Whats the best way to clean your crushed coral?

[Christine22780]

Ive never "cleaned" my sand before, besides scrubbing the tank!
I did have sand afew yrs ago and tried the cc and I dont care for it at all. Just want to make sure I am caring for it the right way.

I am going to setup my new tank with sand, and the starfish is a great idea as well as the goby...

-Are Gobies friendly with all sm. fish, snails and the starfish??
-Are star fish hard to take care of? I seem to get all the hardy things (rated a 5 out of 1-5) What the most hardy starfish thats ready to buy in the stores??

Ive tossed all the left over old cc as of yesterday.. I do have a fine layer of it in the tank I transfered my larger fish in, I think Ill leave it as that for awhile...I needed it to have the good bacteria as well as some old water to mix in to start it up asap.

 

[ryshark]

For Lance..... here is pictures from today of my pink coralline growing on my CC substrate. I hope you were kidding about my tank looking like a FW tank, especially when there is a picture of a crocea clam.
I also included another picture of how my CC used to be white.

 

[ryshark]

Actually the picture with the torch coral is a more recent picture, but it at least shows my tank is not FW. Here is a picture of how my substrate used to look

 

[Christine22780]

Nice pics Ry. I love your crocea clam. Are those easy to find? I dont know anything about having clams-other than feeding them to my Snowflake Eel I used to have..(he jumped out through the filter, so i dont have him anymore.)

 

[ryshark]

They are pretty easy to find and are not that expensive. You just typically need lots of light and feed the tank live phytoplankton.