Thinking of Going BB, Whats Your Experience?

[Spar]

Cleanest BB Ever!

+1 - extremely clean!

guess that is the value of not having snails pooping all over the place. I am tempted to remove mine now! Great looking tank!

 

[A.G]

Cant we glue a thin layer of sand to the white board and have the best of the two worlds ????
Iam thinking about it lately. Use some super glue (a lot!!) and add very fine cool sand barely covering the white board.

 

[ChadRaay86]

I've heard of that idea before, it'd be a nice compromise except for those poor wrasses that try and sleep in the sand

 

[GOSKN5]

My last BB tank.....if you like the tank clean, BB is the way to go

Awesome... I am also curious do you scrape the starboard to keep clean?

 

[Denadai]

Awesome... I am also curious do you scrape the starboard to keep clean?

Yes, but I use a toothbrush

Best Regards

 

[bogg]

Ime things are really "shifty" with the corals there's not really a lot of wiggle room when your bb it just looks soooo much better with sand I don't have to clean the bottom either with a scraper

But whatever you feel you need to do for your tank do it

 

[ChadRaay86]

.03 today. Pretty sure I have this thing kicked. I'll keep running socks daily and ROWA, but at least I'm over the hump

Now to figure out how to keep my sand from blowing all over the place...

 

[AcroporAddict]

Now to figure out how to keep my sand from blowing all over the place...

Back to the original topic....go BB, hehehe!

 

[Spar]

Back to the original topic....go BB, hehehe!

+1 - my sand stopped blowing around as soon as I put it in my trashcan :uzi:

 

[ChadRaay86]

Hahahahahaha, yep it's a never ending cycle

 

[brad65ford]

Fellow BBer's what are your alk values? I've noticed most of my systems usually end up ULNS and have no choice to run lower alk. Would love to hear everyone thoughts.

 

[Spar]

i run mine at 9 dKH +/- .5

 

[ChadRaay86]

Fellow BBer's what are your alk values? I've noticed most of my systems usually end up ULNS and have no choice to run lower alk. Would love to hear everyone thoughts.

I've heard 7-7.5 is a good range, but with a sand bed I looked at those numbers and freaked, haha.

 

[Denadai]

I use 6 / 7 dKH

 

[Bill Nye]

I use 6 / 7 dKH

Do you have a build thread for that tank? Really amazing! I have a bare bottom tank but I run reef crystals which has about a 10 kH out of the bag so I tend to just keep my tank at 10 kH so there isn't alot of jumping around on alk.

I just got a phosphorus checker and it read .02 after removing my phosguard for a couple days so I'd imagine my system is pretty low and might benefit from a lower kH. Can you recommend a salt that is lower in kH or should I just keep steady at 10 and not chase numbers?

 

[sahin]

Bare bottomed system here; run 7-7.5dKH

 

[AcroporAddict]

My BB 465 runs at a KH of about 8.9-9.0. I use a calcium reactor and my evaporative makeup water runs through a GEO kalk reactor.

 

[AcroporAddict]

Fellow BBer's what are your alk values? I've noticed most of my systems usually end up ULNS and have no choice to run lower alk. Would love to hear everyone thoughts.

Why would you have no choice but to run lower alkalinity in an ULNS?

 

[R1ant04]

what does ULNS stand for?

 

[ChadRaay86]

what does ULNS stand for?

Ultra Low Nutrient System. In a BB not having sand takes a lot of the nutrients out of the picture, usually ending in a lower nutrient system.