JayZee 2 ft rockscape

[JayZee]

HI everyone. This is my recently set up 2 ft rockscape with the help of 2 bros here. The plants used are Japanese hair grass, normal hair grass and tall hair grass. I'm using glosso as fore runners. I welcome any critics or advices about my tank so that i can improve in my aquascaping skills. Thanks a lot.

[torque6]

Abit flat with no depth. Middle of the tank resembles a goal post, inspiration from Europa cup?

Tank has majority of slow growing plants, try and balance with at least 30% of the tank volume with fast growers to minimise algae issues.

Having more than 2 types of foreground plants can result in 1 type being invasive and overwhelming the overall look of the scape.

[blue33]

Rock facing Rock!!! Abit weird. You can see my 2 foreground plant fighting everyday for space!

[JayZee]

There's only 1 fore runner plant glosso. The centre and the back is japanese hairgrass and normal hairgrass. For the back left and right corner is tall hairgrass.

As for the depth may i know is it the layering? Or the gradient from the back to the front?

I try to do a rockscape with reference to the iwagumi scaping. From what i see all use hairgrass as the plant of choice without any fast grower.

The rock facing rock concept is to create both mountain facing each other and a lush greenery in between. Well i do admit it does look weird. haha

[blue33]

There's only 1 fore runner plant glosso. The centre and the back is japanese hairgrass and normal hairgrass. For the back left and right corner is tall hairgrass.

As for the depth may i know is it the layering? Or the gradient from the back to the front?

I try to do a rockscape with reference to the iwagumi scaping. From what i see all use hairgrass as the plant of choice without any fast grower.

The rock facing rock concept is to create both mountain facing each other and a lush greenery in between. Well i do admit it does look weird. haha

Keep it up! Just do what appear nice to you, because you going to face it everyday.

[benetay]

blue 33 you're right! I've to agree with what you've said, what matters most is yourself, if you like it, so be it. Unless the tank is up for competition then we might have a little trouble here. We can have 10 pages of people saying it's a nice tank but it may not even qualify as a competition tank.

So i think the left side of the rocks might be good to be tilted 45 degrees, adding some support(small ones) rocks to create more feelings to the scape.

The long Hairgrass isn't in yet, so i suppose we give it a few months or so for it to mature. I think having 2 foreground or even 3 foreground plants will make you rather busy, i'm sure with time, you can manage it. I think blue33 did a half glosso half HG tank as a foreground & still managing it well!

Learn, unlearn, relearn!

Cheers!

[JayZee]

Yeah thanks for the encouragement bros. I think this experience is self learnt as the time goes by. It's not gained within a day by books or by hear say. I'm prepared to fail but never mind, at least i got experience abeit through the hard way

I cross my finger and wait for a month to see how my scape fare.

By the way G 119 is what kind of hair grass huh?