Loach project.

capeldrae · Post by **capeldrae** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 10:59 am

Dutch,
Very nice indeed sir.

Doc · Post by **Doc** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 11:51 am

Looking superb

Graeme Robson · Post by **Graeme Robson** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 1:36 pm

Very very nice!

Dutch · Post by **Dutch** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 3:03 pm

Thanks all!

I'm still not getting the best pictures (although I'm having fun trying out different lighting conditions), but here's two more.
Front view...

Side view...

Dutch · Post by **Dutch** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 4:21 pm

I've been practicing with taking pictures and moving the wood around a little. Slightly bigger picture this time.

brett_fishman · Post by **brett_fishman** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 5:48 pm

lookin good, Dutch!

try taking a picture without a flash, if you dont have a tripod, position the camera on a couch or table to minimize blurriness

Dutch · Post by **Dutch** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 9:56 am

Thanks!
I'm using the flash because I haven't got the lights in the tank yet, so if I take a picture without flash it will turn out very dark. But I hope to put the sand in this weekend and if I can find some nice rocks I will (hopefully) be able to fill the tank for the first time. Then the lights will be in too and that might make things easier as far as pictures are concerned.

brett_fishman · Post by **brett_fishman** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 2:07 pm

ahh, ok.. you'll need lights for that to work

Dutch wrote:

what is on the filter side glass? it looks nice

andre · Post by **andre** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 2:58 pm

Meneer, dit is 'n lekker akwarium!

Dutch · Post by **Dutch** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 4:21 pm

Thanks Andre! You almost got the dutch perfect, but aquarium is 'aquarium' in dutch as well. We just pronounce the 'q' as 'kw'.

I have the sand in now. I don't know what's normal, but it's about two inches of sand and looks okay. A little bit too much like a beach, but I'll go hunting for nice stones and such this weekend.
Two of the lights are up too and I can manage to make pictures without a flash....

I think it needs water though.

On the filter side glass is something called a "pp" background normally used on the back glass. Don't know what the "pp" stands for, it was cheap and did the job of hiding the filter.

andre · Post by **andre** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 4:37 pm

Dutch wrote:Thanks Andre! You almost got the dutch perfect, but aquarium is 'aquarium' in dutch as well. We just pronounce the 'q' as 'kw'.

It may well be "aquarium" in Dutch but in Afrikaans is "akwarium". Yeah maybe we are 400 years behind

Dutch · Post by **Dutch** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:15 pm

Is Afrikaans that close to Dutch?

andre · Post by **andre** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 6:41 pm

Dutch wrote:Is Afrikaans that close to Dutch?

Afrikaans is Dutch! Archaic Dutch slightly mixed with German, French, Indonesian and polluted by English.

The Dutch ij became y and Z's became S's and CHT's became G's but otherwise you would easily communicate in SA.

Tot siens

Tinman · Post by **Tinman** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 6:59 pm

if I can find some nice rocks

Why, you don't need rocks.I have finally removed all of mine . It looks great with wood and sand. Very nice tank.

Dutch · Post by **Dutch** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 3:10 am

Interesting Andre. I always thought it was similar, but never really knew how much.

Tinman, I want to try and create a tank that looks a little like the natural habitat. At first I wanted to try and create a mangrove like tank using a different type of wood, but the natural habitat seemed a wiser choice.

These are some of the pictures I use as a reference...

The habitat of kubotai....

Source: Siamensis.org

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