Show Off Your Large Tank Aquascape :)

Trying to do something a bit different from my last tank with this one. The last scape was quasi NSA done with Marco. It looked great but was lacking habitat for the fish and really limiting the amount I could add without aggression from the older fish.
Secondly, I don’t find the typical dry rock as porous as real live rock ( dry or wet). This also impacts the microfauna ( pods, etc.) habitat inside the display.
This Haitian is old lettuce coral, tons of caves and very porous, with larger surfaces to mount your corals and giving room for a big solid base on the SPS.
May be a while until it gets wet, hopefully by June, or this fall at the latest. Tank and stand arrive weds.
 
Trying to do something a bit different from my last tank with this one. The last scape was quasi NSA done with Marco. It looked great but was lacking habitat for the fish and really limiting the amount I could add without aggression from the older fish.
Secondly, I don’t find the typical dry rock as porous as real live rock ( dry or wet). This also impacts the microfauna ( pods, etc.) habitat inside the display.
This Haitian is old lettuce coral, tons of caves and very porous, with larger surfaces to mount your corals and giving room for a big solid base on the SPS.
May be a while until it gets wet, hopefully by June, or this fall at the latest. Tank and stand arrive weds.
Any suggestions welcome
 
500g, 6’x5’, 8 yrs old, mostly softies, constantly trimming !
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Here’s my two
 

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This tank is about 2 months old, here my aquascape with first coral.
 

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Many of the rocks I built out of either smaller pieces of rock cemented together or cement-covered, bent PVC pipes. The rest I collected myself in the Caribbean or Hawaii many years ago.

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Completely ripped mine apart dried everything and started over back February , could not get rid of the polyclad flat worms was infested with them.

Started adding corals back into the tank
 

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