Path: utzoo!hoptoad!uunet!lll-winken!gryphon!richard
From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: Re: Cleaning a tank with a UGF
Summary: + live rock + curing wood
Message-ID: <3120@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 4 Apr 88 00:07:10 GMT
References: <22888@bbn.COM>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Distribution: alt.aquaria
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <22888@bbn.COM> sjencso@cc6.bbn.com.BBN.COM (Steve Jencso) writes:
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>I am about to rip one of my tanks down for Sping Cleaning. It contains an
>undergravel filter.
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>Being this is my first tank with a UGF, should the plate be removed when
>the tank is cleaned or will this destroy the bacteria build-up underneath?
>
>
All i do is rip everything out, and diatom the tank. The bacteria are
covering the gravel not living underneath it.

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Curing wood: soak it in water for a long time, preferably months.
Just any old wood you find lying around is no good. Well weathered
wood from a lake is ok, but ceder or cyrpess root are worth seeking out
as they leach active beneficial biological compounds into the water.

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Live rock is a matrix of rock and marine organisms. It is usually small
pieces of rock infested with marine plume worms, and all other sorts
of invertibrates. If you buy it in the store you get what you see. If
you can order a box full of the stuff from a collector in Florida you 
may get shrimp, snails, fish, who knows what...



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