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Originally Posted by Cruise Control
I thought dark coloured substrate gave better contrast? Or is this just a personal preference?
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RESPONSE AND GENERAL DISCLAIMER
- These are notes transcribed from lectures by Mr. Amano. Whether they are his opinion, facts, or something in between is open to discussion. It it what he said.
- What he said is open to question, since I heard the lecture in English, as spoken by Mr. Amano's translator. The lectures were given in Japanese (which I don't speak).
- I could have misunderstood, or transcribed a concept incorrectly.
- I only wrote down things that interested me, which colors the contents greatly. I'm sure I left out lots of great stuff that would be of interest to other people.
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Originally Posted by bc_hawaii
Anyway you can buy the DVD on line?
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I believe it is only available to
Aquatic Gardeners Association (AGA) members, for $30 USD. Membership in US is $15 USD, $20 everywhere else.
So I essentially paid, with membership, $45 for the DVD. But I get other membership benefits that you can read about on their website.
The DVD itself has multiple lectures of potential interest to aquatic gardeners. The two Amano lectures were:
- A two part lecture where Amano shows slides of many tanks, new and mature, side by side with nature scenes they are inspired by. Discussion is mostly about the artistic and aesthetic, not technical. Not to be missed. In the next part, he shows many progressive slides of building and maturation of his gargantuan home planted tank, which he expresses as the culmination of his career of in aquascaping, requiring all his skill to be successful and algae free. Some technical discussion.
- A second lecture by Mr. Amano is the actual aquascaping of an open-topped, AGA style, as performed by Mr. Amano. It's long, but well worth the ride, watching him build a tank, as he describes what to do, and often "why" he does things as he does.
I'd personally trade any two of my
Nature Aquarium World books by Amano for this DVD. Not quite as many pictures in the DVD, but it has a lot more explanation of content.