I've decided to continue this journal for next layout. In the end it's the same shop and the same tank
Today I finished (well, almost) new layout. Most of the plants are in, I expect to make some tweaks here and there in next week and add red plant (guess what).
Here is the composition of wood I made almost 2 months ago, later I've tried to compose something better, but ended up with that first variant. It's nice to have photo of layout to compare different efforts. Also I've printed photo to have the image at my hands when I'm at shop.
IMG_1137 by
bialix1, on Flickr
IMG_1138 by
bialix1, on Flickr
This time I've tried to fix the mistake with the first scape: I've tried to ensure there is enough room for foreground. Well, basically in 30cm depth of tank I have about 10cm for each plan: foreground, midground and background. We rarely see how best scapers plan their layouts from the side point of view, but now this point seems very important for me, almost as important as golden ratio and good selection of hardscape. My previous composition had too little space for foreground at the right side, where all wood and rocks were. And that made maintenance of the tank not so easy. (And probably it made composition is not so good to get better placing in contest
. Now I want to make sure the foreground is at least 10 cm and my maintenance job won't be hard. Although with all that branches at background it won't be very easy.
Photo taken right before I put water in, nothing special so far:
IMG_1523 by
bialix1, on Flickr
Right now the water is a little cloudy, next weeks I'll try to show you the progress.