Sump question of my own...

[jrnannery]

You guys that have the big dream tanks with the nice sumps underneath... If you were to scoop out a little of the muck in the bottom of your (well-established) sump, what kind of stuff would you find in there?

I was looking at getting some of that GARF stuff for my araganite bed, but someone here told me to ask a sump-tank owner for some of his sludge...same stuff, apparently.

My objective is to get some more "life" into the tank. GARF makes a big deal about how their sand bed activator stuff has all these micro stars, and all this other stuff in it..they call it "Grunge." Anyone use this stuff?

Richard

[jrnannery]

Wow, no one, huh?

[Texreefer]

never used it but heard a lot about it.. i'm always a little leary about giving that stuff away just because there are so many creatures in there that you may not want.. i can take one rock out and rinse it in some water and count 20 different types of creepy crawlies.. Don't know what even a tenth of them are :unsure

[caferacermike]

If you lived in ATX I'd invite you over to scrape my sump if you wanted. In fact you could take my skimmate home as well. I started with about an inch of aragonite to give my critters a place to live. A year later I have a 1/2" layer of ultra fine silt on top of it.