Show Us Your Bare Bottom Tanks!

[bluekoi]

Hi there,
I'm thinking of cycling a second seahorse tank and was thinking of going bare bottom.
I have a few questions about it.....
1) What do most of them look like? Please post a picture of your bare bottom tank if possible. I'd like to see what the bare bottom tanks out there look like.
2) what do you use for hitching posts if the tank is bare?
3) flow - I've read most bare bottom tanks have high flow. How do you manage that with seahorses? I didn't think they particularly like high flow....

Please share your thoughts on the subject!
thx!

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[jcgso]

My 36 gallon seahorse tank is bare bottom. I used two pieces of Pukani dry rock, one small coraline covered piece of live rock and lots of artificial hitching posts. Flow is not an issue. I actually put two small pumps in the very bottom at opposite corners to keep uneaten food moving. This is my first ever bare bottom tank. I think it will be so much easier to maintain.

 

[bluekoi]

Wow, that's a very attractive tank. I like the idea of two small pumps moving the uneaten food about. I wasn't sure exactly where to go with managing detritus.
I have this awful fear of 1) aiptasia and 2) bristleworms injuring my seahorses. While aiptasia isn't in the sandbed so much, those bristleworms certainly are. I've accidentally ended up touching those little nasties (bristleworms) and I just want to remove them from the picture totally - so there goes the sandbed!

 

[jcgso]

One of the main reasons I went with dry rock was to avoid bristle worms, aptasia and other unwanted pests. After years of fighting all of the pests in my reef tanks, it will be great not to deal with them and not worry about them irritating the seahorses..

 

[bluekoi]

Thanx jcgso! I'm so glad to know that there are others that share my thoughts on those pesties!