Waterbox frag 175 build thread

quickreefer · Oct 17, 2023

Gumbies R Us said:
The lights look great on your tank!

Thank you much

quickreefer · Oct 17, 2023

Should be ready to get the thing filled this weekend what do I do about the sand ? What’s the best way to rinse it? I think I used live sand last time and didn’t realize I bought dry ?

quickreefer · Oct 17, 2023

quickreefer said:
Should be ready to get the thing filled this weekend what do I do about the sand ? What’s the best way to rinse it? I think I used live sand last time and didn’t realize I bought dry ?

Any insight ?

JonoH · Oct 17, 2023

quickreefer said:
Should be ready to get the thing filled this weekend what do I do about the sand ? What’s the best way to rinse it? I think I used live sand last time and didn’t realize I bought dry ?

Put it in a bucket and hose it till the water turns clear.
Normal water will be fine, if you want you can do the last run with some RO water.

JonoH · Oct 17, 2023

quickreefer said:
Any input would be greatly appreciated been reading a lot about the woes of cycling with dry rock and it’s scaring me…

Personally i would try and add some live rock in just for the diversity.

quickreefer · Oct 17, 2023

JonoH said:
Put it in a bucket and hose it till the water turns clear.
Normal water will be fine, if you want you can do the last run with some RO water.

sounds like a plan what’s the concern if no ro ?

quickreefer · Oct 17, 2023

More and more wiring lol why does everything have 2-3 cords now

JonoH · Oct 17, 2023

quickreefer said:
sounds like a plan what’s the concern if no ro ?

Introducing Silicates or any other heavy metals that might be in the tap water - but it would be such a small amount it should be fine (think 1% of total water volume in the tank)
Refer to the below -

Official Sand Rinse and Tank Transfer thread

If you are reading this thread to cure a tank invasion from a link I sent you, we do not need to identify your type of invasion here we do not need you to test anything at anytime regarding nitrate, phosphate etc Above all, we do not need to see a microscope slide picture of your invasion at...

www.reef2reef.com

quickreefer · Oct 17, 2023

Had to call in the professional… cricket master… (the wife) for labeling

quickreefer · Oct 17, 2023

JonoH said:
Introducing Silicates or any other heavy metals that might be in the tap water - but it would be such a small amount it should be fine (think 1% of total water volume in the tank)
Refer to the below -

Official Sand Rinse and Tank Transfer thread

If you are reading this thread to cure a tank invasion from a link I sent you, we do not need to identify your type of invasion here we do not need you to test anything at anytime regarding nitrate, phosphate etc Above all, we do not need to see a microscope slide picture of your invasion at...

www.reef2reef.com

Would you or no ?

JonoH · Oct 17, 2023

quickreefer said:
Would you or no ?

I guess it depends on how much RO i had on hand, hopefully someone with more experience with this can comment.
@brandon429

brandon429 · Oct 17, 2023

all jobs in the thread show 99% of sand rinsing is in tap water and only the last 1% is ro, to flush out the tap

check some examples from the thread

its not like there isn’t sixty pages of work examples on file to read

did we have diatom outbreaks in the sixty pages of works, or any problems?

Janci · Oct 17, 2023

Rinsing with tap water should be sufficient in my opinion. Shake the excess water from the sand before putting it in the tank.
Remaining silicates will still be beneficial to the reef tank. Diatoms might feed on this, but that is all part of the cycle that each tank goes through.
Adding some live rock as suggested before, will speed up the bacterial population count.

quickreefer · Oct 18, 2023

Janci said:
Rinsing with tap water should be sufficient in my opinion. Shake the excess water from the sand before putting it in the tank.
Remaining silicates will still be beneficial to the reef tank. Diatoms might feed on this, but that is all part of the cycle that each tank goes through.
Adding some live rock as suggested before, will speed up the bacterial population count.

Can I add to the aquarium after rinsing even tho I’m not adding water till Sunday ?

quickreefer · Oct 18, 2023

Jonoh is that thumbs up a yes ?

JonoH · Oct 18, 2023

quickreefer said:
Jonoh is that thumbs up a yes ?

Yes

Janci · Oct 18, 2023

Good to have a wife that can label. Looking nice.
How is the plumbing of the fleece filters coming along? Looks like a tight space, but might be just the angle of the picture.

quickreefer · Oct 19, 2023

Janci said:
Good to have a wife that can label. Looking nice.
How is the plumbing of the fleece filters coming along? Looks like a tight space, but might be just the angle of the picture.

There is not really much pluming if any at all you do not have the plum the drain directly into the roller like others they just replace the filter socks so I am interested to see how they work going to try to not run them master slave as I don’t really feel that they will necessarily clog at the same time we shall see but

quickreefer · Oct 19, 2023

Did rinse half of the sand yesterday took a good 7 hours of repositioning the hose and stirring the sand for it to stop making milky water so def happy I rinsed it

JonoH · Oct 19, 2023

quickreefer said:
Did rinse half of the sand yesterday took a good 7 hours of repositioning the hose and stirring the sand for it to stop making milky water so def happy I rinsed it

I have 13 bags of this to do this weekend....