Ray said:
It always looked superb but now its established it is something else
Thanks my friend. it's nice to see you about again
Ray said:
I imagine the trimmings each time must be quite impressive now also.
roughly, well over 200!

the last lot ended up in the bin, but the next lot I'm giving to some close friends

shame to waist them.
SteveUK said:
I really like how in this photo, to me at least, the Blyxa looks like fireworks exploding!
thanks steve, this tank gave me an opportunity to practice trimming blyxa, i've managed to find a way of trimming it so you see the front rather than the top and getting height too
SteveUK said:
Will it get to a point where you won't be able to trim the rotala much more, and need to start again, or will you call it end of life if that happens? (new challenges are always tempting

)
of course, the rotala is such an easy plant to maintain, each trim i just inch my way up and eventually it'll get to the point where enough is enough. notice the blyxa gradually getting higher to hide the lower portions of rotala?....the right wasn't planted with blyxa. many, many lessons learnt, i feel i'm coming to a point where i might just create an iwagumi that's at least 70% right as opposed to just 50% or for that matter a scape! that's 70% right.
my next scape contains 90% stems, in fact theres 15 varieties of plants going in my 60cm (trendy plants

) so more lesson to be learnt. I'm going away to learn, then I'll be back.