So I have taken down a 240G marine aquarium with my sights set on converting it over to a Frontosa tank. I have about 250 lbs. of live sand and I want to use it as the substrate for the new set up. Does any one have a method I could use to wash this sand? It is very fine and in a collander I will lose to much of it. I actually thought about drying it out on a tarp outdoors to kill the marine organisms. Any thoughts out there?
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The tarp is a good plan... get an old large fine net and wash it out a little at a time after the tarp.
I wouldn't wash it, i switched a Marine tank out for Africans and all i did was remove all the water and replaced with new water minus the salt, i would treat it as a new setup and let it recycle and check perimeters, do massive water changes for a few weeks with gravel vacuum to get the dead stuff out of the bottom..
If you had live rock you may want to take it out and spray it with a water hose to rinse anything that could be dead, but other than that i had no issues on the transition..
If you had live rock you may want to take it out and spray it with a water hose to rinse anything that could be dead, but other than that i had no issues on the transition..
60 to 70% never fully empty the water you may cause mini spikes.. The great thing about African Rift Lake fish is that its a small ocean minus the salt, basically the same thing sandy bottoms with huge rocky areas with high PH and Hardness levels, Since the lakes are huge they have their own tidal and current zones with depth's that need decompression..