Show us your (bare) bottom!

[Critterheaven]

Very nice!

 

[I'm a natural blue]

View attachment 558279 New start, Reefer 170, with a lot of red banded trochius for cleenup. The entire trochius gang were releasing sperm last week, what a site. Yeah, more baby trochius!

Looks great! keep us UTD! I'm looking forward to this build. Whats the livestock plan?

 

[I'm a natural blue]

This. Right. Here. Is my delema! I'd like you to meet, Jaws.

Just look at that face! LOL

 

[DHill6]

Who could resist that face!

 

[DHill6]

White Wyoming clown which I've had for 6 yrs., lots of Red Banded Trochius, maybe a candy basslet or cave basslet. Waiting on the acrylic lid to arrive. Definitely wouldn't want a jumper from that group. Sticking with LPS this time I think. Downsized from a 80g cube.

 

[Lucie]

Slowing remplacing fake stuff by natural ones...
I try to only add Things that are in the wild where these erectus have been collected (the Tubipora musica is just a skeleton and will be removed but sponges are incrusting it, also the purple sponge is starting to spread on the back glass, also a red sponge started to expendon the bottom glass)
The filters and the flow are set to let accumulate crap only at the same place, making it easy to siphon daily
clean up crew is some nassarius vibex, some cerith, 1 red mithrax, some sea hares for inferior algaes and cyano, a leatherjacket juvenile, a dwarf blennie and different species of shrimps horses dont try to eat

 

[OrlandoReefer]

I absolutely love my bare bottom I did it because my last tank was nuked from a deep sand bed it took forever to cycle but well worth the wait

 

[DHill6]

Slowing remplacing fake stuff by natural ones...
I try to only add Things that are in the wild where these erectus have been collected (the Tubipora musica is just a skeleton and will be removed but sponges are incrusting it, also the purple sponge is starting to spread on the back glass, also a red sponge started to expendon the bottom glass)
The filters and the flow are set to let accumulate crap only at the same place, making it easy to siphon daily
clean up crew is some nassarius vibex, some cerith, 1 red mithrax, some sea hares for inferior algaes and cyano, a leatherjacket juvenile, a dwarf blennie and different species of shrimps horses dont try to eat

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Very nice , thevseahorse sure stands out

 

[Devaji]

keep em coming. I keep going back and forth on BB or sand...FTS are nice to see.

 

[Lucie]

Well... maybe that will be a good idea to notice in the tittle of the thread that it s about bb seahorses tanks...?

 

[I'm a natural blue]

Slowing remplacing fake stuff by natural ones...
I try to only add Things that are in the wild where these erectus have been collected (the Tubipora musica is just a skeleton and will be removed but sponges are incrusting it, also the purple sponge is starting to spread on the back glass, also a red sponge started to expendon the bottom glass.
different species of shrimps horses dont try to eat

I love it. I too have replaced all of the artificial with live. What kind of branch it that? The one with the macro on it? How do the nassarius do without substrate? Also, what kind of shrimp? I'm heading out today for more CUC.

 

[I'm a natural blue]

keep em coming. I keep going back and forth on BB or sand...FTS are nice to see.

ME TOO! Which is why I started this thread! So hard to weigh the pro's and con's. Unless of course something has happened like @OrlandoReefer had happen!

 

[OrlandoReefer]

I feel the only reason I'd go back to a sand bed is just to keep all the cool wrasses and jawfish and invetebrates that use the sand I miss being able to keep creatures like that

 

[I'm a natural blue]

I feel the only reason I'd go back to a sand bed is just to keep all the cool wrasses and jawfish and invetebrates that use the sand I miss being able to keep creatures like that

Not anytime soon, but when (notice I didn't say if?) I upgrade to a larger tank I will most likely go bb. I like the idea of the "complete" ecosystem i.e. substrate for those same reasons though. Hence my current tank. Jaws is just so entertaining to watch. However, he is going to town on my tank right now digging burrows everywhere and kicking up sand, lol. I think however, with a larger tank it would be much easier and make more sense for me to go bb. More time watching and enjoying my herd than vaccuming sand! Of course, planning ahead I can use some techniques I've read about to paint the bottom outside glass to give it a more "natural" look.

 

[Seahorsekelly69]

hey lucie!

 

[Seahorsekelly69]

You couldn't see the "bare bottom" well in my old h. erectus display, but boy did I love it!

 

[prsnlty]

Thank you for the kind words. Ha ha, yes neat and tidy is a more accurate description when all the glass is clean. My tank is actually beginning to teem with micro life, copepods, amphipods, micro stars and who knows what else, so sterile is a poor word to describe my tank. It is almost too tidy and neat however.

Yes, I used photobucket and I can't seem to do what I need to post pics. I even switched to flickr but on my tablet that is not working either. Uhhhhg, technology! Just when I figure it out, it changes LOL.

Apparently photobucket now charges a fee to share with sites such as R2R. If you don't pay they block it. I've seen a bunch of broken photo bucket image links lately

 

[I'm a natural blue]

You couldn't see the "bare bottom" well in my old h. erectus display, but boy did I love it!

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WOW!!!!! Stunning display! I like your current one also!

 

[Hans Solo]

Seahorsekelly..... awesome tank....Awesome macroalgae! What light did you use? I'm looking to upgrade.

Really, I love that tank. I'm can never get macroalgae to grow well '

Do you have any more info about the tank? A build thread?

 

[I'm a natural blue]

@Seahorsekelly69 inquiring minds want to know your secret! @Hans Solo and I need the deets!!!!!!