reckless sps tank?

[spit.fire]

ive done rockless barebottom frag tanks without a problem, the trick is to run hydroton (hydroponic growing medium) in a media reactor as a "live rock replacement"

[Proteus]

Originally Posted by spit.fire

ive done rockless barebottom frag tanks without a problem, the trick is to run hydroton (hydroponic growing medium) in a media reactor as a "live rock replacement"

Yes I've been using hydroton for a couple years now

[untamed]

My tank is a bit reckless (untamed). I've been considering removing the rock to make more space for some coral colonies that are getting larger than the rocks they are on. Sump is full of rock, so I don't think I need the rock for filtration.

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

I'm adding 2 media reactors full of hydroton to my 2 sumps in the next week or so. The new dual RR cube tanks have less than 1 lb of LR per gallon, so the hydroton will help with the biological filtration.

I will be selling off most of my spare LR in my sump so then I will replace them with a hydroton reactor as well. This will free up a lot of space, even though I have a 90g wide sump, all that extra LR fills it up good.

[asylumdown]

I'm confused as to what this tank would look like? When you say rockless, do you mean no rocks of any kind, or just an artificial structure made out of something like concrete or plastic in an exact shape that you want? Without something to put the corals on, wouldn't this just be a glass box with a bunch of corals sitting on the bottom?

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by asylumdown

I'm confused as to what this tank would look like? When you say rockless, do you mean no rocks of any kind, or just an artificial structure made out of something like concrete or plastic in an exact shape that you want? Without something to put the corals on, wouldn't this just be a glass box with a bunch of corals sitting on the bottom?

I didn't want to ask, but ya, what he said

[Proteus]

Lol. I use tile for the bottom of tank and thought it might also work to build a structure out of tile.