Rockscape suggestions?

mikenh77

mikenh77

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So... I'm upgrading from my 29 to a 55. New setup is a BB with with starboard on the bottom. I want to do a mostly SPS with a few LPS and Zoas. Just made this rockscape last night. It was hard because the dang tank is so narrow, 12".
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Looks cool? What do you guys think. I'm considering moving the rocks around a little more. The 29 to the right is going to be taken down eventually. My main concerns are swimming room and coral growing room. Being a BB I don't want much rock touching the bottom. Give me some feedback or tips yo.
 
It doesn't look bad! Nice swim-thrus for the fish. I have several nice shelf rock pieces available for sale if you are interested in adding that to the decor.
 
Lots of nice holes for the fish , mine love the corners and lots of caves to chill & sleep in when lights go out
Bob



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I personally prefer a couple of piles stacked up rather than one wall of rock. 12" is going to be tough though. Plumbers epoxy works really well for staking and affixing the rocks. It will also grow coralline, so it's only ugly for a short time.
 
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. If you are happy with how it turned out then just leave it be. I think the trick with aquascaping and placing corals is to see the vision you want your tank to look like in 3 years. If your goal is mainly SPS, how big do you want each colony? In 3 years some SPS can grow larger than a softball. It is hard (I'm doing it right now) to place a tiny 1 inch frag 4 or 5 inchs away in all directions from your other 1 inch frag, because the tank looks so empty. But I don't want my tank to be full of tiny colonies when it matures, so I am placing my corals based off that vision. In the end, when you look at a tank full of colonies you can see very little rock work, often only the negative space between rock formations is left. GL.
 
Mike, looks good!.. I just re-scaped my 29g cube for the third time the other day.. lol.. Thankfully I don't have much on the rocks yet, it is still a young tank.
 
Thanks for the feedback everyone.
Pufferpunk said:
It doesn't look bad! Nice swim-thrus for the fish. I have several nice shelf rock pieces available for sale if you are interested in adding that to the decor.
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I appreciate the offer! But I actually have more than enough rock I have space for and now no money from getting the new setup… hah
Sawdonkey said:
I personally prefer a couple of piles stacked up rather than one wall of rock. 12" is going to be tough though. Plumbers epoxy works really well for staking and affixing the rocks. It will also grow coralline, so it's only ugly for a short time.
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Yeah, That’s what I want to do. I Might take the little bridge away and let it be two piles and a canyon of rock so I have more open space to grow coral.
jm23 said:
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. If you are happy with how it turned out then just leave it be. I think the trick with aquascaping and placing corals is to see the vision you want your tank to look like in 3 years. If your goal is mainly SPS, how big do you want each colony? In 3 years some SPS can grow larger than a softball. It is hard (I'm doing it right now) to place a tiny 1 inch frag 4 or 5 inchs away in all directions from your other 1 inch frag, because the tank looks so empty. But I don't want my tank to be full of tiny colonies when it matures, so I am placing my corals based off that vision. In the end, when you look at a tank full of colonies you can see very little rock work, often only the negative space between rock formations is left. GL.
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You have a good point, that’s why I didn’t pile my rock too high so I can grow sps out. I was talking to my friend about an interesting idea of turning the whole bottom into acans/ zoas/ sun polyps/ whatever so anything that settles to the bottom will become coral food.
 
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