previously on aquascaping the 220 gallon reef tank i am using real reef rock now this
rock i really love to use just because of the interesting shapes that it comes with
wedged it in there added little pieces of rubble rock to strengthen it and basically
just shaped it out in the position that it would be balancing i have been hard
at work y'all i have been hard at work i think i finished the smaller structure
so frustrated right now because they're so ugly i mean so ugly i'm just not a good aquascaper i'm
not i'm terrible at it and it's not like i have the patience to practice and get better i just and
i don't want to add it so this is what i currently have been working on for what was supposed to be
the second larger structure i just ripped off almost half of it that i was going to use it would
kind of point it up like that it essentially looked very very similar to the first aquascape
that i made and i decided that that is obviously not going to work and there's just something about
this aquascape that i've been working on that i absolutely just hate i think it's because i'm
using the old base from my aquascape that broke and i just really don't like it it's chunky it
faces the wrong direction and i've been trying so hard to make it work and it's just not working you
guys made me think about three structures instead of just having two and i kind of really like that
idea because first of all the tank is very large and two aquascape structures is quite small as it
is and if i were to make only two this would have to be really really really big in order to balance
out this aquascape which would be the smaller scape and the issue with that is that this is
very very high it reaches the max height that my aquascape can be so i don't know how much bigger
of a main structure that i can make this guy and this whole three structure thing got me thinking
it would be way easier to balance out these aquascapes together and i can still use the small
rock pieces like i have been using up to now which gives this effect that i like it kind of looks
like delicate and intricate so i'm really really keen on three structures here but i've never made
three aquascape structures for one tank before and it seems kind of weird to me how i'm gonna manage
to balance those aquascapes out against each other in terms of the base i don't i almost want
to start over but it's such a pain to create these concrete bases sometimes because you have to wait
for them to dry overnight this this this aquascape it's killing me it's killing me i really don't
want to mess with it anymore let's see what we can come up with today either i'm gonna start over or
whatever make this third structure at least plan something out so let's see how this goes
you probably didn't notice but i moved the finished structure here to the left side of
the aquascaping table and surprisingly it held up really well i mean the thing is pretty sturdy
not gonna lie i'm really happy about that and i don't know it just felt right to have this on
the the right side here kind of it made no sense on the other side so this is what we're going for
next step is to make sure that thing is cemented down and pray that it doesn't fall and i don't
know just make something out of nothing essentially um i really don't like this
this aquascape all that much but i know i can make something out of it i'm determined and after that
we're gonna have to start thinking about the third structure because i don't even know about that one
honestly like that's that's gonna be a mission trying to think of something that can match
it but first up is first we have to actually finish the second skate so i can compare them
cemented this ledge last night i'm not sure how i feel about it this ledge i made it gosh
this this ledge was what i ripped off this weird aquascape that i really don't know if i like
and before it was sticking kind of up so it was like over here attached over here and it was just
like straight up like a vertical stick essentially and i wasn't having that i really wasn't so
we attached it here oh i hope it's stuck because look i mean look at what's holding it up we have
this contraption who knows how long that'll hold and then i have to get into all of these nook and
crannies in here while making sure that i don't actually make this uh contraption fall down so i
even i i surprised myself with this one i can't believe i made this happen i made the second
aquascape work and i think we're looking at the finished product here screw the third structure
this is it this is it and i love it and i can't i can't believe that we managed to make something
out of this base but we did and i i'm just in love with it look look look at all the spindly
stuff going on here look at all this spindly stuff like there is plenty of room for corals on these
spindles i mean these are that's excellent and uh and what i really like about this aquascape
is the depth that it creates i mean if you look these branches go way back right and that once
corals are on that that's gonna look really sexy like that difference between the between the depth
between the uh it's gonna be nice i i am telling you i'm really surprised with this game but we
made it work and it stands out against the escape that we already created here on the left which
is looking lovely as ever i added a few little pieces here and there but nothing too much the
escape was done in the last video uh anyway but i really like the way they look against each other
screw the third structure this is it this is it y'all this is the final skate that's it i'm
done that is left is to concrete down this guy so let's hope nothing goes wrong during that process
so
the aqua ski for the 220 gallon reef tank is finally finished and it feels so
good i did go back and reinforce the back of the aquascape to make sure the little branches will
hold up strong when i attach my corals to it and remember y'all that all of this cement will not be
visible after two weeks in the tank anyway so it won't always look this bad i promise my aquascape
defies gravity y'all we need all of the cement i challenge y'all to make this kind of floating
balancing long spindly armed bonsai scape without it quite proud of it though um happy
i didn't go with that third structure in the end because with my massive zillow rock and
the bubble coral in the scene bed i think it would become too crowded in the end you know
but what do you guys think of it let me know in the comments and if you've made it this far smash
that subscribe because it was meant to be and stay tuned for the next video where we finally
place this bad boy and get those corals on those spindles finally it's going to be a sexy tank you