Re----scape often

[BucNtears]

I came home and was looking at my tank and have decided that I should move a couple rocks around. As my corals have grown, I need the extra space and would like a change of scenery. The problem that I face is once I start time just seems to pass me by and before I know it 6 hours have passed.

I'm looking for ideas on landscaping any pics / links would be helpful.
I know many of you have ran into this problem before.

It would be nice for some kind of sticky reguarding landscaping a reef tank.

 

[LoyalConvict]

i go through the same thing every year or so, some times more often this is the only link i have bookmarked

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1301242&perpage=25&pagenumber=1

 

[BucNtears]

Great link, lots of ideas..

Thanks

 

[raen]

I go through that about once a month! The 6 hour comment made me giggle, I average about 4-5.

 

[BucNtears]

I knew I would not be alone 4-5, Ooo K

 

[Bernie21]

I hate aquascaping, thats why I take the sweet time we all do, in the hopes that I never have to do it again, I take 4-5hrs, cracking my head trying to figure what "LOOKS GOOD" and at the same time, have space, caves, & pleanty of coral mounting space. GL!!

 

[BucNtears]

I hate it as well, trouble is as our corals grow some of them don't play nice. One other thing, I seem to always come across a nice piece that I must place in the tank.
If I just had a bigger tank that would solve some of my problems, then again it would open a can of worms with the better half .
So I have to make due.

 

[FranktheTankTx]

Sometimes I wish I could aquascape some you guys' tanks. I see some tanks on here that need it badly. I have become very happy with mine - and hope I never have a OCD kick and change it.

 

[Bernie21]

LMAO, I totally agree w the OCD kick cause it is soo true, inspite of the fact that I hate to aquascape, lol!!

 

[FranktheTankTx]

I'm tellin' ya! Sometimes it's like fantasy football - when you pull off a trade just to pull off a trade. It's totally OCD - but I built a pretty nice reef-like structure of live rock & I'm not touching it.

I hand pick all my live rock looking for pieces with nice jaggedy shapes and small pieces to do this and that with to form a good looking reef. I think I have gotten pretty good at it, honestly.

 

[BucNtears]

Ok, Now we must see these scapes you two are talking about.. You know the ones that you'll never have to rearrange again....

 

[FranktheTankTx]

Ok - here's mine. 54g Corner - about 50lbs live rock w/ a cave in the front middle that is hollow up thru the reef. It's got some flat surfaces to mount some acropora. I've really enjoyed the first almost 3 months of it.

 

[biecacka]

i have pillars in my 220 and i like the look of it alot, although i see a problem already. its hard to add rock with coral on in and its hard in general to add coral due to everything going upward. i think i might make a "pile"of sorts on 1 side of my tank

 

[Bernie21]

looks alot like mine, lol!! Im not touching it!!

 

[BucNtears]

Nice job guys, I'm after something like that myself. I'm halfway through doing mine and will post pics tomorrow when its cleared up.