Fresh Water Scaping Ideas

[Garrett Semola]

Hi Friends!

My tank is a bit of a mess at the moment. I have a large piece of driftwood being weighed down by a lava rock until it stops floating, and I have a wild mix of plants around the tank as I figure out what I want to do. . . any tips, ideas, suggestions, criticisms? Many of the small plants up front are breakoffs from the "Java Fern" at the far left (making a guess here), and i have several offshoots from the plants you can see shooting up in the middle left which are doing surprisingly well. . . Just looking for ideas (like maybe water lettuce?). New to the hobby in the last 6 months, upgraded to this 75 gallon a few months ago and loving the tank.

I just need to get rid of like 20-30 of my mollies (mother had around 80 kid so far make it) and I'll continue figuring out my stocking. So far it's a fun mix!

Rainbow Shark
Blue Gourami
Dwarf Gourami
7 Ghost Shrimp (more maturing in a side tank)
Bristlenose Pleco
Ablino Bristlenose Pleco
Rubbernose Pleco
6x Julli Corydoras
3x Emerald Green Corydoras
48x Mollies (Golden Panda, Black, Gold, mixed, etc)
3x Green Lantern Platty (these are bright blue)
3x Otocinclus
9x Neon Tetras
16x White Cloud Minnows
5x Congo Tetras

Plus an assortment of very small snails I've noticed to start growing and moving around the tank.

Current Plants include:
Hornwort
Duckweed
Crypts
Moss Balls
Java Fern?
Other Fern like plants with the runners going to the surface and growing new bulbs
Some kind of onion plant
Repens
Anubias (wedged in the large rock)

I think that covers it!

Thanks everyone,

 

[Colin_T]

You could put a picture on the back of the tank and maybe add some Ambulia and Hygrophila polysperma & H. ruba/ rubra.

Watch the blue gourami, it could fight with the dwarf gourami.

Water lettuce doesn't do well in aquariums due to the humidity and low light. Water Sprite (Ceratopteris thalictroides/ cornuta) is a better choice and can grow on the surface or be planted in the sand.

You have fish that naturally occur in hard water and soft water. You should find out what the general hardness (GH) and pH of your water is and try to keep fish suited to that. Having soft water fishes in hard water is not good for them and vice versa.

Apart from that it doesn't look too bad.