Rock Bank

[Bryn]

Hey, thought I would show off my rock bank. Setting up a tank in the near future and had these sitting in a Brute bin slowly cooking in the dark to populate my new tank with.

Moved them over to my seeding 100g Rock bank. What I mean by that is these rocks should be ready to be put in any tank and not cause any problems, they should have all cycled.

I will periodically dose with ammonia and do the odd water change.

 

[Bryn]

What do you think of the idea of making this RockBank a sump of sorts. Maybe I could setup a couple of tanks on a stand and have them plumbed into this as a sump. Then I would have a couple of frag tanks as quarantine and grow out tanks. As I'm new to corals, any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[rcmike]

What do you think of the idea of making this RockBank a sump of sorts. Maybe I could setup a couple of tanks on a stand and have them plumbed into this as a sump. Then I would have a couple of frag tanks as quarantine and grow out tanks. As I'm new to corals, any suggestions would be appreciated.

A lot of people do put live rock in their sumps to help with filtration. I think it will work just fine as long as they are cycled before adding corals.

 

[Bryn]

Thanks for the reply rcmike, the rock is cycled and ready to go. I have a two step process, I take old rock with algae and junk on it and put in the brute bin for a couple of months and just do water changes when nitrates get high, the bin has a heater and pump. Everything breaks down and the algae dies but the bacteria stay alive. Then move this rock to the RockBank.

 

[rcmike]

Then it should work well as a sump. Lots of extra biological filtration.

 

[Bryn]

Then it should work well as a sump. Lots of extra biological filtration.

That's what I was thinking.