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[Subsea]

My torch coral is loving the morning sun!

Gorgeous picture. I have always liked the glitter lines made by sunlight in water.

I will assume that the sulfur you are adding is to run a denitrator.

Zeolite use in reef aquaria is used to achieve ultra low nutrient levels in your aquarium. This practice was brought into the reef hobby to maximize colors in coral. In effect, you are starving zooxanthellea and the coral responds in color. Charles Delbric a noted author in the hobby, commented that corals achieved this color just before they bleached and died. It is a serious balancing act and requires work everyday.

Than you for your service. As a Vietnam vet, I welcome you back to the addiction.

 

[lifeoffaith]

My concern is also on the wheels. I built several rolling carts for setting up a church service weekly at a school. We had several wheels (rated for much more than our load) break on us due to bumps and weight. I'd definitely test the wheels by slowly filling the tank and moving it around a bit at various levels to see how they deal with the weight. The last thing you want is for even one of those wheels to fail.

 

[zeemofree]

Gorgeous picture. I have always liked the glitter lines made by sunlight in water. I will assume that the sulfur you are adding is to run a denitrator. Zeolite use in reef aquaria is used to achieve ultra low nutrient levels in your aquarium. This practice was brought into the reef hobby to maximize colors in coral. In effect, you are starving zooxanthellea and the coral responds in color. Charles Delbric a noted author in the hobby, commented that corals achieved this color just before they bleached and died. It is a serious balancing act and requires work everyday. Than you for your service. As a Vietnam vet, I welcome you back to the addiction.

Thanks for your service also,@ MSubsea, my bacterial scrubber so to speak is a two stage, on to keep filter out detritus which also has elemental sulfur in, is the highest chamber in the tank. My hypothesis is that it will eventually work as a calc reactor and denitrator in one and also feed the tank with bacteria and microfauna. So far it proving very successful my skimmer might be taken offline as this is working very well for me. I already have a drilled 55 gallon that is going to be my next bacterial scrubber for my new 140, it's going to gravity fed into the display.

I want dark bacterial refugiums because I believe large colonies of bacteria are far better and diverse that algal setups

 

[zeemofree]

My concern is also on the wheels. I built several rolling carts for setting up a church service weekly at a school. We had several wheels (rated for much more than our load) break on us due to bumps and weight. I'd definitely test the wheels by slowly filling the tank and moving it around a bit at various levels to see how they deal with the weight. The last thing you want is for even one of those wheels to fail.

Thank you, I think I am going to take the wheels off.

 

[Subsea]

Cryptic Zone

Cryptic Zone

Thanks for your service also,@ MSubsea, my bacterial scrubber so to speak is a two stage, on to keep filter out detritus which also has elemental sulfur in, is the highest chamber in the tank. My hypothesis is that it will eventually work as a calc reactor and denitrator in one and also feed the tank with bacteria and microfauna. So far it proving very successful my skimmer might be taken offline as this is working very well for me. I already have a drilled 55 gallon that is going to be my next bacterial scrubber for my new 140, it's going to gravity fed into the display.

I want dark bacterial refugiums because I believe large colonies of bacteria are far better and diverse that algal setups

I agree on dark refugiums. However, they grow more than bacteria. Pods and worms will grow in the detritus that settles there. Many filter feeders, including sponges will thrive there. Check out Steve Tyree and see if his model might not be compatiable with what you are doing.

 

[zeemofree]

I agree on dark refugiums. However, they grow more than bacteria. Pods and worms will grow in the detritus that settles there. Many filter feeders, including sponges will thrive there. Check out Steve Tyree and see if his model might not be compatiable with what you are doing.

I have a space between the sand beds for sponges and other cryptic critters, i want all of the worms and pods to be thrive in the sand too, I know the key to that is a bacteria,.