How to get Reef Aquascaping Right First Time

Because of sites like Instagram, aquascaping is everything these days, and if you want to create a great saltwater aquascape you have to start with great-looking materials. Gone are the days of sloping rock walls with corals displayed like fruits on a market stall, rock falls, and bolder placed precariously on top of bolder. For now, we have the rock, the cement, andthe inspiration to create a scapethat benefits your animals while looking great, and natural, at the same time.

Getting started with Reef Tank Aquascaping

所有的礁石都不一样，它们可能从野生收集的活岩到采矿的石灰石岩石到树脂，陶瓷等等。We don’t use the rock for biological filtration anymore, there are several high-tech media to take care of that, so instead, we should select rocks that look like a natural piece of the reef while also allowing for coral placement, freedom of water flow, hiding, and grazing opportunities for your chosen fish.

We have used every type of “reef rock” over the years from manmade to natural, white, to purple, but if you want to hit the ground running pay more and opt for rocks that are already pink and purple in color, and look like they are covered in calcareous algae. The issue with white rock is that like all dead rocks these days, it goes through the ugly phase of brown diatoms, red cyanobacteria, and stringy dinoflagellates. Purple rock does too but seeing as the “ugly phase” can last six months or more while new reef tanks biologically bed in, that’s a long time to sit and watch your tank in a mess. Clear the nuisance algae and the first algae your white surfaces will then grow will be green ones. Better for the system than brown and red, but ugly nevertheless, and a year into your dream tank you, and your guests, may be wondering like your very own piece of reef doesn’t look like anything in the brochure. Pay a bit more, get the shapes and importantly the color that you want, and it will pay dividends. This could be a ten-year project after all.

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Next is to try to buy from the same brand or set of rocks, so that the texture, shapes, and colors all match from day one and all age and mature together. One white rock and one purple rock is not a good look, and there is branch rock with V shapes that look like a child made them, and then there is branch rock, that looks like the most pristine reef structure plucked straight out of Fiji. Again, choose the latter, and if you’re like us一块非常好的岩石, and the structure you make out of it, can be as nice as some of the hard coral skeletal forms that make up the reefs in nature.

在AquaScapaping中更多。通过这种情况，我们的意思是，创建现代的，负面的空间景观是一回事（从许多方面来说）是一回事，但是如果您希望自己的摇滚创造在视觉上从远处产生影响，则需要使用一些大型碎片。有一个一百加仑的坦克吗？投资约18英寸宽的盘子，18英寸宽的拱门和18-24英寸长的分支。勇敢并堆叠它们，以便它们创建自然的悬垂和ac座，以及自然的地方，将珊瑚放在顶部，在那里它们会得到光线和流动。使用丙烯酸杆，拉链领带，礁石水泥和环氧树脂在客厅中创建一个迷你礁，并使用干岩，您可以将其全部远离水箱，并花几天甚至几周才能正确。

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设置一个纸板箱或建立与储罐相同尺寸的轻型木制框架，但没有前面板。在那里您可以随心所欲地创建，拆除和重新创建，而不必担心岩石掉落，刮擦或破裂坦克。使用黄金比率，也称为艺术性三分之二的规则。在坦克和三分之二的高处标记三分之二，这将是您的主要焦点，并且自然会吸引所有凝视坦克的人的眼睛。硬珊瑚通过种植自己的硬景观使事物复杂化，因此，如果您要在那个最佳地点放置珊瑚骄傲，请放置岩石以低几英寸的速度，以适应完美的位置和未来的增长。如果将环氧树脂推入干岩石的粗糙表面并自然干燥，那么如果您没有尝试过快速干燥的礁石水泥，那么现在是您的时间。正确地保持一致性，它可以像混凝土一样设定，让您放心，您的重力不佳的岩石将完全留在您将它们固定在未来几年的位置。