Jeff,
Have not started yet...need to find a good source for live sand...
Shane Clays just came up with the idea... I was just going to begin pulling
the rock out of my reef, when Shane Clays emailed me with the idea of adding
10 - 20 lbs of live sand to help re-populate my sand bed...I had been
thinking about ordering one of Inland Aquatics Detrivore Kits but with fish
already in my reef, thought they might consume everything before it had a
chance to seed the sand bed. With Live Sand, it would be much harder for the
fish to find and consume the critters...
Thought I would find a good source for live sand and order some for next
Saturday delivery, then tear the rock down at that time...
What do you think???
SteveM
-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 11:45 AM
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Subject: Re: Changing Aquascape ?
Hi Steve
sorry but I haven't been on my computer in a week.
How did you make out??
I put my rock into buckets and large tupperware containers and I kept them
under water
Jeff
SteveM wrote:
> Shane,
>
> Yeah...that's why I really want to take all the rock out of the
tank...just
> by doing that, the tank gets a good cleaning. I have 20 gallons of
saltwater
> already made up.
> I just hate the thought of 100 lbs of rock lying on a finished hard wood
> floor...never mind what my wife is gonna think!
>
> You think the Mantis will stay in it's rock and be ok while out of the
> water???
>
> SteveM.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Shane Clays
> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 10:52 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: Changing Aquascape ?
>
> Jeff brings up a good point. Since the tank is going to be virtually
empty,
> it would be a perfect time to do a water change and get some of the nasty
> build up out of the tank.... I think that with my old 20 gallon microreef,
> part of the success I had with it was that I moved every 9 months
(apartment
> hopper) and when I did I had the opportunity to give it a good cleaning...
> just a thought.
>
> Shane C.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jeffrey bogdanski [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 7:44 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Changing Aquascape ?
>
> Steve
> I first removed some of the rock and then I kind of got really
> involved and had to remove almost all of it because like I said that
things
> don't always go the way we plan.
> That is why you should kind of get a few ideas before hand.
> I made a mess of things at first and my skimmer went nuts for a
few
> days but everything recovered better than I could have imagined ( I am
> convinced that my skimmer ( one from Ron's ) kept my
> organic under control ) I would blow out everything with a power
> head first next time because you would not believe all the gunk that is in
> places that we can not see, ( hence is the reason I
> ended up making a water change because I sucked all the crap that
> was left on the bottom, I have no substrate, just glass)
>
> Good luck my friend,
> Jeff
>
> SteveM wrote:
>
> > Jeffery,
> >
> > After you removed your corals, did you remove ALL the rock, then
> place it
> > back in the tank according to your design or did you just
> re-arrange the
> > rock while it was all in the tank???
> >
> > My thinking is to remove all the rock first, but since this reef
> has been up
> > and running for awhile, there's a lot of life in this rock and
I'm
> hesitant
> > to remove it. I'll probably just remove a couple of big pieces,
> move the
> > rock to one side, then build it from there. It's not the ideal
way
> to do it,
> > but at least it will remain in the tank.
> >
> > THanks,
> > SteveM.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of jeffrey
> bogdanski
> > Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 6:50 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Changing Aquascape ?
> >
> > I have done this just two months ago.
> > First and foremost take a couple of days and go over ideas in
your
> head on
> > how and where you will place everything, because things don't
> always go
> > together as it seems.
> > I put all my corals into Rubbermaid containers with the water
from
> the tank
> > to cover it and when I was done I just siphoned almost all the
> water from
> > the buckets back, I left some out because of
> > all the skunge that was on the bottom. So I also got a water
> change in there
> > too boot.
> > Good luck and I can say that I was happy that I did it.
> > Jeff from Scranton Pa.
> >
> > Jerry Porter wrote:
> >
> > > When I had to remove the lunar wrasse from the 110 had to pull
> all the
> > rock
> > > out and took two shoots before kris thought it looked okay.
> that is just
> > > me, but it never finishes the way you invision it to be IMO.
> > > jp
> > > http://www.krispcritters.com
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of SteveM
> > > Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2001 1:29 PM
> > > To: Reefkeeping@Athiel. Com
> > > Subject: Changing Aquascape ?
> > >
> > > All,
> > >
> > > What's the best way to go about re-arranging rockwork in a
> reef???
> > > I want to remove some of the live rock in my reef, then
> re-arrange the
> > rest
> > > of it.
> > >
> > > I realize all corals and other inverts should be removed first
> but would
> > you
> > > then remove all the rock from the reef, or pull a few peieces
> out, enough
> > so
> > > you have room to re-scape the rockwork??
> > >
> > > I know the best way would be to pull it all out so you can
> picture how you
> > > want to arrange it, however, I'm hesitent to remove all the
rock
> because
> > of
> > > all the critters..
> > > Any ideas???
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > SteveM.
> > >
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