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10-09-2007, 08:48 AM
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| | Skunk Shrimp
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Fremont, CA Age: 32
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|  AquaScape..should I go higher?
Please give me your opinion...I'm not sure I should build up higher... | 
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10-09-2007, 08:54 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
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Really matters what type of coral you plan on keeping. Some need intense light and will loose color if they are very deep. My tank is 30" tall and I have rock about 8" from the top. Just think about what you plan on keeping.  _________ Scott 265g (Peninsula)
3x400w MH's, 4x95w Actinics, AAT Lunar Lights, OM 4-way CL, PM Bullet 3 Skimmer, DelZone Eclipse 1 O3 Generator, WavySea Plus for return, AAT Kalk Reactor, KNOP Ca Reactor w/PM Second Chamber, TradeWinds Chiller, ACIII Controller, Oceanus ATO, PM PO4 Reactor, 75g Sump, 30g Fuge Born March 5, 2007 Parameters My 265 Gal. Tank Thread   | |
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10-09-2007, 09:14 AM
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| | Flamingo Tongue
Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Las Vegas Age: 23
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Well said Otty. Also consider the height of the corals you will add. Many corals are stuck onto sometimes large pieces of rock too. When I started my first reef, I piled the rocks up high. Then when it was time to add corals, I ended up having to pull out the rocks to position the corals correctly..
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10-09-2007, 10:44 AM
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| | Bristle Worm
Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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Hi,
I agree with both of you. I piled mine high and then have trouble trying to find a place for the coral with the rocks, which I seem to like buying. Personaly I would go a little higher. _________ 125gal Reef/Fish,40gal sump,Reefmania calcium reactor,MH,UVH,Moon,Aquazone plus 100,Auto Topoff,CoraLife 125 skimmer,GHL Profilux computer & special effects lighting.
Fish:Coral Beauty,Yellow Wrasse,African Clown Wrasse,BiColor Anglefish,Banded Goby,Psycodelic Mandarin Goby,Spotfin Angelfish
Inverts:Long-spinned Urchin,Crowned Urchin,Feather Dusters,Fire shrimp,Banded Shrimp,Brittle Star,snails
Corals:Cup,Frogspawn,Pink Open Brain,Yellow Dot
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10-09-2007, 11:14 AM
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| | Feather Star
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Denver, Colorado Age: 24
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!!! Sushi !!! _________ 125 Gal Reef. Born March 2002 FISH: Ocellaris Clown, Yellow Tang, Fairy Wrasse, Sand Star, Hippo Tang CORALS: Green Striped/Red/Purple Mushrooms, Green Star Polyps, Yellow Toadstool Leather, Bubble, Frogspawn, 2 Hammers, Yellow Polyps, Open Brain, Ridge Leather, Various Zoas, Button Polyps, Kenya Tree, Colt, Elephant Ear Mushroom, Clove Polyps, Torch, Purple Clam, Rose BTA  | |
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10-10-2007, 04:53 AM
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| | Fire Worm
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Okinawa Japan Age: 26
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Originally Posted by Matt Rogers  Good points. Also you'll have a little more swimming room for the fishies too.  |
hey Matt, I was reading your post and realized your location, I was born and raised on 23rd and lincoln Ave by the Veteran's Hall, I go back on leave to Richmond every now and again. When I tell my southern friends that I live in Richmond they think VA, so I ask em if they have seen Coach Carter and tell em that is were I am from.. they dont expect a white boy from the Ghetto to be into rock and country
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10-10-2007, 05:21 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: TN Age: 31
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It looks good the way it is now, but like whateverybody else said, you gotta think about what corals you plan to have, some fish like a lot of room to swim around. As for corals being on huge rocks...Thats what frags are for. Buy them small and most times pretty cheap, and you can get them off their plugs/disks fairly easily and then you dont have to worry about aquascaping all over again cause of one coral, and you dont risk something collapsing or corals falling onto each other and potentially damaging each other. _________ Got Questions? Need Answers?
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10-10-2007, 05:50 AM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 59
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Amount of rock area is going to determine how much coral you are going to keep eventually (plan for growing room) - which is a trade off with swimming space for your fish...(again plan for growing swim space requirement)
It is a pure and simple trade-off. I would keep tank as is...but be planning to adjust as needed later.
It looks Great! _________ AG "125," AquaC EV 180, 30 gal sump, "SCWD", 80 lbs LR, CoralSeaLife "Moonlite" Hood, PFO 250W HQI Mini-Pendant (SPS HQI 14000k bulb)
12 Gallon NanoCube - 24w stock PC 50/50 light "...nothing good ever happens fast in a reef tank, only bad things happen fast..."
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