LRStar Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 Afternoon everyone! I am new to austin, and i am also new to salt water tanks. I currently have a Biocube 29, stocked up with about 30 lbs of mature LR. We have just introduced our first shrimp, a fire shrimp named Chili. :-) My wife and I are really excited about working on our own little "reef"! We have spent hours and hours researching everything we can, before we started, so hopefully casualties will be limited... Here's a photo of our tank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmanning Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 Welcome!!! And what a great start.....nice rockwork. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robb in Austin Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 Welcome! I agree, great start. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LRStar Posted July 1, 2009 Author Share Posted July 1, 2009 Thanks everyone! We really got lucky with this LR. It came out of a very mature tank, that got broken down. It does appear to have some possible Aiptasia but we are letting it grow just a bit to verify, its just a bit to small for us to get a good look at. I know everyone (everywhere else that is) says Crushed Coral is bad... but to be honest with you guys, we didn't even read about substrates. We just assumed it was all good, no matter what you went with. We figured since the fellas over at RiverCity had it on the floor, it was good to go. So im going to do my best to deal with that decision... and keep it clean as i can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brooks Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 Welcome LR! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
innate1 Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 Welcome! I didn't notice your substrate too busy looking at your rock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 Hello and Welcome!!! Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mhart032 Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 Crushed Coral isnt bad, people say that it bad for housing Diatoms, i have crushed coral and i dont have a problem with it, starting out i had a small diatoms issue but its known to happen with new setups its part of the many cycles the tank will go through. but again not really any problems... welcome to ARC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesL Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 Welcome! I am a big fan of the "cove" look to live rock landscaping. Regarding the crushed coral. One limitation you might hit down the road is keeping any sand dwelling fish (such as jawfish). The crushed coral would be too abrasive for them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LRStar Posted July 8, 2009 Author Share Posted July 8, 2009 Thanks everyone! Thanks for the info. I really hadn't thought of jawfish... but a very good point. We will be getting a watchman/pistol combo, so since they are kinda the same, do you think i will have a problem with that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesL Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 You might be able to get away with a watchman/shrimp pair as the shrimp does most the digging. Though I might still be a bit concerned about the fish scraping it's sides up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zarathustra2 Posted July 26, 2009 Share Posted July 26, 2009 I've been researching these (pistol/watchman) and ran across a post somewhere where someone had the same issue as you with a great solution. They made fake caves under thier live rock in 2 places on a 90G reef with 2" pvc. Filled up the PVC with sand with a "overflow" of the sand on top of it to cover. Supposedly the watchman/shrimp went straight for one of them and made it thier own little home. Haven't tried it myself but looks like it should work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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