Here was my first attempt at aquascaping:
Someone said it was too minimal and bad. So I listened and added more rocks:
I was having tang aggression and people said I needed more rocks. I unfortunately listened.
I never quarantined so I got velvet. I had to tear down the tank and go fallow and rebuild my rock:
I had to tear it down again and rebuild it because this rockwork was on top of the sand = not stable. Plus I had too much sand which would make my fallow fail.
And this is what I have today.
It looks good enough. I’m working on my extreme perfectionism personality. It’s so difficult for me. I have to come to terms that my rock work will NEVER look 100% good to me. It will never be good enough. At this point I just want my tank to mature and for the corals to fill it out. I’m done with aquascaping.
It pains me emotionally to see all the work and internal conflict I went through with myself. This job was really hard. Big tanks aren’t always fun when you fear failure and backlash. I wanted everyone to like my tank. If I heard someone say they didn’t like something about my tank, I would want to make it better.
Someone said it was too minimal and bad. So I listened and added more rocks:
I never quarantined so I got velvet. I had to tear down the tank and go fallow and rebuild my rock:
I had to tear it down again and rebuild it because this rockwork was on top of the sand = not stable. Plus I had too much sand which would make my fallow fail.
And this is what I have today.
It looks good enough. I’m working on my extreme perfectionism personality. It’s so difficult for me. I have to come to terms that my rock work will NEVER look 100% good to me. It will never be good enough. At this point I just want my tank to mature and for the corals to fill it out. I’m done with aquascaping.
It pains me emotionally to see all the work and internal conflict I went through with myself. This job was really hard. Big tanks aren’t always fun when you fear failure and backlash. I wanted everyone to like my tank. If I heard someone say they didn’t like something about my tank, I would want to make it better.