Waterbox frag 175 build thread

[quickreefer]

The lights look great on your tank!

Thank you much

 

[quickreefer]

Should be ready to get the thing filled this weekend what do I do about the sand ? What’s the best way to rinse it? I think I used live sand last time and didn’t realize I bought dry ?

 

[quickreefer]

Should be ready to get the thing filled this weekend what do I do about the sand ? What’s the best way to rinse it? I think I used live sand last time and didn’t realize I bought dry ?

Any insight ?

 

[JonoH]

Should be ready to get the thing filled this weekend what do I do about the sand ? What’s the best way to rinse it? I think I used live sand last time and didn’t realize I bought dry ?

Put it in a bucket and hose it till the water turns clear.
Normal water will be fine, if you want you can do the last run with some RO water.

 

[JonoH]

Any input would be greatly appreciated been reading a lot about the woes of cycling with dry rock and it’s scaring me…

Personally i would try and add some live rock in just for the diversity.

 

[quickreefer]

Put it in a bucket and hose it till the water turns clear.
Normal water will be fine, if you want you can do the last run with some RO water.

sounds like a plan what’s the concern if no ro ?

 

[quickreefer]

More and more wiring lol why does everything have 2-3 cords now

 

[JonoH]

sounds like a plan what’s the concern if no ro ?

Introducing Silicates or any other heavy metals that might be in the tap water - but it would be such a small amount it should be fine (think 1% of total water volume in the tank)
Refer to the below -

Official Sand Rinse and Tank Transfer thread

If you are reading this thread to cure a tank invasion from a link I sent you, we do not need to identify your type of invasion here we do not need you to test anything at anytime regarding nitrate, phosphate etc Above all, we do not need to see a microscope slide picture of your invasion at...

www.reef2reef.com

 

[quickreefer]

Had to call in the professional… cricket master… (the wife) for labeling

 

[quickreefer]

Introducing Silicates or any other heavy metals that might be in the tap water - but it would be such a small amount it should be fine (think 1% of total water volume in the tank)
Refer to the below -

Official Sand Rinse and Tank Transfer thread

If you are reading this thread to cure a tank invasion from a link I sent you, we do not need to identify your type of invasion here we do not need you to test anything at anytime regarding nitrate, phosphate etc Above all, we do not need to see a microscope slide picture of your invasion at...

www.reef2reef.com

Would you or no ?

 

[JonoH]

Would you or no ?

I guess it depends on how much RO i had on hand, hopefully someone with more experience with this can comment.
@brandon429

 

[brandon429]

all jobs in the thread show 99% of sand rinsing is in tap water and only the last 1% is ro, to flush out the tap

check some examples from the thread

its not like there isn’t sixty pages of work examples on file to read

did we have diatom outbreaks in the sixty pages of works, or any problems?

 

[Janci]

Rinsing with tap water should be sufficient in my opinion. Shake the excess water from the sand before putting it in the tank.
Remaining silicates will still be beneficial to the reef tank. Diatoms might feed on this, but that is all part of the cycle that each tank goes through.
Adding some live rock as suggested before, will speed up the bacterial population count.

 

[quickreefer]

Rinsing with tap water should be sufficient in my opinion. Shake the excess water from the sand before putting it in the tank.
Remaining silicates will still be beneficial to the reef tank. Diatoms might feed on this, but that is all part of the cycle that each tank goes through.
Adding some live rock as suggested before, will speed up the bacterial population count.

Can I add to the aquarium after rinsing even tho I’m not adding water till Sunday ?

 

[quickreefer]

Jonoh is that thumbs up a yes ?

 

[JonoH]

Jonoh is that thumbs up a yes ?

Yes

 

[Janci]

Good to have a wife that can label. Looking nice.
How is the plumbing of the fleece filters coming along? Looks like a tight space, but might be just the angle of the picture.

 

[quickreefer]

Good to have a wife that can label. Looking nice.
How is the plumbing of the fleece filters coming along? Looks like a tight space, but might be just the angle of the picture.

There is not really much pluming if any at all you do not have the plum the drain directly into the roller like others they just replace the filter socks so I am interested to see how they work going to try to not run them master slave as I don’t really feel that they will necessarily clog at the same time we shall see but

 

[quickreefer]

Did rinse half of the sand yesterday took a good 7 hours of repositioning the hose and stirring the sand for it to stop making milky water so def happy I rinsed it

 

[JonoH]

Did rinse half of the sand yesterday took a good 7 hours of repositioning the hose and stirring the sand for it to stop making milky water so def happy I rinsed it

I have 13 bags of this to do this weekend....