What is wrong with mixing arogonite with Live sand?
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1journeyman
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Originally Posted by TennisAce
What is wrong with mixing aroginite (Crushed coral) with live sand, if there is anything wrong with it?
Don't get the two confused.. CC is crushed coral and you can get live sand also made from aragonite... aragonite is just what the substrate is made up of.
Now, for the difficulties of cleaning the two.. CC has to be vaccuumed out to keep it from becoming a nitrate farm. Sand is kept clean by sand shifting critters and the small creatures that make the sand "live". By mixing the two you make it impossible to clean either properly.
What is wrong with mixing aroginite (Crushed coral) with live sand, if there is anything wrong with it?
Don't get the two confused.. CC is crushed coral and you can get live sand also made from aragonite... aragonite is just what the substrate is made up of.
Now, for the difficulties of cleaning the two.. CC has to be vaccuumed out to keep it from becoming a nitrate farm. Sand is kept clean by sand shifting critters and the small creatures that make the sand "live". By mixing the two you make it impossible to clean either properly.
1journeyman
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Not sure what you mean...
The critters in live sand won't live in CC.
The critters in live sand won't live in CC.
mudplayerx
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Crushed coral: Chunks of crushed shells and coral up to 3/4" in diameter.
Aragonite sand: Bits of coral and shells and sand about 1-2mm in diameter.
Live sand: Aragonite sand with nitrifying bacteria already growing in it.
Aragonite sand: Bits of coral and shells and sand about 1-2mm in diameter.
Live sand: Aragonite sand with nitrifying bacteria already growing in it.
mal2
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OH no.....
my local fish store sold me both livesand and arogonite and said I could mix it!
I did not mix it though I put the Arogonite on the bottom and the sand on the top now what do I do my tank is two months old and is doing ok but I am worried that I will not get the benefits of the live sand now and I was just going to order more "Real"livesand from Florida.
Help?!?!?Please. I hate to throw $50 down the drain.
Mal
my local fish store sold me both livesand and arogonite and said I could mix it!
I did not mix it though I put the Arogonite on the bottom and the sand on the top now what do I do my tank is two months old and is doing ok but I am worried that I will not get the benefits of the live sand now and I was just going to order more "Real"livesand from Florida.
Help?!?!?Please. I hate to throw $50 down the drain.
Mal
hot883
Active Member
Originally Posted by Mal2
OH no.....
my local fish store sold me both livesand and arogonite and said I could mix it!
I did not mix it though I put the Arogonite on the bottom and the sand on the top now what do I do my tank is two months old and is doing ok but I am worried that I will not get the benefits of the live sand now and I was just going to order more "Real"livesand from Florida.
Help?!?!?Please. I hate to throw $50 down the drain.
Mal
Hi Mal, welcome to the boards. IMO (in my opinion)you will be fine
OH no.....
my local fish store sold me both livesand and arogonite and said I could mix it!
I did not mix it though I put the Arogonite on the bottom and the sand on the top now what do I do my tank is two months old and is doing ok but I am worried that I will not get the benefits of the live sand now and I was just going to order more "Real"livesand from Florida.
Help?!?!?Please. I hate to throw $50 down the drain.
Mal
Hi Mal, welcome to the boards. IMO (in my opinion)you will be fine
airforceb2
Active Member
Originally Posted by Mal2
OH no.....
my local fish store sold me both livesand and arogonite and said I could mix it!
I did not mix it though I put the Arogonite on the bottom and the sand on the top now what do I do my tank is two months old and is doing ok but I am worried that I will not get the benefits of the live sand now and I was just going to order more "Real"livesand from Florida.
Help?!?!?Please. I hate to throw $50 down the drain.
Mal
Depends on how fine the aragonite was. If it was fine (sugar sized) you did the right thing.
If it was large (size of pea gravel) then it will make its way towards the top of the tank. Not totally detrimental. Your anaerobic bacteria will live in the LS and some bacterias will live in the larger aragonite (Crushed Coral). You will just have to keep a very strong current over the CC so no detrius collects on the bottom.
OH no.....
my local fish store sold me both livesand and arogonite and said I could mix it!
I did not mix it though I put the Arogonite on the bottom and the sand on the top now what do I do my tank is two months old and is doing ok but I am worried that I will not get the benefits of the live sand now and I was just going to order more "Real"livesand from Florida.
Help?!?!?Please. I hate to throw $50 down the drain.
Mal
Depends on how fine the aragonite was. If it was fine (sugar sized) you did the right thing.
If it was large (size of pea gravel) then it will make its way towards the top of the tank. Not totally detrimental. Your anaerobic bacteria will live in the LS and some bacterias will live in the larger aragonite (Crushed Coral). You will just have to keep a very strong current over the CC so no detrius collects on the bottom.
mudplayerx
Active Member
Put the aragonite sand on the bottom and sprinkle the live sand evenly over the top of it. All of the aragonite sand will eventually become live sand. This process is called "seeding."