Aquafair Malaysia 2010

**Shadow** · 30th Nov 2010, 16:01

Amano cutting the driftwood

Bunch of people admiring the finished scape

**Saiberg** · 30th Nov 2010, 20:39

Wow.. Very nice.. Get to see mr. Amano in person...

**ranmasatome** · 30th Nov 2010, 23:21

If beginners are looking at this.. please note how densely the tank is planted.
This tank is just being started up and look how many plants there are inside already! This.. is called planting densely right from the get go...it will help you in the long run. Of course, you don't need as many types of plants but the idea is to plant densely...even with just 1 type of plant.. you can do similar work. Great example.

**neverwalkalone** · 1st Dec 2010, 14:28

Thanks for the pictures Robert.

Ya, I noticed that especially with the shot from the back - wow, that's really dense! That'll mean lots of pruning once they take root/start growing! Talk about being "kiasu" (afraid of loosing out/failing). There doesn't seem to be much of a slope in the substrate for 'depth', guess the height/type of plants make up for it to create the depth...

**bossteck** · 1st Dec 2010, 15:42

Thanks for uploading the photos Robert!

**Shadow** · 1st Dec 2010, 17:07

Originally Posted by neverwalkalone

There doesn't seem to be much of a slope in the substrate for 'depth', guess the height/type of plants make up for it to create the depth...

Someone was asking the same question, Amano said around 8cm at the back. I guess it is all depend on your scape.

**barmby** · 3rd Dec 2010, 09:58

Thank you so much Robert

**genes** · 3rd Dec 2010, 16:31

Nice series Robert! Amano has grown alot whiter!

**barmby** · 6th Dec 2010, 09:51

7 persons do one tank. Do you think the tank will be nice? of course!!!!!!!!!!!!!! nice lah...

**StanChung** · 6th Dec 2010, 10:21

For wood scape the slope doesn't need to be very high unless you're making something like the No 2 scape.

Amano was very humorous throughout and honest to say you don't need a lot of the products that he was adding. You could still grow plants but with the products it would be faster. 3 months, imagine this scape 3 months later.

Amano had requested the stem plants to be 45cm long so that you can see some result.

Side note: The translator is very good-. She is from the Japanese Embassy and a friend of Amano, unfortunately I did not catch her name.

Good to see Vinz and wife[?], Little Green Corners-Robert, William, Yeo, Sim, Vincent, Thio and many other there.

**StanChung** · 6th Dec 2010, 10:49

More pictures here-
Amano's Welcome
Competition Tanks
Aquafair Pictures
Aquafair Pictures 2

**barmby** · 6th Dec 2010, 12:53

Thank you Stan ....this is from the other perspective..

**StanChung** · 6th Dec 2010, 19:25

You're welcome Colin-it's been a dream to have Amano come for years but we never could muster the resources in previous years.

Video of the lecture from 3 cameras and a DVD of the lecture is being edited as we speak and copies would be made available as soon as it's done.

**blackBRUSHalgae** · 7th Dec 2010, 12:59

Thank you so much guys for the great coverage!!! I really wish that I could be there ^_^"

**Navanod** · 10th Dec 2010, 11:54

Congrats to Stan!! That anti-gravity rock is really powderful

Personally, my favorite tank is the one in 6th place...the sense of depth and distance is there although I guess it lost points for not having a flat soil-line in front!
3rd place is also amazing for being able to combine rock and wood so seamlessly...I'm totally lost when it comes to wood scapes.