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Love your scape! I am also about to do a scape like this with live rock. Would love to know more about the process. How long did it take you? Did you do in batches? Did you break up a lot of rock to start, and if so, what tools and techniques? How did you plan the project? Did you use just glue, or come back with mortar? Sorry, I have so many questions, but it looks like you were successful so I'd like to follow in your footsteps. I have had 200+ lbs of rock of all different sizes, some really huge pieces down to rubble, sitting in a dark bin of moving saltwater for the past 9 months. Some pieces look hard to work with, really rectangular blocky table pieces. Others look more porous.
Fantastic I love NSAs now! I just finished cycling mine and added fish to it this week. I really like how yours turned out and I'm excited to see it once you get it into the tank. What size tank is this going into by the way.
And I'll second the burn! WOW! especially if you get the accelerator on your hands with the glue! I made the mistake of wearing mechanics gloves as I was putting this together.... apparently CA and cotton DO NOT MIX!!! started burning through the glove. It took a second to register, but once my brain figured out what was happening I was furiously ripping the glove off - had a nice little burn from it.
It is very interesting. I look forward to seeing your tank after a few years and hearing your thoughts about it. Are you planning on a softie tank, a mixed tank, or an SPS-dominant tank?
I'm no expert, but I believe that dried-out live rock is no longer "live". That's why your skimmer goes crazy. Have you measured the phosphate and nitrate, before and after gluing (and drying), and not seen any spikes? Not trying to be too negative but you may want to add bacteria-in-a-bottle to re-introduce a good set of nitrifying bacteria.
Here how it looks with few fish and corals, still more to add
I dont know how to describe my bioload. I have many fish, dont know exactly how many, but they are all small to medium size. My largest fish right now are flame angel and powder brown tang. I was thinking same thing about mandarin. But if you take one large rock and brake it in 10-15 different pieces that pods can go pretty much all over I would image it would create more room for them to feed and hide. I think one large rock is pretty much limited, they can go around it and depends on the rock- inside, but how deep? with smaller rocks it creates more holes etc so I would image that would work as good or maybe better?Just curious as to what your bioload is...I’m considering doing the same but I’m worried about hiding areas for my pods that my mandarin eats...
Nice, what a difference between this and just stocking rocks! I would add an arch at some point later between first or second rock structure from the left and you can grow more sps thereWell I bit the bullet and changed my aquascape all around. I took most of my live rock used a chisel to make some different shapes and went vertical to allow more room for coral as well as fish. I love the look a lot more than the giant lump of rocks...I built 5 columns out of live rock with 2 featuring the brs base rock bottom pieces. The first few pics are the finished product...the last is how it looked before I started.