Personally, I'm not a big fan of Amano. He's clearly talented and has
done more for the planted aquarium than anybody else, but his
aquascapes look a bit too sterile to me.

As for the ADA equipment, I've not seen them anywhere in Britain, but
www.aquaessentials.co.uk are selling hand-crafted CO2 diffusers and
bubble counters which are excellent. I have bought a diffuser from
them and not only do I sometimes forget I have one (as I don't see it
at all), it also works much better than anything I've had before.
Worth taking a look, especially as they're on sale now.

Neil Woodman Wrote:
Ross Vandegrift wrote:-
On 2005-08-15, Neil Woodman wrote:
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What do you guys think of Amano and his approach to the hobby. I think
he's a genius personally and my main inspiration, if ever I find my
enthusiasm for planted tanks dipping I just leaf through some of his
books and that just inspires me to keep going.-


I'm not much of a fan of other tanks. Not because they don't impress
me, but because I'm more solitary as a hobbiest. I love to check out
fishtanks when I can, but I don't go out of my way or buy books to do
so.

But I bet I own more of my knowledge of tanks and the things that I
can
do to Amano than I ever understand. As well as lots of you guys!

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Thanks for the reply Ross. I guess different people approach it in
different ways. Certainly in my case the thing that drives me is to
one
day have a tank with an aquascape that is in someway near what Amano
does. That's never going to happen but I can dream I guess!

I'm also really interested in ADA equipment, it seems to be made to
such
a great standard, in terms of design and craft I have never seen
equipment like it in other areas of the hobby.


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