Reaquascaping my year old reef tank

[Gadsby15]

Im not happy with my current rock aquascape in my tank

Do you guys have any tips to carrying out this scape without streesing my fish and corals too much?
Would you leave the fish in the tank or catch and move them to my quarantine system?
Ill have plenty of water to do water changes with ready to go
Also my sand bed is very shallow and ive used a turkey baster on it most water changes so it shouldn't have to much crap built up in it

Still unsure tho but not happy with the look, way to cluttered!
Ill remove around third of the rock but it will be relocated to the sump

 

[Bradsreeeftank]

Heres what i did for re aqauscaping biocube. I first brought all corals too the front on sand bed. then i simply got too work by taking most liverock out first then put it back in to my liking. your fish will go in to top corner of fish tank like mine did so dont be worried. Thats really it. p.s do a water change when finished, so you suck up all the stuff that was stuck behind your rock work! Any qustions pm me,

 

[Gadsby15]

Cheers mate

Thank you

 

[Bradsreeeftank]

No problem

 

[Intricateart]

If you have a quarantine already set up I would put all livestock in there,as long as the water specs are the same,especially temp. We upgraded our 75gal to a 150gal but we needed the 6" deep sand bed to set up the 150. We put everything in a 10gal and several rubbermaids with heaters and air stones for several hours(all evening) to aquascape the deep sand bed and @300lbs of live rock.

 

[Bradsreeeftank]

^ another good idea

 

[Gadsby15]

Its actually not set up at mo, but wudnt take much to do, just add tank water spare powerhead and heater
Shouldn't take longer than 3 hours tho

 

[WhoKnew]

Good luck. Take pictures so we can see the transformation. Besides. Truth be known, I want to do the same thing

 

[Gadsby15]

Will do matey

 

[Gadsby15]

Before and after pics, what do u guys think?

 

[Gadsby15]

Before and after pics? What do u guys think?

 

[FL_Reefer]

Like the new scape, really open the space up more than before. Good job!

 

[WhoKnew]

I like the new scape. It is scaled appropriately. You make me want to do my tank

 

[Gadsby15]

Do it mate, I was no where near as bad as I thought it would be.
I left my fish in the tank and just left some rocks in the corner whilst I did the first island then moved them to the other side of the tank to do the second island
Only mistake was breaking my birdsnest frag but now I have 2 of them

 

[WhoKnew]

Okay. I broke down and rearranged some of my rock. Now rank us cloudy. I need to let it rest. Now on to my Cichlid Tank. Boy I'm busy.

 

[Gadsby15]

Lol, post some pics wen ready

 

[WhoKnew]

Thank you for the inspiration. Much to my surprise. I found soooo many BW's. It was disgusting. One of them had to be a foot long. Thank god for gloves.

 

[Gadsby15]

Nice one mate, there horrible things! I found a few in mine as well