Currently rebooting my tank and thought I would share my fully floating aquascape. Made out of cornerstone artifical tonga rock.
This is 24lbs of rock, this stuff is SUPER LIGHT, I threw a piece in my sump and the stuff dang near floats, we ended up using everything minus one large piece, I would guess the whole scape weighs around 21-22 lbs
Rock is fused to a roughed up DIY French cleat design made out of acrylic. I layered baking soda and superglue as well as emarco to the rock to get as much surface contact as possible, there are several points on the structure that "hinge" on the plate to give as much strength as possible.
Installing the base of the French cleat that the plate attached to the rock will hook onto, the base is attached to the back of the tank with aquarium grade acrylic.
Here is a quick shot of the mock up. I will update this post once the tank has water back in it, I wont be putting the rock in place until I have the tank filled to relieve as much stress as possible on any joints.
This is 24lbs of rock, this stuff is SUPER LIGHT, I threw a piece in my sump and the stuff dang near floats, we ended up using everything minus one large piece, I would guess the whole scape weighs around 21-22 lbs
Rock is fused to a roughed up DIY French cleat design made out of acrylic. I layered baking soda and superglue as well as emarco to the rock to get as much surface contact as possible, there are several points on the structure that "hinge" on the plate to give as much strength as possible.
Installing the base of the French cleat that the plate attached to the rock will hook onto, the base is attached to the back of the tank with aquarium grade acrylic.
Here is a quick shot of the mock up. I will update this post once the tank has water back in it, I wont be putting the rock in place until I have the tank filled to relieve as much stress as possible on any joints.