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I am thinking of pulling out this big rock 53cm X 10cm X 10cm. Behind it is a gap about 10-12cm and all the very large Anubias tied to small rocks to stop them floating.

About ever 6 months I take out the Anubias and do a very good deep gravel cleaning then trim up the plants then put them back again. Also behind the rock are two 4ins ceramic air stones still good as the day I bought them about 15 years ago.
This is also a hiding place for the Silver sharks and some of the CLs. At each end of this rock is a large cave these will NOT be pulled down.
I am thinking of getting several pieces of DW and tying the Anubias to them. If I can locate a good one piece of DW I will get that. I have plenty of smaller Anubias I can put in the front of the DW.
The main reason is to open it up more and allow me to do a better cleaning also see the CLs and the Silver Sharks more

I would like some constructive crits please.

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I can see why you'd want to open it up a bit. I think a shallow arching piece of driftwood would be good. something that'd rise up off the substrate a bit and allow the loaches to get in underneith it is what I'm visualizing. I had a piece something like that in my old office tank back in the states and had java fern on it. If I wanted to do a good clean in the back of the tank I just had to move it forward or even remove it from the tank entirely. The barbs would spend their evenings in a dark corner and their days playing above it.

Since you're leaving the caves a branchy bit of wood may work to spread out the anubias then the wood could rest over the caves.

You've got a lot (from what I can see) of the anubias would all of them go onto the driftwood or just some of them?

^_^

I would love a long arching piece of DW but the major prob would be moving it. Even setting it up would be near impossible BUT two smaller arching pieces would be excellent. I want to tie as much of the tall and big Anubias onto to DW and place the smaller Anubias in front on rocks as they are now.

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Sounds good to me keith!

I wish you luck!

Moving it...that's true we'd be talking about a piece of driftwood that's almost as tall as I am I think you're right in that it'd be a bit difficult to move.

I'm still getting used to larger tanks. Before moving here the largest tank I had was the 30 long in the office.

^_^

Here is the full tank photo clearly showing the caves at either end of the tank.

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Ok.......now we're awaiting the after shot, when your done redecorating.

Here are the three pieces of DW they could be Mangrove pieces as they are very heavy/dense which means they will sink very easily as a matter fact they are soaking now. I will leave them for at least a month and change the water weekly.
I did not expect to find them so easy just one LFS they had just received a supply in.

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Driftwood? Where is driftwood?

I will try again I had a few probs posting photos yesterday.

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Wow.......good find on the driftwood!

Great looking lawn too.

I have recently given the lawn its spring feeding hoping it will survive our summer.

Re the DW not very often you find exactly what you want first up.

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Very nice pieces of DW. They'll be very beautiful decorated with Anubias. Do you have a picture of the new setup?.


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I have taken photos of the various stages of the aquascape changes. I bought more DW today Wed and it will be soaking for 24 hrs as it is very clean

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