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Im going to plant my 75g and I need to figure out how to aquascape the tank. I am horrible at designing tanks. I have a peice of driftwood thats going to go in. heres a pic
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The plants that Im going to get are. Amazon sword, vallinsea, java fern, java moss, assort anubias and crypts, and hygro. I actually want a nice looking tank this time. All my other look like crap.

Awesome piece of DW you've got there. If I recall correctly, your 75 is stocked with some large, robust fish. Therefore, IMO, it'd be in your best interest to plant primarily anubias , cryptocorne, javanense ferns, and large echis (basically, all your deep rooted, inedible plants). I think the tank will look great.

All those fish are gone. This will be redone with a SA community.

Remember to water log the Driftwood before placing it in your tank.
Very nice pictures.


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Monkey,

An attractive, planted aquarium rises from good planning. This site has some great pictures of aquaria: http://showcase.aquatic-gardeners.org/2004.cgi.

A couple of thoughts when dealing with a nice sized tank like your 75G. Use your stump, great looking pice, as a focal point but not in the center of the aquarium. Offset it so that it is 2/5ths of the length of the aquarium then move it back toward the rear wall. Plant crypt balansae behind the wood as a background.

The aquarium can use a second, subtler focal point either adjacent or separate from the stump.

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Bob, i like that website, but there is an idiot judge: [font color="#C00000"]*****[/font]

All he does is tell people that their tanks are ugly, and is always critisiging people.

He even is a hyprocrit, he says something that someone should do, and the next picture it is exactly what he said would be nice, then he says "That is ugly, you need more stemmed plants in the back"

I cant find an e-mail 0on that website to wright a complaint about him.

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Last edited by Babelfish at 28-Mar-2005 10:12

Here are the plants that I'm planning on getting and how many.
Here is my plan. Cover the entire background in vals with hygros mixed in every now and then. Then have one sword behind the offfset wood. Cover the wood in java moss. Put the other sword 4/5 of the way opposite from the wood. then in the front corners about 3in back put the anubias and then fill in the rest of the forground with the dwarf sag.

amazon sword 2
Cork Val 20
java moss 2
dwarf sag 10
anubia bart 2
green hygro 4

Hi,

As opposite to what i've been seeing in SA tanks, the real thing is not heavily planted, because of the dense vegetation over the waters not many aquatic plants can survive, so the ones that do are huge, like swords and valls. The substrate is muddy and a lot of branches and over grown roots.

So I would go with those species there is a wide range of varieties of both, and if used well they do wonderful scapes. You can use you piece of DW as a center piece, and add several branches, they are great as decoration and easy to clean around, and then use valls as background and a couple of bog swords, and several dwarf species.

Last edited by Falstaf at 28-Mar-2005 03:15

I like the driftwood. Get a piece of slate and drill a hole in it.Place a screw thru the slate into the bottom of the driftwood. You can then bury the slate below your substrate to hold down the driftwood.