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Hello everyone,
I'm thinking of changing my aquascape in my one year old tank from this (FYI this photo is from day one of the tank being set up):
to something like this:
The reasons for the change are as follows:
1. I procrastinated setting up my current aquascape, and finally glued and puttied it all together in a couple of hours while the installers were here. Some of the rockwork isn't very stable.
2. I would like more caves and swim throughs for fish to hide. I unfortunately lost a yellow and purple tang, they never seemed to have a place to hide. I also have a blue throat triggerfish that paces the tank and is a little scared of us.
3. I have a lot of hair algae and can use this as a chance to reset.
4. I only have a few coral, and no acros.
5. My rockwork turned out well considering the time restrictions, but doesn't create the desired natural feel that I would like.
Reasons not to change the rockwork:
1. I have nine fish, two shrimp, a bunch of clean up crew including five urchins and don't want to kill anything with a move. How do you remove an aquascape without hurting anything, and where do you store the fish and inverts while I aquascape?
2. I'm really worried about my rockwork falling apart as I pick it up, and the rocks scratching or cracking the glass.
3. I've had a really crap year with my aquarium (3 strains of dinoflagellates, hair algae, bubble algae, aiptasia, cyano and lost several fish on top of half my coral. I'm finally making progress with the issues, and don't want any spikes to kill anything else.
4. I'm not sure how to build the aquascape that I would like.
Sorry for the long post!! Any feedback is appreciated.
Andrew
I'm thinking of changing my aquascape in my one year old tank from this (FYI this photo is from day one of the tank being set up):
to something like this:
The reasons for the change are as follows:
1. I procrastinated setting up my current aquascape, and finally glued and puttied it all together in a couple of hours while the installers were here. Some of the rockwork isn't very stable.
2. I would like more caves and swim throughs for fish to hide. I unfortunately lost a yellow and purple tang, they never seemed to have a place to hide. I also have a blue throat triggerfish that paces the tank and is a little scared of us.
3. I have a lot of hair algae and can use this as a chance to reset.
4. I only have a few coral, and no acros.
5. My rockwork turned out well considering the time restrictions, but doesn't create the desired natural feel that I would like.
Reasons not to change the rockwork:
1. I have nine fish, two shrimp, a bunch of clean up crew including five urchins and don't want to kill anything with a move. How do you remove an aquascape without hurting anything, and where do you store the fish and inverts while I aquascape?
2. I'm really worried about my rockwork falling apart as I pick it up, and the rocks scratching or cracking the glass.
3. I've had a really crap year with my aquarium (3 strains of dinoflagellates, hair algae, bubble algae, aiptasia, cyano and lost several fish on top of half my coral. I'm finally making progress with the issues, and don't want any spikes to kill anything else.
4. I'm not sure how to build the aquascape that I would like.
Sorry for the long post!! Any feedback is appreciated.
Andrew