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07-14-2007, 01:45 AM
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 Crushed coral What is everyones view on Crushed coral?  |
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07-14-2007, 01:49 AM
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| Re: Crushed coral I have heard that it can scratch the undersides of our critters and takes forever to become "live" |
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07-14-2007, 01:52 AM
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| Re: Crushed coral I have had good luck with it but would rather take it out and replace with sand. I will definately be doing sand on the 60. |
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07-14-2007, 01:53 AM
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| Re: Crushed coral Why? I have CC 80 pounds and Krazy K says get rid of it. Is it that big of a deal |
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07-14-2007, 02:08 AM
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| Re: Crushed coral I would remove it if it were my tank, especially since your only in a cycle, nows the time  |
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07-14-2007, 02:23 AM
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| Re: Crushed coral Yes, before everything gets established and filled up with goodies and you realize later how you now want to change it and how much stress that might put on everything. Besides, when I do the water changes, I do a vacuum. When I vacuum, I am sure in addition to my six-line, I have decimated the copopod population. Much easier to get a diamond goby and more fun to watch. Also more surface area for bacteria in sand. |
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07-14-2007, 02:24 AM
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| Re: Crushed coral We think Greg actually has reef sand now and not crushed coral, I think he's OK !!!  |
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07-14-2007, 06:18 AM
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| Re: Crushed coral read the part in this article where he talks about surface area of sand as opposed to crushed coral or large grained sand.DSB article - CALFO |
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07-14-2007, 09:12 AM
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| Re: Crushed coral Quote:
My husband put that crap in his tank and I have to maintain it twice a week because it traps so much crap that I get cyano. Plus, sand looks much better. It is easier on your burrowing critters and sifters.
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07-14-2007, 10:18 AM
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07-14-2007, 10:36 AM
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| Re: Crushed coral It makes several references to grain size maybe not crushed coral but the smaller the better to a point (dust size would not be good)The whole point being that small grains of sand have have more surface area for critters to live on and feed from than large grains or crushed coral.And small grain size prevents stuff from flowing thru it like ditritus. |
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07-14-2007, 10:44 AM
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| Re: Crushed coral I am having problems posting anything over 2-3 sentences. This happens to me way to often and is ticking me off! It was a good article and it sufficiently answered any question I might have! Thanks NATIVE VA MAN!!!!
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07-14-2007, 10:50 AM
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| Re: Crushed coral Sometime when I am trying to get what my sweety affectionatly calls my "sermons"they wont go in.When that happens I click on "go advanced"and the message transfers there and goes in when I click reply. |
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07-14-2007, 12:30 PM
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| Re: Crushed coral Yeah, I have had that happen too, and same as NATIVEVAMAN when I click advanced and the submit it seems to go through fine. |
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07-14-2007, 12:35 PM
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| Re: Crushed coral Just had the same problem, only noticed that after I now just installed the spell checker.
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07-14-2007, 04:00 PM
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07-14-2007, 04:23 PM
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| Re: Crushed coral same here, have the same problem. yes NATIVEVAMAN gave a very good link! i have CC in my 30, and it doesnt look nearly as good!
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07-14-2007, 04:31 PM
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| Re: Crushed coral This is what the lfs calls crushed coral.  This is what the bag reads:  exact size:  In the tank...  So am I in the clear? |
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07-14-2007, 04:33 PM
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| Re: Crushed coral Looks fine to me.
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07-14-2007, 04:35 PM
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| Re: Crushed coral I would say that if individual grains are descernable in a pic they are too large.Most of the articles I have read recomend sugar fine sand. |
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07-14-2007, 04:35 PM
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| Re: Crushed coral It feels like coral though not typical sand. I dont know |
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07-14-2007, 04:37 PM
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| Re: Crushed coral These pics are taken with my camera. The sand is pretty fine... |
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07-14-2007, 04:40 PM
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| Re: Crushed coral The large chunks seen in the main tank picture are not actually sand they are bits and pieces of dead stuff from my live rock. Not sand or coral |
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07-14-2007, 04:46 PM
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| Re: Crushed coral well, if you have some of the CC, you can always add sand also. then you can have a DSB!
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07-14-2007, 04:54 PM
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| Re: Crushed coral My husband's crushed coral is a lot larger in size...which is what I thought you were talking about.
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