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International Aquatic Plant Layout Contest 2009 Video Emerges
This video of some of the top tanks in the IAPLC 2009 just popped up on the forums lately, and although the quality isn't the best, it shows a glimpse at some gorgeous tanks. A word of caution about...
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Updated IAPLC 2009 Top 27 Aquascapes Video with Ranks
Spent the afternoon playing around with Picasa's built in movie maker and I put together this video of the top 27 aquascapes from this year's International Aquatic Plants Layout Contest. The aquascape...
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CAPA 2009 Aquascaping Contest Results
The aquascaping contest results season is here, and hot on the heels of the IAPLC top 27 video is the results from CAPA, a French aquascaping contest (not quite sure what the acronym stands for, but...
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A Spot of Bad Luck
It seems like I've been having nothing but bad luck lately with the aquariums. I came home from Thanksgiving with the family only to spot the remains of a brownish puddle on the floor by the big...
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2009 AGA Aquascaping Contest Results
My apologies for running behind on announcing these; you've probably all seen them by now, but in case you haven't, definitely go check out the entries to the 2009 AGA Aquascaping Contest. The best in...
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Question: Aesthetically pleasing equipment worth it?
You're looking at the brand new Fluval Edge aquarium kit. Recently released, the kit is innovative in a number of ways. Although lots of people have been poo-pooing the practicality of the design, I...
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North American Discus Association 2010 Show
Planted tanks and discuss go together like peanut butter and jelly. There's almost no more colorful, majestic freshwater fish than the discus, and seeing a school of them swim through some of Takashi...
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ADG Shop Offers New Driftwood
If you've ever tried to find fancy, branchy driftwood like they use in the aquascaping competitions, you probably got frustrated by those horrible looking sandblasted stumps nailed to an unwieldy...
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Win an iPad from Tropical Fish Hobbyist Magazine
This is kind of cool...subscribe to TFH magazine's digital version for the iPad for just $1, and be entered to win an iPad. Not sure why you'd need an iPad if you were subscribing to the digital...
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IAPLC 2010 World Rankings Announced
Where the River Begins - Pavel BautinAlthough there aren't any pictures of the winning aquascapes that I've found yet (the aquascape above is just one of the winner's other aquascapes), the world...
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IAPLC 2010 Aquascape #134 Released
"Tamo daleko" by Slobodan Lazarevic of Serbia, #134 2010 IAPLCAnd so it begins. After IAPLC rankings are published, there's always a slow trickle of entries released ahead of the ADA Party in October....
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Alberto Sosa's Beniamino Aquascape
Beniamino by Alberto SosaJust a heads up of a fantastic aquascape over on Aquatic Plant Central, this little scape (about 10 gallons) by Alberto Sosa is incredibly detailed and interesting. The use of...
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Tanglerose, an ADG Aquascape
ADGVibe, the ADG YouTube channel, released this new video recently, and wow, I never realized a driftwood-only aquascape could be so stunning. With over 100 pieces of driftwood layered to create two...
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Pavel Bautin's First Place 2010 IAPLC Aquascape
The 2010 IAPLC embargo end is just 2 days away and images from the aquascaping contest are already beginning to leak out. Several sites have already published some of the top aquascapes (although most...
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IAPLC 2010 Aqua Design Amano Nature Aquarium Party Video
Going to the official IAPLC party every October is the dream of many aquascapers, and Jeff Senske of ADG was fortunate enough to go to this year's events. Lucky for us, he's made a video of the...
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Racomitrium canescens: Now Available from Aqua Forest Aquariums
Aqua Forest Aquarium, an aquarium store in San Francisco and North American distributor of Aqua Design Amano equipment, has a new type of moss available for order online. It's listed as Rhacomtitrium...
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AGA Convention Starts Tomorrow
Hindsight is 20/20. As a stubborn Nor'easter sits off the coast and drenches the northeast with cold rain, I really wish I had a sunny getaway planned for sometime soon. For those of you heading to...
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AGA Convention Video Recap
ADG has released a video recap of the AGA Convention held the 11-14th of November in Ft. Lauderdale featuring narration by Jeff Senske. The video is a great summary if you, like me, weren't able to...
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ADA International Aquatic Plants Layout Contest 2010: Top 10 Tanks
Well, these are a little late, but it doesn't look like any higher quality images are going to surface any time soon, so these will have to make do. These are the top 10 aquascapes in this year's ADA...
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2010 Aquatic Gardeners Association Aquascaping Contest Results
The 2010 Aquatic Gardners Association Aquascaping Contest results were released at the AGA Convention recently, with the entries divided up by aquarium size. The top 3 aquascapes were chosen in each...
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