The good stuff first: The hardscape is genuinely strong. The rock arrangement has real depth. The layering from front to back creates dimension that most beginners never achieve. The sand substrate is the right call, it makes the whole thing feel natural and clean. Plant selection is solid. Java moss is carpeting the foreground, it is a little bit wild though, and the hornwort in the midground/background make a lot of surface for biofilm to grow on which is great as this is a shrimp tank (and I don´t think they need to be betta food). Anubias brakes this up nicely tucked into the rocks. That combination works. Now the roast: We need to talk about the skeleton. It is the centrepiece of the aquascape and it looks like something washed up on a beach in a pirate movie. The hardscape and plants are telling a story about a natural underwater landscape and then there is this cartoon dinosaur spine lying in the middle of it asking questions like: “How did I get here?” It changes the feel of the tank from beeing natural to being a fantasy. Which can also be cool and is probably underrated. We should have more fantasy tanks and combining them with real plants is great. The lighting strip is too harsh and too visible. The white LED bar along the top is blowing out the surface of the photo and drawing the eye upward instead of into the tank. A warmer, more diffused light would transform how this tank photographs and how it feels to look at. Maybe it´s just the picture though. The plant growth is slightly uneven. It´s fine to have the open are in the middle but then I would like to see similar ammount of plants of each side to keep a balance for the eye 😉 Verdict: 7/10 for the hardscape and the dragon is either a make or brake for people. I guess some would love it and others hate it. It would be fun to have people comment what they think about it :)

@Karen Eir Birgisdóttir FCK Hornworth. And ugly shrimps ;) Would be cool to get red plants instead of the Hornworth and put them behind and between the rocks. The rocks ara a little red as well and then have more dark green anubias in front as a contrast. 🤔

I will just go first. I´m from Iceland though I curently am residing in Spain. I would like to breed really cool and rare betta fish and have this community here blooming with interesting discussions and people being friends, getting to know each other and sharing their success and failures in the hobby :) I keep a 200l Sorority with six bettas and other fish, a fish bowl I don´t really know what to do with at the moment and a 30l nano tank with Neocardina shrimps and Galaxy Microrasboras. I would really like to get better at taking pictures of my fish.