It’s been a while since I’ve done a build thread and this is likely my last attempt to try and achieve my acropora growing success from many years ago.
I’m rebooting a 120-gallon tank after losing a battle with some type of filamentous algae/bacteria. After my frags of: RRU Angry Bird, TGC Acrolandia, BK Chem FrootLoops, SBB Tropical Trainwreck, RRU Emperor and many many more, were overtaken and died, I decided to completely tear down and restart.
For the rebuild I’m going with dry Marco Premium Shelf Rock, now that I’ve seen several sps guys prove it can be done. I’m also going bear bottom this time. I’m essentially modeling the cycle, biological filtration and diversity of @gcarroll
I’m using Brightwell’s dry rock starter kit which contains QuickCycl, Start XLM and MB Clean. If everything goes as planned I should be fully cycled in 7-days, we shall see. Day-1 was yesterday, I got my ammonia up around 2ppm and then dosed the bacteria.
My display won’t be ready for a few weeks, so I’ll keep the rocks in the brute until then and if I do get a short/fast cycle, I’ll add a bunch of copepods and a fish into the brute, to keep my biological filter growing.
My plan is to add nice acros ASAP, essentially once I drain, clean and re-plumb my display tank. I’m talking in like 4-weeks after my dry rocks got wet, as long as my alkalinity is stable. I know this sounds crazy, but I listened to something where Jake Adams from Reef Builders said it can be done.
I’m rebooting a 120-gallon tank after losing a battle with some type of filamentous algae/bacteria. After my frags of: RRU Angry Bird, TGC Acrolandia, BK Chem FrootLoops, SBB Tropical Trainwreck, RRU Emperor and many many more, were overtaken and died, I decided to completely tear down and restart.
For the rebuild I’m going with dry Marco Premium Shelf Rock, now that I’ve seen several sps guys prove it can be done. I’m also going bear bottom this time. I’m essentially modeling the cycle, biological filtration and diversity of @gcarroll
I’m using Brightwell’s dry rock starter kit which contains QuickCycl, Start XLM and MB Clean. If everything goes as planned I should be fully cycled in 7-days, we shall see. Day-1 was yesterday, I got my ammonia up around 2ppm and then dosed the bacteria.
My display won’t be ready for a few weeks, so I’ll keep the rocks in the brute until then and if I do get a short/fast cycle, I’ll add a bunch of copepods and a fish into the brute, to keep my biological filter growing.
My plan is to add nice acros ASAP, essentially once I drain, clean and re-plumb my display tank. I’m talking in like 4-weeks after my dry rocks got wet, as long as my alkalinity is stable. I know this sounds crazy, but I listened to something where Jake Adams from Reef Builders said it can be done.