use filter pad under live rock
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fishguy56
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Originally Posted by andy51632
I am planning on setting up my 75 gallon tank next week. Would it be okay to put some filter pads on the bottom of my tank under the live rock to act as a cushion? Or is there something else I can get for that purpose. Don't really want to put rock straight on glass.
I think I would use sand!!!!
I am planning on setting up my 75 gallon tank next week. Would it be okay to put some filter pads on the bottom of my tank under the live rock to act as a cushion? Or is there something else I can get for that purpose. Don't really want to put rock straight on glass.
I think I would use sand!!!!
uberlink
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I don't think I'd use the pad. I might worry that it would trap nutrients or otherwise just become a slimy disgusting mop. You can put the LR right on the glass pretty safely, if you're careful. Alternatively, you can just put your sand bed in and then press/bury the bottom of your rock in that. Only other thought I'd have would possbily be to put some egg crate down in the bottom of the tank, but that too might become a nitrate trap in my mind.
f14peter
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Here's my "If I had to do it again" plan . . .
I have my rock on eggcrate, and it helped steadying up the rock as the uneven bottom of the rock settled into the eggcrate better than just on the flat glass.
However, if I had to do it again, I would take large globs of aquarium-safe epoxy and put a few on the underside of the rock. The globs would have to be large enough so they extend past a plane formed by the lowest portions of the rock (Although they could be longer than wider). Then I'd set the rock in place on the glass, the globs of epoxy would squish down a bit, and once they hardened, form "Feet" to hold the rocks . . . er, rock steady. If the rock doesn't want to naturally sit exactly how you want, you may have to support/prop them up until the epoxy hardens (not very long).
I have my rock on eggcrate, and it helped steadying up the rock as the uneven bottom of the rock settled into the eggcrate better than just on the flat glass.
However, if I had to do it again, I would take large globs of aquarium-safe epoxy and put a few on the underside of the rock. The globs would have to be large enough so they extend past a plane formed by the lowest portions of the rock (Although they could be longer than wider). Then I'd set the rock in place on the glass, the globs of epoxy would squish down a bit, and once they hardened, form "Feet" to hold the rocks . . . er, rock steady. If the rock doesn't want to naturally sit exactly how you want, you may have to support/prop them up until the epoxy hardens (not very long).
1journeyman
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I put a layer or base rock down, covered with sand, then set live rock on top.
i too would be worried about filter sponge becoming a detritus magnet. Not to mention burrowers getting tangled in it, exposing it, etc.
i too would be worried about filter sponge becoming a detritus magnet. Not to mention burrowers getting tangled in it, exposing it, etc.
chipmaker
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No need for anayhting but rock and or sand. At most I may lay a piece of rock down on a piece of glass and see how it lays and if there is any realy high pressure points I may knock em off but mnost times sand works just fine. Place some sand dowen and then twist press wiggle rock down into sand until it contacts the glass, then I consider it bedded in place and it should not settle any more.