3 gal. Basic Iwagumi - Page 2 - Aquascaping

Sammie7 · 10-03-2006, 09:11 PM

When I first saw the tank I thought you had filled it with brown sugar.

LOL. The tank definately has much potential. Keep up the good work.

jassar · 10-04-2006, 02:52 AM

very nice, I think the biggest rock should be bigger than that ( to stand out more ), everything else looks super good!
good luck
-Jassar

gf225 · 10-04-2006, 11:14 AM

Thanks for the feedback everyone. I have taken on board all of the comments and will update soon.

Thanks again.

gf225 · 10-05-2006, 01:21 PM

I'm still tinkering with positions but I think I've chosen my final three stones now. I've been experimenting with 5 and 7 (1 big, rest small) stone compositions but have decided to stick with three for the time being at least. I like the simplicity and am trying to visualize the look when fully planted. Vision, or lack of, is a weakness of mine.

Excuse the colour difference, they should look the same when they're all wet.

gf225 · 10-19-2006, 03:14 PM

I have come up with my final stone layout. No doubt I tweak it here and there but in general it will stay like this. Believe me I've tried a lot of combinations of stone size, shape and positioning. I find it hard to believe I was almost content with my first effort looking back. I have learnt a lot just in this surprisingly complex (for the talentless like me) process of stone arranging.

I am also excited to announce my plant choice. HC (Hemianthus callitrichoides ''Cuba'') and hairgrass (Eleocharis sp.) Four pots of HC and two hairgrass, all supplied by Aqua Essentials that now stocks top notch Tropica plants.

I decided that glosso would have too large a leaf and after seeing some HC in the flesh I had to have some. The HC will cover most of the substrate with the hairgrass acting as accents to soften the transition between the stones and the horizon. A similar concept to Justin Law's materpiece here - *ì³¥の*· Breeze of Wild :: 9 -- fotop.net photo sharing network Think more HC, less hairgrass though.

MATTHEW MAHLING · 10-19-2006, 04:43 PM

This shoul be great when it's planted up. personally I would go for your arrangement from 10/05/06 1:21pm. I think the flow is better more like the smaller stones actually broke off of the larger one.

Brie · 10-19-2006, 04:50 PM

I like this way best:

Look at the rock on the left, near the front. Turn it so that the flat part faces forward a little more. Then add the small stones.

lljdma06 · 10-20-2006, 05:07 AM

deja vu. But it looks great here too.

llj

chadly · 10-20-2006, 08:04 AM

love that little tank!

to go with all the criticism, be it constructive or just thoughtful interpretation of your intentions and vision, I think you should just scape it the way you want.

abnormalsanon · 10-20-2006, 08:29 AM

It looks like it's off to a good start! I started a 2.5 semi-iwagumi-style tank a few weeks ago. My recommendation: put some floating plants in there during the first week or two. Mine looked great and then suddenly this brown slime algae covered the substrate in less than 24 hours. It's in a blackout phase right now and I added some floating HM to be safe, but I wish I'd done that to start out! My other 2.5 has many more plants in it and is doing great, but the iwagumi-style nano seems to be an algae magnet at the moment