My sort of 11" cube

[Garuf]

Stripping down and new scape photos coming soon.

 

[Arana]

Wahoo...tell us your plans mate

 

[Garuf]

I'm thinking of doing a wood and moss scape, carpet of U.T. and a narrow leave java fern for the background. All low light. I'll be getting 2x11w arc pods as soon as I find some for the right money on ebay.

 

[Arana]

i'll be thinning out my Fire and Xmas moss at the weekend if thats any good to you i'll send it over

 

[Garuf]

Yeah, that'd be amazing, I'm on the beg for U T too if anyone has any going spare?

Infact, things I need are:
CO2 regulator,
nano diffuser (got one from Dan, just haven't collected it)
arc pods
narrow leaved java
U T
mosses

 

[Steve Smith]

Might be able to sort you some needle java, and some weeping moss

 

[Garuf]

Steve and Mark I'll take the following:
Christmas moss from Mark
Needle leaved java from Steve.

And a plee for some lighting if anyone has any.

 

[Arana]

No prob i'll cut some at the weekend

 

[Garuf]

When ever you want Mark take your time.
I'm waiting on some fx5's

 

[Steve Smith]

Sexy

The needle leaf might not be at it's best mate, it's in a tank I stripped down the other day. I'll do my best to send you some good bits Will PM you when I've had a chance to sort it out.

 

[Garuf]

Plants ordered and on the way, rough Idea of how the planting on the rescape will go, as you can see it's a subtle change, but I think it really improves the scape.

 

[Garuf]

Oh and while I'm here, will an 18w pc like the one George is using be enough to grow all of the plants I have picked or would 2 be better?

 

[Garuf]

and here's the scape as is.

 

[Garuf]

 

[Themuleous]

Nice Gareth very promising start. Will the fern not get a bit big for this size tank?

Sam

 

[Garuf]

probably, but I've found them pretty easy to keep small if you trim back the biggest leaves it seems to stop producing leaves that size.

 

[Garuf]

Anyone want to offer some critiques? All will be gladly received.

 

[aaronnorth]

The bright piece of wood is to central and distracting and i think the anubias needs spreading out more along the downward facing branch.

There's my view

 

[Garuf]

Cheer's aaron I'm going to trim back some Java leaves in the next few days so I'll tweak the wood. I personally love the anubias where they are... They do a good job of hiding the zip ties.

 

[ceg4048]

I'd probably play with mounting the spraybar on the left wall where the diffuser is (opposite the carpet plants.)

Cheers,