Aquascaping ??

[lilzeus99]

I have seen people that let the rocks touch the glass, and some say that isn't a good idea, what gives on this???
Also, I would like to try and make a rock arch in the tank since I have a tall display tank. What is the best way to go about this? I have herd of drilling holes in the rocks where you want them, and use small pieces of plastic hanger and epoxy it all together. Does this sound right?
BTW...any pics of archs woud be awesome if you could post them.
Thanks for helping a noobie
shane

 

[metweezer]

Originally Posted by lilzeus99
http:///forum/post/2643049
I have seen people that let the rocks touch the glass, and some say that isn't a good idea, what gives on this???
Also, I would like to try and make a rock arch in the tank since I have a tall display tank. What is the best way to go about this? I have herd of drilling holes in the rocks where you want them, and use small pieces of plastic hanger and epoxy it all together. Does this sound right?
BTW...any pics of archs woud be awesome if you could post them.
Thanks for helping a noobie
shane
It is easier to clean the glass on the sides of your tank if there is no LR resting on it. Most don't clean the back glass but do clean the front and sides. As far as stacking rock you can drill and use small pvc to glue it together. An arch can be a long piece of LR spanning two smaller mounds on either side of the tank.

 

[tizzo]

They are supposed to sit on the glass on the bottom of the tank. They can touch your side glass, but it makes cleaning hard.
As far as the arch thing. For something that risky I would hafta recommend drilling and putting some kind of plastic tube in the hole. You can also epoxy, but it would take a lot of epoxy.

 

[tizzo]

OK, I know it takes me a long time to type, but I swear I was typing before I saw your post Met.

 

[shinobi9119]

Yeah exactly what everyone else is saying.. it can touch glass, but cleaning is harder... IMO tanks look better not leanign against the back glass, doesnt seem so stacked and linear.
Does it have to be an arch.. or you could do two big rocks with one other covering the top.. more like a ledge, but there is a cave under it...

 

[metweezer]

Hey Tiz, I am a two finger typer myself

Maybe I just started to respond to the post earlier

 

[lilzeus99]

Thanks for the tips, what do you guys think about long pieces of tonga branch reaching to the sky? or stacked pillars?
I'm just trying to think outside the box, and since my tank is 24" tall I figured I'd need something to help fill the void since I can't do to many fish I'm finding out in that small of a tank...(45)
thanks...any pics of these caves or archs?
shane

 

[sula]

Just like other people are saying, make two rock piles, with a long piece connecting - here is half of my tank right after I set it up.
I have also seen great arrangements with Tonga branch - what are your tank dimensions?

 

[lilzeus99]

36x12x24 are dimensions.
I just want my first tank to look cool, so trying to get some ideas from the experts here....
shane

 

[metweezer]

You probably won't be happy with it the first time you set it up anyway

You know what you want, just play with it until your happy. A bit of advice, some people start with the big rocks on the bottom and build up with smaller rocks. If you want your bridge/cave make two piles of similar sized rock and save a bigger piece for the span between the two piles.

 

[lilzeus99]

Cool, thanks for the tips. I have found a shop that is only a few hours from me and he said he keeps about 600 lbs of live rock on hand at all times and that I could hand pick through it to get what I want..so maybe I'll end up with some cool looking rocks for the aquascaping....

 

[dgonci]

When I got my rock delivered I got lucky and had some decent pieces that had some nice shapes to them. All I did was pick a couple for the base then added on top of them to form a buch of smaller arches / caves.