Enough LR?? and What do ya think?

[Laura Senchuk]

I'm a fan of more rock because of all the great natural filtering. Plus it will help distract from all the equipment showing. I did use some base rock along with live and now i have so much coraline it's hard to tell which pieces were base.

 

[saxerphoner]

I think base rock is the way to go for now... but I don't want to pile it up close to the ph... we'll see !!

I've wanted to get hammer coral since the beginning but I didn't know that a clown would adopt one!! awesome... such a rookie. Plus, hammer coral would stay put and not move around... right? Can you get frags of hammer coral? Definitely want to go the least expensive route for now.

As for the maroon clown being aggressive, I don't particularly want a lot of fish so I think it would be okay.

Thanks for all the advice and suggestions!!

 

[afelder]

Hammers and other euphyillia should be pretty easy to find as frags. The lfs around here sell them for about $10 a head and they are easy to find. The two biggest things to remember in this hobby are patience and water changes. With those two things you will stay in pretty good shape.

Good Luck
Ariel

 

[saltyVT]

i like it but IMO I would take the brach and stick it up in the water. I tthinkg the Rock lay out is geat adding some extra small features, I really personally love the branch rocks, Add some of them could give a different look to it. i would also get a black or blue background to hid some of the appliances! I like the rock as is too good deal!!!!!:rollface:

 

[saxerphoner]

Thanks... I'm going to get some nice blue paper, laminate it, and put it behind the aquarium! Definitely tried sticking the branch up but it didn't work out for some reason... tried so many things that it got pretty old after a while. You can't tell too well but I have like a cave kind of thing on the right side that worked out pretty well except I won't be able to put anything back there because of the lack of light.

I like the branches too. I found some that were more porous that usual branches. One reason I like them is because they have more surface area, which in turn gives more area for the bacteria to grow, which in turn behaves like more "poundage" of LR than it actually is... let me know if I'm off with my logic here.


thanks for everyone's comments!!

 

[sir_dudeguy]

now theres a good idea i didnt even think about...laminating paper
What i was gonna do is just pick my color of paint and get a thin acrylic sheet (like 8 bucks at lowes) and just paint the acrylic and put it on the back...yours sounds cheaper tho lol.

I too like the branchy stuff a lot. I like having the main chunk of rock, and then having a few good long branches going to the sides/forward/diagonally, and then i like putting zoas or polyps or even gsp on the tips of the branches...i did that once and the zoas were covering the whole branch (which was about a foot long) within maybe 4 months. Unfortunately i traded it up, tho i now wish i'd never have done that cuz i loved that branch.

But yes, you're right...more porous rock is what you want. If you get the really dense stuff that hirocks used to sell before they went out of business, you're not getting as much surface area like you say. So really, it might take say...oh idk...50 lbs of dense rock to equal the same amount as maybe 30 (those numbers are NOT the right numbers...just using them as an example).
Also, if you get dense rock, you're gonna need more of it just to make it look like theres actualy that much. I personally like the look of lots of rock built up high, not just a really low rock formation. If you get porous rock, its gonna be lighter and it will take less to get the rock to "fill in the tank" more than dense...see what i mean?

But lookin good tho Maybe get some more rock on the left side to fill it in more.