Bored with rockwork. 2 tier deal or stay same?

[Coastie5685]

 

[Mangodude]

I'd change it, not sure exactly what you mean by two-tier but something with a little less rock and more vertical might look nice.. JMO

 

[laud]

If I had the courage, I'd change my rockwork to 2 pillars with a semi crossing in the middle for an open swim area.

 

[Coastie5685]

If I had the courage, I'd change my rockwork to 2 pillars with a semi crossing in the middle for an open swim area.

Yeah that's what I kinda mean for two tier. Lol thats what I wanna reduce. Is the amount of rock. Maybe tomorrow I'll give it a shot.

 

[avaneaton2000]

Yes, no more rock wall.

Also you should visually break the tank into 2/3 and 1/3 for spacing, a bigger island and a smaller island or group of islands. Asymmetry will make it look more "natural". Really like Laud's idea of a swim through.

 

[blackthunda77]

Heres a pic of mine, for example....

 

[avaneaton2000]

Exactly! A picture is worth a 1,000 words.

 

[Ocean Mang]

Yup, just get some rubbermaid tubs to put everything in and go to town. You will be happy you did.

Joel

 

[ghstrider]

Coastie, I couldnt agree with the guys above more. I kinda have the rock wall thing goin myself right now but plan on doing 2 or 3 tower setup for the new tank to allow for lots of swimming.

few tips would be
1) see whose selling some nice live rock w diff shapes and design your look. you wont need a ton just several accent pieces to add to what you have and then sell your left over. (kinda looks like similar shaped rocks in your setup right now)

2) use some aquamend or aquarium epoxy to stick the rocks together. you can also use the super glue gel to the rock then epoxy then super glue to next rock to help the epoxy stick better.

good luck and we need pics when its done!

 

[Coastie5685]

Awesome. You all def convinced me to go for it. I'll keep this thread updated.

 

[Coastie5685]

The rock wall I have now just doesn't allow flow to hit certain areas. Less rock, cleaner look.

 

[Coastie5685]

Here is progress. All coral is sitting in buckets. Few more rocks with coral on the. They are big rocks. Going to put more on right stack. I want the left stack a little lower than right. Middle open the way it is. Scraped coraline off back wall. Coming along. Took a lot of the plain shaped rock out. Big pieces. Lmk what you think.

 

[blackthunda77]

looking good

 

[avaneaton2000]

much better already!

 

[Coastie5685]

 

[coralfish]

much better

 

[dguest98]

I would recommend adding more space in between each individual rock to allow for flow. Here is mine

 

[KeysKid]

Moving those rocks around made it look so much better!

 

[Coastie5685]

Moving those rocks around made it look so much better!

Thank you thank you. Looks clean. Er

 

[reefsahoy]

here's one of my favorite aquascaped tank.
I like the rockwork!