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View Poll Results: You use Sand or Mud in your Refugium?? | |
Live Sand
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Miracle Mudd or other mud brands
|    | 3 | 18.75% | 
12-22-2006, 08:02 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
Posts: 3,408
 
|  Mudd or Sand
Do you use sand or mud in your refugium??
Starting my sump/fuge this weekend and would like to know what the veterans use. _________ Scott 265g (Peninsula)
3x400w MH's, 4x95w Actinics, AAT Lunar Lights, OM 4-way CL, PM Bullet 3 Skimmer, DelZone Eclipse 1 O3 Generator, WavySea Plus for return, AAT Kalk Reactor, KNOP Ca Reactor w/PM Second Chamber, TradeWinds Chiller, ACIII Controller, Oceanus ATO, PM PO4 Reactor, 75g Sump, 30g Fuge Born March 5, 2007 My 265 Gal. Tank Thread " REAL TIME TANK STATS "   | 
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12-22-2006, 09:24 AM
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| | Scooter Blennie
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Davenport IA
Posts: 1,238
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Miracle Mud is mostily hype. The method works but the method works with $4 for 40# Silca sand as well. The mud was just so someone could make some cash off the theory. | |
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12-22-2006, 09:30 AM
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| | Scooter Blennie
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Davenport IA
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12-22-2006, 09:46 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
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Originally Posted by Covey  | Thanks for the link Covey, I just went through your 150 gal thread in your signature link. Awsome tank, everything still going good with it. I noticed the last post was August sometime. | |
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12-22-2006, 12:13 PM
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| | 3reef Sponsor
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Va/Ct
Posts: 4,286
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Use simple cheap no frill's cat litter if you want mud. Its all Ga clay the stuff wal mart sells for like 2.00 for a large bag.. The clay is just alkaline base from a dead reef with about all the elements your want thats all the magic mud was anyways and the fool paid high dollar for it wet LOL Or use some sand either or it makes little difference. _________ Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible (Doug Larson) | |
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12-22-2006, 12:26 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Meriden, Connecticut Age: 44
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I use both Mud and live sand with good results in my refugium and main tank as well. _________ 125gal.w/Mag9.5 return(dual megaflow)>Mag7 pump Aqua Cev180skimmer.Wave2k Hamilton Reefstar(2)250watthqi(mh)pend.a Yellow, Naso Tang Red Lip Blenny Percula Clown Demoiselles Niger Trigger F. Wrasses Ceriantharia Orn.Shrimp and Stars Hermits Queen Conch asst. snails> Stars Zoos shrooms Montipora Brains Gorgonians Favia Turbinaria(large+small polyp) Acropora Xenia Tridacna (CroceaMaximaSquamosa) Leathers <35+75gal.reef tank as well> 
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04-15-2007, 07:28 PM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: Jan 2006
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so what did you end up using in you fuge? i'm going to try and get mine started this week and already have a bag of sand but am debating on if i need to take it back and get the miracle mud? I'm probably going to stick with sand unless you guys and tell me the mud is really worth it?
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120g w/ 30g sump... 60lbs Live Rock 40lbs of Base Rock. Berlin skimmer, Ice Cap 660 w/ 2 actinic & 2 white VHO's..
Fish:
foxface Rabbitfish, green chromis, neon dottyback, pair of blue throat triggers, blue tang
Coral:
Frog Spawn, Finger Leather, Green Star Polyps, toadstool | |
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04-15-2007, 08:01 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
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Originally Posted by benpen so what did you end up using in you fuge? i'm going to try and get mine started this week and already have a bag of sand but am debating on if i need to take it back and get the miracle mud? I'm probably going to stick with sand unless you guys and tell me the mud is really worth it? | I went with the sand for the price and that you are suppost to replace certain amounts of mudd annualy and I didn't want that cost. My fuge is doing great. I am getting ready to start a 30 gal fuge for my 265 gal and I will use sand in it also. | |
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04-18-2007, 08:58 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Meriden, Connecticut Age: 44
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The MUDD, works especiall well with the growing of macroalgae and mangrove shoots IMO. I like the diverse impact it adds to my tank as well as the combining it with live sand. I use Walt Smith's Fiji mud though, which is actual mud taken from the reefs of Fiji and it is a muddy, wet textured medium which works well for me> | |
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