how to scape?

DarkSoul

DarkSoul

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Ok, I got some plants, but i dont know how to arrange them, plus I dont have that many yet.

I have the following plants;

5 or 6 red water temples
bunch of bacopa monieri
bunch of bacopa rotundifolia
small bunch of cabomba (this wasnt surviving well, being shaded, so it will need to grow out again)
a large sword plant in the middle back of the tank
hornwort... and its kind of a pain as it keeps shedding leaves.

I have no idea, what the best way to sort these out would be.

lets hear some great aquascaping ideas :)
 
im not liking the hornwort so much.... I like the cover it provides, and my betta likes it, but its dropping needles like crazy.

would a pleco or something help keep those clean at all?
 
I have had hornwort that shed constantly, and some that did not shed at all. I'd say try to get some from a different store and see if that does better.
 
I have snails.... or a snail.

I know one snail is growing nicely, I think is an apple snail but I cant be sure yet. It doesnt seem to eat leaves or dead plant matter though..... or maybe its eating the dead ones, but hes too small to do any serious cleaning yet, and there are too many needles to know if hes making a difference :)


Im hoping that the hornwort will start to grow better once the tank is more stable.

but still, I have no idea how to arrange my current plants. There is also nothing in the tank other than plants, and gravel.
 
I had that problem with my hornwort too. Shed down to the stem pretty much when I first put it into my 20 gal and now I've been having to trim it and planted some and moved some to my new 10gal for my betta to play in. This is in about a month's time.
 
from what i understand, it looks best if you place the plants in a lopsided V formation.. so the taller plants are in the back corners, and the height of the plants decreases as your get to the middle of the back of the tank.
then as you come forward to the front of the tank the plants get shorter so that there is a more open area in the front/middle and rising plants going away from the front/middle in all sides.
 
silentskream said:
from what i understand, it looks best if you place the plants in a lopsided V formation.. so the taller plants are in the back corners, and the height of the plants decreases as your get to the middle of the back of the tank.
then as you come forward to the front of the tank the plants get shorter so that there is a more open area in the front/middle and rising plants going away from the front/middle in all sides.
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I need another sword :)


As for the hornwort, I do like it, and its bushiness, but the shedding... arrgghh lol, Its growing though, it seems to be growing fairly well, but is still shedding despite its growth.

I mostly wish I could just keep the bloody thing in one spot. it gets bunched up nicely sometimes, but most times its stuck in my other plants, and basically just making a mess of my tank.
I wish it rooted.
 
I have some of the hornwort I've pruned stuck in my gravel. It grows like a weed like that and seems to stay planted like that.
 
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