Huge shot out to you for the structures by the way. Here are a few pictures with measurements of the rocks.
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210 gallon Dream tank
- Thread starter MichaelB
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So here is day 2 of adjusting the rocks shifted stuff around some and added a few select peices of branch rocks. The larger structure on the right is the orginal big peice and a few smaller peices kinda in a stack.
They should easily be removable if ever needed while the 3 main structures are semi heavy 30lbs or so each. If I hold my mouth in a proper frown and man up I should be able to remove them as well.
There are a couple of caves and a few holes scattered for fish to swim through. Maybe not enough only time would tell.
I also added 90% of the crushed coral I have left. The other 10% will be a crazy proccess to scoop out of the bottom of the stock tank. I'm planning to have multiple wrasses in this tank so there is a solid possibility of me filling in the back of tank with a crushed aragonite sand, hopefully small enough for wrasse to burrow into, won't get blown around and hopefully won't mix to badly with the crushed coral.
Otherwise I may consider putting some type of diy acrylic divider (or a solid line of smaller rocks serving same purpose) 2-3 inches high running front to back in the tank. To one side of the tank at maybe 1/3- 1/4th of the tank. With the smaller side being the special grade type aragonite.
Open to thoughts on this subject of substrate in a portion of the tank that's wrasse suitable.
Failing that, I'm a little over a 5gallon bucket short of crushed coral. Neptunes sales it but it's $6.99 last I saw. So would be insanely expensive when all added up.
Lastly I added a ton of live rock to the sump. One smaller peice of branch rock was the only thing dry added to this tank.
They should easily be removable if ever needed while the 3 main structures are semi heavy 30lbs or so each. If I hold my mouth in a proper frown and man up I should be able to remove them as well.
There are a couple of caves and a few holes scattered for fish to swim through. Maybe not enough only time would tell.
I also added 90% of the crushed coral I have left. The other 10% will be a crazy proccess to scoop out of the bottom of the stock tank. I'm planning to have multiple wrasses in this tank so there is a solid possibility of me filling in the back of tank with a crushed aragonite sand, hopefully small enough for wrasse to burrow into, won't get blown around and hopefully won't mix to badly with the crushed coral.
Otherwise I may consider putting some type of diy acrylic divider (or a solid line of smaller rocks serving same purpose) 2-3 inches high running front to back in the tank. To one side of the tank at maybe 1/3- 1/4th of the tank. With the smaller side being the special grade type aragonite.
Open to thoughts on this subject of substrate in a portion of the tank that's wrasse suitable.
Failing that, I'm a little over a 5gallon bucket short of crushed coral. Neptunes sales it but it's $6.99 last I saw. So would be insanely expensive when all added up.
Lastly I added a ton of live rock to the sump. One smaller peice of branch rock was the only thing dry added to this tank.
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I'm not fully following you on the soccer ball illustration. Yet I'm listening
PizzaOven
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It's wet and full of rock!! Congratulations!
From personal experience, I would not try to partition sand and crushed coral, it will eventually all mix together. It looks kinda natural when it mixes, but I feel you get the worst of both worlds: sand still blows everywhere with too much flow and it's difficult to keep clean. Just my 2 cents.
From personal experience, I would not try to partition sand and crushed coral, it will eventually all mix together. It looks kinda natural when it mixes, but I feel you get the worst of both worlds: sand still blows everywhere with too much flow and it's difficult to keep clean. Just my 2 cents.
PjFish
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Can always tilt/angle lights a bit to eliminate shading @Turkeysammich perfected this with a diy gizmo swivel flex head mount thing