Hey! I had to use a 1.5 inch wide paintbrush to get my gravel like that!
I know what you mean and I agree. The soil needs to be higher where the wood juts out because there would be other hard stuff under the soil in those areas to raise it up, like with mountains. I plan to dust some soil around them before planting. It doesn't take much to make those little wood chips fall and I don't want to have to worry about the force of sloshing water.
I'm gonna look into this mini moss also. Until I see how the HC grows I can't be certain for what kind of scale I'm gonna shoot for.
Right now I'm thinking add a little rolling nature to the substrate, plant the HC everywhere, then put a few sprigs of HG around the edges of the wood where they meet the substrate and a few little patches dotted along the back glass, then trim the HG to about .5 inches along the smaller wood and 1 inch max near the larger wood chips and then the back a little taller than the rest. I really want the wood chips to look about 8-16 inches tall when everything is trimmed right.
Of course, I've never worked with wood, or stone, or HC, or HG, or Aquasoil before so these are probably typical best-laid plans
I'd love to use rocks in another one to make a mountain range from a far distance. I'd have to use algae to give them green patches of foliage.
I'd love to see something like this in an 18 inch x 12 inch x 9 inch tank.
