This is what I call a Biotope tank

[Simon]

Africa



South America

[Simon]

[zmzfam]

wow man,

i wish i can create something like this....and have the space to display it also...(saliva drooling...)

[Simon]

the process of doing such a tank

[hwchoy]

wah lau, easier to just migrate to brazil and live in the forest

[Simon]

i wonder what kinda material they use for sculpturing

[juggler]

Cool. Wonder what is the foreground plant they used in the South American biotope.

Am I right to say that in a biotope, there's only very few species of plants/fish. Too much of one or the other will make it look like a community tank or a normal aquatic garden.

[hwchoy]

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On 2/18/2003 8:11:26 AM

i wonder what kinda material they use for sculpturing
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fibre-glass ?

[Fei Miao]

Very Swee

[Alfa Low]

The African setup from Holland was ranked world no3 in ADA aquatic plant layout contest 2001.

[pipsqueak]

Hmm, for sculpting..could it be concrete? might be hard to mould it though...looks like styrofoam..
man...did he like, cut a tree in half? Looks like he used putty to stick the roots on to the bottom.
Does putty affect water chemistry? i'm quite sure concrete and styrofoam dosen't.

[pipsqueak]

Hmm..in the last picture, he looks like he's bending metal to aquire the desired shape with a hand torch,with some foam/styrofoam/thing. I noticed his face squirming up, you know, when you smell smething bad, your face squirms up, or from the heat...and the foam/styrofoam/thing was abit brownish on the top, like burnt marks..