the egregious
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Curious plans for a new 125 I have going and just wondering if anyone has had a similar idea.
The plans are for a 125 possible 180 reef with a 2 tiered sub division on either the back wall or either side...Or maybe both sides. The general idea is to put about a 4inch layer of bottom live sand, maybe dry agronite, I don't think it really matters, and then have a "second story". I have test built a 40 gallon with a "half pyramid on the right side of the tank, and then I coated all of the pvc with a gel glue, and placing about 3 dozen small chunks of LR to pvc. I waited for the LR to dry to the PVC. Later I poured dry sand over it until there was a inch thick layer on all the pvc. This in itself created a hollow mountain on the one side of the tank. it looked actually really realistic because I had the nice dry sand and then it had protruding chunks of live rock basically covering the entire build.
After that was done I took interesting pieces of LR and built off the mound and then back down to the first tier.
I never really added anything to it, I was just curious to see how it would turn out.
One would need a lot of LR chunks and A LOT of sand for a 125 or 180. But it would look damn cool if a lot of time was put into it.
anyone do anything similar before?
The plans are for a 125 possible 180 reef with a 2 tiered sub division on either the back wall or either side...Or maybe both sides. The general idea is to put about a 4inch layer of bottom live sand, maybe dry agronite, I don't think it really matters, and then have a "second story". I have test built a 40 gallon with a "half pyramid on the right side of the tank, and then I coated all of the pvc with a gel glue, and placing about 3 dozen small chunks of LR to pvc. I waited for the LR to dry to the PVC. Later I poured dry sand over it until there was a inch thick layer on all the pvc. This in itself created a hollow mountain on the one side of the tank. it looked actually really realistic because I had the nice dry sand and then it had protruding chunks of live rock basically covering the entire build.
After that was done I took interesting pieces of LR and built off the mound and then back down to the first tier.
I never really added anything to it, I was just curious to see how it would turn out.
One would need a lot of LR chunks and A LOT of sand for a 125 or 180. But it would look damn cool if a lot of time was put into it.
anyone do anything similar before?
