Hi UKaps,
It's been a long time since I've written anything on a forum (at least a couple years), so I'm a bit rusty. I always like this forum, so I though I'd share a new scape with you.
2013-17 I was pretty active in the hobby, entering iaplc a few times etc. But I kinda fell away, partly due to time constraints, but mostly because I converted one tank to marine and that distracted me for a long while.
But the last few weeks have seen a big effort to rectify matters and get the 120x45x45 up and running again.
I've collected a lot of ohko rock over the years. Heaps. So worked on a scape on and off for several weeks, but in the end I didn't like too much. The gap in the centre was too narrow. And it was too flat; didn't have the height I was wanting.
A friend (who is a scaping pro) recommended I use house bricks at the back of the scape to act as a platform to get stable height. He also recommended gluing rocks to achieve a desired effect.
So the top 2/3 of the original scape was removed from the tank, the house bricks went in at the back (one for each side) and together my friend and I built it up and did some gluing to get an 'explosion' feel. It was 70% done in about 1hr. It was that fast.
Then I spent a few more hours getting to the stage it's at below. I'm very pleased with the result.
Plants - probably mc, maybe some dwarf hair grass.
Fish - I'm thinking black lace angelfish.
Thanks for looking. I'll post an update in the near future.
It's been a long time since I've written anything on a forum (at least a couple years), so I'm a bit rusty. I always like this forum, so I though I'd share a new scape with you.
2013-17 I was pretty active in the hobby, entering iaplc a few times etc. But I kinda fell away, partly due to time constraints, but mostly because I converted one tank to marine and that distracted me for a long while.
But the last few weeks have seen a big effort to rectify matters and get the 120x45x45 up and running again.
I've collected a lot of ohko rock over the years. Heaps. So worked on a scape on and off for several weeks, but in the end I didn't like too much. The gap in the centre was too narrow. And it was too flat; didn't have the height I was wanting.
A friend (who is a scaping pro) recommended I use house bricks at the back of the scape to act as a platform to get stable height. He also recommended gluing rocks to achieve a desired effect.
So the top 2/3 of the original scape was removed from the tank, the house bricks went in at the back (one for each side) and together my friend and I built it up and did some gluing to get an 'explosion' feel. It was 70% done in about 1hr. It was that fast.
Then I spent a few more hours getting to the stage it's at below. I'm very pleased with the result.
Plants - probably mc, maybe some dwarf hair grass.
Fish - I'm thinking black lace angelfish.
Thanks for looking. I'll post an update in the near future.