Hello all,
After getting involved in aquascaping a bit more, I really want to redo my 200L tank. I found this bit of wood I love but now I’m at a loss of how to make it look good in my tank. There’s space either side of it which I don’t know how to fill. I’m currently trying to find inspiration but I could really do with some personalised help too. I’d like to try and reuse my plants as much as I can but am willing to get more if anyone has any ideas. I’ve also ordered 15kg of grey mountain rock, but don’t know how to position this (around the wood?).
The first photo is my wood, the second is it in the same size tank in the store, and the third is my current setup.
I’m using the Fluval plant 3.0 (at around 40% currently) and am running co2 too. I’m battling BBA and a bit of brown algae on some of the plants but it’s slowly going since I upped my fertilisers and added in the co2 system.
I can’t identify all of the plants, only really their main genus, which is a bit of a mistake because now I have no idea how big some will grow! If anyone can help identify some of my plants, that would be great too. I know my larger leaf plant is hygrophilia corymbosa, and I’ve got multiple crytocoryne. There’s also an Amazon sword in there, Alternanthera Reineckii, and a badly damaged anubias and Java ferns I think I’m just going to have to throw away. I’m using Seachem Flourite black sand as my substrate. Finally I have a fish who loves to chill in their cave, so I either need to encoroporate that back into my aqua scape, use a chocolate terracotta pot I’ve got, or create somewhere he can feel safe.
Many thanks everyone!
After getting involved in aquascaping a bit more, I really want to redo my 200L tank. I found this bit of wood I love but now I’m at a loss of how to make it look good in my tank. There’s space either side of it which I don’t know how to fill. I’m currently trying to find inspiration but I could really do with some personalised help too. I’d like to try and reuse my plants as much as I can but am willing to get more if anyone has any ideas. I’ve also ordered 15kg of grey mountain rock, but don’t know how to position this (around the wood?).
The first photo is my wood, the second is it in the same size tank in the store, and the third is my current setup.
I’m using the Fluval plant 3.0 (at around 40% currently) and am running co2 too. I’m battling BBA and a bit of brown algae on some of the plants but it’s slowly going since I upped my fertilisers and added in the co2 system.
I can’t identify all of the plants, only really their main genus, which is a bit of a mistake because now I have no idea how big some will grow! If anyone can help identify some of my plants, that would be great too. I know my larger leaf plant is hygrophilia corymbosa, and I’ve got multiple crytocoryne. There’s also an Amazon sword in there, Alternanthera Reineckii, and a badly damaged anubias and Java ferns I think I’m just going to have to throw away. I’m using Seachem Flourite black sand as my substrate. Finally I have a fish who loves to chill in their cave, so I either need to encoroporate that back into my aqua scape, use a chocolate terracotta pot I’ve got, or create somewhere he can feel safe.
Many thanks everyone!
