First time posting and Scaping with Marco Rocks

[LakeReefing]

Hello everyone. First time posting and scaping. I used Marco premium shelf rocks and a couple of their foundation pieces, watched a couple videos, and went at it. Not sure why I was so blown away by how well superglue holds rocks together but I was truly, blown away. Its going in my new Waterbox Reef 100.3 tank. I'm curious as to if you guys think I went high enough with the structure. Planning to do mainly SPS. Two XR30s are going overhead. Still can't decide weather or not I want to do bare bottom or use the 2 bags of Original Grade Ocean Direct sand :/ Anyone wanna help convince me one way? Included a video of my scape and some pictures of how my setup build is going. Thanks in advance!

 

[attiland]

Embedded videos don’t play at least on iOS devices. Better of posting to YouTube and link it in here.

 

[LakeReefing]

Okay I can do that. Works in Chrome on WIndows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[LakeReefing]

Embedded videos don’t play at least on iOS devices. Better of posting to YouTube and link it in here.

here is the VOD on the tube!

 

[tautog83]

Like it man, I'd do sand this time around . Bare bottom with dry rock takes a lot longer to mature . If you can stand the looks of a larger grain size it will help with the blowing of sand . Good luck . See if a friend will loan you some marine pure balls from.his tank or buy them now and let them soak in for a month or 2 then drop in your sump. !

 

[LakeReefing]

Like it man, I'd do sand this time around . Bare bottom with dry rock takes a lot longer to mature . If you can stand the looks of a larger grain size it will help with the blowing of sand . Good luck . See if a friend will loan you some marine pure balls from.his tank or buy them now and let them soak in for a month or 2 then drop in your sump. !

Thanks . Yes definitely considering the time it will take to cycle with and without sand, however trying to decide mostly on how it will look visually as this a forever home and I'm not in any hurry. This is why I'm choosing the smaller gain just because I like the look of it, however I have heard the way the bottom glass gets encrusted is something spectacular.

As far as my fuge area in my Trigger sump, I'm going to do a layer of marine pure cubes, some live rock rubble and tumbling cheato. My idea is to place everything on a egg crate that is suspended about an inch with a tiny powerhead in that pocket blowing water around underneath everything so no detritus builds up. Not sure if it's a a good one but it's my idea lul.

 

[attiland]

here is the VOD on the tube!

Stunning

 

[Mikedawg]

Hello everyone. First time posting and scaping. I used Marco premium shelf rocks and a couple of their foundation pieces, watched a couple videos, and went at it. Not sure why I was so blown away by how well superglue holds rocks together but I was truly, blown away. Its going in my new Waterbox Reef 100.3 tank. I'm curious as to if you guys think I went high enough with the structure. Planning to do mainly SPS. Two XR30s are going overhead. Still can't decide weather or not I want to do bare bottom or use the 2 bags of Original Grade Ocean Direct sand :/ Anyone wanna help convince me one way? Included a video of my scape and some pictures of how my setup build is going. Thanks in advance!

Great looking 'scape

 

[LakeReefing]

Great looking 'scape

Thank you!

 

[Weasel1960]

That is an awesome looking scape.

 

[Sink_or_Swim]

here is the VOD on the tube!

Oooooooh I like that a lot, looks awesome!

 

[Kiwi reefer]

Very cool scape, looking forward to seeing it in the tank

 

[LakeReefing]

Very cool scape, looking forward to seeing it in the tank

Dabbing_reefturtle on da gram if you wanna find meh!

 

[Sean Clark]

First time? You fooled me. we'll done.

 

[Jeto2004]

Welcome! Awesome scape! Only comment I have, if you go with sand make sure you have enough space in between the structure to be able to gravel vac.