Ideal Aquarium size for Aquascaping

It's very hard to say.
Many folks have different ideas they want to display in their scape.

I often try and match the rocks and wood to a tank, rather than the reverse.........

You need a great deal of hard scape materials to do a tank properly, you end up not using most of it.

Small cube tanks, larger deep tanks, each has it's own elements that work.
But as Vaughn state, deep front to back tanks are great.

I do tanks for myself, not for a contest, that is something folks will always want keep in mind, it's for themselves, not a contest.

Regards,
Tom Barr

 

Well it depends on the scaping materials at hand and the idea etc.
I'd say more a tank that's deeper fronm to back than high would give a much larger appearance.

Regards,
Tom Barr

 

I'm not sure that's so much the issue with the tank, rather the hood design layout you might have in mid or the stand height, some foklks are shorter and have shorter arms than others, by a factor of nearly 2X.

I design tanks for max access to the front lip, not hood lips in my way, easy open top designs and access is complete, I also tend to like chair height stands, so 24-30", I can stand a gets into most tanks.

For higher tanks or stands, I tend to shoot for about 40-45", but if the tank is tall, then it goes back to the 24" height, because if the tank is 30-48" high, it's means that view is 24" to 54-72" which is eye level or higher for most folks standing.

Regards,
Tom Barr