SRC Member Ah-lim Posted May 13, 2008 SRC Member Share Posted May 13, 2008 Juz curious, who is running bare bottom reef tank at the moment? Siphon detritus once a week? Please share ya experience, thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
georgekoh84 Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 Running a barebottom with replica rocks. This combined with wavemakers will cause the replica rock structures to 'slide' away, therefore need a couple of live rocks to weigh it down, and also to seed the replica rocks. Because detritus is only produced on the live rocks, detritus produced becomes much lesser. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tengah26 Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 hi bro i running bare bottom reef tank using all tonga rocks joining together Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragon1188 Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 hi bro i running bare bottom reef tank using all tonga rocks joining together Careful bro. U go bare bottom in Singapore, u will be fined for indecent exposure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member tunicate Posted August 8, 2008 SRC Member Share Posted August 8, 2008 Just came upon this thread that interest me. I find it difficult to siphon out those detritus on my bare-bottom FOWLR even during water change. Does anyone knows if an additional underflow design in the tank will help to extract these unsightly stuff? P.S. I noticed many fresh water tanks have both overflow & underflow design. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member Underwater Posted August 8, 2008 SRC Member Share Posted August 8, 2008 Just came upon this thread that interest me. I find it difficult to siphon out those detritus on my bare-bottom FOWLR even during water change. Does anyone knows if an additional underflow design in the tank will help to extract these unsightly stuff? P.S. I noticed many fresh water tanks have both overflow & underflow design. Place a wavemaker at the bottom and blow the detritus towards one direction and then you siphon out from there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member Ah-lim Posted August 8, 2008 Author SRC Member Share Posted August 8, 2008 Bro underwater is correct, juz aim the wavemaker at the bottom, then u will see the detritus gather at one corner. Me rather lazy to siphon at times, heheheheeeeee. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member tunicate Posted August 9, 2008 SRC Member Share Posted August 9, 2008 Bro underwater is correct, juz aim the wavemaker at the bottom, then u will see the detritus gather at one corner. Me rather lazy to siphon at times, heheheheeeeee. Thanks bros. Will give it a try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member big_ben102000 Posted August 10, 2008 SRC Member Share Posted August 10, 2008 has used Bro underwater method before when my tank was bare bottom. however if you have a dense rock work like what i used to, it wont work every well cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member tunicate Posted August 10, 2008 SRC Member Share Posted August 10, 2008 Hi Big Ben, Below is a shot of my rock work. You think I'm gonna have difficulty using Bro Underwater's method? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member big_ben102000 Posted August 10, 2008 SRC Member Share Posted August 10, 2008 haha depends on the type of scaping, can see that all the dirt are gathered in two areas haha. u can try experimenting by adding a powerhead and see it the dirt will settle at the corner of the tank. you got large caves making it easier to work with, can play with the water current my scaping was quite different from yours. the base of my rock work is dense (very little gap) made up of big rocks, so quite unreachable. even if i add a powerhead, the dirt will just get blown into another crack or hole some where..... i could only clear particles that settle outside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member tunicate Posted August 10, 2008 SRC Member Share Posted August 10, 2008 ok bro, will give it a try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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