GRRR!!! i HATE sand (already)

[new2natives]

so sand is great looking, right?
WRONG!
anyone considering sand bottoms, RETHINK IT!!! lol

when i was talking to my LFS guy about my new tank the other day i told him it was sand bottom and he just laughed. upon asking why he told me nothing except "good luck" with the cleaning... now i know what he meant!!!

its been a total of 13 hours. literally.
my tank cycled, time for fish, i put in my 2 smallest pbass, and maybe 10 feeders ...

yeah there is already crap (literally) all over the bottom of my tank ...
to make matters worse, I STILL HAVE ANOTHER BASS, TSN, ARO, and CLOWN KNIFE to go in the tank!!!

its tan pool filter sand ... any suggestions??

 

[BushFishRox]

vac up the poop and up the filtration...

 

[new2natives]

vac every 13 hours?? hahaha, not gonna happen!

 

[USMCtanker]

ya thats good lol. bc the poop sits on top of sand intead of falling between rocks, so u just do a quick siphon and bang its clean again, or do what i did and put a jet in there and make more water movement. and that stuff never sits its always all over tell it gets sucked up

 

[rba718]

Sand isn't that hard to use. The guy at the LFS was kind of a jerk or probably just doesn't know how to clean sand.

How big is your tank?

 

[new2natives]

180 on a 3 ft stand, so its HIGH ... too high to be reaching in all the time!

 

[voss345]

sand has its ups and downs, i think its alright, i have both and and gravel, i think the sand kind of makes the fish look bland, when i upgrade in a year or at least change venues i will change my SA tank back to gravel

 

[jdiidy271]

lol keep trying!!!!!! u can do it!!!!!!!

 

[rallysman]

get some water circulating on the bottom. It's not a big deal. I love my tanks that have a sand bottom.

 

[rba718]

sand has its ups and downs, i think its alright, i have both and and gravel, i think the sand kind of makes the fish look bland, when i upgrade in a year or at least change venues i will change my SA tank back to gravel

I agree with the bland part, for Freshwater fish anyway. I recently started my first sand substrate tank and the fish look so dark! Even my blue and green Crayfish looks dull.