Show off those great CUBE TANK AQUASCAPES!

[ccanning]

As time passes it matures nicely!

 

[moga]

Here's mine

Here are current one

 

[Katrina71]

I've been scaping a 93g cube. I'm finding that it definitely needs taller rock to make it not look dwarfed. I'm thinking I need some 18" tall rock for 24" depth. Thoughts?

 

[truepercs]

I would caution going to high... or as another option I would recommend setting up so you can easily remove/move the top 6" of rock work. The coral will grow and once they reach the water line you will need to frag drastically or upgrade.

Some of my coral has reached the water line, however I am in the process of an upgrade. It just is not happening as fast as I would like.

Here was my original rock structure, (The aquarium was not full of water yet) All cemented as one piece. My plan is to pick up and set into new aquarium. I should have made with removeable sections.

Being able to remove sections of rock would have provided advantages

 

[Reign1]

Mine

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Mine

Love the aquascape!

 

[Reign1]

Love the aquascape!

Thanks

 

[1fishkeeper]

Well I know I suck at aquascaping I also suck at taking pictures. I am building this for my 93 gallon cube.

 

[Adamc13o3]

Looks awesome!

 

[HP Reef]

For those of you out there that are building scapes with dry rock I would try "FUZE*IT", it is a hybrid Liquid Nails.
Friend of mine works for NASA and is into reefing.
He told me this stuff is a commercially available version of the stuff that the reentry tiles on the space shuttle were attached with.
Keep in mind he is a friend that would tell me that just so I would say this on some post.
He is a Reef to Reef member, and I'm sure he would love to see me say that when it is not true just for the fun of it.
I don't care if it held the tiles on or not, it sure holds rock together.
I built my dry scape with this and could not be happier with it's grip.
Day one I put small amount on where I knew the rocks were in contact with each other. Once those points set (about 24 hours) I filled in gaps with a liberal amount. I let it dry for another 24 hours and it held "Like a Rock" .
Did a test try on two small pieces. after 24 they held, then filled the gap with a bunch of the stuff. I mean a bunch like 2X what it required. After 24 hours I took the pieces apart (with great effort) and about 1/4 of the big glob was still wet but cured part was really like a rock.
I need more live rock in my tank and the tube said it sets faster with a wet surface.
Going to go to my LFS, buy some live rock and build a structure and see how it goes. I will wrap the structure with salt water wetted news paper (just like live rock is shipped in when buying online) while the stuff dry's.
I'll let you know how that goes. If the stuff kills the live rock I'll let you know.
So far my new tank setup chemistry is fine (it's been running for about 6 weeks) with only one piece of live rock to seed the tank.
I have two softies and two fish in the tank and they are quite happy.
The stuff is gray but I figure coralline algae will cover that.
Just thought you dry rock builders should know about this option.

Rick

@Richard Schmidt Do you know if this can be used while rocks are in water?

 

[shakacuz]

Well I know I suck at aquascaping I also suck at taking pictures. I am building this for my 93 gallon cube.

give yourself more credit. that looks great!

 

[Oscar Madrid]

The mine

 

[ajb55]

Figured I'd share my first aquascape here with you guys first I'm so proud of it, but the pictures don't do it justice, trying to figure out how to upload the walk-around video I took

 

[ajb55]

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Figured I'd share my first aquascape here with you guys first I'm so proud of it, but the pictures don't do it justice, trying to figure out how to upload the walk-around video I took

Great looking aquscape!

 

[TangingOut]

My first cube tank. Wanted to do all totoka type rocks, but very difficult to source

 

[becca10]

15 gal cube Zia garden

 

[Vivid Creative Aquatics Verified Sponsor]

I recently posted this to my build thread. but figured it would get more attention a thread specific about cube tank aquascapes, so here goes:

the a side shot of the aquascape in our 134-gallon cube, before and after approximately 1000 day apart .

Here is a three-side view of the aquascape form back int he begging

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[Gumbies R Us]

My first cube tank. Wanted to do all totoka type rocks, but very difficult to source

Very nice aquascape! What are your plans for the tank?

 

[TangingOut]

Very nice aquascape! What are your plans for the tank?

Original plan was LPS, zoa, and shrooms, but I'm a stick head at heart so mixed reef is the goal