Brown Sand
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fishieness
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no, you dont need an airstone. It is actualy not recomended at all. You have pleanty of oxygen with the skimmer, though you may need another powerheads depending on the size tank you have.
as far as yoru sand turning brown, it is a very popular occurence in new tanks form a diatom bloom. To help, you can use RO/DI water, have a clean up crew consisting of crabs and hermits and such (most sand sifting creatures are not recomended because they will starve to death and eat a lot of the critters found in live sand), and have good water quality. most likely, once your tank matures, your sand will be clean again.
as far as yoru sand turning brown, it is a very popular occurence in new tanks form a diatom bloom. To help, you can use RO/DI water, have a clean up crew consisting of crabs and hermits and such (most sand sifting creatures are not recomended because they will starve to death and eat a lot of the critters found in live sand), and have good water quality. most likely, once your tank matures, your sand will be clean again.
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cotti
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Originally Posted by fishieness
no, you dont need an airstone. It is actualy not recomended at all. You have pleanty of oxygen with the skimmer, though you may need another powerheads depending on the size tank you have.
so u don't recommend using an airstone? I'm running the magnum 350, the return seems to move water pretty well, I also use a pengium 150 just for more circulation and filtration...I also took the glass canopy off so the top is open now...do you think there is enough oxygen getting into the water to remove the airstone?
no, you dont need an airstone. It is actualy not recomended at all. You have pleanty of oxygen with the skimmer, though you may need another powerheads depending on the size tank you have.
so u don't recommend using an airstone? I'm running the magnum 350, the return seems to move water pretty well, I also use a pengium 150 just for more circulation and filtration...I also took the glass canopy off so the top is open now...do you think there is enough oxygen getting into the water to remove the airstone?
fishieness
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well that depends what size tank you have. also, a powerhead aimed at the surface will provide more oxygen.
but airstones cause a lot of saltcreep.
but airstones cause a lot of saltcreep.
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cotti
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have a 30g tank
opus18
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I just started seeing the same thing in a few small sections of my sand as well as on the surface of a couple of rocks. Tank has been only "online" for 2.5 weeks with 3 green chromis for 1 week. Numbers look good for the water and it gets topped off with only RO water... Today is my day to add a few new swimmers...
46G All-glass bowfront
46# LR
40# LS
Primeir Systems sump system.
46G All-glass bowfront
46# LR
40# LS
Primeir Systems sump system.
fishieness
Active Member
usualy if you dont have enough oxygen levels that could mean you dont havae enough flow (how BIG is yoru tank?) or possibly you do not have good amounts of KMnO4 in your tank.
fishieness
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how big is this powerhead? you might want to get another.