SO I did my first scape a few months ago and now I feel like I'm ready for my second! I have a very vivid idea of what I want to do. My plan is to do a forest diorama moss scape with a mix of woods and millennium stone.
I have a second hand bow fronted 80 litre tank to work with Ill be setting it up backwards with the bow at the back to give more depth! though I never checked if it was actually water tight before planning all this.....thankfully as you can see, it is!
So I have a bunch of gnarled manzanita and juniper wood from Aquarium gardens but never actually mocked it up in the sandpits. On my day off I went in and had a play.
Kinda hard to visualise with all the equipment everywhere and the lightning, but I put my art degree into use and made this quick concept art;
I might add more trees but its hard to see if they will all fit once the equipment is in too. But it'll have a rough gravel path up the middle and baring off to the right. Most of the trees will have some degree of moss coverage and I might add more rocks to break up the carpet some more.
Potential Plant List:
Fissidens fontanus
Christmas Moss
Weeping Moss
Riccardia chamedryfolia
Hemianthus Callitrichoides Cuba
Pogostemon Helferi
Hydrocotyle tripartita Japan
Hydrocotyle verticillata
Eleocharis Acicularis Hairgrass
Cryptocoryne Pygmaea
Bucephalandra Caterina
Anubias Pangolino
Anubias Bonsai
Marsilea Hirsuta
Bolbitis Difformis
Hygrophila pinnatifida
I understand that a mostly moss scape will be an algae magnet so I plan on throwing in some extra supporting plants that wont be there when the scape has matured;
Ceratopteris Thalicroides
Lindernia rotundifolia
Limnobium laevigatum
Things are on hold for now until after Christmas when i can afford the equipment
Suggestions welcome and I've ran out of things to say!
To be continued....
I have a second hand bow fronted 80 litre tank to work with Ill be setting it up backwards with the bow at the back to give more depth! though I never checked if it was actually water tight before planning all this.....thankfully as you can see, it is!
So I have a bunch of gnarled manzanita and juniper wood from Aquarium gardens but never actually mocked it up in the sandpits. On my day off I went in and had a play.
Kinda hard to visualise with all the equipment everywhere and the lightning, but I put my art degree into use and made this quick concept art;
I might add more trees but its hard to see if they will all fit once the equipment is in too. But it'll have a rough gravel path up the middle and baring off to the right. Most of the trees will have some degree of moss coverage and I might add more rocks to break up the carpet some more.
Potential Plant List:
Fissidens fontanus
Christmas Moss
Weeping Moss
Riccardia chamedryfolia
Hemianthus Callitrichoides Cuba
Pogostemon Helferi
Hydrocotyle tripartita Japan
Hydrocotyle verticillata
Eleocharis Acicularis Hairgrass
Cryptocoryne Pygmaea
Bucephalandra Caterina
Anubias Pangolino
Anubias Bonsai
Marsilea Hirsuta
Bolbitis Difformis
Hygrophila pinnatifida
I understand that a mostly moss scape will be an algae magnet so I plan on throwing in some extra supporting plants that wont be there when the scape has matured;
Ceratopteris Thalicroides
Lindernia rotundifolia
Limnobium laevigatum
Things are on hold for now until after Christmas when i can afford the equipment
Suggestions welcome and I've ran out of things to say!
To be continued....
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