aquascaping with the furture in mind

[reefdood]

I plan to have 8 or less SPS species in my tank. All bright screaming radioactive colors too. I just set mine up this past weeend so I don't have anything yet, but my first purchase will be brght green slimer. That should grow well in no time.

This post has me wanting to move some LR from my tank into my sump. :lol:

 

[Chrisrush]

Thanks for posting Invincibles tank fliger. That's another one that is great in regards to coral placement.

I know that albert (dgasmd) was talking about this when he set up his tank a while ago. I haven't seen an updated shot of his tank, perhaps he will grace us with a picture.

 

[Fliger]

I'm trying to use photobucket, this is my first attempt at a pic. This doesn't show a lot of detail, but I also kept my rocks lower. Since then many of my larger SPS have been placed towards the top of the rocks and it looks great. The fish swim thru the SPS, very cool.

EDIT - thats a bad pic. It looks so different now. Must ... find ... camera ... equipment ...

 

[PelagicMagic]

anyone use pvc frames to aquascape and suspend LR above the sandbed?

 

[Chrisrush]

Another option that I"m looking at is that I'm going to try and place some plating corals and stags on top of each other to see if I can get them to grow together. I would also like to make a cap island with the three diff. cap colors that I have acquired (blue, green, red). Another idea would be to try to get several colors of digis and see if they will intertwine. I have a green and a blue/brown species so far.

 

[Chrisrush]

Finished adding sand and my reef ceramics to my tank, and I put all the acros/corals back into the tank and I'm reading to start aquascaping.

Let me know what you guys think about my idea. I went through and id' my stonies as either, tabeling, stag, or bushy. Right now I've got 5 bushy stonies, 8 tableing and 9 stags.

Here is a current picture with the ceramics in. I bought an outcropping and a back wall. I kept three pieces of live rock to make a table on the right hand side. (plus, my wife wouldn't let me get rid of the bta).

As you can see, the left side is where the ceramic outcropping is. It's a little close to the front class, so I'm going to move it back a bit.

In this picture, you can see down the right long side. I would like to move the rock mound over a little bit towards the right and leave a little more opening between the ceramics and the rock mound.

There are a few more frags that I would like to purchase, but for the most part, I'd like to see my frags grow up. I'm thinking that I could put the tableing acros down a little lower in the tank, mostly towards the ends. Put the stags a little higher up and then finish the top part of the outcropping with the bushy frags.