Opinions on my aquascape

Ryrycosmo · Nov 18, 2023

Hi all,

I am currently looking to start adding some corals to my 20 gallon cube tank, but I am wondering if I should rearrange my aquascape first.

The bottom half of my aquascape mostly has shaded or vertical regions where it is making me second guess my design. I really like my cave, maybe I am just being too picky here?

Would love and appreciate to hear your guys options on this.

Ryan

CasperOe · Nov 19, 2023

Do you like it?

that's the most important thing at this stage..

Covered in coral, this will look nice and you have a few wee caves in there providing good habitat space for a couple of fish as well.

What's going in?

Reef. · Nov 19, 2023

Think about what corals you want, then where they will go on your scape…I like it but as above if you like it thats the most important thing, no point changing it to something you don’t like, you can make most scapes work.

saltypepper · Nov 19, 2023

I agree with everyone above. If you like it that is the most important thing because you will have to look at it every day and if you think one thing is off it is going to pick at you till you decide to change it.

mtraylor · Nov 19, 2023

I agree. If you like it... then go for it. If you don't, then i would suggest making it the way you want. It's pretty easy to break up rocks and glue/paste them anyway you want. You have open canvas and small footprint to do anything you desire.

Mr. Mojo Rising · Nov 19, 2023

Personally I would break up those 2 large rocks, and add a bit more rock, it looks kind of sparse right now. Just my opinion which doesn't matter.

Dburr1014 · Nov 19, 2023

Hiding places for fish is also important. So that cave is a good idea.

Ryrycosmo · Nov 19, 2023

CasperOe said:
Do you like it? that's the most important thing at this stage..

Covered in coral, this will look nice and you have a few wee caves in there providing good habitat space for a couple of fish as well.

What's going in?

I mainly wanted to get some soft corals, mushrooms, and LPS. Mostly beginner corals and ones my peppermint shrimp will ignore haha. Got a mushroom yesterday

I ended up rearranging the rocks slightly to have more flat areas while keeping the cave intact. I also made room on the front so I can eventually put an island or two.

CasperOe · Nov 19, 2023

Ryrycosmo said:
I mainly wanted to get some soft corals, mushrooms, and LPS. Mostly beginner corals and ones my peppermint shrimp will ignore haha. Got a mushroom yesterday

I ended up rearranging the rocks slightly to have more flat areas while keeping the cave intact. I also made room on the front so I can eventually put an island or two.

Looking really good!

It's a nice day when you get new corals, ended up spending a wee bit myself yesterday! It happens to the best of us...

Ryrycosmo · Nov 19, 2023

CasperOe said:
Looking really good! It's a nice day when you get new corals, ended up spending a wee bit myself yesterday! It happens to the best of us...

Thanks! Looks like some nice corals, I am tempted to go get one more after seeing them

Reef. · Nov 19, 2023

Noticed you have a lot of sand in there, if you are not adding a fish that needs a lot of sand, you could remove some, as keeping the sand clean would be easier.

Ryrycosmo · Nov 20, 2023

Reef. said:
Noticed you have a lot of sand in there, if you are not adding a fish that needs a lot of sand, you could remove some, as keeping the sand clean would be easier.

Good idea, it'll go up more when I add the island too. I want to get a yellow watchman goby and shrimp pair soon, but perhaps it's more than they need (~2inches/5cm)

Ef4life · Nov 20, 2023

Ryrycosmo said:
I mainly wanted to get some soft corals, mushrooms, and LPS. Mostly beginner corals and ones my peppermint shrimp will ignore haha. Got a mushroom yesterday

I ended up rearranging the rocks slightly to have more flat areas while keeping the cave intact. I also made room on the front so I can eventually put an island or two.

I like the new scape, I like how that rock creates that overhang on the lower right side

Gumbies R Us · Nov 20, 2023

Ryrycosmo said:
I mainly wanted to get some soft corals, mushrooms, and LPS. Mostly beginner corals and ones my peppermint shrimp will ignore haha. Got a mushroom yesterday

I ended up rearranging the rocks slightly to have more flat areas while keeping the cave intact. I also made room on the front so I can eventually put an island or two.

New scape looks great!