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I just saw some awesome pics and videos about Doubtful Sound. This lanscape is pretty incredible and I tried to imagine how it was deep under the water.

Beautiful butterfly but what a strange life... Not able to eat... Imagine the same thing for us. From teenage to adulthood, we lost our mouth... Remind me a frightening twilight zone episode...

Great pictures Simon Love the myosotis and the trees in the water (Taxodium ?).

*yoda's voice* Patient, you must be. A lot of trials, you'll have to do. One day, will be in your tank, a piece of nature. I usually build a tank before I... got the tank. It begins with a driftwood or a rock that inspire me. For this one, I bought first the driftwood on the right. It was so beautiful, I instantly wanted to make something with it ! Then I built the aquascape from it, placing another driftwood, then some plate rocks and so on. In another tank, a nano I made 3 weeks ago, it started with some volcanic rocks I found this summer, during holidays when I was walking though a mountain with some friends of mine. When I saw them, I said to myself : wow ! Gonna make a 20 L with these ones !!! (can't help myself collecting stones since I was kid... my parents was about to euthanize me cause of the usual 20kgs of stones I've been brought back home every holidays). And I made it one month after during a sunday afternoon. I never draw a plan on a paper / screen. Indeed, I start to built the tank in my mind. I let it grows, give it time to make it mature. Then, when I feel it's ok (=nothing to remove), I built it somewhat quickly. You have to train yourself to know instinctively what kind of plants / driftwood / stones you can use, how you can match them. [edit for some mistakes I just saw]

monosolenium tenerum Love this one. It's like a moss. No roots. I'll try to post you a close-up pic. In another tank, with 2x39w T5 and 30cm height (this tank is a 50 cm height), I got literaly a big carpet of this one. It doesn't need CO2 or fertilizer but with more light, it's very dense.

Hey Samh ! Thanks you

About 12 or 20 L every month Add rainwater or osmosed water for compensating evaporation.

eh eh ! You're right Sophia ! The biggest one

Thanks Phoenix They cost about 10-12€ (18-22 NZ$) for 10 cardinals. What about in NZ ?

From left to right : Anubias (this one the very first plant I ever bought 3 years ago, when I started to be an aquarist), rotala rotundifolia, heteranthera zosterifolia, monosolenium tenerum, myriophylum sp, cryptocorine, hygrophila polysperma, eleocharis acicularis, limnophilia aquatica, java moss. And some pistias. You can see their white roots on the left and the right. (not allowed in NZ I think) Lightning : T8 2x30 w

Thanks for your comments ! Sorry for the late... one million things to do and a lot of strikes here. I got some progress photo of this build. I'll post it.

I dreamed to have a little forest inside. Some sand, driftwood, plants and 200 L of sweat later... (and 5 months too) There's no CO2 yet but I'm gonna add a DIY one. It's a RHB1000 tank(240 l) with 2x30 w 10.000K T8. Inhabitants are : Amano shrimps, paracheirodon innesi, rasbora dorsiocellata.

Laurent Voulzy - Le coeur grenadine

Hi, +1 with Ira. Could you tell us the name of these plants ?

Sorry if it's off the subject :oops: but I just read another articles about space in the same paper, with pictures too. The highest resolution color mosaic of the Jupiter great red spot. This new picture is not so new, taken on March 4th 1979... (better enlarged version - a bit heavy... 2 048px × 1 536px / 800 Ko). And this one about Saturn's northern lights (false-colour). So many beautiful things to discover on earth, oceans and space... (tell me why, tell me why, tell me why, why can't we live together... )

I've been told about this story. At first, it looks fake. But this man is a real fisher and he's used to catch big fishes as we can see on his FB album. He caught that koï in september 2008 and dedicated press published it in early 2009. But the picture has been sold recently to the Dailymail and then, some others medias talked about it. It grew in scale (that's what we call in french : 'effet boule de neige', literally translated as snowball effect) and that's why it appeared recenty in the Google hot searches as "giant golfish"

Thanks for sharing ! The three first ones are incredibly beautiful...

Wow... Love it... Wanna do something like that !:bounce:

There's the Urewera national park too, with many native birds species, native forest (love trees with thick mosses and lichens on theirs branches) and the beautiful lake Waikaremoana and Waikareiti (short and great walks). And you can dive in fresh water Panoramic shot : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lake_Waikaremoana.jpg http://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/national-parks/te-urewera/activities/

Portishead - Glory Box (Live) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxsopQLZpCI

Should I wear glasses ? Mmm... yes I should... Lol

Great ! I can send it in higher resolution (too high to post in this thread) But I can't find where to send an email ?

Funny :lol: Remember me a program called Eliza, which was a virtual psychotherapist, created by Joseph Weizenbaum in the 60's. It was very addictive for some people who thought Eliza was "intelligent". It wasn't, cause it didn't get even one word about what you wrote. But it could answer from some programmed patterns, enriched with keywords extracted from the human interlocutor's sentences. If there was no keyword in the user's comment, Eliza answered with a generic answer like : "Oh... I see..." or "I understand..." or "Would you tell me more about it ?". At first, it was a bit disconcerting and... very clever indeed ! http://library.thinkquest.org/18242/eliza.shtml There was another program named PARRY, which simulated a paranoid schizophrenic. Then, the Turing's test has been created to let us determine if a machine is intelligent or not. When a human can't determine if he's talking with a computer program or with a real person, the machine is declared intelligent. For doing this, there are some specific questions a non clever bot couldn't answer, like : "Can we eat tomorrow with my last year dead friend and why ?". Because the machine should understand the concept of time and what's the death. And it must explain it ! But the Turing test has its own weaknesses too. For instance, "it tests only whether the computer behaves like a human being" and not if it's really a human being. If you want know more about this test : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test Nowdays, Eliza-like programs has been used to collect personal datas on the net. But one day, they will built a real A.I. And it's a bit scary... Meanwhile, I'm gonna sleep