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01/31/2005, 11:44 PM
Okay let me give everyone the breakdown. I'm new at this and quite long winded so please bear with me if this gets long.
I started a 29gallon tank with LS from an established 7 year old healthy tank. I have about a 2 inch sand bed. This sand was the only thing in the tank for about a two weeks. I then picked up a Maxi-jet 1000 powerhead free from a friend who used it on a 55gallon tank. Anyway I just put 25 lbs of LR into my tank that I was told was not all the way cured and needed about another week. This info. came from a highly reputable LFS here in town. I also have two other friends that have this same rock with no problems what so ever (off topic I know, forgive me). Moving on. After putting my LR in the tank and starting up the powerhead I have noticed that the LS base gets moved around alot. The powerhead has created some large some not so large craters in my sandbed. I will deal with this as something that just happens if I have to but I really would like some advice for a solutution to these craters.
Also I should have mentioned this before but the LS I have is very very fine.
Is there anything I can do to stop this or at the very least limit it? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you.
I started a 29gallon tank with LS from an established 7 year old healthy tank. I have about a 2 inch sand bed. This sand was the only thing in the tank for about a two weeks. I then picked up a Maxi-jet 1000 powerhead free from a friend who used it on a 55gallon tank. Anyway I just put 25 lbs of LR into my tank that I was told was not all the way cured and needed about another week. This info. came from a highly reputable LFS here in town. I also have two other friends that have this same rock with no problems what so ever (off topic I know, forgive me). Moving on. After putting my LR in the tank and starting up the powerhead I have noticed that the LS base gets moved around alot. The powerhead has created some large some not so large craters in my sandbed. I will deal with this as something that just happens if I have to but I really would like some advice for a solutution to these craters.
Also I should have mentioned this before but the LS I have is very very fine.
Is there anything I can do to stop this or at the very least limit it? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you.