Tips and Tricks on Creating Amazing Aquascapes.

JustAnt · Oct 7, 2016

Any comments good or bad? TIA

MamaLovesHerReefTank · Oct 8, 2016

JustAnt said:
Any comments good or bad? TIA

I like it. Only thing I would try is moving the left side formation forward a bit to give a little more room behind.

JustAnt · Oct 8, 2016

Thanks for the input! That is exactly what my wife said too.... great minds....

Biggles · Oct 18, 2016

sawdonkey said:
Very cool and unique! You have a lot of live rock in your sump?

I have no live rock in the sump but i do have 16L of matrix spread throughout the bottom of some sections along with a skimmer. No carbon etc.

As you can see i can't leave things alone in the display, excuse the mess but i'm babysitting a good mates pieces for him.

helen ann · Oct 18, 2016

Biggles said:
I have no live rock in the sump but i do have 16L of matrix spread throughout the bottom of some sections along with a skimmer. No carbon etc.

As you can see i can't leave things alone in the display, excuse the mess but i'm babysitting a good mates pieces for him.

Beautiful!!!

revhtree · Oct 18, 2016

Biggles said:
I have no live rock in the sump but i do have 16L of matrix spread throughout the bottom of some sections along with a skimmer. No carbon etc.

As you can see i can't leave things alone in the display, excuse the mess but i'm babysitting a good mates pieces for him.

Very lovely!! Can you create a new thread about your reef please?

madweazl · Oct 18, 2016

When I started setting this up I wanted to keep 50% of the sand open and roughly 50% negative space without making it look bare. I kept everything two inches (minimum) from the glass around the entire structure. Doing this made a narrow tank seem even narrower so I tried to elongate the structure pulling it from back to front at roughly a 45° angle to trick the eye into thinking it was a bit wider.

Biggles · Oct 19, 2016

revhtree said:
Very lovely!! Can you create a new thread about your reef please?

Thank you, i will start a little reef journal.

revhtree · Oct 19, 2016

Biggles said:
Thank you, i will start a little reef journal.

Thank you!

revhtree · Oct 19, 2016

madweazl said:
When I started setting this up I wanted to keep 50% of the sand open and roughly 50% negative space without making it look bare. I kept everything two inches (minimum) from the glass around the entire structure. Doing this made a narrow tank seem even narrower so I tried to elongate the structure pulling it from back to front at roughly a 45° angle to trick the eye into thinking it was a bit wider.

Nice job! I can also tell this scape has more depth than what can really be seen.

sawdonkey · Oct 19, 2016

madweazl said:
When I started setting this up I wanted to keep 50% of the sand open and roughly 50% negative space without making it look bare. I kept everything two inches (minimum) from the glass around the entire structure. Doing this made a narrow tank seem even narrower so I tried to elongate the structure pulling it from back to front at roughly a 45° angle to trick the eye into thinking it was a bit wider.

I like this style. This goes to show you don't have to stack rocks all Jenga-like to create a great looking scape.

Crackem · Oct 25, 2016

Had to take out my manmade aquascape after giving it a chance for over a year and a half. Rocks caused uncontrollable and unidentifiable algae in my tank that I'm still battling today. Rocks also leached Alkalinity which caused my Alk to rise continually until all my Sps frags died.

I ordered brs tonga shelf and a little tonga branch and had a friend acid wash it and build me 3 structures based on some pics I sent him. I can't wait to fill this tank with fish and sps.

Crackem · Oct 25, 2016

Another pic from below

revhtree · Oct 25, 2016

Looks good!

Gravityreefing · Oct 26, 2016

Hello everyone. Thus is the scape I just did. What do u everyone thunk of it so far? Am still eye balling it to make changes. Oh yeah!! Sorry for the cloudiness. Still filling it up..