Do you like my aqua scape?

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Here is the 90 naked and clothed. Had it for 2 years now and rating #'s for me personally have deff changed since 1st setup due to realizing its flaws.
 

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The first pic is the tank the day first month, the second pic is 6 month mark the above full pic is tank now..
We have changed the rock work a few times. We removed the large left hand clump because of flow and coral placement issues..The tank used to have black on the back which looked a lot nicer but we have removed the wall directly behind the tank for the new room and the new Peninsular.
We are moving everything over to a new 300g build next weekend and are adding another 100kg of rock. It is a peninsular so need it to look good back, front and one end.....eeekkk ?
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Afamousjohnson I'll give yours a 7, thanks for the very dis riptide review on mine and I'll have to work on it but I don't really like a unnatural glued or held together look. Yours I can't tell has either rods or epoxy to hold it like that. In the ocean it's not like that, surfaces re round and have caves like mine that sides are both covered. Most of the oceans rock is relatively flat and then slopes down to a flat plain. The corals are what give it dimension... That us what I have done, it's still in its infancy and as I said more rocks will be added near the right towers left side near the sand bed and a lot of the corals I want like bubbles torches leathers scolys photosynthetic gorgs zoas Gsp Montipora acropora paving coral and more but all of the corals have diffrent shapes and in time they will create the cave similar to a reef, many of you said I didn't have enough, in a reef all the caves are near the sand the others are made by branching corals, most I my tank inspiration comes from boy with a fish tank on YouTube, he has no caves, but he has a sixline wrasse and it dive in and out through corals. In their branches caves have formed. As I said I'll work on it but I did want to explain my reasoning. Thanks for all the good reviews tho,
 

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I'll give yours a 7. It's simple but I enjoy it. Here's mine.
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This isn't the best picture but it's all I got.
 

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Afamousjohnson I'll give yours a 7, thanks for the very dis riptide review on mine and I'll have to work on it but I don't really like a unnatural glued or held together look. Yours I can't tell has either rods or epoxy to hold it like that. In the ocean it's not like that, surfaces re round and have caves like mine that sides are both covered. Most of the oceans rock is relatively flat and then slopes down to a flat plain. The corals are what give it dimension... That us what I have done, it's still in its infancy and as I said more rocks will be added near the right towers left side near the sand bed and a lot of the corals I want like bubbles torches leathers scolys photosynthetic gorgs zoas Gsp Montipora acropora paving coral and more but all of the corals have diffrent shapes and in time they will create the cave similar to a reef, many of you said I didn't have enough, in a reef all the caves are near the sand the others are made by branching corals, most I my tank inspiration comes from boy with a fish tank on YouTube, he has no caves, but he has a sixline wrasse and it dive in and out through corals. In their branches caves have formed. As I said I'll work on it but I did want to explain my reasoning. Thanks for all the good reviews tho,

Believe it or not there is not 1 rod holding anything together in those picutres of my tank. The only thing glued is the tan rock in centre middle with the Xenia and BTA on it.. Thats why is going to be fairly easy to move.
thanks for your response though very much appreciated.
 

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These pics have given me so many ideas for my re-build! I really like what afamousjohnson did with getting different levels-it looks great all filled in! Of course, I don't have the patience to wait for things to look good.
 

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I like the space. Sand bed is a great place for plenty of nice corals and plent of swim space for fish. I'd give it a 7. This is mine. Plan on mostly sps in there. So I made some sort of table at about 7-8 inches below water line.
 

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I would add a bit more rock for a more natural look and more hiding places, but that depends on what your going to add. here's my softie/lps 120. started as a fowlr and I didn't want to re-scape. lots of caves for my fish, but I'm running out of room for my corals.
 

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