Looking for input and suggestions

[Cory42]

Hi, I am setting up a new tank for mostly corals and a few fish. It will be a mixed reef with a sand bed. I will have some corals on the sand (the ones that like that. The rest I am trying to get some flat or interesting areas for them to grow. I would eventually like encrusting corals to grow on the back glass. I am thinking mushrooms on branch on the left front. Maybe some plating corals on the far right, going up the branches. The rest , probably how it looks to me at the time I place them.

Some corals that will be in and/or move to this tank. Hammers, torches, zoas, various montiporas of encrusting and plating varieties, mushrooms, candy canes, favias, fungia, trachyphyllia, and other similar type coral. What I won't have much if any is acropora, just not a big fan.

But anyway, please feel free to provide input. Thanks for your thoughts.

 

[DSEKULA]

Cool scape!!
The one thing I would do is with the stack of white rock that looks like stax. Instead of laying them all flat on top of each other I'd add some rubble pieces to make little caves between some of the layers (like stacking smaller and smaller tables vs shelves) it will give some seperated areas for different species and certain fish love those spaces.

 

[Is this the LFS]

Hi, I am setting up a new tank for mostly corals and a few fish. It will be a mixed reef with a sand bed. I will have some corals on the sand (the ones that like that. The rest I am trying to get some flat or interesting areas for them to grow. I would eventually like encrusting corals to grow on the back glass. I am thinking mushrooms on branch on the left front. Maybe some plating corals on the far right, going up the branches. The rest , probably how it looks to me at the time I place them.

Some corals that will be in and/or move to this tank. Hammers, torches, zoas, various montiporas of encrusting and plating varieties, mushrooms, candy canes, favias, fungia, trachyphyllia, and other similar type coral. What I won't have much if any is acropora, just not a big fan.

But anyway, please feel free to provide input. Thanks for your thoughts.

Do you already have expierence with coral?

 

[Cory42]

Do you already have expierence with coral?

I have some experience keeping corals, not an expert, but I always enjoy learning more. As life has permitted I have kept corals on and off for the last 25+ years. Sometimes, that has meant a few years away from the hobby. At times, I have had good success, at other not so much. I have kept all of the corals types I have listed, plus a few others.

Thanks for the input on the stacking of the flat white rocks. When I placed those, I had a stair step or pyramid (at least from the front viewing) in mind. I may experiment with your idea and see how it works.

 

[Is this the LFS]

I have some experience keeping corals, not an expert, but I always enjoy learning more. As life has permitted I have kept corals on and off for the last 25+ years. Sometimes, that has meant a few years away from the hobby. At times, I have had good success, at other not so much. I have kept all of the corals types I have listed, plus a few others.

Thanks for the input on the stacking of the flat white rocks. When I placed those, I had a stair step or pyramid (at least from the front viewing) in mind. I may experiment with your idea and see how it works.

Ok. So you should have no problems keeping any of the corals you listed. As the other person said, I would probably change the white rock stack. One because I think it would look better. And two, it would probably give more room for growth and it looks like that area is partly shaded

 

[Cory42]

Got the rock wet. Couple of different arrangements. It changed a little, then it changed a lot. I am liking the last two the most right now (same configuration at different viewing angles). I could only partially incorporate spacing out the flat rocks with rubble, it got too tall IMO.