Malaysian Jungle Stream Biotope Photojournal

For inspiration, I have posted some photos taken from a jungle stream during my last trip to Malaysia in Dec 2005:



Popular with local teenagers:



Some land plants (could not find aquatic plants in the water!) :





Off topic: Giant Ants (more than 1 inch!!) foraging the dense undergrowth:



Here it is, the biotope:



There are more photos here if interested (towards the bottom part of the gallery):
http://www.theteh.com/html/malaysia_2005.html

Due to inexperience (my first planted tank) and the type of plants available t me (London, UK), in the attempt to recreate a Tropical Jungle in my tank has met with failure (to my expectation) and here is the result of my first attempt ( :

January 2006:


I have re-scaped slightly and it looks like this now but still far from my original aim ( :


More tank photos could be found here if interested:
http://www.theteh.com/html/tropical_planted_aquarium_phot.html

Thank you all for the comments indeed!

HEre is a more recent tank photo taken last month: (my grass is still not growing as fast as I had hoped for, probably due to low lighting)

Update:

Photo taken today (13 May 2006). Everything else is growing except my grass