My preliminary thoughts:
I would like to explore the sort of crossover areas that may exist between freshwater practice and saltwater "scaping". I will not be building a reef. I would like a planted foreground, midground, background, and features. I do not even know what a frag is yet. Plant selection is a long way off. What I am thinking, in my own mind, is revolutionary. However, due to my lack of knowledge, these revolutionary ideas may be common practice. Madness is like that. Enjoyable to the madman, a tad disconcerting to others.
I'm firstly passing thought to establishing a biologically functional system, and am obsessed with mud, and deep sand beds, and their biological filtration capacity, especially that of denitrification. The tank will be a standard 2'er. No refugium, no skimmer, no reactors, just an internal filter. Therefore, I want to capitalise on every other filtration possibility.
In the tank, I may have 3 divisions of substrate, with fine sand capping mud in the foreground where I may grow a carpet of seagrass or another short macroalgae, exposed mud in the centre with a feature piece coming out from within, and the deep sand bed in the rear with coral sand topped with coral rubble, and the rhizomes of a deep green flat leaf grass looking algae attached to rock forming the background curtain.
There will be a focus on getting as vast a biodiversity in here working from the bottom of the food chain up, and a suitable clean up crew. Plant wise, & fauna wise where applicable, I may be using local collected species here and setting this tank up as a biotope even if it is suitable, or at least a suitable habitat for the creature I really want to keep in here.........
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