[Roger Miller]

The garnet sand is beautiful. Where did you get it?

I have panned for gold only to come up with pans full of garnet. The mineral is hard and quite stable and is usually among the last minerals to break down under near-surface conditions. It is perhaps not as stable as quartz, but then little else is.

I can't really guess at what the stones are, but basalt would not be my first guess.

How do you intend to plant the tank?


Roger Miller

 

[Roger Miller]

I would use a different approach to planting. The wood and stone arrangement is very striking and dramatic. To preserve that effect I would probably plant the tank very simply with no red plants and perhaps two or at most three plant varieties. Nothing would be nearly as tall as the wood. Something like a glosso foreground and a slightly higher hemianthus background. I would probably try to limit the foreground growth so that the color of the garnet substrate would show through at the front.


Roger Miller