Brand New 8 gallon bio cube
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sfin52
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Around the rock always looking for food. But they do use the upper water column as well
LadyMac
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Oooh what’s going in it? Cover that baby and add a wild betta. You’ll thank me later.
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Make sure not to go too tall, you will/can block out the light and make shadowing an issue in the lower 1/2 of the water column. My first scape was like that...looked great without water and then I had an issue with one of the rocks staying level and standing up, that turned out t o be a blessing in disguise. I couldn't/wouldn't have lived with that scape and definitely would have torn it down to redo it all.
Baby Dory loves to cruise around the rocks in the office tank and isn't aggressive towards any fish in the tank.
Get a baby tang and it will grow up with your current established fish and will get in where it fits in instead of ruling the reef from day one.
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Had a bunch of swim thrus and cave areas to split the tank front/back etc but it was too tall.
Gotta think long term and picture what you want it to look like all grown out and think of where the rock should be for it to grow out from...think lower.
I'd say go no higher than 60% of the tank height.
You can still do a really cool scape with swim thrus and caves etc.
Mine turned out pretty good in a rush, I was filling the tank and it wasn't stable so I laid most of the tall ones on their sides and it worked.
I'd also advise making multiple "smaller" structures instead of making one giant rock or connecting them all together in case you need to do maintenance or move things to get something in/out of the tank.
I almost made that mistake with that scape I pictured here.
I ended up leaving it so I could connect them in tank and since they went on their sides and not together they ended up making great individual structures on their own and my basslet lives under one of the structures and the blenny eats GHA off one of the other ones in the back of the tank exclusively and the clowns stay up by the toadstool and the smallest rock structure.
This was the previous layout before I laid it all on it's side individually.
Gotta think long term and picture what you want it to look like all grown out and think of where the rock should be for it to grow out from...think lower.
I'd say go no higher than 60% of the tank height.
You can still do a really cool scape with swim thrus and caves etc.
Mine turned out pretty good in a rush, I was filling the tank and it wasn't stable so I laid most of the tall ones on their sides and it worked.
I'd also advise making multiple "smaller" structures instead of making one giant rock or connecting them all together in case you need to do maintenance or move things to get something in/out of the tank.
I almost made that mistake with that scape I pictured here.
I ended up leaving it so I could connect them in tank and since they went on their sides and not together they ended up making great individual structures on their own and my basslet lives under one of the structures and the blenny eats GHA off one of the other ones in the back of the tank exclusively and the clowns stay up by the toadstool and the smallest rock structure.
This was the previous layout before I laid it all on it's side individually.
JoshH
Tank Status: Wet...ish, growing things....
Yeah you do!
Honestly I don't know why it's not a thing now, we spend SO much money on these systems and really your sump is the heart and soul of your tank. Why can't it be a beautiful thing too and not something you hide away where no one can see? Heck we sometimes spend as much time in our sumps or more than we do in our displays, so wheres the pride in all that?
Oh yeah well look at this nonsense, atleast it's going up lol
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I'm going to start the new thread when the stand comes in. It will be a good place to document changes. All of the ? should be decided here before that part.
LadyMac
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We can’t wait to see it! It’s going to be aMAZing!
LadyMac
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I like it! I’m wanting some myself.OK, which one of you jokers plonked that pulsing xenia (left) in here? ;)
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