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We love pets, but cats and dogs are a no-go in our apartment building. A fish tank would be our next choice, but we're not too keen on the plastic treasure chests and fake rubbery plants we recall from our youth. Walking up Fillmore the other day, however, we were floored by the display in the window of Aqua Forest Aquarium...
Gorgeous!
view Nougat's profile
I would not feel the least bit sorry for a fish couped up in one of those tanks!
view Michael W.'s profile
Wow. I never knew I wanted an aquarium until today.
view alisonwonderlandd's profile
gorgeous, but how do you clean the gravel???
view tomahto's profile
AquaForest is the best place ever!
And if you do get into it, check out the San Francisco Bay Area Aquatic Plant Society http://sfbaaps.org/home.html
view JG's profile
Amazing!!
view Eric D M 's profile
Wow that little tree with the fish is so surreal. I really really want that.
view Kate (NC)'s profile
So very gorgeous! But, man, I'd bet I'd kill it within a year.
Me Plant Time = Dead Plant(s)
view ami's profile
So beautiful! Reminds me of museum dioramas.
view spaceagemouse's profile
wow.
view trygve's profile
Stunning.
view Garrett's profile
I really like that... I was not a fan of fish tanks until now...even without the fish!
view speedmike's profile
Pretty cool looking- but fish ALWAYS remind me of being a kid, and having to constantly clean the STINKY fish bowl.
view TracyJ's profile
Fantastic solution to the boring old school tanks!
view KellyBrooke's profile
Stunning, but oh my god would they be awful to keep clean.
view dancingspring's profile
Underwater forests like this require very high powered lights and diligent pruning. Also, you have to be careful about picking your fish - only the meekest will do, since the plant arrangements are so easy to disturb. This is a very zen enterprise about shifting things around just so :)
view verasue's profile
Just for everyone's knowledge, those tanks ARE NOT tanks from Aqua Forest, they have beautiful tanks, but those pictures are from the aquatic gardener's competition of 2007.
Stealing pictures and not putting the proper rights for them is bad journalism/blogging....
http://showcase.aquatic-gardeners.org/2007.cgi?&op=showcase&category=0&vol=0&id=20
for the lower picture
http://showcase.aquatic-gardeners.org/2007.cgi?&op=showcase&category=0&vol=1&id=190
for the top picture.
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