Eron
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Well i tried this thread in the new to hobby bit, but had no reply of sort. So i thought it belonged here.
Hello Everybody, I have had a 75 gallon salt tank for about five years with a25 gallon mech sump and an orbital 4 power compact for my lighting and a meduim size skimmer that has worked well. I have kept probably around 8 to 10 fish in it at all times along with soft corals, hard corals and anemones. I have always thought my tank looked great, I've spent a lot of time with it and keep up with its needs. Within the last 4 months i updated the lighting to a Unit from Orbital i believe not sure, but it has 2(175) metal halides along with 2 power compacts for actinitics, and looks beautiful. Along with this i pulled my sump and turned it into a refuguim that grows macro faster than i can keep up, put in a 5 inch dsb along with 15lbs of miracle mud (don't laugh) just thought i'd try it ... anyhw my Nitrates are almost nonexistent. I have also built live rock that i pulled the recipe from the GARF page, cured it twice as long as it called for and threw it in. The tanks great, the problem is i can't keep any anemones, long tentacle red anemones, bubble anemones......they won't last 3 days. I have lost 5 in the last few months. I almost worry that i might have a metal or silicate problem possible from the concrete forms although i used exactly what the recipe called for. Anyway my leathers do great and my clam and green star polyps are also doing well but nothing is growing near as fast as when i had straight power compacts with a normal mech sump.
Is there anybody else out there that has tried the concrete recipe for making live rock. It calls for a 3 month cure, i actually cured mine for 8 with a normal ph reading before i placed it in the tank. I was also wondering if it could be my temp swinging from 77 to 81,....just seems odd that i have no problem with the fish, crabs, snails, spanish dancer, finger leather, purple acropora and gongorian....but can't keep the anemones.
PLEASE HELP
Hello Everybody, I have had a 75 gallon salt tank for about five years with a25 gallon mech sump and an orbital 4 power compact for my lighting and a meduim size skimmer that has worked well. I have kept probably around 8 to 10 fish in it at all times along with soft corals, hard corals and anemones. I have always thought my tank looked great, I've spent a lot of time with it and keep up with its needs. Within the last 4 months i updated the lighting to a Unit from Orbital i believe not sure, but it has 2(175) metal halides along with 2 power compacts for actinitics, and looks beautiful. Along with this i pulled my sump and turned it into a refuguim that grows macro faster than i can keep up, put in a 5 inch dsb along with 15lbs of miracle mud (don't laugh) just thought i'd try it ... anyhw my Nitrates are almost nonexistent. I have also built live rock that i pulled the recipe from the GARF page, cured it twice as long as it called for and threw it in. The tanks great, the problem is i can't keep any anemones, long tentacle red anemones, bubble anemones......they won't last 3 days. I have lost 5 in the last few months. I almost worry that i might have a metal or silicate problem possible from the concrete forms although i used exactly what the recipe called for. Anyway my leathers do great and my clam and green star polyps are also doing well but nothing is growing near as fast as when i had straight power compacts with a normal mech sump.
Is there anybody else out there that has tried the concrete recipe for making live rock. It calls for a 3 month cure, i actually cured mine for 8 with a normal ph reading before i placed it in the tank. I was also wondering if it could be my temp swinging from 77 to 81,....just seems odd that i have no problem with the fish, crabs, snails, spanish dancer, finger leather, purple acropora and gongorian....but can't keep the anemones.
PLEASE HELP
