Optiwhite iwagumi.

[Garuf]

Hello, received my optiwhite today, It's a got a few scratched and the silicon is everywhere but I couldn't resist scaping it! Here she is, critique please.

 

[Mark Evans]

what you planning on putting in there? plant wise....feels a little confined?

 

[Garuf]

Nothing but hc, though I might plump for some downoi or hairgrass to break it up.

 

[John Starkey]

Hi Garuf,just my twopenneth worth,i think you have too many rocks in there,regards john

 

[samc]

im not very good at doing rocks tbh but id take the biggest left back one out, apart from that id be happy with it

 

[Garuf]

I think you might be right. It was only a 10 minute scape just to get some ideas out there.

 

[Garuf]

That big left hand rock is actually 2 rocks, but for some reason it appears as one much larger one.

 

[samc]

yer i thought it was one until the photo from above

 

[Mark Green]

feels a little confined?

May be move the Dinosaurs a little bit more to the right


Looking good , will look even better with your HC and hairgrass all grown in.


Mark

 

[Mark Evans]

in a tank of this size garuf, i'd just hint at an iwagumi as opposed to a fully blown gumi. check out NA book1 first few pages. you'd get away with 2 stones. i think we're getting into a habit of the dry scape having to look spot on...i doesn't have to be. the planting plays as bigger part too

 

[Garuf]

I don't have any books on scaping, Mark.

 

[Mark Evans]

I don't have any books on scaping, Mark.

ahh, ok. well, 1 main stone and 2 supporting stones should do. the main stone doesn't always mean the biggest that you have neither

 

[Garuf]

sazon?

 

[Mark Evans]

sazon?

do you mean type of stone?

 

[TDI-line]

Hi Garuf, i was wondering where you get your new tank from?

 

[Garuf]

It's from AE. I'm actually not that happy with it, it's a really sloppy piece of work in the flesh, scatches and silicon all over the place. I don't have the heart to complain though since I bought it with my aquapoints.

 

[Ed Seeley]

I actually really like that but think you'd need taller plants than HC to make it work. I can really see it with a lawn of hairgrass weaving in amongst the rocks to accentuate the fact that they are a series of different rocks.

 

[Themuleous]

Yeh to many rocks for my liking.

Sam

 

[Garuf]

How about these, less stones more planting.

 

[Nick16]

the top one is good, the bottom picture however, remove the flat stone on the left, it is distracting, then in both pictures you have 3 clumps of rock.