Bare bottom

[Alex]

Anyone running one?

 

[Jeff.:P]

Yep, well its getting covered in montipora slowly

 

[CC Reefer]

I just removed all the sand out of my tank today. (It was leaching phosphate into the water. ). And everything is already looking healthier. I really like the clean look too. I have also been able to turn my mp10 up much higher.
So after being bare bottoms for 8 hours I love it.


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[cilyjr]

If you want the sand look but are worried about the newer style high output powerheads consider the tropic eden 3.0 reefflake.

 

[CC Reefer]

If you want the sand look but are worried about the newer style high output powerheads consider the tropic eden 3.0 reefflake.

Sorry but I have to strongly recommend against the reef flakes. That is what I put in my tank and that was what ended up being the cause of my phosphate problem. It took me forever to figure it out. Once I Sucked them all out the phosphate became under control. They did look nice though.


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[APISTOBORELLI]

This may be a stupid question. When running a bare bottom, do you paint the bottom black? As to not mess with the sump/fuge etc?

 

[cilyjr]

Sorry but I have to strongly recommend against the reef flakes. That is what I put in my tank and that was what ended up being the cause of my phosphate problem. It took me forever to figure it out. Once I Sucked them all out the phosphate became under control. They did look nice though. 


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Is this because of food particulates that collected in the sand bed? Because of its coarseness?

 

[johntan]

I went to bare bottom about a year ago and won't go back. My algae and cyano problems have been non existent since. The bottom of the tank gets encrusted in coralline pretty quick too.

 

[Aros]

Ahh I'm so torn. I wanna try it but I have a pistol shrimp and goby combo


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[reefstarter]

I had one and right next to it one with sand . the amount of life in the sand is what I liked . as long as you have sand that critters like nassaris ( spelling ) conch , cucumbers serpent stars etc to help keepit sifted and relatively clean its better in my opinion .

 

[Alex]

Think I'm going to go bare bottom. I can always add the sand

 

[Newguy]

I'm setting up a 150 slowly but surely and I'm torn on this issue as well. I've ruled out the fine sand but I'm playing with the idea of bare or something a little bigger grain like crushed coral substrate.

 

[Alex]

I worry about the heavy stuff collecting gunk.