Polystyrene Foam Is Used for Aquarium Fish Tank Landscaping

When it comes to aquascaping, whether for freshwater or marine aquariums, there are numerous themes and material choices to bring one’s aquarium interior environment desires to fruition. And over the past few decades, live or artificial rock of one kind or another has been the substrate of choice when it comes to making many aquarium environments look natural, especially those in marine reef aquariums. However, its been my position for at least a couple of decades that too much live rock was unnecessarily being used in many marine aquariums, and/or its placement resulting in what looked like a brick wall covering the entire back of the aquarium. I can fully understand the desire not to allow large portions of the aquarium back panel or its various plumbing, i.e., outlets, overflows and/or water surface agitators, to be overly visible. Without a doubt this distracts from the overall beauty of the aquarium’s interior environment.