Driftwood Puzzle

[strung_0ut]

Very nice nonetheless. I've always wanted to achieve a moss wall, I think its a great way for moss propagation and saving space. My weeping moss looks like that right now just on driftwood, I'm hoping to achieve what Oriental does with their weeping moss.

Dennis

[ruyle]

I'll put in my 2c worth: I liked number 11 the best when you first posted it!
It would be an absolute stunner in a tall enough tank. Number 13 is the
2nd choice if the tank was a little lower in heighth You guys sure know
how to grow the mosses. I'm going to have to try CO2 again! My mosses
have been doing better now that the house is cooler due to freezing outdoor temps!

[timebomb]

I'll put in my 2c worth: I liked number 11 the best when you first posted it!

Too late, Bill. I've already put arrangement 14 into the tank.

My wife and I spent the better part of Christmas Eve and the whole of Christmas working on my tank. When I finished last night, I was so tired I went to bed immediately. Didn't know there was a quake until I opened the papers this morning. Hope all is safe with those forum users who live in India, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia.

Anyway, I decided to take Robert's advice and not have a Moss wall after all. I decided on a Taiwan Moss carpet as I have plenty of this moss. I bought a big piece of wire mesh the other day. It's big enough to cover almost the whole of my tank but it would be difficult to work with such a large piece of mesh so I cut it into several pieces. Here's one piece after I tied the Taiwan Moss to it:


Here's how it looks in the tank:


The fish love it so much a pair of A. australes spawn on the moss almost immediately after I put it in:


I found, to my dismay, after the 2nd piece that I didn't have enough Taiwan Moss for the whole tank. As you can see from the picture, there's a lot less moss on the 2nd and 3rd pieces of mesh:


As for the driftwood arrangement, I tied the 3 pieces together with fishing line and used a rock to hold it down as the whole thing was very bouyant:


Here's how the tank looks now. It's nothing like an Amano tank but I'm hoping it will look good when the mosses start to grow:


The driftwood arrangment looks like a giant spider, don't you think?

Loh K L

[FC]

KL,

Your setup looks great, even now! Yes, it is better not to have the moss wall for this case, the tank looks deeper now. I like the large space on the left side of the tank too. The drift woods cluster is a tad small though but good enough.

Good job!

Regarding th fishes, I am not sure. Does having a single and species with less striking colour would provide calm and serene to the setup? Since the mosses are small leaf plants, does small species Rasbora fit?

[nonamethefish]

Maybe find some more pieces of driftwood-perhaps arrange them to use the height of this tank-needs more hardware IMHO but it looks nice!