29 gallon scape.

Deftones2015 · 02/02/2019, 09:49 AM

Which does everyone like better?

rockhead51 · 02/02/2019, 10:03 AM

I like the less symmetrical one, but you have to consider what is going on the rocks, too.

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Deftones2015 · 02/02/2019, 10:18 AM

The tank will be LPS, (branching hammer, frog spawn, acans, chalice, fungia possibly, etc) possibly with some zoa's and ricordia. No sps though.

rockhead51 · 02/02/2019, 10:49 AM

Yeah, so what I am saying is that the symmetry can get boring, but if you plan on building some height on one side with coral (like a colt or finger leather), the rocks can be symmetrical.
If you aren't going to plan it that far out, then I'd go with the asymmetrical version.

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Deftones2015 · 02/02/2019, 10:51 AM

Definitely not doing any colt or toadstools or any soft corals like that. Colt corals grow way to quickly in my experience and other leather corals are the same. I understand what you're saying. I think I'll stick with the less symmetrical scape.

rockhead51 · 02/02/2019, 11:25 AM

Lol. My colt recently went crazy. Fragged him a bunch of times, and each frag grew back to almost the original size in a few days. Sold them all but one back to my LFS, got an acan, and maybe another this weekend...

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Deftones2015 · 02/02/2019, 02:07 PM

That's awesome. I had a toadstool with my first tank and it shaded out everything in the tank pretty quick. A friend had colt corals and that thing would drop frags constantly. He had pulsing Xenia too. Beautiful coral but it took over his tank, even with constant fragging lol.

02/02/2019, 10:03 AM	#2
rockhead51 Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2016 Posts: 204	I like the less symmetrical one, but you have to consider what is going on the rocks, too. Sent from my XT1710-02 using Tapatalk

02/02/2019, 10:18 AM	#3
Deftones2015 Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Marion Ohio Posts: 351	The tank will be LPS, (branching hammer, frog spawn, acans, chalice, fungia possibly, etc) possibly with some zoa's and ricordia. No sps though.

02/02/2019, 10:49 AM	#4
rockhead51 Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2016 Posts: 204	Yeah, so what I am saying is that the symmetry can get boring, but if you plan on building some height on one side with coral (like a colt or finger leather), the rocks can be symmetrical. If you aren't going to plan it that far out, then I'd go with the asymmetrical version. Sent from my XT1710-02 using Tapatalk

02/02/2019, 10:51 AM	#5
Deftones2015 Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Marion Ohio Posts: 351	Definitely not doing any colt or toadstools or any soft corals like that. Colt corals grow way to quickly in my experience and other leather corals are the same. I understand what you're saying. I think I'll stick with the less symmetrical scape.

02/02/2019, 11:25 AM	#6
rockhead51 Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2016 Posts: 204	Lol. My colt recently went crazy. Fragged him a bunch of times, and each frag grew back to almost the original size in a few days. Sold them all but one back to my LFS, got an acan, and maybe another this weekend... Sent from my XT1710-02 using Tapatalk

02/02/2019, 02:07 PM	#7
Deftones2015 Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Marion Ohio Posts: 351	That's awesome. I had a toadstool with my first tank and it shaded out everything in the tank pretty quick. A friend had colt corals and that thing would drop frags constantly. He had pulsing Xenia too. Beautiful coral but it took over his tank, even with constant fragging lol.