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Princípios Base e Técnicas de Aquascaping
Notas feitas a partir do AGA 2004 e da ADA. As notas estão separadas por princípios e técnicas mais usadas.
PRINCÍPIOS
1. Plante todos os grupos em número ímpar.
2. Coloque as plantas de folhas finas no meio ou no centro, atrás do aquário, colocando as plantas com folhas grossas mais pesadas visualmente dos lados.
3. Não use o vermelho no meio, transmite um sentimento pesado e escuro.
4. As folhas escuras (vermelhas ou verde escuro) ficam melhor visualmente nos cantos inferiores, com as folhas coloridas iluminadas no centro.
5. Use plantas, troncos e rochas para dar um bom contraste entre as áreas escuras e claras.
6. Uma boa e iluminada areia dá um bom contraste às plantas.
7. Quando utiliza rochas use diferentes tamanhos, misturando rochas grandes e pequenas como na Natureza.
8. Deixe que as plantas cubram total ou parcialmente as rochas.
9. Aquascapes com uma zona frontal com areia sem plantas é uma boa alternativa ao tradicional estilo de "Aquário Natural", coberto na totalidade de plantas.
10. Um layout alternativo e atraente, pode utilizar uma inclinação alta de perto do meio até os dois cantos traseiros.
1. Plante todos os grupos em número ímpar.
2. Coloque as plantas de folhas finas no meio ou no centro, atrás do aquário, colocando as plantas com folhas grossas mais pesadas visualmente dos lados.
3. Não use o vermelho no meio, transmite um sentimento pesado e escuro.
4. As folhas escuras (vermelhas ou verde escuro) ficam melhor visualmente nos cantos inferiores, com as folhas coloridas iluminadas no centro.
5. Use plantas, troncos e rochas para dar um bom contraste entre as áreas escuras e claras.
6. Uma boa e iluminada areia dá um bom contraste às plantas.
7. Quando utiliza rochas use diferentes tamanhos, misturando rochas grandes e pequenas como na Natureza.
8. Deixe que as plantas cubram total ou parcialmente as rochas.
9. Aquascapes com uma zona frontal com areia sem plantas é uma boa alternativa ao tradicional estilo de "Aquário Natural", coberto na totalidade de plantas.
10. Um layout alternativo e atraente, pode utilizar uma inclinação alta de perto do meio até os dois cantos traseiros.
TÉCNICAS
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1. Use cotton thread to attach Java moss to wood, or lava (pumice?) rocks.
2. Moss on rocks is great for edge work, blending an open sandy area into a planted area.
3. Use driftwood with moss, or large moss rocks, as something for background to grow over and cast shadows for good dark/light contrast areas.
4. Wrap Anubias onto moss covered rocks using a plastic ties, and trim off almost all roots, for “rocked Anubias”.
5. A rocked Anubias can be set right on sand, or moved around as desired. But initially face it slightly forward to hide roots. Later it will grow upward toward the light.
6. Plan on putting crypts only in places with deep substrate.
7. Use stem plants in even lengths with graduated height sets, descending from high to low, as the sets move toward the front or middle of the tank.
8. Plant stems 2 or 3 at a time, in the same hole.
9. A new tank should not be trimmed for 3 months.
10. On first trimming, let stem plants grow to the top, and then trim to halfway point.
11. Anubias and moss make great foreground plants as they take no trimming.
12. Putting tubing (and or wires) that come into, or out of, the tank on the side makes it less visible to straight on viewing due to a “mirror” effect from side reflection.
13. Creating a substrate with separate sand vs. soil areas can be accommodated by placing cardboard in the tanks where you want the boundaries between the two, and slowly filling in both sides until full. After adjusting any slope you might want in the sand or soil, and making sure that both sides are at the same height where they touch either side of the cardboard, the cardboard can be gently removed.
14. Sloping substrate from front to back works better if something like drift wood is placed in the middle of the slope to keep substrate moving forward. Moss rocks also make a nice barrier serving the same purpose.
15. If a substrate of separated soil and sand is used, driftwood and/or rocks can placed on the line between the two to cover or hide the separation point.
16. Light shining up from the back bottom looks great! And will light any ripples on the surface from an angle beneath, highlighting them.
17. For a really simple landscapes, use mossed pebbles around big central rocks.
18. A fully mossed group of interwoven driftwood branches looks wonderful when it fills in. It will look almost solid, and if done correctly can give a sloping look from lower front to upper back, possibly also sloping low and toward the middle, and up toward back corners.
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1. Use cotton thread to attach Java moss to wood, or lava (pumice?) rocks.
2. Moss on rocks is great for edge work, blending an open sandy area into a planted area.
3. Use driftwood with moss, or large moss rocks, as something for background to grow over and cast shadows for good dark/light contrast areas.
4. Wrap Anubias onto moss covered rocks using a plastic ties, and trim off almost all roots, for “rocked Anubias”.
5. A rocked Anubias can be set right on sand, or moved around as desired. But initially face it slightly forward to hide roots. Later it will grow upward toward the light.
6. Plan on putting crypts only in places with deep substrate.
7. Use stem plants in even lengths with graduated height sets, descending from high to low, as the sets move toward the front or middle of the tank.
8. Plant stems 2 or 3 at a time, in the same hole.
9. A new tank should not be trimmed for 3 months.
10. On first trimming, let stem plants grow to the top, and then trim to halfway point.
11. Anubias and moss make great foreground plants as they take no trimming.
12. Putting tubing (and or wires) that come into, or out of, the tank on the side makes it less visible to straight on viewing due to a “mirror” effect from side reflection.
13. Creating a substrate with separate sand vs. soil areas can be accommodated by placing cardboard in the tanks where you want the boundaries between the two, and slowly filling in both sides until full. After adjusting any slope you might want in the sand or soil, and making sure that both sides are at the same height where they touch either side of the cardboard, the cardboard can be gently removed.
14. Sloping substrate from front to back works better if something like drift wood is placed in the middle of the slope to keep substrate moving forward. Moss rocks also make a nice barrier serving the same purpose.
15. If a substrate of separated soil and sand is used, driftwood and/or rocks can placed on the line between the two to cover or hide the separation point.
16. Light shining up from the back bottom looks great! And will light any ripples on the surface from an angle beneath, highlighting them.
17. For a really simple landscapes, use mossed pebbles around big central rocks.
18. A fully mossed group of interwoven driftwood branches looks wonderful when it fills in. It will look almost solid, and if done correctly can give a sloping look from lower front to upper back, possibly also sloping low and toward the middle, and up toward back corners.
(baseado no artigo de Steve ( Scolley)
