New lay-out plans

Well, I've neglected the aesthetic quality of my 20 gal for too long . . . I'm going to re-organize to look something like the attached image!

It's just a map. Here's a key:

1. anubius nana planted on bog wood

2. riccia tied to rocks in sand (I'm going to have to wait until I get excess riccia from my other tank, it is still growing into that one so I'll have to wait a while . . . or buy more)

3. java moss on bog wood

4. lace java fern on bog wood

5. rotalla

6. Echinodorus

7. I'm thinking Jungle grass . . . it's gotta be something less demanding since it'll be planted in sand instead of florite . . .

yellow = sand
brown = bog wood
red = florite


The sand is the current substrate, for the cories and loaches (clowns are juvenile, temporary resident for snail extermination; the shop agreed to give me store credit if they're returned healthy after their job is done). But I really feel the need to get a better substrate for the plants . . . even if it forces the cories to swim around only half the tank . . .

Any suggestions on adjusting set-up is appreciated!

Right now your tank confuses me, lol. I've always liked the sand+bogwood idea..

Oh. Let me help explain better.

The #s are different plants, and I've written a number by each typs of plant in the picture.

The red section, is a substrate called florite. I can't imagine getting the florite under the sand unless I want to take EVERYTHING out and re-do the whole thing . . . which I don't want to. So instead, I'm making about half the tank florite, half sand. Florite is better for plants, which is why most of the plants are grown on that side. Where as, the plants on the other side, riccia, lace java fern, and java moss, are plants rooted in bog wood or not rooted at all; thus they don't benefit from florite.