You don't need to have every single bit of root above the sand, just the rhizome (the thick 'stalky' looking thing that the leaves and roots grow out from)
You don't need to have every single bit of root above the sand, just the rhizome (the thick 'stalky' looking thing that the leaves and roots grow out from)
The java would look good tied to your bogwood &/or slate cave
The 'vallis looking plant' is probably Vallisneria torta, one of the more difficult in the vallis family IME, but if you get it somewhere it's happy it'll go mad.
Looking good, you've done a good job
As mint said, should of turned one of the backgrounds the other way to make it odd. I did it with mine in the Trigon