Aquascaping - if you were going to do it all over again

[johns]

While I wait a couple weeks for my Kaelini Tonga to finish curing, I thought I'd start a thread to get some aquascaping ideas. Pictures would certainly be helpful. I'd like to learn from other people's success and failures, so if you were to redo your aquascaping over again, what would you do differently or keep the same?

I realize that this is all pretty much personal opinion, but I just wanted to see if I can get any ideas out of this. What works best both from a visual standpoint as well as functionally, for maintenance, etc?

[TheMandarinFish]

I would do it over again with almost all arches.

Arches are the best, IMO.

[prafferty]

I would have more usable sand surface.

[needyreefer]

send in some pics people!

[Foster]

not working

[Foster]

Arches?

[prafferty]

http://www.freewebs.com/reefragz/100.jpg

[Trumpet12]

prafferty,

You're picture is not showing up for me.

[prafferty]

I can see it ... they are on a free server so that might be the reason.

[Foster]

Try for pratterty
<img src=http://www.freewebs.com/reefragz/100.jpg>

[Foster]

http://www.freewebs.com/reefragz/100.jpg

[elefink]

I'd figure out how to keep the rock off the glass. I can't clean it.

[Tanu]

I'dd add even a larger sandzone. I'd opt to have a large tank which can be viewed from all sides, like a cube or so.

This is what I have right now: http://www.tanu.nl/tmp/overz48.jpg

[johns]

Boy...nobody's pictures are showing up so far.

Arches. How do you accomplish that?

[elefink]

Tanu, I love your tank, especially the large monti cap. Wow. What's that school of fish?

[NicoleC]

Just DID it all over, but not by choice. I like both the before and after -- before is more dramatic, but after gives me lots more space for corals and such, especially up top.

Before:
http://www.polinggenealogy.org/misc/tank.JPG

After (still in sand storm... not a great pic):
http://www.polinggenealogy.org/misc/tank030204.JPG

[Tarasco1]

I would want a deeper tank, so that I don't have a "wall" of rock, more like a gradual slope.

http://www.reefsanctuary.com/photopost/data/505/69Dark_Tank-med.JPG

[TheMandarinFish]

Arches can be built from aragrocrete (do a search).

Also, some rocks are arch-shaped naturally.

I have one as my centerpiece and I adore it.

Sorry no pics - I'm at work.

[jackson6745]

Originally posted by elefink
Tanu, I love your tank, especially the large monti cap. Wow. What's that school of fish?

They're the same as the one's in my avatar...Long Spine Cardinals

Tanu, I love the auqascaping, especially that little outcrop on the left side. Nice Job

[yarsrevenge]

I also like having a good perimeter of open sand and arches and tables. I used a drill and acrylic rod to attach several of my features -on the left side, a table. In the middle an arch. I used eggcrate underneath and lifted more than 1/2 of the rock off the bottom, only the face piceces go to the sand for looks.
Sorry about the size and quality though.....also more of a "room" shot but you get the idea.
>L

[Dr.King]

My Kaleini rock is currently curing in my 125 starboard barebottom tank. There is 180 pounds of it in the photo mainly composed of 7 HUGE pieces. With rocks this size and shape its easy to create arches and keep the rock off the bottom. Dr.Mac hooked me up with the best LR I have ever seen. Unfortunately the coraline coloration doesn't come across well in these photos but the arrangement does.
http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/39304IMG_1031.JPG
http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/39304IMG_1028.JPG

[Reefdude3]

what abouta pvc arch with rock epoxied onto it?

[asmodeus]

I love the huge pieces of rock ,I think that the bigger ones make the look of a bigger tank
IMO'


Love the rock by the way

Mike

[H.I.D. KEVIN]

Hey, arches are cool. But, don't over crowd your tank. And, I think that to much of the arrangements that I see on RC concentrate all of the rock in the back of the tank. I have rock towards the front 1/3 of my tank in 3 different spots. And, like the arches, it gives your eye and the inhabitants a different place to wander.

Kevin