How much rock touches your sand?

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When you are creating your aquascape - how much rock do you want touching the sand? Do you push the rock down into the sand, or try to have it so it's just on the surface? I am thinking in terms of cleaning the tank and also remaining visually appealing. All my rocks are bulky, and I am going to buy a few more dry ones and flatten them to create some shelves and dimension. Is it a bad idea to put a huge rock flat in the sand and build off of it as a foundation?

My current aquascape I am not happy with. I keep looking at it. I want something with floating objects and branches. I might need to find new rock. Yikes

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When you are creating your aquascape - how much rock do you want touching the sand? Do you push the rock down into the sand, or try to have it so it's just on the surface? I am thinking in terms of cleaning the tank and also remaining visually appealing. All my rocks are bulky, and I am going to buy a few more dry ones and flatten them to create some shelves and dimension. Is it a bad idea to put a huge rock flat in the sand and build off of it as a foundation?

My current aquascape I am not happy with. I keep looking at it. I want something with floating objects and branches. I might need to find new rock. Yikes

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If you do end up going for more or new rocks why not go with live rock? There are many benefits of live rock that'll help in the long run. Plus you can find live rock in all sorts of natural shapes and sizes.
 

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When you are creating your aquascape - how much rock do you want touching the sand? Do you push the rock down into the sand, or try to have it so it's just on the surface? I am thinking in terms of cleaning the tank and also remaining visually appealing. All my rocks are bulky, and I am going to buy a few more dry ones and flatten them to create some shelves and dimension. Is it a bad idea to put a huge rock flat in the sand and build off of it as a foundation?

My current aquascape I am not happy with. I keep looking at it. I want something with floating objects and branches. I might need to find new rock. Yikes

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Use a hammer and break up your peices and place them or glue them together.
 

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I built mainly 2 rock structures, broke up with hammer and screwdriver and glued then mortared together.
The bases of the 2 Rick structures are on bottom of tank touching the glass and sand put in after so no rock slides/ Catostrophic events happen if Rocks fall etc but I tried to get as little as possible touching the sand as raises up out the sand
 

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Almost zero contact with sand… most of my ‘base’ rocks are drilled and have 3-4 acrylic rod legs, to keep them off the bottom. Not only preventing a build up of garbage under them, but also making them much more stable.
 

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