Aquascaping suggestions please

9am53 · 03-08-2011, 08:42 PM

I am going to be doing some work on my 29 gallon as it has gotten old and needs a face-lift. The log (circled in red) that I have covered in f. fontanus will be getting taken out as I want the moss for another tank, and I think the log is rotting. I think I need something there, just not sure what. If the DHG fills it in, I think it will be too much grass and too much stuff all on one side, so I need some sort of a centerpiece to replace the log. There is a sort of empty spot on the back right of the tank (pink) that used to have vals in it, but I was thinking some red foxtail, and in the orange section I wanted to clear out the straggler crypts and put some hornwort in. I thought these tender plants would soften out the strong anubias and crypts and balance that side of the tank.

Hilde · 04-22-2011, 04:12 PM

Love the contrast of the plants. Add anymore plants? Hope you didn't get hornwort. I hate that plant, for it loses needles like pine trees. What ferts are dosing? Dosing Co2? Update pics?

TLE041 · 04-22-2011, 05:03 PM

You should consider a piece of branchy Manzanita driftwood with needle-leaf Java fern attached.

If you go for that, I'd leave the purple crypt but take out the anubias. I also wouldn't addd any hornwort either.

03-08-2011, 08:42 PM	#1
9am53 Planted Tank Obsessed (View User Tanks) PTrader: (0/0%) Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: canada Posts: 457	Aquascaping suggestions please I am going to be doing some work on my 29 gallon as it has gotten old and needs a face-lift. The log (circled in red) that I have covered in f. fontanus will be getting taken out as I want the moss for another tank, and I think the log is rotting. I think I need something there, just not sure what. If the DHG fills it in, I think it will be too much grass and too much stuff all on one side, so I need some sort of a centerpiece to replace the log. There is a sort of empty spot on the back right of the tank (pink) that used to have vals in it, but I was thinking some red foxtail, and in the orange section I wanted to clear out the straggler crypts and put some hornwort in. I thought these tender plants would soften out the strong anubias and crypts and balance that side of the tank. __________________ Fluval PEEEEMP #9 Fluval 205 2xAC30 + AC MINI (it's Hagen; close enough!) EHEIM 2215 CO2 stuff c/o REX

04-22-2011, 05:03 PM	#3
TLE041 Wannabe Guru (View User Tanks) PTrader: (2/100%) Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Canada Posts: 1,086	You should consider a piece of branchy Manzanita driftwood with needle-leaf Java fern attached. If you go for that, I'd leave the purple crypt but take out the anubias. I also wouldn't addd any hornwort either. __________________ Tony My Mini-M & Mini-L journal

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04-22-2011, 04:12 PM	#2
Hilde Planted Tank Guru (View User Tanks) PTrader: (1/100%) Join Date: May 2008 Location: Mableton, GA Posts: 4,027	Love the contrast of the plants. Add anymore plants? Hope you didn't get hornwort. I hate that plant, for it loses needles like pine trees. What ferts are dosing? Dosing Co2? Update pics?