Comment by LED on October 3, 2012 at 9:44pm

great set up so far.  how about making the empty space a meddow of sorts.  maybe some hair grass or possibly a small piece of driftwood with some plants on it

Comment by Anthony Piti on October 3, 2012 at 10:55pm

Tanks is looking great.  A piece of driftwood with plants attached would be a good way to go

Comment by Robert Jango on October 4, 2012 at 2:26am

A smaller piece of driftwood in the front left-hand corner pointed toward the middle of the tank will counterbalance the larger piece of driftwood in the back right-hand corner.  And a large, angular rock in the back left-hand corner in front of the filter will counter the rounded stones on the other side. This is boring, conventional wisdom - aesthetics 101 if you will... 

LED is right about the space on the left-hand side looking empty. Not that having the space there is bad, but it needs some sort of natural markings (low lying plants, stones) that resembles a path leading from the front to the back of the aquarium - again, another piece of conventional wisdom. Eventually you'll develop your own style. Dustin has a great video about how to aqua-scape an aquarium - wish I could remember which one it was. I'll see if I can find it and find one of my old posts about aqua-scaping. 

By the way, your use of color is great and throwing all the plants together on the right side works for me.

Comment by Andrew Koehler on October 4, 2012 at 3:41am

possibly add an amazon sword in the background on the left side, also i agree with Robert about the piece of drift wood, you could also add some java fern to that. You could also add some dwarf grass the forground ( makes a nice green blanket) :-)

Comment by Peter on October 4, 2012 at 10:35am

Tank looks great.   but i would just put a ozalote sword in the middle of the sand area and then surround it w/ hair grass or glosso it would look sweet

Comment by SeNgIe(-_-(-_-)-_-) on October 4, 2012 at 8:52pm

thanks u guys for the advice:))

ill make an update when im done with the other half

Comment by Connie rodz on October 6, 2012 at 2:32am

Looks great!!

Comment by Alex on October 6, 2012 at 1:32pm

repeat what you did on the right side on the left side. not exactly or you could but fill it in and try to hide the heater? and sponge filter.

Comment by Alex on October 6, 2012 at 1:34pm

and how did you get your sponge filter to sink, mine is a cheap chinese model and I can't read the box so I'm sure im doing something wrong but mine looks exactly like yours and it floats I have it wedged between an ornament and the glass at the moment. The right side looks great btw.

Comment by SeNgIe(-_-(-_-)-_-) on October 6, 2012 at 5:25pm

lol my sponge filter was floating to when i first got it 

i left in the tank for awhile and then i came back it sunk by itself

plus mines have weight build on the bottom so that probably y 

it stay under water:PP and not floating

does yours have weight?

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