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| This is me buying a Tokyo Harley Davidson T-shirt for the friend that is feeding my fish while I'm in Japan. |
This is the area where the Iwagumi Challenge was held. Rocks were in the middle. |
Ricky hard at work. |
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| These are the Iwagumi Challenge contestants. |
This is Yo. Actually his name was really long, so we were told to call him Yo. Nice guy. Won 24th place in this year's ADA contest. |
This was the already set up tank that was brought and later photographed. |
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| Oliver Knott sporting his 10th place award. |
AGA materials at the Nature Aquarium Party. |
View from the right side of the aquarium. Notice the use of the Amazonia Soil which the plants are groing in and the white sand in front which is decoration. |
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| This year's ADA International Layout Competition Winner. He is from Korea. |
Ben, Sugai, and Ricky. Sugai was 6th place in last years ADA contest and first plac in this years Iwagumi Challenge. |
Sugai was a really nice guy, so we gave him a DFWAPC Club t-shirt. |
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| This is Ben with Mr. Amano's youngest daughter. She helps her dad out as a part time job. |
Mayny of you have probably seen the aquascape in the picture. Below was a sale for the rocks from the aquascape. They were going for about $50 each. |
Ben and the Emmel family from Germany. They make the aquariums for ADA. Very nice people. |
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| This is Ricky and Ben with Eishi. He helped us a lot this weekend with translation, finding train stations, and finding food. It was great meeting him from the AGA mailing list. |
Lucca is from Milan, Italy. Many of you may have heard of the magazine Aqua Planta. He writes it. He's a fun person to be around. He came to the 2004 AGA. |
This is Mr. Amano taking pictures of the aquarium. It was very interesting to see the process. |
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| Note the hair dryer beside the light. It puts the ripples on the water in the pictures. |
The Iwagumi Challenge first place tank. |
The Iwagumi Challenge second place tank. Good job Ricky. G |
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| The Iwagumi Challenge third place tank. I actually thought this one would win. |
Oliver Knott being crazy as usual. He had had a few beers at this point. |