Artificiall Or Real ?

[jackson 10]

what do you guys prefer a tank with some castles and ship rekes in your tank or do you prefer real plants and bogwood and stones etc

i have booth in my tank i have a castle and real plants in there aswell as bogwood to ..

what do you prefer ?

 

[JenCliBee]

what do you guys prefer a tank with some castles and ship rekes in your tank or do you prefer real plants and bogwood and stones etc

i have booth in my tank i have a castle and real plants in there ..

what do you prefer ?

think it will always be a personal choice for me it would be completely natural ...ie bogwood real plants gravel etc not really a fan of ornament persae

 

[Truck]

go the natural route, false things and resin are so tacky, IMO

 

[minxfishy]

Its personal preference, Ive seen some tanks with the wrecks, planted up lovely and they look great, I prefer bogwood/rocks myself, having said that I have a tank that is completely fake in all respects and its quite eyecatching

 

[Jazzzz]

Have had both and would always go natural now with rock wood real plants and sand or gravel of a natural colour

 

[8inary]

there was a topic not long ago about real/fake plants.

however - not all things fake are tacky - i would like to think even though my tank has fake coral and fake plants, it still looks pretty good imo.

so i dont think one can just say resin/fake things are tacky. That i believe is an unfair statement, its how they are made, what they look like etc - you can get stuff that looks very natural, such as the coral i have in my tank, which costs about the same as real rock.

 

[Truck]

thats my opinion, yours differs from mine and i have no problem with that.

 

[andywg]

I love this talk of "natural" tanks. So I assume for Amazon species you all add tanins so you can only see one inch into the tank and have rotting vegetation as a substrate?

 

[prankster705]

bogwood, rocks and plants ftw. andy - my tank has brownish water, but I can see into it quite well, does adding catappa leaves and not using carbon count in a small kinda way?

 

[kj23502]

I went through the decoration stage and have now entered a moral natural stage. I now prefer my tanks to look/be as natural as I can get it.

 

[Inchworm]

Everything in my tanks is natural, but I have to admit that I've seen some very interesting castles in the lfs. If they were a little less expensive I would have probably bought one by now.

 

[rdd1952]

I prefer "real", not necessarily natural. I don't know that we can really set up a true natural tank. As mentioned though, it's all personal preference. In some cases, fake plants are almost a must. If you want to keep certain species of fish, having live plants will be almost impossible unless you can replace them everytime the fish eat them up.

 

[8inary]

i dont think this looks tacky??

<a href="http/uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DLGa8d9L1SY&...re=channel_page" target="_blank">http/uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DLGa8d9L1SY&...re=channel_page</a>

i know there are things out there that are tacky, i admit that lol, however for you to class everything that is artificial as being tacky, shows a little ignorance

 

[LellowFish]

I like the look of artificial tanks if they are done properly. If they are planted nicely with a well made wreck or something but if not then they can just look tacky. Also, I like the look of natural tanks if there are a lot of plants. My two cents added!

 

[hellohefalump]

While I agree that a 'fake' tank doesn't have to look tacky, IMO there's nothing nicer than a natural looking planted tank (I'm thinking like Amano's tanks).

However, there's a time and a place. When my daughter gets older and wants a mermaid tank with pink rocks, dayglo gravel, spongebob ornaments, LEDs and bubbles everywhere, who am I to argue if it means she shows an interest in fish?

Also sometimes you HAVE to have fake stuff, like when you're keeping fish that are destructive and eat plants.