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Bark on the first looks like silver birch. Probably not great wood for a tank, tends to rot quickly. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That wasn’t the shop in Cefn y Bedd, North Wales was it? Remember visiting there years ago. Well ahead of it’s time. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Also consider a pseudo cube, I.e square base but slightly taller than it is wide. 30 wide x 30 deep x 36 tall would be cool. That would get away from the symmetry but keep the same foot print. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Cool wood, could have some nice emergent plants coming out the top. T Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Wow that looks amazing! Great layout, looks a lot bigger than it is. Very healthy looking too. What is your maintenance schedule? Any more details on the 3D printed HOB, sounds very interesting. T Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I agree option 2. The wood looks more natural around the rock. The wood looks like really nice old roots. My eye is drawn to the central branch. Looks like a point where two branches grew together. It has what bonsai people call, negative taper. Not necessarily bad but certainly is a high focal...

Standard aqua soil (Tropica, ADA etc) Could be poured in behind the rocks, just make sure you plug all the gaps with filter wool. You could work without soil and just plant in the gaps (that’s what I’m doing) Personally I would just use some nice sand or gravel over the glass on the left side...

Looks much better than the pebbles. You might want to consider moving the right hand bottom rock back from the glass a bit. Can make cleaning difficult! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I think cube footprint tanks are tricky but I like what you have. Lava rock is very versatile. I would be tempted to try some sandy foreground? Have fun! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Nice pictures, love the ember tetra in front of the shadows. Crypts look nice and healthy. Have you thought of any higher planting, moss further up the wood? T Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Very nice rock work. It does feel a bit far to the left but it probably depends on how you will view it. What are you planning to use as a carpeting plant? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Amano did one years a go. Got it in an old Aquajournal somewhere. Big round chunks on bed of hair grass and riccia. Used lava rock in my journal but not an Iwugumi! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Different stones but these guys seem to have rock gluing down; http://aquamandesign.com/ANS/pl/aranzacje-ancient-stone-pl/kostki-aquaman-30l/ Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Love the moss etc growing on top, makes the stone look very integrated into the landscape. T Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The buce and anubias look cool against the dark rock. Diatoms are a nuisance! Maybe try the GoPro underwater? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Lava rock is good, I managed to source a load from another scaper. It’s much lighter than other rocks. You could glue bits together (As per the TGM video). https://www.aquasabi.com/aquascaping/hardscape/stones/black-lava Worth giving them an e-mail, they can probably source big bits. I...

Great wood! Some purigen in your filter will help with any tannins or haze. T Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It does really look great, I would have done it for my upcoming scape but already have a lot of shrimp etc with no other place to put them. I guess Dragon Stone also wicks the water and stays wet? Some of the harder stones I tried just dried out so fast, even misting twice a day. As you say...

Just to report my progress with this. First attempt failed due to mould. Tried again just with lava rock. Fissidens works but very slow to grow. Christmas moss work very quick. Willow moss just started to grow, very slow! Think the lava rock on a bed of wet aqua soil is good as it stays damp...

Hard to add much! It’s a great scape! Maybe more moss of the lava rock and more epiphite plants on the wood, might add to the “aged” look. The dark rock is a great back drop for the fish. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Looks lovely, good feeling of depth with the concave scape. [emoji106] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thanks for all the helpful replies. My gut feeling is to not try the rocks as a first scape but perhaps try and simulate it later with lava rock? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Scape at 2:20 is a totally amazing piece of stone/emergant growth. Wondering how he got that to grow and then not wilt in normal room humidity? [emoji263] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yes, just watched it. Interesting position as George says. Personally I would prefer a moss encrusted tower! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Need to spend more time staring at the tank.... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thanks for all the input guys. Wow Colm, must have been a bit scary when that big stone went over [emoji33] Hope the you tube link works, but around 13 mins on the ADA movie they do a scape with 3 big stones. The call them Unzan and it looks like very porous, volcanic rock. Looking at the...

Thanks for the input. The cabinet is on a downstairs concrete floor, so no concern there. It is the proper EA cabinet, not something I made myself, Looking at the internal construction all the weight goes through the sides and back panel: The rock itself despite having a big divet on the...

Thanks for the advice and reassurance! Think I will go with a few layer of some black yoga mat. Easier to hide than Styrofoam. Thinking like this ADA scape but bigger Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’m still trying to decide on a scape for my AS 900, it’s on the AS cabinet. I’ve been really loving stone dominant scapes recently, not Iwugumi per se but more like the amano planted monolith scapes. I’ve been playing in my scape box. I’ve got some big chunks of shale. I will probably have...

