My 300 gallon Drop Off Reef Tank Build

[Gripenfelter]

Moved over 75% of the rock from the other tank. Did some aquascaping. My apartment complex (caves on the drop off) for the fishes is starting to take shape.

Half of a tower/bridge I'm building.



Looking length-wise into the tank.



The apartment complex.



Slowly getting there.

Still need a lot more rock for the drop off. I'll be transferring more over today and hopefully some fish today or tomorrow and finish aquascaping this weekend.

Then add sand.

The side panels should arrive in 2 weeks. Went with black aluminum. A buddy of mine races circle track and uses black aluminum for the body panels on their race car so he's going to snag me some pieces.

[Gripenfelter]

Added all the fish and rock...now I have to aquascape it.

[Gripenfelter]

So far so good. False Perc Clowns swam up and inspected the black clowns but then swam away. No aggression.

[The Grizz]

Do your fish look really tiny in all that space now

[Gripenfelter]

So far they are only using the deep end of the tank and only going 3/4 up. I guess they are still used to the old tank.

[fishytime]

Originally Posted by Gripenfelter

So far they are only using the deep end of the tank and only going 3/4 up. I guess they are still used to the old tank.

thats kinda interesting.......hopefully for you, the fish find the upper part of the tank......but I guess if you think of their natural environment, very few of our fish would be caught dead in water as shallow as our tanks.....kinda makes sense for them to relate to the deepest part of the tank

[d33ps3a]

Nice build! You should take some rocks out of the bottom to get more of a drop off effect.