First hardscape

[Jivatma]

Just wanting some feedback. Have a few more pieces of macro rock i can add or break up.

I know its a little early, but i wanted to test with catfish.

 

[mrlavalamp]

Looking good. I like the minimal rock scapes I have been seeing lately. Makes me wish I had used a little less overall.

One thing to look into, as you firm up placement of the rocks consider how you will attach the corals. Some folks wont put plugs in their display, and instead glue everything in sans plugs. You can do this, but as a new reefer I highly recommend keeping things on plugs so you can move them around. I wish I had thought of this more and pre-drilled some plug holes into my rocks so I could just pop the plugs down into them to see how the coral likes the spot/tank.

Also, gluing them all together? Consider your livestock choices here, some fish will dig up the sand under the rocks and can really destabilize the stacks, epoxying the main rocks together and putting them down directly on the glass bottom before putting in the sand is how I solved this knowing I wanted an engineer goby and a diamond goby.

 

[Jivatma]

Looking good. I like the minimal rock scapes I have been seeing lately. Makes me wish I had used a little less overall.

One thing to look into, as you firm up placement of the rocks consider how you will attach the corals. Some folks wont put plugs in their display, and instead glue everything in sans plugs. You can do this, but as a new reefer I highly recommend keeping things on plugs so you can move them around. I wish I had thought of this more and pre-drilled some plug holes into my rocks so I could just pop the plugs down into them to see how the coral likes the spot/tank.

Also, gluing them all together? Consider your livestock choices here, some fish will dig up the sand under the rocks and can really destabilize the stacks, epoxying the main rocks together and putting them down directly on the glass bottom before putting in the sand is how I solved this knowing I wanted an engineer goby and a diamond goby.

Rock definitely gonna go on the glass before sand. I will definitely have a few gobys. I'm thinking of only gluing the main base structures. The whole thing is pretty stable atm so I don't think i need to kill myself gluing it all as one piece.

As for plugs and what not, I will definitely be keeping them on plugs until I feel more comfortable keeping corals.