Gonna use crushed coral

[Cody Ray]

I've decided that I am going to try some cc when I get my 90 gallon all set up. The theory here is that it will be heavy enough to stay on the bottom but there will be enough current to keep a fairly shallow bed (an inch or under) relatively stirred. The up side is that if I want to remove it is fairly course so it won't create such a huge mess. Any thoughts?

 

[wrassie86]

Re: Gonna use crushed coral

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8094766#post8094766 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ChinChek787
I've decided that I am going to try some cc when I get my 90 gallon all set up. The theory here is that it will be heavy enough to stay on the bottom but there will be enough current to keep a fairly shallow bed (an inch or under) relatively stirred. The up side is that if I want to remove it is fairly course so it won't create such a huge mess. Any thoughts?

I dont think it will do anything for nitrates except create them.But heck they were used for years and still are.Might be time if you dont already have one to invest in a magnum 350 with cleaning attachments(vacumm) i love mine.When i vac areas of my ssb it works good.

 

[reefdood]

Aragonite. Sift out all the small pieces and junk with a collander and use the larger pieces in the tank. Better looking and functioning than CC. IMO

 

[clkwrk]

bla

 

[Cody Ray]

Re: Re: Gonna use crushed coral

Re: Re: Gonna use crushed coral

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8095072#post8095072 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by wrassie86
I dont think it will do anything for nitrates except create them.But heck they were used for years and still are.Might be time if you dont already have one to invest in a magnum 350 with cleaning attachments(vacumm) i love mine.When i vac areas of my ssb it works good.

I don't want anything to reduce nitrates Im just looking for a substrate that won't create a sandstorm. I just can't get over the look of BB I gotta have my sand!

 

[Wiskey]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8095857#post8095857 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by clkwrk
bla

:lol: :lol:

Whiskey

 

[Wiskey]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8095373#post8095373 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by reefdood
Aragonite. Sift out all the small pieces and junk with a collander and use the larger pieces in the tank. Better looking and functioning than CC. IMO

I agree with this dude, CC traps detritus, and can't be syphoned well, so it turns into a nitrate factory. If you use large grained araginite (Like SunnyX to pull a name out of a hat) you won't have the sand storm, yet it will be easy to syphon and not a nitrate factory.

Whiskey

 

[jjackson]

it will be a nightmare and working against you... you you arent using for any denitrifying you might as well go bare bottom, I understand your theory but you will be SOOOO many problems with CC

 

[Wiskey]

Sunny's tank
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-07/totm/index.php

Whiskey

 

[tylorarm]

I was having some sand storm issues and added a thin layer of CC (0.75") over the sand in the middle of my tank where the turbulence was worst. Solved the sandstorm issues but became green with film algae while argonite sand was clean. Now the green has evolved into more of a dull off-brown and looks like crap. No nitrate problem though but did defeat my whole point of having sand which was to look better than BB. I think there's a better solution.

 

[Cody Ray]

Maybe something like this?
http://www.marinedepot.com/md_viewItem.asp?idproduct=CS0150

It says cc however it is aragonite???

 

[SunnyX]

This substrate would be perfect for your reef. Just be sure to provide plenty of flow over the sandbed, but not so much that you send all the sand into the corner.

http://www.marinedepot.com/md_viewItem.asp?idproduct=CS0050

 

[Cody Ray]

I have used that sand before and I liked it.

 

[spankey]

I use a 3 inch deep sandbed with cc on the surface. Very little cc though. It works. Plus you can still do the cc. This is your real only option unless you go BB... Like others have stated. CC alone is a nitrate factory and you are going to invest alott of cash into this tank. Put it this way. You don't want to line your tank with CC and then have issues and try to get it out. If this happens you will really have bigger issues once you move the CC and release all the detris that its holding...

Good luck!
Spankey