Diy magnet rock

_sludgefactory · Mar 19, 2012

I only did that a coupe times. The water where i live is messed up!

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REEFKEEPER10 · Mar 20, 2012

Mistakes happen and im paying for mine. i just cant believe it took me five years to catch it. but hey i got the idea from here and it took me time to save to get my RO/DI unit. lol

rhdoug · Mar 30, 2012

Here is a mag rock and a variation that has worked well for me. I use the sure grip 50 ph holder magnets. The large shelf uses 2, the clam rock 1. The heavy coraline growth on the glass makes it a little hard to see where the rock ends and the glass begins, but that was the general intention.

This shelf holds many individual branches of hammer coral. When it gets too big I just sell some, cut up the remaining branches as needed, and redistribute. After the coral settles in for a day or so you cant even tell that it was fragged. First pic shows the coral about midway between fragging sessions, will be due in a few more months.

A couple of the shelf after completion. Made with black eggcrate, epoxy, and magnets.

This is it after adding the hammer, just after I built it.

_sludgefactory · Mar 30, 2012

That's a pretty sweet idea too.

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REEFKEEPER10 · Mar 30, 2012

Hey how are those Walmart magnets working out for you.

_sludgefactory · Mar 31, 2012

Never had any problem.

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mcarroll · Apr 16, 2012

dkerns06 said:
Florida cerith snails are pretty good too. The get pretty big and are fast, they pretty much stay buried in the sand bed all day till they come out at night to graze.

Ceriths are my fav among store-bought snails (tho usually Pacific, just due to availability), but they are also the favorite of a lot of hermits (IME, at least).

My formula was always to keep around 1 hermit per 10 gallons or less and only enough snails that they all stay alive while minimizing algae. Minimal problems with death and predation, but still a small factor. ("Big algae" is a husbandry problem, not a need for more CUC/snails.) Again IME, most snails that don't survive, die due to starvation. The hermits are just there picking off the weak ones before they die on their own. (Pretty sure this is the self-balancing cycle in nature.) Snails need quite a bit of algae to live and thrive! Lucky or not my tank got infected with a type of algae eating limpet that out breeds and thereby out eats any other snail I've ever seen, so now I can't keep any other snails at all. Upside is that hermits (er...my ONE blue leg hermit) don't mess with them AT ALL.

-Matt