Full Tank Shots, please?

[SueAndHerZoo]

Hi there.
Setting up a 72 gallon bowfront for seahorses and need some ideas and inspiration for the aquascaping. Could some of you please post your full tank shots here so I can get motivated and creative? It's bare-bottom but I have a few pieces of stable live rock I can use for a base. Hoping to add some macroalgae so looking online for some good sources if you know of any. Thanks in advance!
Sue

 

[Wrassenaround]

Not sure these would be good for seahorses but these are scapes I played around with before ultimately deciding on the last one.

Something like this is what you could use as a starter for inspiration. It would give them a lot of areas to hang on to in the tank.

 

[Cichlid Dad]

 

[littlefoxx]

Hi there.
Setting up a 72 gallon bowfront for seahorses and need some ideas and inspiration for the aquascaping. Could some of you please post your full tank shots here so I can get motivated and creative? It's bare-bottom but I have a few pieces of stable live rock I can use for a base. Hoping to add some macroalgae so looking online for some good sources if you know of any. Thanks in advance!
Sue

Following cause I love sea horses and wanna see people’s horses!

 

[iron_mike_gt]

I‘m back to square one with a 180 replacing my old 220. Here’s the rock scape that just got wet tonight.

 

[zheka757]

Google is your friend for that, but here are mine

Picture 2 and 3 is same scape

 

[LovinlifeinGuam]

 

[SueAndHerZoo]

Not sure these would be good for seahorses but these are scapes I played around with before ultimately deciding on the last one.

Something like this is what you could use as a starter for inspiration. It would give them a lot of areas to hang on to in the tank.

Thank you! Of course mine will look different due to the different sizes and shapes of my rocks, but I love the concepts, especially the last one with the space in the middle. It's a bowfront and the overflow is left of center so it makes it difficult to aquascape.

 

[Jack Ravensbergen]

 

[SueAndHerZoo]

 

[SueAndHerZoo]

That's where my overflow is and that layout helps take the eye away from it and puts your attention on the right, instead. Thanks!

 

[SueAndHerZoo]

I‘m back to square one with a 180 replacing my old 220. Here’s the rock scape that just got wet tonight.

Very nice! I guess I'm going to put my focal point on the right side of the tank like that.

 

[SueAndHerZoo]

Google is your friend for that, but here are mine

Picture 2 and 3 is same scape

 

[SueAndHerZoo]

Some of those rock stacks look precarious but I'm guessing you used cement, glue, rods or zip ties? I love the rock you started with - mine are bigger and chunkier.

 

[SueAndHerZoo]

Your photo reminds me that I don't have to use ALL my rock.... I always end up over-doing it and trying to use it all and then I no longer like the way it looks. Is that an apple cucumber?

 

[Cichlid Dad]

Your photo reminds me that I don't have to use ALL my rock.... I always end up over-doing it and trying to use it all and then I no longer like the way it looks. Is that an apple cucumber?

Lesson I learned myself. The rest of the rock went into my 40 breeder refugium sump

 

[LovinlifeinGuam]

Your photo reminds me that I don't have to use ALL my rock.... I always end up over-doing it and trying to use it all and then I no longer like the way it looks. Is that an apple cucumber?

Yeah it's a sea apple...I generally overuse rock too but for my pico I wanted to conserve space

 

[SueAndHerZoo]

Literally breathtaking! How are those rocks attached to each other?????

 

[SueAndHerZoo]

Lesson I learned myself. The rest of the rock went into my 40 breeder refugium sump

 

[SueAndHerZoo]

I have a shed with nothing but surplus tanks, supplies, dry rock, equipment from years ago, etc. Tons of dry rock in there but I'm trying to use the live rock so I can shorten/skip the cycle, but some of the stuff I'm trying to arrange is heading for the shed!

Is the sea apple in the seahorse tank or one of your other tanks? I love the pink warty cucumber - am on waiting lists for another, but didn't think it would be safe in a seahorse tank. No issues with yours?