Live rock on eggcrate, sand or on bottom?

[lockrookie]

depending on your substrate your power heads/ fish may move your sandaroundand youll see the egg crate i may put acrilic down personally should give enough protection from falling rocks especially with sand to cushion it

[reefwars]

if you do go eggcrate leave it 2" away from the edges all around that ways you can still scrape the glass to the bottom with a blade and if you have any sand sifters it wont show eggcrate right up against your glass;P


not a fan of just eggcrate under rocks as if your like me i change my scape quite a bit

[Reef Pilot]

All good points and advice. Thanks again. guys.

And I guess detritus collecting in the eggcrate is a non-issue?

[Beverly]

With what I siphon out of my tank every week, there's no way I'd ever have a sandbed again, nor would I use eggcrate. Both trap detritus and ultimately cause problems. Here's what I siphoned out of my 10g at the end of curing LR....

10g Water Change

[Nano]

^ I can vouche for what she's saying too! Her tanks are very, very, very clean I have seen them in person lol.

[intarsiabox]

If you have large rocks piled up that you are concerned with falling just drill holes in them and secure with acrylic rods. No chance of the rocks falling or even moving for that matter. You can do some pretty fancy rock work this way as well.

[mike31154]

I've used large diameter ABS pipe cut into various sized sections to support some of my LR. Holes in the sides will allow some movement & help mitigate stagnation in the sand bed. If I were to re scape, I would do similar, but instead of rounds with holes, I'd open the circles up into half or 3/4 sections. I'd also silicone them to the bottom, since keeping them in place was a pain while trying to place the rock on them. I didn't know ABS has a tendency to float. Not an issue in your case since you'll be working with a dry tank.

Something like this, but clean up the edges of course:



Not sure I'm a fan of the eggrate scenario, since the latticework would seem to have the tendency to restrict flow & sand movement within the individual squares?

[Nano]

also if you are using dry rock for you aquascape, I saw a video on youtube of someone using a hack saw to cut flat spots onto the rocks where they would sit on the glass, I think that makes things a bit more stable

[born]

I laid egg crate on mine. Did it so I knew my rock would really slide since I was building tall islands and didnt want to all of a sudden have my islands collapse. But if you do eggcrate make sure you have plenty of sand, cause if you dont it limits you to certain sand creatures. Like pistol shrimps, jawfish, sand sifters going through the sand.

[Aquattro]

I used eggcrate. Dumbest move I made in setting up my tank. Now it's in there for good, so no option to go bare bottom. The sand is blown all over the place, so it's exposed across the entire front of the tank and looks like ****e. I would not do that again....