Aquascaping is much harder than it looks

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  1. Puffer Chick

    Puffer Chick Giant Squid

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    For the past half hour i've been trying to reaquascape my tank because i was tired of the wall and wanted more swimming room and a more ineresting desgin. Boy is it hard! I have to slowly take one side down and find somewhere in the tank to put it. The tank clouds up extremely badly to where i cannot see. I have to feel around and hope i get something that works and looks good. I have to try to move the rocks around with out having them touch air. I have to worry about rock slides, i've been having a few, but thankfully with small rocks. And my poor fish being in an extremely dirty tank right now. I'm taking a break right now to let the tank settle back down so i can see how it looks and rearange more rock.

    I thought it was going to be a lot easier. When i first setup the tank, i just put rock in, then sand then water. And it took like 10 minutes to put the rock in. Now it's taking much longer. But i hope it will be worth it
     
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  2. Puffer Chick

    Puffer Chick Giant Squid

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    i'm thinking i'm liking how it turned out :)
     
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  3. Blue Falcon

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    OMG I KNOW! Gets so cloudy I have to wait for it to clear just to see my rock. Took me about 2 DAYS to get the rock how I wanted it. Plus once I break down my smaller tank all that rock is going in there (somewhere??) don't now where yet. Plus the refugium is already full of rock. lol
     
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    Triggerfish Ritteri Anemone

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    That's great, I'm never 100% happy with my tank's aquascape(did I say that right?), yet when I decide to change it, after hours of moving heavy rocks through tight spaces, having rocks topple over and scratch the acrylic wall, scaring the fish half-to-death and clouding up the tank... I find that I liked it more the way it was before.
     
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  5. defdad

    defdad Fire Shrimp

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    And of course it is impossible to get it back the way you had it!:eek:
     
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  6. Puffer Chick

    Puffer Chick Giant Squid

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    haha it's really hard. The majority of my rocks are also big pieces so i had to be so careufl with those when putting them on top of the wall. And i'm talking about 80lbs or lr in a little 46 bowfront, i thought i wasn't going to be able to put everything in there with the new aquascape but i was.
     
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    Puffer Chick Giant Squid

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    haha i don't think i'll ever go back to the wall, it really did not leave that much swimming room, and was hard to do water changes because it was so tall. I just can't wait until it clears up so i can really see what it looks like
     
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  8. Puffer Chick

    Puffer Chick Giant Squid

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    looking at how i have my rock now and before i totally agree!
     
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  9. Blue Falcon

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    ROFLMAO! You can take out ONE piece of rock and try to put it back the way it was and for SOME reason it just wont balance!!!:angry:
     
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  10. AeLecocq

    AeLecocq Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

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    i absolutly hate that lol
     
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