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I have recently rescaped my two footer which i started this wonderful hobby with almost a year ago. It started as a iwagumi scape with shrimp but quickly became a shrimp tank lol. Due to this I decide to redo the tank over the last couple of months. Currently i have my Oebt colony, blue gene red rili culls and some chamleons. I will be dropping and posting the last of the rili's this weekend and bringing home some additional chamleon. Shout-outs to @Ronskitz for this awesome driftwood. @OzShrimp for some of the nice plants. @newbreed for the moss ledges really like them. I plan on adding a few more plants and mosses but pretty happy with it now. As always please feel free to give me pointers, advise and critique. Cheers.

Go ahead, feel free to post pics here. This is going to be my cabinet design. Minimalist look yet ultra functional. Finished in a modern high gloss grey. Those are not doors, instead, they are soft closing drawers. Top drawer will store foodstuff, scaping tools, water treatment stuff, nets, misc tools, etc. Bottom drawer will hold canister, power points, CO2 kit, tubing, in line heaters, etc the bulky equipment. The advantage of the drawer is so I can pull the canister right out from inside the cabinet to work on it. No more broken backs while maintaining the filter. The cabinet will also allow me to find things stored right at the back, without removing half the contents to get to the things stored at the back. Each drawer will have a built in led light that turns on when the drawer is opened. The cabinet top is going to be either white or black, but much thicker than what I have drawn in the picture. At least 30-40mm thick. I've drawn filter inlet/outlet holes on the side, but since this drawing, I've decided to not ruin the looks and will route the filter piping via the back. The back will have an open slit that will allow cables and piping in and out of the cabinet. That back hole won't be entirely open, I'm hoping to find a suitable sized self adhesive brush seal. This will allow the cable and piping to slot through but keep dust out.

@buck, @opqfrt, @Disciple Well, the update is that I am tearing down the tank for an update and re-scape. I'm going to go down the Keep It Shrimply Simple (K.I.S.S.) route this time around. I'm in the process of catching all the shrimp out, and will drain the tank this weekend to give it a good cleaning. Substrate is going to be replaced with Cal Labs Black Earth premium. I have also decided to build myself a new modern tank cabinet.

second one is hygrophila pinnatifida, it can be tied to drift wood and rocks or planted in soil as you have done :) one of my favs atm and the first looks like a baby red tiger lotus? but thats a guess

Sorry jayc for hogging your thread. Ok. I'll try post something up but it is still work in progress so it is rudimentary.

I'm going to build the base frame out of double MDF for all the vertical sections. Double the thickness of standard MDF, and it should hold the weight. LED lights are going to be 3528. They don't need to be super bright. And I have a spare roll I am planning on using.

My idea looks more like a LFS style cabinet with a swinging flap to cover the top of the tanks. Not sure if I can say mine looks modern but I can post some work-in-progress photos up if you do not mind as this is your thread. My wife... ahem... I mean I have a few 'requirements' as this cabinet will be in the lounge room. It has to look aesthetically pleasing and does not throw out too much light that might 'interfere' with watching TV or be too blinding to look at. All hoses have to be concealed and after a lot of 'convincing', the chiller and canister filter can be placed next to the cabinet. Background would be either white or grey, would prefer black but planning to breed discus in it so lighter background would help the fry attach to the parents. The cabinet I want has to house both tropical (for fish) and chilled tanks (for shrimps) so I am insulating between tanks with 20mm thick foams so dimensions are more than the typical tank dimensions. Frame wise I use untreated MGP10 90x45mm structural pine and clad it with 9mm MDF. Planning to plump air and water all hidden within the thickness of the frame. A LP20 air pump would sit at the top of the cabinet at 2.2m high. Currently doing an undercoat and still trying to figure out how to hold the 'flaps' close as I couldn't find the hinges I was after and the flaps are sitting a bit 'opened'. Thinking going velcro or finding a way to mount magnetic clasps but I haven't thought it through enough hence I was hoping to exchange notes. If you're wondering, my build started in late June, so it has taken some time. Haha.

So my little rainbow fish fry from Catfish Creek are growing up nicely, they certainly settled in well and took readily to all available fish foods. The main mystery with them is WHAT species or sub species of Rainbow fish are they??? This next one is the only one of the 6 who is developing the green flash up its side ( sorry this is the only non-blurry picture of it) Could this mean its another type of rainbow since it doesnt seem to be developing the black fin edges only the green and possibly yellow side flashes (the yellow didnt show up in the picture) And finally "What you lookin at?" In the above picture you can make out the yellow that is in his fins surrounded by the black.

I just blew the picture up and you are right Kiz. The structure of the leaf is not the correct shape to be elodea. I had more of what I would describe as a maple leaf look to it. Nice pick up. The red val does look amazing I have seen it in a few forms including Gigantica but never it with red foliage before. Once again Fishmosy the pics are amazing.

Excellent work getting some more pics up mate, thanks. Great coverage, as close to being there as we could hope for. That stand of red Vall is amazing. Those yellow foot Stenos are lovely, something different. I'd reckon the Elodea looking thing is Hydrilla verticillata but I can't see the details well enough in the pics. I doubt a cold water species like Elodea is invasive up north where a pantropical equivalent occurs naturally. The Nerites are truly excellent algae eaters. I actually have to switch them from tank to tank to keep up with their demand for algae and I think they're eating it quicker than it grows. They absolutely, completely clean rocks and glass if you're patient, which some "reviewers" online are obviously not. They don't really like soft acidic water; they're ok at about 6.4 and 4-6 dGH but some are prone to shell erosion and all are more active at 7+ and harder. They don't lay eggs in soft acid water and probably wouldn't last long-term in it. I've got 3 species here and eggs in 2 tanks now - all from the same species unfortunately. One of the tanks can be stripped and converted to saltwater for a veliger raising attempt - but that's a whole different thread. I do highly recommend Nerites to anyone interested.