Tips and Tricks on Creating Amazing Aquascapes.

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Would be nice to know how to use photoshop to play around with placement of different corals on the scape
Gemini AI will do this for you. Post a picture of your aquascape into Gemini and the list of corals you're thinking of in the placement you're thinking of, and ask it to generate an image. Then keep giving it prompts to improve your image
 
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Would be nice to know how to use photoshop to play around with placement of different corals on the scape
Gemini AI will do this for you. Post a picture of your aquascape into Gemini and the list of corals you're thinking of in the placement you're thinking of, and ask it to generate an image. Then keep giving it prompts to improve your image
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Well that’s a pretty cool tool
 
I finally Just finished getting my aquascape together. This is the first one that I have ever built and I am quite pleased. I hope others will appreciate it as well. The rock I used was all pre-ban Fijian and Tongan pieces that I scavenged from the yards and tank shutdowns of other reef keepers over the course of the last couple years. I just haven’t been able to get into the look of the quarried and man made rocks.

The main goal's with the structure were lots of overhangs, caves, and shelf space while maintaining open space for flow through the structure. There are 3 separate pieces that can be removed individually. Although the rock structures are already very stable, I still plan to epoxy them to travertine stone tiles that you can see under the structure to the left. This should help to make everything even more stable and alleviate any pressure points on the bottom of the tank. I plan to have sand substrate so the tiles will be covered. I used clamp lights with blue bulbs overhead to exaggerate any shadowing and highlight the negative spaces as I built, this was helpful on making sure that I was placing the shelves properly so as not to block the light where I plan to place my corals.

I also built and painted my own stand/cabinet for this tank. So when I needed an outline I was able to use the overspray mark on my work table as a boundary.
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