#rescape

- The substrate bags appeared to work. But when filed, they got a bit rounder. As a result, they got a bit higher and wider -> in the lower areas the mesh it a bite closer the surface then I’d like. It’s clearly better to make the bags a bit too small and top with a larger amount of substrate

Related to the previous, planting on the thin substrate layer on the bags was Not Great. The same made it difficult to balance hardscape

- Due to the unexpected height growth, I under-filled some of the bags not to make them so stupidly high. As a result, the stones “sunk” into the bag. Which moved the substrate to the part that was supposed to be less high. Which ate a lot a difference in height. 

This was purely of my own stupidity, and boy did I want to kick my own @ss for this

I’m betting that maintaining the “dirt road” (wood, coconut pieces and alder cones in the low part between the “isles”) will horrible. There’s just too little height difference

- I made a questionable aesthetic choices with the val and the driftwood by placing them in the highest part of the tank. If you look really closely, you can see the sand the val is planted on left back corner but one shouldn’t have to look closely! Now it just looks like a bunch of val. At the right side of the val bunch is actually a piece of driftwood (covered with very dirty java moss) which is also somehow making the part look less high

I’ll probably move the dwarf sword in front of the val to make the sand show better.

- Small things like plant choices, such as anubias nana being just too big. I wanted var. petite but I’m a small town person and I had to to with what I had