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[lastlight]

yeah all my coral directly under my lights have grown out and up. my scape is like a tower and all the stuff on the face of the tower is now light-starved. next one's going to have more of a rolling hill look to the underlying structure.

equal light for all!

[BC564]

I just read 23 pages of posts....not sure how I missed this thread but will now follow to the end....it looks fantastic.

[The Codfather]

Originally Posted by lastlight

yeah all my coral directly under my lights have grown out and up. my scape is like a tower and all the stuff on the face of the tower is now light-starved. next one's going to have more of a rolling hill look to the underlying structure.

equal light for all!

I did that in the old tank, the problem to that is the rock structure usually ends up higher than than expected. I want to attempt to keep at least the top half of the tank empty.
Thats another thing to consider though, how the lighting will be placed.

[lastlight]

You're going with LED so chances are you'll have diodes spread all over the place. The 'dark tower' problem is likely made worse with my halides. Still tho... the corals will def grow out. You could just mount them away from the outer edge of those rocks I suppose.

[muck]

... or just be breaking off frags constantly while cleaning the glass. If I know Bob you will want those broken off frags as they will be from stellar colonys.

[The Codfather]

Well what I was thinking in some cases was to keep the high light sps on the centre overflow, to let them grow out and up. I can keep lps and low light sps in the lower sections of the tank, Placing is going to have to be thought out regardless.

[The Codfather]

Originally Posted by muck

... or just be breaking off frags constantly while cleaning the glass. If I know Bob you will want those broken off frags as they will be from stellar colonys.

Thanks Ryan, I might cheat a bit to begin with. Instead of lots of smaller frags, I think I will just start with 8-10 larger colonies in the tank. I also plan to have a bit more of mixed tank, I really liked when I had the lps, I think it added more to the overall look of the tank.

[Delphinus]

I think it looks great.

Originally Posted by lastlight

You won't see your rocks someday so the scape to a certain degree (imo) doesn't even matter.

I agree with this though too. Don't sweat things too much, it looks great and it will look fantasticer when things fill in.

[outacontrol]

Hey are you going to silicone the acrylic bases down to stop sand and other debris from getting under them?

[doch]

Holy smokes Bob!!! You're outdoing yourself. She looks amazing! Sorry for missing this, but what are you using for lights?? Radions? How many?