RE: NANFA-- brackish water sand bed etc.

Shane Graber (SGraber_at_sauder.com)
Wed, 7 Jan 2004 11:05:50 -0500

Google "refugium" and that should give you a good start on what you're
trying to accomplish. :)

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozclient&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=refugium

Shane

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Graham
> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 11:02 AM
> To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
> Subject: NANFA-- brackish water sand bed etc.
>
>
> Dear Dr. Sandbed ( aka Todd Crail),
> I've got a small brackish system that has 4 20longs ( will
> have 11 when I
> get around to drilling 7 more) and 12 5 1/2 gallon tanks. I am using a
> protein skimmer and one of my homemade kitty litter bucket
> trickle filters
> for filtration. I run it at about 1.010-12 salinity and have
> a couple of
> different pupfish, bumblebee gobies and blue eyes in the
> system. Would like
> to find a plant filter/sandbed setup to harvest nutrients out
> of the system
> to cut down on the water changes which are far too easy to
> get behind on.
>
> Jim Graham
> Hastings MI
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