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My guess would be N2. You could poke the sand a bit to let them out. Just make sure not to stir up to much stuff in your sand bed so you don't cause a spike in your levels. Picking up a few narassius snails would help to move the top inch or so of sand bed around occassionally and keep them from building up i would think.