Krish
RF STAFF
Mojo did it, but I think you drill through the rock and run the tie strap through it.
Not happy with my rock, aquascaping pictures?
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Mojo did it, but I think you drill through the rock and run the tie strap through it.
mattseattle
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hmmm..... guess the rock is not that brittle that it would just flake off if you drill it? i'll have to try that.
Krish
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Look here Matt. Just scroll down a bit and you will see them using the zip ties on the rocks
http://www.reeffrontiers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10541&highlight=aquascape
http://www.reeffrontiers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10541&highlight=aquascape
Krish
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Willy
Well-known member
you could just use natural holes in the rock, drilling isnt always necessary
mattseattle
Well-known member
ok, that helps..... now i just have to visualize!
Krish
RF STAFF
Yeah...Natural holes would be the best, but that is cool the way Mike's tank was aquascaped in the second link. I would go crzy if I had to setup that many rocks!:shock:
twilliard
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Hey thanks people, they are all great ideas. I will try to put a little effort into the design before I load up the tank (by this weekend).
Thats what I needed-visual pictures
Thats what I needed-visual pictures
Krish
RF STAFF
Good luck man...Make sure you post some photos when you are finished
spongebob lover
flea whisperer
Hehe Krish i think that if you were about to do an aquascaping on a 300 gals tank, you would spend the whole day if not the week .
Twillard please post pictures once you're done so we can see what you came up with.
.Twillard please post pictures once you're done so we can see what you came up with.
twilliard
What next?
Sure thing, yesterday I actualy formed some of the rock with a small hammer to make different shapes. I made a few benches and caves but to me it is still hard to visualize the coral on it. It will mainly have acans and blastos with acro and a few other branching corals. Oh and cant forget the mushrooms around the bottom.
Ill keep you posted.
Hey Krish- great looking rock, it looks like a lot of hard work. Its hard for me to find that kind of time with a wife and 5 kids.
Ill keep you posted.
Hey Krish- great looking rock, it looks like a lot of hard work. Its hard for me to find that kind of time with a wife and 5 kids.
twilliard
What next?
Here is the update on the rock. I got one side about done, there are some holes there that are a little to big yet. I only have about an hour a night to play with the tank.
Is it looking any better (besides the algae)?
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Is it looking any better (besides the algae)?
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liveforphysics
Banned
This is what I did with the rocks in my 30gal after the bulb falling in the water and killing all the corals in it incident a couple months back. I still think the tank is loaded with copper and lead or something, because corals used to grow like wildfire in there, and now they just wither and look terrible. Good thing for backup tanks I need to get a mega load of carbon in there or find a harvestable bio-sink for copper lead and tin.
Maybe the rock work will give you an idea for something.
Best wishes with the remodel.
I need to get a mega load of carbon in there or find a harvestable bio-sink for copper lead and tin.Maybe the rock work will give you an idea for something.
Best wishes with the remodel.
Krish
RF STAFF
Thanks...Well, this aquascaping job didn't take me that long at all because I had already spend many times before playing with the same rocks in my old tank so I was pretty use to the shapes and how they fit together. What helped alot as well was I had nicely shaped rocks from the get go. Your rockwork this time looks better than the first one. Congrats
spongebob lover
flea whisperer
Hey Twillard dood i think you're doing a good job .
By the way i was having the same algae problem all over the place, but everyone told me to scrub my rocks and so far it's been working like a charm.
Just get a new tooth brush and use your old one for the rocks or the other way around if it's to used and everytime you change your water, save the old water in a big tub and put your rocks in there and start scrubing , since you're busy with the kids like mua... just do a few rocks at a time (i mean unless you're in a rush) and keep doing your water changes, so far for my 37, the first time i did 18 then the second i did only 12, then 10 and i've been doing it since then, even my zoos that were almost dying are wide open now and since you're aquascaping i think it's the best time to do it..... just my opinion dood .
.By the way i was having the same algae problem all over the place, but everyone told me to scrub my rocks and so far it's been working like a charm.
Just get a new tooth brush
and use your old one for the rocks or the other way around if it's to used and everytime you change your water, save the old water in a big tub and put your rocks in there and start scrubing , since you're busy with the kids like mua... just do a few rocks at a time (i mean unless you're in a rush) and keep doing your water changes, so far for my 37, the first time i did 18 then the second i did only 12, then 10 and i've been doing it since then, even my zoos that were almost dying are wide open now and since you're aquascaping i think it's the best time to do it..... just my opinion dood .
When you are aquascaping it always best to have a mental picture of what you want the reef to eventually look like. As in a deep trench, or bommi fading to sand, or an out cropping, stuff like that. Also make sure you do it where it is going to be good for the corals, cave are cool but if they are to big they just take up coral space as not much lives in caves, having it open is always good to keep the flow going through the tank, and then make sure you alot for coral growth, having the rock work to close to the surface will mean that you will be having to do scaping again when the corals grow, and that is always a pain
Mike
Mike
liveforphysics said:
Not to sidetrack, but that might be a tough one, I'm not aware of anything that uses tin or lead as part of it's metabolisim...these things just tend to biocompound up the food chain retaining their origional mass...
MikeS
liveforphysics
Banned
Thats what I have been thinking. Sure would be nice though to not have to buy some carbon, that stuff is $$$. I guess I'll just break down and spend some store credit on a big pack of carbon...
I dont have anything against carbon, I've just been hopeing for a cheaper way to get the Pb, Cu, Sn and whatever else might be the problem out of the tank. Sucks haveinig a tank down. Thank god for keeping duplicate species in other tanks.
I dont have anything against carbon, I've just been hopeing for a cheaper way to get the Pb, Cu, Sn and whatever else might be the problem out of the tank. Sucks haveinig a tank down. Thank god for keeping duplicate species in other tanks.
yeah, nothing tends to metabolize those things...the $$$ you spend on carbon will be a lot cheaper than constantly restocking a tank....if that is what is really killing the corals...BTW, how did you figure the tin and lead amounts in the water?
MikeS
MikeS
liveforphysics
Banned
Well, it was through observational means. The bulb had the ends soldered on with 60/40 Sn/Pb solder. The electrolisis was expansive... I dont know how long that end of the bulb was in the water disolving all that solder/tin and copper wire off, but it as long enough to pretty much change that whole end into just some blackened salt residue, so I know that the solder and copper wire had to go somewhere...
I dont have any quanitative data, but even I did, I dont think the course of action taken would be any different. I supose I'm just going to have to setup a large carbon filter setup and wait.
My restocking testing fortunately is really cheap. I cut off a stalk of xenia, toss it in, and it shrivels up and melts. Its been taking progressively longer and longer to melt, but it still just melts.
Anyone have any cheap ways to purge the tank of that stuff? It allready got 3 90% waterchanges imeadiately following, and since then I've done a few 50% water changes, but nothing seems to have helped. I'm hopeing I wont need to come up with new rock and sand...
I dont have any quanitative data, but even I did, I dont think the course of action taken would be any different. I supose I'm just going to have to setup a large carbon filter setup and wait.
My restocking testing fortunately is really cheap. I cut off a stalk of xenia, toss it in, and it shrivels up and melts. Its been taking progressively longer and longer to melt, but it still just melts.
Anyone have any cheap ways to purge the tank of that stuff? It allready got 3 90% waterchanges imeadiately following, and since then I've done a few 50% water changes, but nothing seems to have helped. I'm hopeing I wont need to come up with new rock and sand...
