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Developing...

Turn on filter, the canvas is better with clear water

 

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So I had gotten a preview of what I'd like to be built and wood sunken enough. Smaller woods and such sink faster, less water to soak up*

Now onto some work

 

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Attaching moss I used the glue method. I rather tie in any situation except for the hard to tie angles and such of certain intricate woods. Attaching moss to the core was a mistake, as it would be covered up later with other woods. Glue also initial moss adjusts slower I've seen.

 

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Planting, i used buces, marsilea hirasuta, erio vietnam, and dwarf hairgrass belem

if you start out dirty, your gonna have more work ahead of you

 

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Happy new years.
random hardscaping trial

 

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Now that the contest is over I'll catch up. I entered...thats all i can say. hehe
Current the tank is a moss fragment and shrimp tank, I'll update this until the teardown and shrimp

floating wood, these sink faster than the big pieces

Wait...this doesn't look right?

 

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angle-ing this way gives more rooted look.

This is what pretty much killed it. The emmersed part of the tree needed humidity i could not provide. If the emmersed part couldn't survive a 8hr sleep night and dries out then its a bust. I figure despite the messy startup, if i had the emmersed buces all over, it would be decently worthy of anything. I know now I could've purchased a monsoon or something else.

dried out

 

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More moss

Darn, the tree collapse on me

tried to shape it up as much i could

 

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9.18.20

 

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skeleton king would've looked nice

i tried glueing sphagnum moss, dried out quick

see the structure change as stuff moves around

 

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So buce and sphagnum moss didn't work, I decided on air plants.

what a whack and funky scape

 

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Here are my submitted photos
by 10/17/2020

 

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Now for shots and glimpses of the tank as it slowly gets torn down.
At this point you can tell the tank is very very dirty. A lot of mulm accumulation.

 

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moss just attached to acrylic out of nowhere

 

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