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I bought some pet r...I mean live rock on Friday!



I actually said "pet rock" when describing live rock to a friend today. Most of my aquascape is base rock from Marco Rocks, and I purchased several small pieces of live rock from a local store to seed the tank with yummy bacteria.

The live rock on the right side will eventually fill the gap near the center of the aquascape, but I have it in the open sand and close to the ...

My rocks arrived! Creating an aquascape was a little more challenging than I expected. My first attempts at stacking a bunch of rocks looked exactly like a stacked bunch of rocks. I had a specific vision in my head, but my early attempts were not cohesive. After an hour of playing with them and some great suggestions from my roommate, I got something I like, but not quite final:



My basic vision is to be mindful of negative space, use the rule of thirds ...

I collected more equipment from fish stores and online the past few days:

AquaticLife T5HO 2x24
Ebo Jager 50w heater
AquaClear 70 Power Filter
Test kits
Refractometer



My setup philosophy is that I will start out with basic but capable equipment, and I can add more to supplement instead of replacing them. For example, the AquaClear filter is providing a lot of flow on its own, but if it proves not to be ...

Hello everyone!



I got my first aquarium this weekend, a 10g with more equipment in the coming days. Yes, the turkey baster is bobbing in there, along with some tubing and a thermometer. I was performing some practice "wet runs" to figure out I would do water changes and other maintenance. I wanted to make my mistakes now with freshwater before making a mess with actual saltwater.

My apartment is tiny, so there wasn't room ...