Since it is AGA organizing this thing, could it be that they
put too much emphasis (sp?) on plants rather than the whole?
If someone entered a serious biotope aquarium from Lake Malawi
or Tanganyika no one would have a chance since these biotopes
are well documented and relatively easy to reproduce. Comments!
How much difficulty count for (as in difficulty of reproducing
a certain biotope)?
/Fredrik
Erik Olson wrote:
>
> On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, David Sanchez wrote:
>
> > Nice tank Max. maybe I'm biased but I thought yours
> > was the true Bitope tank and deserved 1st place. Nice
> > job.
>
> Well, see, everyone4's got different ideas on that... the winner of the
> 1st place actually went and collected all native fish and plants from the
> Houston Texas area. I;'m not sure that tank necessarily looks the most
> biotopically-correct, but has the right flora and fauna. Max's tank very
> much looks the part, but none of the flora is really south american. I
> think this is where the judges tend to ding the points. Some of the
> people at the convention even thought it should have been disqualified
> because of the Anubias! Gad Zukes, that's hardcore! If we did that, only
> one tank would have even been still left standing in the category.
>
> - Erik
>
> (Apologies for the bad proofing on this post. Traffic is at a crawl to
> the site because of the contest opening today!)
>
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