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Post by daviddelp09 on Apr 2, 2009 15:31:32 GMT -5
my dad recently read online somewhere that after your live rock sits in your tank and things die and then settles down through the rock nothing can get to it to eat it like narssirus snails or tunneling crabs an such. it said to cut PVC pipe to the depth that you want your sand and set your live rock on top of it so the snails and crabs can get underneath your rock .
Has anyone tried this? does it sound like a good idea?
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Post by brianatwork on Apr 2, 2009 15:43:21 GMT -5
I use to have a shallow sand bed and that is kinda what I did. I laid the PVC pipe on its side and then stacked rock on top instead of standing the PVC up. I did mine that way to keep burrowing creatures from collapsing my rock work.
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Post by daviddelp09 on Apr 2, 2009 16:02:56 GMT -5
but wouldnt laying them on there sides cause the pvs to roll? well i put them on there ends and then stacked the rock on top of it. i still have some work to do to get it to where i want. i just want to avoid the things dieing and nothing being able to get to it. anybody have any good ideas on how to fill up a tank besides using a curse 5gallon bucket? i started filling up my tank last night at 10 and stopped at 1am and still wasnt done!!  i was mixing my salt water in a 3gallon bucket then dumping it into a 6gallon jug then carrying it to my tank. I know that you should always mix your salt ahead of time but i just wanted to get the water in it to cycle my tank. My dad is in the process of hooking up a ro-di unit with a prefilter before the ro unit, he's having it going into a smaller 35g water storage unt then when it fills it will dump into a larger 100g tank that we will mix the salt water in and have it whenever we need. So once he gets it set up im going to do a major water change and put the Ro water in my tank instead of just tap water! Ive been told that tap is the cause of my redslime issue. |
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Post by Solareclipsed on Apr 2, 2009 20:29:58 GMT -5
I filled my tank then added the salt afterwards for the initial fill but I did not have my sand in there yet.
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Post by mcox33 on Apr 3, 2009 16:07:35 GMT -5
anybody have any good ideas on how to fill up a tank besides using a curse 5gallon bucket?
I always mixed my saltwater in a big plastic storage container that I picked up at dollar general. Set it close to the ro/di or whatever your water source is, then drop a small pump into the container connected to enough plastic tubing to safely reach your sump, let the sump pump, pump it to the tank.
this also advoids shocking your corals with new water directly. My corals seem to prefer this method.
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i was mixing my salt water in a 3gallon bucket then dumping it into a 6gallon jug then carrying it to my tank.
