Hey now, thats not fair. The detritus factory tells Goemans all it's secrets so bob should know a thing or two about BS. Sometimes he'll write an article about Fungia corals but he'll use a Cycloseris pic cause it's TFH and no one will notice. :tub:
How deep should your sand bed be?
- Thread starter fernandokng
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It depends on what you define as the 'bottom'. I have seen plenty of reefs that are rock 'bonnies' with large areas on top that slope off to the sand or muck. I also don't think comparing a bottom that is 50 feet from the coral is the same as 3 or 4 inches in a tank. I have also seen rock walls that are reefs - dropoffs that go down for 100's of feet or thousands of feet before reaching sand. There are indeed essentially never ending rock walls covered with corals.
There are ways to make bb way more attractive than just a glass bottom!No one ever comments on the lack of a sandbed in my tank.
Do these look unnatural without sand?
Making things look natural and replicating a biotope are two different things. Only the first can be achieved with 24" tall tank. Sand makes it look natural, glass doex NOT. If there was no sand on the reef, Joe Yaiulo wouldn't put any in his 20,000G tank at the Atlantis. Going further, he had fish spawn in said sand which previously were thought impossible to spawn in captivity.
If you want to be so correct and replicate a tiny tip of the 100ft drop you've mentioned, you would have had probably one huge coral head in your 2 feet deep tank, oh and don't forget to take out all the plumbing and powerheads out of the tank, they can't be found on the reef either.
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