farming live rock

[kaptken]

If you are going to use sunlight, like in a green house or sun room, you might need some blue shade cloth. if you check the coral farming forum threads, the guys doing green house propagation have found the sun is just too much in a shallow tank to grow corals or for that matter coraline. so they use the blue shade cloth over the GH or tanks and filter the light to the blue spectrum. works much better. otherwise you grow lots of algae.
i found this brand, it has an explanation for light spectrum selection of various colored cloth.
http://www.signaturesupplyonline.com/

Im sure there are others.

 

[RiggerMortis23c]

What an informative and interesting thread!

 

[fishguy86]

yes i'm almost ready to set up my first vats .., and thanks for the post on the blue cloth thats way cool!

 

[jenglish]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14236777#post14236777 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Paul B
You can do it in the dark

After a certain age it is preferable :lol:

 

[corbett_n]

lets see some pics

 

[Paul B]

After a certain age it is preferable

The darker, the better

 

[Neptangelo]

It wasn't grown in a vat but I grew this one in my 20g refuge for the past 7 years and recently added it to my new display when my old one got a crack in it and I had to reorganize............:mad2:

 

[dv0920]

I have been doing this for years, I buy a minimal amount of very good LR, then I add dried rock to it and allow it to seed in the display tank, I place these rocks at the bottom and nobody seems to ever tell...works for me.

Right now my tank has only 30lbs of rock in for 85g, I don't find I need as much rock if I run a dsb in fuge. Different strokes for diff folks I guess.


The rock I did buy was aquacultured from Marty at Aquairum Arts.


Cheers
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[Compguy]

Jenglish beat me to the smart remark on You can do it in the dark