Crappyballers 55 Gallon reef

[Kentanner11]

Yea I know what your talking about!!!

[crappyballer]

yea a lot of people only use like 1 or 2 and that looks pretty and all but it doesn't do that much. here i found this on pet education

"Filtering capabilities: Mangroves can help lower nitrates and phosphates in the aquarium. If you are including mangroves in your aquarium as part of your filtering system, it is best to set up a separate mangrove filter. This can be a 10-20 gallon tank that is placed next to your aquarium and connected to its water circulation system. For small (10-30 gallon) aquariums, you will need to have approximately one plant for every gallon. If you have a larger aquarium (50-200 gallons), the attached mangrove filtering tank will need about 1 plant for every 2 gallons of water. The number of plants needed, of course, depends upon their size."

here is the rest of the article

[Kentanner11]

Well wouldnt a mangroove filter be a fuge? Or would you have basically 2 fuges.

[crappyballer]

yea i guess it would be a type of refugium just a litte more specific because all that would be in there are mangroves

[Kentanner11]

Cool!

[Kentanner11]

Let me know how it turns out! Pics appreciated!

[Twan013]

wow... pretty crappy! ..................................HA-HA! get it, a play on words!! anyway...

seriously tho.. you are an inspiration to all of us 55-gallon'ers! psshht... and they said it couldn't be done....

[Kentanner11]

lol we should make a 55gal

forum.

[Twan013]

good suggestion ken.. i've always been told that a 55-gallon is not good for a reef because of the limited floor space, or surface area, however you want to word it...it don't make a lick of difference for me anyway, becuz i've only got FOWLR right now... however, if i get some good answers before monday, i'll either have green star polyps, or some mushrooms (including a really purdiful ricordea) maybe even both... not sure... too much to add at the same time? do you use the same method for them as you do fish? like, add a very little bit at the time to let the bioload stabilize? to me, that would make sense, but at the same time, several online stores sells packages (5-10 different kinds of corals), and even the LFS that i might be buying the polyps and shrooms from sells it by the rock... the polyp rock is roughly the size and shape of a 20oz coke bottle, COVERED in green star polyps... and the mushrooms, probably about 10-15 on the rock (as i said, it includes one ricordea, and also 3 or 4 bright yellow sponges)... how would you properly acclimate mushrooms/corals anyway? when i bought my original batch of LR from this same place, he loaded it all up in a styrofoam box, and poured a little bit of water from the tank in it... but with corals, wouldn't the whole rock have to be completely submerged?

[crappyballer]

well i know that some of the soft corals can be out of the water for a little bit the rock with the mushrooms and the finger coral were just wrapped in some wet newspaper for about 25 minutes, and i acclimate all my coral just like the fish but when i get them new i start them low in my tank and work them up over the next 2-3 weeks, and adding a bunch of coral shouldn't upset your bioload too much they don't produce as much waste as the fish do. what color ricordea are you getting?

-Keith-