Hi Graeme
Thanks for your feedback. I'll leave the photo issue aside for now but I will chat with you again on that later.
There's a few issues and ideas to follow up and I'll take them up one or two at a time. If nothing else, I've come to appreciate the benefits of patience and not rushing things when it comes to aquascaping (besides it's 6.20 am on Monday here, I've had a big weekend and the first coffee hasn't really kicked in yet
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What do you think of the suggestion of removing the right hand group of stem plants altogether? Was it James who suggested it (I can't scroll back far enough)? I'm thinking that maybe the two groups are a little too symmetrical. Actually I might get back into photoshop today and remove them there first before I lash out with the tweeezers.
The trimming of the stem plants is an interesting issue. I have a nano tank with green Rotala sp. which I have trimmed repeatedly and it has thickened up beautifully and is starting to develop that horizontal growth habit.
I've got some notions in my head about this tank, which aren't fully realised yet, but it has to do with the idea of whether an Aussie native tank might be able to have some unique characteristics which differ from the norm.
For instance when I think of the Aussie outback landscape words like 'sparse' and 'ephemeral' come to mind. I'm wondering whether I can approach the stem planting and trimming in this tank with those notions in mind. I've never grown this Crassula sp. before but it's habit and shape already suggest some of those qualities to me.
I'll leave it at that for now and go and grind up coffee #2.