Crawdad1
Premium Member
Mr. Borneman,
I noticed in your book (Aquarium Corals) on page# 324 that you mentioned that your tank had a deep sand bed good lighting a good circulation. Is this tank considered to be skimmerless? As I have mentioned in my last post I am in the process of setting up a 125 gallon tank and would like to set it up as skimmerless. I have provided the good lighting (2 - 175watt halides and 1 - 250 watt halide. and 2 - 48 inch 03 actinic VHO) the circulation will be the before mentioned surge device. I was going to employ a 2 inch deep sand bed in the tank it's self with about 90 pounds of live rock. In the sump (48x14x16) I have dived half of it into a refugiam that will have a 6 inch deep sand bed with various macro algae and 2- 24 inch standard fluorescent bulbs (daylight or 50/50). Do you think that this set up will be capable of sustaining s.p.s corals? One last question here. How long would you wait before introducing corals into this tank? I have over 35 misc. Acropora frags that I have been making anticipating the move up to the lage tank so that the initial stocking cost would be low. I also made the frags anticipating incidental losses during the move. Thanks again.
Mike K
I noticed in your book (Aquarium Corals) on page# 324 that you mentioned that your tank had a deep sand bed good lighting a good circulation. Is this tank considered to be skimmerless? As I have mentioned in my last post I am in the process of setting up a 125 gallon tank and would like to set it up as skimmerless. I have provided the good lighting (2 - 175watt halides and 1 - 250 watt halide. and 2 - 48 inch 03 actinic VHO) the circulation will be the before mentioned surge device. I was going to employ a 2 inch deep sand bed in the tank it's self with about 90 pounds of live rock. In the sump (48x14x16) I have dived half of it into a refugiam that will have a 6 inch deep sand bed with various macro algae and 2- 24 inch standard fluorescent bulbs (daylight or 50/50). Do you think that this set up will be capable of sustaining s.p.s corals? One last question here. How long would you wait before introducing corals into this tank? I have over 35 misc. Acropora frags that I have been making anticipating the move up to the lage tank so that the initial stocking cost would be low. I also made the frags anticipating incidental losses during the move. Thanks again.
Mike K