Minimalist Aquascaping

ou12004 · Mar 24, 2016

AllTheseKids said:
My rock at least is minimalist, with the corals strewn around it's a little messy looking lol. It's a standard 20 gallon rimless with about 10-12 pounds of reef cleaners rock, all the rock is just about a year old.

A year ago...

Now...

Great idea on the pvc pipe for the Euphyllia, I am going to get some black pvc and adjust mine

Ariton · Mar 24, 2016

Waters said:
Here is my minimalist 105 gallon.......

What tank is that ?? Looks so good !!

ROODNIS · Mar 24, 2016

Here's mine before I put any corals in it! It's hard to tell from the photo but it actually has a lot of depth and dimension to it... And none of the structures touch any of the sides of the tank. Plenty of room for cleaning! The vortec QDs do a great job of sweeping up any detritus because it's so open!

Waters · Mar 24, 2016

Ariton said:
What tank is that ?? Looks so good !!

Thanks :).....it is a 105g Deep Sea Aquatics.

gidenski · Mar 25, 2016

Here's my "minimalist" scape after a year of growth (original post page 5 of this thread). Doesn't stay so minimal :)
Though to note, I did run out of space and added another rock to the scape to connect the right two islands to get more real estate... hence the abundance of frag sticks.

M&M · Mar 25, 2016

chgoblknazn · Mar 25, 2016

ROODNIS said:
Here's mine before I put any corals in it! It's hard to tell from the photo but it actually has a lot of depth and dimension to it... And none of the structures touch any of the sides of the tank. Plenty of room for cleaning! The vortec QDs do a great job of sweeping up any detritus because it's so open!

I really like this! How did you create it?

KVYA · Mar 25, 2016

NanaReefer said:
I use the Fiji Pink Live Arag-AliveBut it's not really pink :)

Same

reef_grrrl · Mar 25, 2016

ou12004 said:
Great idea on the pvc pipe for the Euphyllia, I am going to get some black pvc and adjust mine

Thanks! I have a few pvc bits that are bound together with zipties, and the bottoms are super glued to those annoying ceramic tiles some frags come on. When the frogspawn is fully open you can't see the pvc at all!

ROODNIS · Mar 26, 2016

chgoblknazn said:
I really like this! How did you create it?

Thankyou! I used a product by aqua forest called "stone fix" it works like fast setting concrete, and is INCREDIBLY strong. Marco rock also makes one, I believe it's called Marco E-400 mortar but I found the aqua forest brand to be cheaper and overall, it set faster. As the joints dried I used bits of pvc or random objects lying around to support the structure until the mortar mix hardened.