Jimbo205

How much of an X-factor does the wood provide?

Versus having soil beneath or mixed in with the Flourite.

Is that one of those things (the wood) where you have to wait and see what it does to the water chemistry
and / or if anything weird starts to grow on it or out of it?

I love the looks of the Bowl.
Great work as usual! I love the appearance of the new light.

alaskaRiver

Thanks for the comments Jimbo, always nice to hear. Believe it of not all the wood that is incorporated into this scape was part of the previous one as well. Once the glosso really started to grow it just covered it up pretty quick. So I don't think that it will change the water at all.
However, algae may be a different story that only time will tell. A few weeks before I redid the the bowl the wood started to grow some fur algae on it, but so did the anubias so I don't think it was because of the wood. Previously some parts of the wood got a slight dusting of green, but nothing to bad so I hope it works out again. If not I guess I could always strictly use rocks.

Jimbo205

I got this on one or two Anubias leaves also and was trying to figure out if that was because it was too close to the light.

I will NOT try putting Seachem Excel directly algae AGAIN. Unless I learn a better way to do it. It killed the algae and then killed the leaves. Good thing the Rhizome was and is very, very healthy.

alaskaRiver

I am somewhat worried about this myself being that my anubias is really close to the light and when it happened before it was farther away than it is now.

The way I placed some of the plants is designed to remedy this by hopefully growing to shade the anubias. I just hope it works as planned and that the other plants grow in fast enough.