Not sure I agree. If return pump was off a long time couldn’t water level in display wind up dropping a lot?
I have no clue what your talking about with different layers of the bottom?
What issues did you have, and what does “cure” mean to you? I see lots of terms like cure and cook and none of it makes sense to me.
“Curing” used to mean what we did to actual live rock that got shipped in and had some die off that you wanted to avoid going in your tank right away.
Kinda...
Oh no! Not sure how the ammonia happened. Once things start to die it keeps increasing tho. Did you keep the old live rock in with the new stuff?
I usually advise people soak the dry structures in a bin with water from a set up tank and ideally some sand bio media or a chunk of existing live...
Sort of. Sort of not. They are the ones paying for sure. I decide if I wanna get up and go or not, and yes they could not have me do the tank anymore, but more often I decide I don’t want to to be honest.
I think a couple people offer them for borrowing so the club doesn’t have to store. The issue with equipment is storage (and sometime maintenance), not purchasing