gosupaintballe
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I'm wanting to do an aggresive fish tank with live rocks, but do most of you guys that have aggresive fish, have live sand, or crushed coral in your tanks?
Aggresive Fish and Live Sand or Crushed Coral ?
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shark bait
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Live sand. If you have a triger you will be happy as they will move the sand around and it is good for the system. Coral can trap in bad stuff and when moved cause a ph change. Also IMO it is easy to clean the live sand. IMO live is the best way to go and it will help with all the break down, and give you a better chance to keep the tank levels even.
gosupaintballe
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ok, if i go with live sand and my aggresive fish end up eating the stuff in the live sand, how do i clean the live sand without disturbing the sand bed ? Or actually how do you clean live sand period without picking it up in your vacum or whatever it is that your cleaning it with ? I was also told by my petshop owner that if the filter for my sump picks up some of the sand for some reason or another it could screw it up or burn it up some how?
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shark bait
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Just go to the LFS and ask for a stand alone unit, and feed the watyer into a 5 gal bucket the unit i have has a knob to reduce the flow and also a pre filter at the top of the unit I do this when I need water changes. As the sand realy stays clean.
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triggcity
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The fish don't care. It's what you prefer.
30-xtra high
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to clean live sand with the vacuum you just stick the end into the livesand, and it sucks a bunch of livesand into the big part of the vacuum (the part attached to the hose), then you lift the big part out of the sand, and the sand swirls around in the big part, then just falls back to the ground and the crap goes into the hose and into your water changing bucket (or whatever you use) hope you could follow this
30-xtra high
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Originally Posted by BabyB
but if you vacuum the sand isnt that sucking all the pods and things out, and i dont think the sand falls back down i have axcidentally touched the sand while doing water changes and it goes right to the bucket
odd?.. when i touch the sand it sucks up, but then i lift the vacuum part out of the sand and it just swirls around and falls back to the sand bed., owell, maybe different size makes a difference?
but if you vacuum the sand isnt that sucking all the pods and things out, and i dont think the sand falls back down i have axcidentally touched the sand while doing water changes and it goes right to the bucket
odd?.. when i touch the sand it sucks up, but then i lift the vacuum part out of the sand and it just swirls around and falls back to the sand bed., owell, maybe different size makes a difference?