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hi guys

this is what i have at the moment

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f125/juwel-180/Photo-0063_000-1.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f125/juwel-180/Photo-0064_001.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f125/juwel-180/Photo-0065_002.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f125/juwel-180/Photo-0066_003.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f125/juwel-180/Photo-0067_004.jpg

the tank temp is 25-26 C it is a low light tank with about 1.25 WPG. The fish in it are 1 Dwarf gourami, 9 hengels, 1 fox, 5 zebras, 10 neons.

it has not fertze apart from in tablet and liquid form added on every other water change.

any ideas on plant or wat i could do to have it looking gd for new year (ish)

Hi Juwel, Nice looking tank, and plants look healthy and good.

What has always worked for me, is to choose a focus point, like for example a rock or wood formation out of the center of the tank, in than way your eyes will go all over the tank to finally set on this point.

Also what really works great is to try to contrast plant shapes, size, texture and color, even if they are all green, different shades of green add depth to the tank, for example, if you place long leave or long stem plants at the back and then arrange the variety of the plants from back to front, it will look much deeper, that's size of the plant wise. As for color, dark greens at the back and lighter shades at the front will make it look deeper, if it's the other way around (dark greens at the front, light shades at the back) will create a focus point in the front of the tank, and the back will me seen as "filling".

Since you have kind of red rock or wood, not sure, that is by itself a natural contrast color wise, so try to back all the stones or wood with plans, they will accentuate them.

With texture you can do the same and accomplish different results, you can use wide leafed plants in the back and in front smaller leafed ones, that will make both to stand out.

Hope this helps

ok thanks that realy does help if i where to have my tank in a U shape with the tall plants at the back and sides with low plants in the middle would this work there is no wood in the tank as i did not add any in the first place and i dont want to add any at this point 3 years down the track. Um my only prob is that it is a low light tank and there for get healthy plants is hard. One thing that would help if people post pics of there own planted tanks so i can have idea's

Hi, yes i think that would work just fine, the thing is that you end loving how your tank looks, there is not a "proper way" to aquascape, you can copy or take ideas from others, but it's you who has to really love the results

You can see a pic of my tank which i'm now saving from months of neglect in this post here there is also a pic of how it used to look a year ago.

thanks i think i will have to go with the flow and see how it ends up in a few weeks

cool, let us see the results! It's always great to se how a tank is evolving

will do i will take some pics tommorrow it looks a bit diffrent with a lot more swimming room and i must say all ready the fish seem to like it more