Saltwater Tank Ideas

I like the 90/10 idea, might give the sand a little more holding strength making it harder to stir up. Also, I think the little shells, etc mixed into the sand would look pretty good!

 

its never good to wake up to a grinding clicking noise haha. I dont know about saltwater fish, so I am wondering if they would be as bad as convicts at stirring up substrate.

 

there's some that make it there hobby!!!!
i had an engineer goby that used to dig holes and tunnels everywhere.....
had piles of sand on the glass of my tank.....
but now i don't have filters just a kickass skimmer and a big sump with lots of flow.

 

Will, how do you get by without a filter, were you able to do that from the start or did you have to establish the tank for a while before you went filterless?

 

that's right....it's called the berlin method with saltwater tanks.....they got alot of info on the net about it.

 

oh by the way i like the 90/10 idea too.....either way don'tget the finest sand...you should go with the course stuff.

 

setting it up???

 

i didn't feel like typing all the steps to my system right now it's late and i can type like 2 pages about it....tell you what tomorrow i'll type an example with some pics and post it....

 

Awesome anthony! I was looking at some of the stuff in the saltwater section a few days back and I was wondering what flourite substrate was used for, and if it can be used in a FW tank?

 

i believe that is mainly for a planted tank...

 

Planted sw? Does that exist?

 

no usually found in planted fw....if it was in the sw section, i guess it can be used in a sump to plant your algeas.....i never seen it used for sw.

 

Well, shoot I woulda used it in my planted tank had I known that. I thought it was some kinda special salwater reef tank vitamin infused something or other.

 

i don't think so...i know there's a sump mud just for sw tanks....