mhowe9

I think it's cool that you put an island in front of another in a way, it makes for a dimensional look. I found it's harder to take pictures that capture it well though. Bravo!

Taking pictures from above was a great idea. We don't see that enough.

quite similar to what I went with on mine. I used the e-marco putty (read quick set concrete) to kinda make my islands a bit more slender... I wanted them tall but not really wide to give me lots of negative space in the tank.

Get some water and lights over that thing and lets see what ya got.

Thanks for the comments guys! I thought that taking the pics from a top down view would give a better look at how everything came together. My goal is to have all three set ups (180, 245, and the Breeding setup) going by New Years.

one thing i would change would be the rocks that are against the glass.....
i have done that and figured i would be fine with it, but it always bothers me and you cant clean the coraline algae and the regular algae either.
slide those far enough away to get a mag float away from it and to get a razor blade there.

also, you can drill the rocks with a drill bit and use those fiberglass rods (the one used for culvert reflectors)
those will hold the piles from falling over. (did that on my wife's tank, and it works great. plus everything is sturdy and wont fall over during misc maintenance)