some tanks. I suppose I could just weigh them down somehow!

Ltrepeter2000 · Post by **Ltrepeter2000** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 11:28 am

Ghaz would probably still beat us with colored gravel, duckweed and if you took away his tweezers.

Hell I bet if you tied his hands behind his back he would figure out how to plant a tank without looking at it.

Rob

Jeff120 · Post by **Jeff120** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 10:43 pm

Sweet this should be fun!!!

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