My new 4ft tank aquascape

[Salphur]

Wow, such a beautiful scape!

Cheers!

[hk75]

bro, your needle fern is blooming, save some for me, me thinking of coming bk to planted again....haha

Hi all, latest photo taken with my newly acquired canon 450d Sorry, if the photo is still not good... still learning.. comments welcome. Btw, the stem plants in the back were just trimmed. Cheers!

[cydaph]

great setup!

[ripley]

Nice setup

[o2bubble]

bro, your needle fern is blooming, save some for me, me thinking of coming bk to planted again....haha

Sure and welcome back soon!!

[BFG]

I think you need to trim the plants. Can't see the driftwood structure anymore.

[blue33]

I agree with BFG. The plant and moss has overly shadow the hardscape, it will be a waste of your beautiful hardscape not shown, you need to tone down the plant to show more of your hardscape.

[o2bubble]

thanks for the comments. I have trimmed the plants. Took me a few hours with the tellenus, ferns and crypts. Left the cyperus and stem plants this wkend to trim.

[barmby]

The plants are doing well. you may want to trim some of the plants on the "island" to give the scape more character. Now it is one lump in the middle. Nice boom by the way.

[o2bubble]

Did some major trimming and removed much mosses. Looks better now Still headache over how to rescape the back stem plants to create a focus point... any suggestions?

[ouuuigh]

really nice setup , 9/10

[hOcKie]

Love the arrangement, at least when the wood could still be seen. Now, it has overgrown. Good sign that the plants are healthy and growing thou! Still NICE!

[Blue Whale]

Did some major trimming and removed much mosses. Looks better now Still headache over how to rescape the back stem plants to create a focus point... any suggestions?

O2, which theme were you actually thinking of?

Amazon? (http://www.amanotakashi.net/portfoli...nderwater.html)

NA tank? (http://www.amanotakashi.net/portfoli...ium/index.html)

Participating tanks last year? (http://acuariorosa.blogspot.com/2009...uyen-tien.html)

CAU Tanks (http://www.cau-aqua.net/index.php?op...zoom&Itemid=29)

Telling you what to do its like limiting your creativity. But if you see more pictures, there might be more interesting ideas coming. Certainly don't have to decide immediately. Take a backseat for a moment to think about it.

[o2bubble]

Bro blue whale, I've have reviewing all the ADA tank photos and others and thinking hard for many months already on the backscape. I could seem to find one that I like. Rescaped the back 2 times already, that's why seeking suggestions here. One difficult is there is not much space at the back due to the driftwoods in centre. I need to create an effective focus point in the back to compliment the driftwoods layout.

[barmby]

Source: www.amanotakashi.net

This look familiar.

[Blue Whale]

O2, I can't grasp which one you referring to at the moment. Want to enlighten me further? If you have camera phone, try to activate the nine squares, else, I might need to modify your pict to show up the nine squares. Effectively focusing on the left right 1.618. Yours is a 4ft, should be able to figure out, but might need some shifting if you are willing to.

Barmby, I think I know who...but each his own creativity. But if you want to create that kinda effect then the following two are the ones you should be looking at. Amano certainly have eyes for better NA Tanks. If the site was available back then, I am sure the owner would have better creation. So you can just say we are plain lucky. Still, I think that owner have his own preference so its still a good thing that the tank was unique.

[barmby]

Later, he say I stalk him

anyway, back to O2bubble - look for long drift wood , place them one directional.. this certainly make the tank more long. one of the ways.

[o2bubble]

Thanks all, i'm not looking to change the hardscape but really just to rescape the plants at the back to minimise the disturbance to the tank and fishes. Will post a photo soon.

[Blue Whale]

I dunno if I understand this correctly but you just need cutter (Mine is disposable $1.50 from pasat malam - night market), and a net. Less you need to move plants, then water need to remove to reduce floatation effect. (^^" my english not good, dunno spell correctly or not, dictionary can't find it <- I use dictionary when I do posting). The net to fish out the bits and pieces from water surface. Those stuck to glass wall, just use finger to slowly remove them.

One worry is to make sure you cover the cutter from the fish. But I think long scissors might make things much easier. GC there got Borneo ones. Gear wise, I think just increase them slowly as and when funds is available. No rush.

I find the plants at the corners might be more challenging, whether near driftwood, stone or glass wall. >"< Still...long scissors will make things easier.

[ubaca]

That's really nice!!!