Please critique my scape!

[Lelegance]

I am planning on this tank being mainly lps with some sps, and for fish i will be having some wrasses, a foxface, mimic tang, white tail kole tang, and tomini / purple tang. So 3 tangs, a foxface, some wrasses, and other smaller fish. Here is my aquascape, anything needing to be added? I left plenty of room for larger lps colonies to grow out. Hard to capture how it looks in real life on the phone.

 

[TheWB]

I think it looks nice but I would worry that there are not enough places for your fish to hide away to sleep or just feel safe. I think you could use more caves and covered areas. Hope that helps.

 

[Lelegance]

I think it looks nice but I would worry that there are not enough places for your fish to hide away to sleep or just feel safe. I think you could use more caves and covered areas. Hope that helps.

I totally agree with that, and hence why i wanted opinions. How should i go about this? I can add a few smaller structures like this, but would that be enough?

 

[Red_Beard]

A little bigger if you want tangs. Just think about the adult size of the fish you want and make them each a place they can hide and snooze in.

 

[TheWB]

A little bigger if you want tangs. Just think about the adult size of the fish you want and make them each a place they can hide and snooze in.

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[steveschuerger]

Yeah, when I had both a 60 and later 90 , I made it so the rocks looked like a solid facing outside, but had a few caves inside for the fish to hide and and sleep. I also had naturalistic frag racks set up to to provide alcoves. Your set up looks nice, just needs a few more hiding spots

 

[Lelegance]

Yeah, when I had both a 60 and later 90 , I made it so the rocks looked like a solid facing outside, but had a few caves inside for the fish to hide and and sleep. I also had naturalistic frag racks set up to to provide alcoves. Your set up looks nice, just needs a few more hiding spots

Thank you!

 

[fandaga]

Could be fine if large corals are the sleeping / hiding spots. My blue tang initially slept in a Duncan colony and then moved behind a large toadstool when it got older. When the coral colonies get bigger, I find myself wishing for less rock. Below is a picture of the two corals and tang.

 

[Science/G]

I would add those rock pieces to the bommie on the right hand side if anything. I think the aquascape looks great.

 

[noworlater]

I am planning on this tank being mainly lps with some sps, and for fish i will be having some wrasses, a foxface, mimic tang, white tail kole tang, and tomini / purple tang. So 3 tangs, a foxface, some wrasses, and other smaller fish. Here is my aquascape, anything needing to be added? I left plenty of room for larger lps colonies to grow out. Hard to capture how it looks in real life on the phone.

Thats a beautiful setup! Live the rockscape!! Gosh i woulf love to have your tank in my room . My tank is a shoebox compare to yours! Im so jelly! Good work mate!! Happy Reefing! This is my 31 gallon lagoon 6months.

 

[noworlater]

I am planning on this tank being mainly lps with some sps, and for fish i will be having some wrasses, a foxface, mimic tang, white tail kole tang, and tomini / purple tang. So 3 tangs, a foxface, some wrasses, and other smaller fish. Here is my aquascape, anything needing to be added? I left plenty of room for larger lps colonies to grow out. Hard to capture how it looks in real life on the phone.

Your scape reminds me of nsa scape i love it!!! I redid my scape to be like that. Later on i added some more little rocks ro make caves n such so it looks like that now.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

I think the scape is fine! Just depends on what you want out of it. I do agree it could use some more hiding spots for fish, but if you want something more minimal than I say the scape is fine!

 

[Lelegance]

Okay, i made a larger cave, am i going in the right direction? It is about 10” across, should be good for tangs.

 

[Lelegance]

Added the rock to the tank, i think it looks a lot better. I moved the previous rock around to make another cave. The right side i want more open for large torches / duncans, it will be filled out even though it looks fairly empty now. Any other suggestions?

 

[MasterClassReefs]

A little bigger if you want tangs. Just think about the adult size of the fish you want and make them each a place they can hide and snooze in.

Yup, at least one spot for each tang to tuck in and sleep. Wrasses depending on species will also want small tight nooks in the rocks or a 2 inch sand bed.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Added the rock to the tank, i think it looks a lot better. I moved the previous rock around to make another cave. The right side i want more open for large torches / duncans, it will be filled out even though it looks fairly empty now. Any other suggestions?

Looks better! I think it is fine now unless you want to add more rock.

 

[BryanM]

I think the rock looks good now.

I would consider the purple to be risky.