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I've just rearranged my room to fit at least 1 more tank. My 55 gallon will be moved to be at the foot of the bed. However, I'd like to be able to lay on my bed and watch the fish, and see it from the end of the bed. This presents a bit of a challenge, aquascaping-wise.

What are your tips for doing something like this? Keep in mind this is a narrow tank ( >.< ). I'd really like to be able to use some of the plants I already have. I have vals, amazon swords, anachris, anubias, crypt wendetii and lutea, and dwarf chain swords.

Here's an outdated pic of the tank, just to give you an idea about the driftwood and such.

Janna attached this image:


Last edited by Janna at 28-Mar-2005 14:24[/font]

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The best bet is diagonals - basically, the background of side A doesn't extend across but is centered on the right (or left) and the background for side B is on the left (or right). Done well you can have a line of taller plants following from one "background" to the other, obscuring the view through the tank (ie, you probably don't want to see the bed from side B or the wall/whatever from side A) but allowing for a middle and foreground extending into the other corner on that side.

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*Tries to squint @the pieces of driftwood*

Cant quite tell...but looks like the piece on the left in that pic would work vertically In anycase what I'd do is design it as a hill....low on both left and right sides as well as "front" and "back" and use a tall piece of driftwood as the just off center focal point.
That would allow it to technically be viewed from all four sides. Might want to add a cannister to the "to buy" list....it would remove some of the equiptment.

^_^

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what i did at one point was to put the tall background plants in the middle starting 1/4 away from the left side going to 1/4 of the way to the right side in a straight row. so the tall stuff was in the middle of the tank, then put mid and foreground plants here and there in what was left...... That way the fish could swim all the way around the tank, it was set up to be viewed on both sides, The only problem i had was filters- a sub' heater can be tucked out of sight.