h i what's up reefers it's queen of reef here back again in my last aquascaping video in
this little series I talked about how you can create your main rock structure using
focal points and sexy spirals
well my dear reefers that is not all of the things you
need to take into consideration to make a really sexy scape ok
there's a few other things
so you know what makes really great looking aquascapes look so great
it's because they
are always designed around mimicking nature or at the very least the way our eyes perceive
things and they do this
by strategically adding depth to their aquascapes
depth perspective
it's the major key to making your aquarium look interesting to the eye
adding depth to your tank is a little magic trick that you can use to make your tank look larger or never-ending
even it can even make your tank look completely filled out with corals even though you really
only have a few
applying this magic trick of depth to your aquarium is actually really
really simple ok
before you start questioning my sauce though the answer is
no
no your tank
dimensions don't matter whatsoever when you're thinking about adding depth to your aquarium
I don't care if you have a 20 gallon nano little rectangle or you have the deepest
400 gallon low boy lagoon ever made ok
depth is always possible to create in your tank
why
why is that
because all you have to do is just take into account the way our eyes perceive
things naturally
if you've ever taken a beginner's art class at any point you probably know a
bit about how to create depth already
our eyes view objects that are near to us as larger
and objects that are further away as smaller
so we're taught that to create depth we always
need to make sure that the object further away from us is smaller in size to mimic this
you see this principal of depth applied to freshwater tanks all of the time however this
doesn't really translate well to reef aquascapes
corals are the key features of our tanks and
because real estate is valuable and so limited in our little boxes of water we have to make
sure that we get the most bang for our buck
so that means all we have to do is just take
that freshwater planted tank depth rule and just reverse it
basically any rock that you
place towards the back of your tank needs to be larger
and then any rock that is placed towards the front needs to be smaller
towards the front needs to be smaller
because we want to make sure we can pack as many corals in there
and I mean picture how awkward it would be to have this
big old mound
at front of your tank with all of your corals and then it just gradually gets smaller with
less corals I mean that would just be weird right
so this is what you're going to do my friend
first you are going to use my previous video to design what you want your main rock
structure and focal points of your aquascape to look like
don't worry I'll link this for
your convenience at the end of this video I got you
next you are going to place your
main rock structure somewhere towards the back of the tank
don't put it directly against
the back wall or the side glass or anything like that though
trust me
you're going to have glass or acrylic that is so clean you can't even tell it's there and then this big
bunch of algae you can't reach and just trust me you're going to hate it so make sure you
have enough space between your scape and the glass
ok so once you've placed your main rock
structure in the back of the tank somewhere but not to close you're going to use other
rocks to frame that beautiful main structure of yours and this is where it starts to get
really fun and you can get really creative with it
so lets say you decide that you really
like that central mound look right ok
here ya go
you built your beautiful mound based
on the spiral of sexiness from my previous video
ok you've placed this gorgeous mound
of yours towards the back wall offset of course for bonus points
and now it's time to frame
this bad boy ok
so we can do this
we can add a part coming off that curves to the side
like this and
you know slopes down a bit
or even adda little arch you know
a little arch coming
off right here or y
you know another little arch that curves around just like that
mhmm
it's beautiful right
it's all up to you ok guys it's all up to you just get creative
you know aquascaping is fun a
and guys really that's it that's all it takes to create depth
in your reef aquascape folks you know
big rocks in the back and rocks that gradually
become smaller towards the front and that's it
you are know a depth aquascaping pro ok
I knew you had it in you
let's take a look at some real life examples though shall we
once you point out this depth rule it seems pretty obvious I know but I still see so many
rock placed in wall formations these days so hopefully by pointing out this really easy
rule of depth it helps you out in some way when you're creating your sexy aquascape
hey I appreciate that Wayne I don't know if I can take credit for this comment though because
fibonacchi sexy spirals are actually anything but boring ok
you are now the second comment time
yes you did
right we don't even give them the credit they deserve for
being the bougiest fish out there right now
you know
they are the true
og stunners