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What's in the bottom of your tank?

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chaoscat

I'm in the process of setting up my new 72, but I'm stalled on what to put on the bottom. I've always run my smaller tank with a Jaubert Plenum in the bottom of it. I'm trying to decide whether or not to duplicate that in the larger one - or do something else entirely. There is so much conflicting info out there.

So, what do you use?
 
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Patriot76

i went with 1lb of live sand per gallon in my 180g. it is about 2-3 inches all around. then i used 2lbs per gallon in the 55g refugium. about 5 inches all around.
 
MikeNapoli

MikeNapoli

My 30gallon seahorse tank has about an inch of medium grade sand.

My 120gallon reef has about 1 1/2" fine sand (hate it).

My fuge has about 3 inches of fine sand and I think I need to add more.
 
Hawkeye

Hawkeye

my 55 had coarse/mix of live sand from the gulf of mexico...after i poured the sand - caught these little fellas in the bottom of the bag

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The downside tho is I'm pretty sure some non-beneficial hitchers came along - most notably a cirolanid isopod. So i'm thinking in my new 120 tank - will just go with a 2" layer of "dry" sand and seed it with a cup of my existing tanks' sand.
 
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KennyZush

I've got about 1.5" of figi sand in my nano & about 2" of crushed coral in my 90. The crushed coral was not my choice and it needs to be cleaned twice a month, but it looks really nice when its clean.

Kenny Z.
 
Hawkeye

Hawkeye

chaoscat said:
Anybody use anything like this?

Called "Rock lifts". I found out about them from this thread.
http://www.thereeftank.com/forums/showthread.php?t=85616

The purpose, from what I can find, is to keep your rocks up off the sand. Supposedly to allow clearing detritus out from under rocks and to prevent creating dead spots in sand.
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Actually you can do something similarly (just less fancy) with PVC. Paletta's book New Marine Aquarium has a pic of one. In addition one could be to drill rods into the LR to stabilize the structure/ or use those zip-ties.

Btw - one reason I'd consider setting it up would be if I ever wanted a goby/shrimp pair or other fish that liked to "DIG" in the sand/underneath the LR. The last thing I'd want is a LR avalanche.
 
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