Going Natural!

[ajbettle]

now i want the natural look in my tank, at the moment its set-out like this:

- 1 fake plant assortment (big bush of fake plants on one base) hiding filter
- 1 long real plant hiding heater
- 1 terraccotta pot in gravel in the middle
- 3 large pebbles grouped up
- oo and i have natural gravel!! (pea dorset gravel that is!)
...now to me it doesnt look natural and i want it to look really wild and natural; so what can i use to make it LOOK natural???

i was thinking bogwood but i need opinions!

+ shall i not use my fake marina bush plant? and get rid of the terraccota pots??
..but the large pebbles (like Qays set-up of pebbles!) do look natural around the tank grouped up.

Thanks everyone!

EDIT: EVERBODY IGNORE THE POLL I DIDNT MEAN TO ACTUALLY PUT IT ON THE POST!!! WHOOPS!

......anybody??

 

[ajbettle]

BUMP...

 

[snowyangel]

Various things make a tank natural. Then again there's making a tank LOOK natural with fake silk plants, rocks, etc then there's making a natural setting with actual real components like driftwood and live plants. So it just depends on how much up keep you want to do and how much you want to spend.

 

[donna123]

hi
small rocks and bogwood both can look natural, i dont like plastic plants, you can get realy nice looking silk plants though, they look more real to me ,its what ever you think looks good at the end of the day.donna

 

[Qays]

I think anything natural is good. stones, bogwood, real plants. Java fern is really easy and is nice and natural, try that.

Thanks for mentioning my tank, but its far from finished!

Terracora pots are good for hiding places. whenever my fish want to hide, they hide behind my bogwood, so maybe some bogwood would be good? Good luck though

 

[dthoffsett]

It just depends on what fish you are keeping. In an african cichlid tank, rocks are natural. In most community tanks bogwood would be more the norm, however, you can go down to any local lake and find both rocks and driftwoods. It's really just personal preference.

 

[Phantom Thief]

My personal preference is bogwood. Bogwood naturally looks... natural. With rocks, you have to arrange them in a way so that it appears to be natural, which isn't always too easy.

P.T.

 

[ajbettle]

at the moment im keeping 3 male guppies and 3 pygmy corys...but my mum might be having the guppies in her other tank as it has more guppies in it and well im not so sure that guppies are right for me..(if you know what i mean???)...anyway im thinking of having cherry barbs or something like that instead of guppys with my pygmys....(any ideas what to have?)

but i was told cherry barbs dont like fast currents..is this true and would they be ok in my 6 gallon?

+ i love bogwood and i have a few large pebbles in the tank at the moment that looks natural so maybe:

- piece of small bogwood in left-ish middle
- 3 stones grouped up together near it
- silk plants hiding filter towards the back on the left
- real plnats at right back, then a smaller one further forwards
would this be natural??

ooo and just thought id mention iv got platy fry! well i had to small platys in my tank after 3 weeks since it was running, and when i came from holiday i saw 2 lil orange fry swimming around so i put in my square net thingy for sick or injured fish (and fry)...and there in the net happy as can be away from the mean guppies!!!

- ps: does anybody thing small pebbles spread out near the front and big ones near the back looks natural??? like a river only drifts the small stones forward...