After doing a great deal of reading and looking at various pictures online, I've finally settled on what I would like to do for as an aqua-scape in my 90 gal.. As much as I love and drool over the pics of Tom's Dutch (and others') tanks, I've decided to keep things relatively simple and easy to care for.
I like the carpeted look, and I especially like the look of Gerryd's 220 gal.. I would like to do something similar, but using driftwood instead of rock.
Eleocharis belem has been recommended to me for the carpeting, and I will probably cover some of the driftwood with some species (Java?) of moss. My tank is a rimless with high lighting (and will have pressurized CO2), and I would like to keep some hatchetfish in the tank to occupy the upper layer of the water column. To discourage them from jumping from an open top tank, I would like to keep a bit of some sort of floating plant to give the hatchets some cover. But I don't want so much of it that it overshadows or overtakes the tank. Does anyone have any suggestions for a floating plant that is relatively easy to care for, and whose numbers can be easily kept under control?
I'm also wide open for any other suggestions, advice, etc. for aquascaping my tank, as this is all entirely new territory for me.
I like the carpeted look, and I especially like the look of Gerryd's 220 gal.. I would like to do something similar, but using driftwood instead of rock.
Eleocharis belem has been recommended to me for the carpeting, and I will probably cover some of the driftwood with some species (Java?) of moss. My tank is a rimless with high lighting (and will have pressurized CO2), and I would like to keep some hatchetfish in the tank to occupy the upper layer of the water column. To discourage them from jumping from an open top tank, I would like to keep a bit of some sort of floating plant to give the hatchets some cover. But I don't want so much of it that it overshadows or overtakes the tank. Does anyone have any suggestions for a floating plant that is relatively easy to care for, and whose numbers can be easily kept under control?
I'm also wide open for any other suggestions, advice, etc. for aquascaping my tank, as this is all entirely new territory for me.