Mud in fuge?

[firewill65]

What do you guys have in your fuge? Mud? Sand? Would it be alright to go to the flats and collect the mudlike sand for my fuge?

 

[loyalrogue]

My fuge consists of a deep sand bed (5-6"), lots of LR rubble, a mangrove pod, and tons of chaeto.

 

[Bret61081]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9381748#post9381748 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by loyalrogue
My fuge consists of a deep sand bed (5-6"), lots of LR rubble, a mangrove pod, and tons of chaeto.

mine is the same except the mangrove! has worked great so far!

 

[gasman059]

mine is the same

 

[ninjamini]

No one puts cleaner clams in there?

 

[Bret61081]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9382436#post9382436 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ninjamini
No one puts cleaner clams in there?

No but if you tell me where to get them locally I will! They sound interesting!

 

[loyalrogue]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9382853#post9382853 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Bret61081
No but if you tell me where to get them locally I will! They sound interesting!

Ditto.

 

[ninjamini]

Publix or any place that sells seafood. I get the little neck clams.

Buy about twice more than you need. Put them in some tank water and let them sit for an hour. The ones that are alive will open up and stick out a foot. I think its really a syphon. When you find a live one drop it into the sump and it will burry it self in the sand within about a week. Never to be seen from again. Till they die that is. The seem to come unburied when they die and your cleaners will make a nice meal of them.

There real cheap too.

I also have seen a drop in nitrates with them.

 

[Bullredchaser]

I use Miracle Mud and the polyp extension on my acros are unbelievable.I like the benefit of the time release trace elements in it especially since I heavy skim.Of note the nitrates in my tank are at absolute zero which has been a problem for nitrogen limitation so I have to feed heavy and add lots of cyclopeeze .But I still cant seem to get a trace of nitrate but the corals are growing super fast since I bumped up the feeding for both fish and corals.

 

[instrance]

Hmm, Thats funny. I normally just eat those. But that sounds like a good idea. Do your nitrates go up when one dies? Have you ever seen them spawn? That would be great. They keep my tank clean and you can beat the freshness...