my blue spot ray does very well in the tank, lotsa sand small/medium ray medium puffer,
the key is water movement so it gets picked up in mechanical filtration and mechanical
filtration that doesnt stay submerged, and is cleaned often. but then there is NO lr in
the tank, as the ray needs the sand and LR is bad for them. on top of that i throw in the
ocasional cheapo crabs the LFS sells for like a quarter, then in a weekish i pull the
empty shells at least whats left of them and toss them into my reef.

--
Richard Reynolds




"David Young" wrote in message
news:JkLOa.13928$ye4.13603@sccrnsc01...
I have my FOwLR as a barebottom because I have a porcupine puffer that is a
messy eater and haven't found a clean up crew he won't eat yet.
David Young
"Richard Reynolds" wrote in message
news:HsJOa.120472$hd6.101263@fed1read05...
1 plennum (reef 37g)
1 dsb (reef 150g)
1 1" cc (FO 10g)
1 1" fine sand (nano reef 7g)
1 3" 1mm sand non-dsb (FO-preditor 75g)
1 variety of sand depths and a variety of substances(sand/cc/shells ....)
(FO 125g)


there are only a few reasons i can think of, of using a bare bottom tank,
none hold up to
a DSB's many advantages.

--
Richard Reynolds




"ReeFeR_MaN" wrote in message
...
Just out of interest what do you run your reef tank with a DSB or a Bare
Bottom ?

Mine is a 4'' - 5'' DSB

Thanks







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