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austingirl
Guest
Here is a photo of my very first tank, 30g Hex. I would greatly appreciate some feedback, good or bad, on my LR layout.
Sarah
Sarah
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austingirl
Guest
Here is a side angle.
Sarah
Sarah
escape2thewater
Active Member
Looks great! Good job! IMO.
Kyle
Kyle
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austingirl
Guest
Thanks!
I've learned a great deal from all of you!
It's just about 2 months now. I was able to purchase some great LR at my LFS and that really gave me a head start. I've seen some great photos here and wasn't sure there that I created enough swimming room.
Sarah
I've learned a great deal from all of you!
It's just about 2 months now. I was able to purchase some great LR at my LFS and that really gave me a head start. I've seen some great photos here and wasn't sure there that I created enough swimming room.
Sarah
finfin2003
Member
Sarah,
Very nice tank. I like that is kinda on the taller side... room for the rock to go upwards.
Looks great....
keep us posted as you move forward!!
Rebecca
Very nice tank. I like that is kinda on the taller side... room for the rock to go upwards.
Looks great....
keep us posted as you move forward!!
Rebecca
donjasper
Member
I wonder if a chicks approach to aquarium's is different than guys?
You know how you can look at a picture of a room - notice all the pink poofy things and know "A chick designed this one"? Or notice the musty old moose head on the wall right over the bikini calendar and know "A guy designed this one"?
I wonder if you can look at an aquarium and know the same thing.
Anyway I quite like your arrangement. But being a 'guy', if it were me I'd arranging the rock into the most unusual shape I could.
- A tower.
- An arch.
- An upside down J shape (so there was some sort of overhand)
- A 'V' shape (skinny on the bottom and big on the top).
- High on one side - low on the other.
You could combine the ideas - say an overhang from the side of an arch. Something that says more than "Look I'm a pile of rubble". You might want to take my ideas with a grain of (ah hem) _salt_ since I wear brown shoes with blue pants, and think that white shoes and a white belt look outta sight!
You know how you can look at a picture of a room - notice all the pink poofy things and know "A chick designed this one"? Or notice the musty old moose head on the wall right over the bikini calendar and know "A guy designed this one"?
I wonder if you can look at an aquarium and know the same thing.
Anyway I quite like your arrangement. But being a 'guy', if it were me I'd arranging the rock into the most unusual shape I could.
- A tower.
- An arch.
- An upside down J shape (so there was some sort of overhand)
- A 'V' shape (skinny on the bottom and big on the top).
- High on one side - low on the other.
You could combine the ideas - say an overhang from the side of an arch. Something that says more than "Look I'm a pile of rubble". You might want to take my ideas with a grain of (ah hem) _salt_ since I wear brown shoes with blue pants, and think that white shoes and a white belt look outta sight!
lionstorm
Member
I agree with Don, my sister helped me assemble my live rock the first time and I didn't much like how piled it ended up looking, a lot of corraline algae was hidden and there were a lot of rocks completely burried on the bottom, after we swapped cc to deep sand bed I was able to redo the rock configuration (which was fun until I realized how many actual rocks I had, those things are BIG and not to mention some of them quite heavy) But it was like Tetris and I made them all fit nicely with a lot of swimming room in the front, the problem with my last configuration was that there was too much room in the back of the tank and the fish had a little too much fun hiding back there "Look, my $40 fish is hiding in the back. That was money well spent"
I would recommend trying to build some caves or trying to stack the rock upward, but make sure it is stable. My fish quickly pointed out the weak rocks to me (mostly the small ones) and started redecorating a little
Oh BTW I hate those magnet cleaners, my sis and dad would knock them off the glass and they'd end up in the crushed coral i used to have and then my sis and dad would get them to stick back to the glass with pieces of crushed coral between the magnet that really scratched up one side of my tank badly
and not to mention some of them quite heavy) But it was like Tetris and I made them all fit nicely with a lot of swimming room in the front, the problem with my last configuration was that there was too much room in the back of the tank and the fish had a little too much fun hiding back there "Look, my $40 fish is hiding in the back. That was money well spent"I would recommend trying to build some caves or trying to stack the rock upward, but make sure it is stable. My fish quickly pointed out the weak rocks to me (mostly the small ones) and started redecorating a little
Oh BTW I hate those magnet cleaners, my sis and dad would knock them off the glass and they'd end up in the crushed coral i used to have and then my sis and dad would get them to stick back to the glass with pieces of crushed coral between the magnet that really scratched up one side of my tank badly