fake walls as displayed in sea view aquarium's tanks

[toledosun]

Hi all,

I was at sea view aquarium and saw that some of their display tanks had those fake brick walls (measuring about 5 in by 1 in). They used those walls to create terraces. They also had some "houses", etc. on the different terrace levels together with live plants in the tank. The setups looks quite cute and entertaining.

Anybody know where I can get those walls? Sea view aquarium is out of stock at the moment.

Thanks.

[toledosun]

Hi,

just as a general fyi, stocks for those walls are in at sea view aquarium. Brought my wife and kids there last night and they went bersek. Needless to say, my tank is now decorated with little kampung houses, fishermen and a bridge.

[benny]

These are very popular with Taiwanese style aquascaping. There's also a trend in Japan, but with very small decorations that includes people, cows, etc. Naturally very expensive, as with all things in Japan.

Cheers,

[toledosun]

yahh.... tell me about expensive. 2 walls, 3 kampung houses, 2 fishermen, one bridge and one boat cost me about $60! Damage would have been more if I had gotten my sons' their "ducks" and my wife, her "cow"!

Is there a name for this form of aquascaping?

[Emg]

I'd like to see some pics of this sort of thing....I dont' think I have ever seen such a tank...

[toledosun]

I'll try and take some pics over the weekend and show you.

[Barbarik]

yahh.... tell me about expensive. 2 walls, 3 kampung houses, 2 fishermen, one bridge and one boat cost me about $60! Damage would have been more if I had gotten my sons' their "ducks" and my wife, her "cow"!

Is there a name for this form of aquascaping?

With "ducks", "cows" and some other animals, can we call it Old Mac Donald's scaping??? Hahaha...

Have anyone of us thought of using the plastic toy models sold in toy stores? Some of the "farm" sets do include brick walls or fencing models. But since they are made from plastic, the only problem is finding ways to make them sinkable. Once we can overcome the problem, we can start deciding of a theme for the tank. Should it be "farm" scaping, "construction site" scaping or "battlefield" scaping. Please don't laugh. We should give it a try. Who knows, it might turn out to be even much amusing than expected!!!

[toledosun]

lol... it is a bit of an animal farm but then, my kids loved it. 3 attempts at aquascaping and this is the only time that they try to climb on chairs to see the tank.

Only problem with pastics is that you never know if the paint is toxic. Otherwise, guess the easiest way to "plant" them in an aquarium would be to simply put some aquarium safe glue on them and glue them to small stones/wood.

Actually, if you think of it, a battlescape would be entertaining. Imagine having tanks hiding behind downois, artillery among the rockscape, infantry crawling among the riccia and crystal red shrimps as medics scurrying all over the battlefield.

[stormhawk]

Maybe Gundams underwater ?!

[ranmasatome]

that would be too cool!! lol..
new theme..new tank time!!!

[toledosun]

Hi all,

Managed to take some shots with my phone camera. Quality is not very good but you'll get the picture. The files are too large to be uploaded so I've placed them in my yahoo folder.

http://f1.pg.briefcase.yahoo.com/bc/....src=bc&.view=

The tank was set up last weekend so plants haven't settled yet. What I'll have are rotala indica behind the house, HC in the foreground (as waves). and "tenellus" (from system engineering) in the middle where the houses are and in the "field" behind the fisherman. Tan calls it tenellus but it looks a lot shorter than what I used to have, these are abour 2-3 cm in height.

[Emg]

Nice...lol..that's pretty cool. I just bet the kids love it !

[d0td0t]

Was at Seaview early tis evening, true enuff nearly all of their display tanks are of such scaping; houses, fake walls, bridge, wreaks, animal figurines... etc.

but kinda cool, not really planted IMO.

I got some boraras from there.
They demonstrated how to plant moss into foam wall, they jus poked them in using pincers.
and I'm also quite tempted to buy a sunken ship figure from there, quite big piece $25

[toledosun]

I know the one you're talking about. It's both half for $25 right? I thought of buying that too, throw in a few jagged stones, moss growing all over the ship and foreground and you'll have a nice shipwreck them (with ultra low maintenance). Didn't proceed because I felt it may be too depressing a theme for my kids

[d0td0t]

The ship is in 2 halves, so I tink placement and scaping should be very versatile and of unique results.. I saw the moulding on it, not bad, pretty well coloured too.
If ur kids r still like pre-sch or lower pri, they may not appreciate it. they still having the happy, animals so cute tinking.

jus to pt out, y sea view sell their OTO so ex huh?. 1.80/pc. cos their other fishes price not bad.

[Justikanz]

Ever tot of a 'natural' river system? Keke... Throw in some empty aluminum drink cans, some drift wood, some plastic stuff aka rubbish... tada!...

[d0td0t]

I tink theres quite a few of such setup rite, free-style planting and log placements, strong currents .. minus the empty drink cans la

I wouldn't try the drink cans la, to split it in half or not, its dangerous; sharp edges or place U cannot excess while doing maintenance.

[Justikanz]

I have a 2.5ft at my service balcony housing ikan jelawat, the sultan fish. As we use the service balcony for hanging of clothes etc, we sometimes drop things into the tank and too lazy to take them out as the tank is very deep. I also throw in some small clay pots that were housing nanas. After a while, there are many stuff at the tank bottom, including cloth pegs, pots, driftwood whose java fern rotted away/eaten off. The tank looks 'cool' like a dirty 'natural' Singapore river! Keke... :Bigsmile: