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Hey guys, it's Logan and we are here for a very, very special gallery tour.
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We're at the AquaDens ADA Gallery.
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This is the largest privately owned gallery in the United States.
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This is located in the Pacific Northwest and it's in collaboration with Aqua Forest Aquarium, AFA.
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They're located in Northern California.
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So I'm going to take you guys on a tour of each and every tank.
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We're going to talk about some of the plants, the fish, sort of the design philosophy behind Escape, and hopefully provide you with some inspiration.
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So if you like these types of videos, go ahead and like the video and subscribe to the channel, and let's get our tour started.
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Everything is ADA.
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Everything is pristine, and this is one of the first tanks you see when you walk in.
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So this is a very zen-like classic nature vibe.
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You can see there's a really beautiful carpet of Eleocharis and then we've got some taller plants.
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We've got a really beautiful taller Eleocharis in the back and these fish, very peaceful.
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These are black neons and they're just kind of doing their thing.
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You can tell there's nice surface agitation but the flow and the circulation is still quite calm.
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The plants are super healthy and the stone just contrasts so nicely with the plants.
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This is the famous Unzan stone.
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It's a type of stone that outside of the the ADA product line, you just don't really see.
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And of course it's powered by an incredible ADA light, one of the latest and yeah, it's just immaculate.
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Up close, you know, I don't really see any algae.
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It's well maintained and it's just absolutely beautiful.
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Gotta love the stainless steel inflow.
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All right, and next to the first tank is the DUA Palluta System 600.
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This is a 60 centimeter system and all the plants in here are terrestrial,
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of course, and all of these were collected locally here in the Pacific Northwest.
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If you've never been, it is just an incredible area for mosses and life and nature,
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and you go on hikes and all these beautiful things are just out there in nature, the ferns.
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So it's one of the benefits of living here is you
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can find a lot of really beautiful terrestrial plants in real life, and you can see they're doing really, really well in here.
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It's beautiful.
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The way the wood kind of crosses is really natural.
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And the stone is just a nice contrast from the greens of the plant.
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These are the types of systems that they look beautiful, but they can actually be a lot of work to maintain.
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Often getting the plants to adapt to your home's conditions takes some time.
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There's usually some die off.
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You know, maybe one or two plants go away.
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Another one dominates.
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But as you can see, this one is really well balanced.
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And it's a really nice contrast next to that kind of a mono style nature scape.
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So I really dig this.
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And now here we are at this beautiful rack.
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So we've got a bunch of tiny little terrariums.
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In fact, these glass come all the way from Japan.
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And this is a newer product.
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It's called the Mini NA, as in the Mini Nature Aquarium.
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So it's like a tiny desktop or shelf top in this case, nature aquarium, complete with a pressurized CO2 system, which I think is just so dope.
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So the way this system kind of works is it outputs a little bit of gas
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and then it traps a bubble in this little like bell system here.
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And then you kind of dial things in and every once in a
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while that bubble pops and it disperses CO2 into the system.
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And as you can tell, it's working.
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I mean, these plants look super healthy.
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Obviously, a system like this, you're probably not going to push to the utmost limit with your lighting
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and your CO2 but these plants look healthy and happy.
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And you know, this is something that pretty much anybody can have on a desktop or in a corner of their home.
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And I'm personally a big proponent of systems like that, stuff that are kind of gateway scapes that get people into it.
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So that's where I think a shelf like this is just fantastic.
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So got a bunch of tiny little terrariums showcasing a variety of different plants, all kind of at different stages and different levels.
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And cool thing about terrariums, if you never kept one, is there a lot more set it and forget it compared to those first couple of tanks that we talked about.
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A lot of maintenance goes into this.
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Just to prepare for today's showing, it was about five hours of maintenance.
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So that's where having some terrariums kind of takes the load off you and you can kind of let them develop, let nature take over.
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And they still look beautiful because you're not really dealing with algae.
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So a shelf like this, I think just belongs in every gallery.
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All right guys, so over here we've got a really unique setup.
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So this is going to be a tank that will be called Bridges of Pandora eventually.
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You can see it's featuring really nice cork bark that's going to be covered with moss, but the glass itself has a really interesting story.
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So this glass is a OG ADA 120P.
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You can see it even has the old school logo, not something I think I've ever seen before.
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So this is a piece of vintage aquascaping history, if you will, and it was originally purchased at Aquaforest Aquarium by a customer all the way back in 2005,
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and now it lives here in the Pacific Northwest at the AquaDens Gallery.
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So it's really cool to see a 120p, you know, with this kind of history here.
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We've already had a really strong hardscape that takes up a lot of the width of the tank, so I think this is going to be dope when it's grown in.
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This is a little piece of history that is kind of tying together this beautiful space
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So over here tucked into the corner of the gallery we have a really stunning 60p so
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This is the type of scape that personally got me into the hobby.
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This is an Iwagumi Of course, it's a three stone Iwagumi
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and as I've mentioned on my own channel a bunch of times Iwagumi in my opinion is the most difficult.
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It is so simple, but it's all about wabi-sabi kind of getting that imperfect perfection.
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And a lot of that comes down to stone placement.
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So the story behind this scape is that
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these three high impact stones were chosen
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and it's kind of meant to represent a dragon that was laid to rest and these are kind of his remains.
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And this is one of my favorite carpeting plants that I think is personally underutilized, a lanthium tenalum broadleaf.
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I've done scapes with it and it's super healthy, nice and vibrant, the tissue looks great.
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It's surrounded by a really, really beautiful shoal of schooling fish.
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So we've got green neon tetras in here, as well as emerald eye risboras.
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And the way I always see fish in Iwagumi is that they're kind of like representing like birds out in nature, you know, kind of in the sky.
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If you squint, right, they could just be birds.
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So really, really dig this.
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And the plants look super happy.
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The fish are really active and out and about.
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a lot of people, I would say especially beginners, maybe not as familiar with this side of aquascaping.
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They're skeptical of uagumi.
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They're like, hey, how are the fish going to be okay without coverage?
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These are shy schooling fish.
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You can see they're out and about.
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They're doing great.
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So that just goes to show you when you have a balanced aquarium with balanced biology that's well-planted, the fish, no matter how shy they are,
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they're going to be out and about doing their thing.
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And this tank I think it's a great example of that.
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Hakai stone, of course, one of the coolest stones.
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Hakai is often referred to as bug-eaten stone because of these big holes.
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And this beautiful gray just really stands out nicely against the plants.
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Right next to our Iwagumi is another beautiful 60P
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so this is one of the more mature tanks in the space this one's been around for over a year
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and you can see it's still looking really beautiful
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you've got amazing ruby tetras in here
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which are such a bright red saturated fish they're the type of fish
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that i see online and i'm like oh my god i gotta get those where have you been all my life
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So I think this is a sign for me to pick some up soon.
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And you have some gorgeous, gorgeous stone with amazing character.
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This is some suey stone, another ADA staple, and a variety of great plants kind of framing the scene.
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Some super healthy Rotala in the back, and then some Trident Fern.
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Cool thing about Trident Fern is it's a great beginner plant.
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It's a reophytic plant, so it grows attached to wood and stone, and it's pretty low-demanding.
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This tank obviously has got a full ADA CO2 system.
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You can see the purling on the plants, but you know if you're watching this at home
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and you want lower tech plants Java fern is is a fantastic choice ton of boost of phalandra as well You know, this is the type escape you see
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that I call these like old trusty scapes Like this is the type escape
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that is beautiful high impact
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But it's the type of escape you want to see every day at home
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because there's just a lot going on You know imagine sipping your coffee
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or your tea just checking out the fish checking out the different spots I really like these types of scapes.
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So this is beautiful, especially contrasting the Iwagumi like that.
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And here's the third 60p on this same wall and this features the gorgeous Dracula stone.
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This comes all the way from Poland from the hardscape master himself, Adam Paschkela.
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If you're not familiar with his work, check him out.
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He has access to so many incredible original hardscape types and is just a layout master.
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And this is sort of a very hardscape forward scape.
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It was described to me as kind of like a child finger painting.
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So very free form, but there's a very strong, high angle hardscape.
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And then the plants are almost a little bit chaotic.
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So that's kind of a cool style sometimes is to just have a really, you know, maybe organized hardscape layout, but then just kind of go a little bit crazy with the plants.
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Like there's no rhyme or reason all the time in aquascaping and there's lots of rules you can study,
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and there's lots of techniques and design principles that you can study and master.
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But sometimes it's just fun to throw things in there, and this is a good example of the tank that it just works, despite maybe breaking some rules.
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So these are the gorgeous Kupatai resbora.
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They're one of the tiniest schooling fish, kind of in the hobby.
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I'm a huge fan of nano fish, so I'm always trying to learn about new and different species that work.
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And I would say the kubitai are somewhat similar to ember tetras in their shape and size, but they're like a bright neon green.
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And you can see they stand out really nicely from these plants and really intricate foreground going on, some nice sand, some gravel accents,
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and some beautiful plant growth.
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So these 60Ps are pretty dope and this is one I wouldn't mind having in my space.
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Over here in the corner next to our wall of 60p's we have a brand new project
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that is a work in progress.
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You can see we've got a great hardscape and this is called Gato Stone and then this is ADA Hornwood.
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All imports from Japan.
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These were provided by Aqua Forest Aquarium up in Northern California on the stunning garden stand.
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So this project is eventually going to have some immersed growth
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and it's meant to be an homage to Takashi Amano's youth kind of growing up playing in rice patties
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so it'll sort of visually you know pay homage to that
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and have plants that are coming out of the water
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and the tank itself is the ADA-60F which is a newer footprint
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and it's of course 60 centimeters across and it's a little bit more shallow.
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So this is a cool project if you want to set up a paludarium.
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You can even probably do something that is fully terrestrial in here if you kept it humid.
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But yeah, a lot of promise here so far.
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Great hardscape.
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Can't wait to see this planted.
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Over here we've got a beautiful ADA 45P on the clear cabinet.
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A personal favorite of mine.
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Love how minimalistic they are.
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And we've got the Sensei Stone, another amazing stone from Poland, from Adam Paschkela.
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And this is a really promising Iwagumi as well.
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Can't wait to see this planted.
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It's going to feature a Monte Carlo carpet.
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And you know, you get a lot of tension between these stones, different directions.
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So they all kind of come together to harmonize and produce one nice composition.
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But it's a good example of how adding a little bit of tension
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and contrast in your scape is a great thing to do.
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Over here we've got a 30C featuring a really, really prominent piece of Frodo stone with a massive calcium vein down the back.
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Really really high impact.
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There are details in the foreground but obviously your eye is drawn to this one single or heavy piece of stone.
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I want to address a common question that I see a lot for folks
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that are maybe not used to working with big calcium rich stones.
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A lot of folks wonder, hey, you know, how do you deal with GH and KH with the stone that's affecting your water parameters so much?
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When you're keeping a high-tech system like this with regular water changes, it really ends up being a non-factor because you're constantly re-diluting the water.
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So you can see this system is pretty healthy.
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It is newer.
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It's only been set up for a couple weeks, but everything is healthy.
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You know, as long as you keep up with your maintenance and your water changes, it's not a problem.
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Of course, if you're the type of person who wants to set up a scape and not really mess with water changes, probably not recommended to work with a stone of this type.
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But if you're getting in there, getting your sleeves wet, doing the maintenance, not a prop at all.
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Really a big fan of this, though.
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I love Glosso.
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It's got Glosso.
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It's got hairgrass and tiny crips in the back, some beautiful booths in the midground.
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This is one that showcases hardscape in a really, really interesting way and kind of has that fantasy vibe to it with the plants growing all around it.
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I really dig this.
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Then over here, another beautiful nanoscape.
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This is the ADA Mini M featuring a very, very beautiful carpeting plant, Liliopsis brisiliensis, also known as Japanese cobra grass.
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In the back, we've got a red Rotala.
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This particular Rotala, you know, you probably need a slightly higher par light to bring out the true reds, but you can see it's still beautiful.
