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Here we go.....

UPDATE

First consignment arrived "Love rocks has landed"!

Another hard day . . . . "trip to Red Sea, collection of live rocks" i collected some about 300lps to 390lps exact weight I cannot tel. It was total 6 buckets. Buckets can hold 15ltr to 20ltr of water, so I am assuming that 55lps to 65lps per bucket......
It took 4 hours to collect rock from wild…. .. . .. . . but at last I ended up with good pieces full of coralline in different color.

Instead of taking rocks without cleaning and clean them at my home, mess everywhere, I prefer to spend more 2 hours to clean in sea water at the spot where I collected stuff.

Luckily a medium size of brush and a knife was inside my car trunk……. …. … start cleaning one by one….. … … . .. …. And put them little away from the water for little time to remove craps, unwanted snails and tons of other live creatures.

After cleaning, I fill up all buckets with seawater and place them inside.

Here's a couple teaser pics...



I put air stone in each bucket to keep them healthy.













It’s already 11 at night….. … dead tired …. . .. . want to sleep,……. but need to finish rock work as soon as possible.. …

So here it goes. I took out all rocks from bucket and place them to have a look, what I got after waste whole day, for my dream aquascape.









Some more closeup of what I got....................






This small crab wants to be a part of my 300G. Can anyone tell what it is exactly? If its use full then fine otherwise please do not tell me that it will **** all my zoos and other corals, because it's already in the tank, impossible to get it back.



Another one. Beautiful star.....and hermit crab..



I will keep this man. Beautiful creature....

Small urchin....



I love to have some escalated rockwork, but because of less height, I decided to have two big and one small island, where I can adjust 120G tank corals and new addition. After spending some little time i ended up on this…………

I prepare something which is totally away from back and sides glass......

SIDE VIEW



FRONT VIEW



Some more of rockwork.........

LEFT SIDE ISLAND



RIGHT SIDE ISLAND



Stick together rocks, like what I need, and keep rocks still wet, I need something that will not take more time to dry up, so I decided to use two part epoxy.

i bought two kind of epoxy, one for iron and another is for bricks.

Iron epoxy, which using time is 6 munities, I used for base rocks to attach them as soon as possible.



Things are getting real........ my dream get true...

haaa, haaa....neeed to sleep... 3 o clock at night....

i finished rock work. Tie-up with nylon 2mm thread from different angle…… for lifting and holding rock and placing them inside the tank, I used shoe laces to tie-up quite strong and place them inside the tank.

Rock is inside….cutting nylon thread…..







Right side ended up with ......



Left side island..... ..... . ....