Squatch XXL
Well-Known Member
Thoughts and ramblings 07-27-2015
After almost 3 months of slight tweaks, I have moved from 1.022 to 1.024sg. I have been using a mix of evaporation and top off to slowly increase. I have no data to back up any reason why I would or would not want 1.024, however when I ran my reef years ago this was my spot.
The way "Kitty Cat" acts, she seems happy to not bother corals....however I will not not place anything small without super-glue. I will be keeping her tank for zoas. I may add some mushrooms. No pulsing xenia. Never.
I expected a molt right after acclimation. It seems typical in the species, and I did not want to fiddle with rocks or anything.
I would like to make a decision in the next few weeks, but I have 3 large pieces of homemade agrocrete in the tank now. I have a cure tub full of some more pieces. They were designed to interlock and basically be impossible to topple. All in all Id wager my agrocrete is more than 70lbs, but it is very dense.
"Pussy Cat" cannot damage the agro with her beat-stick. She has shaped a few pieces near her burrow(s) that are real reef rocks, but the agro is very hard.
It was over 10 years ago when I made it and I used argonite sand, crushed coral, and portland type I. I used a 4 parts "binder" and 1 part portland. Each piece has a different mix...some even have bio-balls added to their mass (Blue spots in some photos).
The rock was built to really fill up a 29 gallon, and through random circumstance I have found a 38 gallon. My "design" would fill up the same space, but allow for some nice void spaces around and above. Initial design at that time was DSB, and I would do that. the rocks are designed to be uncovered and to have niches under the substrate.
Im still pondering the second more family friendly tank.
After almost 3 months of slight tweaks, I have moved from 1.022 to 1.024sg. I have been using a mix of evaporation and top off to slowly increase. I have no data to back up any reason why I would or would not want 1.024, however when I ran my reef years ago this was my spot.
The way "Kitty Cat" acts, she seems happy to not bother corals....however I will not not place anything small without super-glue. I will be keeping her tank for zoas. I may add some mushrooms. No pulsing xenia. Never.
I expected a molt right after acclimation. It seems typical in the species, and I did not want to fiddle with rocks or anything.
I would like to make a decision in the next few weeks, but I have 3 large pieces of homemade agrocrete in the tank now. I have a cure tub full of some more pieces. They were designed to interlock and basically be impossible to topple. All in all Id wager my agrocrete is more than 70lbs, but it is very dense.
"Pussy Cat" cannot damage the agro with her beat-stick. She has shaped a few pieces near her burrow(s) that are real reef rocks, but the agro is very hard.
It was over 10 years ago when I made it and I used argonite sand, crushed coral, and portland type I. I used a 4 parts "binder" and 1 part portland. Each piece has a different mix...some even have bio-balls added to their mass (Blue spots in some photos).
The rock was built to really fill up a 29 gallon, and through random circumstance I have found a 38 gallon. My "design" would fill up the same space, but allow for some nice void spaces around and above. Initial design at that time was DSB, and I would do that. the rocks are designed to be uncovered and to have niches under the substrate.
Im still pondering the second more family friendly tank.