First Time Aquascaping

wolffpackone · Mar 30, 2018

First time trying to aquascape for my Red Sea Reefer 170. How does it look and any recommendations?

ihavecrabs · Mar 30, 2018

@wolffpackone #WelcomeToR2R !

I like it, but more importantly, do you like it?!

Maybe you can tell us a little more about what you want to achieve with this tank.

Types of corals you want to keep
Types of fish you want to keep
Some of the equipment you plan to use

All of these will help give some additional feedback on the aquascape for whether the fish will "interact" well with it and coral placement will be easy, and how it may impact flow..

KJAG · Mar 30, 2018

Like the overall layout but might open it up here and there with a cave or two.

wolffpackone · Mar 30, 2018

I want to have a mixed reef, going to start off with softies, then get some LPS, and maybe SPS down the line. As far as fish go, I was thinking of a clown pair, blenny, and firefish at first. That might change in the future too.

As far as equipment, I have a hydra 26HD, a curve 5, a sicce silent 2.0, and when it’s done cycling, I’ll get a MP10.

ihavecrabs · Mar 30, 2018

I like the fish selection. Glad you are not attempting to try a tang

haha.

Check your total height on the rockwork with the water level in the tank. You may find going SPS that your tallest peak will not allow much vertical room for growth. I love my SPS so my rockwork is typically half or slightly above half of my total height to allow for growth.

I like the idea above of making some more crevasses and caves too. Dartfish typically like caves at the sand and blennies typically like an opening in the rock with only one entrance and exit high on the rock work so they can see their kingdom. Clowns are easy to please!

redfishbluefish · Mar 30, 2018

Here's the advice I was give back in the day.....think tripods. This way it creates caves for your fish. So put down three rocks about the same height...With a little separation, and now put a large rock on to p of those three.

savetheocean · Mar 30, 2018

Looking good

Jason mack · Mar 30, 2018

Looks great , and some great advice given above !!

Rscott · Mar 30, 2018

looking forward to seeing your final outcome and reading more!
Nice work

savetheocean · Mar 30, 2018

Are you going to glue it together?

wolffpackone · Mar 30, 2018

Yea, I was going to superglue it all together.

kkeller416 · Mar 30, 2018

Also you may want to drill some holes for frag plugs...makes it easier to mount things in the future.

kkeller416 · Mar 30, 2018

Personally I would not glue it together..I like the option of moving stuff around in the future.

wolffpackone · Mar 30, 2018

I might glue some of the more unsteady pieces and leave more stable unglued.

savetheocean · Mar 30, 2018

wolffpackone said:
I might glue some of the more unsteady pieces and leave more stable unglued.

Sounds good!

Mikedawg · Mar 30, 2018

Looks very natural and seems like you have several pass throughs so you should get good circulation. Assume you're going to leave a margin around sides of your tank. I wouldn't glue pieces together for ease of future movement; looks like rocks form a tight stack.