miracle mud

[burtonboy]

Hi everyone! im just wondering if anyone has tried using miracle mud before and what were there thoughts on it.

Thanks Daniel

[burtonboy]

well now i found another thing called mineral mud not sure witch one to get so if anyone has tried either of them or know anything about them it will be very helpful

Thanks Daniel

[soapy]

There has been a fair amount of back and forth on this stuff on the web.

My guess is you are just as well to make a DSB with aragonite sand, I like the oolitic or sugar sized. And dose your water with iron. Iron is the key if you are growing macro-algae.

Here is a link on mud for you, if you scroll down you will see a post with lots of links to deep sand bed info:

http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/...send-scam.html

[RuGlu6]

Stay away from any product that has "Miracle" on the lable.

[burtonboy]

Originally Posted by RuGlu6

Stay away from any product that has "Miracle" on the lable.

Ya i think your right lol. Just going to go with the DSB instead.

Thanks daniel

[globaldesigns]

I was going to do the mircale mud thing in my refuge, but chose the deep sand bed, so I did 6-8 inches in the refuge with 2 different layers of different sized arragonite and this added a bit of live arragonite to the top... Over time I also now have about 50 or so lbs of live rock in there with it and can say I am glad I went that route.

[burtonboy]

Originally Posted by soapy

There has been a fair amount of back and forth on this stuff on the web.

My guess is you are just as well to make a DSB with aragonite sand, I like the oolitic or sugar sized. And dose your water with iron. Iron is the key if you are growing macro-algae.

Here is a link on mud for you, if you scroll down you will see a post with lots of links to deep sand bed info:

http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/...send-scam.html

Thanks for the info and the articles they were very helpful. So I decided on going with a DSB instead, and mixing the sugar sized sand with the size up from that.


Thanks Daniel

[chandigz]

I run the same system as "miracle mud" but using the "mineral" mud. I have been doing so for several years without any problems. My nitates and phosphates remain undetectable without a skimmer and coral growth and health seems good. When you run the system you must change out half the mud substrate on a yearly basis. If you go to the miracle mud website, they will send you free info and a DVD expaining the system.