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02-09-2007, 01:33 PM
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What color is your starboard bottom after a few months?
Those of you that are running BB with starboard. What colro is your starboard now? Is it coverered in coraline? Another color? algae? nothing?
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02-09-2007, 01:36 PM
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Just some guy, you know?
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Mine went brown with diatoms, they died quickly, then after a while coraline started to move in,... I'd like to keep it white (as my experimental tank is now) but I'm also lazy, so I'm not sure which will end up hapening.
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02-09-2007, 01:38 PM
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mostly green coralline with a little bit of white on the sides and behind wheres it gets a touch of light, mostly purple with a little bit of white in front of the reef and mostly white under the reef
Tanks been running 3 1/2 months
fwiw...i did have some pretty good diatoms going as well from the 6-8 week in a copuple of places. I scraped them off and they havent been back
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02-09-2007, 02:18 PM
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Can you post pics of the satrboard?
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02-09-2007, 02:25 PM
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Just some guy, you know?
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Mine's white right now, because I just setup this tank experimental tank (the one in my sig), and I don't have old pics of what it looked like before,... Sorry.
Whiskey
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02-09-2007, 02:50 PM
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let me look.....i took some coral pics yesterday that will probably show a piece of it anyway.....
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02-09-2007, 03:06 PM
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here is a crappy pic of a scroll i took yesterday....it was in my deleted items........but it is actually a good representation of what i mentioned. Its got the purple and the green coralline....along with the remnants of some of the diatoms.
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02-09-2007, 03:21 PM
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I git brown diatoms too in the beginning, then they died off and now its pink and purple corraline.
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02-09-2007, 05:07 PM
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Keep on truckin'
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Rookie question....
What is starboard?
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02-09-2007, 05:13 PM
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Just some guy, you know?
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It's like cuttingboard people put on the bottom of their tank if there not using sand to make the bottom look better, and prevent the rocks from breaking the bottom pain in case of a landslide.
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02-09-2007, 05:20 PM
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Its HDPE. High density polyethylene. Starboard is actually hdpe that is used for covering parts of ships(hence starboard) and is more UV resistant and comes in many colors. It is about 3 times as expensive as just regular sheets of HDPE that is used for cutting boards.
I just have normal HDPE in my tank, as the 3/4" thick piece that i use would be kinda expensive.
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02-09-2007, 05:27 PM
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Ahhhhh..... Are there certain brands or sizes that work best? Im interested in the cheap stuff.
Cool idea to use that.
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02-09-2007, 05:33 PM
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Any plastic supply place should be able to get it for you. I use a piece thicker than most as i use it to create the frame for my my rock lifts as well......most people use 1/4" or 3/8" thick
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02-09-2007, 05:35 PM
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Cool. Thanks for the info.
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