sw-addict
Aquarium Advice Freak
I currently have a large crushed coral substrate I did not know any better a year ago. I am trying to decide whether to go with a deep sand bed or a bare bottom. I have been leaning towards a deep sand bed for lots of reasons including feeling safer about a tumbling rock. I am tired of trying to keep my substrate clean and I know that it is a nitrate bomb waiting to explode. I have read another forum where they have removed their dsb and went bare bottom I like the idea for cleaning and eyepleasing nature, however I am concerned about a rock cracking my glass on the bottom and was wondering if there is something that you can put on the bottom of the tank to feel safer about such a catastrophe? One other thing is that I have a mandarin in my tank and was wondering what size of a sump or refugium it might take to keep the pods in the numbers that are currently in there, I can seel him or put him in my other tank if need be. Please give me your oppinion on the matter.