New Pics of the 90 -- lots 'o' pics

[BonesCJ]

The scaping in my 90 had been bothering me for some time, to monolithic, to rubble mound style, to little flow. So I bit the bullet, pulled out the acrylic rods and aquamend I had sitting around for just such an occasion and proceeded to completely empty the tank of rock and corals and half the water and commence construction. I went from having two mountain like structures on either side of the tank to a quasi pillar setup with 10% less rock in the display but at least 50% more coral space when done with very little rock in contact with the bottom of the tank. Everything is against the bottom eggcrate on top of the glass to keep my engineer goby from toppling anything.


Old Aquascape

Work area
shot 1

shot 2

After scaping but before dust settled

The next day

There are 4 structures in the tank that are constructed using the acrylic rod building method. I used a 3/8 in masonary drill bit to drill the holes then inserted the rods and stacked the rock on top of each other. 3 of them are vertical with one being horizontal, the horizontal piece I also used some aquamend to strengthen the joint as fully half of it is hanging off into space.

It may be hard to tell but a great majority of the rockwork does not touch the back wall with massive caves and overhangs all over the tank, getting a sense of depth with a 18in front to back space can be quite challenging but I think I succeeded.

The red lines depict the acrylic rod placements

 

[BonesCJ]

Here are some shots of the various fish, corals and anemone that live in this system

 

[savageAJC]

nice tank. what did you use for the background? i would love to do that to my 75 but it seems like too much work to empty the whole tank etc.

 

[BonesCJ]

I used Handi-Foam in the black color, I know you can get it at SW saltwater and DrsFosterSmith also carries it. To foam a tank you wanna give yourself at least 2 days and would require a complete teardown of your system. You need dry glass and time to silicone eggcrate anchors to the back glass, the foam without the anchors can sometimes peel away as a whole sheet(its very bouyent)