Help with this......

[Sky042]

All the makings of a great looking tank are there. IMHO I would probably get rid of some of the rocks and make the driftwood the focal point of the tank.

Unless you are going to have a cichlid tank you really don't need so many rocks. Try making the wood the focal point and using the rocks to fill in....but not so much on top of each other, more like leaning into each other and then add some silk plants for color and depth. Finally add a dark blue or black background to kind of hide the equipment.

Good luck

there already is a black background.

the rocks have lots of cave space for the loaches which I plan to basically be the primary focus of the tank.

we'll see again once I've got the plants in the tank.

 

[Sky042]

also some of the rocks are needed since they're holding down the wood. the driftwood was soaked for 2 weeks but hadn't completely sunk so I put the rock on top of it. Once it stays down on its own all the rock on top of the driftwood will be removed.

 

[pete28]

i like the new look everyhting looks nice and stable. you dont have to do water changes on a fishless cycle if you dont want to. sorry i should have been more clear i meant to say i did them on a couple of my tanks during fishless cycles.

 

[konrad05]

Hey sky, the cloudiness is part of the cycle, also, if you want an honest but hard opinion, I would get a new driftwood. One that perhaps looks like it comes out of the gravel or maybe you could reposition your current one somehow. It just looks like somebody took a saw an cut a piece of branch off an old tree. You can make an awesome cave out of all those rocks you have. Hope you don't think I'm being negative, it's a nice bow tank, the log just seems out of place, maybe its too big?