The Miracle Tank

Why-Me · Feb 11, 2020

Crabby48 said:
Ipsf.com sells sand/mud. Web site is worth looking around if you like critters.

I believe @living_tribunal has bought from them for his reef.

najer · Feb 11, 2020

sfin52 said:
Pulling in LR and other additives like sand and Mudd from others or from nature.

@Katrina71 if you want mud from the ocean maybe @Robin Haselden could get you some from a mud flat.

Is there not a good place in Florida that ships, it sort of gets harvested and shipped, I'd love to start a tank with that?!

Eagle_Steve · Feb 11, 2020

najer said:
Is there not a good place in Florida that ships, it sort of gets harvested and shipped, I'd love to start a tank with that?!

I get mud from Florida all the time when I go visit my dad. Full of critters and is from an area that does not have much of a population or farming.
But to answer your question, I don’t think anyone sends mud that is down there. Tampa Bay Live Rock sends sand that is loaded with critters, but not as much as their rock.

Why-Me · Feb 11, 2020

Katrina71 said:
The plumbing... I'm going to really need your help. Little tips and tricks to make things work better and quieter, and avoid problems in the future.

Personally I dry fit everything together like legos and made sure everything fit up well and I liked it.
Then I took a sharpie and marked the ends of each connection and then a clocking mark up/down across both pieces of the marked ends to make sure everything was facing the correct way when assembled.
The first connection I didn't clock it and when glued together the valve was backwards, I was only worried about the depth of the pipe in the connector instead of it's orientation under the stand...just keep that in mind and you'll be golden!!

najer · Feb 11, 2020

Eagle_Steve said:
I get mud from Florida all the time when I go visit my dad. Full of critters and is from an area that does not have much of a population or farming.
But to answer your question, I don’t think anyone sends mud that is down there. Tampa Bay Live Rock sends sand that is loaded with critters, but not as much as their rock.

I know on a journal somewhere I saw someone start a refugium with it but you a correct, I think it was sand and rock.

Katrina71 · Feb 11, 2020

sfin52 said:
Pulling in LR and other additives like sand and Mudd from others or from nature.

@Katrina71 if you want mud from the ocean maybe @Robin Haselden could get you some from a mud flat.

Hey, that might actually happen when I visit Mom and Dad next month.

sfin52 · Feb 11, 2020

Katrina71 said:
Hey, that might actually happen when I visit Mom and Dad next month.

Well that will work as well.

Katrina71 · Feb 11, 2020

Eagle_Steve said:
I get mud from Florida all the time when I go visit my dad. Full of critters and is from an area that does not have much of a population or farming.
But to answer your question, I don’t think anyone sends mud that is down there. Tampa Bay Live Rock sends sand that is loaded with critters, but not as much as their rock.

Glad you said that. I was thinking the same thing.

SashimiTurtle · Feb 11, 2020

I could get some mud. Weather has been crazy here so you won't have to wait for summer either. We havent really had a winter, I mean, it's been in the 70s this week, the river is 5ft over flood stage and its gonna be 27°F friday night... our weather is going thru menopause or something.

It would come from the Dunn Sound near the Little River in SC. I know a few spots off the beaten path, crab fishers are pretty much the only traffic. @najer I'm not sure what kind of trouble we'd get in thru customs.

najer · Feb 11, 2020

Robin Haselden said:
I could get some mud. Weather has been crazy here so you won't have to wait for summer either. We havent really had a winter, I mean, it's been in the 70s this week, the river is 5ft over flood stage and its gonna be 27°F friday night... our weather is going thru menopause ir something.

It would come from the Dunn Sound near the Little River in SC. I know a few spots off the beaten path, crab fishers are pretty much the only traffic. @najer I'm not sure what kind of trouble we'd get in thru customs.

I know this will set cave man and others off, you have to love bare foot in squelchy mud, squishing between your toes, digging with my dad for lug worm and rag worm to go fishing that day or night, memories are good!

SashimiTurtle · Feb 11, 2020

najer said:
I know this will set cave man and others off, you have to love bare foot in squelchy mud, squishing between your toes, digging with my dad for lug worm and rag worm to go fishing that day or night, memories are good!

Digging for fiddlers and throwing a cast net for mud minnows... used to play in the mud in the canals all day during the summer as a kid.

Katrina71 · Feb 11, 2020

That may be why I prefer barefoot. Best memories ever.

Lowell Lemon · Feb 11, 2020

Katrina71 said:
That may be why I prefer barefoot. Best memories ever.

Yep, picking leaches off, finding a snapping turtle with your toes, Chiggers, BlackBerry thorns, yes sir going barefoot in the south...ah the memories lol!

I forgot to mention the Water Moccasins!

living_tribunal · Feb 11, 2020

Why-Me said:
I believe @living_tribunal has bought from them for his reef.

Love ipsf, most all of the inverts I got from them are still alive. A lot of unique stuff, snail eggs are all over my glass, amphipods/starfish everywhere.

Highly recommend