Do you have a picture of the whole tank?
Do you have a picture of the whole tank?
this is the pictureOriginally Posted by maglofster
this is the canvas today...
i think that the lights are doing a good job...
Looking good!! What is your reason for not running any substrate in that tank? I do not really like substrate myself because its harder to clean if you have to do so. On the other hand it can be a good home to some of those small critters. I do not run much if any substrate in most of my FW but I always run a couple inch's in my SW just for the sake of the little critters.
150G. Reef/Mix
125G. 3 Regular Oscars/1 Jack Dempsey
75G. 20+ Africans
40G. Fish/Reef. Algae Scrubbers on ALL my SW
10G. SW Fish/Reef.
10G. SW Hospital/new fish quarantine/pod breeder tank
6 stage RO/DI system 200 GPD.
I can give you the answer: Stefano was really fed up with its DSB. That f*****g DSB never starded (in about two years), it was expensive and heavy to build (made of calcium carbonate, as to say crushed calcite); it was extremely heavy to be brought away :twisted: (my backbone still remembers such job !); i tried to watch some samples under SEM (http://www.aiamitalia.it/forum/viewtopi ... hilit=+SEM) finding no bacteria at all, and a wrong kind of sand, poor selected and with an excess of clay-sized matrix (=dust) although washed and washed again befor layering. Such sand was considered up-to-date here for about a pair of years, but i believe it was just a swindle. In such a tank, a lot of dust started wrapping live rocks and animals; after the DSB removal the situation is going better but rocks are still loosing dust from pores, so Stefano is waiting for a complete purge of rocks. After that, may be an inch or a bit less of fine gravel will cover the bottom glass; we agree it is not so nice the bare bottom !
My SW substrate has a lot of life in it. I am going to be setting up a new SW tank in the future and considered not have having much or any substrate like I do in my FW tanks. Seeing it will have a scrubber is there any concerns of no substrate in a reef/fish mixed tank?
150G. Reef/Mix
125G. 3 Regular Oscars/1 Jack Dempsey
75G. 20+ Africans
40G. Fish/Reef. Algae Scrubbers on ALL my SW
10G. SW Fish/Reef.
10G. SW Hospital/new fish quarantine/pod breeder tank
6 stage RO/DI system 200 GPD.
substrate allows biodiversity and lot of critters, if made with proper sand and well populated since the scratch. Fishes find lot of food in the bottom. But many invertebrates like streams difficult to maintain with fine sand. Well, we are experiencing mediterranean coldwater, we don't have great experience in tropical tanks, may be different.
some photos... the first cleaning of canvas
Wow, that a lot of green you got there. I can only seem to get brown with a touch of green.
150G. Reef/Mix
125G. 3 Regular Oscars/1 Jack Dempsey
75G. 20+ Africans
40G. Fish/Reef. Algae Scrubbers on ALL my SW
10G. SW Fish/Reef.
10G. SW Hospital/new fish quarantine/pod breeder tank
6 stage RO/DI system 200 GPD.
May be an effect of light: if you watch to the first pic you can see the green wires spread on the white sink. It is the same kind of algae I have in my tank :mrgreen: and I hope to transfer them onto my screen increasing the light. Moreover may be that's because we have different species of algae, they are not the same as what you are used to, because our tanks are filled only with water, sand, rocks and specimens coming from northern Mediterranean sea and run at 17°C (62.6°F), no relationships then with tropical liverocks, sand or corals bringing spores.Originally Posted by kerry
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