New dry rock placement

[Brandon8521]

I picked up some dryrock as part of a trade/buy from my tri-pod i was trying to get rid of and was wandering if you guys had any suggestion of any other way to place it in my tank. It almost all the way against the back of the tank with only a couple inches clearance in behind the rock. I like the wall look and my plan is to place some mushrooms and zoanthids in the tank when I get my new lights in a couple weeks. I also got a couple peices of kenya tree with the trade.

[J-P]

can't say it looks bad. I'm not certain I'd want that larger chunk dead smack in the center though. Possibly off set it a couple inches to the left to draw attention away from the powerhead?

[Pufferpunk]

More hidey-holes/caves.

[Brandon8521]

I have been thinking of breaking the 2 bigger rocks up a bit but dont want to end up with rubble. I have also already moved the skimmer to the far right of the tank.

[Pufferpunk]

No need to break up the rock, just stack them differently, making open spaces. Any that are kinda flat, for a shelf look?.

[Brandon8521]

Ok so I have now moved the 2 big rock to the outsides and the smaller ones in the middle. Im still not sure if i like this or not but here is where im at now.

[Pufferpunk]

That's better.

[Brandon8521]

Ok so this is my final placement for now. Im thinking of tring to find another small cave peice to sit on the shelf at the top right of the tank but im likeing this the most.

[CarmenH]

Looks great!

[pufferpuggirl]

I agree, that's looking very nice.

[Brandon8521]

My kenya has opened up nicely! I get to be excited about haveing something new in my tank again. Spud decided to take a nice big bite out of the small one that used to be on the left of the rock so i picked it off. I dont think he likes it to much since he hasnt eaten anymore of it.

[J-P]

yes much better

[Brandon8521]

Thnx guys/gals, my next step is to slowly take the bio-media out of my AC50 when I get the koralia knock-offs in the mail (2 of the 790 GPH but only going to start with 1 in the tank and see how it flows.) Then I can run strictly chemical filtration in the AC and let the live rock take over the bio-filtration. I plan on stocking some more softies (shrooms,1pulsing xenia, and zoanthids.)

[xrayjeeper83]

really like the placement of the rock