Looking for Info on Rocks and Plants in this Picture...

[Cockatoofreak]

Anyone have any ideas?

 

[Cockatoofreak]

For plants, I think I see suswasserstang, hair grass, maybe some hydrophilia and weeping moss. As for the arch, maybe it just weathered wood or some AI generated creation. Any other ideas?

 

[MacZ]

I can tell you the picture is at least 4 years old, meaning from before AI was widely available. (Would have to use the google backward search to be more precise.) I won't say it's not photoshopped, that is definitely possible.

I agree there's christmas moss and weeping moss, also Rotala and Myriophyllum. I can't see any Süßwassertang, though. Can you mark where you see it?

 

[Cockatoofreak]

Thanks, let me see if I can mark it...

 

[Cockatoofreak]

I like the concept and have ordered the background...for $10, why not!

I am planning on using this as a background for my 75G Dwarf Cichlid set up. It already has some amazon sword varieties, jungle val, hardy bunches of suswassertang, co2 injection and controsoil substrate. I want to add weeping moss on more branches and pool filter sand to keep my school of juvenile l. curviceps happy.

 

[MacZ]

Thanks, let me see if I can mark it...
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Ah, I see. Nah, that's a trimmed moss.

 

[Cockatoofreak]

Ah, I see. Nah, that's a trimmed moss.

Thanks again!

 

[Mike Wise]

"Rocks" are probably plastic imitations. The arch looks too delicate to support the its weight if it was normal rock.

 

[MacZ]

"Rocks" are probably plastic imitations. The arch looks too delicate to support the its weight if it was normal rock.

Yeah well... Scapers use waterproof superglue for this. Friend of mine is into that, so basically just some small stones glued together I presume. Probably with something light and durable on the inside, maybe some bent pvc pipe or sth.

 

[MacZ]

I can tell you the picture is at least 4 years old, meaning from before AI was widely available. (Would have to use the google backward search to be more precise.) I won't say it's not photoshopped, that is definitely possible.

Done some digging. It's an aquarium background print, first offered 2021 and definitely photoshopped. So it is possible there are plants in it that have been upsized or downsized, making actual ID hard to impossible.

 

[Cockatoofreak]

Done some digging. It's an aquarium background print, first offered 2021 and definitely photoshopped. So it is possible there are plants in it that have been upsized or downsized, making actual ID hard to impossible.

WTG, Sherlock...great researching. For $10 it just may beat a plain black or blue background. I do know that a legitimate and possibly copyrighted, 48" long, photo would cost a lot more.

Will see if this audience of one (me) is happy with this one!

 

[anewbie]

Yeah well... Scapers use waterproof superglue for this. Friend of mine is into that, so basically just some small stones glued together I presume. Probably with something light and durable on the inside, maybe some bent pvc pipe or sth.

Well - don't know about superglue but i wouldn't use pvc in a blackwater aquarium due to leaching; after all water companies were told to stop using pvc in city pipes due to cancer concerns.

 

[MacZ]

More of a Watson, to be fair. Hehe

 

[Cockatoofreak]

Well - don't know about superglue but i wouldn't use pvc in a blackwater aquarium due to leaching; after all water companies were told to stop using pvc in city pipes due to cancer concerns.

Wow, I haven't heard this (yet) in California but, it makes me think the main cause of cancer is maybe just life itself ...

 

[anewbie]

Wow, I haven't heard this (yet) in California but, it makes me think the main cause of cancer is maybe just life itself ...

Definitely living increases your chances of getting cancer.

 

[Cockatoofreak]

Definitely living increases your chances of getting cancer.

The strange this is, California is known for insisting warning labels be placed on everything deemed to cause cancer. I have yet to see any such warnings on PVC pipe.

 

[MacZ]

Well - don't know about superglue but i wouldn't use pvc in a blackwater aquarium due to leaching; after all water companies were told to stop using pvc in city pipes due to cancer concerns.

I mentioned pvc pipes as an example, not as a suggestion. I don't do stuff like that myself and while the materials my friend uses look like this to me, I never bothered to ask.
Concerning the glue: There are plenty of scaping glues available that are absolutely safe for fish and invertebrate health.