Panther's 1ft Tank Journal

[Panther]

After taking a long break from planted tank and reading so many posts on bro JadeIceGreen's 30cm Community Build thread, I'm inspired by the many beautiful tanks set up and finally decided to come back into the hobby with a small tank.

This is my first time having a tank journal as well, hope to share and learn from everyone albeit a very simple setup. Let's start:

I have a small tank (30cm x 20cm x 25cm)


Decided to go with Iwagumi layout, attempting only with 3 rocks (Sanzon Iwagumi) mainly what i have left over from a long time back and did not go acquire any new ones.


Did a rough arrangement of how I think I may want the formation to be with the limited rocks I have first.


Got a bag a new GEX soil and lava rock chips to act as filter media and also to prop up the base.


This is how the arrangement looks after pushing the lava rock chips inwards so it wouldn't appear at the sides of the tank. The height of the lava rock chips is about 2-3cm.


The soil slopes from a 4cm height from the front to about 12cm at the back