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| Posted | how much liverock in a little 12" cube?? |
| 15-10-2006 12:55 by jonie |
as above |
| 15-10-2006 13:16 by jonie |
i was thinking 5kg |
| 15-10-2006 13:22 by yanton |
as much as you can cram in |
| 15-10-2006 13:28 by jonie |
5kg?? also what is the cheapest place top buy it from ive found 11.99 per kilo at watford aquarium
LINK http://www.reefkeeper.co.uk/acatalog/Live_rock.html |
| 15-10-2006 13:58 by wayne |
jonie look on other forums ,normally second hand liverock go bettween 5.00 -7.50 per kg also put add in wanted section |
| 15-10-2006 14:04 by telboy |
or get wayne to sell ya some of his,hes got loads cheap too + hell deliver for small fee??? |
| 16-10-2006 16:35 by jonie |
wayne how much for 5kg delivered dont want it till start of november thanks for the help mr wayne |
| 16-10-2006 16:36 by jonie |
does £40 sound ok? |
| 17-10-2006 08:39 by PaddyD |
It sounds a bit cheap to me, I would buy the best quality you can - a 12" cube is 6 gallon - you only need 1 KG per 2 gallon so go for 3 kg of better quality rockto start and put some more in later |
| 17-10-2006 21:45 by jonie |
thanks mr paddy |
| 18-10-2006 09:35 by Alan |
The best stuff I know is from Sevenoaks Tropical Marine 3 kilos is more than adequate for a tiny nano like this the diffculty you will have is getting small peices you are going to have to hand pick them I expect.
For this tank to work you will need the best live rock you can find you want the pink stuff potentially covered in polyps. I'm all up for giving nano's ago but I think 6 gallons might be pushing it is there any chance you can go bigger? |
| 18-10-2006 16:40 by jonie |
i could go for an 18" cube |
| 19-10-2006 09:23 by Alan |
That would be much better that would give you just over 20 gallons to play with, for this you would need 10 kilos of live rock again care would be needed in picking sensible sized pieces.
An air driven skimmer could be used with relative ease. A sander picolo or something like that would do the job. Lighting 2 or 3 T5's should do it. Live sand substrate about 1" depth. 3 maxijet 1200 would be sufficient for turn over you would just need to put a small sponge over the strainers to avoid any inverts getting sucked in. Heater of course but it is unlikely it will do much. A fan as well to blast air across the waters surface one difficulty with nano's is over heating the fan should help with this through evaporative cooling. |
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