Looks great, lighting really makes the colours on the fish pop! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Giving this a go with a few bits of lava rock + some bigger bits of shale. Put some in with my Monte Carlo and the rest in a big plastic store box. Similar to dry start.... My 4 year old loved helping with this one. Thanks T Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Cool, never heard about them before. Interesting. Thanks Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Looks nice, I like the Staurogynae in the rocks. What are the test tube looking things on the left? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Great video, really clear. I’m tempted to try this but just for some rocks, that I then place in amongst the hard scape once the moss is established. Thanks. T Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Nice! I’m really impressed with my EA 900. The quality is very high. Enjoy! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That is basically my dream tank! :clap: I'm gonna have a go on a smaller scale in a bowel I have at home.....

Cheers mate, I think this scape is much more balanced and even comes close to 1:1.6 (although I only notice this afterwards). Was painful to tear up all those stems but it was worth it, I also get to see more of the crypts that were being swamped.

I was inspired by Aaron to pull out all my stems! They look nice but I just can't keep on top of them. So now it's a ferns and moss scape. Also waiting for the hair grass to fill in. Sorry about the cloudy, post water change pic. I might try and add some more wood between the 2 main pieces...

Hey Dan, it's Christmas moss actually it seems to grow like that when under strong lights. Tom

I think like Garuf I ascribe to the Wabi-sabi thought process when it comes to scapes. I currently have 3 tanks and 3 emergent glass bowls and I know that they will wax and wane with time. I think it's really important not to get caught up in "perfection" which is impossible when dealing with...

Hey saintly, thanks that is praise from Ceasar indeed :lol: I want to see how it looks when the hair grass has made a nice carpet. I want to re-scape with more wood and a lot less stems, they look nice but I can't keep on top of them. My main problem is leigions of shrimp, no idea how I...

I thought I was done with this scape but the stems went all "day of the triffids" again and I had to punish them. I ripped up almost all of the pogostemon, which revealed some really nice bolbotis and java fern, the is also a nice patch of staurogyne wich I uncovered. I have decided to let the...

Re: Check out my Wood (Night of the long Scissors) OK so I turn my back on this tank and everything goes mental. So I got medieval on my stems, brutalising them back. Hope they grow back, should look nice in a couple of weeks, still can't really decide on the shape the stems should be making...

:lol: I Know what you mean, the wood is more visable in real life. I think the camera hides it in shadows. The stems a pretty rampant and I've never been known as the most disciplined weilder of the sciccors. I'm planning a more concave scape to make more of the wood for my next go. Here's a...

This scape is nearing it's "completed" state, a bit more work on the stems is needed and I hacked back the Pogestemon at the front, that gap is slowly being filled in by hair grass and HC. Here's some snaps I took with only the back lights on. Will post some finished pics in a couple of weeks...

interesting, shame copper and I guess arsenic are highly toxic to most inverts.

A little update. Few shots showing the Java fern and bolbitis growing in. Looks a bit unbalanced currently as I pulled up the left hand Rotala green (was getting very leggy) and replaced it with Rotala Rotundifolia and Ludwigia Ruben, this should add some non-green colours. Also got some emperor...

It may be good for giving that Amazon biotope look with neons swimming through it (see George's Cambodian pool), I think it may not look right as part of a planted scape. If you use it give it a good soak first. If the bark comes off easily that would be ok but probably best to avoid whittling...

Looks a bit fresh. It may leak a lot of tannins etc. I´ve put wood with bark in tanks before and got a weird kind of fungus on it. I suspect it will be annoyingly boyant aswell. Probably OK but don`t Almonds contain cyanide?! I think if your gonna use it make sure it´s well soaked for...

I couldn't resist having a play with some of this wood. As I was trimming the moss in my Nano I thought why not. I've never really liked the wood in my big tank, so I had another go. Christmas Time ! I had everything required - Wood, cotton, moss, cat..... Here's a terrible picture of the...

My cats are great fun but try tying moss to wood in the presence of a cat, then you learn the definition of annoyance :lol:

Hi Matt, I think the redmoore is fine if you let it dry out - If kept damp but in air it is more likley to rot. Unfourtunatley will be boyant when you next want to use it....

A farming friend was draining a small pond on their land and found these bits of wood for me. They were laughing at the fact that only I could value some rotten wood from the bottom of a pond! We think they are old pine tree stumps.Still I think there is some really cool stuff here. I was never...

Lush growth Jonny, really taking off now. Especially like the hairgrass. You may have explained this earlier but whats with the gap at the front?

If a third shipment happens I would be interested in a good amount of chunky pieces for a nature rescape of my Osaka. 20 - 50 cm ish Cheers Guys, Tom B

Very interesting Journal, are you worried about a crash when the system is submerged? Some moss would do very well on the wood in the current conditions. Looking forward to the flood - T

Nice video - Would be cool to see a really massive bio-tope in a public aquarium. I've seen some six foot long pike while diving and they look awsome, perch are also really quite pretty - like oversized Tiger Barbs. Looking foreward to the article, Tom

I accidentally installed coral sand (essentially lime stone before it becomes a mountain) which was a grevious mistake my carbonate hardness and pH were really high (12 and 8.5 respectivley). The fish were not happy and you get a film of limescale on the surface. CO2 and water changes don't seem...