In The Meantime - Storm

                                          Time is priceless...

IAPLC 2013

ADA  IAPLC 2013- Results are out!  

 "After The Snow"  rank 96.

After The Snow

70x40x40cm
112L

  The most interesting part of this project was  Playing with reflections 

New project 112l Iwagumi

 This scape is getting ready, so I would like to say something more about this experiment.

Why experiment???

Firstly, the substrate for this setup was very lite. It is based on JBL Aquabasis plus with small amount of Zeolite and Active Coal ...all covered with JBL Manado. To be more interesting, 100 l of watter surface is enlightened by 200W(150W MH 8000K + 2x25W 6500 K) at 35cm above sea level :) Photoperiod on the start was 1h (50W) + 3h (200W) + 1h (50W), and 2h + 4h + 1h after two months. Circulation is 12 times of the tank volume, and I did not tried to save some CO2 bubble for the next tank (safety for the animals first!).

Small starting plant biomass in this conditions resulted in fast Rhysoclonium growth (for the first time in my tank!). It is VERY boring and ugly species of algae!!! I was very close to listen to the Farmer and test his theory about "complete darkness", but the reading a bit more, i choose to increase the levels of NO3 and PO4. In ten days, the boring problem was gone. Of course, I increased the levels of microelements. My choice for fertilizers this time went to EasyLife palette.

I tried new EasyLife AlgExit (Against Green Algae) to fight Rhysoclonium, but the boring inhabitant remains. On the other hands, the rocks in my tank become white although the light was very strong. At the end, I think that this is a good product for all the Iwagumi lovers.

I expect to see final photos in about twenty days, and in the mean time you can enjoy this one. 

Wind's Course

This time I am showing you a work that came as togethers effort of my friend Aleksandar Stojanovic and myself. For this scape we put great number of different plants in only 112l tank... The aquascape is being built for 2011 AGA Aquascaping Contest.  I hope you like it!

New! Serbian Butterfly Field Guide

I am proud to present you my brother´s book about Serbian butterflies.

The complete book was written in simple, non-scientific language. 27 photographers contributed with their photos, and many beginners gave their useful suggestions after testing electronic version of the book.
It should be emphasized that Rufford Foundation helped us by financing field surveys. They presented superb opportunity to gather many great photos for the fieldguide. Embassy of the Netherlands (MATRA-KNIP programme) and the city of Belgrade (Secretariat for nature protection) financed book printing and promotion.

You can order the book here, or download electronic version here.

Enjoy!

Serbian Aquascaping Contest 2011

Serbian Aquascaping Contest is national competition that aims to promote Aquascaping in our country. You can find more about this competition here.

West of The Mississippi

3l nano 

In The Meantime

IAPLC 2010 contest - results

 Pavel Bautin's setup won the first place in 2010 IAPLC. You can find results from this competition here.

ASE 2010 Results

WU WEI

17. place of 75 layouts (Category: Standard)

Aqua Journal vol. #174

Dear Mr. Nenad Djordjevic,

Thank you very much for your continued support to Aqua Design Amano, Co.,Ltd.!
We really appreciate your time for taking an interiew for our monthly magazine, Aqua Journal... 
The article featuring your interview is now released in the latest issue, vol.#174.

Sincerely yours,
PR Department
Aqua Design Amano, Co.,Ltd.

Um plantado inspirado nas montanhas dos Balcãs!

I am very happy that my work is shown on Aqualize.com.br. Many thanks to the Brasilian aquascapers. You can read more about this here.

Granny’s Tooth

Babin zub on Stara planina Mt.

Babin zub in small

Hydrocotyle ang Cuba

Grenny’s Tooth (Babin zub in Serbian) is a part of Stara planina, or Balcan mountain, situated in Eastern part of Serbia, and spreading across Bulgaria all the way to the Red sea. Its pristine nature, and geology ware the main argument for protecting this part of mountain by Serbian ministery. On the other hand, this uniqueness is the main argument for developing ski turism, which already couse some species to dissapear from Babin zub. Many people has passed through this region, exploating natural resources over the centuries, but withough major impact on living creatures. It is sad that our inspipration for this aquascape can be changed once and forever.

AAC 2010 Results

Puesto 33

Wu Wei

Deep blue

Wu’s place in my room

Replica "Thank you Harada!"

Too much free time... 2l.

Gonopteryx rhamni

Leaf shaped wings and yellow-green color makes this butterfly a camouflage master. This ability helps him hide during hibernation period, as butterfly leaves for thirteen months, and survives winter period. Hibernation helps him during difficult summer period too.

The fact that Gonopteryx is one of longest living butterfly explains his appearance in early summer and late autumn. I even heard that he can survive for two or three years, but that is probably just a rumor.

While males are yellow, their female partner is brighter and greener.

Even though it is 14th November, I saw this butterfly today flying together with Colias alfacaiensis, Colias croceus and Polygonia c-album. It looks like they did not care about upcoming winter :)

IAPLC 2009 "Conquered Tsukiyama" rank 84.

Certificate from ADA with Mr. Amano signature...

The International Aquatic Plants Layout Contest 2009 - AR Gallery

Lampides boeticus

While other people actually enjoy swimming the sea and burning them self on the beaches, I prefer to dive or take a walk. It is nt hard to see that in Montenegro, every living creature is different than those found in Serbia. Even plants are trying to "bite" you with spins all over their leafs and stem. :) After all, it is a very nice place for a biologist.

During my summer time, I had a chance to meet many new butterfly species. Lampides boeticus was one of them, and I spent hours truing to photograph it. In Serbia, you will probably have more chance to see its relative, Leptotes pirithous (image bellow), but both of them are one of the most beautiful members od European Lycaenidae butterfly family. I hope you will enjoy this pictures...