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Crushed coral, live sand, or both?


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THe LFS advised me to use crushed coral and no sand. I kinda like the look of the sand vs. just CC.

 

What to do? The CC is cheaper than LS. :o

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harbingerofthefish

What size tank?

 

IMO use sand. You don't have to buy Live Sand. The rock will make the sand live.

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if you use both, the crushed coral will end up on top and the sand will settle below it. Personally, I like the sand look better but I seeded my sandbed with my old crushed coral (tons of life in there). Once the tank is running for about a month or so, I will scoop out the cc. I set it up on Sunday and already I see worms in the sandbed below the cc.

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harbingerofthefish

the tank size thing was because if you were setting up a larger tank (30 gal or so) you would have more room for mixing the two. As crak said, the cc will raise up and the sand will settle. esp. in a small tank were there is not a lot of room the mix it around. Kinda defeats the purpose of sand at all.

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