My first go at Aquascaping

[Jucino]

Hi everyone,

Please allow me to humbly present my very first aqua scape after months of researching and contemplating. I have wanted to setup a tank to keep apistos for the longest time how ever, I didn't wanted a tank that is too plain looking . Thus , I decided to go an extra mile for the apistos to create the below planted. I hope everyone would enjoy my post and I will deeply appreciate any form of valuable feedback and suggestions on how I can improve on things.

The setup

Tank: Gex Glassterior 600
Filter: Eheim 2040
Lights: Aquazonic 18w X 2
Substrate:Ada Africana
Ferts: Initial stages will be just dosing Microbelift Bio Carbon
Plants: Bucep. Lamadau Green, Bucep. Catherine ( Thanks to a bro from here )
Crypt Tropicana (Thanks to the folks at green emerald for bringing this in and their invaluable sharing on care and scaping ideas
Some dwarf Anubias Nana, It might be Nana petite but it seem too big.
Unknown Stem plants (may need some help with identification)

Initially I have planned to use these river pebbles for my hard scape but it just didn't fit into how I wanted my tank to look like,as you can see from the picture below.

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Thus , i decided to switch out the pebbles for black lava rocks instead and also to leave just one cave in the tank for a neater look.

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Satisfied , I decided to go ahead and add in the plants into the tank.

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How ever, after placing the plants in, I can see that there are some pockets of spaces that needs to be filled up . Thus I decided to add more Lava rocks in. That is also when I decided to add some in crypts which I bought while buying the additional lava rocks.

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[Jucino]

The final look on how the full tank is like on day 1 after flooding the tank.

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Here are some snap shots on how I've arranged and planted the plants in the tank.

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[Apistoinka]

Nice tank and nice arrangement.. maybe can add some moss tied on small rock. By the way what apisto species you will be keeping.