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11-11-2004, 10:16 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: milwaukie, OR
Posts: 58
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DSB to a barebottom.
Well, over the past month ive been slowly removing my sandbed and today was the final transition from a dsb to my new barebottom tank and i love it. I think the barebottom looks so much better than a dsb. Thanks again Ryan for the suggestion of switching. Also, im looking for nice maxima clams if anyone has any for trade or for sale.
Phil
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11-11-2004, 11:05 PM
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Clubs Forums Moderator
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Chef at Adidas USA Headquarters
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just be sure to have a nice length of tubing so you can siphon out the detritus once a week. you will be shocked/disgusted at how much stuff will appear, knowing that before all of that went directly into the sand, staying in your system!
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11-12-2004, 01:44 AM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Beaverton
Posts: 159
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yea Ryan is the man. =) Hooked me up with an awesome deal on a 135gal acrylic tank w/ canopy, stand, sump, etc. I will be takin his advice and doing a barebottom as well.
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11-12-2004, 06:03 AM
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Pretty In Pink
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: portland or
Posts: 3,170
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Phil
Alright another Bare Bottom reefer 
I have to siphon once a week, the rocks are still soughing off detrius. I just use one of those sponges with the green pad on it and the Kent scraper to take care of the brown algae that crops up on the bottom of the glass and done in about 10mins. Much eaiser on maintenance
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11-13-2004, 12:21 AM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: milwaukie, OR
Posts: 58
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Well, im very sad. After removing everything from my tank and spending a good 2-3 hours doing so including rinsing out the tank and sump and cleaning them thouroughly and then setting everything up I would have to say it was fairly successful. But I did have a significant loss, my brand new deep purple and electric blue crocea fell off its rock that it was attached to and was injured. I think its dying because its barely attached to its shell now and im very upset because this was my centerpiece. Anyone know how to heal a clam or is it a losing battle??? All advice will be greatly appreciated.
Phil
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11-13-2004, 01:04 AM
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Clubs Forums Moderator
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Chef at Adidas USA Headquarters
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sorry to hear about your clam. croceas are notoriously fragile. I really do hope yours pulls through, unfortunately i lost my babies last year, they now live in the big greenwater tank in the sky
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11-13-2004, 02:10 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: milwaukie, OR
Posts: 58
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Very sorry about your loss Ryan, those were some beauties. I think my clam passed away, it doesnt move at all when my fish swim near it and my lion was resting on it earlier and I saw no sign of life from the clam. Not sure what to do. I wouldnt want to remove it incase its just really stressed and thats why its not closing up at all but I also dont want a dead clam polluting my tank either. Any way I can tell for sure if its dead?
On a different note, I siphoned my detrius out today and it was quite disturbing seeing what normally would have gotten lost to the sandbed. I went and bought some of those micron bags for carbon and attached it to the end of the siphon hose to catch the detrius and drained it into a bucket. After all the detrius was out I dumped the water back in the tank. Worked great and took about two minutes to accomplish. Im loving the barebottom more and more every day. Also, its amazing how much brighter it is in my tank without sand in there.
Phil
P.S. If anyone is interested I have a 1/2" seaswirl for trade.
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11-13-2004, 03:33 PM
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Coral Master
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Newberg
Posts: 3,990
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Whatcha looking for the SeaSwirl? I would be very interested in it..
AS for the clam if its detached from the shell and sucked in looking I would say its dead IMO as well... Had a few die that way...
James
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11-13-2004, 08:35 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: milwaukie, OR
Posts: 58
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Just wanted to let everyone know that my crocea passed away. Looks like Ryan Mackey has some very nice replacements though that will be going in my tank soon 
Also, the seaswirl has been traded to James. Thanks again James for the corals. They are all in the tank and looking awsome.
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11-13-2004, 08:38 PM
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Coral Master
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Newberg
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Thanks again for the SS... Been drilling a hole in the top of the tank for a while now... LOL Glad everything is doing good for ya..
James
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11-13-2004, 08:53 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: milwaukie, OR
Posts: 58
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Have fun drilling that hole LOL, im not looking forward to drilling my tank tommorow either. Thanks again for the corals.
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11-13-2004, 09:45 PM
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Coral Master
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Newberg
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No probs.. Got the hole drilled finally... Got a bit impatient and put a tiny tiny crack near the hoel Opps LOL... Anyways its plumbed in and seems to be working great... If any of those Corals dont make it Let me know and we can work something out for the replacable ones LOL..
James
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