Bought a speedwave dc pump (690gph) today :)

http://i1304.photobucket.com/albums/...ps7b9d2b53.jpg

Still undergoing vinegar bath:

http://i1304.photobucket.com/albums/...ps4751b3c2.jpg

Can someone suggest me how to clean off the vinegar residues afterwards?

Rinse it off with water. Not going to hurt anything. Consider it the first carbon dose of your new tank

Thanks for the heads up :D I was thinking that too but just wanted to make sure.

Time for some aquascape practicing:

A1:
http://i1304.photobucket.com/albums/...pse738f13c.jpg
http://i1304.photobucket.com/albums/...ps7bf2dedf.jpg

A2:
http://i1304.photobucket.com/albums/...ps6ed83106.jpg
http://i1304.photobucket.com/albums/...ps6d3680e4.jpg
http://i1304.photobucket.com/albums/...psc158219a.jpg

A3:
http://i1304.photobucket.com/albums/...ps4d8b2b71.jpg
http://i1304.photobucket.com/albums/...ps2e31ab79.jpg

These are the LRs which I recently bought; the 20Lb+ rocks in my tank is not in these aquascapes...will incorporate them on site

And the water in which the LRs are in:
http://i1304.photobucket.com/albums/...ps6b663b13.jpg

There's a slight tint of ammonia, no nitrite and huge nitrate. The rock is alive :) The high nitrate and the slight ammonia is due to the sponges which were on the rock I guess. I decided not to change the water so that it keeps on feeding the rocks.

Let me know which rockwork kinda looks alright. Basically, that's the idea I am trying to work out; a focus point at 2/3 length of the tank and a smaller island on 1/3 length location. Trying to achieve something like this:

http://i1304.photobucket.com/albums/...psb62aa868.jpg

Ofcourse I can't achieve anything like this (done by Andre Silvestre) but that's my inspiration. Don't want mountains of rock in my new tank unlike the nano so that I can enjoy the fishes too :)

I vote for a3 I think that looks sweet

Second from the bottom. There should be a poll on this. BAHAHA J/K dont torture us.

A3

I vote is for the good looking aquascape! It's the best of the bunch.

i think it may be a good idea to change your water, from the pictures i dont see any ammonia. and high nitrates are indicative that all the ammonia was converted to nitrites and all the nitrites were converted to nitrates

how long has the rock been in ?

About a week. The rocks are from a 4 year old established tank but there were some sponges and stuffs on the rock. Kept it in a rubbermaid can with heater and power head.

After posting, I cleaned the whole bucket and poured in fresh water.