Need Suggestions for Placing Decor

[Legacy]

Theme is Mangrove Swamp in 36x15x16. Substrate is Play Sand. Driftwood is XL Malaysian Driftwood to simulate mangrove stump. Here's a pic of what I have so far:

Any suggestions on what I should place in here next? Maybe some silk hairgrass? More driftwood? Possibly rock? there will only be about 10" of water so a lot of that stump will be out of the water. I'm not even sure if rock will fit in with this sort of setup. It just looks so boring.

I thought some of you might have some good ideas since I'm drawing a blank at the moment.

 

[Sati]

I'd suggest looking through the AGA site entries for inspiration

 

[Legacy]

Oh damn, didn't know about that place...excellent!

So far I'm thinking I'll need to buy a bunch of silk hairgrass and maybe some silk caulerpa prolifera for a little bit of color. Another large piece of driftwood, and maybe a few small pieces of rock.

 

[tecwzrd]

aquariumbeauty.com has some nice looking Driftwod Gardens
http://www.aquariumbeauty.com/display_catalog.jsp?Category_ID=DRIFTGARDENS&Page_ID=1

 

[Legacy]

Since this thread bumped back up to the top, here's where I'm at...

2 more small pieces of Malaysian Driftwood that I linked together. My synthetic SeaGarden Hairgrass shows up tomorrow...looks pretty realistic. I have 1-15" that will stick out above the water about 6", 2- 10" pieces, and 1-8" that I'll place around so the fish can hide, maybe put some baby crickets on for feeding time. Maybe I'll post some pics when I put the plants and water in tomorrow night.

 

[Zagz]

What kind of fish are you planning on keeping? For example if keeping any cichlids you might want to add rocks.

 

[Legacy]

What kind of fish are you planning on keeping? For example if keeping any cichlids you might want to add rocks.

Stocking it this comming weekend with a shoal of 5 juvenille Archerfish (T. Jaculatrix). It's going to be brackish with a starting SG of 1.003-5 that will eventually break 1.010, that's why I'm not going to bother with plants right now until I can move into a larger tank where I plan to grow several mangrove trees.

 

[id10t]

The mangroves I'm familiar with (fl. keys) have lots of conch (and other) shells around, some crushed coral, small old coral heads, barnacles and high/low tide marks on everything.

 

[Legacy]

The mangroves I'm familiar with (fl. keys) have lots of conch (and other) shells around, some crushed coral, small old coral heads, barnacles and high/low tide marks on everything.

I'm really into the idea of having barnacles but they would probably have trouble surviving. I could probably get some of those barnacle shells, that would be cool and I wouldn't have to care for them.

This is what my tank looks like so far:

I have this little waterfall that 1/2 rolls down the driftwood stump and the rest splashes water all over the glass. I'll have to figure something out to fix that.

 

[aoplayo]

Looks good to me. See what happens when you google like mangrove pictures. That might give you some ideas. Man thats gonna look cool. 8O