Aquascaping

[looney662]

Hello!

New to the hobby, just started cycling my tank 2 weeks ago. Just taking it nice and slow. Anyways how's my aquascaping? Any tips? To cramped on the right? Thanks!

[flare1185]

I like to leave my with lots of caves and crevasses for the fish to swim in and out I also like creating high and low points for my eyes to follow but that's just me each person have their own taste about aquascaping so do whatever u think looks the best cuz ultimately ur the one that look at it most.

[lordofthereef]

Originally Posted by looney662

To cramped on the right? Thanks!

For my taste, yes, but it looks like you have more of a bunch of rubble than large pieces of rock.

[Octoshark]

Originally Posted by lordofthereef

it looks like you have more of a bunch of rubble than large pieces of rock.

Yea, those smaller pieces limit building because smaller pieces have to just stack on top of eachother to form little mounds. If you have bigger pieces then you can build higher by having some rocks upright with others leaning against them, etc, etc.

[blrrobinson21]

+1 I would see if you could pick up a few bigger rocks. Im kinda going through the same thing right now, Ive changed my tank about 4 times in one month. Finally my wife told me to leave it the h%$@ alone.

[dwd5813]

it's kind of hard to put into words, but if those were the rocks i was working with i'd try to work out a configuration where that large arch goes over the rest of the rock, somewhere to the side of the center of the main pile. angling it so that it comes from the back left to the right front (or the opposite) would probably make a cool effect. trying to make a cave at the bottom of the front of it also would look pretty cool. i personally don't care much for the arch off to the side by itself. it would look better to me if it was integrated into the rest of the structure somehow. that said, aquascaping is a matter of taste for the most part. the key aspects to me are flow through the structure, hiding spots for fish, and placement spots for coral. the rest is aesthetics.

[drparker]

Can't quite tell from the pics, if it's not bare bottom but you have sand down, make sure the rocks touch the bottom of the tank. That way when you get something try to dig under the rock you'll not have a landslide.

[thegrun]

I would try to build another arch on the right hand side by stacking the pile differently.

[looney662]

Nice! Thanks for all the tips!!!! Appreciate it!!!!

[looney662]

Originally Posted by blrrobinson21

+1 I would see if you could pick up a few bigger rocks. Im kinda going through the same thing right now, Ive changed my tank about 4 times in one month. Finally my wife told me to leave it the h%$@ alone.

I know how you feel! This is my 6th attempt!

[looney662]

Originally Posted by drparker

Can't quite tell from the pics, if it's not bare bottom but you have sand down, make sure the rocks touch the bottom of the tank. That way when you get something try to dig under the rock you'll not have a landslide.

Nope no sand yet. Lucky I did my research and found out that you add rocks 1st before sand . But sand will be added later after I'm happy with my Aquascaping, it will help seed the rocks too since their all dead. Thanks!

[jsharp1]

def rocks before sand especially if u are planning on having gobies. I have an engineer goby.....he just caused his first rock slide!

[hunnicuttz]

I put eggcrate down on the glass before the sand went in so that it is a little more stable and if I get a goby he wont knock my rockwork down when he digs.

[flare1185]

Hmm very smart, I never thought of that. To bad its too late for me....

[lordofthereef]

I just thought that I would suggest (only if you want to change things up, of course) getting some larger pieces of dry rock and using the live rock you already have to seed the base rock. All things considered the rock will be seeded fairly quickly (couple months) and you will have rocks that you can do a little more with than simply make a pile.