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My scape. Rocks hanging everywhere

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I do appreciate the clean, few islands look, think that looks great in a magazine or to promote a Red Sea tank. However in person I like a very busy scape, caves and arches all over, something that keeps the eyes very occupied. That’s the look I went for, busy yet open and planned out.

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My new office tank. Just an arch. Going to remove that one rock on bottom that was just to seed tank or maybe ill leave it

What, nothing floating? What the heck? Just kidding. I like the seed rock there. Gives it a nice balance IMHO.
 

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So we will be moving soon and having to break down the tanks to move obviously. Will be setting them right back up. Not looking forward to it with the 65. But the 20 I'm planing on changing up some. There is a lady over on nano reef who had a multi level seahorse tank with rocks sectioning off the sand bed to where it has multiple levels. Seems way more common in freshwater setups. Anyone doing something similar love this looks and trying to get more inspiration
Can you post a pic of that set up?... or a link?
 

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What, nothing floating? What the heck? Just kidding. I like the seed rock there. Gives it a nice balance IMHO.

Don’t worry already plan on moving few rocks from my DT i have lying around lol. I might just leave the seed rock. It will get covered with some scolies and acantho anyway. Lol
 

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It’s a little hard to make out what this will look like in the glass box; it’s a 120 w/ very slim overflow box (Eschopps). I want to raise the large right pillar/bommie up 2-3 inches but other than that I like all the open space. The middle arch runs from front to back to help show the 24” depth (front to back) dimension of the tank. The right side and back of tank are painted black since tank is in the corner of room. Any suggestions, comments or concerns? Please post. Thanks everybody for sharing as well.
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Does anyone else plan out the aqua scales in advance? I even draw in what corals I want to place and where lol. This is a roach scape I’m in the process of curing in the garage for a 187 gallon build tank dims are 60x36x20
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coral placement is in my head. :)
 

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It’s a little hard to make out what this will look like in the glass box; it’s a 120 w/ very slim overflow box (Eschopps). I want to raise the large right pillar/bommie up 2-3 inches but other than that I like all the open space. The middle arch runs from front to back to help show the 24” depth (front to back) dimension of the tank. The right side and back of tank are painted black since tank is in the corner of room. Any suggestions, comments or concerns? Please post. Thanks everybody for sharing as well.
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Beautifully done. I’d agree with raising the largest right pillar up by a few more inches!! The scape follows right to left and the arch is great. Also look at moving the left such that 2/3rd of the tank is dominated by the big pillar and arch. While the 1/3rd is the left pillar.
 

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That looks nice bud. I do the same thing and color in where I want corals lol.
Hey share another pic of the Tonga rock closer up with out the colorful corals. Where's your cement, how did you put that together?
 

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Seems like there are two broad goals for an aquascape: make it a work of art (think Amano for SW) or make it look like a slice of the reef. I always go for the latter ..... and even occasionally succeed. Not a particularly big fan of the former.

The two goals are one in the same.

I've done quite a few elaborate scapes in the past. Going more basic with my new one, simple. Corals will complete the aquascape in time.

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