take a look, what do you think

[svynx]

This is the new aquascape that I did last night.

Sump:

And since last night the clowns and the anemone:

Currently I have a Korallia 1 and 2. I'm thinking of getting a #3 to replace the #1, just in case there isn't enough flow. I have a Mag 9.5 for the return.

Since day two the skimmer has been working really well.

Any suggestions as to what I could do? I'm planning on a ATO soon. I want to wait a little while before I add any more live stock, mainly coral from here on out. I've got my eye on a few...elegance, hammer, torch, spotted mushroom...I do want to add a few more fish down the line...flame hawkfish, zebra barred dart, yellow head jawfish, goby(not sure which one yet). That's about it. It will be pretty heavily stocked by that point, and I don't want to push things too much.

 

[agreeive?fish]

i like the little cave....i need many of them

 

[sufunk]

It looks pretty good but you need some more lr, imo.

Just make sure it is stable! The top piece and the middle and the left side dont look very stable unless they are glued/tied together.

How are they attached to each other?

 

[svynx]

I used the "reef-stick" two part puddy/epoxy. 20 pounds of rock in the DT, another 40 in the sump. The sump pick is a little misleading. That's a 75 gal tank under there. I was going for a more open DT, but still have room for coral placement.

 

[mindytoy]

so your sump is bigger than your display tank????

as long as those rocks are tied or glued it looks fine...

you should get some more LR imop

also def suggest a background of some sort really makes a tank look and feel 20x better

and that ananome looks too small for the clowns im sure it will grow, but did you superglue it to your tank?

 

[sufunk]

Cool, should be fine then but i'd be careful about adding any kind of burrowing fish with that aquascaping.

I hear ya on the open look. I planned and started my 180g with the same idea but somehow ended up with over 250lbs of lr! lol Actually, i found that the more corals i added, the more rock i added. Everytime i added corals, i would always need to get more rock to make places to put them. So much for my open look

 

[svynx]

I thought that the anemone was a little small as well, but in person, it's not that bad. The camera that I used has a delay on the shuter. I had to push the button before I wanted to take the picture, and it took a little sooner than I wanted. The clown isn't at the anemone yet. He's a few inches away. I read somewhere on here that the anemone should be about 2 times the length of the fish. Mine is close, so I'm hoping things are ok.
As for the burrowing fish, i put a layer of egg crate on the bottom of the tank, then the rock, then the sand. When I changed the rock last night, I pushed the sand way from where I was working to make sure that the new stuff was on the bottom.
I agree with the background. I didn't need it with the last aquascape...you couldn't see that back of the glass anyway.