Help With Aquascaping A Planted Tank

ChilliPepper

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Just waiting on the plants I've ordered off ebay to be delivered. Hopefully tomorrow!

Tank is still cycling so got a while to plan how it looks.

This is it at the moment. Few rocks and a piece of planted bog wood. Silver sand substrate. Got a background coming, black on one side, blue the other. Will probably go for black.

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I should be getting a mix of these plants:

# Echinodorus amazonicus - Ruffled Sword Plant
# Echinodorus bleheri - Amazon Sword Plant
# Cryptocoyne balanasae - Bubble Jade
# Ceratophyllum demersum - Hornwort
# Ceratophyllum demersum var. 'Mexico'
# Bacopa monniera - Bacopa
# Bacopa caroliniana
# Cabomba caroliniana - Cabomba
# Hygrophila corymbosa
# Hygrophila polysperma
# Hygrophila difformis - Water Wisteria
# Hygrophila sp. 'Cherry Leaf Stricta'
# Limnophila sessiliflora - Ambulia
# Ludwigia repens - Ludwigia
# Egeria densa Elodea aka Pondweed
# Egeria najas - Ditchweed
# Shinnersia rivularis - Mexican Oak Leaf Plant
# Sagittaria subulata
# Vallisneria spiralis - Vallis
# Vallisneria americans var. natans

Any ideas on what plants would work well along the back? Are any of these a floating plant?

Any other suggestions for rock/bogwood/caves etc would be great :) I'm going to get a coconut cave or two I think.
 
# Echinodorus amazonicus - Ruffled Sword Plant - background
# Echinodorus bleheri - Amazon Sword Plant - background
# Cryptocoyne balanasae - Bubble Jade - background
# Ceratophyllum demersum - Hornwort - backgorund, although can be trimmes short.
# Ceratophyllum demersum var. 'Mexico' - same as above
# Bacopa monniera - Bacopa - foreground/ midground
# Bacopa caroliniana - same as above
# Cabomba caroliniana - Cabomba - background although can be trimmed short
# Hygrophila corymbosa - background
# Hygrophila polysperma - background
# Hygrophila difformis - Water Wisteria - background although can be trimmed short
# Hygrophila sp. 'Cherry Leaf Stricta' - same as above
# Limnophila sessiliflora - Ambulia - background although can be trimmed short
# Ludwigia repens - Ludwigia - midground
# Egeria densa Elodea aka Pondweed - midground
# Egeria najas - Ditchweed - midground
# Shinnersia rivularis - Mexican Oak Leaf Plant - background
# Sagittaria subulata - foreground
# Vallisneria spiralis - Vallis - background
# Vallisneria americans var. natans - background
 
Thanks Aaron, that's really helpful :D I just hope the seller I bought them off has labeled each one like I asked or I'll be taking photos and bugging people about which is which! I seem to have a lot of background plants anyway!

Are any of these floating plants?
 
Just ordered some Nymphaea lotus zenkeri var. 'Red' too :D
 
Nope he didn't label them, they were all in one bag!

Hope I get my Lotus Red soon :)

Any ideas where I should put it?

This is tank now with black background (still to add bogwood after it's soaked and 2 coconut caves):

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I plan to put the bogwood on the left hand side...
 

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