tbone28
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Update - bought 130# live rock today from the LFS - got a pretty good deal, I think. $4/lb for a mix of Fiji and Marshall rock - fully cured, and I got to cherry pick.
Here's my 1st "draft" at aquascaping. I'm aiming for a "2 mountain" look, with a valley in between. I want the left-sided mountain to be longer and the right-side to be small. I also want a more open aquascape...I had way too much rock in my last tank.
I ended up with 3 mountains because I had a few pieces of rock that I didn't know what to do with - see small mound on the right hand side of tank.
What would you guys change? Do you think I need more rock?
Here's what I'm contemplating so far:
1) build left-hand mountain a bit taller?
2) build right hand mountain taller?
3) combine middle and right-hand mountains into a single mountain?
With the rock in there, my sand is no longer shifting
. I also bought a new Eheim pump for my noisy skimmer. While my skimmer is very quiet now, output is not quite where it was with the Gen-X pump. The gurgling noise was eliminated simply by angling the drain pipe so that it was no longer submerged under water.
here are the pics:
Right after adding rock - water still cloudy. Do I need to add some rock to my refugium?
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Water clearing up:
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Close-up:
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Pic of the valleys:
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Here's my 1st "draft" at aquascaping. I'm aiming for a "2 mountain" look, with a valley in between. I want the left-sided mountain to be longer and the right-side to be small. I also want a more open aquascape...I had way too much rock in my last tank.
I ended up with 3 mountains because I had a few pieces of rock that I didn't know what to do with - see small mound on the right hand side of tank.
What would you guys change? Do you think I need more rock?
Here's what I'm contemplating so far:
1) build left-hand mountain a bit taller?
2) build right hand mountain taller?
3) combine middle and right-hand mountains into a single mountain?
With the rock in there, my sand is no longer shifting
. I also bought a new Eheim pump for my noisy skimmer. While my skimmer is very quiet now, output is not quite where it was with the Gen-X pump. The gurgling noise was eliminated simply by angling the drain pipe so that it was no longer submerged under water.here are the pics:
Right after adding rock - water still cloudy. Do I need to add some rock to my refugium?
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Water clearing up:
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Close-up:
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Pic of the valleys:
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