Guess what! UPGRADE TIME

mrhasan · #1 03-28-2013, 03:24 AM

Time for some aquascape practicing:

A1:

A2:

A3:

These are the LRs which I recently bought; the 20Lb+ rocks in my tank is not in these aquascapes...will incorporate them on site

And the water in which the LRs are in:

There's a slight tint of ammonia, no nitrite and huge nitrate. The rock is alive

The high nitrate and the slight ammonia is due to the sponges which were on the rock I guess. I decided not to change the water so that it keeps on feeding the rocks.

Let me know which rockwork kinda looks alright. Basically, that's the idea I am trying to work out; a focus point at 2/3 length of the tank and a smaller island on 1/3 length location. Trying to achieve something like this:

Ofcourse I can't achieve anything like this (done by Andre Silvestre) but that's my inspiration. Don't want mountains of rock in my new tank unlike the nano so that I can enjoy the fishes too

Ram3500 · #2 03-28-2013, 03:36 AM

I vote for a3 I think that looks sweet

Madreefer · #3 03-28-2013, 03:49 AM

Second from the bottom. There should be a poll on this. BAHAHA J/K dont torture us.

ensquire · #4 03-28-2013, 04:19 AM

kien · #5 03-28-2013, 05:24 AM

I vote is for the good looking aquascape! It's the best of the bunch.

mrhasan · #6 03-28-2013, 07:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ensquire

A3

Quote:

Originally Posted by Madreefer

Second from the bottom. There should be a poll on this. BAHAHA J/K dont torture us.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ram3500

I vote for a3 I think that looks sweet

Thanks for the suggestions. I guess I will have to stick to something similar to that

Ram3500 · #7 03-28-2013, 09:54 PM

I vote for a4

mrhasan · #8 03-30-2013, 01:55 AM

TANK IS IN!

And made my own stand (needs some more pieces screwed but the drill machine ran out of battery and never knew it would take ages to charge!)

Anyway, since this is my first DIY stand, there are some faults and I was just wondering whether it will be of any problem:

1. The tank with rim is actually 40.5" and 20.5" but I made the stand as 40" and 20"; will that be any issue?

2. Some of the woods at the corner are not totally smooth and on same plane like this (in the bottom pic). Will that be any issue?

3. And what about this?

Hoping to get some insights from DIY gurus

Tomorrow is plumbing day.

Last (but not the least), I would like to thank Dave and Denny for their tremendous support and hours and hours of explaining stuffs. Really appreciate all the efforts

And thanks to Matt (mattjoly I believe) for his insights too

And ofcourse to those who have posted in this thread and will keep on posting, giving suggestions and flaming