140g Cube Rock Scape Critique

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The tank is 36 x 30 x 30"

Used about 250 pounds of dry rock.
My aim is to have plenty of places to attach corals.. don't care much about keeping many fish. Will have a low bio-load.. And also more rock for growing pods(will keep mandarin dragonets. There's also a 60g remote dsb refugium and a 60g sump with another refugium chamber in the system)

I know I might not be able keep corals at the top 1/4th of the tank. Might remove some rocks from the top if necessary in the future. The rock scape is sturdy under pressure and doesn't wobble. Didn't glue any of the rocks yet.

Opinions/ suggestions on the scape please [emoji4]
 
not a fan.... too "full" looking and sandbed looks a bit deep... other things to keep into consideration is where to mount power heads and those shelves are gonna create shadows under them... rockwork should taper up towards the top, not get wider
 
A bit "stacked" looking, and a bit high.
And maybe too vertical.
You may have too much rock.
 
First thing to consider, you want to minimize glass to rock contact. Makes cleaning the glass much easier and less place for detritus build up.
 
Looks better but still not the biggest fan. Maybe I have a biased opinion because I think I just don't like your rock. Lol
 
Yea. The bottom part is pretty much the same... just spread out and levelled a little better.

I wanted to scape like this because I'll have more places to stick corals. I can remove any rocks in the future if necessary.

I'm planning to (eventually) keep softies on the substrate, lps at the first level and sps at the top two levels... if I manage to keep them alive. Let's see how it goes
 
If you like it then go for it. It doesn't look bad. It may look beautiful when you put corals on the rock the way you want. You have the vision of how you want it to look, not us.

As long as you take your time, watch water parameters etc. you will keep everything alive.
 
Doc_Sid said:
Opinions please
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What do YOU think it looks like? You're the one that has to be happy with it, so what do you think?

Personally I think that the first set of pics looked good. It was "different". My only critique with that was that you kinda piled it up way high so it wouldn't be usable to grow corals but I kinda liked it. I also like the "slope" that you added to your DSB.
 
Pretty much I still have the same answer I gave you this morning in the other thread. Did you take a look at the link I posted? There were many amazing aquascapes in that thread.
 
Deftones2015 said:
If you like it then go for it. It doesn't look bad. It may look beautiful when you put corals on the rock the way you want. You have the vision of how you want it to look, not us.

As long as you take your time, watch water parameters etc. you will keep everything alive.
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Thank you[emoji4]
I am going with this scape for now.
Kingsixx said:
What do YOU think it looks like? You're the one that has to be happy with it, so what do you think?

Personally I think that the first set of pics looked good. It was "different". My only critique with that was that you kinda piled it up way high so it wouldn't be usable to grow corals but I kinda liked it. I also like the "slope" that you added to your DSB.
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This looks good to me in person. I like how many shelves and caves there are. I wanted to make something different but like everyone said there won't be enough space for corals to grow... so reduced the height and made flat tops for more usable mounting space.
Dkuhlmann said:
Pretty much I still have the same answer I gave you this morning in the other thread. Did you take a look at the link I posted? There were many amazing aquascapes in that thread.
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Yes mate. I did go through the link earlier too [emoji4] it's very helpful
I just wanted to make something different. Wanted to create a step like scape and also use a lot of rock
 
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