Water Landscaping is an art form is learned that lets you create an underwater landscape, a source of inspiration for many works come from the two places under water, but also natural scenes such as mountains, jungles, deserts, waterfalls and many others.
Before you begin your aquatic landscape is best to look at the Aquascape others who have created a video of half of the page should provide some good examples.

Before you create your underwater scape it is important to look at the major factors that will make this work, Although its not essential – a lowlight/no CO2 setup can be just as eyecatching.

Ok so now is the time to water landscape. Before starting, it is important to remember that the most important factor in aquascaping the imagination. The Internet can only say much, but with a sense of imagination and see that it is difficult to create something truly inspiring. Nothing is certain, if some design, believe it and like it, get down! Destroy and rebuild many times as you like until you are impressed.

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Things to avoid:
Frustration – yes Internet tanks are beautiful, but not impossible, with nothing you have what gofor!
Using a type of plant – which can provide a theme for the tank, but can be boring – Mix it up!
Using only chicory plants, larger plants will do aquascape you look smaller and not as deep, thinner leaves, most of the scenery!planted aquarium setup
Keep it simple stupid – yes, it’s great to have a full tank of all plants that once existed, but this looks good! Make sure you have an open space, and full tanks made ​​a lot of open areas look great, are filled with a school of fish.

The process:
Assuming you have set your background, you connect the CO2 and turn on your lights, you’re ready to go.
Therefore, the design. I can not give your plan, but I can give you some tips that will help the planning process

 

 

 

 

 

First of all let’s look at symmetry

Symmetry is not wanted in planted tanks
Symmetry makes the take look too structured and neat, in the wild would you see a large rock directly in the centre of the river? Of course not, the central focus should not be in the middle but slightly off centre, for optimum focal point it should be around 1 : 1.62, it was calculated long ago that this point is most pleasing to the eye. planted aquarium setup
It will make the tank look like it is identical on either side, it would be better to have the tank sloping to one side, like a river bank maybe?

 

 

 

 

 

The next factor is shape
Having high plants in the background all the way along is a terrible misconception. People believe maybe the “hedge” type look will be attractive….. NO!. The best shapes are those that follow a smooth curve.
The convex shape is aesthetically nice, it can be produced with rocks to make a “mountain” looking scape, for more information on these scroll down the page.
The concavity shape is also great, the plants can easily be trimmed to be high on the edges and then lower in the middle making a dip, this will also give you open space in the middle and open space looks great.
The triangular setup or sometimes island setup also looks very neat, the off centre gradient seems to be somewhat attractive.

 

Foreground Middle ground and Background
It is important to keep a clear distinguished line between the three
Having a low foreground then straight to a high background may give you more open space but looks terrible
Putting rocks and wood in the middle ground looks very nice, the background stems will complement them and the low foreground plants look like grass at the bottom of a mountain range or forest.planted aquarium setup
Wood that sticks out right to the surface can look so very amazing. This with moss on it can create another dimension within the tank and enhance the depth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Creating a ‘mountain’ styled scape
It is important to have lots of open space aswell as scaped space
Do not have the mountain in the EXACT centre of the tank, as stated above you want it to be slightly to the left or right.
Although you may feel like it would look better, try not to push your mountain into the corner, this will create more of a sloped tank and will not give you the defined lines of a mountain shape.
Use no or very low foreground plants, for the ‘cliff’ face of the mountain you do not want an ‘intermission’ plant. For the first third of the mountain you want the slope to be almost vertical to make sure you get the steep structure.
The rocks you place in will need to be covered in some sort of plant and possibly dug into the gravel a bit to provide a more natural setting
Only use one type of rock! and use ‘sharp’ edged rocks for that peak look
You may use the substrate to provide a higher base for the mountain
Make sure the edges of the mountain slope down toward the edge of the tank and are not flat, otherwise it looks like a rock formation and not the slope of a mountain.

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Source:aquariuminfo.org

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