Unique aquascaping ideas needed

Here's mine. Rock on PVC......good water flow and after more rock is added (to cover PVC still showing), still not much rock will be sitting on the sand bed. Took extra time but (I think) will be worth it in the end. Kas

 

Here's a good one I found. I'm getting ready to aquascape also.
Aquascaping

If you google "aquascape" and "PVC". There's a lot of good ones.
http://www.3reef.com/forums/live-rock/aquascaping-lr-pvc-45715.html
Raising Rocks Off-the-Bottom of the Tank - Aquascaping Rocks Help Tips

There was another one that was amazing, but I can't find it.

 

I got my layout idea from some random site out there in web land. It is basically two "L" shapes with strong water movement between them to try and mimic natural reef layouts.

Hope I can at least give you some ideas!

plop

 

That's a good layout plop.

 

Hmm, I'll get some pics up in a few days I have about 120# uncured rock and about 30# of cured that I'm going to be playing with if all goes well in the next few days Well have all the rock, just need to get it into the tank and play with the setup lots of florida base rock and some tonga shelf rock as well so I have a few ideas I'm hoping that pan out

 

I'm thinking I'm going to do mine like this:

 

my tank i have rock that was cut with a tile saw and then put on the belt sander to make it perfectly flat on the back side. the rock is basically bookmatched just like a luthier would do for a violin or guitar top. this allowed me to have a perefectly flat back to make an awesome veneer on the back wall and a great start for a sweet scape.

 

Just don't drill any holes in your pvc, it's known for getting massive worms of all types in it when they have a place that perfect to hide and it's really a crappy thing to try and get them out you end up having to tear down the entire tank and disassemble the rock structures
there is some pics on the boards somewhere of worms that have been pulled out of pvc stands not that their a bad thing, just make sure it's sealed

 

for the sake of ideas.. I started thinking outside the box and blew up a high resolution picture of a shoreline on a beach and attached it (laminated) to the outside rear wall of my glass 60gal (rectangular). Would look even more awesome with a bowfront 175..

And then I incorporated elements inside the tank to match the scene depicted in the picture/background. From the color of sand/subsrate, to the decorative palm trees to match the photograph, to even making "fake" water to place inside the tank (with the real water) aligned with the shoreline in the photograph/background, to give the complete illusion that the background transforms into the tank, and the fishies inside are living "in the picture"..

 

Good to know .. Karma 4 u