![]() ![]() Prepare some fluid cement and fill a coffee cup till the brim, now with a quick movement overturn the cup exactly where we planned to buil the first pillar. On each of these 3 points we will make a pillar of our construction.Ģ. Now turn upside down the base, so that the bottom side is not facing us and locate 3 points equidistant from each other and marginal. ![]() If we managed to find a large and flat rock, put it in the center of the cardbord template this will be our base, otherwise we have to attach two or more flat rocks in order to obtain a larger one. ![]() – Cable ties and wedges or wood pieces, useful to hold in place the rocks till the cement is solidified.ġ. – Smatphone or camera for taking some pictures that help us to remember the position of rocks during the first tests. – Latex or vinyl gloves, because fluid cement can irritate skin. Important: quick cement solidify in about 3/5 minutes, meanwhile it becomes warm, this is absolutely normal. – Quick cement, bets choice is Mapei Lampocem 5 kg bag absolutely brand new and sealed, this product in my opinion is the best for reef applications and in my experience it never caused problems to fish and corals. – Disposable plastic bowls and cups in which we prepare small amounts of cement ![]() – Nylon cloth to avoid wetting and soling the floor – Cardboard or mdf template with the shape and size of the bottom and back glasses of the tank, this is helpful to built a struicture with the correct dimensions and proportion. – They total quantity of rocks depends only on the final shape we want to obtain, if you want to increase the quantity of rocks in the system you can just add a rock area in sump. In order to simplify the construction we can buy a huge rock with an area of about 2/3 of the bottom area of the tank, this will be the base of the whole build. When choosing rocks from your local fish store pick up only few irregular pieces and the others flat and thin, they will be useful for creating shelves. – Use premium quality, highly porous and well colonized rocks, better if acquacoltured (zero-impact on reefs). – This set up can be used only in advanced systems that use bacterial reproduction so we don’t have to respect a liter/rocks ratio like in berlin method, simplifying we just don’t care about the quantity or live rocks we put in the display tank. Today we see how to make a perfect rock structure for an sps-dominated, Zeovit-based reef tank. ![]()
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