reef epoxy!!! toxic?

[tat2tillidie]

thanks for the input

 

[tat2tillidie]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11274765#post11274765 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Jocephus
The only thing I lost was a kenya tree that was about two days new in my tank. Everything else made it. Good luck, hope it all pulls through.

i lost all of my kenya trees i had like 10 of them and my finger leather died also

 

[a1amap]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11283026#post11283026 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Kreeger1
I'd pull that off, do some searches, for a reef tank wet drys cause more problems then there worth. There Nitrate factories.
erik

People have debated this. Not that I want to start a debate here but there is no way that caused his meltdown. Kenya trees can take higher nitrates. If the balls were a problem he would notice it build over time. Slowly corals would recede. This is a meltdown. It would be more prudent to blame the reef epoxy, a receintly added coral or something interduced to the tank. (On hands, water change, soap, bleach, etc)

 

[a1amap]

Also I have a kenya tree baby you can get. I will mount it on a frag plug.

 

[Kreeger1]

Wasn't saying the meltdown was because of having a wet dry, was just saying that its not a great way to run a reef tank, it can be done but its not a great way to do it. Just like using a under gravel filter, that will work, but you'll be fighting it the hole time
Erik

 

[a1amap]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11285599#post11285599 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Kreeger1
it can be done but its not a great way to do it. Just like using a under gravel filter, that will work, but you'll be fighting it the hole time
Erik

As there are always negatives with any system. There are people who swear by every system. Although a undergravel filter/plenum is far from a "fighting it the hole(whole) time". There are people who swear by them. Garf preach it like religion. There have been spins where they are put in a bucket

Now I am not a fan of bio balls but I have not tried them. They serve the same function as live rock in that they give benificial bacteria a place to break down nitrates, but if too much junk get them clogged they pour nitrates back into the tank. Every system even over skimming has dis-advantages.(frequent water changes to replace the stripped minerals) Refugiums can be nitrate sinks if the flow is too slow and organic material settles.
Cheato can go asexual and pour nitrates in the tank very quickly which could cause a meltdown. Plenums if disturbed can be bad but if constructed properly where the lower layers can't be desturbed they do a great albeit slow job of transforming the nitrates.

The best system is a balance of livestock and a means of ridding waste. Simple. When you figure the answer out there will be 50 people waiting to tell you, you are wrong. Find what works for you.

 

[a1amap]

Hey Erik nice pond

 

[Kreeger1]

Thanks.

I still stand by the wet dry doesn't work well for reef tanks. Im not sure if you've been up on what people say about garf the last 3 years or so but they really don't hold any credit in this community much. Just search the past tanks of the months, if wet drys worked for reef tanks you'd find one. Im not saying they can be used there just some many options out there better and safer. Heck I used one before, that was 15 years ago though but I still used on till the hair algae took over.
heres some pics of my current tank, Im doing things a little different from the norm. Non photosynthetic tank

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[Kreeger1]

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and the soon to be inwall 360 gal tank

I got bored of the same old acro tanks, figured it was time to figure out how to keep the "un-keepable" corals Lots of food, but there all growing

 

[a1amap]

And tank!

Edit Wow I posted that at the same time you did