Please critique my aquiscape

[rjjr1963]

My live rock was bleached and acid washed this week. My first attempts at aquascaping. I'm really looking for a more minimalist design and here are the two options I came up with. The tank is 72" long and 24" wide and I cut the cardboard to those dimensions.

First attempt didn't look terrible but more cluttered than I'm looking for.




More minimalist

 

[hotelbravo]

i like the second one alot better but i would play around with 3 columns instead of 2

 

[Kardjunkie]

+1 on second

 

[Jade5051]

Second scape is much better keep working with it. You'll get something you like.

 

[rjjr1963]

Thanks guys. The rock is going into a tub to cure and I have no idea how I'm going to get it back together just like it is. Some parts I'll glue together and cure them as one piece but the others ones I'm not sure. Is there something I can law down on the glass to protect it from the rocks?

 

[Jade5051]

Egg crate!

 

[WaReefer458]

It's never going to look how you want it to. I messed with mine for 2 months before I got it how I wanted it. Then I had to tear it down to catch a troublemaker in the tank. After that I just gave up and tossed it in against the back wall which is my biggest peeve. With a 180 you will have 2 cross braces so I'd reccomend 3 piles so your light sources will have full effect on the main rock work with some shadowy channels between.

 

[Monkeypod]

Second one

 

[rjjr1963]

It's never going to look how you want it to. I messed with mine for 2 months before I got it how I wanted it. Then I had to tear it down to catch a troublemaker in the tank. After that I just gave up and tossed it in against the back wall which is my biggest peeve. With a 180 you will have 2 cross braces so I'd reccomend 3 piles so your light sources will have full effect on the main rock work with some shadowy channels between.

That's one of the reasons I'm getting mine with a single glass center brace.

 

[WaReefer458]

That's one of the reasons I'm getting mine with a single glass center brace.

Then I'd go with the 2.

 

[Newguy76]

I like the first one better personally I think it will be easier for frag placements.

 

[aclark]

I like the look of the first one, but I think you need some more negative space in it.

 

[RayAllen3422]

I like the first one better personally I think it will be easier for frag placements.

+1 I like the first one better as well.

 

[A.Astore]

I like the second better. I see you have zip ties of different color there. Take a few and put them through the Pukani that looks similar while still in the formation you like and take pictures from different angles. Leave the zipties while curing it/ moving it so you know where the marker was compared to the pictures you took to put it back together once in the tank.

 

[longgy]

second one!

 

[albano]

First one, but separate the 'mountain' basically in half, where the 'brown' rock meets the white rock

 

[rjjr1963]

I like the look of the first one, but I think you need some more negative space in it.

Negative space? You mean open it up more in the middle?

 

[heathlindner25]

First one, but separate the 'mountain' basically in half, where the 'brown' rock meets the white rock

This

 

[crocogator106]

I vote for #2 as well.

 

[Koop]

I like the second.