Pictures of Bomber's barebottom SPS tank and related equipment
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MiddletonMark
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The white on the bottom is starboard, a form of plastic sorta like cutting boards.
This protects the glass from rock falls ... but doesn't let detritus get into it and won't be blown around by his massive flow that's in that tank.
This protects the glass from rock falls ... but doesn't let detritus get into it and won't be blown around by his massive flow that's in that tank.
Flatlander
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Mike, Doug and Red feast on it.[/B]
What the hey did I eat now. :lol:
Bomber
10 & Over Club
I think we need to explain this.
Many, many, many, many, many years ago I got a very small baby urchin for the tank. I named it after Doug. Doug in turn designed a avatar which was a picture of himself with spines coming all out of his head and the rest is history.
I've been stuck with both of them ever since. :lol:
Many, many, many, many, many years ago I got a very small baby urchin for the tank. I named it after Doug. Doug in turn designed a avatar which was a picture of himself with spines coming all out of his head and the rest is history.
I've been stuck with both of them ever since. :lol:
photobarry
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ROTFLMAO Ha ha ha!
aquamanathome
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Bomber,
When setting up this kind of system does the tank even cycle? If everything is removed directly from the water column you would think that as soon as the tank is set up it could be stocked right away. No biological system to get going.
Thanks for sharing the knowledge.
When setting up this kind of system does the tank even cycle? If everything is removed directly from the water column you would think that as soon as the tank is set up it could be stocked right away. No biological system to get going.
Thanks for sharing the knowledge.
Bomber
10 & Over Club
Shhhh
You're the only person that caught that. I tore the old system down, put in the new rocks, put back all the fish and corals in one day. No cycle.
The one thing I did do was cook the new rocks in very low light for about two months ahead of time to be sure there was no more die-off and they had stopped producing bacterial detritus.
It's the rocks that cause the problems.
You're the only person that caught that. I tore the old system down, put in the new rocks, put back all the fish and corals in one day. No cycle.
The one thing I did do was cook the new rocks in very low light for about two months ahead of time to be sure there was no more die-off and they had stopped producing bacterial detritus.
It's the rocks that cause the problems.
aquamanathome
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Can you reuse rocks from an old tank? I set up my tanks about 8 months ago when we moved into our new house. Not knowing any better or even about RC at the time I used about an inch of very coarse crushed shells from the beach here in Stuart. I have been planing a change since I found your first thread and have read them all from start to finish. I need to be able to make the move in one day as I will be using the same equiptment and have several critters that I collected myself the I want to keep. Thanks Chuck
also, I will be plumbing the two tanks together into one system
also, I will be plumbing the two tanks together into one system
MiddletonMark
Premium Member
Meaning you get a big pot to a boil, add some cayenne, and ...
oh wait - LR.
I think he means to put it somewhere with no or very low light, plenty of circulation in clean water ... and let the bacterial turgor work all the detritus/etc/itself slowly out of the rock. Essentially provide a `clean' system so that the rock can lose any detritus/etc in it and work itself clean.
I'd doubt you'd run any substrate in it, likely certainly zero critters/fish/etc ... you want to let the rock quit accumulating stuff and have the bacteria work what's in there out.
Or so my take on what I've read of Bomber's methods is.
Unsure on whether one would skim the tank [maybe, probably doesn't hurt] ... but will also combat any algae/etc - as you're letting it eat out all it's food source, let nutrients essentially drop to just about zero.
Unsure on water changes too, almost suspecting that you might not want any [or many] ... but maybe that's from that thread that just resurfaced today :lol:
But I'm betting at least you'd want to siphon out whatever detritus came off the rock - why not IMO?
oh wait - LR.
I think he means to put it somewhere with no or very low light, plenty of circulation in clean water ... and let the bacterial turgor work all the detritus/etc/itself slowly out of the rock. Essentially provide a `clean' system so that the rock can lose any detritus/etc in it and work itself clean.
I'd doubt you'd run any substrate in it, likely certainly zero critters/fish/etc ... you want to let the rock quit accumulating stuff and have the bacteria work what's in there out.
Or so my take on what I've read of Bomber's methods is.
Unsure on whether one would skim the tank [maybe, probably doesn't hurt] ... but will also combat any algae/etc - as you're letting it eat out all it's food source, let nutrients essentially drop to just about zero.
Unsure on water changes too, almost suspecting that you might not want any [or many] ... but maybe that's from that thread that just resurfaced today :lol:
But I'm betting at least you'd want to siphon out whatever detritus came off the rock - why not IMO?
Bomber
10 & Over Club
Here's what I do.
I scrub and clean the rock as good as I can, getting as much detritus out as I can by dunking, swishing, and draining.
I put it in a RubberMaid 70gal trough in new water in low light and let it sit with a power head.
When I see detritus building up in the bottom, I dunk, swish, and drain it to get as much detritus out again - and move it to a new tub of water.
Repeat until you have very little if any detritus production.
It's important that you don't give it a lot of light. You want it bacterial driven not algae driven.
I scrub and clean the rock as good as I can, getting as much detritus out as I can by dunking, swishing, and draining.
I put it in a RubberMaid 70gal trough in new water in low light and let it sit with a power head.
When I see detritus building up in the bottom, I dunk, swish, and drain it to get as much detritus out again - and move it to a new tub of water.
Repeat until you have very little if any detritus production.
It's important that you don't give it a lot of light. You want it bacterial driven not algae driven.
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