Hello Welcome, SkyeScapes

[Art]

Welcome to ScapeCrunch, @SkyeScapes!
We would love to get to know you. Please tell us about yourself. What tank do you have?

 

[SkyeScapes]

Hello . I’ve recently restarted this hobby after many years. Previously kept a 5ft community tank focussed mainly on fish but with some low tech plants. This time I’m going to plan a more plant focussed aquascape and I’m currently at the hard scape stage. I’ll do a dark start which gives me time to think about plants and fish. I have a rough plan but I’d love some ideas.

Here is the build so far! 90x55x53cm. Aqua One Aquasys 230L. Oase bio master thermal 350. Week Aqua L series lighting. CO2 system coming soon. I’ve designed it as a triangular layout with spider wood and some of our amazing local basalt pebbles. Tropica Aqua soil deep layer at back and sand foreground.

Very excited!!

 

[Naturescapes_Rocco]

I love the contrast of those pebbles and the sand. I hope you'll have some otocinclus/bushynose plecos to help graze the stones and keep them clean from algae, their blue-grey color deserves to come through!

 

[SkyeScapes]

I love the contrast of those pebbles and the sand. I hope you'll have some otocinclus/bushynose plecos to help graze the stones and keep them clean from algae, their blue-grey color deserves to come through!

Thank you! Definitely some otocinculus. I'll get some amano shrimp too.

 

[Kwyet]

It looks great! What kind of sand is it?

 

[SkyeScapes]

It looks great! What kind of sand is it?

Thanks. It was just called “natural aquarium sand” from Pro Shimp (UK). It’s finer than I wanted but looks good.