only bad thing so far with my planted tank.

[Nocturnus]

I can't stop moving plants around!!!! I'm never happy with anything. heh.. I'm hoping after i get my red foxtail and maybe some more red ludwiga i'll be happy. I think I have enough cabumba to last me years now.. This is my plan of attack for the weekend. I still have no good foreground plant, the baby tears just isnt making it. I need to get my bottle of flourish and some more Schultz aquatic plant soil (i need a deeper substrate). Do I have enough plant varity, or maybe add another plant to the mix after the foxtail.

 

[Blinky]

Wow, holy cabomba! The last pictures of your tank are beautiful. It looks like you've got room for a 'specimen' plant, how about trying a medium sized sword, or Cryptocoryne - something that's not tall and thin, to balance out the very vertical look of stem plants and vallisnaria?
I wouldn't keep too many varieties, the plant encyclopedia that I've got mentions that if you keep many different types of plant, the tank can end up looking unbalanced. I've got several groupings of the same types of plants in my tank and I think it looks quite nice.
I'd leave the plants for a while - as I understand it, they don't like to be moved around too much, and it also looks very nice now so I'd leave well enough alone

 

[Nocturnus]

yeah, that stuff is crazy. i know i wanted the red foxtail to kinda balance out the cabumba, but i'm only getting 2 bunchs of it cause i dont really want alot of it. so i should get like a crypt or something for the area behind the driftwood maybe (in that open area beweetn the ludwiga, foxtail and vals)? I need to replant my cabumba where the taller shoots are in the back that way the front will have the trimmings and go from there.. Do most people here not care about having stems that have been trimmed visable? I posted before about that. Just kinda looks strange, and all the tanks on the AGA site, you NEVER seen a trimmed plant. heh..

 

[Blinky]

Wow, I just checked out the Aquatic Gardener's Assoc. site - some of those contest winners are amazing!
I'm totally new to plants, but as far as I'm aware, trimmed stems are desirable in some places - when you take a top cutting, the bottom stem will branch out to the sides, creating a 'bushier', fuller plant. It might look a bit raw at first, but I'm sure after a week you don't even notice that it's been trimmed.
I don't know if you want to put cabomba in the front - it's insanely fast growing, so you'll be constantly pruning it. I use it in the back of the tank to hide the filter uplifts and heater, but personally I wouldn't have the energy to trim it ever few days if it was in the front.
That space near the centre of your tank is where I was thinking a specimen plant might look nice - there are a lot of swords/crypts to choose from. For a 20g tall, I'd pick something that isn't going to get too large, you don't want one of those swords that get 24" high with an 18" spread
I like your drawing, I thought just for kicks I'd show you what I meant about groupings of the same plants, so I made a drawing of my tank's layout - I've never tried attaching anything, hope this works!

 

[Nocturnus]

I'd love to try a lace plant again, other then that, i've had 0 luck with swords but i'll check out some crypts. messed with my arrangement yet again today, heh. had to add more substrate, i def think i'm gonna get some more oval ludwiga, another bunch will fill in nicely.