Need some ideas for making more spots for coral

[willstruck]

Most of the rock is glued but I'm not happy with the fact that i only have like 8 good frag spots in my 25 gallon. I could use some help and maybe some good ideas on making isolated rockwork for invasive corals that I love like GSP and clove polyps.

 

[4tanks]

As your space limited why don't you grow the gsp on the back glass

 

[willstruck]

As your space limited why don't you grow the gsp on the back glass

Might actually give that a try

 

[PicassoClown04]

Gsp on the back glass is great! If you have a barebottom tank, that’s even better because you can grow zoas right on the bottom glass instead of needing to take up space with a rock. I would add more shelf and fingers to your design, and maybe make the arch a little smaller. You lose a lot of real estate by having an arch that big because you can’t mount many corals to that

 

[sp1187]

Split in two so the center leg stays with the left side.
Now lay that flat so it’s a horseshoe laying down. Stack step rock on that creating shelf to attach frags. If you leave a gap underneath one shelf to the next so there is no light, you can grow GSP on the lower rock. GSP doesn’t grow through darkness.
Cloves will.

 

[HB AL]

You really only have 1 option to create more space for corals since you have a very minamilist setup and thats to add more rock. 1 thing that could work good for creating alot more area for corals would be to build up some rock to the height of the arch a little ways away from the arch, then get a nice size flat skinny rock and use it to connect the 2 features the new rock pile and the arch together giving you a nice size area for more corals especially sps since it will be towards the top of the tank.
This is the way I setup my scape, Alot of live rock stacked up and a bunch of those flat skinny rock. Doing this gave me a huge surface area for corals and you get the added benefit of a much larger and stronger bio filter and alot of areas in the rock for the fish to sleep or just cruise through it and somewhere they can just chill. Heres a pick of my tank which is on the opposite end of tank scapes compared to yours.

 

[willstruck]

You really only have 1 option to create more space for corals since you have a very minamilist setup and thats to add more rock. 1 thing that could work good for creating alot more area for corals would be to build up some rock to the height of the arch a little ways away from the arch, then get a nice size flat skinny rock and use it to connect the 2 features the new rock pile and the arch together giving you a nice size area for more corals especially sps since it will be towards the top of the tank.
This is the way I setup my scape, Alot of live rock stacked up and a bunch of those flat skinny rock. Doing this gave me a huge surface area for corals and you get the added benefit of a much larger and stronger bio filter and alot of areas in the rock for the fish to sleep or just cruise through it and somewhere they can just chill. Heres a pick of my tank which is on the opposite end of tank scapes compared to yours.

Im gonna add more rocks I think, I filled the tank today because I didn’t have space for all the boxes of stuff so I might go to a store soon and get some live rock to build it out some more

 

[John08007]

Why not get a 1/2" concrete bit and drill some holes in your rockwork for frags?

 

[willstruck]

Why not get a 1/2" concrete bit and drill some holes in your rockwork for frags

I actually drilled a few but wanted to leave lots of space in between types of coral because I’m putting a few torches along the top

 

[Francisco Hernandez]

It isn't the best pic, but you can also get a rock style frag holder and put a certain type of coral or corals on it. Mine just became all certs of stuff on it but if you do it right you can make a really nice one and place it anywhere in the back. Mine is on the overflow.

 

[PeterC99]

Had a friend build this for my tank. Different type of construction that provides for great flow and lots of places for frags.

 

[willstruck]

I know it’s not the best looking but I think I might add in some more rock from the sump at my LFS where I drew with pink