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Tangster · 05-09-2008, 01:17 PM

A DSB is a snake and you play with it you will get bitten by it . Now you will find some to swear to God they have had them running yrs ): I have never seen one go pass 4 yrs tops and that was with lots of work and maintenance . on average problems start to appear at about 20 months the next 15 or so months are spent trying the save it. So IMO unless you are figuring on tearing the tank down in about 30 months give or take.. Don't do it. But then again can't see or smell it from where I live (: But as I said it is a snake ! Take this for what ever its worth.

You fully understand the way these work ? And the semiannually needed sand fauna infusion at 100.00 or so ? and make a mistake with Ca and Carbonates sand turns to concrete .. Or the bio sludge like with all septic reaches critical mass and it all boils up or power goes off for a few hrs and everything dies.. Good luck with it but if you are serious then lay down a 2 inch base of dry clay then a 5 inch cap of proper sized sands.. And they have to be good grade of aragonite..

I remember when they dug the Old DSB out and dusted it off and a guy sold a ton of book telling people to stir their sand bed then to add sand sifting critters and yadda . Heck he wrote a book and had to know what he was talking about.. I said it then and I'll say it now what we found out in the lte 60 early 70's is to stir a DSB is the next to single worse then you can add the 1st is adding sand sifters animals they are eating what you already do not have enough of and what the Sand Gods over looked was the bacteria and critters in the sand growth rates where off the charts But when they die its faster and then booom out goes the lights.. Nothing above several thousand of feet can consume and eat and convert carbon waste in to food source the food source would be methanes and sulfides only plants (:

05-09-2008, 01:17 PM	#12 (permalink)
Tangster 3reef Sponsor Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Va/Ct Posts: 4,286 Karma: 3204	A DSB is a snake and you play with it you will get bitten by it . Now you will find some to swear to God they have had them running yrs ): I have never seen one go pass 4 yrs tops and that was with lots of work and maintenance . on average problems start to appear at about 20 months the next 15 or so months are spent trying the save it. So IMO unless you are figuring on tearing the tank down in about 30 months give or take.. Don't do it. But then again can't see or smell it from where I live (: But as I said it is a snake ! Take this for what ever its worth. You fully understand the way these work ? And the semiannually needed sand fauna infusion at 100.00 or so ? and make a mistake with Ca and Carbonates sand turns to concrete .. Or the bio sludge like with all septic reaches critical mass and it all boils up or power goes off for a few hrs and everything dies.. Good luck with it but if you are serious then lay down a 2 inch base of dry clay then a 5 inch cap of proper sized sands.. And they have to be good grade of aragonite.. I remember when they dug the Old DSB out and dusted it off and a guy sold a ton of book telling people to stir their sand bed then to add sand sifting critters and yadda . Heck he wrote a book and had to know what he was talking about.. I said it then and I'll say it now what we found out in the lte 60 early 70's is to stir a DSB is the next to single worse then you can add the 1st is adding sand sifters animals they are eating what you already do not have enough of and what the Sand Gods over looked was the bacteria and critters in the sand growth rates where off the charts But when they die its faster and then booom out goes the lights.. Nothing above several thousand of feet can consume and eat and convert carbon waste in to food source the food source would be methanes and sulfides only plants (: _________ Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible (Doug Larson) Last edited by amcarrig; 05-09-2008 at 04:17 PM.