planted ten gallon (theme chaos, I like it)

[Torrean]

I'm using my ten gallon as a snail catcher cause I'm trying to keep snails out of my girlfriends 29. I put plants in and leave them for a month then redo the tank if there are no snails. I put all my extra plants in my gf's 29. So eventually she will have a well planted 29 gallon WITH NO SNAILS, (hopefully). If you guys can think of an easier way to do this then keep it to yourselves i'm having fun. No i'm kidding if you can think of an easier way it'd probably help alot because the plants wouldn't have to be moved so much. Well here goes I'm starting after I took out the plants for the first remodeling because I'm stupid and forgot to take pics even though the tank looked really cool.

This is with most of the old plants removed and the new plants floating waiting to be planted.

first picture of the replanted 10 (notice the broken anacharis on the right side next to the heater, oops) I put the lighter rock in there because A. there wasn't enough gravel to hold down the plants. B. I like the contrast of the light and dark rock. I know it'll mix eventually but I like it as is for now. C. I have a night light that cuts on whenever the main light cuts off and it looks REALLY good with the new gravel. Just have to cover it after I'm done admiring the night view.

notice the repaired anacharis (I just broke it the rest of the way and replanted both ends, maybe it'll live)

right side of the tank

closer middle view

left side

cfbs was upside down but I flipped it. He's a good hider so I had to do some acrobatics to get a shot of him at all, this was before the replanting so it's kinda dark, lillies took over the top for a while but I clipped um back.

Was trying to take a picture of the rarely seen cfbs but a wcmm got in the shot too.

Hope you like it. I could've been more structured grouping the plants together, placing tall plants in the back and short ones in the front. but I designed it more for the fishes enjoyment than mine and I think they like the jungle I've created.
So go ahead and give me your opinion. BTW (I know the CFBS can't stay in this tank. He'll get a bigger one in the future.)

 

[fishwatcher]

I love it!

 

[Torrean]

I was hoping somebody would like it. Thanks for the complement. I wish I could say it took a lot of work but the hardest thing is going through every single leaf and picking off all the tiny tiny tiny snails. This was a real trick with the anacharis. I'd put it in the water and push the plant from bottom to top to make the leaves fold down. While doing this I searched for snails, and I apparently got every single one, because it's been about a month and I've not seen a snail, or slime trail of snail eggs.
I might have put more effort into it if
A. My fish didn't like it so much.
B. I didn't like it so much.
C. I wasn't going to destroy it in another month and rebuild it.

I really wish I could get the night pic to show up but it really looks like crap on my camera. You can't see a thing. But in real life it is quite stunning. I'm really glad I added the lighter gravel on top. I hope it doesn't mix too quickly, If it does I may pull out half the gravel and replace it with more of the lighter stuff.

Thanks again for the complement.