Hardscape Layout - Aquascaping

schaadrak · 12-08-2006, 09:35 PM

I finally was able to sit down for thirty whole minutes and hash out my tank plans:

Front view:

From the left:

From the right:

The plan is to have the plants slope down from some tall plants behind the rock in the back-left corner, to some microsword and/or dwarf hairgrass all around the base of the driftwood, with a solitary bunch of another tall plant growing behind and through the driftwood in the back-right corner. I still have to work on the plants, though. There not hard, just tedious.

Any plant suggestions? This is going to be a low-tech borderline El Natural tank, so nothing fancy.

Tschuss,

Kent

AaronT · 12-10-2006, 10:37 AM

For me it separates the hardscape elements too much. I think it would look better to incorporate the wood and stone together somehow.

GlitcH · 12-10-2006, 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by AaronT

For me it separates the hardscape elements too much. I think it would look better to incorporate the wood and stone together somehow.

Thpse were my first thoughts also

TonyV2 · 12-10-2006, 03:58 PM

HI schaadrak, what application did you use to create that image?

As for the scape. I would try to lay the rock on left on its side. The similarly in height and shape lools unnatural to me.

-Tony

schaadrak · 12-10-2006, 06:51 PM

Thanks for the feedback everyone.

The reason I put the stone there was to have something coming through the plants that would help pull the eyes away from the driftwood. Maybe it needs to be moved a little more forward and to the right, and made a little shorter and broader. The driftwood was modeled after a piece I already have, but the stone I just made up, so I can play with it a little more.

Tony - The program I used is Google SketchUp. It's free and pretty easy to get the hang of.

schaadrak · 12-10-2006, 07:29 PM

Here we go.

I changed the shape of the stone a little and moved it forward and to the left. I also added a rotala looking plant amongst the driftwood. I was thinling a tall grassy plant for the back-left corner, with some water wisteria in front of it and wrapping around from behind the stone. I'll try to work on that this week.

AaronT · 12-10-2006, 07:50 PM

Maybe if you move the rocks to the right in front of the wood? I think that could look good, with some slightly shorter rocks of course.

schaadrak · 12-23-2006, 09:54 AM

I made a grass plant and a few crypts and placed them in the tank.

I'm trying to make a wysteria right now to go in between the grass and the rock, and I'm thinking of putting a java fern on the driftwood somewhere.

Aaron - Thanks, I think that would help wth the transition. I'll make a couple later.

And a Happy ChrismaHannaKwanzika to all!

cydric · 02-01-2007, 06:25 AM

How is this progressing?

Sudi · 02-01-2007, 04:57 PM

It's going to look odd with wood on one side and rocks on the other...
Aaron is right.
Good luck!