290G Peninsula Tank - Page 39

mseepman · #**381** 01-31-2013, 05:26 AM

Tonight I worked on putting the dry-rock that I had into the Display. Never a task I look forward to as I just always feel that it could be better. Sorry about the crappy phone pictures.

Anyways, the thing to remember when you look at the pics is that I have about 75 more lbs of "live" rock still in a tank at my old house waiting to move over and fill out the "look". Although the minimalist look has become more popular lately, I feel that this needs to go higher and so hopefully the other rock will eventually accomplish this.

The "live rock" has been in a tank about a year with a couple Chromis so although it has very little Coraline algae, it should be alive enough to help me jump start this tank. I will also be using a 30 pack of Prodibio Startup to get things rolling.

Here's the pics.

kien · #**382** 01-31-2013, 05:31 AM

I personally like it as is :-)

mseepman · #**383** 01-31-2013, 05:34 AM

Thanks! That's cool because I love the look in your tank!

kien · #**384** 01-31-2013, 05:38 AM

Both piles at either end of my tank actually had rocks higher up when I first scaped but I quicky realized that viewing corals so high wasn't as interesting to me so I lowered both ends and am much happier with it. There is more opportunity to look down at corals and fish have more room to cruise the reef top I find.

gregzz4 · #**385** 01-31-2013, 06:02 AM

I am also a fan of an open looking reef
With my 75g I am limited, so I had to make some taller 'berbs', but I am liking your open look

Can't wait to see what it looks like once you add the rest of your LR

Leah · #**386** 01-31-2013, 01:08 PM

Is that some of the rock I gave you?

mseepman · #**387** 01-31-2013, 03:09 PM

Hey Leah, there is a few pieces of that against the overflow wall. It was a base type of rock and that's what I've tried to use it for. I drilled a bunch of holes in it to allow for frag pegging if it ended up being visible. The rest of this comes from eco-reefer and marco-rocks.

lastlight · #**388** 01-31-2013, 03:18 PM

looks good mark! i personally think it looks a little more natural if you build overhangs or use rock crevices as fish shelter rather than a set of caves on that one end but minor stuff. i'd keep it low and leave your sps lots of space like you have it.

any jig-dancing lately?

Skimmerking · #**389** 01-31-2013, 03:53 PM

Mark that's it for the pictures

WOW COME ON as Kein would do

lastlight · #**390** 01-31-2013, 04:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Skimmer King

Mark that's it for the pictures

you won't even bite wood for us anymore i wouldn't talk.