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ShadowVengance

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Ive never kept a completly sand bottom tank before... and i would like to start now.

whats the best way to clean it? will the filter get most of it? should I stir it up with my hands and suck out the crap during a water change?

I know its a :newbie: question....w/e its easier asking than testing.
 
Wash it like it was gravel.keep it around 2 inches and you shouldn't have to stir it up. and the detritus settles on top of the sand so just vac over it.-Anne
 
Last week I took down my last sand tank and replaced the sand with these small natural pebbles. I absolutely hate SAND! All the fish crap is very visible and it always looks so dirty, whenever I would use the gravel vac and run it over sand it would still stir some up which would lead to some sand being sucked out with the vac and then getting stuck in the filter. I just absolutely hate sand now.
 
ShadowVengance said:
Ive never kept a completly sand bottom tank before... and i would like to start now.

whats the best way to clean it? will the filter get most of it? should I stir it up with my hands and suck out the crap during a water change?

I know its a :newbie: question....w/e its easier asking than testing.
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You should hand wash each grain seperately then blow dry them.
 
guppy said:
You should hand wash each grain seperately then blow dry them.
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Oh man, thanks for reminding me about this pain in the ass. I still get nightmares remembering the way I had to treat all this damn sand. Every article I have ever read states to fill some bucket halfway with sand and let it run under water and all the small particles will stir up and get washed away. Yeah good luck with that, that only takes an hour and you only will have to do it about 10 billion times. :swear:

Whole damn house was in sand for WEEKS!!!
 
guppy said:
You should hand wash each grain seperately then blow dry them.
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To be honest...I actually did that with a 3.5 gallon african dwarf frog tank...it was filterless....so it got **** dirty ...FAST.. uhm... NEVER AGAIN :swear:

Im feeling some...slight negative feedback on sand... i'll make it a planted tank...plants can use fish ****....uhm.. would that work? plants in sand? what type of sand'd be best?

sand seems like a :screwy: crazy thing to do now... I still like the way it looks in most tanks.
 
sand is hard to keep clean I lost little by little every water change. I just changed it to black gravel much easier to clean.
 
ShadowVengance said:
To be honest...I actually did that with a 3.5 gallon african dwarf frog tank...it was filterless....so it got **** dirty ...FAST.. uhm... NEVER AGAIN :swear:

Im feeling some...slight negative feedback on sand... i'll make it a planted tank...plants can use fish ****....uhm.. would that work? plants in sand? what type of sand'd be best?

sand seems like a :screwy: crazy thing to do now... I still like the way it looks in most tanks.
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Most plants actually do better with a layer of fertalizer and then some gravel over it.
 
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