Dual 90 canyon reef

[airinhere]

Hey there! I am setting up a pair of 90 gallon reefs that you have to walk between to enter my living room. I decided to make my own liverock walls that fit smooth against the back glass and around my overflows. I am very pleased with the results and would recommend using the recipie found on reefcentral to anyone considering such a thing. Fifty pounds of liverock in each sump and a five gallon bucked of sand ffrom my old setup for each tank is going to seed my aragocrete canyon with life and I even pulled a few of my purplest pieces for seeding coralline algae. Now I have to be patient and not spend my whole tax return on corals!

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That looks to be a very good use of space, it seems that you have created plenty of pockets and shelves for coral.

How much room is between the back of the rock and the glass? Are you able to service or clean behind it in case a frag/dead fish ends up behind?

I thought it would be cool to cast in place and bond it to the glass with the rock and totaly seal it so no fish nor detirus can get back there, is that what you have done here?

 

[airinhere]

Thats exactly what I did. I took one of the tanks into my garage and laid it on its back and put a block of wood under the upper edge so it wasnt quite level. I then placed some thick plastic sheeting over the back of the tank and overflow box. mixed up the aragocrete and moulded the whole thing in three seperate sections using extra rocksalt to help form caves and ledges. three days to harden and then a month in my backyard pond. I think I will try to make some pillars to put in the foreground that reach to the surface next.

 

[pepe.king.prawn]

Looks good. Nice Alveopora spp.