i recently purchased a 55 gallon tank, i was debating using a sand bottom. I have messy eaters though, OSCARS! lol is their any way to clean sand easy like you can with gravel and a siphon?
thank you,
mike
thank you,
mike
sand bottom question
- Thread starter snoskate88
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same as cleaning gravel but just skim above the surface of the sand... do it once.. you will figure it out after about 3 seconds
I find sand easier on the maintenance. If there is flow in the water nothing should settle, my sand is always clean until the filter starts to clog and the flow is reduced
Sand is easy to clean. Put the end of the hose in a bucket, and skim the end thats in the tank over the surface. If you suck up any sand, it will sink to the bottom of the bucket, and you can rinse it and put it back in the tank. I would do that when I had too much algae; I'd suck up the algae and the sand it was attached to and just clean it and put it back
just wondering, do you mean oscar or oscars?
just wondering, do you mean oscar or oscars?
Just make sure you use a sand filter. I screwed up my AC110 hob filter by using flurite as a substrate. This is similiar to sand. Sand in my opinion is a pain in the ***. I like the way natural gravel looks also.
I used sand in a 29 for about three years. It works but I did find dead spots when I was going gravel vacuuming. Also I think your oscars will dig more in land.
