How does my new 10 gallon iwagumi aquascape look?

[misterpenguin4]

Keep up the good work! Your patience will pay off!!! Is this a 10 gallon?

Yes just a regular 10 gallon

 

[Cammywammy]

Great! What do you plan on stalking after you add water and do you have something capping your soil?

 

[PockX]

That looks awesome. I might have to.look into this myself!

 

[Scottyhorse]

Isn't that just dwarf hairgrass? Most places who sell plants online will also sell that.

 

[misterpenguin4]

Well there is 30-40 diffrent kinds of "dwarf hairgrass" the two most people know about are Eleocharis parvula (the one i have) which tends to grow shorter and had a bend to the leaves. Then there is Eleocharis acicularis which tends to grow strait up and taller. Most online places sell acicularis not parvula.

 

[Cammywammy]

So how much have you spent so far on this tank and what equipment are you going to use.

 

[misterpenguin4]

Around $185 including the stand. I am going to use a penguin biowheel for the filter.

 

[misterpenguin4]

Got the window open, Finnex fugeray, and a giant 23 watt 5000k CFL. Will that do the trick or too much?

 

[Cammywammy]

I don't know if you can have too much light with a dry start. To improve growth you could try and get dry fertilizers that have micro and macro ferts

 

[misterpenguin4]

I have seachem flourish root tabs under the substrate. Is that what you mean?

 

[Cammywammy]

Personally I ordered this :http://greenleafaquariums.com/aquarium-fertilizers-supplements/micro-macro-fertilizers.html Rivercats showed it to me and she can help you with too if you're interested as soon as I started dosing I noticed way better growth than just root tabs. I think if you used a spray bottle for this then you'd see improvement

 

[misterpenguin4]

I had a idea for some mini mini trees. I found these twigs in my back yard and i was thinking stick the in and maybe cut down the branches and put some java moss in there to make them look like trees. Do you guys think that would look cool or eh? Please be totally honest i dont want a dumb looking tank lol.

 

[Cammywammy]

They might not stay how you want when you fill it up.

 

[misterpenguin4]

I wouldnt put them in until i filled it up

 

[Cammywammy]

My concern is them wanting to float up. Maybe glue them to a small rock to keep them anchored down? Just use nontoxic silicone and once glued push the rock under the sand so it isn't visible.

 

[misterpenguin4]

Yea. But do you think that would look cool or not really?

 

[aqua_chem]

It wouldn't be very iwagumi.

 

[Sillyfishies]

It wouldn't be very iwagumi.

It wouldn't be iwagumi, but it'd look cool!

Edit: maybe Xmas moss instead?

 

[Cammywammy]

I don't recommend Xmas moss it takes forever to adjust

 

[DiverDave]

Really like the Black sand ..... Is it from Hawaii ?