Undulating Sand Beds

Glipzcom · 10-30-2006, 11:48 PM

I have seen a few photos of sand beds that people have made that seem to undulate. One of the most interesting ones had half the tank with about 4 inches of sand and the other half had only about a 11/2 inches of sand. and some how they almost had a shelf so the sand looked like:

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It made for some very pretty aquascaping they had a arch theat went from the deep end and branched over to the low end.

Anyone know anything about sandbeds like this? would powerheads completely destroy that. Looked so pretty.

Glen.

geekdafied · 11-06-2006, 03:43 AM

that sounds interesting, where was the pic at?

Pisces23 · 11-06-2006, 04:04 AM

I always assumed that those beds were created by powerheads blowing around sand...

geekdafied · 11-06-2006, 04:08 AM

I saw a picture of one tank from a coral farm that was awesome. It had to have been something like a 125 wide. I was going to try to recreate it with 70a wide. It was set up as 2 islands and must have had 15 or blue/green chromis in it that would school all thru it. Looked awesome!

Matt Rogers · 11-06-2006, 10:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pisces23

I always assumed that those beds were created by powerheads blowing around sand...

Bingo.

My Tunze Turbelle pump is really good at this.
EDIT - I think it's due to the wave timer pulsing effect.

Glipzcom · 11-08-2006, 11:23 PM

man i should have saved the photo this would have to had been the greatest powerhead sand shift ever. Im hunting down the photo.

Glen.

geekdafied · 11-09-2006, 03:19 PM

Back when I was into fresh water, I had the coolest "river" tank. I looked like I took a piece of a river and put it in my house. I had 3 powerheads on one end along with the return from my canister filter all blowing the same direction from that end "as if it was the current from a river" I had one end with about 6inches of gravel, then it sloped to about 3 inches and then it went back up about 4-5inches with a floating island for a turtle. It was a 6foot tank. I had all natural (local) inhibitants, fish, crawfish and even a small aligator snapping turtle. Whoever came over were amazed by it cause it really did look real. That is why I am looking into undulating sand beds. I would to see somebody elses to give me an idea before I try it.

Glipzcom · 11-10-2006, 10:34 AM

WOW geekdafield that sounds awesome. I love rivers, if i had a river like that in my house.. Well something awesome would happen. Yeah I was wondering if there was some way even if to create like a shelf, put a bunch of sand on a lower part place a rock like a wall fill in the other side, and im sure some sand would blow over it but after a while you would end up with a high side with deep sand and a low side with not so deep sand. Does that sound logical, i can see how powerheads could really screw with that.

geekdafied · 11-10-2006, 11:25 AM

Ive been toying with different ideas of sand beds, and I think I have a way that would work. Granted it's just in theory right now and you would lose some space in the tank but I think the aestics of it would out weigh the loss.

Birchell · 11-14-2006, 11:57 PM

Hey geekdaried,

Is this the tank you were talking about??

http://www.3reef.com/photos/showphot...i/dream%20tank

This is a sweet set up, and sound like what you were talking about. This is form jonathan's gallery.