adding live sand

roggy23

Member
i want to add sand to my existing sand bed to add biological filtartion...
is this a bad idea, im getting mixed responses???
is it necessary to cure the sand before adding??
 
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daniel411

Guest
Curing the sand, particularly important if its small fine stuff like oolitic, I find very important. If its a new tank being set up, with live rock, possibly not so necessary to cure it.
Why do you want to add more sand? If you have sand, and flourishing live rock, its likely your sand technically is "live" with bacteria.. possibly some critters. In general, thats all the pre-packaged live sand is.
 
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