65 gal african with plants and rocksculpture

spirofucci · Jan 27, 2011

Its hard to see but the rock work has lots of room around the structure for swimming, running away and platforms for plants.

Brian_Indiana · Jan 27, 2011

Looks good.

Kanta · Jan 28, 2011

Now That is a neat looking tank

Peanut_Power · Jan 28, 2011

Friggin awesome!

Mokujin22 · Jan 28, 2011

Very cool. What kind of rock is that?

valderi123 · Jan 28, 2011

nice tank!

spirofucci · Jan 31, 2011

Thanks for the comments everyone! The rock is a decorative lanscape lava type rock. It originally was a giant 200lb rick that I took a sledge hammer to to make smaller pieces. Based on info from the "reefers" on reefcentral, I took about four rocks and drilled a hole in them to make the column and then inserted a fiberglass rod with epoxy putty to hold the main structure together. Then I used many smaller ones to make "arms" and ledges. I used the epoxy and AC glue to hold them together. Actually it was easy! Since anubias and java fern do not grow well in the sustrate, I glued to seperate smaller rocks and just placed them, not glued them onto the structure. This way I can move them around or remove them easily if they shoud die.

thanks for looking

-mark