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and we've got a type of Rhino stone in here, another stone from Adam Paschala in Poland, and we've got some gorgeous little Risboros in the back.
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If you're newer to Iwagumi, I think this is the type of scape that would not be too hard to replicate and is still high impact.
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Love these clear ADA stands.
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They just really draw your attention to the scape itself.
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And yeah, this is a cool way to conclude this wall with a nice little nano tank.
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So if you just wanted to have one tiny aquascape that wasn't taking out much of your week.
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I would say that Mini M is a great footprint for that.
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So there you have it guys that's the whole tour.
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If you want to check out some of the other scapes of the Aquaden he is theaquaden on Instagram
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and if you're interested in any of these products they're all for sale in the United States on aquaforestaquarium.com.
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Thanks so much for joining us for the tour.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau B1 is gebaseerd op de video “Nature Aquarium Gallery Tour”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: plant, stone, beautiful, type, scape. Deze video bevat 206 zinnen en 2825 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 15:16. De spreker praat snel, ongeveer 185 woorden per minuut, dus reken op verbonden en ingeslikte klanken. 82% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| aquarium zelfstandig naamwoord | /əˈkwɛɹ.i.jəm/ | aquarium |
| fern zelfstandig naamwoord | /fɜːn/ | varen |
| carpet zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈkɑɹ.pət/ | tapijt, vloerkleed |
| terrestrial bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /tɪˈɹɛstɹɪ.əl/ | aards |
| neon zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈniˌɑn/ | neon |
| dope zelfstandig naamwoord | [doʊp] | grondlaag, was |
| shelf zelfstandig naamwoord | /ʃɛlf/ | schap, rek |
| alga zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈæl.ɡə/ | alg |
| foreground zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈfɔː(ɹ)ˌɡɹaʊnd/ | voorgrond |
| nanotechnology zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˌnænoʊtɛkˈnɑləd͡ʒi/ | nanotechnologie |
| stun werkwoord | /stʌn/ | verdoven |
| footprint zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈfʊtpɹɪnt/ | voetafdruk |
| beginner zelfstandig naamwoord | /bəˈɡɪnɚ/ | beginneling, beginnelinge |
| homage zelfstandig naamwoord | /(h)oʊˈmɑʒ/ | eerbetoon, hommage |
| calcium zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈkælsi.əm/ | calcium |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| check out werkwoord | onderzoeken | |
| set up werkwoord | /ˌsɛt ˈʌp/ | bereiden, voorbereiden |
| end up werkwoord | belanden, terechtkomen | |
| go away werkwoord | weggaan | |
| grow up werkwoord | opgroeien | |
| take over werkwoord | overnemen |
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | is located · were collected · will be called |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | you've never been · I've ever seen · We've already had |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 57 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals they're, we've, you're. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De “th”-klanken: width /ˈwɪtθ/, booth /buθ/
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: shelf /ʃɛlf/, homage /(h)oʊˈmɑʒ/, showcase /ˈʃoʊˌkeɪs/, tension /ˈtɛnʃən/, agitation /ædʒ.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: aquarium /əˈkwɛɹ.i.jəm/, terrarium /təˈɹɛɹ.i.əm/, terrestrial /tɪˈɹɛstɹɪ.əl/, nanotechnology /ˌnænoʊtɛkˈnɑləd͡ʒi/, agitation /ædʒ.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: foreground /ˈfɔː(ɹ)ˌɡɹaʊnd/, homage /(h)oʊˈmɑʒ/, vibe /vaɪb/, harmonize /ˈhɑɹ.mə.naɪz/, pressurize /ˈpɹɛʃəɹaɪz/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: alga /ˈæl.ɡə/, nanotechnology /ˌnænoʊtɛkˈnɑləd͡ʒi/, calcium /ˈkælsi.əm/, agitation /ædʒ.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/, immaculate /ɪˈmæk.jʊ.lət/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: alga /ˈæl.ɡə/, foreground /ˈfɔː(ɹ)ˌɡɹaʊnd/, beginner /bəˈɡɪnɚ/, gravel /ˈɡɹævəl/, gateway /ˈɡeɪtˌweɪ/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als aquarium, fern, carpet.
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