I've had a bit of a busy eventful afternoon that ended with me reorganising my tank.
I received some lovely plants from Darrel and decided to attach them to the driftwood temporarily rather than leaving floating around the tank.
The wood in the tank has been in there since 2010. It was 3 huge awkward shape lumps of bogwood that my children chose for me. I tried to lift the largest bit out this afternoon and it broke repeatedly. I ended up scrubbing what was left, rearranging the wood in the tank to work with what I had left then planting round it.
Ran out of time and resources but it looks very different.
I've gone from this (taken last summer before the catfish started destroying plants)
To this tonight
Can't decide if I like it. Hubby hates it (I think he can see a price tag looming )
Need to add rocks and maybe some ferns and do something with the right side to balance it. I'm hoping the central placement will make the most of the 4ft tubes in the 5ft tank.
Still considering uprooting the lot and moving it to the right so it slopes down to a void in the left but the lighting is slightly left of centre so maybe will leave it central and try to balance the shape
What do you think so far?
Amanda
Ps.. I'd just fed the fish which is why they were on the surface
I received some lovely plants from Darrel and decided to attach them to the driftwood temporarily rather than leaving floating around the tank.
The wood in the tank has been in there since 2010. It was 3 huge awkward shape lumps of bogwood that my children chose for me. I tried to lift the largest bit out this afternoon and it broke repeatedly. I ended up scrubbing what was left, rearranging the wood in the tank to work with what I had left then planting round it.
Ran out of time and resources but it looks very different.
I've gone from this (taken last summer before the catfish started destroying plants)
To this tonight
Can't decide if I like it. Hubby hates it (I think he can see a price tag looming )
Need to add rocks and maybe some ferns and do something with the right side to balance it. I'm hoping the central placement will make the most of the 4ft tubes in the 5ft tank.
Still considering uprooting the lot and moving it to the right so it slopes down to a void in the left but the lighting is slightly left of centre so maybe will leave it central and try to balance the shape
What do you think so far?
Amanda
Ps.. I'd just fed the fish which is why they were on the surface