The Puffer Forum

i have a marine gsp tank its a 29 gallon (which is a taller tank design) it has about 35 lbs of live rock in it. im looking for some ideas for designing my tank. right now i have had some problems stacking the live rock high enough to fill the upper half. so i need some way to design live rock high enough to make a tall tank look good. so do some of you with marine gsp tank have some pics so i can get ideas.

Get a bunch of cheap tufa, and stack the live rock on that. It looks good, buffers, and makes a cool cave system under the live rock. It will also pick up coraline and other cool growth from the LR.

why not just leave it so the rock is across the bottom half, giving your puff room to swim over the top of it as well.

or

what about stacking it up in one corner/side?

I've just added another 16lbs of LR in with Bonzo (up to 32lbs now), at the moment it goes across the bottom at the back about half way up with plenty of gaps for him and his new buddies to explore between

A neat idea that I've seen is that you add some extra substrate, bury a piece of live rock that has a good-size hole/cave in it, and then put the substrate around it (thus creating an underground cave, so to speak). It looked pretty neat when I saw it!

Note, though, that it wasn't used for puffers... but who knows!

awesome this is jsut what i was looking for, it gives me a good start i think ill get my hands dirty...err well wet...this weekend and redo all his rock formation (trying not to squish any hermits lol) and see what happens lol.

so were would i find this tufa?

and what did you add in bonzos tank jay?

is this "Tuffa rock" what we over here would call ocean rock? if so, with a little patience and luck you'll get some pretty awesome pieces you could use for caves without having to bury live rock.

Bonzo is still the only puffer in there... but I'm sure if you looked a little to the left you'll see...