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Shroom basket?
- Thread starter erics210
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erics210
NJRC Member
Did some tank maintenance, pump cleaning, etc with citric acid etc, and also tied in my 35 gallon frag tank yesterday which was also cleaned with muriatic acid. Anyway.
All corals were fine this morning but my ALK dropped from the usual 8.8 to 7.2 overnight. Sure it was the acid or baking soda residual used to neutralize the acid before dumping down the drain. Anyway. Added some liquid soda ash to bring it back up half way, and was planning to do the rest of the balance over the next day or so. But my main large jawbreaker popped off and joined the free floater club. Have a few mushrooms in similar state.
ANYWAY...Felt I needed something ASAP. Don't need him free floating into a torch or other.
So I took an old powerhead front, glued 4 bio ring media as a makeshift stand so it has a little downward flow and detritus doesn't build up in the powerhead, then put some of the plastic power head cover at the bottom to keep the rubble in the powerhead , chipped up some small rubble, added the shroom and used more plastic covering as a partial lid.
Not sure why I keep things like covers to broken powerheads, buti I think it came out pretty cool in a pinch! Once attached, need to look into some long term solution. The inexpensive mushrooms hold on for dear life. Jawbreakers...not so much.
All corals were fine this morning but my ALK dropped from the usual 8.8 to 7.2 overnight. Sure it was the acid or baking soda residual used to neutralize the acid before dumping down the drain. Anyway. Added some liquid soda ash to bring it back up half way, and was planning to do the rest of the balance over the next day or so. But my main large jawbreaker popped off and joined the free floater club. Have a few mushrooms in similar state.
ANYWAY...Felt I needed something ASAP. Don't need him free floating into a torch or other.
So I took an old powerhead front, glued 4 bio ring media as a makeshift stand so it has a little downward flow and detritus doesn't build up in the powerhead, then put some of the plastic power head cover at the bottom to keep the rubble in the powerhead , chipped up some small rubble, added the shroom and used more plastic covering as a partial lid.
Not sure why I keep things like covers to broken powerheads, buti I think it came out pretty cool in a pinch! Once attached, need to look into some long term solution. The inexpensive mushrooms hold on for dear life. Jawbreakers...not so much.
Way to jerry rig something! I know some people on Reef2Reef and Etsy sell some 3D printer mushroom baskets that have covers on them to prevent floating away. One of them was in northern Jersey the last time I checked.
Bandito Aquatics
NJRC Member
I ordered a clear box on Amazon came out to 12 bucks. Added a reef magnet now I have a small Mushroom box
erics210
NJRC Member
Link?
I use pond baskets they work really well and allow water to flow. I already owned a few of these.
They are really cheap and they come in different sizes and it’s reef safe plastic.
Black Pond Plant Basket https://www.lowes.com/pd/smartpond-Aquatic-Plant-Basket/1000862960
They are really cheap and they come in different sizes and it’s reef safe plastic.
Black Pond Plant Basket https://www.lowes.com/pd/smartpond-Aquatic-Plant-Basket/1000862960
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DangerDave
NJRC Member
Send reef makes nice ones. Not cheap, high quality acrylic work. I have the long model in black.
