Forgot to add the photo!
Thanks, George. It's really nice wood, the joy is the versatility of it because a single branch is much more modular than say redmoor where it's either one piece, facing which ever way suits it best, these don't seem so one sided and are much easier to construct complex assemblies with.George Farmer said:Congrats on a lovely looking tank, Gareth!
I love the wood. I must try some of this out at some point!
The straight piece is actually the bones of the scape, everything forms from it, and yes the juxtaposition is stark, but like you say I envision most of it to become "wasted". I'm thinking of it more as a planting armature. That brings me onto your next point, I envision about 70% of the lower 3rd of the scape to become the framework for planting and wasted, the lower most level dominated by moss and a feature anubias nestled underneath a protrusion of Bolbitits and narrow leave java. The "arm" or "shelf" that reaches almost horizontal through the front I imagine to be mostly hidden by bolbitits, the large straight contrasting branch will be encrusted in java fern upto the bottom of the top 3rd of the tank forming a strongly triangular focal running from there down to the bottom right corner.My first thoughts are that the tallest piece of wood is too straight, at odds with the twisted nature of the remaining pieces. There seems to be a mass of tangled pieces in the lower third of the tank that may become 'wasted' once planted?
Pretty much entirely encased, only a hint of the form showing through, the gnarled root bulb I really want to be the only part showing, the wood above it forming the plant work which will give cohesiveness to the other elements of the scape. That said, I've been pointed in the direction of leaving that hole area bare, something I'm mulling over.What are you intentions with the planting, especially around the high density of wood around the left/centre?
Haha, that was a typo on my behalf, it should be 24x, I will be running intense lighting and EI, I'm building a LED array that I intend to replace the 2x 24w t5's I have over the tank at the moment. Ideally I need someone to Okay my Schematic then I'm sailing really.34x turnover seems a little overkill! What's the theory behind it? Are you running intense lighting and nutrients?
Thank you, alas luck and good favour has never been on my side with some aspect of my private life intruding and meaning I never get to see a vision completed, I hope this will be different! God knows I've been saving money to buy the tank for long enough!I don't remember seeing many final 'scapes from you, so I'm really looking forward to see this one develop...
Garuf said:Hey Sam, yeah, Bolbititis is the only plant I know that I definitely want to use. I'm pretty much open to any suggestion as long as it's not do an iwagumi.
Don't really like either of these but they give an idea of the scapes I've been kicking about while trying to get a clearer idea of what I want from this scape. I'm thinking I'll only really tweek the rock work from the first since I was so won over by it. I'm certain there's room for improvement, I just can't see it at the moment.
Garuf said:How do you mean "dead space", Spanner man? Someone else called it out on another forum but I'm not sure I see it, which scape do you mean in?
I like your approach, Jase, I do enjoy rescapes, guiltily always though. I do plan on packing it out but I don't know, everyone says more depth but in my head I imagined the planting to give it but now I'm not sure at all. I'll be pushing it all back and try again, I'm just worried about too much of a foreground. That said... maybe a hc foreground into sand would be nice... Hmm.
Thank you, Celestial. The stones are a mixture of Derbyshire limestone I collected myself from a scree slope and mini Landscape Rock from AE, ( I don't think they stock them anymore? ) and the Manzanita is from PlantedBox, all the scape materials I've bought are available from PlantedBox right down to the substrate though if you want to save on postage.