OK! Enough chat...Starting a 1000g+ Reef

[Micki]

But you can at least see water?

 

[jnarowe]

Nope. We are on a stream but it is about 400' from the house in the forest.

 

[ReefingBuddha]

so I've been thinking about this covering the BB thing with Zoes and I think I've come up with a far better option. Will grow slower and is more expensive but a few chalice colonies scattered about would make a damn nice reef floor and it would be able to handle higher flow and encrust on the glass so there would be no pockets for detritus to build up in. Not sure if it would work great yet but I'm going to give it a shot.

 

[jnarowe]

chalices are much more sensitive to water quality, lighting, etc. so I am not sure I would be successful with that.

 

[ReefingBuddha]

well I figure with those crazy halides the depth should not be an issue but I guess if there is a problem you will have a lot of dead hard coral to chip of your base.

Would look good though

 

[ycnibrc]

you mean like this

 

[jnarowe]

well, and most of them grow so damn slow too. It would take about 10 years to cover the bottom of my tank don't you think?

 

[ReefingBuddha]

yes like that but directly on the glass...

and yes they do grow slow generally speaking, but 5 or 6 colonies placed in the most open areas and pick some that are fairly quick growers. I don't know man it was just a thought, stop busting my balls

 

[jnarowe]

just trying to shake off the tics.

 

[ReefingBuddha]

 

[ycnibrc]

I was thinking about glueing a bunch of different monti cap and encrusting type to the bottom and let them plate out. I'm sure about a year or 2 it will cover most of your bottom.

 

[jnarowe]

I haven't had terribly good luck wiht Montis, and that may just be because of using the 1000W lamps.

 

[jnarowe]

well, I am coming to the sad realization that I did indeed lose my blue-sided Scott's Fairy Wrasse and it is bumming me out. Especially since there is no evidence of what happened, bringing to mind one theory that I still have a rather large red crab in the tank.

Reef looks great tonight. Water clarity has been superb for the last week or more. pH is getting back to normal as is alkalinity. I will be vacuuming out more sand this week and placing some corals into the rock work. Since I am going to have to tear this tank down, I will just place them on rocks so that they can at least encrust a bit before I do all that messing around.

 

[ycnibrc]

hey Jonathan are you convert to BB?or you just remove the sand and save it for the new tank. Having DSB and SSB for 10 years I realize that it just add more chore into your daily routine. I don't see any significant benefit. With BB it's much easier to maintain and less algae problem to deal with.

 

[jnarowe]

yeah, I am slowly going BB. I may keep the RDSB as part of my system, but only if I can get a handle on maintaining it. My plan is wall-to-wall meat eating carpet (zoanthids).

 

[ReefingBuddha]

Now I ask you, how many hobbies do you know off in which it is perfect acceptable to say something like "My plan is wall-to-wall meat eating carpet."

 

[jnarowe]

:lol: Better than "Wall-to-wall Carpet Eating Meat" right?

 

[jnarowe]

January PSAS Meeting Synopsis

 

[Hop]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11760360#post11760360 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jnarowe
yeah, I am slowly going BB. I may keep the RDSB as part of my system, but only if I can get a handle on maintaining it. My plan is wall-to-wall meat eating carpet (zoanthids).

:lol: I finally start catching up on threads only to find this out:lol:

 

[ksouers]

You guys trying to start a new trend?