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05-25-2014, 08:50 PM
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really nice clean set up. Wish I had wood working skills to make a stand .
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05-29-2014, 09:37 PM
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Look what I got in the mail today
 There was one more box, but I forgot to include it in the pics    Oh, Look! It's nesting boxes!     48 3/4 total inches of AWESOME!!!! 
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06-02-2014, 03:05 PM
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Hmmm, doesn't seem like anyone likes my skimmer
Oh well...Started on my rock work yesterday. Got some acrylic rod and a couple sheets for bases. The plan was for 2 pillars and an archway to the floating rock on the back right of the tank. But after looking at it for a bit, I decided that the rock work glued to the left side on the tank to hide the overflow gives the look of one pillar already. So I decided to just make 1 more pillar and 1 arch. I'm not really happy with my arch - I may scrap the idea but would like some opinions.    Turns out the piece is too heavy for me to get into my tank by myself. I have to wait and see if I can get a buddy over to help me lift it in there. Meanwhile, it sits on a TV table beside the couch.  The Arch - It's not finished, I have a bunch of rock rubble I will be fitting in between the rocks to make it look like one piece instead of a bunch of rocks stacked together.   And and end view...  The tank is 24" front to back, I want to avoid the mistake I made on my current tank of too much rock and rock too close to the glass. As well I still have 1 or 2 large pieces of rock I'll with stack against the base of the arch, or sit in the front right corner so there isn't quite so much negative space.
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06-02-2014, 03:27 PM
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I think your skimmer looks sick!!.
guess that's not going under the tank eh lol.. is it lifereef? I've been following your build thread, looking awesome. I really like the time you are putting into the rock work. it is going to stand out once completed. . keep the updates coming
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06-02-2014, 03:41 PM
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That's not a skimmer, it's a Saturn V rocket! Neil Armstrong would approve! Awesome build so far. Enjoying the updates and the rock work!
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06-03-2014, 03:04 AM
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Reeferfulton - ya, it is a Lifereef. The thing is awesome. Can't wait to get her fired up. Jeff from Lifereef is great, loves to communicate and walk you through the decision making process. I paired it with a Jabeo DC6000 from Nick.
Lol, Wardog. The thing is a beast. It's modular so I can get another extension tube and make it a 72" skimmer Got a buddy coming tonight to help me get that sculpture in the tank. Stay tuned...
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06-03-2014, 03:35 AM
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06-03-2014, 04:49 AM
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Houston, the rock is in... now to get it where I like it, lol
     I think what I don't like about the arch is it look unfinished. It is, after all, only 1/2 an arch. So I am debating cutting some more rock, and stacking it underneath the one stuck on the glass to continue it down to the tank floor again. Hmmmmmm.......
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06-03-2014, 04:56 PM
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like the rock work. To finish the arch, may be tie it in with the back wall, like how you covered the over flow.
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06-04-2014, 06:21 AM
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Awesome build. Next tank I'm going to construct rock with rods exactly like that.
I think what you might not be liking is the way that arch is visually offsetting against the rock on the other side of the tank. Try to think in terms of photography and the rule of thirds. Take a picture of your tank with the rocks in it and place two equally spaced horizontal lines and two equally spaced vertical lines across the image and see how those rocks you've got in there are positioned relative to the lines and their intersections. You've got a really strong visual feature that spans the full height of your tank on the left and sort of cascades down, then over in the other corner there's this tall, narrow structure that is almost an inverse of what's happening on the left and doesn't really visually relate to anything. Since you've got the ability and patience to make structures like that, your options are pretty much endless, but FWIW I've never really been in love with the idea of a classic arch in a tank. Between the mish mash of rocks that go in to building them, and the rods they need to be attached to, they always seem to end up looking like a pop-corn necklace. It's almost impossible to make them look like they belong. I've seen it work in tanks that have really big footprints in both length and width as the bases of the arches can be built up enough to make it all fit together with the rest of the scape, but it's a challenging shape to work with.
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