We posted a few weeks ago about our tank springing a leak. Jeff was on a business trip and Lauren was home with kids and panic mode. We have (with the MOST WONDERFUL AND GRACIOUS HELP FROM SOME ON THIS FORUM) recovered. We are now setting up a 155 Bowfront (we got spoiled with our 175 oceanic bowfront - so what can we say. Yes, we KNOW we should have switched to acrylic, but there you are.) Anyway, one question: we are in the position to set up our substrate from scratch. We have heard endless discussions on this; how thick, what kind, etc. However, we have one additional question: Has anyone set up their live rock FIRST and then added the sand? We have noticed in the past that our critters have moved our substrate and actually shifted our 'reef'. This has sometimes been to our dismay and sometimes we liked their taste better than ours. We are concerned, however, that if we put the reef in first, that not only will we avoid adjustments (mostly) by our pets, but do we run the risk of cracking the glass? If we get a few grains of sand under the rock, will they crack the glass? Has anyone set up a GLASS tank with lots of live rock where the rock rested DIRECTLY on the glass and had no problems?
Our live sand from our previous tank now smells like the bedroom of our 16 year old and that is not nice (EVIL is the right word). We don't want to reuse it. However, we need to get our critters out of the kiddie pools and into a tank soon and we don't know if we should wait until we can get some sand going or not.
Our live sand from our previous tank now smells like the bedroom of our 16 year old and that is not nice (EVIL is the right word). We don't want to reuse it. However, we need to get our critters out of the kiddie pools and into a tank soon and we don't know if we should wait until we can get some sand going or not.
