This is a video we made while visiting the inimitable Aqua Forest Aquarium in San Francisco, CA. If you have never been to AFA, it is arguably the nicest overall store dedicated to just freshwater aquatic plants with several very nice display tanks and the newest and most highly sought after plants and shrimp in the aquarium hobby. The video above shows a roughly 200 gallon aquarium which is laid out in one of the hardest to master compositions, the Iwagumi layout. At over six feet long, this is the largest iwagumi plantscape we have ever seen and this tank which is visible outside the window is truly stunning from both sides of the tank. The aquarium and all the equipment follows the ADA recipe to the letter, using all ADA products, filters, diffusers and lily pipes and we imagine that it was quite a lot of work to keep all the glosso and hairgrass perfectly prim. Alas, it is no longer possible to visit this composition in it’s iwagumi form. The last time we visited about a month ago the tank was dry, with substrate and wood in position but no water or flow. We did not get a chance to ask what would be the next iteration of this fabulous tank but seeing how inspiring the AFA shop is overall, we have no hesitation in prediciting that it will be another masterpiece of aquaplantsmanship when it gets going again.