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12/17/2010, 07:31 PM
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Mistake with set up
I am having a ha problem actually not too bad yet. I noticed that 90 percent of it is on the "bowl rock" rock I had in when it was a fish only system, when I decided to go reef I added live rock on top. So I told this to my reef guy and he said that "I did not know you had that in there you should take it out". so I think I will take it out but will have to replace with some new live rock because it is about half my rock work. My lfs has 4 cured prices of lr one of which is 18 lbs another is over 20 lbs, all four rocks together about 50 lbs.
Does anyone see any problem with taking out the bowl rock and replacing it with live rock? The tank is a 8 month old reef 210 gal. With 6 fish and about 85 lbs of established lr and some corals and 1 anemone. |
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12/17/2010, 07:43 PM
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Should be fine.
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12/17/2010, 08:19 PM
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Yup, remove the old rock. It is most likely saturated with phosphates.
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12/17/2010, 08:40 PM
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The other question is do it now or wait two weeks till my zebra angel is done with quarenteen to offset territorial issues with my yellow tang? You know... the different aquascape trick.
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12/17/2010, 08:56 PM
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Those two probably wont have issues with each other.
I would do it now if that rock the LFS has is already cured.
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12/17/2010, 09:46 PM
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Yeh it's been there over a month I smelled it and smells fine plus they are giving me a great deal.
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