Wow, it's nice to see that folks are still looking at this old thread and that there is still interest in creating these pieces of art rather than piling a bunch of rock in the tank.
My tank is still up and running. Had a few setbacks over the years but never a problem with the foam/rock wall. It looks completely natural and nobody would ever guess what it was made out of.
As a matter of fact, if it wasn't for the rock creation, I might have considered taking down the tank already. But it just looks so good it always gives me inspiration to keep going.
The tank was overrun by Aiptasia. About 2 month ago, we added an Aiptasia eating Filefish which singlehandedly ate every last one....Unbelievable!!! After the Aiptasia were gone he turned to Rock Anemones and had to go....
We also had an unexplainable disease that killed quite a few fish. The survivors were the Yellow Tang, which must be going on 13 years now, the Powder Blue, probably about 11 or so and a Rabbit Fish that is also over 10 years old. The fourth survivor was a mean old Eightline Wrasse. It was because of that fish we hadn't been able to add any other fish, he would eat everything we put in the tank. Well, he disappeared without a trace about a month ago.
Tons of nasty algae was another challenge, we are working on that now with a bunch of critters like Mexican Turbos, Astreas and a variety of crabs. Slowly, but surely, they are making progress.
The next projects are to replace the closed loop pump and add some more lighting.
I have to add that working in the industry does not make it easy. Who wants to tinker with their tank after dealing with fish and coral all day long? You know how they say "œThe lawn guys grass is always 3 feet high" and "œThe plumbers toilets are stopped up""¦.:lol2:
But for all of you that are contemplating on doing a project like this: By all means, DO IT!
More updates to follow
Cheers
Andrea
