Doubledown
Active member
I have a shallow sandbed in my reeftank that has gotten a little messy. Between the snailshells and the somewhat larger sand and whatever else, it is not as bright as it used to be. Being ___ retentive as I am, this bothers me.
I have read posts from reefers stating they change out roughly 1/3rd of the sand in their tanks every x months. Is this a good practice? Should I worry about param changes by removing this?
Would I be better off just adding more sand on top of the old? If I remove all the vacant snail shells it might look nicer/neater anyway and I wouldn't lose all the microfauna currently living in the sandbed.
Anyone have any other suggestions for cleaning up the sand?
Also, I have a FOWLR that the sand is the same age as the reef and looks just as bad (to me anyway). Are the dangers more or less for the FO than the reef (param wise)?
Lastly - how would I add sand? I could syphon the old sand out to reduce dust/particulate, would a long piece of PVC pipe run down to the bottom and sand poured through that have the same low dust effect? Should I rinse all the sand first?
Thanks
Chris
I have read posts from reefers stating they change out roughly 1/3rd of the sand in their tanks every x months. Is this a good practice? Should I worry about param changes by removing this?
Would I be better off just adding more sand on top of the old? If I remove all the vacant snail shells it might look nicer/neater anyway and I wouldn't lose all the microfauna currently living in the sandbed.
Anyone have any other suggestions for cleaning up the sand?
Also, I have a FOWLR that the sand is the same age as the reef and looks just as bad (to me anyway). Are the dangers more or less for the FO than the reef (param wise)?
Lastly - how would I add sand? I could syphon the old sand out to reduce dust/particulate, would a long piece of PVC pipe run down to the bottom and sand poured through that have the same low dust effect? Should I rinse all the sand first?
Thanks
Chris
