It's looking Good Keeshy. You have some nice driftwood that fits the space well. It looks like a fairly big tank so it will take time for it to fill with plants unless you buy or get freebies from members on here. Is that dwarf chain sword planted in different areas of the tank? It's a nice easy to grow plant if that is what you have. Once DCS starts sending out runners it goes berserk with how quickly you can pile up new plants. The runner shoots that new plants grow along can also be bent into the direction you want new plants starting from as well. I have a grove of DCS in both of my planted tanks and i'm starting to have trouble with finding where to plant the excess ones.
As far as aquascaping goes. Here are a few ideas to think about.
- Use rocks and driftwood as walls to elevate areas of substrate like platforms in the tank. It makes the tank floor look more natural to me if it has high points and low points rather than level substrate all the way across. I have tried to create an ampitheatre look in one tank using the platform idea to create a half moon foreground and elevated areas all round the back and side of the tank. Choosing some nicely shaped stones can make your walls a feature too.
- Add a few feature stones to contrast with the driftwood. The driftwood in there seems to create a long line across the tank so a few stones behind it that added height might look good and break up the line a little.
- You could flip the branching driftwood so the branches are reaching towardsthe top of the tank. I love moss covered overhangs so i'd probably give this a try and see how the wood looks elevated if you can find a way to prop it up/anchor it.
- Removable stones. If you are like me you will want as much of the tank to have healthy plants filling the space, but i have added a lot of small stones to the foreground in freshly set up tanks and it can make a sparsely planted foreground look like it has more plants. As the plants fill in you can remove the stones.
As i said though i think the tank looks good and is coming along nicely. Keep up the good work and don't be afraid to look at a thousand pictures of planted tanks and steal the ideas from each picture you like. I could safely say that none of my ideas have been original but i have adapted many of them to create something i like in each tank.
using Aquarium Advice mobile app
