93 gal cube rock scape ideas.

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I will be redoing my cubes scape before to long. I'm lookin for some cool ideas. Please share any size cube scapes for some more ideas and designs on this thread.
 

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my two favorite cube scapes are a singular center island or the bonsai look. the single center island should somewhat immitate a large seamount, possibly even breaking the surface, IMO this gives a very natural look as it is common for seamounts to hold vastly diverse amounts of sea life. for the bonsai look it would also stem from a single island per say, but instead of being in the center, start it from a corner and build it up and out with dramatic overhangs, something about the shadows large overhangs create that make corals stand out just that much more. just my $.02!
 

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ive been wanting to scape one of these myself. ive had a few ideas, id go for the more intricate type of scape. like my 20g elos but on a larger scale.

 

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I went with the horseshoe layout because it gives a lot of surface area for corals as well as room on the sand bed for LPS. Pardon the lack of coral, just added my fish this week.

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Thanks for all the input everyone. Those all look good. That valley look is really cool. Right now I basically have a big rock island in the middle. I need a little more sand bed room and a little more coral area on the rock surfaces. What size tank is that impur?
 

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This is good but could be much better IMO if the peaks were significantly different heights, and the side with the shorter peak had a bit shorter length. In short, less symmetrical.

I went with a valley down the middle

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We just started our 93g and only have a couple of frags but slowly getting there :)
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This was one of my 1st scape attempts on my 55g cube
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This is another one other ideas I was looking at
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the one I ended up going with more of a island like structure with a lot of open space along with caves and overhangs similar to the 2nd pic but more open
 

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I am getting ready to set up a 93 cube also..
One thing about doing a cube is they are usually viewed from 3 sides so they need to look good from the sides also.....
 

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I like a simplistic curve and plenty of dead space for fish to swim and corals to grow up and expand out. Colonies need more than a few inches and I also like a lot of sand for lps so here's my simple setup.

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