Marco Rock, Sand and Super Glue NSA Build

[Saluki2003]

I just finished my NSA build and would love some feedback.

Materials:
A few pieces of dry live rock from LFS
1 small foundation Marco Rocks
1 bag nano shelf Marco Rocks
4lb hammer
Chisel
2 bottles GlueMasters thin superglue

After watching a few aquascape videos on YouTube I decided to use the sand/crushed dry rock powder and thin superglue method of creating an NSA. These were the videos I used for instruction.

Here is what I ended up with (I gotta figure out how to take better tank pics):

 

[Cell]

Sweet! I'm loving all these NSA scapes.

 

[Bnutz]

Nice scape!

 

[Saluki2003]

Thanks...the pictures don’t really show off all the open space as much as I had hoped. There are several more tunnels that didn’t show up due to my poor picture taking.

This is an IM NUVO 20g and part of the livestock will be a watchman goby and pistol shrimp. I will glue some 1/2”-1” acrylic feet to the base rocks then add sand to avoid any structural collapse on the shrimp/goby.

 

[Luke Schnabel]

So cool! I’m glad you used @Tidal Gardens videos for help!

 

[lavoisier]

Nice work, congratulations on a beautiful structure.

 

[Saluki2003]

So cool! I’m glad you used @Tidal Gardens videos for help!

Their video was the first aid seen with the superglue crushed dry rock....it worked great. The thin Gluemasters superglue was super easy to use and seems like the hold I’d REALLY strong. While manipulating the structure I actually broke one of the shelf rocks and the joint held....I was impressed. MarineCost on YouTube and Instagram had some pretty cool rockscspes that I looked through for inspiration.

 

[Research Monkey]

Looks great. This is exactly what I want to do I think. Im in the process of setting up a 20 peninsula. What size bottle glue did you use and did you go through both?

 

[Saluki2003]

Looks great. This is exactly what I want to do I think. Im in the process of setting up a 20 peninsula. What size bottle glue did you use and did you go through both?

I used the 2oz bottles and pretty much used all of both.

 

[Saluki2003]

Here’s how it looks currently.

 

[Sebastiancrab]

Their video was the first aid seen with the superglue crushed dry rock....it worked great. The thin Gluemasters superglue was super easy to use and seems like the hold I’d REALLY strong. While manipulating the structure I actually broke one of the shelf rocks and the joint held....I was impressed. MarineCost on YouTube and Instagram had some pretty cool rockscspes that I looked through for inspiration.

How did you locate the ones on Instagram?

 

[Saluki2003]

How did you locate the ones on Instagram?

Marinecost_Seoul

 

[Nick063]

Looks great! Love the arch!

 

[AgSoldier47]

That came out really good!

 

[raultsu]

after watching those videos, I'll be redoing my scape. the marine cost videos are amazing

 

[jefra]

Here’s how it looks currently.

That looks perfect

 

[Ashish Patel]

Looks amazing. Only suggestion is add a few small overhangs in the back for hiding places for fish, Aquascapes like this are great for corals but I made this mistake and my 3 yellow tangs fought for one overhang for 6 months, something I will avoid if keeping tangs.

 

[Green_Lantern]

Great looking scape!

 

[Saluki2003]

I don’t really have any more room in the back. But the livestock is gonna be pretty low in this. Clownfish pair and a watchman goby/pistol shrimp and maybe a clown goby or neon goby.

 

[michaelfrick]

Nice work! It's a beautiful scape you made there mate. I'm starting to think to watch videos soon too.