What kind of aqua scape styles are there

[Fishinizer]

Can anyone tell me or send pictures of different kinds of aqua scapes. I want to see which one I want to try when I upgrade my tank, thanks.

 

[strange33w]

there are countless ways to aquascape you really just have to look and search and see what you like. I pesonally like minimalistic rock work but also like the bonsai looks.

 

[revhtree]

I think it would be great to come up with a thread that has many different style pictures and names.

 

[BarbH]

Can anyone tell me or send pictures of different kinds of aqua scapes. I want to see which one I want to try when I upgrade my tank, thanks.

Hi and welcome to r2r. There are a lot of options and variations available with aquascaping. One of the things that I would suggest is checking out the Member tank section and looking to see what other people have done in aquascaping their tanks. This was something that I did when setting up my tank to get ideas.

I think it would be great to come up with a thread that has many different style pictures and names.

Rev I think that would be a great idea, I know for someone like me just starting out having that type of reference could be of tremendous help. I spent a lot of time looking at pictures of other people's tanks, but having a general reference to look at and refer to in one spot could be very helpful to someone starting out.

 

[hbboarder87]

Here's my 60 when I first set it up.

Tweaked it a little and this is what it looks like now.

Here was my old nano scape

Scaping is fun.

 

[Fishinizer]

Thanks I am hoping for a whole bunch of picture comparisons. Thanks guys.

 

[ruppertb]

Well I cant get pics to work

Big C
One island in center
2 islands
1 island on left or right and dead space on other side
3 islands - this is how one of my tanks is set up
large arch type - I used to have a nano with rock in a c shape that had a hang over to make it look like a massive cave
dont know what to call it but wall of rock from top back to bottom front
you could also do a large peninsula rock setup and leave a 1/3 of the tank rockless

 

[cdness]

Take a peek at my build thread for a few different styles. I think I have my 75G on there as well as my 125G as it is right now... or at least a few days ago

I like the open sand, curved structure, caves, and islands. I tried to do caves in mine while working around the two black braces in my 125G (I hate braces). You really need to look at your lighting plans, braing, and what kind of corals you are going to keep to help decide how to place the rocks.

I will tell you right now that your first and even third try are not going to be good enough for you. You'll be moving rocks around all the time till it either looks perfect, you get sick of moving rocks, or the significant other decides you've done enough playing with rocks

 

[Fishinizer]

I think I'm going to take the rock out of my current tank put it exactly the same and use dry live rock for the rest and create a big wall with some caves or two islands going down to the center. Thanks

 

[matty0206]

Here is my 40b. There are pass through caves in both islands just hard to see in this pic. I think 2 islands, one forward and one back a bit adds depth.