hey guys!
so this past weekend i attended The art of the planted aquarium. This was to be my first aquascaping event, certainly not my last, if i can help it.
i went on friday and saturday, sunday would have been done but i was in Bremen to visit family.
I was staying at my friends house, on the friday i went into the Underground and caught the rail to the east entrance.
this tturned out to be the opposite end of entry, ok cant be that long right?
i was told to try the south gate, when i got there it was for commercial entrace etc. i asked if i could get in through here, i was asked if i had a ticket, my reflex answer was for sure, so i was going to the event without a ticket. so far so good. as i got closer to hall 17 a tall temporary fence seemed to be conspiring against me. i had a quick look around and hitched up my pants and climbed over, luckily there wasnt much going on as it was friday and i was early. so i got in on fridayy with no entry charge just a dissproving look from a builder of some sort.
i first came accross Shrimp in all sorts of sizes and colours, awesome! being from New Zealand and NZ having a very apparent lack of tropical shrimp this was a whole new experience and was great to see so many colours etc
i really liked some of the bigger crayfish which had some stunning colours.
my favourite shrimp was the blue and black one, unfortunately a lot of them werent named so i couldn't tell you its name or species.
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my favourite shrimp
then came a stall from a Betta Splendan community that imported and breed siamese fighters
STUNNING
yet another stall had high quality discus for sale
the biotope section was sweet too!
most of the L number cats were hiding though :cry1:
because of the dim lighting it was hard to take decent pics, sorry bout that
now my favourite!
the aquascping contest
first ill post the Nano section
really liked this one
the above water portion was really neat
here a close up
this was 2 entries
oliver knotts entry was creative didnt take the special prize though
this tank took 1st place, WOW
now the xl catagory
this one took 2nd or 3rd place, also my 2nd favourite i think
this dutch scape was done by a 9 year old, i think his dad helped more than a bit though :rotf:
my least favourite haha
this one is nice but i dont like the little people on the "beach" not very classy IMO
this one was done by the ADA germany team, planted on the day of judging still looks great
again knott out did everyone on the cheese factor
this iwagumi was my favourite, only took 6th place though
this one took 1st, well done to a brilliant scape
so yea theres more but tbh this took long enough
feel free to have a sort through myy photobucket folder
http://s1141.beta.photobucket.com/user/ ... 20aquarium