How Does This Sound?

[PDSimon]

I recommend looking at as many tanks as possible lol. what about seiryu stone or a mix of the two? I agree its difficult making a plant look like a focal point... without it looking odd anyway.

If you have like a mountain path kind of effect, on one side you've got the majority of plants and hardscape at the back, with your HC at the front, then a gap between the hardscape and plants, and then your favourite plant and maybe some redmoor or stone of some sort so it doesn't look too lonely.

 

[markandhisfish]

ive scraped the echinodorus idea . im going to look for some nice branchy wood

 

[markandhisfish]

these sumatra nano pieces are nice , but im wondering if those branches would look too thin? also maybe a tad thin for moss?

http/cgi.ebay.co.u...=item336586577c

 

[ian]

the nano (unipac) stuff is what i have in my tank. I personally like the stuff, it's relatively easy to make different shapes and scapes out of the nano stuff. You'd probably need more than one piece Mark, there are 5 bits in my tank. It'll be fine for moss as well.

 

[markandhisfish]

yep i was thinking more than 1 piece ian . i was just using that piece as an illustration. il probably fix several bits together somehow and then tie it to something heavy with fishing line so i dont have to wait for it to sink . ive looked on aqua essentials , and the ebay shops , im about to check aquarist classifieds as well. does anybody know any other sites that sell it?

 

[ian]

i got mine from my LFS, AE have some good bits by the looks of it. You may find it in certain MA's as well. I always find it quite difficult to imagine what it will look like just from net photo's, i like to get my hands on it.

 

[PDSimon]

You've scrapped it? I would have done both ideas!

 

[markandhisfish]

i got mine from my LFS, AE have some good bits by the looks of it. You may find it in certain MA's as well. I always find it quite difficult to imagine what it will look like just from net photo's, i like to get my hands on it.

i agree id prefer to get my hands on it 1st but lfs round my way are useless

You've scrapped it? I would have done both ideas!

you mean the echinodorus?

 

[PDSimon]

Yep. No reason redmoor and ech wouldn't suit each other imo

 

[markandhisfish]

im starting to think id prefer stem plants around the wood

 

[Jarcave]

A little bird tells me that Biotope Aquatics will be listing at least another 30 pieces of Nano sized Sumatran Driftwood in their ebay shop next week.

You could also take a look at the Marsh Root they stock.

http/stores.ebay.co.uk/Biotope-Aquatics

 

[markandhisfish]

ive been looking at all their wood . the only thing i dont like about that marsh root is that most of the branches are sawn off square at the ends which gives a bit of an unnatural look. ive seen some lovely branchy bits of redmoor on aqua essentials . and plantedtanks has got some lovely mazanita woodd but that stuff is an arm and a leg .

im probably going to go with a mix of redmoor and rocks for the hardscape. ive been looking through the critique section on aquascapingworld and have picked up some great ideas. ive pretty much got a mental picture of how my hardscape will look and how i will use it to get the transition from foreground to background .

 

[PDSimon]

Good stuff!

 

[markandhisfish]

seems such a long way away . do my tax return april 6th should get my rebate around 5 days after . then got a sickening amount of it to shell out on mundane stuff ( £550 renewing my tickets for work for starters) but there should be enough left in the pot afterwards to get my fire extinguisher , regulator substrate and plants. oh and a new drop checker as i managed to drop mine and break it