Newbies who are switching from cc to ls

[jcarroll]

If you're planning on making the switch as I just did two days ago, let me make a STRONG recommendation to you. DO NOT turn your filter on, if it is a wet/dry like mine is, until ALL of the sand has settled. I waited 4 hours and thought I'd better turn it back on, but today I noticed my return valve was spitting out cloudy water every so often. I looked in my sump and there was sand EVERYWHERE!!! I had to pull it out and clean everything, including rinsing out every bioball. I also had to clean out my overflow. WHAT A MESS!!! I realize now it was stupid to turn it back on so soon, but didn't realize at the time how much sand could build up in your sump.
Also, now that I have it all cleaned up, I dusted off my rocks. I used a brush for turkey basting. I'm planning to leave the filter off until the new dust cloud settles. Trust me, it took me almost 2 hours to clean everything! Hope I save some people some hassle.

 

[loodachris]

Thanks for the heads up i am definately going to be doing that in the next week. I just posted a question regarding that.

 

[mikro]

What type of sand did you use?

 

[jcarroll]

I bought 40lbs. of regular, I think one was called pink figi or something like that. Then I topped it off with 20 lbs. of live sand

 

[mikro]

I'm about to do the change from cc to sand. I bought Caribsea Seaflor Special Grade Reef Sand.