155x81x48cm
How you got inspired to create this scape? Why did you choose this name? What was the purpose?
This year my aquarium layout conveys the experience of ups and downs in our living world because of the anger of Mother Nature with a message: We own a vivid, precious and beautiful living world, but so fragile. Following this ideas, I want to create the lay out can bring to viewer both nicely and worry feeling on the same time. Nicely by concept and worry about the sustainability of them. I hope you can feel it when you enjoy my aquarium.
The name showed the ideas of my aquarium. Sentence 'Delicate world' have 2 meaning: In general everyone understand that means ' Delicate world' is, But if we consider more, Delicate world have another means is "friange world' , show the unstable, easy broken of nature.
By the both meaning of the name of my aquarium, I want to show both side of nature: beauty and easy collapse. I want to a weaken people: love nature means we must care about nature to keep it longevity with us. My senior aquascaper friend suggested this name by Vietnamese after heard my ideas. After that, and I discussed with my classmate to create the English version.
Have you prepared any kind of draft or drawing previous to set-up?
Before carry out this lay out, I have some draft drawing the general concept of my new aquariums before I start to process it. However, in setup time, or even after completed layout, I changed / adjustment this layout such as: rocks. Driftwood, plants...a lot. These changes make the final work totally different with the draft design. However, by these changes, the layout improved to become more interesting.
Which techniques you used for to make the distribution and fixation of every kind of solids?
As you see, I used a very big-plate rocks to set up my lay out. My tank quite deep (81cm), so you just see one side of the rock only, behind of the side you seen, I have a lot of rocks to keep my layout can stand like you have seen. This kind of rock quite expensive in my country, I try to minimize to use anything to damage those rocks. So, just with the rock in the middle of lay out, I do used a stainless steel bar and construction glue to hold it.
Most of my rock in 'Delicate world' is can take out one by one to rescape to another lay out.
How you prepared the stones to be used in this tank and what stone type it is?
After I have ideas choice, I went around the aquatic stores, go to the beaches nearby my city...to find rocks suitable for my lay out ideas. This year, I buy the rocks from a store, Vietnamese call it is 'Tiger rock' because the detail of the rock suitable with my concept and the quantity of this rock enough for my aquarium. This rock is very popular in Vietnam and in the world.
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