My 10gal Iwagumi setup- here we go...

[Dr. Awkward]

I think it looks nice. Two suggestions - I would recommend moving the front stone on the right so that it leans more toward the biggest stone. Also, if you want to grow the HC and hairgrass fast with no algae you could drain siphon up most of the water leaving enough to cover the gravel but not the plants. Then cover the top of the tank with plastic wrap. The plants will grow faster emmersed because they'll have a lot more CO2. Once the roots get established and you have a nice HC carpet put the water back.

 

[Death Pony]

Looking good! Where are you in VA?

 

[EdaxFlamma]

Dr. Awkward - That's what I originally tried to do but had an issue after putting in the stone because I didn't have 100% flat topography and in the pools I guess you could call them I had algae starting to take over. I guess I should take some of the HC out and see if I can grow it emmersed as a back up.

Death Pony - I'm actually on the Eastern Shore, so not to terribly far away. I'll be heading up to Delaware for school in August so this is more like my summer home haha.

 

[FISHSHROD]

What kind of fish do you catch in the back yard ?

 

[H3D]

Looks good so far.

 

[EdaxFlamma]

Thanks for the comments guys.

Fishrod- We've got a lot of flounder, croaker, and menhaden. Those are the big ones. My neighbors (80yr old+) all have pound nets that they fish and catch rays, sharks, 2 differnt kind of puffers, sea robins and other random things. We put crabpots off the little sandbars and pull up about 100 every 3 days if all is well. One day we had a small seahorse on the crabpot line. That was pretty cool. Other than that we have some small glass shrimp, sea squirts, small zoa type things and periwinkles. Maybe I should try a saltwater tank haha.

 

[Death Pony]

I didn't know we had puffers around here! One of my friends does the opposite of what you do; lives in Delaware, goes to school in VA. If you want to do natives, there are some really cool creek fish in Fredericksburg.

 

[FISHSHROD]

Very cool !!!!

 

[Fielding]

Beautiful.

Thanks for the details about your set-up.

 

[EdaxFlamma]

Yeah? I'm up at UD and I've got a bunch of friends going to UVA right now so maybe there's some overlap there haha. At least you'd prob be close by in Fredericksburg.

We've got a smooth bellied puffer (the stomach is likened to a very rough grit sandpaper) and then the standard yellow spikey ones. They are both about the size of a small football so I don't know how tankable they'd be.