150g Tank cleansed & re aquascaped
 

So I'm looking for some critique on my recent attempt of rock work. Not sure if I like it or not. Would prefer a minimalist look like Johns (lobsterboy) Don't have the length so I have to go up :smile: For the past year and half I've been battling some real pests in my largest system (couldn't be the smallest as I can really only use one of arms :confused: ) The final straw was trying to catch a very large crab and ended up wrecking most of the rock work catching it. Also included a very bad case of aiptasia (very bad - leading cause for tear down), vermatid snails & neomeris annulata algae (thought it was neat at first). So I ended up pulling out all my rock and drying in out, cleaning out my over flow compartment & cleaning out my sump. While I was cleaning the rock I found 2 more crabs & a large bristle worm. My health has been in the toilet for a while now and off to surgery again on friday so the rest of live stock, corals & any changes will have to wait for awhile. Plus will be putting it up for sale when I get out.

Construction of one of the towers using tie-straps & acrylic tubing:

http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/r...g/IMG_1825.jpg

Full tank shots(sorry still cloudy):

http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/r...g/IMG_1830.jpg

http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/r...g/IMG_1896.jpg

http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/r...g/IMG_1899.jpg

A couple of shots to show the room underneath(again still cloudy):

http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/r...g/IMG_1840.jpg

http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/r...g/IMG_1838.jpg

One of the frags I made from my Tyree piece starting to recover:

http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/r...g/IMG_1864.jpg

Don't get to see this guy up close very often:

http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/r...g/IMG_1821.jpg

Hi Mike! Here is interesting video I watched yesterday, helped me a little.

http://www.drivehq.com/file/df.aspx/.../aquascape.wmv

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weird, I started watching it (almost 3/4's of it), had to leave so closed it and went to watch it again and now needs login ...

.It's not working for me anymore, sorry, don't know what happened.
The link worked before I posted it.

that bad eh ? thanks for all the input :)

I like it! Bommies are challenging. They need to get some coraline going before you really start to love them (or at least has been the case for me).

Only thing I might have done differently is offset the two islands a bit so that they're not quite side by side nor front and back, but such that the ravine in between (hey that rhymes) is a bit diagonal.

looking great Mike

Sorry to hear about your health Mike hope things turn around for you (and you don't need to sell). Like those structures they look beefy.

The way I see it, I would keep the tallest tower in a overflow corner and lay other one pointing the opposite corner. Or take it a part and do a gradual decrease slope from the tall tower towards the opposite corner.
Or even better would do two decreasing slopes with an open lagoon/pass(pointing opposite corner to the overflow) running between them, where your tower by the overflow being the highest point.