foofooree

Hows the tank doin'?

Phil Edwards

Chuppy,

Looking pretty good there! I like the way you've grouped your plants, the effect is well balanced.

A few things I noticed:
1) Your stems look malnurished and stunted. Try increasing your nitrogen and calcium supplimentation. The N will help them beef up a bit more and the calcium is good for the new growth.

2) The A. nana 'petite' directly to the left of the B. japonica needs to be moved or it'll get overpowered. Shifting it to the other side of the wood will help with that, will make a nice visual demarcation between the Blyxa and Elatine, and will create a continuous grouping of that lovely little plant. I think you said you had moved it, but your most recent photo doesn't show it.

3) Moving the Valisneria two inches to the right will make for a more effective visual focus. Right now it's pretty much dominating the tank. Its central placement isn't as visually effective as it could be, especially with the right to left diagonal line created by your wood. Placing it behind your H. polysperma and then trimming the poly to slope up toward the right rear corner will make a nice layering effect that will add even more depth of view to your aquascape.

4) To create even more layering, moving the L. aromatica back into the left rear corner and placing the Crypts where the Limnophila is now will create even more layering once you get the Limnophila in a solid bush. This will also hide the sparse lower portions of the Limnophila stems and effectively use the shade created by the stems.

Bushing out your stems in the corners will hide your hardware too.

chadly

thanks for the comments guys.

Phil, foofooree, I've since ripped the plants out, replanted and i'm just growing plants in it w/ no scape at all. As far as the scape you are talking about, i know exactly what you are saying. There are way too many plants in there to mess around with. I loved the front right of the tank with the anubias, I just got collectoritis and lost control of this tank.

Vadimshevchuk

i love your german blue rams, they look so nice. BTW how do you trim the blyxa japonica and how wpg are there?