I watched Avatar last night for the first time, and all I could think about was how amazing the forests would look in a tank setup lol.....awesome movie though!!!!!!! 8)

lol I look at everything that can hold water as a potential tank..

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Sorry, didn't notice the other thread there.....

Funny, a lot of the forest scenes reminded me of like when they show the deep sea, all the glowing things and stuff and then I realised that everything had gills, including the horses which totally reminded me of sea horses.....I would love to have a tank that had like one main piece of driftwood that stood like a tree trunk as a feature and then design everything around it.....however.....I think for now I best concentrate on keeping my wee fish alive and well..... maybe one day I will have enough knowledge to do nice planted tanks

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Funny, a lot of the forest scenes reminded me of like when they show the deep sea, all the glowing things and stuff and then I realised that everything had gills, including the horses which totally reminded me of sea horses.....I would love to have a tank that had like one main piece of driftwood that stood like a tree trunk as a feature and then design everything around it.....however.....I think for now I best concentrate on keeping my wee fish alive and well..... maybe one day I will have enough knowledge to do nice planted tanks

it's no secret that James Cameron loves the ocean.

quotes below are taken from http://aquaviews.net/james-camerons-lov ... in-avatar/

It’s a pretty well known fact that Canadian film director, producer and screenwriter- James Cameron has a love for the Ocean and of Space & Alien life. One of the most well known Celebrity Scuba Divers, his love for these two subjects is apparent in most of his movies right from the ‘Alien’ series, ‘Titanic’, ‘The Abyss’, ‘Volcanoes of the Deep Sea’ and is even clearly seen in his latest blockbuster and superhit movie ‘Avatar’. Now you’re thinking, you get the Alien bit about ‘Avatar’, but you don’t see anything to do with the Ocean, right? Well if you look closely, Cameron’s influence of Scuba diving and love of the sea with it’s fascinating and unique life is deeply embedded in the movie.

Some of the computer generated flora and fauna in the movie Avatar have an uncanny resemblance to marine life which Cameron himself has admitted to being influenced by in interview about this movie and his past work. Remember the scene where Jake Sully (Worthington) wonders off distracted by his surroundings, while Dr. Grace (Sigourney Weaver) and biologist Norm were busy collecting samples, he comes to a patch of rather tall spiral looking flowers they call ‘Helicoradian flowers’. On his touch the flowers shrink or rather retract into the ground…sound familiar to the Christmas Tree Worm you’ve seen when you went diving?

How about the seeds of the sacred tree Eyra? Their movement seem strangely familiar to that of jellyfish? Well these similarities to marine life in Cameron’s movie are far from coincidences.

“I just swept in every design influence in my life. I’ve always had this deep respect for nature and a lot of my youth was out in the woods hiking around. I was a total science geek. I spent over 2,500 hours underwater and I’ve seen things that are absolutely astonishing on the bottom of the ocean. It really is like an alien planet. I’ve always felt like that’s something I’ve been able to do was live out a science-fiction fantasy adventure for real in my diving work. So yeah, there’s a lot of stuff there. There’s even a lot of stuff in the shallow ocean that’s influenced things. The Banshee wings are based on the colourations of tropical fish, for example. We were a little concerned that these large creatures wouldn’t scale with these incredibly vivid colour patterns, but we managed to make that work.” - James Cameron

etc.

Wow thats really cool Bikbok, thanks...I'm glad I wasn't imagining it hehe

glad to know im not too crazy lol

glad to know im not too crazy lol

*Breaks into Michael Jacksons song..... You are Not Alone*

Hehe