LadyClown Posted August 14, 2003 Share Posted August 14, 2003 My 10g currently has a crushed coral substrate bed. It that ok? or would it be better if I had some live sand in there? Link to comment
tinyreef Posted August 15, 2003 Share Posted August 15, 2003 bump the cc's ok but the LS provides a much greater surface area and conducive medium for microfauna. the cc tends to accumulate detritus (crappie) and work its way farther and farther down. this forces the aquarist to do more maintenance (i.e. vacuuming). i also don't like the cc for its coarseness compared to sand for the fish. there are a number of previous threads on the topic and chock full of contentious posts. low/medium popcorn rating imo now if you talk about dsb's, lighting, fish/gallon, salt brands; those topics :ninja2: are definitely 'bucket' popcorn level. Link to comment
LadyClown Posted August 15, 2003 Author Share Posted August 15, 2003 I was thinking about switching, but since my tanks is currently running, I didn't know if it was doable... what do you think? ??? Link to comment
Orange Crush Posted August 15, 2003 Share Posted August 15, 2003 yes it's doable, but the long and the short of it is, use what you prefer. Link to comment
NanoBound Posted August 16, 2003 Share Posted August 16, 2003 Its very do able. I just did the change over my self about a month ago. You will like the sand alot better, no vacuuming!! Plus with the sand you'll start to see alot of little critters track marks they make through the sand against the glass. As for snails, they love to burrow into it. With the Crushed Coral you will be siponing them out and down the drain. How much of a benifit can that be as far as biological bacteria. It is going to cloud up your tank when you do change over. So my suggestion would be to drain out as much water from the tank as possiable. Place your live rock and critters in a container heated and aireated with the tank water. Then begin dumping in the sand place your live rock back in and start filling the water back in. Its still gonna be cloudy for a while, but a good old fashioned filter in the hob for a while will do the trick. Now some people are going to say to leave the filter out, but do to my mistake of not putting in a filter when I did my change over, taught me different. What will happen is that your pretty live rock will become a major dust collector. This dust will smother out your algae and coralline. Thus helping those diatoms to bloom. Sorry for the long post..Good Luck!! Link to comment
LadyClown Posted August 18, 2003 Author Share Posted August 18, 2003 cool! Thank you soo much I think I might try in awhile! Link to comment
LadyClown Posted August 21, 2003 Author Share Posted August 21, 2003 Ok, so I bought 40lbs of playsand at Home Depot (hey, it was $2.50, I couldn't help myself) i think I'll try and do the switch over on friday morning Do you think I should microwave/boil the sand to sanitize it first or will it be ok? Link to comment
caja Posted August 21, 2003 Share Posted August 21, 2003 Nah..I put mine in a bucket and ran it through three or four water changes to get all the foamy gunk out of it. Link to comment
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