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I got the tank up 8/17. I used most of the Marco rock, about 25 lbs of Tonga branch and 180 lbs of crushed coral. I'm just using a small sump and my Bubble Master 250 until I can move livestock. Aquascaping is tough. I wanted a more open look but felt I didn't have enough rock to place fags on so this is what I settled for. I added a clam on the half shell and never saw an ammonia spike. My current readings are Ammonia 0, Nitrites 0, Nitrates 5, Phosphate .05. I'm going to start QT my fish and treating them in Cupramimine. I doubt I can keep the tank 100% ich free but I will try. No water or rock has been transferred to the new tank from the old. All fish will be treated and corals will be in a tank without fish for a month before being moved.
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I love the look of white substrate like CarabSea's Bahama Oolite, but when you have large amount of flow it's so hard to keep from having sand storms and burying frags on the sand bed. In my 120 I had 2 Vortechs, a CL Dart with an OM 4-way returning thru the bottom 4 corners of the tank. I had to rake the sand often to keep mounds from forming or from seeing a bare bottom. The crushed coral has the same white color and has a neat rounded texture, similar to CarabSea's course reactor media but with shells. Over time coraline will cover some but they'll get mixed up when I vacuum the bottom to pull out detritus. Pods also do very well in between the larger substrate a big plus since I plan not to have a fuge/ chaeto for them to populate. hth
