Putting in a sand substrate.

acrylic51

acrylic51

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I agree with Flower....I saw this post earlier and got side tracked. No need to starve your fish. They would be fine not being fed everyday, but their isn't and real proof that it will affect your system as stated in an earlier answer. You might see a small increase when you remove but a good water change on monitoring parameters should suffice. Tons of tank run without substraye and the filtering affect logic is totally out of the window. Definitely not needed or required but possibly cut back amounts fed for a period.
 
silverado61

silverado61

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Originally Posted by silverado61 http:///t/396843/putting-in-a-sand-substrate/20#post_3535851
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Originally Posted by grant778 http:///t/396843/putting-in-a-sand-substrate/20#post_3535849
Should I feed the fish a little today too, or should I wait one more day to feed them to be on the safe side.
Personally, I would wait till after you test the water to make sure your at the lowest numbers before changing anymore. Then maybe feed the fish a very small portion the day before you do another gravel/sand change because they're not going to be interested in eating afterwards. And like Flower said, make sure you have 24hr. premixed water ready at all times in case you get a rise in ammonia and need to do an emergency water change.

Did you try the soda bottle method for putting the sand in?
Ok. Maybe my post was read wrong. I didn't say, "Don't feed your fish until the day before you do the water change". So... let me try to clear my post up. Test your parameters before doing anymore substrate changes. If they're good, feed the fish a little (as in "don't feed them too much") the day before you change out anymore substrate because after that, they will be stressed out from the demolition and reconstruction and not interested in eating. That way they won't go hungry till they re-acclimate from the change in their home and the stress is gone.

Is that correct or am I totally wrong here?
 
grant778

grant778

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What are some good snails to help disturb the sand bed I can get. I'm still not done but I would like to start thinking about another clean up crew I can get because mine died a while ago. (I stupidly got snails and hermits and the hermits killed the snails.)
 
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