Thoughts on a newb's first scape?

[Aaron Shapiro]

Added another 28lbs to my new Bio Cube 32... (sorry for the cloudy water, just finished). I'm pretty happy with it, looks like a bunch of cool places to put some corals, and some good hiding places for the critters. Any feedback?

 

[hdsoftail1065]

It looks good! You gave yourself plenty of room for cleaning the glass, incorporated a few caves for the fish and most importantly you are happy with it.

What kind of corals are you visioning?

 

[Aaron Shapiro]

It looks good! You gave yourself plenty of room for cleaning the glass, incorporated a few caves for the fish and most importantly you are happy with it.

What kind of corals are you visioning?

I’m not sure yet, still researching that. Looking forward to it though.

 

[SPR1968]

Looks great to me Aaron and as already said you have left plenty of room for cleaning the glass etc

 

[motortrendz]

I feel like you need another rock here... too much flat cliff edges dont really give alot of places to put corals bc theyll shadow anything below them as they grow. If you add a rock where I circled itll give you more of a step pyramid shape and more room to put coral without shadowing.

 

[siggy]

Looks good

 

[vetteguy53081]

This scape fits the tank. Have a tube of reef putty ready for future planting of coral

 

[Streetdoc77]

Great start ! Look to tips and tricks for creating an amazing aquascape .

 

[Aaron Shapiro]

Redid it this evening. Wasn't crazy about how that top rock was perched... I think this has some nice flow to it as well but doesn't make me think about tank-breaking-rock-topples...

 

[zoalander1]

I like the first design better

 

[hdsoftail1065]

I like the first design better

+1

 

[Brandon Smith]

While you are researching what coral you are going to start with, you can can redesign your rock scape to help be beneficial to those corals. I would suggest starting with Soft coral and LPS myself.

 

[Aaron Shapiro]

While you are researching what coral you are going to start with, you can can redesign your rock scape to help be beneficial to those corals. I would suggest starting with Soft coral and LPS myself.

Yeah that was kinda my thought. I just didn’t care for how precariously perched that top rock was before and wasn’t ready to commit with glue.

 

[Brandon Smith]

You can always use a chisel and hammer to make caves and such. You can do a lot to make the rock look like you want.

 

[BeejReef]

They both look good to me. Either will look even better once all the rock colors up.

I've struggled with coral placement.. not height and flow, but orientation so it's viewable and gets good light.
You might get some rubble rock in your sump so it's cycled as well. It helps when mounting coral.

 

[Dragon52]

Definantly need some caves for hiding spots.