Adding Live Sand..?

[ivan_dalmatia]

I've carried sand over from a 75 gallon (80+ pounds) to a 150 after it being in there for over an year, added 80 more pounds of wet live sand and never had a problem, acutely my nitrates went down?

 

[ivan_dalmatia]

I do have 2 pistol shrimp with their watchman constantly moving sand around, that may have something to do with it, o and 2 engineers as well

 

[Big Tex]

idl ill just have to see how it all goes, im only adding about 20lbs of sand to the new tank, its got about twice the footprint my current tank does.

 

[ivan_dalmatia]

Go with wet live sand, it's very beneficial just a bit more $$$

 

[Big Tex]

Go with wet live sand, it's very beneficial just a bit more $$$

cant beat it $22.49 for the carribsea arragalive special reef grade, love the stuff.

 

[ivan_dalmatia]

I use the same one, and I paid $9.99 for 20lbs promotional price, yaaaa . I need more and now it's $29.99

 

[Big Tex]

I use the same one

one of my biggest pet peaves is superfine reef sand that gets all gunked up and covered in algae and stirs easily, the special reef grade just does it for me lol

 

[ivan_dalmatia]

one of my biggest pet peaves is superfine reef sand that gets all gunked up and covered in algae and stirs easily, the special reef grade just does it for me lol

Super fine looks really nice tho, I mixed it. Super fine is the best for holding on to BB, but like you said, what a sand storm, welcome to Sahara

 

[Big Tex]

Super fine looks really nice tho, I mixed it. Super fine is the best for holding on to BB, but like you said, what a sand storm, welcome to Sahara

lol im not one for the messy sand bed look, i have clean tank syndrome so reef grade is my lady.