did that help with dinos?You can do a mix of dry and live rock. That helps with biodiversity while also saving cost. I started my tank with 100% dry Marco Rock but ended up adding some live rock from KP Aquatics when dinos decided to take over.
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did that help with dinos?You can do a mix of dry and live rock. That helps with biodiversity while also saving cost. I started my tank with 100% dry Marco Rock but ended up adding some live rock from KP Aquatics when dinos decided to take over.
As long as the rock stayed wet you’ll have all the bacteria you need and an instant cycle. No bottled bacteria needed.When you guys start new tank with 100% live rock, are you dosing Dr Tim’s to the new tank while you wait till your order comes in or just filling fresh salt water the day before it arrives and in it goes? I ask because I see many places saying not to use “premium” live rock to cycle tge aquarium and start with live base rock. Seems like the premium has been in the ocean longer with more diversity vs base rock. I’d rather just use all premium if I could do it.
I originally was dealing with mostly amphidinium which are regarded as the most difficult to treat. After 2 weeks of multiple countermeasures I was instead dealing with Ostreopsis. Those seem under control and I was most recently dealing with cyano taking over which is a good sign. Tank is no longer crazy looking but I will continue to be vigilant.did that help with dinos?
Since live rock is expensive getting very hardy soft corals is another way to get biodiversity into a new tank. I have a LFS that just imports livestock from SE Asia and Australia, chops it up and resells. Buying some cheap colonies from a shop like that is an option I never thought about. Unfortunately this shop also recommended I run my lights at max to encourage the uglies to come. In retrospect that was a bad idea!I've started a tank with dry rock I'm very happy with. I added stuff from Indo pacific sea farms. Leave it run for a bit. Before you get a fish, get some easy soft corals and dose phyto daily. Run a light so dim that the soft corals almost don't grow. Like 30 - 50 par max. Let it coast for a few months, add your fish slowly, let everything kinda settle, start turning up the lights and adding cleanup crew and inverts. Once the cleanup crew is established and the lights where you want it. Start selling off the soft corals and adding sps. Only add filtration/flow as you need it. Start the tank with very minimal filtration
If I only got 2%, it was the best 2% I’ve ever had.My understanding is that bottled bacteria accounts for only 2% of what’s in the sea. If that’s true, I’d like to get the other 98% as well
My understanding is that bottled bacteria accounts for only 2% of what’s in the sea. If that’s true, I’d like to get the other 98% as well
I started a 90 gallon with half and half. I built an aqua scape with the base/dry rock, then added live rock once the tank was set up. It worked great for me. I also used all live sand, so my biodiversity was spot on.I'm going to start a build when I win the Cade tank lol..anywho...I am starting a SPS tank for acros the first of the year. I want to do it right and build a scape but I am 1000% sold that dryrock wont get me there and i dont want to wait a year. Any good solutions out there for scaping/ fast epoxy job or superglue without letting the base rock dry out? I can get baserock/liverock from my LFS at a decent price or order from Tampa - I'll deal with critters and feel the LFS route looks free of aiptasia but I want to scape right and not just have a pile of rocks.
I dont mean to hijack but this is a great subject and I recently read a great article a member did on here from 2019- Live rock is just so much more diverse. I am also thinking of building my scape and then running it in a storage bin with some quality base live rock to seed but I still dont think 45 days gets me the diversity.
Where'd you get the live sand?I started a 90 gallon with half and half. I built an aqua scape with the base/dry rock, then added live rock once the tank was set up. It worked great for me. I also used all live sand, so my biodiversity was spot on.
I bought some online at Amazon , brand name Caribsea. They have a few different sizes to choose from. The rest I got from a friend.Where'd you get the live sand?
Unless I'm mistaken, (and I may be), unless it's Ocean Direct live sand, it's not actually from the ocean.I bought some online at Amazon , brand name Caribsea. They have a few different sizes to choose from. The rest I got from a friend.
Ocean’s Direct is from Caribsea. I believe.Unless I'm mistaken, (and I may be), unless it's Ocean Direct live sand, it's not actually from the ocean.
Just found the old thread I was remembering...I wasn't mistaken.
Yeah, it's one of several products made by the same company...that why I specifiedOcean’s Direct is from Caribsea. I believe.