Where Would You Plant Crypt Balansae And Anubias Nana In This Tank?

I've bought 15 Crypt Balansae plants and 3 Anubias Nana plants which will be delivered soon. I was just after some planting location advice for my tank.

Here it is:



A couple of changes have already happened in this tank...

The moss wall is now on the back wall of the tank to the right hand side.
The Vallis has been brought forward on the left hand side to the front of the tank.
Java Fern 'block' is in the middle background (but can be moved anywhere).

I have a piece of bogwood which can be cut up for the nana, or i have a coconut ready to complete a cave on the end of the left-hand bogwood.

Where would you plant the Crypt?
Where would you plant the Nana?

Where the blue is the nana and the purple in the crypt.. make the main concentration of crypt at the back of the tank in the centre

Kitty Kat said:

Where the blue is the nana and the purple in the crypt.. make the main concentration of crypt at the back of the tank in the centre

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I love the idea of using the height of the wood for the nanas. It's not something i had thought of (i guess i'm just far too one-dimensional!) I have flame moss on my shopping list for that area too. It's only too right you have a say where its planted too

So the 3 Anubias Nana have been attached to the bogwood.

The Crypt Balansae is split 10 plants on the back left in front of the outlet pipe and 5 are on the back right. I am going to use the Java Fern to fill the middle background at the mo.

Also added the Coconut cave on the left next to the Vallis and thats covered with Java Moss (from a recent trimming )

Very chuffed. There are a few more pictures in my Rio 180 thread (link in my sig )

That looks really nice!

It does look really nice.

A good suggestion, and then well followed through.

Thanks, i am really happy with it.

I am spending some time looking thru pictures of crypts and other people's tank to see which crypts i can add. They seem to thrive and unless i can turn the amazon sword around and get some better (greener) growth i am tempted to replace this with some crypts instead.

I know CO2 would make the difference but that all depends on my boss this xmas!

Kitty i would have put the Balansae in the middle if i hadn't moved the Vallis further forward on the left-hand side. I decided to temporarily put the Java Ferns there to fill the gap. I am hoping the Balansae will frame the tank from the left (something i had in my mind since i first setup the tank). I had wanted Vallis to do the job but as you can see it gets stuck around 15cms