Daniel's Office Tank - Waterbox Peninsula Mini 25

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My lid came in from Octo Aquatics (@cromag27)! Stellar work by Matt as usual!

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Also, aquascaping is now fully underway! I'll be posting some potential scapes soon.
 
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So these are the shapes/structures I've come up with. (Each collage is 1 structure at different angles.)

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I really like the first 3. The last one...not so sure about...

They were created inspired by this concept.

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Problem is they were all supposed to fit, but they definitely won't. So now I'm debating alternate arrangements, or cutting these down some so they'll fit, or something completely different. :thinking-face:
 
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Yeah. I think I'm going to try again on the last one. The more I look at it, the less I like it...
 
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Oh, and I've got this barnacle that's going on there somehow.

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Here are some of the limpets I found on the rock. These little guys are all throughout it.

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Water is in the tank!! I repeat...Water is IN THE TANK!!!! :beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes: :beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes:
 
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Glad to see it finally coming to fruition! Happy to see you went with the VCA recommendation. I will be following along for sure. I may have broken down my PM25 and traded it to a friend for a CSB split when his Colorado decides to finally do its thing. I still have a nano peninsula but it's a drilled and sumped 22 long that I actually liked more than my PM25.
 
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Glad to see it finally coming to fruition! Happy to see you went with the VCA recommendation. I will be following along for sure. I may have broken down my PM25 and traded it to a friend for a CSB split when his Colorado decides to finally do its thing. I still have a nano peninsula but it's a drilled and sumped 22 long that I actually liked more than my PM25.
Awesome! Do you have a build thread going for that one?

I'm really excited for this one to be moving. It's been too long since I had a tank running! I'm hoping the water will have cleared up when I get back home so I can get some pictures of the final version of the aquascape.
 

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Awesome! Do you have a build thread going for that one?

I'm really excited for this one to be moving. It's been too long since I had a tank running! I'm hoping the water will have cleared up when I get back home so I can get some pictures of the final version of the aquascape.
I literally just posted a build thread on it. As of today it's cycled so other half of the fun begins now!
 
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Here we are!!

Front view:
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Side view:
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Octo Aquatics makes great stuff! Congrats on everything :D
Thanks!! Now to get some live stuff into the tank!
That is not very much rock at all.
It's not as much as I had originally intended, but I think it's a pretty reasonable ratio of space usage for what I plan to do (it's funny because I think it looks smaller somehow in the photos than in person...and yet cameras always seem to do the opposite for me when I end up in the photo :face-with-tears-of-joy: ). I had some other pieces that I was wanting to use (as you can see in the previous posts), but they actually wouldn't have fit well. This gives me some good floor space for a couple of larger LPS pieces like perhaps an acantho or a fungia garden.
 
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