FTS = Full Tank Shot

There are many acronyms used by the community of aquarists and reefers and FTS is just one of them. What does FTS mean? its a Full Tank Shot and as promised, pictures of the tank after the rescaping. Overall it seems to me that the tank scape is now more engaging with more interesting angles to look at things.

This new scaping is really different from the past ones. The first one was crap, the second one just had a little more space but was generally a boring stacking of rocks to form a wall. This time after much consideration and looking around Kino's aquarium scaping books and with much referencing here and there...

I came up with something else entirely different. I have created sort of a valley in between 2 rock islands. If you are wondering how it looks like form the top, think about it as splitting a rectangle diagonally. Looking straight towards into the 'valley' you will see a green tube. That's my water return outlet. The long tube has many small holes along it all directed into the 'valley' creating an area of high flow current right through it. As the current streams through the valley it deflects off the glass wall at the front left corner of the aquarium and wraps around the left aquarium wall and the water flow is directed into the next filter inlet which leads to another filtration system. So generally these are the high flow regions while the other parts of the aquarium has a slower flow of water. There's a little bit of everything for everyone i guess.


I've also decided that I should pour some sand on the ground to make it all look a little more natural. If you remember there was a blog entry where I suggested that the bright light reflecting off the bare tank bottom was very disturbing and glaring to the fishies so hopefully this sand will help. It looks prettier now and I plan to have more corals, small bits to lay on the sand as well as on the rocks to complement the rockscape.