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Scaping my first 14 cube…any advice would be great ….
Share some pics if ya got em.
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Looks nice! Love having a little pass through like you have there. And the islands will be nice if you want to get any kind of coral that tends to take over.
 

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Aqueon 14?
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Im about to be doing the same in about a week. I’m turning the same tank into an all in one. Going to be running a Kessil A80 on it with a hyggar wave maker. A 150gph return pump and ceramic bio media in back. I have about 20 lbs of old Tonga rock curing and medium aragonite for it. I’m very interested to see how your scaping goes. My plan was to do a mountain style in the center (for SPS up high and LPS down low) with overhangs and caves throughout (zoas all over the place) with smaller separate islands on the sand bed that fast spreading species like GSP and platys can take over.
 

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Think I’m going with this to start
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Looks good! J
Just make sure you keep the rocks far enough from the glass for cleaning. Try not to put any corals close to the galss too.
Is this going to have sand or BB?

My current 20g is sitting on a 15x13x1.5" rack. Keeps everything neat and clean.
Current 20g cube with the rack and my old 20g cube.
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Looks good! J
Just make sure you keep the rocks far enough from the glass for cleaning. Try not to put any corals close to the galss too.
Is this going to have sand or BB?

My current 20g is sitting on a 15x13x1.5" rack. Keeps everything neat and clean.
Current 20g cube with the rack and my old 20g cube.
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Yeah there’s 3 inches between the glass…
I’ll be using live sand
 

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Cant tell exactly but have you used cement/glue to lock the pieces together? Aquaforest sells stonefix for like $16 that is pretty easy to use and you wont have to worry about the pieces falling over and crushing anything.
 
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Cant tell exactly but have you used cement/glue to lock the pieces together? Aquaforest sells stonefix for like $16 that is pretty easy to use and you wont have to worry about the pieces falling over and crushing anything.
Most of it is glued together
 

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