Finished Planting New 55 Gallon...critique

toeknee · Aug 30, 2018

Hello all, I just finished planting and scaping my new 55 gallon. A bunch of the plants in the pics just arrived in the mail so are looking pretty raggedy. Lots of other plants were transferred from my old 20 long and underwent some major trimmings so things need to fill in. Also the bark on that red manzanita wood will be falling off over time so the wood will be more dark brown once it's settled in. Any thoughts and plant positioning or if you think anything needs to be moved? That big rock on the right will eventually be replaced with dragon stone down the road as well.

qchris87 · Aug 30, 2018

Looks great! Only thing that I can see that may be a problem is your jungle val taking all the light from the plant in front of it (rotala?) once it starts growing. If it's the plant I think it is, it will need to be in a heavy light area and a low light plant will do better in it's spot.

midna · Aug 31, 2018

I love it!

toeknee · Aug 31, 2018

Thanks for the tips! You're right that's rotala in the back right. I think I'll trade places of the rotala with the tall leafy plant just to the left of the rock who's name escape me right now. It will get more light in that spot and I know the other plant is very undemanding in regards to light. The big java fern trident will move further to the back left and the cardamine lyrata currently in the back left will move to the front right to replace the few extra bronze wendtiI I hastily stuck there not knowing what to do with them. I'll probably move and bunch them with the other bronze wendtiI in the back left. I'll post an update pic later tonight. thanks!