Picture Of My Reef :)

[Alex Brown]

Just thought I would post a pic of my first fish tank. Do you think the aquascaping looks alright?

Cheers!

 

[ben1987]

yeah i like it...good job

 

[seffieuk]

Looks good the mistake both my sister and i made was to build a nice looking reef but when we started adding corals realised we didn't have places to put the corals safely ...........

Seffie x

 

[Truck]

nice looking reef

 

[xxBarneyxx]

Yep looks good .

The two main things I would say when aquascapping is (as seffie said) try to leave spots for corals later on (especially considering some come on fairly large chunks of LR) and make sure you leave enough room between the sides of the tank and the rock to get a magfloat around there to clean the glass.

 

[chesterscot]

looking good
scot

 

[kj23502]

I like it too
Ran into the "scraping algae issue" with my large freshwater cichlid tank. Was cleaning the glass in the back of the tank and knocked over some rocks Could've been bad if they were heavy enough and hit the glass just right.

 

[VictorMeldrew]

really like your aquascaping what size is your tank?

 

[Jayarie]

Nice aquascaping I like the way there set out

 

[Alex Brown]

Just I thought I would put an updated picture in!

 

[jonny_dw]

Really nice looking tank. what size is it?

 

[Sea Turtle]

Nice job!!!! Looks great. Keep it up.

I have found that if you make many levels with the rock that it will provide numerous places to add corals.

 

[Alex Brown]

This is a 250L tank.

 

[chris348]

Looking absolutely brilliant mate,

well thought out and you have obviously looked ahead.

On the Live Rock side - keeping the rock away from the sides is good for the keeping the glass clean issue, however, one of the most important reasons for keeping that space is for the water flow too. You seem to have done this.

Nice tank..

 

[Alex Brown]

Thank you very much! This is my first tank I have kept. Its 2 months old now. Thanks for the tip on water flow, I was unaware. I kept the rock off the viewing sides to clean mainly.

I am having a huge problem keeping my sand clean though, its very brown and dirty. I have a sand starfish but he is very small and doesnt help much! I dont supose any of you have any expert tips for creatures do you? I was thinking of a sea cucumber.