The Great Sandbed Swap Reno (with pics)

[lil_clownfish13]

So I decided that I was sick of looking at my 20G in its natural and wholly messy looking state..so i decided that a change of sandbed and deforestation were in order.

Here is the Before (Mar 17):




All in all quite "festive" but just not as sharp looking as it should be.
So i removed the entire sandbed and most of the liverock that didn't have coral or coralline growth on it. Then i repositioned and glued in place corals (like the frogspawns) that were inconvieniently shoved into the sand.
and here is the day it was changed (May 7):



Here is the After (May 23):






The re-growth has been very very good!!

The sandbed is now black, and the design is now very minimalistic, as the tank itself is quite small--20gallons-- I will only be adding rock to the two piles as needed, and trying to maintain the seperation in the middle.

IMO it looks much better this way!!

Tina