Aquascape question?

[Elmareefer]

Just wondering on how to aquascape. I have live rock. 4 large pieces probably 7 pounds each. Maybe about 10-12 inches. 6 medium pieces about half that size and smaller pieces about the size of a baseball or so. Would you use the large pieces as the base? or add some smaller pieces to elevate the large ones and go from there?

 

[griss]

What are the dimensions of the tank again? What look are you going for with your rock work?

 

[Elmareefer]

What are the dimensions of the tank again? What look are you going for with your rock work?

It’s 36in long 18x18

Looking to do two separate rock islands with space in between

 

[griss]

10-12" rocks are pretty big for that size tank, so I'd put them on the bottom and stack the smaller medium rocks on top of them. That's what I did in the 150 I recently set up.

 

[griss]

Check my build thread with how I recently did the rock in my 150.

 

[Elmareefer]

Ok
I re- looks at the TBS website. It looks like I got about 7-8 pieces of the nano live rock baseball size
. I ordered the package at 45 pounds . 2 good shipments but these smaller pieces I’m. Not sure what to do with?

 

[griss]

Can you post some pics of the rocks? @vlangel really has an artistic touch when it comes to arranging rock.

 

[Elmareefer]

Sorry for the blue
I still don’t know how to adjust this

 

[Elmareefer]

The tank is 35 x18x18
4 big pieces probably 1 foot each then about 4 medium pieces 6 inches and 8 baseball size
45 pounds total

 

[griss]

Sorry for the blue
I still don’t know how to adjust this

If you're taking pics with your phone, I use one of these to filter out the blue.

I like the way you made arches and caves with the big rocks. Those smaller rocks look like they might be a bit of a challenge as they look very round/oval. I'd probably just make a little island our of them.

 

[Reefing102]

My thought is to possibly use the smaller rocks as the base of one side of a cave/arch

Something like this (sorry for the crude drawing)

 

[Elmareefer]

If you're taking pics with your phone, I use one of these to filter out the blue.

I like the way you made arches and caves with the big rocks. Those smaller rocks look like they might be a bit of a challenge as they look very round/oval. I'd probably just make a little island our of them.

I was thinking of making them into a pile and a zoa garden

 

[vlangel]

Can you post some pics of the rocks? @vlangel really has an artistic touch when it comes to arranging rock.

The big pieces look pretty good. I would make sure one of the 2 main structures is bigger than the other. You don't want them to be symmetrical because then your eye wont know which one to look at first. Then the smaller pieces could make a curved finger coming off of the big structure like the Aleutian islands off Alaska. Its really good if the finger points to the other main structure.

 

[Elmareefer]

The big pieces look pretty good. I would make sure one of the 2 main structures is bigger than the other. You don't want them to be symmetrical because then your eye wont know which one to look at first. Then the smaller pieces could make a curved finger coming off of the big structure like the Aleutian islands off Alaska. Its really good if the finger points to the other main structure.

So if you enter the room and view from the right side of the tank would you put the larger structure on the left side?

 

[vlangel]

So if you enter the room and view from the right side of the tank would you put the larger structure on the left side?

Yes, I think that is a good thought so that at first glance you look over the smaller structure and see the larger structure. Kind of like mountain ranges.

 

[wvned]

Leave enough space so you can clean the glass. It looks a little close in some places. I tend to just pile them randomly with smaller ones under bigger ones so they don't move around.

As long as you don't make symmetrical piles you cant do it wrong.

 

[Elmareefer]

Yes
Currently I just put the second batch of tbs in the tank
No real thought yet