Re: Oak leave tank

[Fredrik Ljungberg <Fredrik.Ljungberg@saab.se>]

I really don't know how to reply to you Mr Gomberg? I think I
was less categorical than your reply at least, but my intentions
were just inquisitive, I can assure you.

My point was that Max was about to be disqualified for having 
plants not biotopical. Did anyone reflect over slate and gravel
in a Lake Tanganyika biotope, it looked nice but has very little
to do with the real biotope (unless I'm misinformed and there is
a place in the lake with those attributes). 

What ultimately set me of was one of the remarks to the 3rd place
Rift Lake aquarium, if you had checked the entries you may know
which one I'm talking about.


/Fredrik





Dave Gomberg 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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