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Old 02-18-2008, 07:45 PM   #22 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by CmLaracy View Post
The tank's size is equivalent to that of a 180P if I'm not mistaken? That's a beautiful size, very tough to properly scape though. the mark of a true professional Aquascaper
I really do not think so, it's the smallest size to make use of the all of the species of plants, and get the details and textures from the widest choice of available materials/fish and plants.

So the trade offs for scaping are very well met with this set of dimensions.

Larger tanks are just more work and tougher to prune etc.
But they offer a lot of fish species choices, REAL communities , not just a couple of species. Or you can really highlight one species very well or one plant etc.

You have options and good set of trade offs.

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Tom Barr
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