Re: Oak leave tank

[David Sanchez <barbax2@yahoo.com>]

"Maybe if you looked at the entries you would have a
better idea of what 
is 
going on....."

I dont know about everyone else but I think that was a
bit harsh. This has been a friendly discussion and we
all have a right to feel as we do. Lets respect
everyones opinion and have fun enjoying what we love
to talk about.

My 2 cents
Dave Sanchez

--- Dave Gomberg <gomberg@wcf.com> wrote:
> The Texas tank had real Texas stream gravel as
> substrate.
> 
> One of the tanks that placed had no plants at all
> (rift lake cichlids and 
> rocks).
> 
> Maybe if you looked at the entries you would have a
> better idea of what is 
> going on.....
> 
> 
> At 02:16 PM 11/13/01 +0100, you wrote:
> >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!)
> > >
> > > --
> > > Erik Olson
> > > erik at thekrib dot com
> > >
> > >
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