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I collected all of my rock in the sea, some from NY. I just put it in my reef after removing the crabs

Running water down one side and up the other will not work. You can't filter the water on the side where the water comes up the tube. The trick is to get the thing flowing as slow as possable. In your tank, you probably could have gotten by with 10 GPH in each tube.

I forgot the maintenance part, everything that works needs maintenance. That sponge filter or whatever means you use to clean the water going under the gravel needs to be rinsed occasionally and I also stir up the gravel where I can reach a few times a year with a canister filter and suck out...

Here is a picture to show you the size of my dolomite. I just looked for a picture of this set up and it is not on RC anymore so if you need a picture, I will have to take one. But any system where you can push about 50 gallons an hour of filtered water under the gravel will work. Also for all...

Mark, if you run a UG filter like it says in the instructions in the box in saltwater, it will crash in about a year. Trust me. But if you tweek it a bit, it will last forever, be almost maintenance free, reduce nitrates, and be the cheapest system you will find. Another nice part is that you...

I collected it underwater, therefore, it's natural ;D

I am on about 6 of these forums and a good percentage of people don't have the slightest Idea how to run a UG filter. It's not easy to find all of these posts. Especially being I am the only one running one. :-[ Of course, it has been running longer than most of these guys have been alive but...

I only get the aluminum recyclers to say that to me. :'(

Dam, I knew I was running the wrong system for the last 39 years :-[

I am going out in my boat in the Sound in a few minutes. I will be collecting for the first time this year. I like to renew my population of both copepods and amphipods. I will also take grass shrimp (which I give to the LFS and some mud which is what I use to renew my bacteria. I feel that if...

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So does that mean you will be putting bottles, chains, and cans in your tank with asphalt rocks, NYC water with associated mud and an occasional baby flounder?

I use this to feed blackworms and everything else. I don't know how you guys run a reef without one. I use it every day, many times a day for cleaning, feeding, blowing things, etc ;)

California Blackworms are not tubifex. Tubifex are thinner and are collected in drainage ditches, Blackworms are raised in ponds. I have been using them since the sixtees. A few weeks of feeding these and if all else is well, your fish should get into spawning condidtin, but only use them as a...

I just looked on my RC gallery, I don't have that picture of that sponge on there anymore. I have thousands of pictures so I don't really want to look for it but you will see the stuff on floating docks. This time of the year it will be just a brown coating. It gets larger when it warms up slightly

OK another, I am partial to this guy, we are old friends ;D

Mike, here is my newest watchman. Maybe he will turn color.

As for that study (that I did not write) the last line states that DSBs of a shallower design work better and do not have the problem of the nitrates re entering the water column as ammonia to be re converted back to nitrates. Very deep beds run into that problem. My own personal study states...

Yes I do, I stick my hand in the water and rip them off the dock, then I stick them in a container in the freezer ;D They only grow about an inch high and they rip easily so you can't get all of it when you tear it from the dock but there are plenty of them. Do not collect the red tree sponges...

Very easy to collect. How about I tell you where they are, and you go and collect ;D