Live sand in quarantine tank

[ebeckels]

I by mistake placed a small amount of live sand in my 10 gallon hosp./ quarantine tank. I know I shouldn't have any substrate in there from reading the posts on here. I will try to take as much of the sand out as possible but there will still be some left. If I then do hyposalinity on the 2 fish in there will anything bad happen to the live sand? Will it just not be "live" sand anymore and then just be sand? If so that is fine with me... i just want to maake sure there won't be any bad things happening like raising my nitrates or something like that. Thank you very much
-Eric

 

[beth]

What is in your sand? If it just has bacteria colonies, that is fine, however it has other creatures, then it will be best to take out all the LS.

 

[ebeckels]

the only stuff that is in the sand is what it came with i assume. It's new live sand from *****. It's in my old water but i didn't add anything to the sand that isn't out of it already (corals and hermit crabs were in there for a day or so) I'll try to take most of the sand out tomorow and if i can't get it all i won't worry too much.
-Eric

 

[beth]

Its fine then. Leave it in. Since you are using hyposalinity it will be fine and the added media will assist with any cycle your tank may go thru. If you were using medication, however, I would definately suggest removing the sand, and definately say that if you didn't remove it, then don't return it to the main tank.