I need to scape my twenty long tomorrow and was wondering what you guys thing the best idea is. Is there a basic method to follow? I will be buying plants and hopefully finding driftwood. I might have to get fake driftwood.
Aquascaping ideas
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Convict2161
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maxwellag said:
Google aquascaping 20 gallon fish tanks or look through members set ups. That's the best way. Do you have a basic idea of what your going for looks wise? Natural look? What kind of fish?
bruinsbro1997
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What kind of aquascape do you want? It's all up to you and there are no rules to how you want to do it, unless you want to do it in a specific way like Dutch, natural, Iwigumi, etc.
Convict2161 said:
I want a natural look. I have glowlight tetras. I will be getting a pair of GBRs, some ottos or cories, and maybe another school of tetra. I would like to put driftwood in there, or at least some sort of rock cave. I want live plants. I have a dual 30 inch T5 fixture with one growmax and one colormax bulb. I have PFS as the substrate.
Cornstar
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maxwellag said:
Rock caves and drift wood would look amazing on top of a sand bed in my opinion. You can get play sand for $3 (50lbs) at home depot. Drift wood are not too expensive maybe roughly 10-20 depending on the size. If you live near a pond, you might be able to take some for free
Cornstar said:Rock caves and drift wood would look amazing on top of a sand bed in my opinion. You can get play sand for $3 (50lbs) at home depot. Drift wood are not too expensive maybe roughly 10-20 depending on the size. If you live near a pond, you might be able to take some for free
I have sand already. Most of the ponds I like near are in parks, so there aren't any pieces of DW in them.
I might have to get fake wood
Mumma.of.two
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maxwellag said:
Very nice piece of wood!
http://www.freshwateraquariumplants.com/aquascapingprinc/aquascaping101.html
Here is some info on aquascaping tips and tricks.
Thanks! It's actually two...
good link...
Mumma.of.two
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maxwellag said:
PWC, PWC and more PWC
Did you soak it at all? It won't harm anything just might block some light from your plants if it gets really dark.
PWC, PWC and more PWC
It won't harm anything just might block some light from your plants if it gets really dark.
I didn't soak it-I was too impatient.
I will do a 50% PWC tomorrow and see how it looks.
Mumma.of.two
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maxwellag said:I didn't soak it-I was too impatient.
It will keep leaching but the worst of it will be over in a week or two.
I hope so! I am satisfied with the look of it so far... I love how it looks like one piece of wood
