Tips and Tricks on Creating Amazing Aquascapes.

[Jackcarp]

Dang, I was feeling really good about mine until I saw you alls

I'm having the same problem! I have spent countless hours rearranging my rock just to hate it after seeing some of these.

 

[cjd]

I hate setting up rock work out of the tank on the floor and then trying to recreate what I just made in the tank. Never able to get it the exact same way. Working with dry rock and an empty tank is so much easier to tweak your scape. I f your having trouble getting that perfect look as long as there is no or little live stock involved I would drain the tank(keep the water) and redo it till you like it. Pump the old water back in and enjoy. The look now a days is less is more and let your corals fill in the bulk of it. I think a lot of us try to get a complete look of a reef tank with our base rock alone, meaning we use too much. Try to think down the road as corals grow and what voids they will fill and heights they will reach. Instead of putting an empty rock where you think you need more height or depth, think of what coral would fill in that void .

 

[tom reilly]

I've got to ideas. One is "right-handed" and the other "left-handed". For the most part the tank will be viewed from the front and right side, so I'm leaning towards the "left-handed" version. What do you all think? I'm trying to keep the height down as I'm going to have lots of gorgonians and want them to have room to grow. Anyway, this is what I've thought of so far.....

or.....

I can't explain why but the right hand version looks more natural .

 

[dbraun15]

My new 220.

From mock-up


To Execution


There are a few ledges on the left side that don't show up well in that picture. What do you think? Thanks!

 

[D's Reef]

My 250dd what a came up with. I really didn't plan on doing so much on the right side, but as I went along it just happened [emoji16][emoji16]. I like the levels and I still have a lot of open swim space. Only regret I wish I would have moved the left side back a little more.

 

[Waterjockey]

I have really enjoyed this thread, and it inspired me to finally do something about my year and a half old 30 gallon. When I set it up, I just crammed as much rock from my old tank as I could against the back glass, with just enough room to clean the front glass.
One of the problems with so much rock (besides looking like crap) was few places to actually put coral. This morning I pulled about 40% of the rock out, and it now kinda cascades down from the one back corner towards the opposite front corner....freeing up a lot more "space". Besides being much more visually appealing, it has given me opportunity to probably triple the amount of corals I have. Very happy I finally decided to read this thread.
Thanks!

 

[becks]

Hi all,

I have two designs I came up with. The tank is 30" high so it's 6" higher than the background board. this is the first design

this is the second, Ive changted the left section to be slightly bigger for more coral placement. But I think it might be to much rock.

 

[eliramos]

What do you guys think
I really need some advice lol

 

[gerards_reef]

Hi all,

I have two designs I came up with. The tank is 30" high so it's 6" higher than the background board. this is the first design

this is the second, Ive changted the left section to be slightly bigger for more coral placement. But I think it might be to much rock.

I like the second one...It gives the illusion of more depth.

 

[Black Pearl]

Don't know if I'm finished

 

[Black Pearl]

Better pic

 

[revhtree]

Looking good folks!

 

[BigSofty]

Love this article...my goal is to one day not put my hands in my tank and move something ... HAHA but it is so fun!!!

 

[cnseekatz]

What do you guys think
I really need some advice lol

I like this a lot. I think it would look very cool if you brought that left-side structure forward a little, and let the right-side structure tail off behind it. You would leave a nice gap between the two, creating a little valley. It would give you a lot of depth, and the illusion of more space.

 

[Lovetoclown]

This is what I came up with. Aquascapping is not easy, thats for sure

 

[eliramos]

This is what I came up with. Aquascapping is not easy, thats for sure

That whole set up is beautiful! And the aqua scape is nice too!!

 

[Lovetoclown]

Thanks alot. I am NO woodworker, so building that stand was a pain.

 

[Robink]

This was much harder than I thought...

Now I just have to cure it. [emoji15]

 

[eliramos]

This was much harder than I thought...

Now I just have to cure it. [emoji15]

Looks great though!
Good luck trying to get it in the tank the same way!
Mine was such a pain-.- lol

 

[Robink]

Looks great though!
Good luck trying to get it in the tank the same way!
Mine was such a pain-.- lol

Thanks! I figured that would be the hardest part. I wish i could cure it as it is in a container. Need to find a big container!!!