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Your Shark Attack inspired aquascape is the first video I have watched. It not only warmed my heart seeing your passion for the craft, but taught my eye to catch the details of an intelligently designed, aesthetically pleasing aquascape.
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Thank you very much.

It's great fun to start with a story and build the scape around it. Even if no one notices it, you know it : )
 
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A friend is going to setup a huge peninsula tank (120"x36"x24") meant for SPS and I created the following scape for him.

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In blue it's the rock, in yellow the coral cover. It's inspired by the silhouette of a dolphin
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He didn't like it very much though.

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I live 2 hours away from "Florestas submersas", the largest nature aquarium in the world and I had never visited it.

Takashi Amano conceived it and he died shortly after.

Here's my take on it. Music by yours truly.

 
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I was walking my dog and I found a small sparrow. When I arrived most of the drama had already unfolded.

The nest had fallen on the ground and I saw 2 young birds. I managed to get one but a cat got another. Somehow the cat let it go but I couldn't find it. Nearby there was an adult sparrow almost dead.

I managed to feed this little one and later the mother found him and tried to get in the tank.

The plan is to help him out until he can fly.

 

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