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i will be setting up 12g nano macro aglae tank AIO 10g display and 2g rear filtration. BUT it will be first time i will be using 100% of DRY ROCK kinda... i was planing adding sand rock all dry after i fill the tank up bring it up the temperature. 24h after filling it up add some maxspect bio balls to the back "sump" that have been in my systems for 2.5 years now. BUT its in refugium under chaeto so i was thinking during cycling and testing for everthing or when its over add macro bacter clean so uglies have less chance of becoming a problem. when tank is cycled will add pods myscis shrimp.... as well starting to dose phyto for pods and after 2 weeks turn on light a bit (AI prime 16) at around 10% and slowly start adding macro algae and when there is a lot of pods add probably only or two fish blue stipe pipefish and coral croucher. what do you think abiut my plan. TIA
 
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Ninic Luka said:
i will be setting up 12g nano macro aglae tank AIO 10g display and 2g rear filtration. BUT it will be first time i will be using 100% of DRY ROCK kinda... i was planing adding sand rock all dry after i fill the tank up bring it up the temperature. 24h after filling it up add some maxspect bio balls to the back "sump" that have been in my systems for 2.5 years now. BUT its in refugium under chaeto so i was thinking during cycling and testing for everthing or when its over add macro bacter clean so uglies have less chance of becoming a problem. when tank is cycled will add pods myscis shrimp.... as well starting to dose phyto for pods and after 2 weeks turn on light a bit (AI prime 16) at around 10% and slowly start adding macro algae and when there is a lot of pods add probably only or two fish blue stipe pipefish and coral croucher. what do you think abiut my plan. TIA
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Sounds like a start to lessen the uglies...I personally don't think it's possible to skip over especially using dry rock....I would definitely just recommend 100% live rock and sand.
 
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Why is everyone so dead set on skip this or that ? Do yourself and a tank a favor and let the tank mature correctly..

This is why so many tanks nowadays have such problems with success. Everyone is so ready to have an instant reef tank.

Just use Brightwell Aquatics QuikCycle for an ammonia source and dose Brightwell Microbacter7 and wait it out.
 
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From the recent BRS series on the topic it sounds like dark cured rock, either live or stored in a mature sump for a couple months is the way to gor this approach, the key being near total darkness to avoid seeding the photosynthetic uglies.
 
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razorskiss said:
From the recent BRS series on the topic it sounds like dark cured rock, either live or stored in a mature sump for a couple months is the way to gor this approach, the key being near total darkness to avoid seeding the photosynthetic uglies.
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That requires for the rock to be live first
 
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razorskiss said:
From the recent BRS series on the topic it sounds like dark cured rock, either live or stored in a mature sump for a couple months is the way to gor this approach, the key being near total darkness to avoid seeding the photosynthetic uglies.
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yes i know but i gave fuge in sump and no place to out rock in sump to be in darkness
 
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Steven Garland said:
Why is everyone so dead set on skip this or that ? Do yourself and a tank a favor and let the tank mature correctly..

This is why so many tanks nowadays have such problems with success. Everyone is so ready to have an instant reef tank.

Just use Brightwell Aquatics QuikCycle for an ammonia source and dose Brightwell Microbacter7 and wait it out.
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planned to put dry rock sand cycled filter media and put food inthere every 2-3 days as ammonia source do it like that for a month after that add pods and dose phyto for them
 
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There's a guy from the Netherlands who was looking for live rock not long ago...I think he might have ordered it from somewhere close to you...let me check
 
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livinlifeinBKK said:
There's a guy from the Netherlands who was looking for live rock not long ago...I think he might have ordered it from somewhere close to you...let me check
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netherlands are not really close to me but if you cant find where he got them from it would be really nice
 
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Ninic Luka said:
netherlands are not really close to me but if you cant find where he got them from it would be really nice
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I think he might have finally found a place in the Netherlands that sold live rock...if you're really sure there's none around then your original plan sounds as good as any I've heard... personally, I'd probably still try to use some rock from the 150 but if that's not something you want to mess with then go with your original plan and let us know how it turns out
 
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