I usually use Two Little Fishes Epoxy Stick in conjunction with Glue and never have any problem. Basically, Coral glue-epoxy stick-coral glue then the frag.
I tried this recently when I was attaching a frag to rock and it worked great. I originally saw it on BRS page. I'm more interested in what to use for bonding rock to rock. I was looking at some different mortar types. But I may just stick to using a bunch of epoxy and just let it cure in the tank while it's cycling. Hopefully it holds.
Yes, that what I was referring to (just frags/corals to rocks work.
I think I saw that on the BRS website. Any local shops carry it?
I haven't seen that one.
Always great to read a different view! Thanks. I did wonder about that.
I have 3 smaller pieces that are just leaning on each other in my nano tank. It does indeed make it easy to move things around and make adjustments. I like the idea of being able to rescape and make adjustments. I could in essence have a new looking tank with simple adjustments and new rock placements.
Makes a lot of sense! I think I may try and make some rock structures from some of the smaller pieces. I may try to make some larger foundation pieces but nothing too large that it would be difficult to remove. Thanks for the wisdom!
Yes. I have noticed that with the Fiji Pink I got. The finer sand has slowly moved up when fish and snails start throwing it around.
Appreciate you making the trip! Can't wait to follow along your build setup. Got yourself a nice little haul, if for whatever reason corals dont make it, I'll replace them all no problem.
Appreciate that Salty! Blessings man.
It looks like it is a bivalve, which I needed to look up. I may have a few smaller ones in there too. So, I should definitely be feeding some powdered food then to not starve them while the tank is cycling? Is it actually cycling still, if everything is alive? I understand it is certainly not a mature tank. I've got a long way to go until I can say that about this tank.
I do have ammonia I could try. Earlier today, after I saw the feather duster worms, I added some phytoplankton and then I tossed in a very small chopped up piece of frozen music. Figured it would help feed whatever is in there. I was thinking of feeding some of that phytoplankton every day.
I was under the impression that Kenny (is that @under_water_ninja btw?) introduced fish later in the process since they have the highest bioload. It gives the tank time to increase the beneficial bacteria to high enough numbers that the fish wouldn't cause a spike. A fishless cycle but still a livestock cycle, except with coral at first and then inverts. I honestly don't have a complete grasp on his way, but I need to find it. I'm sure it's in here somewhere.
I'm definitely going to make a trip up there one of these days. It's a multi-hour drive for me each way unfortunately. When I do it though, I want to be as ready as possible and make my way up there with a container and heater running.Yep that's Kenny, you should get your fish at his shop - High Tide Aquatics in Oakland. You can also watch the niners there on Sundays
I will do more test tomorrow. Typically, how long would it be before the decomposition of organics begin producing ammonia though? I didn’t add too much actually. Not sure if that quantity vs the volume would even register any ammonia.
That makes a lot of sense. I am still a bit scatter brained about which fish I want to add. My girls really want more clowns, so I may not have much of a choice there. I really would like to have a bunch of utilitarian fish that would thrive in this size tank.
I was basing that off something I read that Kenny wrote. Unless I completely misunderstood the directions he was suggesting to someone else. Also, there are inverts in there now and alive! So that's great news right?!
That was my understanding as well. I was approaching this as if it was cycling, even though it appears the live rock has plenty of life already. Again, Kenny mentioned being able to add coral early on because they can handle the ammonia. I did not process that they would consume the ammonia/ammonium.
