Roughyed's 13 Gallon

[mlawson]

What exactly is a dutch style? When in comparison to a Amano style?

A Dutch style is more like an arrangement of plants rather than making an imaginary scape. Most Dutch style tanks have a lot of stem plants and do not have a lot of open areas and hardscape. It really is just a tank full of bright, healty plants.

The tank looks good, however I would personally put some plants with finer leaves in to create a sense of scale.

Mike

 

[Castellop123]

Looks good... The Sag has done very well...

 

[roughyed]

Looks good... The Sag has done very well...

Its doing too well now! Sending runners out to all four corners! Becoming a pain at the minute!

 

[Themuleous]

Blimey, thats some nice growth, looks great

Sam

 

[Heather.]

Very nice.. The plants look very healthy and the red plant in the middle is lovely.. Hmm wish I could plant my tank like that...

 

[Themuleous]

My sags have crazy growth as well, they need almost weekly pruning to keep them low and not to compact.

BTW this is a good example of Dutch scapes

Nature Aquarium (Amano style)

Sam

 

[roughyed]

Well its been a while, mainly due to a new job taking up lots of time. However things are a bit calmer so am looking at sorting out the tanks.

Mainly done some light maintenance and pruning but not much more.

The flame and weeping moss had a moment and died off, but from the odd bits left resurrected the weeping.

The Windolev also took a turn for the worse then got a lot of Black Hair Algea. So that was pulled out.

Added 7 Ember Tetras last July and 6 are left.

July 2008 -

Jan 2009 -