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Wayne Sallee wrote:
Only place the live rock on top of the sand if you only have a few pieces of live rock. If you are going to stack the rock, then put base rock on the glass, and put your sand around that, and then stack your live rock on top of the base rock. Don't build your house on the shifting sand. I've heard of people putting egg crate on the bottom/back and then stacking rock on that. The advantage is that you can glue the rock to the egg crate, but still be able to remove it at a later point. I've always thought egg crate was the bumpy foam pads that are used for packaging (or for sleeping on while camping) that resembles both the size and shape of egg crates. But apparently, it's also the name for the translucent plastic sheets with small bumps used for fluorescent or commercial light fixtures that can be found at lowe's and home depot in the lighting section. Just an idea if you building a large landscape and need it to be stable. btw, the reason sand shifts is because of all the shrimps, fish, etc that burrow in the sand under the rock to build caves. My blue damsels have been very busy lately. And, my clownfish was also building a nest. |
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KurtG wrote:
I've always thought egg crate was the bumpy foam pads that are used for packaging (or for sleeping on while camping) that resembles both the size and shape of egg crates. But apparently, it's also the name for the translucent plastic sheets with small bumps used for fluorescent or commercial light fixtures that can be found at lowe's and home depot in the lighting section. Nope. It's the name of the grids with square holes used for light fixtures. http://www.plaskolite.com/lighting-panels.htm George Patterson If you torture the data long enough, eventually it will confess to anything. |
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George Patterson wrote:
Nope. It's the name of the grids with square holes used for light fixtures. Thanks! Must be small birds to put there eggs in there. |
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LOL and the light would help keep the eggs warm :-)
Wayne Sallee Wayne's Pets KurtG wrote on 4/23/2007 6:27 AM: George Patterson wrote: Nope. It's the name of the grids with square holes used for light fixtures. Thanks! Must be small birds to put there eggs in there. |
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Other than misidentifying the egg crate :-) , yes
you can put the egg crate down, and put the live rock on top of that, though I'm not a big fan of that method. But even still, if you do that you still will have sand above the bottom of the base rock if you want any kind of depth of sand in the tank, unless you want to stack egg crate on top of egg crate. Wayne Sallee Wayne's Pets KurtG wrote on 4/22/2007 8:14 AM: Wayne Sallee wrote: Only place the live rock on top of the sand if you only have a few pieces of live rock. If you are going to stack the rock, then put base rock on the glass, and put your sand around that, and then stack your live rock on top of the base rock. Don't build your house on the shifting sand. I've heard of people putting egg crate on the bottom/back and then stacking rock on that. The advantage is that you can glue the rock to the egg crate, but still be able to remove it at a later point. I've always thought egg crate was the bumpy foam pads that are used for packaging (or for sleeping on while camping) that resembles both the size and shape of egg crates. But apparently, it's also the name for the translucent plastic sheets with small bumps used for fluorescent or commercial light fixtures that can be found at lowe's and home depot in the lighting section. Just an idea if you building a large landscape and need it to be stable. btw, the reason sand shifts is because of all the shrimps, fish, etc that burrow in the sand under the rock to build caves. My blue damsels have been very busy lately. And, my clownfish was also building a nest. |
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