Marine aquascaping for beginners.

[mik3c]

My simple a** trying to create a marine aquascape for the first time...

 

[ShepherdReefer]

Lets see what you have so far?

 

[kados]

McDonald's = The Golden Arches
McDowell's = The Golden Archs

Old dudes like me will get the reference..

 

[mik3c]

This is where I'm starting, I'm not crazy about the fact that it just looks like a hill but I think I'm getting it. I'm practicing on a small scale for a 120g I'm in the process of setting up.

 

[ShepherdReefer]

I used acrylic rods and superglue to hole my rock together. If you plan to add coral to the landscaping, they will fill in a lot of areas. what you have is not bad, looks good. Maybe on the left add something on top of those rocks.

 

[mik3c]

Maybe this.

 

[ShepherdReefer]

I like the first one better.

 

[DeniseAndy]

I like the first better. IMO

 

[mik3c]

I used acrylic rods and superglue to hole my rock together. If you plan to add coral to the landscaping, they will fill in a lot of areas. what you have is not bad, looks good. Maybe on the left add something on top of those rocks.

Thanks for the advice, yes I do want to build that up a bit on the left there I just don't have a good rock for that spot. I will order some more before I start setting up the main tank and I think with a few small pieces I can add some more interest.

 

[mik3c]

I like the first better. IMO

Yeah I do too lol.

 

[mik3c]

Yeah I think I might be able to make this work, it's kind of growing on me. It looks ok from the front but the angled view from my desk is kind of nice too.

 

[Ulm_nano_diybudgetreef]

Maybe this.

Prefer previous option, imo

 

[Smarkow]

Lol I liked the 2nd one better. But I am outvoted

Just goes to show that each reefer has their own taste

Thanks for sharing

 

[Ulm_nano_diybudgetreef]

How true, it's also difficult to tell just from photos and u cant see depth

 

[LiqrSicc]

Looks good either way. I changed my rockscape up a few times during the first year of my tank. I had a feeling I'd want to switch things up so I purposely did not glue the rocks together. Good luck with the scape!

 

[Smarkow]

Looks good either way. I changed my rockscape up a few times during the first year of my tank. I had a feeling I'd want to switch things up so I purposely did not glue the rocks together. Good luck with the scape!

Good advice, IMO. I did the same thing. Then my wife wanted to rescape it a year or so ago. So “final” is apparently not a word in our household vocab hahaha

 

[mik3c]

Looks good either way. I changed my rockscape up a few times during the first year of my tank. I had a feeling I'd want to switch things up so I purposely did not glue the rocks together. Good luck with the scape!

Yeah I may want to change it up a few times, after I set up the larger tank I may redo or even break this one down completely, who knows. I just felt a strong need to get my feet salty instead of trying to set up this 120g and get it right the first time. It also gives me something to play around with while the other tank is cycling and developing it's ecosystem.