all excellent ideas people. i will start getting on some right away. plant placement is going to be a bit difficult, due to every tank being so different and individual, but i will see what i can come up with. water features is another problematic topic, since each build is so different, but i can give it a shot.

backgrounds have been covered pretty extensively. the only ones i haven't written anything up on are clay (because it's such a pita) and concrete, which i will not be doing. steps in that need to be followed EXACTLY, otherwise animal death could be the result. so, i won't write it up because i do not want to be responsible for someone not following what i wrote and their frog meeting an early demise