Mine are here , think the rock is leaching silicates all good , will turn purple eventuallyI'll have a ton of pre seeded stuff as well as some ocean rock in the 120 system so I'm hoping the uglies will be reasonable lol
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Mine are here , think the rock is leaching silicates all good , will turn purple eventuallyI'll have a ton of pre seeded stuff as well as some ocean rock in the 120 system so I'm hoping the uglies will be reasonable lol
Mine are here , think the rock is leaching silicates all good , will turn purple eventually
Yep, new dry vs re used , buying re used from a lfs seems like a better bet.Just part of the process. Kinda curious to see if any uglies will show up in the tub.
Yep, new dry vs re used , buying re used from a lfs seems like a better bet.
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The rock is wet! And seeding the dry rock I had left over. Using a finnex heater and one of my maxspect jump returns.
Ended up making 25g of SW. Got it to exactly 1.025 first try.
As far as feeding the wee beasties, I dumped the contents from the bottom of what I brought the rocks home in. (Few little things in the water at the bottom....
And I got to thinking about more food for the microfauna. The Westcoast enabler mentioned skimmate. Well, I don't have a skimmer running yet, but I do have a HOB that desperately needs cleaning....
So I grabbed one of the media bags from said HOB and vigorously dunked and shook it in the rock tote.
I figure that oughta add some nutrients
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I wonder if there's any wisdom in going through the live rock you just put in there with a turkey baster, and blowing the bejesus out of everything, with your filter turned off. Just let it get pushed around and settle everywhere. Hopefully effectively transferring starter bacteria quicker? I don't know if it works that way. I would probably try it just because I don't know if it did or didn't. Seeing how much gunk is in live rock is also a lot of fun though.. I'll turn the 180 into a mess real quick.
You will need to be changing water in the tub also. Water change water out of the tank, into the tub. No ghost feeding needed.I was actually thinking about doing something similar here soon. Now that I have my rodi up and running I need to do some maintenance on the 53. Figure I'd do a repeat of the media bag process with the second bag. Also planing on putting some or all of a 5g of changed water in the tub.
And either your idea with the rock or just leaving one in there for a bit.
I figure between the kp bacteria and the built up diversity from Fishguy's system I should be pretty well set
You will need to be changing water in the tub also. Water change water out of the tank, into the tub. No ghost feeding needed.
Same as a normal tank. 10%/week. I do go more aggressive to keep the alk up in my cooker. Lazy dosing...How frequent would you say the tub should be changed? Once a week?
Same as a normal tank. 10%/week. I do go more aggressive to keep the alk up in my cooker. Lazy dosing...
Actually, an old idea was to take a scrubber and scrub a nice healthy rock and let the debris fall onto new rock. This was an idea of many years ago. I can't recall if it was bob fenner or someone else who said it.I wonder if there's any wisdom in going through the live rock you just put in there with a turkey baster, and blowing the bejesus out of everything, with your filter turned off. Just let it get pushed around and settle everywhere. Hopefully effectively transferring starter bacteria quicker? I don't know if it works that way. I would probably try it just because I don't know if it did or didn't. Seeing how much gunk is in live rock is also a lot of fun though.. I'll turn the 180 into a mess real quick.
Ooh my! Grab a straw?First water change with homemade SW.
I am a bit embarrassed by the state of the 53, as I have let it go a bit. Oh well, I did plan on using it to feed the bacteria tub.
No pictures of the 43 as it's still in post wc Flux. But here's the water in the tub. Nice and dirty for the wee buggers. Seems taking the two media bags out of the 53's HOB and shaking them out in front of the tubs pump outlet did the trick
Ooh my! Grab a straw?
Eewww..Kinda did inadvertently. Suction broke when I was draining the 53. Got distracted by Shelby trying to drink the fresh sw while I had the tube in my mouth to restart suction. ..
Eewww..
Biggs tries to drink the saltwater. After one lick she doesn't want it anymore.