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11-20-2005, 12:40 PM
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| | Fire Worm
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: west bend, WI,Wisconsin
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 |  add sand? how?
i like the looks of a sand bed. i now have about 1/4 to 1/2 inches of cc. to add sand do i have to take out the cc, live rock, and critters to add sand or can i just slowly add it to my cc and mix it together without removing anything? and also do i have to have the sand under my live rock or should i leave the rock in place and add sand around it leaving the cc under it? i hope this makes sense. basically how do i add sand without tearing down and starting over?
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125 gal, pro clear wet dry with built in skimmer, 2 maxi jet 1200 power heads, outer orbit with 2 150w mh and 2 130w pc, 150 pounds fiji lr, a large carpet anemone, 1 coral bannded shrimp, large colony of stars, 1 yellow tang, 1 naso tang, 1 snowflake eel, 1 koran angel juvi. i sold most of my corals to get the 125 gal tank so basicly starting over. | 
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11-20-2005, 05:42 PM
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| | Bristle Worm
Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Jonesboro, Arkansas Age: 35
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I watched a friend add 200lbs to his 125 a couple of months ago and all he did was just slowly add it to the tank. It made a terrible sandstorm for about a week but afterwards everything was fine. _________ 
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11-20-2005, 09:40 PM
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| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: May 2005 Location: Pgh. Pa. Age: 50
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|  You can do it
I added several inches of sand to my 90 after it had been up for awhile. There are several other ways to do it than just dumping. I used a 2 inch piece of pvc taller than the water level to pour it into as I slowly distributed it around the tank. Easier if one person pours while another distributes. The slower you go the less mess you make. Another way is the old freshwater method of using a saucer or a large bowl. Any method results in some cloudiness, some more than other. I would be careful of covering any critters like snails, shrooms, etc. If you kill a lot of algae you can expect an appropriate bio-response (ammonia, etc.) Blow any dust off rocks after things settle, especially if you have coralline, which will die if covered.
Good luck  _________ Glass 90 and 110, skimmer in both 30 gal. sumps, 1150 GPH, plus a 75 gal fuge!! Yellow tang, several damsels, 2 lg flower anems, brown & rose BTA's (8" dia.) with 3 perculas, 5 ricordia, dozens shrooms, dozens of yellow, brown and green polyps, lots of snails, hermits, bugs and 3 inch worms. Mangroves, caulerpa, LR, LS, pics coming  | |
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11-21-2005, 07:57 AM
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| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Miami, FL,Florida
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I agree the PVC method works great. My personal fav method is to put the whole closed bag of sand in the tank, take a razor to the bottom part that should be resting on your cc substrate and VERY SLOWLY start pushing the sand out of the bag. VERY VERY SLOWLY. This result in little or no cloudiness. I would also suggest you turn off your over flow my doing this. If any cloudiness arises you want it to settle in your tank not your wet dry.  _________ &&&&20 Gal. , Millenium 1000 & 2000 filter, 130watt Corallife 50/50 reef lamp. Maroon Gold-striped Clown, Pygmy (Cherub) Angel, Skunk Cleaner shrimp, 8 Turbo Snails, 1 unknown cone snail , a branch of red grape calerpa , Sun Polyps, Blue-Green Striped shroom, Red shroom, Zoo Polyp colonies, & Green Star polyps, green monti. | |
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11-21-2005, 02:04 PM
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| | Fire Worm
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: west bend, WI,Wisconsin
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thanks for the ideas. so i take it its ok to blend with my cc? | |
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11-21-2005, 02:21 PM
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| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Miami, FL,Florida
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Perfectly fine. As a matter of fact if you like Garden Eels it's recommended. | |
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