What does live rock eat

[greg97527]

it was just an opinion and only given after much success in setting up almost all of my tanks at the LFS I volunteer at. Like I stated before, some things work for others that may not for another person. This is a very very controversial hobby lol.

[graphixx]

another thing you can do is if you have someone with an allready established tank, see if htey will give you a cupfull of their sand and this will "seed" the snad bed or you can drop a cocktail shrimp in there and that will give it a good kick start as well

[a fish called marius]

Well this is a few nights later and i see allot of littel white spots with legs crawling and swimming on the live rock and sand. Just updating. The live sand i bought were the very expensive type that came wet in a plastic bag, that has 20000 or more bacteria inside the sand.

[greg97527]

that stuff is pretty decent actually, i tried some out and it did wonders. I still think you have pods which is excellent so early on.

[hummer]

i hope ite live sand works it very exp.$ at 27 to 40 $ abag so shpo around im starthing with 4 20lbs bag i hope it worth it too

[jojo22]

Bagged live sand is way over rated. I always start with DRY dead sand and it seeds with life from the live rock. No need to go just throwing money away in this hobby.

[Sweetpea]

I have to toss in here that I have used the bagged live sand for all three of my tanks and seen a greatly reduced cycle time...

[a fish called marius]

So last night i installed that is hopefully the last of the equipment
1 x sea clone skimmer
1 x hailea 300 cooler
3 x maxi jet pumps

The water is nice and cold now 78 degrees

I still have a big problem thou green algae growing every were Helpppp

[greg97527]

what are ur nitrate and phosphate levels?

[a fish called marius]

nitrate 5mg/l
phosphat 0.5mg/l