I have some live plants already, and I'm wanting to get a few more. Just wondering how planted it should be. I love the lush look, but not sure how much space it will take from the fish. Here's a pic of what I have. Any suggestions?
yeah you have the same problem as me. that looks like pea gravel (stones size of a pea). the problem is they move about too easily so the roots find it hard to take hold.
how about buying some little bits of bogwood and tying plants to that. you then have moveable plants that dont need to touch the gravel.
suitable options are Java Moss, Java Fern, Anubias Nana, er and others (help people brain blank)
There's some java fern over on the right side of your tank. You could try, as jimbooo pointed out, tying it to your driftwood over there on the left with some fishing line or something.
Another thing you could try is just putting all the plants into one corner with the tallest in the back corner and so on. Then just go from there.