Hi,
I’m in the process of a tank upgrade and I’ll be using an entirely new aquascape. My current tank has a scape made up of Two Little Fishies Stax flat cut rock, CaribSea Rubblezone and some Innovative Marine Snapgrid to raise parts of it up off of the bottom. I like flow under the scape as well as through and around it.
For this build I’m using Stax again along with TLF Little Feet (essentially smaller Stax) and TLF Little Rox (essentially Stax rubble).
The inside dims of the new display area are 46.5” x 21.5” x 17”. There is at least 4” of clearance between the rear wall and the back of the closest structure and at least 3” on each side. No part of the scape is higher than 11” except for one little place.
I realize that this is not the most natural looking scape and it’s not really meant to be. I am trying to maximize places to put corals while keeping a very open scape and still providing places for fish to hide and feel safe. For example 3 of the 4 main islands are raised up about 4” off the bottom. My Tomini Tang currently lives under a similar island and seems very happy, it’s been under there for over 3 years.
I’m just looking for some constructive feedback. Does it look too cluttered? Would you move anything? I’m honestly pretty happy with it as is but I’d like some other perspectives, I’ve been in my own bubble with this for a long time.
Yardstick across the front is 48” which is the outside length of the tank. Yardstick on the left and yellow level on the right have blue painters tape at the 17” height marker.
Apologies for the cluttered workbench.
I’m in the process of a tank upgrade and I’ll be using an entirely new aquascape. My current tank has a scape made up of Two Little Fishies Stax flat cut rock, CaribSea Rubblezone and some Innovative Marine Snapgrid to raise parts of it up off of the bottom. I like flow under the scape as well as through and around it.
For this build I’m using Stax again along with TLF Little Feet (essentially smaller Stax) and TLF Little Rox (essentially Stax rubble).
The inside dims of the new display area are 46.5” x 21.5” x 17”. There is at least 4” of clearance between the rear wall and the back of the closest structure and at least 3” on each side. No part of the scape is higher than 11” except for one little place.
I realize that this is not the most natural looking scape and it’s not really meant to be. I am trying to maximize places to put corals while keeping a very open scape and still providing places for fish to hide and feel safe. For example 3 of the 4 main islands are raised up about 4” off the bottom. My Tomini Tang currently lives under a similar island and seems very happy, it’s been under there for over 3 years.
I’m just looking for some constructive feedback. Does it look too cluttered? Would you move anything? I’m honestly pretty happy with it as is but I’d like some other perspectives, I’ve been in my own bubble with this for a long time.
Yardstick across the front is 48” which is the outside length of the tank. Yardstick on the left and yellow level on the right have blue painters tape at the 17” height marker.
Apologies for the cluttered workbench.