Ramble On Rose
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Is the "how to go BB" thread gone as well? I looked forever the other day and couldn't find it. If someone has a link, that would be great.
Where'd BB guys go??
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xtrstangx
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Ramble On Rose
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Thank you. I can't even tell you how long I looked for...
I went BB in my 300g SPS and 215g lps tank. I think my mistake was using to much lr that can hide detritus. I had 50ppm nitrates in the 215 and 20 ppm in the 300. I decided to add a sand bed, a 50g dsb fuge, and use AZ-no3 to get the nitrates down in the 215g. After 2 months the tank is doing great with nitrates under 5. I did remove some lr, too. On the 300 I added a 65g dsb fuge and used AZ-no3. Using the AZ-N03 was a mistake for this tank. The water was cloudy for over a week and stressed alot of sps out. I lost about 5 small colonies and frags out of about 200. Most of the other sps were very stressed, but are now recovering. If I knew what I know now I would have used alot less lr. Both tanks have very high flow so that wasn't the issue. The fuges are lit 24/7 and the cheato is growing like crazy. They have also helped to keep my ph in check.
...um I'm still barebottom on two tanks...SSB on another. Soon to be DSB on one and BB on another...
Plenty of people still around that can help, with any method basically. If you want to know what Bomber's method was it was pretty simple......lots of flow, BB, sparce rockwork stacked loosely, large beckett skimmer skimming wet and UV....... I'm sure it has been memorized by many that still frequent RC. If you want to know everyones personal experiences and their take on the method and what they do different and what has worked for them that's here too.
FWIW lots of people have tried one method or the other(DSB or BB) and it didn't work for them. Then they try the other and are successfull with it and and all of a sudden they think that is the only way to go...well it's not. IMO studying and even experimenting with both methods will teach you to be a better reefer
Chris
Plenty of people still around that can help, with any method basically. If you want to know what Bomber's method was it was pretty simple......lots of flow, BB, sparce rockwork stacked loosely, large beckett skimmer skimming wet and UV....... I'm sure it has been memorized by many that still frequent RC. If you want to know everyones personal experiences and their take on the method and what they do different and what has worked for them that's here too.
FWIW lots of people have tried one method or the other(DSB or BB) and it didn't work for them. Then they try the other and are successfull with it and and all of a sudden they think that is the only way to go...well it's not. IMO studying and even experimenting with both methods will teach you to be a better reefer
Chris
trueblackpercula
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wrassie86
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Yup i know what you mean,ive been BB for a few years and a member alot longer than my reg date would show (lost passwords)But needless to say almost all the people i learned from, have been banned or just forced out it seems.Weather it was the BB wars or zeovit, lots of good people were lost.
But if you look hard enough all those peoples can be found.Like mentioned before, trt for those you mentioned.
But if you look hard enough all those peoples can be found.Like mentioned before, trt for those you mentioned.
MiddletonMark
Premium Member
Still an awful lot of the same folks here, IMO.
NoSchwag
Premium Member
I find that people here are not as BB friendly as people over there. Plus it's pretty cool to have a forum where people can build and progress instead debate. The BB/DSB debate is dead, at least for me anyway.
On top of all that over here it seem like there are always people trying to derail BB threads
On top of all that over here it seem like there are always people trying to derail BB threads
Chaotic Reefer4u
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BAREBOTTOM SPS' REEF TANK'S YEAHYA...
BAREBOTTOM SPS' REEF TANK'S YEAHYA...
IM STILL BAREBOTTOM AND STILL CRUISING THE REEFCENTRAL SITE, THEREFORE>BB ROCK'S...:smokin:
BAREBOTTOM SPS' REEF TANK'S YEAHYA...
IM STILL BAREBOTTOM AND STILL CRUISING THE REEFCENTRAL SITE, THEREFORE>BB ROCK'S...:smokin:
Chaotic Reefer4u
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you go boy...
SERVO
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7488298#post7488298 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by fishdoc11
...um I'm still barebottom on two tanks...SSB on another. Soon to be DSB on one and BB on another...
Plenty of people still around that can help, with any method basically. If you want to know what Bomber's method was it was pretty simple......lots of flow, BB, sparce rockwork stacked loosely, large beckett skimmer skimming wet and UV....... I'm sure it has been memorized by many that still frequent RC. If you want to know everyones personal experiences and their take on the method and what they do different and what has worked for them that's here too.
FWIW lots of people have tried one method or the other(DSB or BB) and it didn't work for them. Then they try the other and are successfull with it and and all of a sudden they think that is the only way to go...well it's not. IMO studying and even experimenting with both methods will teach you to be a better reefer
Chris
great post Chris. There are many ways to skin a cat. If you have a narrow minded perspective on ANY of them regardless who you are you are short changing yourself. Good thing that we never believed that the propeller airplanes were the only way to fly, otherwise we would never have jets and spaceflight.
I have had great sucess with a plenum system. I grew a frag from a one inch piece to a colony bigger than a basketball. I had essentially minimal flow with a 175 W halide/VHO light. So antecdotally, I could say that PAR and flow aren't important. If I said that I'd be doing everyone on here a huge disservice
The stupid arguements that were perpetuated really hurt RC. I wish that we still had all of our so called experts around. This site is and should always be for information sharing. There is a huge reason why D&S's Reef Aquarium Vol 3 is called Art and Science.
Arguing about the art of aquariums is like someone telling me how much pepper I should put on my food.
I currently have a 400 gallon BB tank and I would do it over again.
Weatherman
New member
Not if you explained the reasoning behind your statement (like you just did).
I’ve read some posts on this board a while ago claiming that discussing BB tanks and rock cooking was doing a disservice to newbies. I simply don’t understand the logic behind that argument. If I was a newbie, the last thing I’d want is for someone else to decide what I could and could not read about.
Unfortunately, some people have based their reputation on whether you should use three turns of the pepper grinder rather than only one.
Travis
10 and over club
Still BB here and no plans of changing any time soon.
Sure, RC lost some great people, but IMO the quality and amount of information shared here has not skipped a beat. I am a member of more forums than I have fingers to count with but RC will always be the place I call home.
If you need to find Bomber or SeanT, you can find them at TRT, as mentioned already.
You can find Anthony, Eric, and Ron over at the MD forums.
Sure, RC lost some great people, but IMO the quality and amount of information shared here has not skipped a beat. I am a member of more forums than I have fingers to count with but RC will always be the place I call home.If you need to find Bomber or SeanT, you can find them at TRT, as mentioned already.
You can find Anthony, Eric, and Ron over at the MD forums.
