Iwagumi Layout Workshop

[ah^siao]

Post pictures of the workshop for the benefit of those who cannot make it.

[williamng]

It is a good Iwagumi workshop conducted by ADA sg. Much much much better from another plant talk I attended. I guess Blue33 and Shadow knows what I am talking about.

The presentation is short yet comprehensive. In addition, there is no promoting of ADA products. The products are placed within the showroom for interested parties to view and the discount from Acro-Asia is tempting..

Blue33
Nice to hear you share about tank setup and maintainance. Maybe next time ask ADA sg to allocate some time so you can share with everyone.

Nice meeting everyone despite only knowing a few names Blue33, Shadow and ADA sg.

[Viper007]

Thanks to Mr. Teo and Vincent for sharing Amano's concept of Iwagumi. It had just re-enforce to me how details the Japanese are!

[Shadow]

I would say excelent work shop, I bring back some of the point that I never consider before. Something like pull and push, how you suppose to angle your rockand many more . Not to mention $5 Aquajournal . I'm definitely looking forward for the next event.

The place a bit cramp though

Blue33
Nice to hear you share about tank setup and maintainance. Maybe next time ask ADA sg to allocate some time so you can share with everyone.

Blue33 was talking about weekly or monthly gathering where we can have a chit chat, bring down your tank photo or other people photo to discuss/comment. Will let Blue33 to explain more

[ghim]

Nice concept for the workshop. It is not easy to get singaporean audience to participate much. That's something all workshop need to work on.

Good to meet some of the forumers there too. Got to rush off after the workshop, so no time to interact more

[genes]

Liked the way the golden ratio was explained. And i didn't know before that even fishes should be in the golden ratio to achieve a better looking photo. Always thought as long as they school its a good photo.

[blue33]

It is a good Iwagumi workshop conducted by ADA sg. Much much much better from another plant talk I attended. I guess Blue33 and Shadow knows what I am talking about.

The presentation is short yet comprehensive. In addition, there is no promoting of ADA products. The products are placed within the showroom for interested parties to view and the discount from Acro-Asia is tempting..

Blue33
Nice to hear you share about tank setup and maintainance. Maybe next time ask ADA sg to allocate some time so you can share with everyone.

Nice meeting everyone despite only knowing a few names Blue33, Shadow and ADA sg.

Nice meeting you guys also, learn alot from this workshop and gladed to hear and learn new things from this trip. Is really an eye opening workshop. Looking forward more for such workshop. Thanks ADA SG for organizing this wonderful workshop.

I'm just sharing my experience from the mistake i've learn and hopefully others would benefit it also.

[blue33]

I was talking to Thio and some guys here about fortnightly or monthly gathering on Biotope and share the view on planted tank and learn from each other, whether you're the pro or the beginner there's no barrier, also how to achieve ADA style of creating a more natural tank that everyone wants to have(i mean the style not the product yet ).

We were talking about my trip to Hong Kong on how they have this soil playground thing and we can set up a small one in Thio shop for everyone to play around and to have fun, you can bring your rocks/woods over or from the shop itself and we can have volunteer the day itself to give advice on the setup. We can use digital camera to take the shots and put it in computer to see how it'll look like or even superimposed plant into the setup to see how it can look like. Rocks/woods playground example.



We hope to have more people to come out and share with us on the creating of your tank and even comments on others, this will help us alot and lesser mistake we made. We can even comments those others posted and how to make it even better so that we can learn from each other. Is more like a knowledge sharing place for us to gather around. Every month we seen lots of newbie coming in and out and selling things away in the market place, most of the time you'll find that question have being repeating asking on how to do this and how to do that, why dont we have a live one instead.

Comments and critics are all welcome. We just want to make this an more interesting and easy hobby for anyone who want to achieve without really have to spend much and you still can have fun, of course pleasing product always pleasing to the eye's, that will be later on. Even a $2 plant can achieve a impact if is done correctly. What do you guys think?

[doubleace]

that's a great idea.. so that newbie can learn from pros and where their mistakes are. Also from this gathering everyone can share their experience on how to scape a nice and simple planted tank instead of wasting so much money on so many plants yet still not satisfy and ended out fighting algae problem.

[vwsj84]

Yeah ! Think i did mention to you before adrian that i would love to see this implemented in LFS. Like what u say... rocks can have many "character" to them depending on where and how they r placed. I dunno about others... but i find it really hard to visualise a few rocks together without physically playing with them and positioning them on a substrate bed.

I'm sure this idea would not only aid hobbyists but i'm sure sales of rocks at LFS would improve tremendously also. Human traffic to LFS would increase also. So its a WIN-WIN situation.

[Shadow]

One think bad about the workshop, it make me want to rescape my tank

[Viper007]

One think bad about the workshop, it make me want to rescape my tank

Haha yah I have the same problem as you!

[blue33]

One think bad about the workshop, it make me want to rescape my tank

Haha yah I have the same problem as you!

LOL! So many ...

[Biotopeshop]

LOL! So many ...

So stressful now eh? We have to start to asking ADA SG to bring in the rocks and driftwoods asap already!

About the idea of a get together, we think it is a good idea too. We will discuss this and see how it might be implemented. Please pm us if there are plans and drop by at our shop to discuss.

Cheers.

Thio

[mordrake]

sorry that i missed the workshop. any possibility of a writeup on it?

[blue33]

So stressful now eh? We have to start to asking ADA SG to bring in the rocks and driftwoods asap already!

About the idea of a get together, we think it is a good idea too. We will discuss this and see how it might be implemented. Please pm us if there are plans and drop by at our shop to discuss.

Cheers.

Thio

So Thio, any plan? ... William cant wait anymore...

[Viper007]

Btw. Mr. Thio had mention about the video show is it still on?

[BFG]

Hey, good idea Blue33! Do you have any idea of the dimension for the 'playground'?

[fireblade]

wow will be waiting for the video!!

[Biotopeshop]

So Thio, any plan? ... William cant wait anymore...

ok ok, we will discuss this with the other members of the team this weekend and plan for the first get together But William didn't mention anything here leh..