Oolite sand cloudy tank11/2/2023 It doesn't look like sand grains in the water column. Coarse or fine sand as substrate for natural planted tank bigdreams Sep 14. What is crazy for me is that it was clear a few weeks ago and now not so much. Before I put the sand in a few months ago, I did rinse it three or four times. Also I always save some premixed salt to wash tap water off in end before returning to tank. Then rinse-use the jet or full hose setting, stir it up very good, even use your hand to grab handfuls and rub together-you may have to rinse many many many times allowing the dust like particulates to overflow out of bucket. Leave a couple cups, maybe the sand under your rock base work to help reseed substrate fuana if you do that. Or get a wider diamater siphon hose and just suck out all the sand-like I would do. YET that won’t guarantee your flow will eventually stir settled silt back up again. It makes your water cloudy when it gets disturbed. So you can do very large water changes in succession over a course of a few days until you get what’s floating in the water column out. sand I dont believe that my tank would have not cycled as quick. Otherwise I’ve learned myself, you get all these dust clouds with new sand and in your case without any other filtration it will just keeping going round and round in there. Love all the flow you have going, probably just as vital if not a bit more than light IMO, is turbulent massive water flow.ĭid you rinse the sand bed? Even “prerinsed substrate” needs to be rinsed, with a nice strong garden hose if possible. I tested a few days ago and of course, left my params at home. I wouldn't think the placement and power level would kick up sand like that. They're old school ones but I think they're at around 20-30%. You can kind of see where the MP10 is in the gif below. I stopped blasting the sand and only use the HOB with floss. For the love of me, I cannot get clear water. (Note I had redone the rock work after the first pic was taken). I switched from the SunSuns to two MP10s. I usually add a HOB with floss for two days and will blast with a turkey blaster to get the crud into the water column.įast forward until two weeks ago. At the time, my set up was two cheap SunSun 525GPH powerheads. I cannot seem to get crystal clear water. I'm using CaribSea Arag Alive sand (I believe Bahamas Oolite). No skimmer, no sump, no fuge. Nothing fancy. I am starting to doubt that's even possible.My tank is a 29G with 2 clowns and a handful of frags (softies/LPS). now theres foam on the surface of the sump and tank and and the water is extremely cloudy. So, I added it to the existing tank with corals and fish. I just want to make it so when I do move and use this sand it's clear right away. I had pulled the old one around a month or so ago. I am aware I am losing some sand doing this but that's fine. Still on the first small patch still isn't coming clean. Again I have started to rinse but this time im going for completely clean, transferring from bucket to bucket and mixing again and again. I am planning on keeping the old sand since the new sand wasn't easy to rinse out, and I need a lot of sand. Calculate how much sand you need using our Sand Bed Calculator. Deeper sand beds can be tough to keep clean and will trap detritus, making your life harder in the long run. The whole reason I moved the tank was because the carpet is being replaced and I will move for real later. We recommend most modern reef tank owners use no more than 1-2 inches of sand unless you have some special animal that requires a deeper sand bed like Garden Eels or Jaw Fish. Black sand typically doesn’t contain calcium carbonate. Both contain calcium carbonate which can be good for coral growth. Aragonite and crushed coral are generally pretty similar except aragonite is typically a fine to medium sand and crushed coral is pretty large. That being said I cannot keep a 15gallon barrel of sand and a few 5 gallon buckets of sand in my basement forever. Aragonite, Crushed Coral, and Black Sand. Surprise surprise it didn't smell bad, and still doesn't smell bag. The end result still caused 3 days of complete cloud cover in the tank. All of the new sand I rinsed 1 bag at a time in 5 gallon buckets stirring them up letting the tap run for 10 minutes plus then dumping the sand in a new bucket so the top is at the bottom and rising again. We recommend most modern reef tank owners use no more than 1-2 inches of sand unless you have some special animal that requires a deeper sand bed like Garden Eels or Jaw Fish. I replaced it with 240lbs of sugar sized and the size one step but, still very fine but slightly courser. I moved by garden eel tank which had about 300lbs of this stuff plus a small amount of the courser stuff.
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