1st attempt at iwagumi - Aquascaping

choosk · 02-23-2009, 08:02 PM

hiya guys.here is my first attempt at iwagumi. comment away please. rescaped my tank as the previous scape was really messed up.

davemonkey · 02-23-2009, 08:04 PM

I like the rock placement very much. What is the ground cover?

-Dave

jciotti · 02-23-2009, 08:18 PM

My suggestions would be to level the substrate. Putting the smaller rocks on the left a bit further left and forward to pull tension that direction and give a sense of focus and depth. Also by opening the rocks a bit to allow you to see the back substrate areas will add a lot. Other then that your idea seems to work well. I'd like to see this once it fills out.

choosk · 02-23-2009, 09:16 PM

thanks for the replies guys.

dave: the carpeting plant will be hc aka cuba. thinking of adding some hg around the rock base.

jciotti: thanks for the suggestions. gonna try it this weekend.

gravy9 · 02-24-2009, 06:36 AM

The rock placement looks very natural. Good work.

Quetzalcoatl · 02-24-2009, 05:47 PM

Overall I like it. Left side is little scarce IMO.

choosk · 03-29-2009, 08:35 PM

updates for my tank.

choosk · 10-28-2009, 10:40 PM

hi guys.been quite sometime since i last updated. please have a look and comments please

Green024 · 10-29-2009, 01:32 AM

HC Looks really good! And so do those rocks.
Im going to have to agree with Quetzalcoatl about the left side of your tank. maybe try sliding the brighter colored rock 3rd from the left over there would do the trick. Or is that apart of the medium rock in the direct center towards the front?

Could you give us some info on what your setup entails of? ferts, lights and such. Thanks

choosk · 10-29-2009, 01:53 AM

hiya green,

ferts i'm using ada step 2 and brighty k. the lights are......i think its called t5 or something like that. total 200++watts.filter eheim. the soils are fine amazonia with powersand at the bottom rows. co2 not sure how much bps it is as i rely on the ada checker which is usually yellowish green during photoperiod which is 8 hours. sadly i'm tearing out the hc lol. they have grown too rampant and thick causing the lower parts to melt and the top to float up. the pics are 2 or 3 months old. i'll be replacing them with dwarf hairgrass and adding some hardscape on the left part. will update more pics when i'm done. the rocks are individual rocks they are not connected

ps:forgot to add temp maintained with chiller 24~26