First time hardscape 55 gallon cichlid

So I posted a few weeks ago and all the feedback was I needed more caves for my cichlid tank for when they mature and become more territorial.

we were already treating a very very large piece of mopani wood and I got some mountain stone and re did the entire aquarium. This is my first time trying to manually hardscape something and we have plans to add more caves when I get more stone. Let me know what you think but be gentle

what we did:
Got rid of fake bubble rock, got removed fake caves for time being added 2 piece mopani wood, 24 lbs of rock, added several attached anubias. Moved stuff around

before and after
First pic is nighttime light settings second is morning so there is a bit of reflection off the background in the 2nd that makes it look hazier than it really is.

 

Here is after nighttime

 

looks nice to me, im going to do a 50 gal african cichlid tank soon i hope, so this is cool inspiration.

 

So....first of all, your tank is beautiful. It looks amazing.

Second....those fish are going to decorate that tank however they want it. The plants look delicious and they just might get chewed up and uprooted.

As far as needing more caves...sure, Mbuna love caves. Just make sure that your strategy is to have objects that block line of sight and give the fish a place to retreat to. As opposed to adding territories for them to claim.
Trust me, they will find territory to claim, but the others will need a safe place to go.

 

There are only 2 that are buried the rest are in a pot or glued on, we’ll see how it goes though haha.

as for sight lines that’s why when I add more it will be using depth. The piece all the way to the right will go and We will do something there kind of like the mopani wood where it has depth to it to create sight blockers