Opinions needed

alten78 · Oct 29, 2018

Just upgraded from a 75 to a 120 and attempted to go towards a more minimilistic route, creating arches to keep areas open for high flow as I'm mainly keeping acros.

Debating a few rocks that have a few bigger colonies, I'm leaning on cutting them out, removing the rock, and remounting elswhere.

Don't mind the cloudy water, just be going through a bacteria bloom/ mini cycle.

DSC reef · Oct 29, 2018

I think it looks great like it is. I like the open space and extra room to grow more colonies

blackizzz · Oct 29, 2018

Agree with DSC!

That scape will turn out awesome, especially once you get more corals in there

The negative spaces you've created are really nice, gives it a good depth look!

alten78 · Oct 29, 2018

Thanks for the feedback guys! I'm pretty happy about the way it came out, just a few minor tweaks on positioning and i'll get the few loose rocks pinned down and hopefully get the rest of the colonies and frags mounted afterwards.

I dont see too many tanks these days with huge colonies so if I'm hoping the open space will get filled in nicely if im lucky!

I left a large area in the back open for my frogspawn, for some reason I never mounted the thing to a rock and its always falling over and usually into something. I'll work on getting a small pillar/mound to mount it tomorrow.

DSC reef · Oct 29, 2018

Just an idea, putty some rocks around a 4" PVC coupler to hide it and you can place the stalk of the frogspawn inside to keep it upright.

alten78 · Oct 29, 2018

DSC reef said:
Just an idea, putty some rocks around a 4" PVC coupler to hide it and you can place the stalk of the frogspawn inside to keep it upright.

Daaang, how am I just now hearing about this? Fantastic idea, thanks!

DSC reef · Oct 29, 2018

alten78 said:
Daaang, how am I just now hearing about this? Fantastic idea, thanks!

Your welcome

cracker · Oct 29, 2018

I like it !

NY_Caveman · Oct 29, 2018

I love the open aquascape. Looks great.

gary504504 · Oct 30, 2018

Looks great as is

DWPhilli · Nov 1, 2018

Looks good, I dont see much to change

alten78 · Nov 3, 2018

I ended up using a ton of epoxy to mount frags but it's difficult on the bigger colonies, picked up some instamorph which made the job a little easier. I also used it to cover a coupler with rubble...in hindsight, should've gone a little bigger but the 1.5" worked ok.

Also pictured is the final-ish product, im sure it will change slightly here and there, maybe adding a small rock or to if and when I run out of room for more acros. Thankfully the bacteria bloom is starting to clear up!

DSC reef · Nov 3, 2018

Looks awesome!

MamaLovesHerReefTank · Nov 4, 2018

alten78 said:
Just upgraded from a 75 to a 120 and attempted to go towards a more minimilistic route, creating arches to keep areas open for high flow as I'm mainly keeping acros.

Debating a few rocks that have a few bigger colonies, I'm leaning on cutting them out, removing the rock, and remounting elswhere.

Don't mind the cloudy water, just be going through a bacteria bloom/ mini cycle.

Beautiful scape. I wouldn't change a thing. I'd be interested in following your build thread if you decide to do one.

alten78 · Nov 4, 2018

MamaLovesHerReefTank said:
Beautiful scape. I wouldn't change a thing. I'd be interested in following your build thread if you decide to do one.

Thanks! It's in my signature but its not a clickable link. I'm not good about showing off fine details mostly because it's just basic and simply designed. I certainly love following others with some of the creativity and seemingly high end equipment, neither of which will you find in my thread

I do have a really nice yellow lepto (Sunblaster i believe the name to be) that i kept on the tank floor that i want to move to an isolated small rock to let it cover

MamaLovesHerReefTank · Nov 4, 2018

alten78 said:
Thanks! It's in my signature but its not a clickable link. I'm not good about showing off fine details mostly because it's just basic and simply designed. I certainly love following others with some of the creativity and seemingly high end equipment, neither of which will you find in my thread

I do have a really nice yellow lepto (Sunblaster i believe the name to be) that i kept on the tank floor that i want to move to an isolated small rock to let it cover

Going to check it out now. Simple is running a fluval fx6 canister, no dosing, small underrated hob skimmer on a 3 yr old 125g. That would be mine. If I ever get to upgrade to my ideal 180g then I hope to do a build thread. For now I follow everyone else's builds.