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oceana

oceana

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MANY people use base rock or "dead" rock and then place live nicer looking rock on top. This works great and in no time at the entire base will be seeded by the live and become live itself.
As for making rock that’s up to you. It works great and IMO is easy to do. All you need is some artistic ability, Portland cement, and reef sand. I like it because I can always have the perfect piece. No searching for the ones to fit just right. Then you get a bunch of nice looking live rock to seed it and in a few months it’s ALL live rock and hard to tell apart. Well that’s assuming you made natural looking rock that is.
For substrate I think most agree that Crushed coral is on its way out and being used less and less. Personally I don’t like the look and also don’t thinks its as beneficial as sand is.
Substrate is an ongoing debate with things now even taking a turn to no substrate at all.
As for the current "Best " I think live sand is the best route
 
oceana

oceana

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Originally Posted by nemo lover
Oceana- I still love your l/r, and I am amazed at the coralline algea on it. How long did it take for it to start?

Well the "real" rock had some when we got it but the home made rock started showing growth in about a months time in the grow out tanks. We dosed our tanks at first with coralline stimulators and also scraped the live rock to help it spread. The tank itself is a few years old now. We have every color of coralline from green to bright orange and every shade of purple you can think of. Some spots are so thick it has changed the shape of the rocks dramatically. Some people have trouble growing coralline but I have never understood why. I have always found that once it starts it will be a constant battle to keep it off of the stuff you don’t want it on. I bought a new pump about 3 months ago and it is now fully covered in think growth. if you search my posts you will find tons of progrestion shots of my tank to get a better idea of the growth we have had. if you cant find any let me know and i'll post a few
 
monalisa

monalisa

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Originally Posted by oceana
thanks. we used to does for our coraline but now we cant keep it away

Oeana, what did you dose your coraline with? I'd be very interested in finding something that would speed up the growth in my tank.
Thank you!!! Beautitul tank, by the way...
Lisa :happyfish
 
oceana

oceana

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its a type of Pulsing xenia. The little hands open and close really fast.
the name pompom i think is just a nick name but
I think its a very widly used nick that has kind of become it standard name. I have a video of my pom pom in action i am posting later today
 
oceana

oceana

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Originally Posted by MonaLisa
Oceana, what did you dose your coraline with? I'd be very interested in finding something that would speed up the growth in my tank.

We used a dose called coralline stimulator as well as very popular method of coralline growth methods that can be found a site that can’t be mentioned here. They are not really direct competitors to this site but for some reason every time I see the site posted it gets edited by the mods. I think it’s because they have lots of ads that are for direct competition but if you’re smart I can say the word " FRAG" and you can mix around the letters to come up with the site name lol
 
puffer32

puffer32

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love your tank! Does your firefish hide alot? My lfs talked me out of one says i would rarely see it?
 
oceana

oceana

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mine is ALWAYS out his home is dead center of the tank. he hovers there nearly all day in full view. I heard the same thing you did but I got him anyhow since it was so cheap. Every so often hes in a hole in one of the rocks but thats vary rare unless it's after lights out then he goes there to sleep somtimes. When you watch the video of my tank you will see a purple flash lots of times in the video. He is very nosey and will follow around anyone looking into the tank. Just like the clowns do. its kinda annoying when you want to look into the tank( or film it) and the dang fish keep getting in the way lol
thats why i have such good pics of him because he is always in my face the second the camera comes out lol
 
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