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Posted by Mark Cooper on April 27, 2006, 8:04 pm
Please log in for more thread options I have seen mentioned online, specifically on wetwebmedia.com,
but also in google searches, that after a certain amount of
time it is a good idea to replace your live rock. Perhaps the
idea being that a significant portion of the beneficial fauna
and flora have died off.
On the other hand, I have read frequently that a tank takes as
much as a year to settle in and balance chemically.
If you switched out very much of your live rock, even if it
was cured, wouldn't you be upsetting the balance you worked so
long to achieve?
If you had a properly maintained system, with enough of a
cleaner crew, couldn't you run a tank indefinitely?
Thanks,
Mark
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Posted by Wayne Sallee on April 27, 2006, 8:53 pm
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If it aint broke don't fix it.
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Mark Cooper wrote on 4/27/2006 8:04 PM:
> I have seen mentioned online, specifically on wetwebmedia.com,
> but also in google searches, that after a certain amount of
> time it is a good idea to replace your live rock. Perhaps the
> idea being that a significant portion of the beneficial fauna
> and flora have died off.
>
> On the other hand, I have read frequently that a tank takes as
> much as a year to settle in and balance chemically.
>
> If you switched out very much of your live rock, even if it
> was cured, wouldn't you be upsetting the balance you worked so
> long to achieve?
>
> If you had a properly maintained system, with enough of a
> cleaner crew, couldn't you run a tank indefinitely?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
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Posted by George Patterson on April 27, 2006, 10:38 pm
Please log in for more thread options Mark Cooper wrote:
> If you had a properly maintained system, with enough of a
> cleaner crew, couldn't you run a tank indefinitely?
That's my belief. Methinks wetwebmedia is in the business of selling live rock
and is not real scrupulous about how they go about it. There's no reason why
your colonies of bacteria should die out after a few thousand generations in
your tank.
George Patterson
Coffee is only a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to
your slightly older self.
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Posted by Pszemol on April 27, 2006, 11:04 pm
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> That's my belief. Methinks wetwebmedia is in the business of selling live rock
> and is not real scrupulous about how they go about it. There's no reason why
> your colonies of bacteria should die out after a few thousand generations in
> your tank.
If you think your live rocks is only inhabited by bacteria you are missing
a lot in the whole picture...
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Posted by George Patterson on April 28, 2006, 9:14 pm
Please log in for more thread options Pszemol wrote:
>> That's my belief. Methinks wetwebmedia is in the business of selling
>> live rock and is not real scrupulous about how they go about it.
>> There's no reason why your colonies of bacteria should die out after a
>> few thousand generations in your tank.
>
> If you think your live rocks is only inhabited by bacteria you are missing
> a lot in the whole picture...
No, I have a lot of other stuff living on or in mine. This is a reason to
replace it every so often?
George Patterson
Coffee is only a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to
your slightly older self.
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> but also in google searches, that after a certain amount of
> time it is a good idea to replace your live rock. Perhaps the
> idea being that a significant portion of the beneficial fauna
> and flora have died off.
>
> On the other hand, I have read frequently that a tank takes as
> much as a year to settle in and balance chemically.
>
> If you switched out very much of your live rock, even if it
> was cured, wouldn't you be upsetting the balance you worked so
> long to achieve?
>
> If you had a properly maintained system, with enough of a
> cleaner crew, couldn't you run a tank indefinitely?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>