Coverting Freshwater to Saltwater
- Thread starter Wyze
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Zoodiver;5165099; said:
Once he disturbs the sand bed, he is going to have killed all the bacteria that were inhabiting that specific zone of substrate.
He might as well wash it instead of keeping all the nitrate causing detritus, and the new waste from all the dying bacteria.
You are going to get the cycle no matter what, if he doesnt have any sensitive stock, I would rather restart.
It can be done...even with reefs.
That being said, +1...1-2mm aragonite is what I like.
Why do you say its nothing but problems? I didnt even rinse the stuff off because it stuff growing everywhere!!! I could have though cause I killed most of them anyway!!!!
And I do plan on switching to black sand soon!
why get rid of coral sand full of bacteria it is jumpstarting your filtration i am allso curious as to nothing but problems, imo its silaca sand that will cause headaches
CC traps detritus. Unless you plan on moving all your rock around to clean under it with a gravel cleaner, you'll have serious problems with your parameters, which is no place to be keeping sensitive inverts. Also, a huge part of the natural filtration in a SW tank is what goes on in a sand bed. There are tons of detritus-eating worms/pods that live in the sand to lower your nitrate.
