My girlfriend is setting up my old nanocube as a brackish water tank. she is using
aragonite sand as a substrate, and would prefer to use liverock for decorative purposes rather than driftwood. Obviously the salinity will be much much lower in a brackish water tank...will any of the beneficial bacteria survive in this environment? I expect most organisms and hitchhikkers to die off, but will anything survive? (using rock that is pre-cured with none of the die-off that happens anyway with new rock)
here are the options we are considering:
1. put the live rock directly in the tank (i.e. expecting no die-off)
2. cook the liverock in a tub of brackish water so as not to pollute the tank (expecting a little die-off)
3. boil the rock for a few hours or just use
base rock to start with completely clean rock (expecting total die-off).
if there are any better suggestions we are more than open to them. She would also love to keep mangroves in the tank, which I think would be pretty hard in a nanocube with the top and all, but we wanna know if its possible...thanks!
