FishProfiles.com Message Forums

I have been constantly fooling with my 55 it currently is a mix between live and fake plants mostly fake. I would like to replace the fakes with lives the stats are as follows.

1 - 55 Gallon Tank
1 - Aquaclear 70
1 - 200w RenaCal Heater
1 - 2l DIY CO2 Solution
2 - 18 T8 Bulbs (to be upgraded to a 230w system within the month)

The residents of this tank are as follows.

1 - Male Blue Gourami
1 - Female Blue Gourami
1 - Male Red Zebra Cichlid
1 - Female Red Zebra Cichlid
1 - Electric Yellow Cichlid
2 - African Butterfly Fish
3 - Peppered Cory (lost one in a powerhead malfunction)
1 - Julii cory (will be moved when I get at least 3 more
7 - Molly (will be removed)
1 - Male Albino BN
1 - Female Albino BN
1 - Singapore shrimp

Plants
Banana Plant x3
Microsword
Java Moss
and a bunch of large bladed grass stuff I will post the name of in an edit.

The vision is to have lots of plants and use rocks and maybe a small piece of driftwood because I can only get small pieces. However I do have access to some great Fisidens moss I belive in my yard. Still waiting on confermation of this.

Pictures are to follow.


Attached Image:

Right Side

Attached Image:

Left Side

Attached Image:

center

Attached Image:

[imglink=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v195/Babelfish/heartagrambanner.jpg]http://www.heartagram.com/[/imglink]
A good start.
I think the difficulty I have with your aquascape is that it has no central focus. My eye didnt know what to look at first .

I would suggest first grouping the like plants together instead of staggering them through the tank. Also I'd go with two or three shades of green and one of the red or orange. Group the hardscape items together or select one or two and take out the rest.

^_^

I am going to be replacing the few rocks on the left with the rock that is on the right. My plan is to cover the rocks in moss wich is going to take some ... a lot of time. My major problem is just how I should group the rocks up. After that what plants I want to put in there. I was thinking of putting a bunch of Hornswort, covering the bottom in microswords mosses on the rocks and then I dont really know what for an orange colour. Any suggestions on what plants to utilize would be greatly apreciated. Help with the rocks would be MORE than greatly apreciated.