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View Poll Results: Has your sand solidified? | |
Yes.
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No.
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09-16-2006, 01:13 PM
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| | Scooter Blennie
Join Date: Sep 2005 Age: 26
Posts: 1,200
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Originally Posted by Matt Rogers When I stopped grooming my sand, half of it turned hard as a rock.
Has your sand solidified? | No, thanks to my tiger tail cucumber. He's a super hard worker.  Always searching for that sweet sweet fecal matter and the such. 
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30g reef tank, CPR CY192 filter w/ DIY plumb running Rio 17HF return, Coralife 3x 9w UV Sterilizer, 3 24W T5-Helios 10K Daylights/3 24W T5-Helios Blue lights, 2 Logysis blue meteor light strobes (moonlights/24 Blue LEDs).
Tiger tail cuke, asst. snails/hermits, asst. feathers, rainbow acan,zoos,shrooms,bubble,galaxea, asst. shrimp, 2 ocellaris,mandarin,zebrasoma xanthurum,pink-spot watchman,red-striped pistol. | 
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09-16-2006, 02:33 PM
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| | Ritteri Anemone
Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Naperville IL Age: 29
Posts: 618
 
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Nope. The sand sifting star fish does a great job.
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180 Gal Reef, AquaC EV-400, 3 MH Aquamedic Oceanlight HQI's 250w 20k. Neptune AquaController III, AquaLogic Trimline Cyclone 1/3hp skimmer, 2 x hydor #4's, 2 x mj1200's modded, 40 gal fuge. | |
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09-16-2006, 04:33 PM
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#4 (permalink)
| | Scooter Blennie
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Davenport IA
Posts: 1,238
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Had both nothing will stop it when it starts. It was the down fall of my 75G. | |
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09-16-2006, 04:51 PM
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#5 (permalink)
| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wethersfield, CT Age: 38
Posts: 5,946
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Nope, had a few quarter sized chunks develop but never more than that. | |
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09-17-2006, 05:07 PM
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#6 (permalink)
| | Skunk Shrimp
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Tampa, FL,Florida Age: 34
Posts: 291
Karma: 137
 
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Some has but never nothing big I usually break it apart before it has a chance _________ "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing"
Albert Einstein
125 G reef ready. 3 175W MH XM 15K bulbs, Berlin turbo skimmer, 18W turbo twist UV, wet/dry, and a diy refugium, Little Giant 3-MDQX-SC return, 3 MAXIJET 1200 and 1 900gph. Phosban reactor with half phos media and half carbon. I have a false yellow, Dog face puffer, damsel,Panther Grouper, Foxface, percula clown and some LR | |
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09-17-2006, 07:14 PM
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| | Peppermint Shrimp
Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Dallas, TX,Texas
Posts: 401
Karma: 26
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I had a good 6" of the sandbed in my 55 solidify. It started under my purple goniopora and radiated outward.
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120 gal, 40 gal sump/refugium, 2x250w 10,000K Reeflux MH, 54w T5 actinic, ASM G4+ | |
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09-17-2006, 11:49 PM
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#8 (permalink)
| | Aiptasia Anemone |
no solidification here....i owe it all to my nassarius snails and turtle conch. _________  | |
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09-18-2006, 10:35 AM
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| | Fire Shrimp
Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: IL Age: 34
Posts: 341
Karma: 132
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Nope! 40 Nassarius snails, diamond spotted goby and a sandsifting star fish hard at work. | |
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09-18-2006, 05:10 PM
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| | Feather Duster
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Lynnwood, WA
Posts: 215
Karma: 64
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No hard sand here either.........Just corraline on my bare bottom. 
Scott 
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Researching NTS.......No Tank Syndrome. | |
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